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Best Seller | How were the Crusades and the crusaders narrated described and romanticised by the various communities that experienced or remembered them? This Companion provides a critical overview of the diverse and multilingual literary output connected with... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| Cambridge Companions to Literature: The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Paris (Hardcover) No city more than Paris has had such a constant and deep association with the development of literary forms and cultural ideas. The idea of the city as a space of literary self-consciousness started to take hold in the sixteenth century. By 1620 where... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| How were the Crusades and the crusaders narrated described and romanticised by the various communities that experienced or remembered them? This Companion provides a critical overview of the diverse and multilingual literary output connected with... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| Cambridge Companions to Literature The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen (Paperback) This Companion offers a multi-disciplinary approach to literature on film and television. Writers are drawn from different backgrounds to consider broad topics such as the issue of adaptation from novels and plays to the screen canonical and popular... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| Cambridge Companions to Literature: The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals (Paperback) The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals surveys the role of animals across literary history and opens conversations on what literature can teach us about more-than-human life. Leading international scholars comprehensively explore how... more | go to store |
| This volume offers an account of English literary culture in one of its most volatile moments when literature was enmeshed with the extremes of social political and sexual experience. Newly-commissioned essays make use of current critical perspectives... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| Cambridge Companions to Literature The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature (Paperback) Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature from Mrs... more | $31.99 $30.48 FREE shipping go to store |
| Cambridge Companions to Literature The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature (Hardcover) Scotland s rich literary tradition is a product of its unique culture and landscape as well as of its long history of inclusion and resistance to the United Kingdom. Scottish literature includes masterpieces in three languages - English Scots and... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| Literature has been essential to shaping the notions of human personhood good life moral responsibility and forms of freedom that have been central to human rights law discourse and politics. The literary study of human rights has also recently... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| Cambridge Companions to Literature The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature (Paperback) Scotland s rich literary tradition is a product of its unique culture and landscape as well as of its long history of inclusion and resistance to the United Kingdom. Scottish literature includes masterpieces in three languages - English Scots and... more | $46.99 $43.42 FREE shipping go to store |
| This book forges new ground in the relationship between cities and World Literature. Through a series of essays spanning a variety of metropolises it shows how cities have given rise to key aesthetic dispositions acts of linguistic and cultural... more | go to store |
| For a long time people had been schooled to think of modern literature s relationship to politics as indirect or obscure and often to find the politics of literature deep within its unconsciously ideological structures and forms. But twentieth-century... more | $81.94 $65.45 go to store |
| For a long time people had been schooled to think of modern literature s relationship to politics as indirect or obscure and often to find the politics of literature deep within its unconsciously ideological structures and forms. But twentieth-century... more | $29.99 $22.62 go to store |
| This book forges new ground in the relationship between cities and World Literature. Through a series of essays spanning a variety of metropolises it shows how cities have given rise to key aesthetic dispositions acts of linguistic and cultural... more | $90.00 $69.13 go to store |
| Cambridge Companions to Literature The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature (Hardcover) This Companion has been thoroughly revised to take account of recent scholarship and to provide a clear and accessible introduction for those encountering Old English literature for the first time. Including seventeen essays by distinguished scholars... more | $99.41 $80.17 FREE shipping go to store |
| In Russian history the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented radical transformations - changes in social systems political regimes and economic structures. A number of distinctive literary schools emerged each with their own voice specific... more | go to store |
| Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in good condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help. ISBN-10: 0521714141 ISBN-13:... more | $24.95 $17.27 FREE shipping go to store |
| The Cambridge Companion to the American Graphic Novel explores the important role of the graphic novel in reflecting American society and in the shaping of the American imagination. Using key examples this volume reviews the historical development of... more | $82.58 $72.87 go to store |
| Cambridge Companions to Literature: The Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story (Paperback) This Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day. Rather than define what the... more | $29.99 $25.69 go to store |
| Cambridge Companions to Literature The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists (Hardcover) A lively and comprehensive account of the whole tradition of European fiction for students and teachers of comparative literature this volume covers twenty-five of the most significant and influential novelists in Europe from Cervantes to Kundera. Each... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| Cambridge Companions to Literature The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (Paperback) Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields. It is literature which draws on popular culture and engages in speculation about science history and all varieties of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| Cambridge Companions to Literature: The Cambridge Companion to American Horror (Hardcover) Opening up the warm body of American Horror - through literature film TV music video games and a host of other mediums - this book gathers the leading scholars in the field to dissect the gruesome histories and shocking forms of American life. Through... more | $91.18 $82.06 go to store |
| Cambridge Companions to Literature: The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy (Hardcover) Cormac McCarthy both embodies and redefines the notion of the artist as outsider. His fiction draws on recognizable American themes and employs dense philosophical and theological subtexts challenging readers by depicting the familiar as inscrutably... more | $94.49 $81.15 FREE shipping go to store |
| Cambridge Companions to Literature The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction (Paperback) Fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying genre from the 1760s to the end of the twentieth century. Essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions the... more | go to store |
| Cambridge Companions to Literature: The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Bishop (Hardcover) Elizabeth Bishop is increasingly recognized as one of the twentieth century s most important and original poets. Initially celebrated for the minute detail of her descriptions what John Ashbery memorably called her thinginess Bishop s reputation has... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| Cambridge Companions to Literature The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel (Hardcover) Combining scholarship covering one hundred fifty years of novel writing in the U.S. newly commissioned essays examine eighty African American novels. They include well-known works as well as writings recently recovered or acknowledged. The collection... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| Cambridge Companions to Literature The Cambridge Companion to Dostoevskii (Paperback) Key dimensions of Dostoevskii s writing and life are explored in this collection of specially commissioned essays. Contributors examine topics such as Dostoevskii s relationship to folk literature money religion the family and science. The essays are... more | $34.99 $33.36 go to store |
| Cambridge Companions to Literature The Cambridge Companion to Frances Burney (Paperback) Frances Burney (1752-1840) was the most successful female novelist of the eighteenth century. Her first novel Evelina was a publishing sensation; her follow-up novels Cecilia and Camilla were regarded as among the best fiction of the time and were much... more | $30.32 $27.21 go to store |
| Cambridge Companions to Literature The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe (Paperback) This provides fresh perspectives on the frequently read classic Uncle Tom s Cabin as well as on topics of perennial interest such as Stowe s representation of race her attitude to reform and her relationship to the American novel. Accessible and... more | $42.00 $36.82 FREE shipping go to store |
| Cambridge Companions to Literature The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen (Paperback) In the history of modern theater Ibsen is one of the dominating figures. The sixteen chapters of this Companion explore his life and work. The plays are grouped and discussed chronologically; among the thematic topics are discussions of Ibsen s comedy... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| Cambridge Companions to Literature The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson (Paperback) This Companion consists of 14 essays by leading international scholars. They provide a series of new perspectives on one of the most enigmatic and widely read American writers. These essays specially tailored to the needs of undergraduates examine all... more | $25.55 $22.95 go to store |
| Cambridge Companions to Literature: The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville (Paperback) The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville provides timely critical essays on Melville s classic works. The essays have been specially commissioned for this volume and provide a complete overview of Melville s career. Melville s major novels are... more | $29.95 $25.64 go to store |
| The Cambridge Companion to the American Graphic Novel explores the important role of the graphic novel in reflecting American society and in the shaping of the American imagination. Using key examples this volume reviews the historical development of... more | $25.26 $21.81 go to store |
| Cambridge Companions to Literature The Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence (Hardcover) The Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence offers a series of new perspectives on one of the most important and controversial writers of the twentieth century. These specially commissioned essays offer diverse and stimulating readings of Lawrence s... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| Cambridge Companions to Literature The Cambridge Companion to Byron (Hardcover) Specially commissioned essays by leading scholars discuss Byron s work in several fascinating contexts: literary history Byron s life and travels publishing politics and his reception across Europe. Unique in its combination of breadth of coverage and... more | FREE shipping go to store |
| Cambridge Companions to Literature The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley (Paperback) Well-known scholars review Mary Shelley s work in several contexts (literary history aesthetic and literary culture the legacies of her parents) and also analyze her most famous work-- Frankenstein. The contributors also examine Shelley as a biographer... more | $31.99 $27.51 go to store |
| Cambridge Companions to Literature The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov (Paperback) The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov provides a concise introduction to the creative world of one of the twentieth century s most important writers. Fourteen individual essays cover such topics as Nabokov s storytelling techniques his achievements as a... more | $36.76 $34.99 go to store |
| The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative s relation to British and... more | FREE shipping go to store |
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