Literary Criticism
-
Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern EuropeTirades against legal theatrics are nearly as old as law itself, and yet so is the age-old claim that law must not merely be done: it must be seen to be done. Law as Performance traces the history of legal performance and spectatorship through...
- $370.69 SGD
- $370.69 SGD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Art and Thought of the Beowulf PoetIn The Art and Thought of the Beowulf Poet, Leonard Neidorf explores the relationship between Beowulf and the legendary tradition that existed prior to its composition. The Beowulf poet inherited an amoral heroic tradition, which focused principally on heroes compelled by circumstances to commit...
- $125.36 SGD
- $125.36 SGD
- Unit price
- per
-
Weathered Words: Formulaic Language and Verbal ArtFormulaic phraseology presents the epitome of words worn and weathered by trial and the tests of time. Scholarship on weathered words is exceptionally diverse and interdisciplinary. This volume focuses on verbal art, which makes Oral-Formulaic Theory (OFT) a major point of reference. Yet weathered...
- $101.79 SGD
- $101.79 SGD
- Unit price
- per
-
Private Lives Made Public: The Invention of Biography in Early Modern EnglandFollowing the trial and execution of Charles I in 1649, the seventeenth century witnessed an explosion of print culture in England, including an unprecedented boom in biographical writing. Andrea Walkden offers a case-study examination of this fascinating trend, bringing together texts that generations of...
- $135.54 SGD
- $135.54 SGD
- Unit price
- per
-
Milton, Materialism, and Embodiment: One First Matter AllBringing together eight original essays from leading and emerging Miltonists, this volume explores a second wave of critical thought about Milton's monist materialism, the view that all existence arises from a single substance or reality. Contributors examine sensory matters of fragrance and sound, the...
- $135.54 SGD
- $135.54 SGD
- Unit price
- per
-
Francophone Sephardic Fiction: Writing Migration, Diaspora, and ModernityFrancophone Sephardic Fiction: Writing Migration, Diaspora, and Modernity approaches modern Sephardic literature in a comparative way to draw out similarities and differences among selected francophone novelists from various countries, with a focus on North Africa. The definition of Sepharad here is broader than just...
- $322.33 SGD
- $322.33 SGD
- Unit price
- per
-
Holy Envy: Writing in the Jewish Christian BorderzoneWhat is between us and the Christians is a deep dark affair which will go for another hundred generations . . ." (Amos Oz, Judas) Among the great social shifts of the post-World War II era is the unlikely sea-change in Jewish Christian relations....
- $96.71 SGD
- $96.71 SGD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Racist Fantasy: Unconscious Roots of HatredWhat stands out about racism is its ability to withstand efforts to legislate or educate it away. In The Racist Fantasy, Todd McGowan argues that its persistence is due to a massive unconscious investment in a fundamental racist fantasy. As long as this fantasy...
- $271.43 SGD
- $271.43 SGD
- Unit price
- per
-
Gary Soto: A Career in Poetry and ProseIn a 1995 interview, prolific Chicano writer Gary Soto noted, ""Wonderment has always been a part of my life."" This book surveys Soto's immense range of poems, stories, novels, essays and plays for audiences of prereaders to adults. Soto's world moves from the cotton...
- $186.62 SGD
- $186.62 SGD
- Unit price
- per
-
(P)Rescription Narratives: Feminist Medical Fiction and the Failure of American Censorship(P)rescription Narratives reveals how the act of narrative creates the subjects of disability, race, and gender during a period of censorship in American history. In a Crip Affect reading of woman-authored medical fiction from the Comstock law era, this book astutely argues that women...
- $354.57 SGD
- $354.57 SGD
- Unit price
- per
-
Virginia Woolf and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers: Victorian Legacies and Literary AfterlivesThis book examines Virginia Woolf's influence on the literary afterlives of nineteenth-century women of letters including Jane Austen, Mary Russell Mitford, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Margaret Oliphant and Mary Augusta Ward through her journalism. Woolf's responses to her literary predecessors provide...
- $354.57 SGD
- $354.57 SGD
- Unit price
- per
-
Katherine Mansfield and Bliss and Other StoriesCelebrates the centennial of Katherine Mansfield's Bliss This book celebrates the centennial of Bliss's publication by offering new readings of some of Mansfield's most well-known stories, revealing not only the depth and innovation of her work but also the extent to which she was...
- $80.42 SGD
- $80.42 SGD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Puritan Cosmopolis: The Law of Nations and the Early American ImaginationThe Puritan Cosmopolis traces a sense of kinship that emerged from within the larger realm of Puritan law and literature in late seventeenth-century New England. Nan Goodman argues that these early modern Puritans-connected to the cosmopolis in part through travel, trade, and politics-were also...
- $96.53 SGD
- $96.53 SGD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Boy in the BushThe book "" The Boy in the Bush "", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future...
- $49.42 SGD
- $49.42 SGD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha ChristieThe first specifically academic companion to contemporary scholarship on the work of Agatha Christie, this book includes chapters by an international group of scholars writing on topics and fields of study as various as ecocriticism and the anthropocene, popular modernism, middlebrow fiction, queer theory,...
- $593.77 SGD
- $593.77 SGD
- Unit price
- per
-
Agon: Towards a Theory of RevisionismAuthor: Harold BloomPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 09/08/1983Pages: 352Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.05h x 5.33w x 0.75dISBN: 9780195033540This title is not returnable
- $44.97 SGD
- $44.97 SGD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939: Engagement and ExperimentationInvestigates the explosive phenomenon of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP) from a transatlantic perspective Offers the first comparative study of the history, performances and politics of the FTP in a book form Contributes significantly to the study of Hallie Flanagan as the bridge between...
- $80.42 SGD
- $80.42 SGD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Natural History of the GentThe Natural History of the Gent, has been considered an important book throughout the human history. So that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. The...
- $36.04 SGD
- $36.04 SGD
- Unit price
- per
-
Nature and ArtNature and Art, has been considered an important book throughout the human history. So that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. The whole book has...
- $41.84 SGD
- $41.84 SGD
- Unit price
- per
-
Nature Myths and Stories for Little ChildrenNature Myths and Stories for Little Children, has been considered an important book throughout the human history. So that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations....
- $37.46 SGD
- $37.46 SGD
- Unit price
- per