Literary Studies: General
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Mythological Constructs of Mexican Femininity
Pilar MeleroCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Mexican figures like La Virgen de Guadalupe, la Malinche, la Llorona, and la Chingada reflect different myths of motherhood in Mexican culture. For...
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The Ballad-Drama of Medieval Japan
James T. ArakiCurrent price €47.69Original price €52.99This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...
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Mapping British Women Writers Urban Imaginaries: Space, Self and Spirituality
Arina CirsteaCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This study provides an alternative to the postmodern tradition of writing about the city by exploring spatialized constructions of gender and spiri...
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Texas Literary Outlaws: Six Writers in the Sixties and Beyond
Steven L. DavisCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99At the height of the sixties, a group of Texas writers stood apart from Texass conservative establishment. Calling themselves the Mad Dogs, these s...
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Writing in Red: Literature and Revolution Across Turkey and the Soviet Union
Nergis ErtürkCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99The republic of Turkey and the Soviet Union both emerged from the wreckage of empires surrounding World War I, and pathways of literary exchange so...
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Writing in Red: Literature and Revolution Across Turkey and the Soviet Union
Nergis ErtürkCurrent price €117.89Original price €130.99The republic of Turkey and the Soviet Union both emerged from the wreckage of empires surrounding World War I, and pathways of literary exchange so...
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Ulysses and the Limits of Dantes Humanism / Ulisse o dei limiti dellumanesimo dantesco
Lino PertileCurrent price €16.19Original price €17.99In his description of Ulysses in Canto XXVI of the Inferno, Dante subjected the legendary Greek hero to a thoroughgoing revision. The Homeric Ulyss...
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Memory Across Borders: Nabokov, Perec, Chamoiseau
Sara-Louise CooperCurrent price €83.69Original price €92.99Historical memory emerges through dialogue between one generation and the next. But what happens to this dialogue if the children speak a different...
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Three Cities of Yiddish: St Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow
Gennady EstraikhCurrent price €83.69Original price €92.99This volume borrows its title from the first international Yiddish bestseller, Sholem Asch's epic trilogy Three Cities. Whereas Asch portrayed Jewi...
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To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation
Annie PfeiferCurrent price €67.49Original price €74.99To the Collector Belong the Spoils rethinks collecting as an artistic, revolutionary, and appropriative modernist practice, which flourishes beyond...
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The Nonconformist''s Memorial: Poems
Susan HoweCurrent price €16.14Original price €18.99The Nonconformist's Memorial is a gathering of four long sequences that underscores Susan Howe's reputation as one of the leading experimentalists ...
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Parisiana poetria
John of GarlandCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99The Parisiana poetria, first published around 1220, expounds the medieval theory of poetry (ars poetica) and summarizes early thirteenth-century th...
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Michael Palin''s Hemingway Adventure
Michael PalinCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50'Hemingway's world was close and uncomfortable and itchy and sweaty and frequently exhausting . . . This stuff was too good to be wasted on school ...
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Spenserian Moments
Gordon TeskeyCurrent price €43.34Original price €50.99From the distinguished literary scholar Gordon Teskey comes an essay collection that restores Spenser to his rightful prominence in Renaissance stu...
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Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis: Friends in Co-inherence
Fintan O'TooleCurrent price €117.89Original price €130.99This study of the literary relationship between Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis during the years 1936-1945 focuses on the theme of 'co-inherence' ...
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Navigating Narratives: Tsurayukis Tosa Diary as History and Fiction
Gustav HeldtCurrent price €56.69Original price €62.99Drawing on both contemporaneous historical sources and modern literary criticism, Navigating Narratives offers unique insights into Heian Japan thr...
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Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century
Nazera Sadiq WrightCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99Long portrayed as a masculine endeavor, the African American struggle for progress often found expression through an unlikely literary figure: the ...
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The History of British Women''s Writing, 1970-Present: Volume Ten
Joseph HellerCurrent price €62.09Original price €68.99This book maps the most active and vibrant period in the history of British women's writing. Examining changes and continuities in fiction, poetry,...
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Secret Histories: Reading Twentieth-Century American Literature
David WyattCurrent price €38.69Original price €42.99Secret Histories claims that the history of the nation is hidden-in plain sight-within the pages of twentieth-century American literature. David Wy...
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Canadian Literature and Cultural Memory
Cynthia SugarsCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99Critics argue that contemporary western societies are immersed in a culture of memory, devoting resources to national histories and heritage, comme...
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The White Devil
John WebsterCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Adultery, intrigue, murder, revenge: the densely-packed plot of The White Devil touches on topics that are representative of the atmosphere of Jaco...
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The Judicial Imagination: Writing After Nuremberg
Lyndsey StonebridgeCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99This book tells the story of the struggle to imagine new forms of justice after Nuremberg. Returning to the work of Hannah Arendt, Lyndsey Stonebri...
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Aidan Higgins: The Fragility of Form
Dalkey Archive PressCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Drawing together a wide range of focused critical commentary and observation by internationally renowned scholars and writers, this collection of e...
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Assembling Flann O''Brien
Dr Maebh LongCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50Flann OBrien - also known as Brian ONolan or Myles na gCopaleen - is now widely recognised as one of the foremost of Irelands modern authors. Assem...
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