Literary Theory

Every Thursday for nearly a decade, Nagiub Mahfouz's brief column of recollection, refelction, and comment has appeared in the Al-Ahram Weekly. This celebratory volume, published on the occasion of the...

FAMILY BUSINESS is not only a personal glimpse into the life of one of the great US poets, but also the moving story of a relationship between a father and...

The book titled The Inventor by the author Jakov Lind. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This is a celebration of the innovative, original and sometimes controversial articles that have been found in this magazine over the years. Covering a wealth of issues, from a lighthearted...

This new edition updates the study of American literature with the inclusion of poets from Hart Crane and E.E.Cummings to John Ashbery and A.R. Ammons and novelists from William Burroughs...

In a piece of controversial research, the author of this treatise offers compelling evidence that the voice of Mark Twain's most famous literary creation, Huckleberry Finn, was based on that...

The book titled Geniuses Together: American Writers in Paris in the 1920's by the author Humphrey Carpenter. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards, Christopher Bland Prize and The People's Book Prize A Waterstones Best Memoir of 2024 An Independent and Stylist Best Non-Fiction Book The captivating true...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA rigorous work of political theory and communication studies, Political Language and Rhetoric argues that the language used in political...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsA compelling collection from one of mid-twentieth-century Britain's most emotionally raw and psychologically intense poets, Selected...

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Considers the emotional and artistic commitment in the marriages of nine modern writers: Tolstoy. Shaw, Conrad, Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, D.H. Lawrence, Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald. Each of them...

What are the connections between law and literature? The judges, lawyers and scholars who contribute the 32 chapters in this volume range over subject matter as diverse as witches in...

Best known for the explicit sensuality of his novels, D.H. Lawrence was also a prolific poet who took his inspiration from the major emotional crises of his life. This selection...

Volume V of A History of Persian Literature presents a broad survey of Persian prose: from biographical, historiographical, and didactic prose, to scientific manuals and works of popular prose fiction....

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA sharp and thought-provoking work of cultural criticism, The Great Museum: The Re-Presentation of...

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Describing Flannery O'Connor's fiction as ""violent, grotesque and horribly funny, with a twist"", Margaret Earley Whitt explores the canon of the Georgia writer whose work has long haunted and harassed...

Those who first met Rick Whitaker through his unrepentant memoir know that he was not a typical prostitute. This "Wittgenstein- and Freud-quoting" hustler is at core a thinkerand a voracious...

Susan Shillinglaw examines the relationship between the iconic writer, John Steinbeck, and the area he loved so prominently in his work. This original and beautifully illustrated volume explores such landscapes...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsA landmark scholarly reference work, British Literary Manuscripts: Series II From 1800 to 1914 presents a meticulously curated catalog of...

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What if historical fiction were understood as a disfiguring of calculus? Or poems enacting the formation and breakdown of community as expositions of irrational numbers? What if, in other words,...

In a brilliant coda to the play "Copenhagen," Michael Frayn receives mysterious letters that take him back to the theme of his bestselling novel, Headlong -- human folly, this time...

A critical biography of the poet explores the Spanish Civil War, the rise and fall of Marxism and Nazism, World War II, Vietnam, the sexual revolution, and modern figures such...

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was born in Stratford-upon-Avon. He married Anne Hathaway in 1582 and later went to London, where he became an actor and playwright with the Lord Chamberlain's Men,...

This work is a combination of critical essays on understanding romantic poetry, prose and drama, as well as the contemporary historical background, with a complementary A-Z section of detailed entries....

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The book is a study of the literature and visual arts concerned with the many and diverse forms of slaveries produced by globalisation in Britain since the early 1990s.Starting from...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA work of literary fiction by the celebrated Australian author Elizabeth Jolley, Milk and...

This innovative work is about patterns of shame in a range of important Australian autobiographies published between 1960 and 1995. Writing autobiography is a risky business. What is shameful can...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA rigorous work of literary scholarship, American Literature in Context, I: 1620–1830 presents a...

This is a comprehensively revised second edition of a classic student text with the 1798 and 1800 editions of Lyrical Ballads reprinted together. It contains the complete text of one...

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Students of literary theory have been well provided for by the publication of various Readers in literary theory. However, the relation between theory and critical practice still presents a problem...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsImmerse yourself in the definitive mid-century landscape of the Antipodes with Australian Poetry 1962, an exceptional...