Literature: history & criticism books

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Objectionable: The Quasi-Objects of Queer Literacy

Objectionable: The Quasi-Objects of Queer Literacy

Author: Mark McBeth
ISBN: 9781636679693
Format: Paperback
$108.11

In a documentarian research study of artifacts from archives across the United States, this book examines how homophobia...  Read More >>

Colossians and Philemon

Colossians and Philemon

Author: Gary M. Burge (Calvin Theological Seminary, Michigan)
ISBN: 9781108716857
Format: Paperback
$64.69

Gary Burge's study explores the Roman context for Colossians and demonstrates how Paul's gospel would overturn the...  Read More >>

Poetry and Literature as Propaganda in Ancient Rome

Poetry and Literature as Propaganda in Ancient Rome...

Author: Dale Robertson
ISBN: 9798235948792
Format: Paperback
$41.82

This book explores that transformation, tracing the evolution of Roman literature as an ideological battleground...  Read More >>

The Creation of a Roman Political Persona Through Literature

The Creation of a Roman Political Persona Through Literature...

Author: Alban Pope
ISBN: 9798235237049
Format: Paperback
$43.67

In the intense, highly competitive arena of Roman public life, a politician's survival and success depended entirely...  Read More >>

Animals, Speech and Reason in the Middle Ages

Animals, Speech and Reason in the Middle Ages

Author: Joseph R. Johnson (Georgetown University, Washington DC)
ISBN: 9781009638449
Format: Paperback
$82.80

This is the first book-length, interdisciplinary investigation into the relationship between animals and the rational...  Read More >>

Homework: A Memoir

Homework: A Memoir

Author: Geoff Dyer
ISBN: 9781837262014
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The first memoir from Geoff Dyer, author of Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It, recollecting his childhood...  Read More >>

Even These Things

Even These Things

Author: Rory Mullarkey (Author)
ISBN: 9781350659926
Format: Paperback
$21.99

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Innocence, Desire, and the Architecture of the Fall: The Grape and Its Counter-Symbols in the Fiction of John Hawkes

Innocence, Desire, and the Architecture of the Fall:...

Author: Jason Carroll Holloway
ISBN: 9798349308444
Format: Hardback
$65.97

What does a single recurring image reveal about the hidden architecture of a novelist's entire body of work? Across...  Read More >>

Allen Ginsberg in Context

Allen Ginsberg in Context

Author: Erik Mortenson (Lake Michigan College)
ISBN: 9781009525589
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Provides both scholars and interested readers the context necessary to understand how Allen Ginsberg's life and...  Read More >>

Alejo Carpentier in Context

Alejo Carpentier in Context

Author: Anke Birkenmaier (Indiana University )
ISBN: 9781009554831
Format: Hardback
$232.88

This book is for scholars and students of Latin American and Caribbean literature, and for a general audience familiar...  Read More >>

Profiling Cleopatra: A Psychosocial History

Profiling Cleopatra: A Psychosocial History

Author: Sally-Ann Ashton (Prairie View A&M University)
ISBN: 9781009487788
Format: Hardback
$142.31

The Element adopts a historical approach to explore the psychological functioning of Cleopatra VII, the last ruler...  Read More >>

Selected Prose of John Dryden

Selected Prose of John Dryden

Author: John Dryden ,  Steven N. Zwicker (Washington University, St Louis)
ISBN: 9781009360326
Format: Hardback
$323.44

This is the only stand-alone edition of Dryden's prose available; it presents texts central to Dryden's career,...  Read More >>

The Ritz of the Bayou: The New Orleans Adventures of a Young Novelist Covering the Trials of the Governor of Louisiana, with digressions on smoldering nightclubs, jazz-crazed bars, and other aspects of life in the tropic zone

The Ritz of the Bayou: The New Orleans Adventures of...

Author: Nancy Lemann ,  James Wolcott
ISBN: 9798885740708
Format: Hardback
$47.99

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Cost of Survival: Stories of Silence and the Disappeared

Cost of Survival: Stories of Silence and the Disappeared...

Author: Douglas Daleel
ISBN: 9781970853957
Format: Hardback
$60.69

In these stories, survival is never clean. It is negotiated in whispers, in silences held too long, in choices that...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Effeminacy: Essences of the Plays and Poems

Shakespeare's Effeminacy: Essences of the Plays and...

Author: Sky Gilbert
ISBN: 9781915115805
Format: Hardback
$192.59

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Colossians and Philemon

Colossians and Philemon

Author: Gary M. Burge (Calvin Theological Seminary, Michigan)
ISBN: 9781108492508
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Gary Burge's study explores the Roman context for Colossians and demonstrates how Paul's gospel would overturn the...  Read More >>

Another Humanism: Subjectivity and Critique

Another Humanism: Subjectivity and Critique

Author: Carin Franzén ,  Nan Gerdes
ISBN: 9789176352915
Format: Paperback
$97.65

The anthology Another Humanism explores forms of subjectivity and critique within the humanist tradition relevant...  Read More >>

Racism is Expensive

Racism is Expensive

Author: Rachael Reed
ISBN: 9798233530678
Format: Paperback
$29.01

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Locked Gates: The Riddle Lords' Secrets

Locked Gates: The Riddle Lords' Secrets

Author: Howard West
ISBN: 9781456682569
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Answers long misunderstood. Locked Gates unearths an impressive amount of evidence of previously unrecognized technological...  Read More >>

The Works and Days of Marguerite Duras: The Shores of Creation

The Works and Days of Marguerite Duras: The Shores of...

Author: Buraq
ISBN: 9781787957350
Format: Paperback
$131.97

Venture to the shores of creation. This profound essay explores the shifting landscapes of a literary icon's mind,...  Read More >>

Animals, Speech and Reason in the Middle Ages

Animals, Speech and Reason in the Middle Ages

Author: Joseph R. Johnson (Georgetown University, Washington DC)
ISBN: 9781009638432
Format: Hardback
$245.81

This is the first book-length, interdisciplinary investigation into the relationship between animals and the rational...  Read More >>

Mothering and Matrifocality in Contemporary Caribbean Literature

Mothering and Matrifocality in Contemporary Caribbean...

Author: Leighan Renaud
ISBN: 9781800793811
Format: Hardback
$218.99

This book examines representations of mothering and matrifocality in twenty-first-century Caribbean fiction. The...  Read More >>

Atmabodha ou De la connaissance de l'esprit: Une exploration commentée du poème védantique de Çankara Acharya offrant des perspectives sur la philosophie indienne et la connaissance de l'esprit.

Atmabodha ou De la connaissance de l'esprit: Une exploration...

Author: Félix Nève
ISBN: 9791043147562
Format: Paperback
$58.05

Atmabodha ou De la connaissance de l'esprit est une version commentée du poème védantique de Çankara Acharya, traduite...  Read More >>

《爱的物理学》- Physics of Love

《爱的物理学》-...

Author: 易卜拉欣 穆罕默德-雅各布 ,  Ibrahim Mohammed Yaqub
ISBN: 9786038504925
Format: Paperback
$63.36

《爱的物理学》是穆罕默德-易卜拉欣-雅各布创作、张开颜翻译的一部现代诗集,通过精致的语言探索爱情的深度与复杂性。诗歌将激情、渴望、离别与忠诚交织,呈现情感的微妙互动和存在主义思考。每一首诗都描绘爱之力的律动,从细腻的情感描写到哲学性的思考,展现语言与灵魂的交融。书中充满隐喻、感官体验与诗意张力,适合文学爱好者、诗歌研究者及渴望深入理解爱情心理的人群阅读。它将情感的科学与艺术完美结合,呈现现代诗歌的魅力与独特视角。...  Read More >>

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