Literature: history & criticism books

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Echoes Of My Mind

Echoes Of My Mind

Author: Vera Ann Yap
ISBN: 9798231944996
Format: Paperback
$42.21

In the maze of emotions, I wander free Where whispers of affection feel like royalty Each verse is a mirror, revealing...  Read More >>

Representing Social Precarity in German Literature and Film

Representing Social Precarity in German Literature and...

Author: Sophie Duvernoy (Independent Scholar, Yale University, USA) ,  Dr. Karsten Olson (Lecturer of German Studies, North Carolina Asheville, USA)
ISBN: 9781501391514
Format: Paperback
$59.99

""An exploration of representations of social precarity in German literature and culture from the 19th to 21st centuries""--...  Read More >>

Humour in Iran: Eleven-hundred Years of Satire and Humour in Persian Literature

Humour in Iran: Eleven-hundred Years of Satire and Humour...

Author: Homa Katouzian (Oxford University, UK)
ISBN: 9780755652167
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Satire, irony and humour have long been features of Persian literature’s rich tradition, taking various forms from...  Read More >>

Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France

Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary...

Author: Julia Caterina Hartley (University of Warwick, UK)
ISBN: 9780755645633
Format: Paperback
$59.99

The first study of the reception of Iranian culture, history, and literature in 19th -century France, including...  Read More >>

Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction: Race, Kinship, and the Passion for Ontology

Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction: Race,...

Author: Prof Nicole Simek (Professor of French and Interdisciplinary Studies, Whitman College, USA)
ISBN: 9781501377686
Format: Paperback
$59.99

""Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction focuses on the resurgence of biological racism in 21st-century public...  Read More >>

Faulkner’s Fashion: Gender, Race, Class, and Clothing

Faulkner’s Fashion: Gender, Race, Class, and Clothing...

Author: Professor Christopher Rieger (Independent Scholar, USA)
ISBN: 9798765103951
Format: Paperback
$59.99

""The first book-length study of clothing and dress across William Faulkner's novels and short stories""--  Read More >>

A Companion

A Companion

Author: Richard Meier
ISBN: 9798891060159
Format: Paperback
$39.99

In this new collection of poem-essays, poetRichard Meier continues his inquiry into daily writings (first presented...  Read More >>

Redemptive Hybridism in Post-Postmodern Writing

Redemptive Hybridism in Post-Postmodern Writing

Author: Dr. Tasha Haines (Independent Scholar, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9781501394546
Format: Paperback
$59.99

""From Virginia Woolf to David Foster Wallace and beyond, 'redemptive hybridism' - a new way of reading texts full...  Read More >>

Life Stories in Mughal India: Indo-Persian Biographies, 16th-18th centuries

Life Stories in Mughal India: Indo-Persian Biographies,...

Author: Shivangini Tandon
ISBN: 9781032991320
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Situated at the intersections between history and literature, the book explores the life-stories written in the...  Read More >>

Comic Lives

Comic Lives

Author: Laurie McNeill (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada) ,  John David Zuern
ISBN: 9781041002222
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Comic Lives examines the dynamic intersection of life narrative and comedy within the theoretical and methodological...  Read More >>

Queer Kinship in Sarah Schulman’s AIDS Novels

Queer Kinship in Sarah Schulman’s AIDS Novels

Author: Jarosław Milewski
ISBN: 9781032588919
Format: Paperback
$90.99

Queer Kinship in Sarah Schulman’s AIDS Novels is the first book to extensively discuss the works of Sarah Schulman,...  Read More >>

Sexuality and Gender in Fictions of Espionage: Spying Undercover(s)

Sexuality and Gender in Fictions of Espionage: Spying...

Author: Professor Ann Rea (Associate Professor, University of Pittsburg at Johnstown, USA)
ISBN: 9781350271401
Format: Paperback
$59.99

An exploration of how espionage narratives give access to cultural conceptions of gender and sexuality before and...  Read More >>

Rhythm in Modern Poetry: An Essay in Cognitive Versification Studies

Rhythm in Modern Poetry: An Essay in Cognitive Versification...

Author: Professor Emerita Eva Lilja (University of Gothenburg, Sweden (emerita)) ,  Professor or Dr. Alexander Bergs (Osnabrück University, Germany)
ISBN: 9798765100974
Format: Paperback
$59.99

""A pioneering work in cognitive versification studies, scrutinizing the rhythmical means of free verse""--  Read More >>

Confessing the Flesh: Reading Hopkins in Context

Confessing the Flesh: Reading Hopkins in Context

Author: Lesley Higgins
ISBN: 9780813953212
Format: Paperback
$80.99

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Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds: Mental Health in Victorian Literature

Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds: Mental Health in...

Author: Mathilde Vialard
ISBN: 9781032058641
Format: Paperback
$90.99

Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds investigates how the Victorians dealt with questions of mental health by examining...  Read More >>

Dante and Polish Writers: From Romanticism to the Present

Dante and Polish Writers: From Romanticism to the Present...

Author: Andrea Ceccherelli
ISBN: 9781032367262
Format: Paperback
$90.99

It explores the phenomenon of Polish Danteism from a hermeneutic perspective.The essays examine a series of “encounters”...  Read More >>

Children’s Literature in Place: Surveying the Landscapes of Children’s Culture

Children’s Literature in Place: Surveying the Landscapes...

Author: Željka Flegar ,  Jennifer M. Miskec
ISBN: 9781032409511
Format: Paperback
$90.99

Children’s Literature in Place: Surveying the Landscapes of Children’s Culture is an edited collection dedicated...  Read More >>

Form and Modernity in Women’s Poetry, 1895–1922: A Line of Her Own

Form and Modernity in Women’s Poetry, 1895–1922: A Line...

Author: Sarah Parker
ISBN: 9781032348698
Format: Paperback
$90.99

This book shows that traditional forms played a vital role in shaping mature women poets’ responses to modernity,...  Read More >>

Critical Perspectives on Max Porter

Critical Perspectives on Max Porter

Author: David Rudrum ,  Paweł Wojtas
ISBN: 9781032662398
Format: Paperback
$90.99

Max Porter is amongst the most exciting British writers of the twenty-first century; this book is the first study...  Read More >>

Affect, Performativity, and Chinese Diasporas in the Caribbean: Hopeful Futures

Affect, Performativity, and Chinese Diasporas in the...

Author: Elena Igartuburu García
ISBN: 9781032447780
Format: Paperback
$90.99

This book analyzes the emergence of Chinese diasporic literature and art in the Caribbean and its diasporas in the...  Read More >>

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