Comparative Literature

This is the first full-length study in English of the oeuvre of Elin Wagner - feminist, suffragist, pacifist and environmentalist - and also the first to include texts representing a wide range of genres. The focus on gender and community, studied in...

This book explores a key historical moment for literary and cultural relations between Spain and Portugal. Focusing on the period between 1870 and 1930, it analyses the contacts between Portuguese and Spanish writers and artists of this period, showing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387488922Author James Cooper FenimoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 458Imprint Maven BooksPublisher Maven BooksWeight(grams) 526g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387488298Author Jane AustenFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Maven BooksPublisher Maven BooksWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783476058805Author Matthias N. LorenzFormat PaperbackPage Count 509Imprint J.B. Hetzler'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung und Carl Ernst Poeschel GmbHPublisher J.B...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789176351437Author Herbert JonssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 470Imprint Stockholm University PressPublisher Stockholm University PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781885574Author Birte ChristFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 170g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387867932Author Monsieur Oscar WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Maven BooksPublisher Maven BooksWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922064738Author Maggie TonkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint University of Adelaide PressPublisher University of Adelaide PressWeight(grams) 178g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945637582Author Fred V BernardFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Diversity InkPublisher Diversity InkWeight(grams) 481g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387826724Author Fyodor DostoevskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 546Imprint Maven BooksPublisher Maven BooksWeight(grams) 626g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387488755Author Mary Shelley WollstonecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Maven BooksPublisher Maven BooksWeight(grams) 222g

Laments and complaints are among the most ancient poetical forms and ubiquitous in everyday speech. Understanding plaintive language, however, is often prevented by the resentment and fear it evokes. Lamenting and complaining seems pointless,...

The Czech-Brazilian philosopher Vilem Flusser (1920-1991) has been recognized as a decisive past master in the emergence of contemporary media theory and media archeology. His work engages and also rethinks several mythologies of modernity, devising new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781470943301Author Mohammed GhassaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu Press IncWeight(grams) 172g

This book argues that feminist science fiction shares the same concerns as feminist epistemology-challenges to the sex of the knower, the valuation of the abstract over the concrete, the dismissal of the physical, the focus on rationality and reason, the...

Cosmopolitanism and Transatlantic Circles in Music and Literature traces the transatlantic networks that were constructed between a select group of composers, including Edvard Grieg, Edward MacDowell, and Percy Grainger, and the writers with whom they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387826984Author Herman MelvilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Maven BooksPublisher Maven BooksWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 2mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622731183Author Joe RegenbogenFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Vernon PressPublisher Vernon Press

This book explores the modern cultural history of the queer martyr in France and Belgium. By analyzing how popular writers in French responded to Catholic doctrine and the tradition of St. Sebastian in art, Queering the Martyr shows how religious and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800792074Author Matthias RoickFormat PaperbackImprint Peter Lang International Academic PublishersPublisher Peter Lang International Academic...

Envisioning Embodiment in the Health Humanities: Literature, Culture, and Media examines discourses of embodiment across disability studies, gender studies, cultural studies, and visual studies to inform educational practice as well as cultural criticism...

This book presents a comprehensive and systematic study of the narrative history and narrative methods of Chinese and Western popular fiction from the perspectives of narratology, comparative literature, and art and literature studies by adopting the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788196019952Author Jane AustenFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Avarang BooksPublisher Avarang BooksWeight(grams) 308g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788180944284Author DeWitt Parker HFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint Mjp PublishersPublisher Mjp PublishersWeight(grams) 626g

This book shows how diverse, critical modern world narratives in prose fiction and film emphasize masculine subjectivities through affects and ethics. Highlighting diverse affects and mental states in subjective voices and modes, modern narratives reveal...

In 1888 the name Jack the Ripper entered public consciousness with the brutal murders of women in the East End of London. The murderer was never caught, yet film and television depicts a killer with a recognisable costume, motive and persona. This book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387826618Author Sir Lee SidneyFormat HardbackPage Count 182Imprint Mjp PublisherPublisher Mjp PublisherWeight(grams) 490g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781887134Author Joep LeerssenFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 16mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934978900Author Jorge Pinto MazalFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Jorge Pinto BooksPublisher Jorge Pinto BooksWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387488649Author Charles DickensFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Maven BooksPublisher Maven BooksWeight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952896101Author Alene Veatch DunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Readersmagnet LLCPublisher Readersmagnet LLCWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387867178Author Oscar WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Maven BooksPublisher Maven BooksWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798988898047Author Batya CasperFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Olympus Story HousePublisher Olympus Story HouseWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

This book tracks across history and cultures the ways in which writers have imagined cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons, collectively understood as "tropical weather." Historically, literature has drawn upon the natural world for its store of symbolic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387867499Author Thomas HardyFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Maven BooksPublisher Maven BooksWeight(grams) 481g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387826694Author Henry FieldingFormat PaperbackPage Count 858Imprint Maven BooksPublisher Maven BooksWeight(grams) 1338g

This collection pulls together a wide range of perspectives to explore the possibilities and the boundaries of the paradigm of English studies in India. It examines national identity and the legacy of colonialism through a study of comparative and multi...

This creative yet scholarly book discusses prose's important relationship to close literary analysis, showing how such an approach can be beneficial for readers, scholars, and writers alike. Bringing together a literary history that consists of writers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387826939Author George EliotFormat PaperbackPage Count 586Imprint Maven BooksPublisher Maven BooksWeight(grams) 667g