Comparative Literature

Winner, French Voices Grand Prize Nostalgia makes claims on us both as individuals and as members of a political community. In this short book, Barbara Cassin provides an eloquent and sophisticated treatment of exile and of desire for a homeland, while...

This unique anthology presents the important historical essays on tragedy, ranging from antiquity to the present, divided into historical periods and arranged chronologically. Across its span, it traces the development of theories and philosophies of...

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was one of the literary sensations of the Victorian period. His iconoclastic poetry and prose challenged attitudes to sex, politics, religion and censorship. Not only writing some of the most original lyric poetry...

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyA double portrait of two of America's most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them-and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisisUp from the Depths tells...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130857Author Jonathan CraryFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 666gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 15mm

Who are we and how do we define our inner selves? In his last work, Professor Stephen Prickett presents a literary and cultural exploration of our inner selves - and how we have created and written about them - from the Old Testament to social media...

Visions of post-apocalyptic worlds have proved to be irresistible for many 21st-century writers, from literary novelists to fantasy and young adult writers. Exploring a wide range of texts, from the works of Margaret Atwood, Cormac McCarthy, Tom Perrotta...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596500310Author James G CowanFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint New Cultures PressPublisher New Cultures PressWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

A selection of new and revised essays from eminent scholar and critic Professor Christopher Ricks. Christopher Ricks brings together new as well as substantially augmented critical essays across a wide range. Several derive from his term as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612299792Author Stefano CalzatiFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Common Ground Research NetworksPublisher Common Ground Research NetworksWeight(grams)...

This study addresses the intricate links between oral culture and literate culture in the eighteenth century. Tadie traces how perceptions and representations of language move from a dominance of the spoken work to a dominance of the written word; and...

This volume celebrates the work of William O'Sullivan, the first keeper of manuscripts at Trinity College, Dublin, who preserved, made more accessible and elucidated the documents in his care. The manuscripts throw new light on the society of Ireland,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788792633507Author Camelia EliasFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Eyecorner PressPublisher Eyecorner PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Given that the Surrealists were initially met with widespread incomprehension, mercilessly ridiculed, and treated as madmen, it is remarkable that more than one hundred years on we still feel the vitality and continued popularity of the movement today. ...

The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture is a major contribution to the dynamic field of Victorian studies. This collection of 37 original chapters by leading international Victorian scholars offers new approaches to familiar themes including...

Helen Palmer examines the Russian formalist concept of defamiliarisation, or making-strange, from a contemporary critical perspective, bringing together new materialist feminisms, experimental linguistic formalism and queer theory. She explores how we...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.Examining the intersection of disability and genre in popular works of horror, crime, science fiction, fantasy, and romance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781884317Author Andrew HinesFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 12mm

This collection of previously unpublished autobiographical and semi-autobiographical "snippets of experience" written by Svetlana Boym in the final period of her life capture her penchant for seamlessly melding, poetically and dream-like, the intensively...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780882149615Author Charles BoerFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint Spring PublicationsPublisher Spring PublicationsWeight(grams) 662g

Emphasizing the diversity of twentieth-century collage practices, Rona Cran's book explores the role that it played in the work of Joseph Cornell, William Burroughs, Frank O'Hara, and Bob Dylan. For all four, collage was an important creative catalyst,...

Bringing together an exciting group of knowledge workers, scholars and activists from across fields, this book revisits a foundational question of the Enlightenment: what is "the last or furthest end of knowledge"? It is a book about why we do what we...

Fashion Narrative and Translation: Is Vanity Fair? combines comparative literature, fashion, and translation studies in their interactional roles. The integrated approach provides an innovative blended approach to comparative literature studies...

An Independent Book of the MonthPenises, and the things people do with them, have been subjects of controversy for a long time. This book examines how one thing that some people do to penises-remove the foreskin-has become a site upon which vital...

From a leading figure in comparative literature, a major new survey of the field that points the way forward for a discipline undergoing rapid changesLiterary studies are being transformed today by the expansive and disruptive forces of globalization...

Whenever Bakhtin, in his final decade, was queried about writing his memoirs, he shrugged it off. Unlike many of his Symbolist generation, Bakhtin was not fascinated by his own self-image. This reticence to tell his own story was the point of access for...

Bringing together Mary Klages's bestselling introductory books Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed and Key Terms in Literary Theory into one fully integrated and substantially revised, expanded and updated volume, this is an accessible and...

Examining a wide range of representations of physical, metaphorical, and dream landscapes in Charlotte BrontA", George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, Eithne Henson explores the way in which gender attitudes are expressed, both in descriptions of landscape as...

Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction brings together three strains of detective fiction: British, American, and Bengal. The import of detective fiction from Britain has influenced generations of writers of Bengali detective fiction...

How Japan captured the Victorian imagination and transformed Western aesthetics From the opening of trade with Britain in the 1850s, Japan occupied a unique and contradictory place in the Victorian imagination, regarded as both a rival empire and a...

How Japan captured the Victorian imagination and transformed Western aesthetics From the opening of trade with Britain in the 1850s, Japan occupied a unique and contradictory place in the Victorian imagination, regarded as both a rival empire and a...

In his study of Eliot as a psychological novelist, Michael Davis examines Eliot's writings in the context of a large volume of nineteenth-century scientific writing about the mind. Eliot, Davis argues, manipulated scientific language in often subversive...

Critical attention to the Victorian supernatural has flourished over the last twenty-five years. Whether it is spiritualism or Theosophy, mesmerism or the occult, the dozens of book-length studies and hundreds of articles that have appeared recently...

Critical Transitions interrogates the terms and concepts most central to the urgent task of examining cultural change as a process of dynamic transition. This volume approaches the question of transition from multiple perspectives, demonstrating how the...

A sensation upon its publication in 1970, Sexual Politics documents the subjugation of women in great literature and art. Kate Millett's analysis targets four revered authors-D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Jean Genet-and builds a...

This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures in English for 2017, argues that the literature of the English Reformation marks a turning point in Western thinking about literature and literariness. But instead of arguing that the Reformation fostered...

A groundbreaking study of one of the greatest encyclopedias of the medieval Islamic world-al-Nuwayri's The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of EruditionShihab al-Din al-Nuwayri was a fourteenth-century Egyptian polymath and the author of one of the greatest...

The Relocation of Culture is about accents and borders-about people and cultures that have accents and that cross borders. It is a book that deals with translation and nomadic identities, and with the many ways in which the increasing relevance of forced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781618952288Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 68g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783965580145Author Manuele GragnolatiFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint ICI Berlin PressPublisher ICI Berlin PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm...