Literature: history & criticism books

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Imagination and Evolution: A Truer History of Science Fiction

Imagination and Evolution: A Truer History of Science...

Author: John J Pierce ,  Darrell Schweitzer
ISBN: 9781649324542
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Imagination and Evolution is the history of that conversation, which brought what we now call science fiction into...  Read More >>

The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast: Gender and Animality in Modernist Hebrew Fiction

The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast: Gender and Animality...

Author: Naama Harel
ISBN: 9781978841734
Format: Hardback
$243.10

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Writing During the Apocalypse: Reflections on the Great Unraveling

Writing During the Apocalypse: Reflections on the Great...

Author: Ed Simon (Adjunct Professorial Lecturer, Independent Scholar, USA)
ISBN: 9798765123218
Format: Paperback
$36.99

In an era when a future audience is very much not guaranteed, what possible purpose could there be in something...  Read More >>

Though There Be Giants: The Ghetto Pastoral Mode in Black Migration Novels

Though There Be Giants: The Ghetto Pastoral Mode in...

Author: Donald M. Shaffer
ISBN: 9781496855978
Format: Hardback
$229.00

A scholarly exploration of the tension of spaces in African American Great Migration novels  Read More >>

Poeticality: In Refusal of Settler Life

Poeticality: In Refusal of Settler Life

Author: Jeffrey Sacks
ISBN: 9781531512323
Format: Hardback
$289.00

Showing how poetry and art articulate forms of life beyond settler colonialism.  Read More >>

Drone Cultures: From Surveillance and Warfare to Literature and Art

Drone Cultures: From Surveillance and Warfare to Literature...

Author: John Muthyala (University of Southern Maine, USA)
ISBN: 9781350530454
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Expanding on common perceptions of the drone as a tool of war and surveillance, this book argues that they are also...  Read More >>

The Texts of Shakespeare: The Transformation of Popular Theatre to Printed Book

The Texts of Shakespeare: The Transformation of Popular...

Author: Stephen Orgel (Stanford University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350561045
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Renowned Shakespearean Stephen Orgel reveals how Shakespeare's scripts were transformed from popular drama into...  Read More >>

Reading Better States: Utopian Method and Environmental Harm in the Global South

Reading Better States: Utopian Method and Environmental...

Author: Rebecca Oh
ISBN: 9781531512644
Format: Hardback
$254.00

Reading Better States traces the persistence of desires for the postcolonial state in an era of environmental harms...  Read More >>

Team Up: How Collaboration Powers Superhero Comics

Team Up: How Collaboration Powers Superhero Comics

Author: Marie Sartain
ISBN: 9781496860972
Format: Hardback
$229.00

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The Burial and Other Short Prose, 1963-1994

The Burial and Other Short Prose, 1963-1994

Author: Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine ,  Conor Bracken
ISBN: 9780813954707
Format: Hardback
$231.00

A collection of works by one of twentieth-century Morocco’s greatest writers Appearing for the first time in...  Read More >>

Banshees, Hags, and Changelings: Feminist Folklore Transformations in Irish Writing

Banshees, Hags, and Changelings: Feminist Folklore Transformations...

Author: Molly Ferguson
ISBN: 9780815611998
Format: Hardback
$150.00

""This title explores contemporary Irish writing by women to identify strategies used in actively revising folktales...  Read More >>

Women's Poetry from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, 1400–1800: An Anthology

Women's Poetry from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, 1400–1800:...

Author: Sarah Prescott (University of Edinburgh) ,  Marie-Louise Coolahan (University of Galway)
ISBN: 9781009489881
Format: Hardback
$232.88

A multilinguistic resource uncovering women's poetic activity across Ireland, Scotland, and Wales from 1400 to 1800,...  Read More >>

Truth and Reference in the Making of Fiction: A View on Fictionality

Truth and Reference in the Making of Fiction: A View...

Author: Manuel García-Carpintero (Universitat de Barcelona)
ISBN: 9781009298452
Format: Hardback
$316.80

A systematic account of the nature of fiction explaining why fictions can refer to the world and state facts about...  Read More >>

Wales, Romanticism, and the Making of Imperial Culture

Wales, Romanticism, and the Making of Imperial Culture...

Author: Timothy Heimlich (Duke University, North Carolina)
ISBN: 9781009618878
Format: Hardback
$245.81

This ambitious study argues that in the long eighteenth century the meanings of Britain and Britishness, once synonymous...  Read More >>

Lost Plots: Interpolated Tales and the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Lost Plots: Interpolated Tales and the Eighteenth-Century...

Author: Katherine G. Charles (Washington College)
ISBN: 9781009588621
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Investigating the peculiar literary history of interpolated tales and the ways in which they persistently unnerve...  Read More >>

A History of Modern Hebrew Literature

A History of Modern Hebrew Literature

Author: Yaron Peleg (University of Cambridge) ,  Zehavit Zaslansky (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781009667395
Format: Hardback
$232.88

A new history of modern Hebrew literature updated according to contemporary theories of literature, culture, identity,...  Read More >>

Une enfance double: Lyon - Lausanne 1942 - 1957

Une enfance double: Lyon - Lausanne 1942 - 1957

Author: Michèle Acquaviva-Pache
ISBN: 9791042814694
Format: Paperback
$55.52

Née sous Pétain en son ère de suspicion - répression - exécutions. Voit le bonheur de la Libération en échappant...  Read More >>

In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation

In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation

Author: Mona Baker (Manchester Univeristy, UK) ,  Henry Jones
ISBN: 9781032577586
Format: Hardback
$273.00

In Other Words, the definitive translation coursebook for three decades, offers practical guidance based on linguistic...  Read More >>

The Texts of Shakespeare: The Transformation of Popular Theatre to Printed Book

The Texts of Shakespeare: The Transformation of Popular...

Author: Stephen Orgel (Stanford University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350561052
Format: Hardback
$130.00

Renowned Shakespearean Stephen Orgel reveals how Shakespeare's scripts were transformed from popular drama into...  Read More >>

Edith Wharton and German Culture

Edith Wharton and German Culture

Author: Maria Novella Mercuri
ISBN: 9781666926330
Format: Hardback
$160.00

A nuanced study of the profound impact of German culture, literature, and philosophy on Edith Wharton’s work and...  Read More >>

Restoring the Ancient Religion: The Theurgic Orthopraxy of Iamblichus

Restoring the Ancient Religion: The Theurgic Orthopraxy...

Author: Marios Koutsoukos
ISBN: 9783032096401
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This book reconsiders Iamblichus’ Response to Porphyry, Late Antiquity’s seminal work on theurgy, which is often...  Read More >>

I Do

I Do

Author: Terry O'Donovan ,  Daphna Attias
ISBN: 9781350628861
Format: Paperback
$21.99

I Do is a site-specific jigsaw puzzle through 6 hotel rooms just before the deed is done…  Read More >>

Writing During the Apocalypse: Reflections on the Great Unraveling

Writing During the Apocalypse: Reflections on the Great...

Author: Ed Simon (Adjunct Professorial Lecturer, Independent Scholar, USA)
ISBN: 9798765123225
Format: Hardback
$120.00

In an era when a future audience is very much not guaranteed, what possible purpose could there be in something...  Read More >>

Weaving Words, Shaping Worlds: Intertextual Echoes and Reader Evaluation in Pakistani Anglophone Fiction

Weaving Words, Shaping Worlds: Intertextual Echoes and...

Author: Azka Khan
ISBN: 9781666953633
Format: Hardback
$160.00

An exploration of how Pakistani Anglophone novels engage with prior texts to shape meaning, reinforce themes, and...  Read More >>

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