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Armenian Literature
Anonymous
Paperback - $33.95
SALOME. Yes, certainly; she is dressing. You understand, dear aunt, how you are to talk to him? Perhaps you will succeed with him. They expect the final answer to-day; this morning the young man's sister was here, and she may be here again any minute ...
The Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature
Catherine Bates
Paperback - $82.95
In the sixteenth century the modern meaning of courtship - 'wooing someone' - developed from an older sense - 'being at court'. The Rhetoric of Courtship takes this semantic shift as the starting point for an incisive account of the practice and mean ...
Kafka : Gender, Class, and Race in the Letters and Fictions
Elizabeth Boa
Hardcover - $397.95
Boa's new study of Kafka relates gender to other facets of identity. She shows how Kafka, while exploiting such stereotypes as the New Woman, the Magna Mater, the Whore, and the assimilating Jew for literary raw material, undermined these stereotypes ...
History of Bohemian Literature
Count Lutzow Francis
Paperback - $55.95
This short history of Bohemian literature is written in a style differing from other volumes in this series entitled "Short Histories of the Literatures of the World." Bohemian literature was relatively unknown in Western Europe and a large amount of ...
The Sultan Speaks : Dialogue in English Plays and Histories about the Ottoman Turks
Linda McJannet
Hardcover - $124.95
"The Sultan Speaks" is the first study of English historical plays about the Turks in relation to their sources and analogues, including histories originating in Greek, Arabic, and Turkish. Drawing on Bakhtin’ s concept of the dialogic and on n ...
Milan Kundera & Feminism : Dangerous Intersections
John OBrien
Hardcover - $163.95
Since sexuality and sexual politics account for the most consistently engaged tensions in Milan Kundera's fiction, it is surprising that critical attention to Kundera's work has yet to produce an extensive study that concentrates on the Czech novelis ...
Empire on the English Stage 1660-1714
Bridget Orr
Paperback - $123.95
Empire on the Restoration Stage analyzes Restoration and early-eighteenth-century drama in terms of empire. The book provides a comprehensive account of colonialism, national identity and the representation of race and ethnicity on stage. Joining cur ...
Fictions of Female Adultery 1684-1890 : Theories and Circumtexts
Bill Overton
Hardcover - $224.95
Women's adultery provides many of the plots that run through 19th century European fiction. This book discusses how novels of adultery have been theorized, argues its own theoretical perspective, and analyzes two 'circumtexts' of the fiction of femal ...
Joseph Conrad : His Moral Vision
George A. Panichas
Paperback - $30.95
This book seeks to renew interest in Joseph Conrad's moral imagination. Not literary theory but the dignity of creative literature impels the author's reflections on Conrad's novels in their ?varied shades of moral significance.? In illuminating inte ...