Literature: history & criticism books

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Putting Age in its Place: Long-Term Residential Care in Contemporary Film and Fiction

Putting Age in its Place: Long-Term Residential Care...

Author: Ulla Kriebernegg
ISBN: 9783837664126
Format: Paperback
$90.95

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Macbeth: Pocket Study Guide

Macbeth: Pocket Study Guide

Author: Tenille Dowe ,  Tenille Dowe
ISBN: 9781764162463
Format: Paperback
$76.53

A clear, accessible guide for Years 9-10, simplifying key quotes, themes, context and tragic form. Features an Act-by-Act...  Read More >>

Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment

Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment...

Author: Charles Taylor
ISBN: 9780674303591
Format: Paperback
$51.95

Charles Taylor delves into the poetry of the Romantics and their heirs, a foundation of his distinctive philosophy...  Read More >>

Eyes of the Sky

Eyes of the Sky

Author: Kyle Shernuk ,  Syaman Rapongan
ISBN: 9780231211710
Format: Paperback
$41.95

Syaman Rapongan is a chronicler of his people, the Tao, an Indigenous community who live on Orchid Island near the...  Read More >>

Vicious Circles: Disclosing a History of Critique

Vicious Circles: Disclosing a History of Critique

Author: Arvi Särkelä
ISBN: 9781503645417
Format: Hardback
$323.00

How can social critique respond to a catastrophic world? From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique...  Read More >>

Promise/Threat: Poems

Promise/Threat: Poems

Author: Jonah Mixon-Webster
ISBN: 9780593803066
Format: Hardback
$60.00

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Feeling Like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism

Feeling Like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism

Author: Matthew Thomas Miller
ISBN: 9780520426337
Format: Hardback
$157.95

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Thinking Through Shakespeare

Thinking Through Shakespeare

Author: David Womersley
ISBN: 9780691154107
Format: Hardback
$59.99

How Shakespeare's exploration of central human questions about identity, politics, religion and right and wrong...  Read More >>

The Poetry of Chuya Nakahara: Japan's Modernist Master (Free Bilingual Audio Recordings)

The Poetry of Chuya Nakahara: Japan's Modernist Master...

Author: Chuya Nakahara ,  Christian Nagle
ISBN: 9784805318973
Format: Hardback
$42.99

'A landmark book that will redefine Nakahara's place on the international stage.' Paul Perry, novelist and poet...  Read More >>

Enormous Morning: Poems

Enormous Morning: Poems

Author: Philip Schultz
ISBN: 9781324123828
Format: Hardback
$44.95

A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet examines the lives and sacrifices of his foremothers in his most personal collection...  Read More >>

Mezukak Shivatayim: Studies in Jewish Life and Literature in Honor of Bernard Septimus

Mezukak Shivatayim: Studies in Jewish Life and Literature...

Author: Edward Breuer ,  Elisha Russ-Fishbane
ISBN: 9780674303324
Format: Hardback
$113.95

The essays in Mezukak Shivatayim pay tribute to Bernard Septimus’s writing and teaching, covering rabbinic culture,...  Read More >>

Ladies Of The Rachmaninoff Eyes (Faber Editions): Introduced by Taíno Mendez

Ladies Of The Rachmaninoff Eyes (Faber Editions): Introduced...

Author: Henry Van Dyke ,  Mendez
ISBN: 9780571391776
Format: Paperback
$24.99

An outrageously witty tragicomedy-of-manners about a queer black teenager coming of age, introduced by Mendez, author...  Read More >>

The New Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

The New Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

Author: Michael Jonik (University of Sussex)
ISBN: 9781009347761
Format: Paperback
$64.69

This volume offers new perspectives on Emerson in relation to his contemporary moment; his religious and spiritual...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Literature and the Environment

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Literature and...

Author: Dennis Denisoff (University of Tulsa)
ISBN: 9781009412810
Format: Paperback
$64.69

The Victorians invented environmentalism but struggled with their human-centred perspectives and values. This collection...  Read More >>

Eyes of the Sky

Eyes of the Sky

Author: Kyle Shernuk ,  Syaman Rapongan
ISBN: 9780231211703
Format: Hardback
$165.95

Syaman Rapongan is a chronicler of his people, the Tao, an Indigenous community who live on Orchid Island near the...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and the Senses

Shakespeare and the Senses

Author: Holly E. Dugan
ISBN: 9780866986960
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Shakespeare and the Senses explores how audiences of Shakespeare’s time would have understood the sensual world...  Read More >>

Entangled Life in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Multi-scalar Poetics

Entangled Life in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Multi-scalar...

Author: Liliane Campos (Sorbonne Nouvelle University and Institut Universitaire de France)
ISBN: 9781009699419
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Will appeal to all readers interested in the ecological power of literature. Views fiction as a sensing instrument...  Read More >>

The New Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

The New Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

Author: Michael Jonik (University of Sussex)
ISBN: 9781009347754
Format: Hardback
$207.00

This volume offers new perspectives on Emerson in relation to his contemporary moment; his religious and spiritual...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Literature and the Environment

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Literature and...

Author: Dennis Denisoff (University of Tulsa)
ISBN: 9781009412841
Format: Hardback
$207.00

The Victorians invented environmentalism but struggled with their human-centred perspectives and values. This collection...  Read More >>

The Complete Works of Ricardo Reis

The Complete Works of Ricardo Reis

Author: Fernando Pessoa ,  Patricio Ferrari
ISBN: 9780811237895
Format: Paperback
$32.95

A bilingual collection of exquisite poems and prose by one of Fernando Pessoa’s most famous “heteronyms”, Ricardo...  Read More >>

Orange

Orange

Author: Noel Quiñones ,  Julian Randall
ISBN: 9781960327208
Format: Paperback
$34.95

A bold and tender portrait of family, identity, and truth in the North Bronx. Through narrative poems and innovative...  Read More >>

Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England

Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England...

Author: Claire M. L. Bourne (Assistant Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University)
ISBN: 9780197903674
Format: Paperback
$58.95

Explores typographic display and experimentation in printed play-texts from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries...  Read More >>

The Pushcart Book of Twenty-First Century Poetry and Prose

The Pushcart Book of Twenty-First Century Poetry and...

Author: Bill Henderson ,  Philip Schultz
ISBN: 9781888889062
Format: Hardback
$65.95

The best poetry and prose from the past quarter century of The Pushcart Prize editions selected by two multi-prize-winning...  Read More >>

Mythica: A New History of Homer’s World, Through the Women Written Out of It

Mythica: A New History of Homer’s World, Through the...

Author: Emily Hauser
ISBN: 9781804992791
Format: Paperback
$29.99

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The Cambridge Guide to World Theatre History

The Cambridge Guide to World Theatre History

Author: Steve Tillis (Saint Mary's College of California)
ISBN: 9781009703451
Format: Paperback
$59.51

A panoramic, non-Eurocentric view of theatre history that emphasizes the variety of connections among the world's...  Read More >>

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