Classic Literature – Bücher, CDs, DVDs und mehr, Seite 6

Anna Jones Abramson
Novel Atmospheres

How modernist novels learned to think through air, mood, and environment.Modernist literature is often associated with interiority and psychological depth.Novel Atmospheres turns this account inside out, …

lieferbar ab 18.8.2026.

Buch

Andrea Capra
Ordinary Horror

What is horror? Setting aside the implausible circumstances typical of the horror genre, Capra investigates what he terms "ordinary horror"---the horror that haunts our world, and that we may en…

lieferbar ab 1.9.2026.

Buch

Robert Francis

Rediscovering the quietly radical writing of a poet who chose simplicity, solitude, and contemplation over modern hasteAmerican author Robert Francis, whom Robert Frost called "the best neglected poe…

lieferbar ab 15.12.2026.

Buch

Jackie E. Stallcup
Holding the Reins of the Future

How women novelists reshaped the rules of motherhood and claimed authority over the future.Debates about how to raise children have always been debates about power, authority, and the future. In Holding t…

lieferbar ab 3.11.2026.

Buch

The Other Nepal

This book revisits a rich but overlooked field of Nepali literature and culture. Compared to the extensive research available on Nepal's South Asian neighbors, there is a notable scarcity of published sch…

lieferbar in mind. 4 Wochen

Buch

Teaching Post-1945 American Short Fiction

Options for Teaching

New frontiers in American fictionAfter 1945, women, people of color, and queer writers remade American short fiction, rejecting the modernist dogmas of impersonality and universalism that had long exclude…

lieferbar ab 13.11.2026.

Buch

Robert Francis

Rediscovering the quietly radical writing of a poet who chose simplicity, solitude, and contemplation over modern hasteAmerican author Robert Francis, whom Robert Frost called "the best neglected poe…

lieferbar ab 15.12.2026.

Buch

Percy Shelley for Our Times

Two centuries after Percy Shelley's death, his writings continue to resonate in remarkable ways. Shelley addressed climate change, women's liberation, nonbinary gender, and political protest, while speaki…

lieferbar in mind. 4 Wochen

Buch

Lukas Moe
Poetry Makes You Happen

Modernist poetry has long had a reputation for craft formalism and political conservatism that overshadows its radical legacies. Lukas Moe shows how midcentury US poets and poetics drew upon leftwing cult…

lieferbar ab 13.10.2026.

Buch

William Shakespeare,
Richard III

Oxford World's Classics

'Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.' Richard III is Shakespeare's most charismatic protagonist-villain, exercising his wrongdoing with devilish glee and d…

lieferbar ab 15.9.2026.

Buch

Adam Kirsch
Culture as Counterculture

In Culture as Counterculture , leading literary critic and intellectual Adam Kirsch explores the question of how 21st-century religion, art, and science engage with the past, and are both re-enlivened and…

lieferbar ab 14.1.2027.

Buch

Jack Dudley
The New Believers

Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture

The New Believers identifies a group of today's most important novelists, Margaret Atwood, J. M. Coetzee, Junot Díaz, and George Saunders, who have challenged the trend of depressing and defeatist novelis…

lieferbar ab 31.7.2026.

Buch

Llewelyn Morgan
Ovid: A Very Short Introduction

Very Short Introductions

"Vivam" is the very last word of Ovid's masterpiece, the Metamorphoses: "I shall live." If we're still reading it two millennia after Ovid's death, this is by definition a remarkably a…

lieferbar in mind. 4 Wochen

Buch

Nathan Wainstein
Bad Writing in the Modernist Novel

Hopkins Studies in Modernism

What does it mean for a modernist novel to fail?Modernism famously celebrates rupture, difficulty, and deviance from literary norms--but that very embrace of formal experimentation creates a paradox: how …

lieferbar ab 20.10.2026.

Buch

Angharad Price
Empaperment

Welsh Modern Classics

With a title drawn from the work of TH Parry Williams - a master of the 20th-century essay form, on whom Price has written extensively - the subtlety and capaciousness of these writings reveal Price a suc…

Erscheint bald

Buch

Sappho

Sappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, sang her songs around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos. Of what survives from the approximately nine papyrus scrolls collected in antiquity, all is tr…

lieferbar in mind. 4 Wochen

Buch

Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory

The most exhaustive mapping of contemporary literary theory to date, this book offers a comprehensive introduction and overview of the current state of the field of contemporary literary theory.

lieferbar in mind. 4 Wochen

Buch

Kate Mcloughlin
Silence: A Literary History

A majestic literary history, revealing the power and possibilities of silence found in literary works.Silence: A Literary History traces silences over twelve centuries of English literature, from the soli…

lieferbar in mind. 4 Wochen

Buch

Joseph Crawford
Killer Bodies

Killer Bodiesoffers a history of the single most critically-derided subgenre in American superhero comics: the 'bad girl' comics of the 1990s, which chronicled the blood-soaked adventures of barely-dresse…

lieferbar in mind. 4 Wochen

Buch

Jorge Luis Borges,
This Craft of Verse

The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures

"A wondrously limpid testament to the pleasures of reading." -Steven Poole, The GuardianSix incandescent lectures on literature from the patron saint of mirrors, metafiction, and infinite librar…

lieferbar in mind. 4 Wochen

Buch

Trefferliste "Classic Literature" - alle Bücher, CDs, DVDs und mehr