Literature: history & criticism books

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Shakespeare's borrowed feathers: How early modern playwrights shaped the world's greatest writer

Shakespeare's borrowed feathers: How early modern playwrights...

Author: Darren Freebury-Jones
ISBN: 9781526177346
Format: Paperback
$32.99

This book uses the latest techniques in textual analysis to reveal the influence of a community of English playwrights...  Read More >>

Moving Archives

Moving Archives

Author: Linda M. Morra
ISBN: 9781771127134
Format: Paperback
$74.80

Grounds itself in the critical trajectory related to what Sara Ahmed calls affective economies to offer fresh insights...  Read More >>

Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales

Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales...

Author: Nancy Mason Bradbury (Smith College)
ISBN: 9780271096896
Format: Paperback
$72.99

""Situates Chaucer's proverbs in their premodern cultural and intellectual contexts, arguing that Chaucer places...  Read More >>

Connection: How Technology Can Make Us Better Humans

Connection: How Technology Can Make Us Better Humans...

Author: Dan Turello
ISBN: 9780231220163
Format: Paperback
$41.95

Putting medieval Italian poets and Renaissance artists in conversation with contemporary philosophers and pop culture,...  Read More >>

The Sign of the Swan: How French Symbolist Poetry Re-envisions Reality

The Sign of the Swan: How French Symbolist Poetry Re-envisions...

Author: William Franke
ISBN: 9781839999321
Format: Paperback
$41.98

This scholarly monograph is an original philosophical reflection on poetics, elucidating the metaphysical and mystical...  Read More >>

Hineni - In Sarah's Tent

Hineni - In Sarah's Tent

Author: Laurie S Sherman
ISBN: 9798295620584
Format: Paperback
$29.01

HINENI is not a performance. It is a rite. Rooted in Jewish tradition and feminist ritual practice, HINENI:...  Read More >>

Breaking the World: Black Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculative Fiction

Breaking the World: Black Insecurity and the Horizons...

Author: Justin L. Mann
ISBN: 9781478029816
Format: Hardback
$277.00

Justin Mann analyzes the work of Octavia E. Butler, Colson Whitehead, Janelle Monáe, and other Black writers, musicians,...  Read More >>

Asian Girlhood in the Shadows of US Empire

Asian Girlhood in the Shadows of US Empire

Author: Sharon N. Tran
ISBN: 9781517919856
Format: Hardback
$270.00

How the ""Asian girl"" is central to the story of US imperialism and the formation of Asian America Representations...  Read More >>

The Economy of Anonymity: Power in the Age of Identification

The Economy of Anonymity: Power in the Age of Identification...

Author: Hector Amaya
ISBN: 9781503645554
Format: Hardback
$323.00

We use avatars to play videogames. We use pseudonyms on social media. We use VPNs to mask our identities and activities....  Read More >>

Beckett and Broadcasting: On Works by Samuel Beckett for and in Radio and Television

Beckett and Broadcasting: On Works by Samuel Beckett...

Author: Clas Zilliacus ,  Galina Kiryushina
ISBN: 9781839996542
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Beckett and Broadcasting pioneered the study of Beckett and the media in 1976. Originally a doctoral dissertation...  Read More >>

Censorship and the Irish Writer: Politics, Polemics, and the International Dialectic

Censorship and the Irish Writer: Politics, Polemics,...

Author: Brad Kent
ISBN: 9781487567613
Format: Hardback
$160.00

In recounting the fascinating history of how modern Irish writers politically, socially, and polemically organised...  Read More >>

Struggle, Resistance, and Decolonization in African American Literature after 1960

Struggle, Resistance, and Decolonization in African...

Author: W. Lawrence Hogue
ISBN: 9781839997945
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Against an African, African American, and the 1960s Civil Rights Movement's backdrop, this book examines six African...  Read More >>

Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts

Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts...

Author: Blake Scott Ball (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, University of North Alabama)
ISBN: 9780197836439
Format: Paperback
$45.95

Charlie Brown's America tells the story of how and why the lovable kids and an adventurous beagle of Peanuts became...  Read More >>

Connection: How Technology Can Make Us Better Humans

Connection: How Technology Can Make Us Better Humans...

Author: Dan Turello
ISBN: 9780231220156
Format: Hardback
$165.95

Putting medieval Italian poets and Renaissance artists in conversation with contemporary philosophers and pop culture,...  Read More >>

Hineni - In Sarah's Tent

Hineni - In Sarah's Tent

Author: Laurie S Sherman
ISBN: 9798295634222
Format: Hardback
$55.41

HINENI is not a performance. It is a rite. Rooted in Jewish tradition and feminist ritual practice, HINENI:...  Read More >>

A Room of One's Own

A Room of One's Own

Author: Virginia Woolf ,  Katha Pollitt
ISBN: 9781250418005
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Virginia Woolf’s beloved classic, with a new foreword.  Read More >>

Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl

Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl

Author: Mandy-Suzanne Wong ,  Yuka Igarashi
ISBN: 9781644453735
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry

Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry

Author: Adam Plunkett
ISBN: 9781250420336
Format: Paperback
$42.00

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Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan

Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan

Author: Ariel Stilerman
ISBN: 9780674303416
Format: Hardback
$86.95

In Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan, Ariel Stilerman examines the transformation of classical Japanese...  Read More >>

Always Under Siege: Olga Freidenberg's Diary-Theory and the Everyday Terror of Stalinism

Always Under Siege: Olga Freidenberg's Diary-Theory...

Author: Irina Paperno
ISBN: 9781501785832
Format: Paperback
$73.99

Always Under Siege presents a remarkable and harrowing account of life in dark times that describes and embodies...  Read More >>

Critical Failures: Modern Japan and the Possibility of Reading Otherwise

Critical Failures: Modern Japan and the Possibility...

Author: Miyabi Goto
ISBN: 9781501785672
Format: Paperback
$80.99

""In Critical Failures, Miyabi Goto examines the rise of hihyåo, a practice of critical reading, in Japan's Meiji...  Read More >>

Lyric Poetry As State Criticism in Modern Japan

Lyric Poetry As State Criticism in Modern Japan

Author: Marianne Tarcov
ISBN: 9781501786785
Format: Paperback
$69.99

""Marianne Tarcov argues that early 20th century Japanese lyric poetry was able to serve as a mode of political...  Read More >>

China's Chaplin: Comic Stories and Farces by Xu Zhuodai

China's Chaplin: Comic Stories and Farces by Xu Zhuodai...

Author: Zhuodai Xu ,  Christopher Rea
ISBN: 9781939161949
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Introduces the imagination of Xu Zhuodai (1880-1958), a comic dynamo who made Shanghai laugh through the tumultuous...  Read More >>

Ará’lúèbó: The Immigrant Monologues

Ará’lúèbó: The Immigrant Monologues

Author: KÁNYIN Olorunnisola
ISBN: 9781968209001
Format: Paperback
$29.95

A layered exploration of the immigrant identity through the voices of multiple Nigerian American characters. The...  Read More >>

The Austen Girls: The Story of Jane & Cassandra Austen, the Closest of Sisters

The Austen Girls: The Story of Jane & Cassandra Austen,...

Author: Helen Amy
ISBN: 9781398133471
Format: Paperback
$31.02

New paperback edition - Sisters Jane and Cassandra Austen were inseparable and sought one anothers approval in all...  Read More >>

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