Literature
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The Folklore of Orkney and Shetland [Paperback]
Ernest Walker Marwick(Author); Ernest Marwick(Author)
$18.95Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781912476923
Published by : Origin
The two island groups of Orkney and Shetland have much in common. In each the grey stone houses and treeless landscapes are scoured in winter by stinging gales, and in summer lie under the endless days of the ‘simmer din’.
Ori... .... Learn More -
Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts Movement: Poetics of Possibility [Hardback]
Uhuru Portia Phalafala(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781847012777
Published by : James Currey
Series: African Articulations
Volume: 10
When South African poet and statesman Keorapetse Kgositsile (1938-2018) was instructed by senior members of his party, the African National Congress (ANC), to flee the country into exile in 1961, he packed among his meagre valuables a corpus of Ts... .... Learn More -
The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 47 [Paperback]
Markus Wessendorf(Editor); Jurgen Hillesheim(Contributor); Anja Hartl(Contributor); Aldo Milohnić(Contributor); Jakob Ribič(Contributor)
$65.00ISBN: 9781640141421
Published by : Camden House
Series: Brecht Yearbook
Volume: 47
The Brecht Yearbook is the central scholarly forum for discussion of Brecht's life and work and of topics of particular interest to him, especially the politics of literature and of theater in a global context. Embracing a wide variety of p... .... Learn More -
Old English Medievalism: Reception and Recreation in the 20th and 21st Centuries [Hardback]
Rachel A. Fletcher(Editor); Thijs Porck(Editor); Oliver M. Traxel(Editor); Rachel A. Fletcher(Contributor); Oliver M. Traxel(Contributor)
$99.00ISBN: 9781843846505
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Medievalism
Volume: 21
Old English language and literary style have long been a source of artistic inspiration and fascination, providing modern writers and scholars with the opportunity not only to explore the past but, in doing so, to find new perspectives on the pres... .... Learn More -
The Noah Myth in Twenty-First-Century Cli-Fi Novels: Rewritings from a Drowning World [Hardback]
Helen E. Mundler(Author)
$60.00ISBN: 9781640141315
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in English and American Literature and Culture
Volume: 29
With the rise of concern about global warming in recent years, climate-change fiction, or clifi, has become increasingly important both as a publishing phenomenon and as an area of academic study and research. Flood narratives have become a subsec... .... Learn More -
Literatures of Alchemy in Medieval and Early Modern England [Hardback]
Eoin Bentick(Author)
$90.00ISBN: 9781843846444
Published by : D.S. Brewer
The language of alchemy (the art of transmuting metals and manufacturing pharmaceutical medicine) is defined by obscure imagery, authorial play and dense knottiness, tempting curious readers to unpick its impenetrable promises. From the fourteenth... .... Learn More -
The Adventure of the Second wife: The Strange Case of Abdülahamid and Sherlock Holmes [Hardback]
Andrew Finkel(Author)
$28.00ISBN: 9780995756656
Published by : Cornucopia Books/Caique Publishing
What did Arthur Conan Doyle mean by that now infamous remark, uttered towards the very end of his life, that the only Sherlock Holmes story with the power to intrigue him was ‘The Adventure of the Second Wife’? For there was no such st... .... Learn More -
Peter Churchill: The forgotten novels of a British secret agent [Paperback]
Andrea Cominini(Author)
$14.99ISBN: 9788869773983
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Literature
After researching the life of a British Special Operation Executive agent, Oliver Churchill, who operated over the summer of 1944, Andrea Cominini found that his brother, Peter, had also been an SOE agent operating in France during WWII. Peter car... .... Learn More -
Textual and Bibliographical Studies in Older Scots Literature: Selected Essays of Priscilla Bawcutt [Paperback]
Janet Hadley Williams(Editor)
$34.95ISBN: 9781897976470
Published by : Scottish Text Society
This rich selection from the writings of Priscilla Bawcutt, the major scholar of Older Scots literature, both honours her achievement and provides authoritative guidance to all involved in the pleasures and challenges of medieval and early modern ... .... Learn More -
Wilhelm von Humboldt and Transcultural Communication in a Multicultural World: Translating Humanity [Hardback]
John Walker(Author)
$95.00ISBN: 9781571139757
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: 230
Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) is the progenitor of modern linguistics and the originator of the modern teaching and research university. However, his work has received remarkably little attention in the English-speaking world. Humboldt conceive... .... Learn More
