Literature
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Renaissance Papers 2020 [Hardback]
William Given(Editor); Jim Pearce(Editor); Ward J. Risvold(Editor)
$75.00ISBN: 9781640141124
Published by : Camden House
Series: Renaissance Papers
Volume: 42
Renaissance Papers 2020 features essays from the conference held virtually at Mercer University, as well as essays submitted directly to the journal. The volume opens with an essay that discusses the "ultimate story," the e... .... Learn More -
Kamba Proverbs from Eastern Kenya: Sources, Origins & History [Hardback]
Jeremiah M. Kitunda(Author); Jeremiah M Kitunda(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781847012807
Published by : James Currey
Series: Eastern Africa Series
Volume: 52
Not simply relics of the past, proverbs are an oral tradition containing historical and anthropological knowledge missing from conventional sources, and as micro-histories, provide a valuable source for the reconstruction of the manners, character... .... Learn More -
A Companion to Calderón de la Barca [Hardback]
Jonathan W. Thacker(Editor); Roy Norton(Editor)
$115.00ISBN: 9781855663152
Published by : Tamesis Books
Series: Tamesis Companions
Volume: 1
Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681) is one of the most important dramatists - many would say the single most important dramatist - of the Spanish Golden Age. Spain's dominant and most prestigious playwright for much of the seventeenth ce... .... Learn More -
ALT 39: Speculative & Science Fiction [Hardback]
Ernest Emenyonu(Editor); Chimalum Nwankwo(Author); Gabriel Bámgbóṣé(Contributor); Kayode Odumboni(Contributor); Ezeiyoke Chukwunonso(Contributor); Chimalum Nwankwo(Editor)
$99.00ISBN: 9781847012852
Published by : James Currey
Series: African Literature Today
Volume: 39
Over the past two decades, there has been a resurgence in the writing of African and African diaspora speculative and science fiction writing. Recent discussions around the "rise of science-fiction and fantasy" in Africa have led to a pu... .... Learn More -
A Conspectus of Scribal Hands Writing English, 700-1100 [Hardback]
Donald Scragg(Author)
$115.00ISBN: 9781843846178
Published by : D.S. Brewer
This book documents the entire corpus of scribal hands writing in the vernacular from the eighth century to post-Conquest. More than a thousand hands are listed, together with details of their work, which ranges from a few words or sentences in... .... Learn More -
The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 46 [Paperback]
Markus Wessendorf(Editor); Günther Heeg(Editor); Micha Braun(Editor); Vera Stegmann(Editor); Rikard Hoogland(Contributor)
$65.00ISBN: 9780985195694
Published by : Camden House
Series: Brecht Yearbook
Volume: 46
Published for the International Brecht Society by Camden House, 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 a... .... Learn More -
We Women of Tehran [Paperback]
Farian Sabahi(Author)
$11.99ISBN: 9788869773266
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Literature
Originally written for the stage, "We, the Women of Tehran" illustrates from a female standpoint the origins and contradictions of the Iranian capital, and the rights of religious minorities and women. It showcases women who have played ... .... Learn More -
The Boy Who Saw with His Hands [Hardback]
Tomasz Małkowski(Author); Joanna Rusinek(Illustrator)
$18.99ISBN: 9788869773389
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Out of Series
Kamil is a cheerful, lively five-year-old, who goes to kindergarten and loves to make silly jokes. Is he a boy like anyone else? Yes and no: he behaves normally but he is blind from birth.
This book shows the daily life of a special child... .... Learn More -
Early Greek Alphabetic Writing: A Linguistic Approach [Hardback]
Natalia Elvira Astoreca(Author)
Regular Price: $55.00
Special Price: $41.25
ISBN: 9781789257434
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Contexts of and Relations Between Early Writing Systems
Volume: 5
Most scholarship on early Greek alphabetic writing has focused on the questions around the origin of 'the Greek alphabet', instead of acknowledging the diversity of alphabetic systems that emerged in Geometric and Archaic Greece. The research conc... .... Learn More -
Gaimar's Estoire des Engleis: Kingship and Power [Hardback]
Gemma Wheeler(Author)
$130.00ISBN: 9781843846079
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Geffrei Gaimar's Estoire des Engleis is its author's sole surviving work. His translation and adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, expanded with a number of lengthy interpolations which appear to draw upon oral traditions and oth... .... Learn More
