Literature: history & criticism books

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Joyce in Trieste: An Album of Risky Readings

Joyce in Trieste: An Album of Risky Readings

Author: Sebastian D. G. Knowles ,  Geert Lernout
ISBN: 9780813081311
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Through a wide variety of essays on language, history, politics, and culture in the works of James Joyce, this book...  Read More >>

Potternomics: Why Wizards Still Live in the Dark Ages and Other Economic Curiosities in the World of Harry Potter

Potternomics: Why Wizards Still Live in the Dark Ages...

Author: J Brian O'Roark
ISBN: 9781592116874
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Magic can’t fix bad economics—discover why the wizarding world is still stuck in the Dark Ages! Discover the Shocking...  Read More >>

Food and Culture: Readings through Fictions, Memoirs and Histories

Food and Culture: Readings through Fictions, Memoirs...

Author: Gigy J. Alex
ISBN: 9781803747811
Format: Paperback
$116.44

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Dogs Save: Stories of Canine Redemption in US Culture

Dogs Save: Stories of Canine Redemption in US Culture...

Author: Katharine Mershon
ISBN: 9780231206976
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Katharine Mershon examines the unacknowledged religious underpinnings of stories about dogs, revealing deeply rooted...  Read More >>

""The Ambiguity of the Hypotheses"": Four Landmarks Within the Tangles, Networks, and Knots of Gadda's Pasticciaccio

""The Ambiguity of the Hypotheses"": Four Landmarks...

Author: Adria Bernardi
ISBN: 9781599542522
Format: Paperback
$42.24

It's a tangle. It is a big tangle of a novel. A series of knots within knots within knots within knots. Long, winding,...  Read More >>

Inca Mythology

Inca Mythology

Author: Samuel M Goldstein
ISBN: 9798235870734
Format: Paperback
$52.77

High in the Andes, the Inca built one of the most sophisticated empires in human history. They did so without the...  Read More >>

Love and Death in the American Novel

Love and Death in the American Novel

Author: Leslie Fiedler
ISBN: 9781681379692
Format: Paperback
$55.00

""No other study of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to say."" Washington Post...  Read More >>

Please Please Me

Please Please Me

Author: Tom Wright
ISBN: 9781350641488
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Please Please Me is the electrifying story of The Beatles’ meteoric rise and the hidden struggles of their beloved...  Read More >>

Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King

Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen...

Author: Caroline Bicks
ISBN: 9781399744515
Format: Hardback
$69.99

An exploration of Stephen King's writing from the first academic granted full access to King's archives.  Read More >>

Adrift on the Earth: Caribbean Romanticism and Geopoetics

Adrift on the Earth: Caribbean Romanticism and Geopoetics...

Author: Kir Kuiken
ISBN: 9781503645981
Format: Hardback
$300.00

Kir Kuiken argues for the existence of a geopoetic literary genre extending from the late eighteenth century to...  Read More >>

The poetry of suicide: Lessons in grief from the lives and deaths of poets

The poetry of suicide: Lessons in grief from the lives...

Author: J. T. Welsch
ISBN: 9781526191991
Format: Hardback
$69.99

Interweaving stories of poets who took their own lives with the long history of suicide in his own family, J. T....  Read More >>

Body, Soul, and Comics: Graphic Religion and Graphic Medicine

Body, Soul, and Comics: Graphic Religion and Graphic...

Author: A. David Lewis
ISBN: 9781496862266
Format: Hardback
$229.00

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Conversations with Michael S. Harper

Conversations with Michael S. Harper

Author: John Zheng ,  Michael Antonucci
ISBN: 9781496861610
Format: Hardback
$254.00

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Re-examining nineteenth-century Easts: Gendered narratives of encounter

Re-examining nineteenth-century Easts: Gendered narratives...

Author: Claudia Capancioni ,  Julia Kuehn
ISBN: 9781526184429
Format: Hardback
$206.99

This collectionreassesses and revitalises the gendered and gendering debates associated with nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Approaches to Teaching Homer's Odyssey

Approaches to Teaching Homer's Odyssey

Author: Lillian E. Doherty
ISBN: 9781603297103
Format: Paperback
$87.99

A lively guide for educators reinterpreting an ancient epic through modern lenses. It examines memorable figures...  Read More >>

Dogs Save: Stories of Canine Redemption in US Culture

Dogs Save: Stories of Canine Redemption in US Culture...

Author: Katharine Mershon
ISBN: 9780231206969
Format: Hardback
$198.95

Katharine Mershon examines the unacknowledged religious underpinnings of stories about dogs, revealing deeply rooted...  Read More >>

Die Weltliterarischen Elemente in Der Chinesischen Literatur

Die Weltliterarischen Elemente in Der Chinesischen Literatur...

Author: Sihe Chen ,  Thomas Zimmer
ISBN: 9783112224984
Format: Hardback
$71.47

Wie kann der Leitbegriff ""Weltliteratur"" unseren Blick auf chinesische Literaturgeschichte ändern? Zum ersten...  Read More >>

着色的面纱(The Painted Veil)

着色的面纱(The...

Author: W Somerset Maugham ,  Hua Liu
ISBN: 9781683728313
Format: Paperback
$52.77

在瘟疫与背叛之间,一个女人重新寻找自我与爱的意义。  Read More >>

Lullabies of Death: Blood, Plague, and Hidden Horror in the Songs We Gave to Our Children

Lullabies of Death: Blood, Plague, and Hidden Horror...

Author: Heinrich Wilson ,  Victoria Van Halen
ISBN: 9798235192621
Format: Paperback
$31.65

You sang these songs as a child. So did your parents. So did theirs. You had no idea what you were singing. Behind...  Read More >>

Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus and the Writing of History in the Greco-Roman World

Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus and the Writing...

Author: John Marincola (Leon Golden Professor Emeritus of Classics, Florida State University)
ISBN: 9780198979180
Format: Hardback
$246.95

This volume explores Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus within the traditions of Greek literary and rhetorical...  Read More >>

Shakespeare: The Journey into the Sacred

Shakespeare: The Journey into the Sacred

Author: Simon Sheridan
ISBN: 9781764230520
Format: Paperback
$36.93

Outlines a method of story interpretation inspired by the work Joseph Campbell which begins with the premise that...  Read More >>

Candide de Voltaire: Fiche de lecture complète pour le Bac Français

Candide de Voltaire: Fiche de lecture complète pour...

Author: Michael R Amani
ISBN: 9798235217324
Format: Paperback
$21.09

Vous devez lire Candide pour le lycée ou par curiosité... mais vous manquez de temps, ou le style vous freine ?...  Read More >>

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