Literature: history & criticism books

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Schechner Plays

Schechner Plays

Author: Richard Schechner (New York University)
ISBN: 9781835950944
Format: Hardback
$298.95

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Pythagoras: A Life

Pythagoras: A Life

Author: Peter Gorman
ISBN: 9781041107880
Format: Hardback
$189.00

First published in 1979, Pythagoras aims to make available to a wide range of readers the events of Pythagoras’s...  Read More >>

Poetry and the Physical Voice

Poetry and the Physical Voice

Author: Francis Berry
ISBN: 9781041108092
Format: Hardback
$189.00

First published in 1962, Poetry and the Physical Voice is a companion volume to author’s Poets’ Grammar and its...  Read More >>

Beaumont and Fletcher: A Critical Study

Beaumont and Fletcher: A Critical Study

Author: William W. Appleton
ISBN: 9781041108320
Format: Hardback
$179.00

First published in 1956, Beaumont and Fletcher offers a compact critical survey of the plays by Beaumont and Fletcher,...  Read More >>

Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature

Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature

Author: Rachael Hutchinson (University of Delaware, USA) ,  Leith Douglas Morton (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
ISBN: 9781032821528
Format: Hardback
$483.00

This new 2nd edition of the Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature provides a comprehensive survey of...  Read More >>

The Earth Intoxicated on Imagination

The Earth Intoxicated on Imagination

Author: Annabelle Dufourcq (Radboud University and Wageningen University and Research)
ISBN: 9781009644426
Format: Hardback
$142.31

The aim of this Element is to forge new conceptual tools to give more ecological power to the human imagination....  Read More >>

Why Plato Matters Now

Why Plato Matters Now

Author: Angie Hobbs
ISBN: 9781399403375
Format: Hardback
$39.99

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The Nine Lives of Annie Besant: The Astonishing Story of a Victorian Rebel

The Nine Lives of Annie Besant: The Astonishing Story...

Author: Clare Paterson
ISBN: 9781803997360
Format: Hardback
$54.99

The sensational story of a Victorian superwoman  Read More >>

Edmund Spenser: Prince of Poets

Edmund Spenser: Prince of Poets

Author: Peter Bayley
ISBN: 9781041108276
Format: Hardback
$179.00

First published in 1971, Edmund Spenser presents a comprehensive overview of Spencer's work, including the minor...  Read More >>

Composite Selves: Subjecthood in the German Novel, 1700–1795

Composite Selves: Subjecthood in the German Novel, 1700–1795...

Author: Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge (Associate Professor of German, University of Tennessee)
ISBN: 9780198979814
Format: Hardback
$182.95

Composite Selves tells a new story about the German novel in the eighteenth century, engaging with and challenging...  Read More >>

Touching Spaces in Textures: Affective Humor and Dialogism in Contemporary Literature

Touching Spaces in Textures: Affective Humor and Dialogism...

Author: Mariam Popal
ISBN: 9783837672619
Format: Paperback
$99.95

What makes us pensive, feel pleasure and pain at the same time? What are we touched by in (humorous) instances of...  Read More >>

Alexandrian Sphinx: The Hidden Life of Constantine Cavafy

Alexandrian Sphinx: The Hidden Life of Constantine Cavafy...

Author: Peter Jeffreys ,  Gregory Jusdanis
ISBN: 9781398551237
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A gripping and revealing new biography of one of the greatest of modern poets, the queer, Greek-Egyptian Constantine...  Read More >>

The Radheshyam Ramayan in Text and Performance

The Radheshyam Ramayan in Text and Performance

Author: Pamela Lothspeich (Professor of South Asian Studies, Professor of South Asian Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
ISBN: 9780198948896
Format: Hardback
$282.95

Pandit Radheshyam Kathavachak, a 20th-century poet, reinterpreted the Ramayan into the 'Radheshyam Ramayan', blending...  Read More >>

Beyond the Original: Translation as Experiment

Beyond the Original: Translation as Experiment

Author: Marilia Johnk
ISBN: 9783837671254
Format: Paperback
$90.95

Can DeepL and ChatGPT translate Shakespeare? How can we venture beyond conventional translation, exploring its experimental...  Read More >>

Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work

Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of...

Author: Kristin Grogan
ISBN: 9780231219648
Format: Paperback
$59.95

In Stitch, Unstitch, Kristin Grogan argues that modernist poetry was deeply shaped by ordinary labor and the people...  Read More >>

Every Brilliant Thing

Every Brilliant Thing

Author: Duncan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781350603523
Format: Paperback
$21.99

From Olivier Award nominated writer Duncan Macmillan, Every Brilliant Thing is a comedy about the lengths we will...  Read More >>

SOFAR: Poems

SOFAR: Poems

Author: Elizabeth Bradfield
ISBN: 9780892556182
Format: Paperback
$29.95

In SOFAR, poet-naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield, one of our most important writers on the natural (especially the...  Read More >>

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