Literature: history & criticism books

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Nethered Regions – An Anatomy of Mina Loy

Nethered Regions – An Anatomy of Mina Loy

Author: Sara Crangle (Professor of Modernism and the Avant-Garde, University of Sussex)
ISBN: 9781399524292
Format: Paperback
$57.99

A uniquely comprehensive, groundbreaking two-volume study of Loy's relationship to the human body and soul.  Read More >>

Subjectivity and Decolonisation in the Post-Independence Novel and Film

Subjectivity and Decolonisation in the Post-Independence...

Author: Sarah Jilani (Lecturer in English, City, University of London)
ISBN: 9781399507295
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Discusses the ways in which post-independence novels and films understand the relationship between subjectivity...  Read More >>

J. M. Coetzee's Politics of Life and Late Modernism in the Contemporary Novel

J. M. Coetzee's Politics of Life and Late Modernism...

Author: Marc Farrant (Lecturer in English Literature, University of Amsterdam)
ISBN: 9781399507790
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Argues that J. M. Coetzee's works constitute a form of late modernism that situates life at the heart of questions...  Read More >>

Elevated Realms – An Anatomy of Mina Loy

Elevated Realms – An Anatomy of Mina Loy

Author: Sara Crangle (Professor of Modernism and the Avant-Garde, University of Sussex)
ISBN: 9781399524339
Format: Paperback
$57.99

A uniquely comprehensive two-volume study of Mina Loy's relationship to the human body and soul  Read More >>

Mashya and Mashyana Unearthed: Myth, Metonymy and the Unknowing Subject

Mashya and Mashyana Unearthed: Myth, Metonymy and the...

Author: Hamid Dabashi (Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9781399517959
Format: Paperback
$57.99

This is the story of Mashya and Mashyana Unearthed, an exploration of when and where ancient myths become metonymic...  Read More >>

Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf: Modernism, Media and Emotion

Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf:...

Author: Marit Grøtta (Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Oslo)
ISBN: 9781399526999
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Considers the emotional and relational implications of portrait photographs for three modernist writers  Read More >>

Migration, Dictatorship, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe: Siegfried Von Vegesack and Werner Bergengruen

Migration, Dictatorship, and Identity in Twentieth-Century...

Author: Martyn Housden
ISBN: 9781836953142
Format: Hardback
$269.10

Migration, Dictatorship, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe examines the impact of migration on the self-understanding...  Read More >>

Poetic Drive: American Poetry in the Age of Automobility

Poetic Drive: American Poetry in the Age of Automobility...

Author: Joel Duncan
ISBN: 9780813954028
Format: Hardback
$266.00

""This book examines the writings and experimental film collaborations of William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson,...  Read More >>

The Wounded Line: A Guide to Writing Poems of Trauma

The Wounded Line: A Guide to Writing Poems of Trauma...

Author: Jehanne Dubrow
ISBN: 9780826368645
Format: Paperback
$46.99

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A History of Ottoman Poetry, Volume IV: 1700–1850

A History of Ottoman Poetry, Volume IV: 1700–1850

Author: E. J. W. Gibb ,  Christine Woodhead (University of Durham)
ISBN: 9781399559843
Format: Hardback
$219.00

Volume IV of E.J.W. Gibb's classic study of Ottoman Poetry here reissued with a new foreword by Christine Woodhead,...  Read More >>

The Mathnawí of Jaláluʾddín Rúmí, Volume VII: Commentary on Books 1 and 2

The Mathnawí of Jaláluʾddín Rúmí, Volume VII: Commentary...

Author: Reynold A Nicholson ,  Alan Williams
ISBN: 9781399560191
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Volume 7 of Reynold A. Nicholson's 8-volume authoritative translation and edition of Rm's magnum opus now reissued...  Read More >>

Urdu Adab ke Roshan Baab: (Bright chapters of Urdu literature, Essays)

Urdu Adab ke Roshan Baab: (Bright chapters of Urdu literature,...

Author: Mukarram Niyaz
ISBN: 9789369082674
Format: Paperback
$71.25

""Urdu Adab ke Roshan Baab"" gathers thirteen substantial essays that illuminate key moments and figures in Urdu...  Read More >>

The Reproductive Politics of American Literature and Film, 1959–1973

The Reproductive Politics of American Literature and...

Author: Sophie A. Jones (Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Gender Studies, University of Strathclyde)
ISBN: 9781474433303
Format: Hardback
$219.00

Develops a new approach to the politics of reproduction in literature and film.  Read More >>

A Will for the Machine: Computerization, Automation, and the Arts in South Africa

A Will for the Machine: Computerization, Automation,...

Author: Professor Mark Sanders
ISBN: 9780226844619
Format: Paperback
$49.95

This study takes up the relations among computerization, labor, and the arts in South Africa. There are many books...  Read More >>

Killer Bodies: The Rise and Fall of ""Bad Girl"" Comics

Killer Bodies: The Rise and Fall of ""Bad Girl"" Comics...

Author: Joseph Crawford
ISBN: 9781978841970
Format: Hardback
$262.90

This book offers a history of the most critically derided subgenre in American comics: the ""bad girl"" comics of...  Read More >>

The Subversive Seventies in Tehran: Romancing Revolutions

The Subversive Seventies in Tehran: Romancing Revolutions...

Author: Hamid Dabashi (Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9781399542852
Format: Hardback
$219.00

Provides a first-hand account of the revolutionary politics and culture of 1970s Tehran.  Read More >>

Directorless Shakespeare: Transformations through collective Embodied Literary Criticism

Directorless Shakespeare: Transformations through collective...

Author: Elena M. Pellone
ISBN: 9781032771885
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Challenging received scholarship on the practice of Shakespeare’s theatre, this book displaces a contemporary cultural...  Read More >>

Ancient Secrets Wisdom: Notes 2025

Ancient Secrets Wisdom: Notes 2025

Author: Yehoshua Bin-Nun
ISBN: 9798233565601
Format: Paperback
$28.06

ABOUT THE BOOK This book has an absolute lack of literary and academic value but it can be a diamond for those...  Read More >>

Urdu Adab - Tanqeedi o Tahqeeqi Mutale'ay: (Urdu Literature: Critical and Research Studies)

Urdu Adab - Tanqeedi o Tahqeeqi Mutale'ay: (Urdu Literature:...

Author: Mukarram Niyaz
ISBN: 9789369089031
Format: Paperback
$68.61

""Urdu Adab: Tanqeedi o Tahqeeqi Mutale'ay"" (Urdu Literature: Critical and Research Studies) brings together thirteen...  Read More >>

A Will for the Machine: Computerization, Automation, and the Arts in South Africa

A Will for the Machine: Computerization, Automation,...

Author: Professor Mark Sanders
ISBN: 9780226844602
Format: Hardback
$190.95

This study takes up the relations among computerization, labor, and the arts in South Africa. There are many books...  Read More >>

Large Print - Beowulf in Prose & in Verse - Grand Type Collector's Edition - Matte Hardcover with Dust Jacket: Kirtlan (Prose) & Hall (Verse)

Large Print - Beowulf in Prose & in Verse - Grand Type...

Author: Anonymous ,  Ernest J B Kirtlan
ISBN: 9781834122533
Format: Hardback
$145.17

Beowulf tells of a legendary hero who battles monstrous foes, exploring courage, honor, and mortality in one of...  Read More >>

The Mirror We Pretend Not to See

The Mirror We Pretend Not to See

Author: Max Nabati
ISBN: 9798233289705
Format: Paperback
$52.77

*The Mirror We Pretend Not to See* by Max Nabati is a sharp, affectionate, and unflinching exploration of Iranian...  Read More >>

The Jane Austen Romance Guide for Well-Bred Women: Spotting Red Flags from Across the Ballroom

The Jane Austen Romance Guide for Well-Bred Women: Spotting...

Author: Emily Reed
ISBN: 9781250420909
Format: Hardback
$26.99

Jane Austen knows romance. This gifty humor book distills her sharp wit and timeless wisdom on the ways of men and...  Read More >>

Understanding Cixous, Understanding Modernism

Understanding Cixous, Understanding Modernism

Author: Professor Peggy Kamuf (University of Southern California, USA)
ISBN: 9798765132036
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Explores and illuminates the impact of French theorist, writer, and critic Hélène Cixous on our understanding of...  Read More >>

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