Literature: history & criticism books

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Poeticality: In Refusal of Settler Life

Poeticality: In Refusal of Settler Life

Author: Jeffrey Sacks
ISBN: 9781531512323
Format: Hardback
$289.00

Showing how poetry and art articulate forms of life beyond settler colonialism.  Read More >>

Adabi Mubahis, Fikri Zaviye: (Literary Discourses, Intellectual Perspectives, Literary Essays)

Adabi Mubahis, Fikri Zaviye: (Literary Discourses, Intellectual...

Author: Mehdi Ifadi
ISBN: 9789369084098
Format: Paperback
$76.53

Adabi Mubahis, Fikri Zaviye gathers thirteen essays by Mehdi Ifadi that traverse literary criticism, historical...  Read More >>

El amor como condición personal: Una reflexión desde el personalismo de Julián Marías

El amor como condición personal: Una reflexión desde...

Author: María de Lourdes Cabrera Vargas
ISBN: 9798881904425
Format: Hardback
$237.60

El amor personal, como realidad profundamente humana, ha sido poco explorado filosóficamente, pese a su centralidad...  Read More >>

Redacción académica en la carrera de literatura: Manual de escritura para estudiantes de letras y futuros críticos literarios

Redacción académica en la carrera de literatura: Manual...

Author: Alan Estefan Gutiérrez
ISBN: 9798881903800
Format: Hardback
$306.24

Este es uno de los pocos manuales en español enfocados en la escritura sobre literatura a nivel universitario. Influido...  Read More >>

Team Up: How Collaboration Powers Superhero Comics

Team Up: How Collaboration Powers Superhero Comics

Author: Marie Sartain
ISBN: 9781496860972
Format: Hardback
$229.00

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Women's Poetry from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, 1400–1800: An Anthology

Women's Poetry from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, 1400–1800:...

Author: Sarah Prescott (University of Edinburgh) ,  Marie-Louise Coolahan (University of Galway)
ISBN: 9781009489881
Format: Hardback
$232.88

A multilinguistic resource uncovering women's poetic activity across Ireland, Scotland, and Wales from 1400 to 1800,...  Read More >>

Truth and Reference in the Making of Fiction: A View on Fictionality

Truth and Reference in the Making of Fiction: A View...

Author: Manuel García-Carpintero (Universitat de Barcelona)
ISBN: 9781009298452
Format: Hardback
$316.80

A systematic account of the nature of fiction explaining why fictions can refer to the world and state facts about...  Read More >>

Wales, Romanticism, and the Making of Imperial Culture

Wales, Romanticism, and the Making of Imperial Culture...

Author: Timothy Heimlich (Duke University, North Carolina)
ISBN: 9781009618878
Format: Hardback
$245.81

This ambitious study argues that in the long eighteenth century the meanings of Britain and Britishness, once synonymous...  Read More >>

Lost Plots: Interpolated Tales and the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Lost Plots: Interpolated Tales and the Eighteenth-Century...

Author: Katherine G. Charles (Washington College)
ISBN: 9781009588621
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Investigating the peculiar literary history of interpolated tales and the ways in which they persistently unnerve...  Read More >>

A History of Modern Hebrew Literature

A History of Modern Hebrew Literature

Author: Yaron Peleg (University of Cambridge) ,  Zehavit Zaslansky (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781009667395
Format: Hardback
$232.88

A new history of modern Hebrew literature updated according to contemporary theories of literature, culture, identity,...  Read More >>

In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation

In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation

Author: Mona Baker (Manchester Univeristy, UK) ,  Henry Jones
ISBN: 9781032577586
Format: Hardback
$273.00

In Other Words, the definitive translation coursebook for three decades, offers practical guidance based on linguistic...  Read More >>

The Texts of Shakespeare: The Transformation of Popular Theatre to Printed Book

The Texts of Shakespeare: The Transformation of Popular...

Author: Stephen Orgel (Stanford University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350561052
Format: Hardback
$130.00

Renowned Shakespearean Stephen Orgel reveals how Shakespeare's scripts were transformed from popular drama into...  Read More >>

Edith Wharton and German Culture

Edith Wharton and German Culture

Author: Maria Novella Mercuri
ISBN: 9781666926330
Format: Hardback
$160.00

A nuanced study of the profound impact of German culture, literature, and philosophy on Edith Wharton’s work and...  Read More >>

I Do

I Do

Author: Terry O'Donovan ,  Daphna Attias
ISBN: 9781350628861
Format: Paperback
$21.99

I Do is a site-specific jigsaw puzzle through 6 hotel rooms just before the deed is done…  Read More >>

Writing During the Apocalypse: Reflections on the Great Unraveling

Writing During the Apocalypse: Reflections on the Great...

Author: Ed Simon (Adjunct Professorial Lecturer, Independent Scholar, USA)
ISBN: 9798765123225
Format: Hardback
$120.00

In an era when a future audience is very much not guaranteed, what possible purpose could there be in something...  Read More >>

Weaving Words, Shaping Worlds: Intertextual Echoes and Reader Evaluation in Pakistani Anglophone Fiction

Weaving Words, Shaping Worlds: Intertextual Echoes and...

Author: Azka Khan
ISBN: 9781666953633
Format: Hardback
$160.00

An exploration of how Pakistani Anglophone novels engage with prior texts to shape meaning, reinforce themes, and...  Read More >>

Anthropocene Affordances: Scale, Narrative Form, and the Human in US-American Literature

Anthropocene Affordances: Scale, Narrative Form, and...

Author: Lena Pfeifer
ISBN: 9783837679335
Format: Paperback
$110.95

How does contemporary US-American literature reimagines narrative forms to confront humanity's impact in the Anthropocene?...  Read More >>

Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020

Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020

Author: Jimmy Packham (University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781009548205
Format: Hardback
$142.31

Haunted shorelines, oppressively expansive beaches, and the crumbling edgelands around coastal cliffs have been...  Read More >>

Drone Cultures: From Surveillance and Warfare to Literature and Art

Drone Cultures: From Surveillance and Warfare to Literature...

Author: John Muthyala (University of Southern Maine, USA)
ISBN: 9781350530461
Format: Hardback
$130.00

Expanding on common perceptions of the drone as a tool of war and surveillance, this book argues that they are also...  Read More >>

Talking to Writers: The Craft of Fiction

Talking to Writers: The Craft of Fiction

Author: Dean Nelson
ISBN: 9798881803506
Format: Hardback
$50.00

Great writing can seem to be an act of mystery, a gift given to just a few, but these renowned writers pull back...  Read More >>

Anglophone Literature and the Fight Against Climate Change

Anglophone Literature and the Fight Against Climate...

Author: Matthias Stephan (Aarhus University, Denmark) ,  Richard Kerridge (Bath Spa University UK)
ISBN: 9781350420526
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Providing a methodology for identifying literary narratives of climate change, this book draws on historical narrative...  Read More >>

Deleuze and Slowness: Against Accelerationist Thinking

Deleuze and Slowness: Against Accelerationist Thinking...

Author: Dr Krzysztof Skonieczny (University of Warsaw, Poland)
ISBN: 9781350525481
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The first book-length treatment of the problem of slowness in Deleuze’s philosophy and its uses in understanding...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s Violence and the Early Modern Spectator

Shakespeare’s Violence and the Early Modern Spectator...

Author: Rebecca Yearling (Keele University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350565388
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This book explores how Shakespeare’s original audience might have responded to his scenes of violence and, in the...  Read More >>

Pseudo-Seneca: Octavia

Pseudo-Seneca: Octavia

Author: Dr Erica M. Bexley (Assistant Professor of Classics, Durham University, UK) ,  Thomas Harrison (University of St Andrews UK)
ISBN: 9781350121843
Format: Hardback
$160.00

An introductory study of the Pseudo-Senecan Octavia, its main themes, historical context, and subsequent reception....  Read More >>

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