Literature: history & criticism books

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Constructions of Europe in Modern American Poetry

Constructions of Europe in Modern American Poetry

Author: Elin Käck (Senior Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Society, Linköping University)
ISBN: 9781399536134
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Examines how twentieth-century American poets' European travel shaped the terrain of modern American poetry.  Read More >>

Masculinities in Nigerian Fiction: Receptivity and Gender

Masculinities in Nigerian Fiction: Receptivity and Gender...

Author: Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike (Assistant Professor in the Department of English and the 2025-2026 Wayne O. McCready Emerging Fellow, University of Calgary)
ISBN: 9781399538091
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Reveals how Nigerian writers redefine masculinity to challenge social norms and affirm relationalities.  Read More >>

Close Reading as Attentional Practice

Close Reading as Attentional Practice

Author: Marion Thain (Professor of Culture and Technology at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh) ,  Ewan Jones (Associate Professor of English, University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781399521116
Format: Hardback
$200.00

The first cross-historical study of the relationship between methods of close reading and discourses on attention....  Read More >>

Grammar and Twentieth-Century American Literature

Grammar and Twentieth-Century American Literature

Author: Lola Boorman (Lecturer in American Literature and Culture, University of York)
ISBN: 9781399547543
Format: Hardback
$219.00

Explores the intersection of American literature and language politics through the curiously understudied subject...  Read More >>

Auteur-Publishers: Small Press Practices as Avant-Garde Writing

Auteur-Publishers: Small Press Practices as Avant-Garde...

Author: Craig J. Saper (Professor of Language, Literacy and Culture, University of Maryland)
ISBN: 9781474454728
Format: Hardback
$200.00

An examination of the way in which small presses expanded authorship to include publishing practices as forms of...  Read More >>

China's Anhui Province (Part 9)- Explore Simplified Mandarin Chinese, Characters, Words, Sentences, and Virtual Mainland Chinese IDs, Highlighting Shen Fen Zheng for Diverse Ethnic Groups, with Pinyin, English, and HSK Level Support

China's Anhui Province (Part 9)- Explore Simplified...

Author: Linting Zhao
ISBN: 9798893124446
Format: Paperback
$105.57

Welcome to Unlock Simplified Mandarin Chinese Characters-a lively, hands-on adventure designed just for kids! Learning...  Read More >>

China's Anhui Province (Part 10)- Simplified Mandarin Chinese Guide, Characters, Vocabulary, Sentences, and Virtual Mainland IDs, Featuring Shen Fen Zheng for All Ethnic Backgrounds, with Pinyin, English, and HSK Level Inclusion

China's Anhui Province (Part 10)- Simplified Mandarin...

Author: Linting Zhao
ISBN: 9798893124453
Format: Paperback
$105.57

Welcome to Unlock Simplified Mandarin Chinese Characters-a lively, hands-on adventure designed just for kids! Learning...  Read More >>

The Last Westerner

The Last Westerner

Author: Chilton Williamson, Jr.
ISBN: 9781587314483
Format: Paperback
$32.95

This is a tale of one man's road toward fulfillment that plays out in stages of encounters and abandonment instead...  Read More >>

The Routledge Anthology of Global Science Fiction Origins

The Routledge Anthology of Global Science Fiction Origins...

Author: Bill Gillard
ISBN: 9781041010494
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The Routledge Anthology of Global Science Fiction Origins brings together short stories from writers of science...  Read More >>

Transnation: Identity and Mobility in Postcolonial Literature and Culture

Transnation: Identity and Mobility in Postcolonial Literature...

Author: Bill Ashcroft
ISBN: 9781041128748
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Transnation: Identity and Mobility in Postcolonial Literature and Culture offers a fresh and thought-provoking exploration...  Read More >>

Learn Mandarin Chinese Characters (Part 10)- Children's Chinese Reading Odyssey, Uncomplicated Assessments, Simplified Characters & HSK Mental Games

Learn Mandarin Chinese Characters (Part 10)- Children's...

Author: Meina Wang
ISBN: 9798895542088
Format: Paperback
$105.57

Welcome to Simple Test Series for Kids and Beginner Students of Chinese! Learning Chinese characters doesn't have...  Read More >>

Learn Mandarin Chinese Characters (Part 9)- Chinese Reading Quest for Youngsters, Simple Tests, Simplified Chinese & HSK Brain Exercises

Learn Mandarin Chinese Characters (Part 9)- Chinese...

Author: Meina Wang
ISBN: 9798895542071
Format: Paperback
$105.57

Welcome to Simple Test Series for Kids and Beginner Students of Chinese! Learning Chinese characters doesn't have...  Read More >>

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

Author: David Eldridge ,  John le Carré
ISBN: 9781350618305
Format: Paperback
$21.99

The first ever stage adaptation of Le Carre's breakthrough novel about Cold War spies, re-imagined by award-winning...  Read More >>

Sortir de l'ombre: Autrices et héritage littéraire

Sortir de l'ombre: Autrices et héritage littéraire

Author: Hélène Barthelmebs ,  Laetitia Saintes
ISBN: 9782806139856
Format: Paperback
$67.32

Longtemps naturalisée par la critique, la quasi-absence des femmes dans l'histoire littéraire est le résultat d'un...  Read More >>

Imagine a Nation: Six Persian Poets in Search of a Homeland

Imagine a Nation: Six Persian Poets in Search of a Homeland...

Author: Hamid Dabashi
ISBN: 9780755655625
Format: Paperback
$44.99

A critical and theoretical interpretation of six major modern Persian poets and the idea of a homeland, by Hamid...  Read More >>

Sherlock Holmes: Inspiring Lives

Sherlock Holmes: Inspiring Lives

Author: Roger Johnson ,  Jean Upton
ISBN: 9781837050918
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Sherlock Holmes: Inspiring Lives is light-hearted and highly informative, and perfect for both the Sherlock aficionado...  Read More >>

K-12 Classroom Research in Language Teaching and Learning: Narratives for Understanding and Engaging in Teacher Research

K-12 Classroom Research in Language Teaching and Learning:...

Author: Kate Mastruserio Reynolds ,  Khanh-Duc Kuttig
ISBN: 9781032780115
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This edited volume presents narratives on a range of methods for research on second language teaching and learning...  Read More >>

The Neo-Latin Verse of Urban VIII, Alexander VII and Leo XIII: Three Papal Poets from Baroque to Risorgimento

The Neo-Latin Verse of Urban VIII, Alexander VII and...

Author: Stephen Harrison (Professor of Latin Literature, University of Oxford, UK) ,  Gesine Manuwald (University College London UK)
ISBN: 9781350292376
Format: Paperback
$59.99

A fascinating insight into the most talented Latin poets to occupy the Papal throne after Pius II Piccolomini in...  Read More >>

Walter Benjamin and Cultural Translation: Examining a Controversial Legacy

Walter Benjamin and Cultural Translation: Examining...

Author: Birgit Haberpeuntner (University of Vienna, Austria)
ISBN: 9781350387218
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Dissecting the radical impact of Walter Benjamin on contemporary cultural, postcolonial and translation theory,...  Read More >>

Concrete and Plastic: Thinking through Materiality

Concrete and Plastic: Thinking through Materiality

Author: Kylie Crane (University of Rostock, Germany)
ISBN: 9781350380639
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Bringing plastic and concrete - two of the contemporary age's most significant materials - together, this book uses...  Read More >>

Framing Ageing: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Humanities and Social Sciences Research

Framing Ageing: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Humanities...

Author: Julia Langbein ,  Anne Fuchs (University College Dublin, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781350341456
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Framing Ageing, available open access, addresses scholars from across the Humanities and Social Sciences who want...  Read More >>

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature in Translation

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature...

Author: Cosima Bruno (SOAS University of London) ,  Lucas Klein (Arizona State University)
ISBN: 9781350215351
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Offering the first systematic overview of modern and contemporary Chinese literature from a translation studies...  Read More >>

Iris Murdoch and the Ancient Quarrel: Why Literature Is Not Philosophy

Iris Murdoch and the Ancient Quarrel: Why Literature...

Author: Lyra Ekström Lindbäck ,  James Reid (Metropolitan State University of Denver USA)
ISBN: 9781350332959
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Lyra Ekström Lindbäck revisits the crucial distinction between literature and philosophy in Iris Murdoch’s work...  Read More >>

European Churches and Chinese Temples as Neuro-Theatrical Sites

European Churches and Chinese Temples as Neuro-Theatrical...

Author: Prof. or Dr. Mark Pizzato (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA) ,  Alexander Bergs (Osnabruck University Germany)
ISBN: 9798765109106
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Compares monumental designs and performance spaces of Christian, Buddhist, and related sanctuaries, exploring how...  Read More >>

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