Literary Criticism
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The Language of the In-Between: Transvestism, Subalternity, and Writing in Contemporary Chile and Peru [Hardback]
Erika Almenara (Author)
£37.00ISBN: 9780822947271
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Illuminations
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Often, the process of modern state formation is founded on the marginalisation of certain groups, and Latin America is no exception. In The Language of the In-Between, Erika Almenara contends that literary production replicates this same ... .... Learn More -
Munere Mortis: Studies in Greek Literature in Memory of Colin Austin [Hardback]
Eftychia Bathrellou (Editor); Margherita Maria Di Nino (Editor)
£60.00ISBN: 9781913701444
Published by : Cambridge Philological Society
Series: Cambridge Classical Journal Supplements
Volume: 45
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Colin Austin (1941–2010), Professor of Greek at Cambridge and distinguished editor of poetic texts, was renowned for the precision and brilliance of his scholarship. This collection of studies, offered by some of his pupils, aims to honour his mem... .... Learn More -
South Sea Island: Geography of Pleasure [Hardback]
Frits Andersen (Author)
£46.00ISBN: 9788771849134
Published by : Aarhus University Press
Not yet published - available for pre-order
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 -
Peter Churchill: The forgotten novels of a British secret agent [Paperback]
Andrea Cominini (Author)
£9.99ISBN: 9788869773983
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Literature
Not yet published - available for pre-order
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 -
The Selected Letters of John Cage [Paperback]
John Cage (Author); Laura Kuhn (Editor); Mark Swed (Author)
£20.50ISBN: 9780819580870
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
This selection of over five hundred letters gives us the life of John Cage with all the intelligence, wit, and inventiveness that made him such an important and groundbreaking composer and performer. The missives range from lengthy reports of his ... .... Learn More -
Occasional Views, Volume 2: "The Gamble" and Other Essays [Paperback]
Samuel R. Delany (Author)
£18.50ISBN: 9780819579782
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
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
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 -
Children's Literature in the Nordic World [Paperback]
Nina Christensen (Author); Charlotte Appel (Author)
£10.99ISBN: 9788772195919
Published by : Aarhus University Press
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
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