Literature: history & criticism books

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After the Theft of the Sacred Volume 75: Experiential Religion in Indigenous Writing

After the Theft of the Sacred Volume 75: Experiential...

Author: Reginald Dyck
ISBN: 9780806196510
Format: Hardback
$104.00

In recent decades, individualistic and secular ways of participating in the world have grown pervasive in Western...  Read More >>

Noigandres: Poetry Made New in Brazil

Noigandres: Poetry Made New in Brazil

Author: Antonio Sergio Bessa
ISBN: 9781531513672
Format: Hardback
$289.00

Explores a key moment in Brazilian modernism, supplemented with primary texts by Augusto de Campos, Décio Pignatari,...  Read More >>

Early Globalism and Chinese Literature

Early Globalism and Chinese Literature

Author: Yuanfei Wang (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) ,  Victor H. Mair (University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781009272353
Format: Paperback
$46.58

Exploring 'early globalism and Chinese literature' through the lens of 'literary diffusion,' this Element analyzes...  Read More >>

Houses of Correction: Carceral Institutions and Humanist Culture in Early Modern England

Houses of Correction: Carceral Institutions and Humanist...

Author: Matthew Ritger
ISBN: 9781512828993
Format: Hardback
$150.00

The first book-length literary history of some of early modern Europe's most influential carceral institutions,...  Read More >>

Adaptation in Musical Theatre

Adaptation in Musical Theatre

Author: Adam Rush (University of Winchester, UK)
ISBN: 9781350381797
Format: Paperback
$21.99

A concise and readable study into the role of adaptation in the form of musical theatre, drawing on contemporary...  Read More >>

Freudians and Schadenfreudians: Loving and Hating Psychoanalysis

Freudians and Schadenfreudians: Loving and Hating Psychoanalysis...

Author: Jeffrey Berman (University of Albany, USA)
ISBN: 9781350471870
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Focusing on ten key writers and scholars who either passionately loved or gleefully loathed Freud, this book represents...  Read More >>

Magic, Literature and Climate Pedagogy in a Time of Ecological Crisis

Magic, Literature and Climate Pedagogy in a Time of...

Author: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University, Sweden) ,  Richard Kerridge (Bath Spa University UK)
ISBN: 9781350401181
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Channeling the creative potential of humanity to transition towards joyous and just futures in times of life-threatening...  Read More >>

Lady Church in the Christian Imagination: From Early Christianity to Early Modernity

Lady Church in the Christian Imagination: From Early...

Author: Lora Walsh (University of Arkansas)
ISBN: 9781009766258
Format: Hardback
$245.81

How did Lady Church become a theological person and literary figure in patristic, medieval, and early modern texts?...  Read More >>

Unread: A Memoir of Learning (and Loving) to Read on TikTok

Unread: A Memoir of Learning (and Loving) to Read on...

Author: Oliver James
ISBN: 9781454959403
Format: Hardback
$45.00

Oliver James went viral on TikTok after he shared five simple words: “What's up? I can't read.” Thus began a journey...  Read More >>

Literature's Social Lives: A Socio-Institutional History of Literary Value

Literature's Social Lives: A Socio-Institutional History...

Author: Günter Leypoldt (Professor of American Studies, Professor of American Studies, University of Heidelberg)
ISBN: 9780197815113
Format: Hardback
$245.95

Beginning with its central insight--that the life of literature is in fact a double life, a life shared between...  Read More >>

The Long Rise of the British Novel, 1660–1800

The Long Rise of the British Novel, 1660–1800

Author: Nicholas Hudson (Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia)
ISBN: 9780198987369
Format: Hardback
$191.95

A rethinking of the evolution of the British novel that departs from dominant narratives and argues for an importantly...  Read More >>

Illness, Literature, and Care: Vulnerable Lives

Illness, Literature, and Care: Vulnerable Lives

Author: Robert Leigh Davis
ISBN: 9781666949193
Format: Hardback
$160.00

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Pilgrim Myths in American Fiction, 1820-1920

Pilgrim Myths in American Fiction, 1820-1920

Author: Kari Holloway Miller
ISBN: 9781666956689
Format: Hardback
$160.00

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Re-Envisioning the Freudian Mother in Southern Literature

Re-Envisioning the Freudian Mother in Southern Literature...

Author: Jill Goad
ISBN: 9781666969986
Format: Hardback
$160.00

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Fantastic Creatures in Italian Literature: From the Age of Dante to Modernity

Fantastic Creatures in Italian Literature: From the...

Author: Giulia M. Cipriani ,  Paolo Rigo
ISBN: 9781666956740
Format: Hardback
$150.00

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Contemporary Arabic Literature and Migration: New Poetics and Perspectives

Contemporary Arabic Literature and Migration: New Poetics...

Author: Annamaria Bianco ,  Baian Rayhanova
ISBN: 9780755652549
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Explores various aspects of Arabic literature of migration published over the past three decades, focusing on the...  Read More >>

Studies in Groovy Gothic Cinema: Trash, Horror, and the Hemispheric Sixties

Studies in Groovy Gothic Cinema: Trash, Horror, and...

Author: Antonio Barrenechea
ISBN: 9781666948868
Format: Hardback
$180.00

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Jaja's African Hair Braiding

Jaja's African Hair Braiding

Author: Jocelyn Bioh
ISBN: 9781350645813
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Welcome to Jaja’s! Written by award-winning playwright Jocelyn Bioh, this new comedy takes us into a bustling Harlem...  Read More >>

Pablo Neruda in Context

Pablo Neruda in Context

Author: Ignacio López-Calvo (University of California Merced)
ISBN: 9781009635424
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Contextualizes Pablo Neruda's opus by including 42 essays focusing on his journeys, the Cold War, and how literary...  Read More >>

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