Comparative Literature

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781884232Author Robert K WeningerFormat PaperbackPage Count 590Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 170g

Even within the context of Charles Dickens's history as a publishing innovator, Our Mutual Friend is notable for what it reveals about Dickens as an author and about Victorian publishing. Marking Dickens's return to the monthly number format after nearly...

This book is an autobiographical meditation on the way in which the world's population has been transformed into a society of refugees and emigres seeking -indeed, demanding- an alternative way of political belonging. Focusing on the interregnum we have...

Stretching from antiquity to AI, a provocative study of the joyless laughter that emerges at the boundary of the human and the inhuman.What does it mean to be human? And, more precisely, what does it mean to be human now, with both humanism and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387488847Author Emily BronteFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Maven BooksPublisher Maven BooksWeight(grams) 331g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839540349Author Simona CorsoFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 576g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625164018Author 'Abdulwahid Lu'lu'aFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Strategic Book PublishingPublisher Strategic Book PublishingWeight(grams) 597g

This sophisticated book argues that human rights literature both helps the persecuted to cope with their trauma and serves as the foundation for a cosmopolitan ethos of universal civility-a culture without borders. Michael Galchinsky maintains that, no...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783957960856Author Mercedes BunzFormat PaperbackImprint Meson Press EgPublisher Meson Press EgWeight(grams) 262g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387867468Author Thomas HardyFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Maven BooksPublisher Maven BooksWeight(grams) 277g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387826748Author Monsieur Oscar WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Maven BooksPublisher Maven BooksWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387488342Author Charles DickensFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Maven BooksPublisher Maven BooksWeight(grams) 127g

Adoptions that cross the lines of culture, race and nation are a major consequence of conflicts around the globe, yet their histories and representations have rarely been considered. Life Lines: Writing Transcultural Adoption is the first critical study...

This book examines the two-way impacts between Brecht and Chinese culture and drama/theatre, focusing on Chinese theatrical productions since the end of the Cultural Revolution all the way to the first decades of the twenty-first century. Wei Zhang...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783476058775Author Matthias N. LorenzFormat HardbackPage Count 509Imprint J.B. Hetzler'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung und Carl Ernst Poeschel GmbHPublisher J.B...

This book introduces the canonical figure Sadegh Hedayat (1903-1951) and draws a comprehensive image of a major intellectual force in the context of both modern Persian Literature and World Literature. A prolific writer known for his magnum opus, The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387867505Author Thomas HardyFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Maven BooksPublisher Maven BooksWeight(grams) 231g

This book is the first to analyse how BBC radio presented Anglophone Caribbean literature and in turn aided and influenced the shape of imaginative writing in the region. Glyne A. Griffith examines Caribbean Voices broadcasts to the region over a...

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...

Drawing on the figure and discourses of the Victorian fin-de-siècle New Woman, this book examines women writers who struggled with conservative, patriarchal ideologies of motherhood in novels, periodicals and life writings of the long modernist period...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681144757Author Anna FaktorovichFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Anaphora Literary PressPublisher Anaphora Literary PressWeight(grams) 331g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847117179Author Prof. Dr. Grazyna Maria Teresa BrannyFormat PaperbackPage Count 229Imprint V&R unipress GmbHPublisher V&R unipress GmbHWeight(grams)...

This volume critically explores the cultural significance and fate of the “literary” in the European and the Indian traditions as it traces the history of the reception of works that have had a deep hold on the lives and sensibilities of people across...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789978643Author Anna CharczunFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Peter Lang International Academic PublishersPublisher Peter Lang International...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781884201Author Clementina OstiFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955603409Author Andrea BuffertFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Readersmagnet LLCPublisher Readersmagnet LLCWeight(grams) 154g

This book proposes that there is no better, no more complex way to access a community, a society, an era and its cultures than through literature. For millennia, literature from a wide variety of geocultural areas has gathered knowledge about life, about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627340663Author John P AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Universal PublishersPublisher Universal PublishersWeight(grams) 259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781886939Author Clementina OstiFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 170g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387488281Author Jane AustenFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Maven BooksPublisher Maven BooksWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947293090Author Swapon Kumar RoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint White Falcon PublishingPublisher White Falcon PublishingWeight(grams) 218g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783031077753Author Silvia CasertaFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Palgrave MacMillanPublisher Palgrave MacMillanWeight(grams) 336g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988299211Author Allison ConnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Chapel Street EditionsPublisher Chapel Street EditionsWeight(grams) 336g

This volume clarifies the meanings and applications of the concept of the transnational and identifies areas in which the concept can be particularly useful. The division of the volume into three parts reflects areas which seem particularly amenable to...

Through mystery, literature reveals to us the Great Unknown. While we are absorbed by the matters at hand with the present enactment of our life, groping for clues to handle them, it is through literature that we discover the hidden strings underlying...

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,...

This sophisticated book argues that human rights literature both helps the persecuted to cope with their trauma and serves as the foundation for a cosmopolitan ethos of universal civility-a culture without borders. Michael Galchinsky maintains that, no...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387826823Author Jane AustenFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Maven BooksPublisher Maven BooksWeight(grams) 268g

Bulgarian Literature as World Literature examines key aspects and manifestations of 20th- and 21st-century Bulgarian literature by way of the global literary landscape. The first volume to bring together in English the perspectives of prominent writers,...

Using Lacanian psychoanalysis, as well as its pre-history and afterlives, In the Event of Laughter argues for a new framework for discussing laughter. Responding to a tradition of 'comedy studies' that has been interested only in the causes of laughter...