Literature
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Actualities: Transparent, to the Stone [Paperback]
Leonard Schwartz(Author)
$15.00ISBN: 9780996193894
Published by : Goats & Compasses
Actualities: Transparent, to the Stone is a book length poem that follows the movement of water through the multiple forms, narratives, and lives it makes possible, either overwhelming them or linking them together in the process. Transp... .... Learn More -
Manuscript Culture and Medieval Devotional Traditions: Essays in Honour of Michael G. Sargent [Hardback]
Jennifer N. Brown(Editor); Nicole R. Rice(Editor)
$99.00ISBN: 9781903153963
Published by : York Medieval Press
Series: York Manuscript and Early Print Studies
Volume: Volume 1
Michael G. Sargent's scholarship on late medieval English devotional literature has been hugely influential on the fields of Middle English literature, religious studies, and manuscript studies. His prolific work on a great range of English and Fr... .... Learn More -
African Literature in the Digital Age: Class and Sexual Politics in New Writing from Nigeria and Kenya [Hardback]
Shola Adenekan(Author)
$115.00ISBN: 9781847012388
Published by : James Currey
Series: African Articulations
Volume: Volume 9
The digital space provides a new avenue to move literature beyond the restrictions of book publishing on the continent. Arguing that writers are putting their work on cyberspace because communities are emerging from this space, and because increas... .... Learn More -
Johannes Scherr: Mediating Culture in the German Nineteenth Century [Hardback]
Andrew Cusack(Author)
$90.00ISBN: 9781640140578
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: Volume 221
The German nineteenth century saw a boom in publishing and reading that created opportunities not only for Dichter, creators of great literature, but also for Schriftsteller, authors of the second rank. Among the latter were cultural... .... Learn More -
Günter Grass and the Genders of German Memory: From The Tin Drum to Peeling the Onion [Hardback]
Timothy B. Malchow(Author)
$95.00ISBN: 9781640140851
Published by : Camden House
Series: Culture and Power in German-Speaking Europe, 1918-1989
Volume: Volume 1
Günter Grass (1927-2015) was a fixture at the heart of German cultural life, a self-styled spokesman of the Kulturnation (cultural nation) who imagined it linking him to canonical male literary figures and their authority. He was also ... .... Learn More -
The Literary Politics of Mitteleuropa: Reconfiguring Spatial Memory in Austrian and Yugoslav Literature after 1945 [Hardback]
Yvonne Zivkovic(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781640140882
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: Volume 218
The German term Mitteleuropa, or Central Europe, was never just a geographical concept: it connoted extending German influence to the east. In the 1980s, a number of eastern European dissident writers, including Konrd, Milosz, and Kundera, ... .... Learn More -
Of and About Ageing [Paperback]
Laura Tommaso(Author)
$21.99ISBN: 9788869772603
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Literature | Language
In navigating different representations from a discursive and linguistic perspective, the book offers new vistas on the role of language in the personal and societal ageing experience addressing debates on ageism, anti-ageing, age care, active age... .... Learn More -
Faḍāʾil-i Balkh, or The Merits of Balkh: Annotated translation with commentary and introduction of the oldest surviving history of Balkh in Afghanistan [Hardback]
Arezou Azad(Author); Edmund Herzig(Author); Ali Mir-Ansari(Editor)
$175.00ISBN: 9781913604004
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
This is a critical edition and translation of the medieval local history of Balkh, known as Faḍāʾil-i Balkh ("The Merits of Balkh"), which was completed in 610 Hijrī (1214 CE) in Arabic by Shaykh al-Islām Ab$... .... Learn More -
Wuka nya-nganunga li-Yanyuwa li-Anthawirriyarra. Language for Us, The Yanyuwa Saltwater People: A Yanyuwa Encyclopaedia: Volume 1 [Paperback]
John Bradley(Author)
$50.00ISBN: 9781925003673
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
This Encyclopaedia is a rich, authoritative repository of the cultural and linguistic knowledge of the Yanyuwa, the Saltwater people of the coastal and island country near Borroloola in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Volume 1 will i... .... Learn More -
Wuka nya-nganunga li-Yanyuwa li-Anthawirriyarra. Language for Us, The Yanyuwa Saltwater People: A Yanyuwa Encyclopaedia: Volume 2 [Paperback]
John Bradley(Author)
$50.00ISBN: 9781925333459
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
This Encyclopedia is a rich, authoritative repository of the cultural and linguistic knowledge of the Yanyuwa, the Saltwater people of the coastal and island country near Borroloola in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Volume 2 of this... .... Learn More
