Literary Criticism
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South Sea Island: Geography of Pleasure [Hardback]
Frits Andersen (Author)
£46.00ISBN: 9788771849134
Published by : Aarhus University Press
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South Sea Island. The Geography of Pleasure is a literary history of European, Russian and American travelogues, films, paintings, philosophical treatises, all fascinated by the Polynesian islands. Our ideas of nature, growth and sustainability ar... .... Learn More -
Occasional Views, Volume 2: "The Gamble" and Other Essays [Paperback]
Samuel R. Delany (Author)
£18.50ISBN: 9780819579782
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
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Occasional Views brings together a diverse collection of essays by, and interviews with, one of literature's most iconic voices.
Samuel R. Delany is an acclaimed writer of literary theory, queer literature, and fiction. His works... .... Learn More -
Occasional Views, Volume 2: "The Gamble" and Other Essays [Hardback]
Samuel R. Delany (Author)
£70.50ISBN: 9780819579775
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
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Samuel R. Delany is one of literature's most iconic voices. An acclaimed writer of literary theory, queer literature, and fiction. his works have fundamentally altered the terrain of science fiction through their formally consu... .... Learn More -
Lost in History: Women in Literature and Philosophy [Paperback]
Supakwadee Amatayakul (Author); Ilenia De Bernardis (Author)
£8.99ISBN: 9788869772870
Published by : Mimesis International
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This book deals with the issue of women’s absence from the visible horizons of literature and philosophy. It seeks to understand why and how women authors and philosophers, despite their obvious and numerous existence, are not included in the lite... .... Learn More -
Children's Literature in the Nordic World [Paperback]
Nina Christensen (Author); Charlotte Appel (Author)
£10.99ISBN: 9788772195919
Published by : Aarhus University Press
Not yet published - available for pre-order
This book introduces Nordic children's literature and some of the children portrayed in these stories: from the little matchbox girl and the small boy revealing the nakedness of the emperor in Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytales to independent b... .... Learn More -
Letters from Amherst: Five Narrative Letters [Paperback]
Samuel R. Delany (Author)
£13.50ISBN: 9780819578518
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Five substantial letters written from 1989 to 1991 bring readers into conversation with Hugo and Nebula Award winning-author Samuel Delany. With engaging prose, Delany shares details about his work, his relationships, and the thoughts he had while... .... Learn More -
The Correspondence of Thomas Stephens: Revolutionising Welsh Scholarship in the Mid-Nineteenth Century through Knowledge Exchange [Paperback]
Adam Coward (Author)
£19.95ISBN: 9781891271304
Published by : Celtic Studies Publications
Series: Celtic Studies Publications
Volume: 23
Thomas Stephens was one of the most significant and controversial nineteenth-century Welsh scholars. His Literature of the Kymry (1849) was the first work to apply modern critical scholarship to medieval Welsh literature. Throughout ... .... Learn More
Elfriede Jelinek Goes Australia: Indigenising an Austrian Nobel Prize Winner [Paperback]
André Bastian (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9781925588514
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
Austrian writer and 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature winner Elfriede Jelinek has never shied away from bringing up painful issues within the discourse of modernity. In her oeuvre of over sixty plays and novels she has worked time and again on a vast... .... Learn More
"Who Knows What We'd Make of It, If We Ever Got Our Hands on It?": The Bible and Margaret Atwood [Paperback]
Rhiannon Graybill (Editor); Peter Sabo (Editor)
£49.00ISBN: 9781463242589
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Biblical Intersections
Volume: 18
In the nightstands of hotel rooms, kept under lock and key, in the poetry of a pre-apocalyptic environmental cult, and quoted by children, atheists, and murderers alike - the Bible is omnipresent in the work of Margaret Atwood. The Bible is found ... .... Learn More
The Politics of Richard Wright: Perspectives on Resistance [Paperback]
Jane Anna Gordon (Editor); Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh (Editor); Richard Wright (Other); Lewis R. Gordon (Other); Cedric Robinson (Other)
£22.00ISBN: 9780813179599
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history. His work championed intellectual freedom amid social and political chaos. Despite the popular and critical success... .... Learn More
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