Literary Studies: General
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Structuring Spaces: Oral Poetics and Architecture in Early Medieval England
Lori Ann GarnerCurrent price €124.19Original price €137.99In Structuring Spaces: Oral Poetics and Architecture in Early Medieval England, Lori Ann Garner illuminates the idiomatic and traditional meanings ...
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National Literature in Multinational States
University of Alberta PressCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99If literature has often informed the creation of a national imaginarya sense of common history and destinyit has also complicated, even challenged,...
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The Private Life of William Shakespeare
Lena Cowen OrlinCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99The Private Life of William Shakespeare tells the story of Shakespeare as a family man in Stratford-upon-Avon. Cowen Orlin offers close readings of...
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Waste Paper in Early Modern England: Privy Tokens
Anna ReynoldsCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99The ubiquity of waste paper in early modern England has long been misunderstood. Though insults and modesty tropes that refer to waste paper are wi...
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Contemporary Literary Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Today''s Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, Scriptwriters, and Other Creative Writers
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Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings
Oxford University PressCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Samuel Johnson (1709...
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On Gide''s PROMETHEE: Private Myth and Public Mystification
Kurt WeinbergCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99Through a careful rendering of the text, deciphering its hidden ironies, Mr. Weinberg sees Promethee as a modern allegory, a parable wrought of all...
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Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire: The Historian Mustafa Ali (1541-1600)
André MarmotCurrent price €136.79Original price €151.99Mustafa Ali was the foremost historian of the sixteenth-century Ottoman Empire. Most modern scholars of the Ottoman period have focused on economic...
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Cusp
Shearsman BooksCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99This book is probably best described as a collective autobiography. With few exceptions the contributing poets write about their origins and influe...
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Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Choke
Bloomsbury Publishing PlcCurrent price €102.59Original price €113.99Offering a world full of traumatized characters trapped in a consumerist society where men, women, sex and gender have become unstable commodities,...
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Haft Paykar: A Medieval Persian Romance
NizamiCurrent price €64.79Original price €71.99It was a refreshing, old-fashioned pleasure to read Julie Scott Meisamis verse translation of, and introduction and notes to, this twelfth-century ...
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Krieg in der Literatur, Literatur im Krieg: Studien
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KGCurrent price €71.99Original price €79.99Der Erste Weltkrieg wird zumeist als Vorläufer-Konflikt des Zweiten Weltkrieges gesehen. Es lohnt jedoch, auch die Gegenperspektive einzunehmen: De...
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The 1950s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €147.59Original price €163.99How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1950s shape modern British fiction? As Britain emerged from the shadow of wa...
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The Thrill of Repulsion: Excursions into Horror Culture
William BurnsCurrent price €24.80Original price €28.50This collection of carefully curated lists, articles, and interviews celebrates the beleaguered horror genre across different media while tracing t...
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Narrative Ambiguität: Die FaustbUcher des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts
Marina MunklerCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99This book studies the transformations of the figure of Faust found in the Faust books dating from the 16th to the early 18th century, which laid th...
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Arbitrary Power: Romanticism, Language, Politics
William KeachCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99This book explores previously unexamined links between the arbitrary as articulated in linguistic theories on the one hand, and in political discou...
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Milton and His England
Don Marion WolfeCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99In narrative and some 120 pictures, Don M. Wolfe traces Milton's life in the context of the public events and common scenes of his time. His illust...
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New Lenses For Lorca: Literature, Art, and Science in the Edad de plata
Cecelia CavanaughCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99New Lenses for Lorca: Literature, Art, and Science in the Edad de plata examines the influence of science in the thought, creative process, writing...
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Dryden the Public Writer, 1660-1685
George McFaddenCurrent price €51.29Original price €56.99This reinterpretation of Dryden's life and works shows how his writings were influenced by important contemporaries, the power struggles of Restora...
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Midday In Italian Literature: Variations of an Archetypal Theme
Nicolas James PerellaCurrent price €57.59Original price €63.99Although midday is commonly associated with indolence or the languishing of both nature and humanity in stifling heat, Nicolas Perella shows that t...
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Like Clouds or Mists: Studies and Translations of No Plays of the Genpei War
Cornell University PressCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99This volume is organized to roughly follow the order of events presented in the Kakuichi-bon variant of the Heike. Essays and translations focus on...
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Melancholia translata: Marsilio Ficinos Melancholie-Begriff im deutschsprachigen Raum des 16. Jahrhunderts
Antje WittstockCurrent price €67.49Original price €74.99Current price €67.49Original price €74.99Save 10%