Literature: history & criticism books

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An Introduction to Literary Geography

An Introduction to Literary Geography

Author: Daxing Zeng ,  Shan Li
ISBN: 9789819692545
Format: Hardback
$316.77

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In/Visible Subjects: Literary Character and Narratives of Invisibility Since the Eighteenth Century

In/Visible Subjects: Literary Character and Narratives...

Author: Gero Guttzeit
ISBN: 9783032026385
Format: Hardback
$369.57

and contemporary writers China Miéville and Jennifer Egan. In/Visible Subjects aims to establish a new literary...  Read More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

Nariman Skakov offers a new way to understand Soviet modernism, showing how writers and artists looked to the East...  Read More >>

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

Shir Alon develops a new theory of the emergence of modernist literary forms through a series of parallel readings...  Read More >>

Black Sheep

Black Sheep

Author: Curious Directive (Norfolk)
ISBN: 9781350613164
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Black Sheep is a razor-sharp psalm about the county of Norfolk, tracing the dilemmas facing farming succession....  Read More >>

Ernest Hemingway: Flawed Genius

Ernest Hemingway: Flawed Genius

Author: Aubrey Malone
ISBN: 9781781559352
Format: Hardback
$91.99

This is an account of the life of barnstorming author Ernest Hemingway. Aubrey Malone has immersed himself in recent...  Read More >>

The Second Advent of God Through Art

The Second Advent of God Through Art

Author: Craig Speakman
ISBN: 9798822971127
Format: Paperback
$76.53

What does the Book of Revelation tell us-and how does art play a part in it? In Craig Speakman's debut, page through...  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

""Bakhtin's most famous book: a classic in Renaissance studies, literary studies, and cultural history: in it he...  Read More >>

Shell-Shocked Intimacies: Gender Violence and Women’s Consent in French Culture and Literature of the First World War

Shell-Shocked Intimacies: Gender Violence and Women’s...

Author: Angélique Ibáñez Aristondo
ISBN: 9781836243168
Format: Hardback
$323.44

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative. The First World War generated...  Read More >>

Embodiment, Aesthetics, and Ethics in Romantic Literature and Science

Embodiment, Aesthetics, and Ethics in Romantic Literature...

Author: Lisa Ann Robertson
ISBN: 9781836244851
Format: Hardback
$297.56

Embodiment, Aesthetics, and Ethics in Romantic Literature and Science makes an unprecedented intervention into debates...  Read More >>

Stylistics: A Resource Book for Students

Stylistics: A Resource Book for Students

Author: Paul Simpson (University of Liverpool, UK)
ISBN: 9781032217536
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Written in a clear and accessible style, Stylistics, Third Edition is a comprehensive resource which covers all...  Read More >>

How Cormac Works: McCarthy, Language, and Style

How Cormac Works: McCarthy, Language, and Style

Author: Bill Hardwig
ISBN: 9780807184530
Format: Hardback
$91.30

Throughout a career that spanned six decades, Cormac McCarthy produced twelve novels that, while often quite different...  Read More >>

Emergent Voices of (North) African Immigrant Women and Their Daughters in French Literature and Film: Challenging the Inside, Seeking Outside, Passing Through Walls

Emergent Voices of (North) African Immigrant Women and...

Author: Sarah B. Buchanan
ISBN: 9781836245438
Format: Hardback
$310.50

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative. Emergent Voices is the first...  Read More >>

Norse Symbols: Compact and Well-Founded: Meaning and Context of Viking symbols - Mjolnir, Valknut, Runes, Yggdrasil, and Animal Style in Historical Context

Norse Symbols: Compact and Well-Founded: Meaning and...

Author: Einar Thoresen
ISBN: 9798232187033
Format: Paperback
$26.37

This book explains Viking symbols where they are effective: in use. Instead of retelling myths, it shows how Mjölnir,...  Read More >>

Literature and Philosophy: Telling Tales of Nonsense

Literature and Philosophy: Telling Tales of Nonsense...

Author: Alberto Castelli
ISBN: 9781032978208
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book examines the relationship between literature and philosophy.  Read More >>

Contes et Légendes Perses: Plongez dans le Monde Fascinant et Envoûtant des Contes et Légendes de la Perse

Contes et Légendes Perses: Plongez dans le Monde Fascinant...

Author: Saga Mystica
ISBN: 9798232159856
Format: Paperback
$39.57

Depuis des siècles, les contes et légendes perses ont fasciné et inspiré le monde entier. Transmis de génération...  Read More >>

Bob Dylan Outside the Law: The Poetics of John Wesley Harding

Bob Dylan Outside the Law: The Poetics of John Wesley...

Author: Robert Reginio
ISBN: 9783032027412
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book argues that the songs on Bob Dylan’s John Wesley Harding are deeply concerned with the fractures in collective...  Read More >>

Conflict Zone Literatures: A Genre in the Making

Conflict Zone Literatures: A Genre in the Making

Author: Debamitra Kar
ISBN: 9781032335377
Format: Paperback
$111.24

This book examines the metanarratives promoted by the state that determine the ideological framework and how these...  Read More >>

Architectures of Occupation in the Australian Short Story: Literature and the Built Environment after 1900

Architectures of Occupation in the Australian Short...

Author: Patrick West (Deakin University)
ISBN: 9781032064925
Format: Paperback
$111.24

Patrick West’s Architectures of Occupation in the Australian Short Story cultivates the potential for literary representations...  Read More >>

Scams, Cons, Frauds, and Deceptions: Online and In-person Victimization Schemes

Scams, Cons, Frauds, and Deceptions: Online and In-person...

Author: Sean Byrne (Boston University, USA) ,  James Byrne (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA)
ISBN: 9781032756486
Format: Paperback
$111.24

This unique volume presents cutting-edge research on the nature and extent of a wide range of scams, cons, frauds,...  Read More >>

Textual Patterns and Cosmic Designs in Early China

Textual Patterns and Cosmic Designs in Early China

Author: Benoît Vermander
ISBN: 9781032735504
Format: Paperback
$111.24

Via a hermeneutics focused on Chinese numerology and concentric arrangements, the book offers a novel construal...  Read More >>

Social Reading Cultures on BookTube, Bookstagram, and BookTok

Social Reading Cultures on BookTube, Bookstagram, and...

Author: Bronwyn Reddan ,  Leonie Rutherford
ISBN: 9781032603254
Format: Paperback
$56.90

This book examines the reading cultures developed by communities of readers and book lovers on BookTube, Bookstagram,...  Read More >>

Worlds of Wonder: Celebrating the Great Classics of Children's Literature

Worlds of Wonder: Celebrating the Great Classics of...

Author: Daniel Hahn
ISBN: 9780691274638
Format: Hardback
$79.07

A beautifully illustrated journey through the most beloved classics of children’s literature, spanning more than...  Read More >>

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