Literature: history & criticism books

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Poetic Drive: American Poetry in the Age of Automobility

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

Author: Joel Duncan
ISBN: 9780813954035
Format: Paperback
$80.99

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

Hydropoetics: An Ecocritical Perspective on Human-Water Relationships in Eastern European Arts

Hydropoetics: An Ecocritical Perspective on Human-Water...

Author: Jana Rogoff ,  Susanne Frank
ISBN: 9783837673579
Format: Paperback
$90.95

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Borges, the Jew

Borges, the Jew

Author: Ilan Stavans ,  A. Senkov
ISBN: 9798887199832
Format: Hardback
$55.00

Explores Borges' infatuation with Jewish history and culture.  Read More >>

Adab ke Aainay: (Mirrors of Literature, Literary Essays)

Adab ke Aainay: (Mirrors of Literature, Literary Essays)...

Author: Mukarram Niyaz
ISBN: 9789369089710
Format: Paperback
$68.61

Few Urdu essays act as mirrors of literature, tracing journalism, Deccani classics, progressive thought, poetic...  Read More >>

Psychic Connection and the Twentieth-Century British Novel: From Telepathy to the Network Novel

Psychic Connection and the Twentieth-Century British...

Author: Mark Taylor
ISBN: 9781399524490
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Contends that the twentieth century novel's approach to character fundamentally shifted in response to contemporaneous...  Read More >>

Reimagining Israel and Palestine in Contemporary British and German Culture

Reimagining Israel and Palestine in Contemporary British...

Author: Isabelle Hesse (Senior Lecturer in Department of English, University of Sydney)
ISBN: 9781399523684
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Examines an important relational shift in British and German cultural depictions of Palestine and Israel since 1987....  Read More >>

The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures

The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and...

Author: C. Ceyhun Arslan (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Koç University)
ISBN: 9781399525831
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Studies the intertwined manner in which Arabic and Turkish literatures took shape as national traditions.  Read More >>

The Ecology of British and American Empire Writing, 1704–1894

The Ecology of British and American Empire Writing,...

Author: Louis Kirk McAuley (Associate Professor in the Department of English, Washington State University)
ISBN: 9781399527156
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Advances our understanding of the literary legacy of contemporary ecological crises to investigate the interfaces...  Read More >>

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 >>

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 >>

The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place

The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of...

Author: Arnab Dutta Roy ,  Paul Ugor
ISBN: 9781496242648
Format: Hardback
$130.90

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

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

Author: Joseph Crawford
ISBN: 9781978841963
Format: Paperback
$66.00

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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 >>

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 >>

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