Literature: history & criticism books

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Discernment Ain't Conspiracy

Discernment Ain't Conspiracy

Author: Khalilah H Purnell
ISBN: 9798349565977
Format: Paperback
$76.53

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Speculative Insight: 2024

Speculative Insight: 2024

Author: Alexandra Pierce
ISBN: 9781764366021
Format: Hardback
$121.41

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Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature

Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature

Author: Georgina Wilson
ISBN: 9781512827446
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature explores the crucial role of paper in the early history of books...  Read More >>

Adapting Sex on Screen: The Cinematic Biographies of Lulu, La Ronde and Venus in Furs

Adapting Sex on Screen: The Cinematic Biographies of...

Author: Julian Preece (Swansea University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350538139
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Julian Preece explores how the novel Venus in Furs, and the plays La Ronde and Lulu were adapted into films that...  Read More >>

A Companion to Charles Dickens

A Companion to Charles Dickens

Author: David Paroissien (University of Massachusetts, USA) ,  Leon Litvack (Queen's University Belfast)
ISBN: 9781119602729
Format: Hardback
$301.95

Now in paperback , A Companion to Charles Dickens concentrates on the historical, ideological, and social forces...  Read More >>

Robert Walser and the Politics of Neglect

Robert Walser and the Politics of Neglect

Author: Simon Wortham
ISBN: 9783032030016
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book’s argument is that Walser “toys” with style in ways that are not purely literary, but which carry the...  Read More >>

Interpreting the Amistad Trials: How Interpreters and Translators Make and Shape History

Interpreting the Amistad Trials: How Interpreters and...

Author: Dr. Jeanette Zaragoza-De León (Assistant Professor, University of Puerto Rico, USA) ,  Dr. or Prof. William G. Thomas III (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA.)
ISBN: 9781501394607
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Drawing on the 19th-century Amistad Case, this book unravels how interpreters and translators shaped the history...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Brecht: A Practical Guide for Actors, Directors, Students and Teachers

Shakespeare and Brecht: A Practical Guide for Actors,...

Author: Stephen Unwin (Author, Theatre Director) ,  Michael Dobson
ISBN: 9781350419629
Format: Hardback
$90.00

The first practical guide to exploring Shakespeare and Brecht together with a view to expanding staging and performing...  Read More >>

The Poetic Way of Xie Lingyun: Literary Expression and the Natural World

The Poetic Way of Xie Lingyun: Literary Expression and...

Author: Ping Wang
ISBN: 9780295753720
Format: Hardback
$290.40

The father of Chinese landscape poetry in time and place During the dark centuries between the fall of the Han...  Read More >>

Experimental Life Writing Today

Experimental Life Writing Today

Author: Professor Vanessa Guignery (PARIS) ,  Wojciech Drag
ISBN: 9781350529915
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The first critical study of innovation in contemporary life writing offering a combination of contextual overview...  Read More >>

The Problem with the Seventh Year

The Problem with the Seventh Year

Author: Nicholas Pierpan
ISBN: 9781350615878
Format: Paperback
$21.99

The Problem with the Seventh Year is a bloody, unflinching drama about the fine line between being clever and being...  Read More >>

Unifying Theory

Unifying Theory

Author: James Jenkins
ISBN: 9798232285722
Format: Paperback
$58.05

In the fascinating narrative of ""Unifying Theory,"" James W. Jenkins takes readers on a powerful journey into the...  Read More >>

To Absent Friends: Eudora Welty's Correspondence with Frank Lyell

To Absent Friends: Eudora Welty's Correspondence with...

Author: Julia Eichelberger
ISBN: 9781496858993
Format: Hardback
$87.99

A thoughtful compilation that chronicles a nearly fifty-year friendship with the renowned Mississippi writer  Read More >>

Attention: Writing on Life, Art and the World

Attention: Writing on Life, Art and the World

Author: Anne Enright
ISBN: 9781787335776
Format: Hardback
$55.00

A timely, moving, and piercingly intelligent essay collection from one of our finest contemporary writers For thirty...  Read More >>

Reorientalism: From Avant-Garde to Soviet National Form

Reorientalism: From Avant-Garde to Soviet National Form...

Author: Nariman Skakov
ISBN: 9780231218016
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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Static Forms: Writing the Present in the Modern Middle East

Static Forms: Writing the Present in the Modern Middle...

Author: Shir Alon
ISBN: 9780231215947
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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The Scarlet Circle

The Scarlet Circle

Author: Jonathan Stagge ,  Otto Penzler
ISBN: 9781613167137
Format: Paperback
$26.95

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The Languages and Linguistics of Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific: A Comprehensive Guide

The Languages and Linguistics of Island Southeast Asia...

Author: Bill Palmer
ISBN: 9783110286298
Format: Hardback
$531.95

Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific, broadly the Austronesian world, is home to considerable language diversity....  Read More >>

Rabelais and His World, Revised Edition

Rabelais and His World, Revised Edition

Author: Mikhail Bakhtin ,  Caryl Emerson
ISBN: 9780262553131
Format: Paperback
$85.00

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The Hungriest Stars: Poems

The Hungriest Stars: Poems

Author: Carey Salerno
ISBN: 9780892556304
Format: Paperback
$31.95

With language flush with and supercharged by Eros, Carey Salerno's third book is a poet's elegy to her uterus, her...  Read More >>

Avant-Garde World Creation: Cosmogony and the Total Work of Art in Europe 1913-1923

Avant-Garde World Creation: Cosmogony and the Total...

Author: Abigael van Alst (University of Zürich, Switzerland)
ISBN: 9781041004035
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book explores the widespread fascination with world creation among early twentieth century artists, and examines...  Read More >>

Wild for Austen: A rebellious, subversive and untamed Jane

Wild for Austen: A rebellious, subversive and untamed...

Author: Devoney Looser
ISBN: 9781761154669
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Incisive, funny, and deeply-researched – the ultimate tribute to Jane Austen Thieves! Spies! Abolitionists! Ghosts!...  Read More >>

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