Literary Criticism
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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
Not yet published - available for pre-order
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 his career, he... .... 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 -
Of and About Ageing [Paperback]
Laura Tommaso (Author)
£16.99ISBN: 9788869772603
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Literature | Language
Not yet published - available for pre-order
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 -
Lost in History: Women in Literature and Philosophy [Paperback]
Supakwadee Amatayakul (Author); Ilenia De Bernardis (Author)
£8.99ISBN: 9788869772870
Published by : Mimesis International
Not yet published - available for pre-order
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 -
Letters from Amherst: Five Narrative Letters [Paperback]
Samuel R. Delany (Author)
£13.50ISBN: 9780819578518
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Not yet published - available for pre-order
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 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)
£30.50ISBN: 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 -
Endless Inspiration: One Thousand and One Nights in Comparative Perspective [Hardback]
Orhan Elmaz (Editor)
£92.00ISBN: 9781463207205
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Gorgias Handbooks
This volume deals with One Thousand and One Nights in yet another and novel way as it brings old and new together by exploring parallels and possible origins of its tales, as well as the wealth of modern and contemporary material that it has origi... .... Learn More -
Writing Appalachia: An Anthology [Hardback]
Katherine Ledford (Editor); Theresa Lloyd (Editor); Rebecca Stephens (Editor)
£38.00ISBN: 9780813178790
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Despite the stereotypes and misconceptions surrounding Appalachia, the region has nurtured and inspired some of the nation's finest writers. Featuring dozens of authors born into or adopted by the region over the past two centuries, Writing Appal... .... Learn More -
Retold Resold Transformed: Crime Fiction in the Global Era [Paperback]
Christiana Gregoriou (Editor); Gigliola Sulis (Editor); David Platten (Editor)
£10.00ISBN: 9788869771736
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Literature
In recent decades crime fiction has enjoyed a creative boom. Although, as Alison Young argues in her book Imagining Crime (1996), crime stories remain strongly identified with specific locations, the genre has acquired a global reach, illuminating... .... Learn More -
Failure of Latin America, The: Postcolonialism in Bad Times [Hardback]
John Beverley (Author)
£28.50ISBN: 9780822945673
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Illuminations
The Failure of Latin America is a collection of John Beverley’s previously published essays and pairs them with new material that reflects on questions of post-colonialism and equality within the context of receding continental socialism. Beverley... .... Learn More
