Literary studies: general books

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A Road Course in Early American Literature: Travel and Teaching from Atzlán to Amherst

A Road Course in Early American Literature: Travel and...

Author: Thomas Hallock
ISBN: 9780817361648
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Presents essays that fuse literary scholarship and personal travelogue to explore American identity. This volume...  Read More >>

Re-Reading Tragic Africa: Development, Neoliberalism and Contemporary Fiction

Re-Reading Tragic Africa: Development, Neoliberalism...

Author: Amy Rushton
ISBN: 9783031509544
Format: Hardback
$316.77

Grounded in world-systemic analysis, this book revisits the literary and social implications of ‘tragedy’ in relation...  Read More >>

The Prophet's Whistle: Late Antique Orality, Literacy, and the Quran

The Prophet's Whistle: Late Antique Orality, Literacy,...

Author: George Archer
ISBN: 9781609389451
Format: Paperback
$237.60

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Lyric Trade: Reading the Subject in the Postwar Long Poem

Lyric Trade: Reading the Subject in the Postwar Long...

Author: Julia Bloch
ISBN: 9781609389437
Format: Paperback
$224.40

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Object-Oriented Narratology

Object-Oriented Narratology

Author: Marie-Laure Ryan ,  Tang Weisheng
ISBN: 9781496238795
Format: Hardback
$158.40

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A Mason & Dixon Companion

A Mason & Dixon Companion

Author: Brett Biebel
ISBN: 9780820365848
Format: Hardback
$303.47

Mason & Dixon might be Thomas Pynchon’s most human book. Yet the novel is also packed with historical allusions...  Read More >>

An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific

An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific

Author: ku‘ualoha ho‘omanawanui ,  Joyce Pualani Warren
ISBN: 9780824897352
Format: Paperback
$97.65

Features the fantastic as present-day Indigenous Pacific world-building that looks to the past in creating alternative...  Read More >>

Walt Whitman: Selected Poetry and Prose

Walt Whitman: Selected Poetry and Prose

Author: Walt Whitman
ISBN: 9781554816767
Format: Paperback
$37.40

Presents a substantial selection of Whitman’s poems. Highlights include the full text of the 1855 Preface to Leaves...  Read More >>

Novel Competition: American Fiction and the Cultural Economy, 1965-1999

Novel Competition: American Fiction and the Cultural...

Author: Evan Brier
ISBN: 9781609389390
Format: Paperback
$224.40

Describes the literary and institutional struggle to make American novels matter between 1965 and 1999. This book...  Read More >>

Black Fire-This Time, Volume 1

Black Fire-This Time, Volume 1

Author: Kim McMillon ,  Kofi Antwi
ISBN: 9781737987673
Format: Paperback
$184.77

"Nearly sixty years in the making, this anthology features over one hundred poets and writers on the theme of """"Black...  Read More >>

Summa Theologiae, Prima Pars: Volume 2: On the Holy Trinity and Creation in General, QQ 27-74: With the Commentary of Cardinal Cajetan

Summa Theologiae, Prima Pars: Volume 2: On the Holy...

Author: Thomas Aquinas ,  Thomas de Vio Cajetan
ISBN: 9780813236476
Format: Paperback
$77.00

Never until now has Cajetan's Commentary been put into English in its entirety. William Marshner's translation is...  Read More >>

Pragmatic Liberation and the Politics of Puerto Rican Diasporic Drama

Pragmatic Liberation and the Politics of Puerto Rican...

Author: Jon D. Rossini
ISBN: 9780472056729
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Dante's Divine Comedy: A Reading Guide

Dante's Divine Comedy: A Reading Guide

Author: K. P. Clarke (University of York)
ISBN: 9781009400824
Format: Paperback
$67.25

This essential guide to reading Dante reveals the originality and power of the language of the Divine Comedy. It...  Read More >>

Classic Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of Lament: An Anthology

Classic Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of Lament:...

Author: Victor H. Mair ,  Zhenjun Zhang (St. Lawrence University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350337213
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Bathed with the blood and tears of countless poets and authors and naturally expressing the most heartfelt emotions...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Politics

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American...

Author: John D. Kerkering (Loyola University, Chicago)
ISBN: 9781108841894
Format: Hardback
$194.06

This volume addresses the political contexts in which nineteenth-century American literature was conceived, consumed,...  Read More >>

Haunted Man's Report: Reading Charles Portis

Haunted Man's Report: Reading Charles Portis

Author: Robert Cochran, Jr.
ISBN: 9781682262467
Format: Hardback
$68.20

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Modernist Hellenism: Pound, Eliot, H.D., and the Translation of Greece

Modernist Hellenism: Pound, Eliot, H.D., and the Translation...

Author: Katerina Stergiopoulou (Princeton University, New Jersey)
ISBN: 9781009371483
Format: Hardback
$271.69

The first book to offer a detailed yet broad overview of the poetic engagement with Greece across the modernist...  Read More >>

Modernism and Finance Capital: British Literature, 1870–1940

Modernism and Finance Capital: British Literature, 1870–1940...

Author: Regina Martin (Denison University, Ohio)
ISBN: 9781009474368
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Interpreting modernism as a historical moment of financial crisis, this book expands the definition of finance capital...  Read More >>

Teaching Film from the People's Republic of China

Teaching Film from the People's Republic of China

Author: Zhuoyi Wang ,  Emily Wilcox
ISBN: 9781603296311
Format: Hardback
$160.60

Essays for teaching Chinese film, history, and society. This volume brings a diverse range of voices - from anthropology,...  Read More >>

Teaching South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Literature

Teaching South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Literature...

Author: Nalini Iyer ,  Pallavi Rastogi
ISBN: 9781603296373
Format: Hardback
$160.60

Encouraging a deep engagement with works whose personal, political, and cultural insights are specific to South...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Public Humanities Scholarship

The Routledge Companion to Public Humanities Scholarship...

Author: Daniel Fisher-Livne ,  Michelle May-Curry
ISBN: 9781032163390
Format: Hardback
$452.00

Across humanities disciplines, public scholarship brings academics and community members and organizations together...  Read More >>

Street, Text, and Representation in African American Literature: Urban Writing/Dwelling

Street, Text, and Representation in African American...

Author: Mattius Rischard
ISBN: 9781032457147
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Risk in Children’s Adventure Literature

Risk in Children’s Adventure Literature

Author: Elly McCausland
ISBN: 9780367623234
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Risk in Children’s Adventure Literature examines the way in which adults discuss the reading and entertainment habits...  Read More >>

Storying the Ecocatastrophe: Contemporary Narratives about the Environmental Collapse

Storying the Ecocatastrophe: Contemporary Narratives...

Author: Helena Duffy ,  Katarina Leppänen
ISBN: 9781032726946
Format: Hardback
$284.00

How do writers and artists represent the climate catastrophe so that their works stir audiences to political action?...  Read More >>

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