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Ecologies of Writing: Natural, Technical, and Social Conditions of Textual Production in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Ecologies of Writing: Natural, Technical, and Social...
Author: Dr. or Prof. Urs Büttner (University of Oxford, UK) , Dr. or Prof. Jacob Haubenreich (Johns Hopkins University, USA) ISBN: 9798765124451 Format: Hardback	$180.00
Uses case studies from 20th-century German literature and theory to explore the material, social, economic, and... Read More >>

Gothic Celebrity: Fame and Immortality from Lord Byron to Lady Gaga

Gothic Celebrity: Fame and Immortality from Lord Byron...
Author: Dr Harriet Fletcher (Lecturer in Media and Communications, Anglia Ruskin University, UK) ISBN: 9781350447523 Format: Hardback	$170.00
Covering literature, visual media and popular culture, this book explores how the Gothic is consistently used to... Read More >>

Notes from a Working-Class Playwright

Notes from a Working-Class Playwright
Author: Leo Butler ISBN: 9781350429475 Format: Hardback	$130.00
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The Goncourt Brothers and the Language of Etching: Prints, Process, Prose

The Goncourt Brothers and the Language of Etching: Prints,...
Author: Rachel Skokowski (Curator, Janet Turner Print Museum and Director of Galleries, California State University) ISBN: 9780198975274 Format: Hardback	$182.95
The first comprehensive study of the Goncourt brothers' etchings, including never-before published images of their... Read More >>

Writing Noise in Interwar Britain: Literature and the Politics of Sound

Writing Noise in Interwar Britain: Literature and the...
Author: Anna Snaith (Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature, English Department, King's College London) ISBN: 9780198951476 Format: Hardback	$208.95
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What Nails It

What Nails It
Author: Greil Marcus ISBN: 9780300285529 Format: Paperback	$20.95
From a celebrated critic, a heartfelt and adventurous reflection on the art of writing about art Read More >>

Yale French Studies, Number 146: Fabienne Kanor in Transgression

Yale French Studies, Number 146: Fabienne Kanor in Transgression...
Author: Gladys M. Francis ISBN: 9780300281897 Format: Paperback	$124.95
A collection of interdisciplinary critical essays examining the political and aesthetic practices of Martinican... Read More >>

Words Made Flesh: Language, Body, and Conversion in Colonial Latin America

Words Made Flesh: Language, Body, and Conversion in...
Author: Caroline Egan ISBN: 9781512828467 Format: Hardback	$150.00
Examines the role of the body in Indigenous-language religious texts from colonial Latin America Words Made Flesh... Read More >>

Imagining Eden: Black Theology and the Search for Paradise

Imagining Eden: Black Theology and the Search for Paradise...
Author: Jamall A. Calloway ISBN: 9780231209236 Format: Paperback	$52.95
In this deeply interdisciplinary and poetically written book, Jamall A. Calloway explores the presence of Eden and... Read More >>

The Cinema of Converging Lives: Complex Films and Intersecting Stories in an Isolated World

The Cinema of Converging Lives: Complex Films and Intersecting...
Author: Lucy Fischer (Distinguished Professor, Emerita, Film and Media Studies, Distinguished Professor, Emerita, Film and Media Studies, University of Pittsburgh) ISBN: 9780197768662 Format: Paperback	$73.95
What happens when strangers meet in film? The Cinema of Converging Lives explores a group of films within an important... Read More >>

The Classroom and the Crowd: Poetry and the Promise of Digital Community

The Classroom and the Crowd: Poetry and the Promise...
Author: Al Filreis ISBN: 9780231221597 Format: Paperback	$59.95
In The Classroom and the Crowd, Al Filreis reflects on his decades of experience as a founder of participatory literary... Read More >>

Nightmares of the National Imaginary: Surveillance and Sousveillance in Canadian Literature

Nightmares of the National Imaginary: Surveillance and...
Author: Tom Halford ISBN: 9781487564124 Format: Hardback	$115.00
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Commemorative Acts: French Theatre and the Memory of the Great War

Commemorative Acts: French Theatre and the Memory of...
Author: Susan McCready ISBN: 9781487564094 Format: Hardback	$135.00
Drawing on memory studies and theatrical history, Commemorative Acts analyses a neglected body of plays staged in... Read More >>

Imagining Eden: Black Theology and the Search for Paradise

Imagining Eden: Black Theology and the Search for Paradise...
Author: Jamall A. Calloway ISBN: 9780231209229 Format: Hardback	$215.95
In this deeply interdisciplinary and poetically written book, Jamall A. Calloway explores the presence of Eden and... Read More >>

Timaeus in Paradise: Metaphors and Beauty from Plato to Dante and Beyond

Timaeus in Paradise: Metaphors and Beauty from Plato...
Author: Piero Boitani ISBN: 9780691276144 Format: Hardback	$79.99
Tracing the influence and impact of Plato's Timaeus-and its major themes, creation and beauty-through the centuries... Read More >>

The Lost History of Roman Theatre

The Lost History of Roman Theatre
Author: T.P. Wiseman ISBN: 9780691273235 Format: Hardback	$79.99
Investigating the origins of theatre in archaic Rome Theatre was an integral part of Roman civic, religious and... Read More >>

The Classroom and the Crowd: Poetry and the Promise of Digital Community

The Classroom and the Crowd: Poetry and the Promise...
Author: Al Filreis ISBN: 9780231221580 Format: Hardback	$240.95
In The Classroom and the Crowd, Al Filreis reflects on his decades of experience as a founder of participatory literary... Read More >>

Queer Trauma Across Borders: Comparative Approaches to Literature, Film, and Sound

Queer Trauma Across Borders: Comparative Approaches...
Author: Anchit Sathi ISBN: 9783032022837 Format: Hardback	$422.37
line-height: 115%;"">This book reframes trauma as not just a response to violence but a structural condition of... Read More >>

Eileen O’Shaughnessy, in Her Own Words: The Complete Letters of George Orwell's Wife

Eileen O’Shaughnessy, in Her Own Words: The Complete...
Author: Angela Smith , Sylvia Topp ISBN: 9783032033666 Format: Paperback	$64.66
Eileen was an accomplished writer in her lifetime, and the letters are erudite and entertaining, whilst offering... Read More >>

Meatfiction: The Treatment of Animals in the Contemporary American Novel

Meatfiction: The Treatment of Animals in the Contemporary...
Author: Jamie Redgate ISBN: 9783032083722 Format: Hardback	$343.17
This book highlights the efforts of contemporary writers of ""meatfiction"" to balance postmodern innovation with... Read More >>

Literary Autobiography: Contemporary Novelists and their Self-Representations

Literary Autobiography: Contemporary Novelists and their...
Author: Melissa Schuh ISBN: 9783032004109 Format: Hardback	$369.57
Why do novelists write about themselves? What modes do novelists use to manipulate representations of their personality?... Read More >>

Dublin Gothic

Dublin Gothic
Author: Barbara Bergin ISBN: 9781350620858 Format: Paperback	$21.99
Dublin Gothic follows three generations of residents in one Dublin house across a century of social upheaval. Read More >>

Book of Rain

Book of Rain
Author: Ab Zayd al-Anr , David Larsen ISBN: 9798891060364 Format: Paperback	$44.99
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ReVisions: Speculating in Literature and Film in Canada

ReVisions: Speculating in Literature and Film in Canada...
Author: Wendy Roy ISBN: 9781487567583 Format: Hardback	$160.00
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A Primer of Biblical Hebrew Poetry: An Essential Guide for Reading and Analysis

A Primer of Biblical Hebrew Poetry: An Essential Guide...
Author: David Emanuel ISBN: 9780310165828 Format: Paperback	$62.99
A Primer of Biblical Hebrew Poetry by David Mark Emanuel is an essential language resource for understanding Hebrew... Read More >>

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