Literature: history & criticism books

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Approaches to Teaching Homer's Odyssey

Approaches to Teaching Homer's Odyssey

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

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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 >>

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 >>

Narration and Narratology in Modern Persian Literature

Narration and Narratology in Modern Persian Literature...

Author: Alireza Korangy ,  Sara Khorshidi
ISBN: 9789819698325
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book investigates the ethical and aesthetic implications of modern Persian narratives.  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

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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 >>

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 >>

Firewing

Firewing

Author: David A Pearson
ISBN: 9781350654747
Format: Paperback
$21.99

The debut play by INSPIRE graduate David Pearson, Firewing is a striking new play about connection, artistry and...  Read More >>

The Future Is Fiction: A Cultural History of Intergenerational Justice

The Future Is Fiction: A Cultural History of Intergenerational...

Author: Stacey Margolis (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Utah)
ISBN: 9780197839584
Format: Hardback
$194.95

The Future is Fiction is the first cultural history of the idea that people have an obligation to protect the world...  Read More >>

Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Europe

Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and...

Author: Julie Stone Peters (H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780197903957
Format: Paperback
$70.95

Explores the history of legal theatricality from antiquity to the eighteenth-century. It recovers a long tradition...  Read More >>

Into the Badlands: America and its Crime Writers

Into the Badlands: America and its Crime Writers

Author: John L Williams
ISBN: 9780857306265
Format: Paperback
$36.99

An instant cult classic that remains deeply relevant today: both an incisive and funny travelogue and a revealing...  Read More >>

The Delirium Archive

The Delirium Archive

Author: Shane Mac an Bhaird
ISBN: 9781350654808
Format: Paperback
$21.99

The Delirium Archive is a world premiere by Shane Mac an Bhaird. It is about family, and the intangible love technology...  Read More >>

What Happened to Icarus: Encountering the Unfathomable in a World in Crisis

What Happened to Icarus: Encountering the Unfathomable...

Author: Theodore Richards
ISBN: 9781965320938
Format: Paperback
$58.08

I want to know what happened to Icarus after his wings melted away, when he fell into the fathomless sea. This...  Read More >>

Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theater

Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early...

Author: Katherine Schaap Williams
ISBN: 9781501786846
Format: Paperback
$87.99

""This book analyzes physical disability in sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century English plays by Shakespeare,...  Read More >>

The Poetics of Agency: Action and Form in Post-War US Poetry

The Poetics of Agency: Action and Form in Post-War US...

Author: Tymek Woodham (University College London, UK.)
ISBN: 9781350417229
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Focusing on the poetry and poetics of four pivotal authors, this book examines how experimental approaches to poetic...  Read More >>

Frankenstein Retold: Literary Adaptation in Contemporary Fiction

Frankenstein Retold: Literary Adaptation in Contemporary...

Author: Dr Daniel Cook (University of Dundee, UK) ,  Daniel Cook (University of Dundee UK)
ISBN: 9781350501959
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Takes stock of the extraordinary range of book-based adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, comprising reimaginings,...  Read More >>

Disability and Rurality in American Literature: Ecosomatic Pastoralism

Disability and Rurality in American Literature: Ecosomatic...

Author: Matthew J. C. Cella
ISBN: 9781666965124
Format: Hardback
$160.00

An exploration of the relationships between American rurality, conceptions of wellness and civic “fitness,” and...  Read More >>

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