Catálogo de libros: Literatura: historia y crítica

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  • Gender Identity and Sexuality in Current Fantasy and Science Fiction
    A J Dalton / Hazel Butler
    WINNER OF THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARDS 2018 - NON-FICTION.2 of the papers have been nominated for the BSFA Awards 2017: Kim Lakin-Smith and Juliet McKenna.JULIET MCKENNA'S PAPER SHORTLISTED FOR THE BSFA AWARDS 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARD NON-FICTION 2018!“Gender identity and sexuality in Current Fantasy and Science Fiction” is the first Call for Papers of Ac...
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    22,39 €

  • Soyinka’s Language
    Obioma Ofoego
    This book explores in depth the uses of language in Wole Soyinka’s plays, poetry and prose. The author approaches Soyinka’s works through meticulous close readings, giving the writer his due by capturing the complexities, ambiguities, and nuances of his language.   ...
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    50,30 €

  • The Lonely House
    Paul Brody
    During her lifetime, Emily Dickinson did not seek out recognition or attempt to change the world around her, even in the smallest way. A private but not antisocial person, she kept her life’s work, and her innermost feelings, almost entirely to herself. Her life was rich in intellectual pursuits, and she had many friends with whom she exchanged witty and brilliant letters, but ...
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    6,16 €

  • Attah, v’HaLevy, v’HaGeir
    Menashe R. Frank
    Attah, v’HaLevy, v’HaGeir is an eclectic compilation of divrei Torah based on the parashat hashavuah. Over an eighteen year period, on a weekly basis, Menashe Frank recorded at least one interesting, provocative or inspirational d’var Torah that he heard or read.  Contributors range from close personal friends to the greatest Torah scholars in history.  His handwritten notes ev...
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    26,66 €

  • Twentieth Century Korean Literature
    Chiangje U / Kwangho Yi / Nam-ho Yi
    This short volume offers essential information and a basic framework for understanding twentieth-century Korean literature. Growing out of a continuous tradition of over 2,000 years, twentieth-century Korean literature, termed “modern Korean Literature” by Korean scholars, has been shaped by profound social and political transformations on the peninsula. Those decades of great ...
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    23,43 €

  • Dubliners
    James Joyce
    Unabridged value reproduction of Dubliners by James Joyce is the 1914 classic written during the heyday of Irish nationalism. Every vignette stands alone, yet every vignette is part of the same tapestry, producing both a personal and profound effect for the reader.Shocking for his time because of its realism, today Dubliners is a portal back to the gritty reality of the Irish e...
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    17,61 €

  • Canterbury Tales
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    The Canterbury Tales was Chaucer’s magnum opus. He uses the tales and the descriptions of the characters to paint an ironic and critical portrait of English society at the time, and particularly of the Church. Structurally, the collection resembles The Decameron, which Chaucer may have come across during his first diplomatic mission to Italy in 1372. The tales are told as part ...
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    35,78 €

  • Beat Transnationalism
    John Tytell
    Allen Ginsberg told John Tytell that he would not understand the Beat Generation without first experiencing life in Mexico, and so, while writing Naked Angels, the first book to explore the development of Beat literature, Tytell headed south to Oaxaca.In this volume, Tytell examines the importance of Mexico to the Beat Generation, while recounting – via letters from that period...
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    16,04 €

  • HEAVENLY LOVE
    Edmund Spenser
    EDMUND SPENSER: HEAVENLY LOVE: SELECTED POEMSA selection of the great poems by Edmund Spenser. Edmund Spenser created a drama of England in his poetry. The ’dream’ occurs throughout his poetry, but finds its most concentrated expression in The Faerie Queene, with its epic treatment of the ’dream of Albion’, a myth-making vision of Blighty as the expression of Elizabeth I’s ma...
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    12,04 €

  • PARADISE OF GOLDEN LIGHTS
    PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
    PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: PARADISE OF GOLDEN LIGHTS: SELECTED POEMS A selection of the odes, hymns and paeans of England’s breathless, angelic, anarchic poet. Famous poems, such as ’Ode to the West Wind’ and ’The Cloud’, are set beside extracts from Prometheus Unbound and Epipsychidion. New poems and new illustrations have been added to this edition. Percy Shelley is one of the...
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    12,19 €

  • Gawain and the Four Daughters of God
    Anne Hamilton
    A mathematical ’aventure’, exploring an interlocked, layered design within the four poems of Cotton Nero A.x. Key structural elements are identified as mathematical metaphors for theological concepts; e.g. 490 as ’seventy times seven’ alludes to forgiveness or 101 as a ’Pythagorean Comma’ alludes to the Music of the Spheres. The author concludes from an analysis of the numeric...
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    39,53 €

  • Significant Food
    Jeff Birkenstein
    Significant Food is a collaborative work of textual analysis and criticism that chews on the role and prominence of food in American literature. The volume offers close readings of many well-known, and some less well-known, examples of American writing, as studied through the food culture sensibilities of a well-stocked cupboard of contributors who offer their analyses for publ...
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    39,06 €

  • Significant Food
    Jeff Birkenstein
    Significant Food is a collaborative work of textual analysis and criticism that chews on the role and prominence of food in American literature. The volume offers close readings of many well-known, and some less well-known, examples of American writing, as studied through the food culture sensibilities of a well-stocked cupboard of contributors who offer their analyses for publ...
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    165,27 €

  • Sounding Bodies
    Shannon Draucker
    Shows how nineteenth-century discoveries in acoustical science shaped Victorian literary representations of gender, sexuality, and intimacy. ...
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    126,83 €

  • Practice Book, Leland Powers School
    Leland Todd Powers
    Practice Book, Leland Powers School, a classical book, was published more than a century ago and has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, rety...
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    16,88 €

  • The Precipice
    Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov
    The Precipice, a classical book, was published more than a century ago and has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. Thes...
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    21,31 €

  • The Pretentious Young Ladies
    Molière
    The Pretentious Young Ladies, a classical book, was published more than a century ago and has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and...
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    14,01 €

  • The Prairie Flower
    Gustave Aimard / Lascelles Wraxall
    The Prairie Flower: A Tale of the Indian Border, a classical book, was published more than a century ago and has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been refor...
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    21,00 €

  • Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure
    Larry Carver / Larry D Carver
    Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure provides a reading of Rochester’s poems, dramatic works, and letters in a biographical context. It argues that there is a thematic unity--the pursuit of pleasure--underlying his work, that this pursuit is religiously motivated and reflects Rochester’s preoccupation with and, finally, acceptance of Christianity. ...
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    157,26 €

  • Premodern ruling sexualities
    This book brings together a range of methodological approaches to highlight royal and elite sexualities - the sexualities of rulers, and those who were ruled by their sexualities - and how these case studies might contribute to our broader knowledge of premodern gender and sexualities. ...
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    169,56 €

  • The poems of Elizabeth Siddal in context
    Anne Woolley
    Every Siddal poem is close read alongside works by Rossetti, Swinburne, Ruskin, Tennyson and Keats and with reference to prevailing cultural, political and religious contexts to give the most comprehensive analysis yet of this enigmatic, previously undervalued poetic voice. ...
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    44,09 €

  • Marie Duval
    Julian Waite / Roger Sabin / Simon Grennan
    Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval 1847-1890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century, focusing on new types of cultural work by women and establishing Duval as a unique but exemplary figure in a transformational period. ...
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    44,16 €

  • Dante beyond influence
    Federica Coluzzi
    Unearthing previously unseen manuscript and print evidence, the book redefines the notion of Dante’s reception by conducting the first material and book-historical inquiry into the formation and popularisation of the the critical and scholarly discourse on Dante in Victorian culture. ...
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    35,69 €

  • Redneck Sayin’s & Terms
    Abigail Turner
    Rednecks come in all shapes, sizes, races, male and female, and now live in all regions of the United States. They are an American grassroots compilation of people, and their lingo is fascinating to those who don’t speak 'redneck.' Redneck Sayin’s & Terms presents words, phrases, stories, and history of the fun-loving people that society named 'Rednecks.' Don’t be fooled by the...
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    21,94 €

  • Speed the plough; A comedy, in five acts; as performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden
    Thomas Morton
    Speed the plough; A comedy, in five acts; as performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, a classical book, was published more than a century ago and has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future ...
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    14,94 €

  • The Celian Moment & Other Essays
    Charles Williams
    'He is best known by his criticism. I have learned much from it.' -C. S. LewisCharles Williams (1886-1945), friend of T. S. Eliot and C. S. Lewis and admired by W. H. Auden, was a versatile man of letters. He wrote supernatural thrillers, plays, theology and journalism but he saw poetry and criticism as being his real work. This is a new collection of his literary essays, taken...
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    18,02 €

  • Sir Philip Sidney
    This is an edition of Sir Philip Sidney’s New Arcadia in modern spelling that makes the text accessible through an enhanced glossary and expanded commentary covering book history, reception history, and Sidney’s contribution to the English language. ...
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    155,72 €

  • Ready Reader One
    Megan Amber Condis
    Ready Reader One explores the many ways literature depicts, engages with, and imagines videogames and gamers. The diverse group of authors included in this collection take an expansive view of 'videogame literature,' with essays that consider written works ranging from life writing to speculative fiction to videogame guides created for the internet. In an age of ever-increasing...
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    88,70 €

  • Ready Reader One
    Megan Amber Condis
    Ready Reader One explores the many ways literature depicts, engages with, and imagines videogames and gamers. The diverse group of authors included in this collection take an expansive view of 'videogame literature,' with essays that consider written works ranging from life writing to speculative fiction to videogame guides created for the internet. In an age of ever-increasing...
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    44,32 €

  • Million Man March
    Percy Twenty-Five Brown
    In the book MILLION MAN MARCH, the author travels through recent decades of American History and through daily experiences with racism on his way to the transforming experience of the Million Man March.After having sought equality through the civil rights movement, the author concludes, 'all that came from the movement was integration,' not social justice, not equal opportunity...
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    12,91 €


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