Literary Essays – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 8

Giulia Torello-Hill, Andrew J Turner,
Jodocus Badius Ascensius' Praenotamenta to Terence

Offering the first scholarly edition and English translation of Praenotamenta , a treatise on ancient drama by Flemish scholar, editor and publisher Jodocus Badius Ascensius (1462-1535), along with his in…

lieferbar ab 15.10.2026.

Buch

José María Pérez Fernández
Translation and the Truth of History

This book tells the material and intellectual history of several translations of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, from Lorenzo Valla's first Latin rendering in 1452, to the publication of Tho…

lieferbar ab 26.6.2026.

Buch

Krys
The Origins of Ukrainian Gothic

Ukrainian dark prose that draws on the conventions of the British and western European Gothic novel emerged in the nineteenth century and continued uninterrupted until the early twentieth century. Writers…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Shakespeare's Classical Mythology a Dictionary

Why does Bassanio compare himself to Jason? What is Hecuba to Hamlet? Is the mechanicals' staging of the Pyramus and Thisbe story funny or sad?This dictionary elucidates Shakespeare's use of mythological …

lieferbar ab 26.11.2026.

Buch

May-Lee Chai
My Hungry Ghosts

In this collection of timely essays and incantations, award-winning author May-lee Chai explores the intersection of world history and her own---feeding herself and her ghosts in the process.Drawing upon …

lieferbar ab 22.9.2026.

Buch

James Baldwin
Notes of a Native Son

Penguin Modern Classics

Born in Harlem in 1924, James Baldwin was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, social critic, and the author of more than twenty books. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain , appeared in 1953 to…

sofort lieferbar

Buch

Peter Sabor
The Letters of Dr Charles Burney

This volume contains the final letters of Charles Burney from 1810, when he was 84, to 1814, when he died at the age of 88. Throughout these years, he was confined to his rooms at the Royal Hospital, Chel…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

The Book of Women's Friendship

As Marilynne Robinson writes in her 1980 novel, Housekeeping , "Having a sister or friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house." Bringing together work by more than 100 writers, The Book …

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Sophocles,
Oedipus the King, Second Edition

"An updated stand-alone edition of Sophocles's Oedipus the King taken from Chicago's renowned translations of the Greek tragedies. Over the years, David Grene and Richmond Lattimore's Complete Greek …

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Daniel Peña
How to Look Away

A riveting, kaleidoscopic portrait of the American compulsion toward cruelty and our power to subvert it from an award-winning contributor to The Guardian and The New York Times.In How to Look Away, Danie…

lieferbar ab 6.10.2026.

Buch

Scott Jackshaw
Stigmata

The poems in Stigmata are ruinous encounters between traumatic and historical memory. They transfigure the cult of the wound into a mystic frenzy of sex, grief, and noise. Drawing inspiration from a broad…

lieferbar innerhalb 2-3 Wochen

Buch

Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism & Translation

A Stanford University Press classic.

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

John Mcphee,
John McPhee: Encounters in Wild America (Loa #398)

A Pulitzer Prize winner takes you on unforgettable adventures to some of America's most wild places in this deluxe collection of 4 classic books of nature writingFrom legendary New Yorker writer John McPh…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

The Oxford Handbook of Russian Poetry

The Oxford Handbook of Russian Poetry brings together forty original chapters by scholars, critics, and poets from across North America, Russia, and Europe, offering a wide-ranging account of the Russian …

lieferbar ab 16.9.2026.

Buch

PN Review 287

The January-February 2026 issue.PNR 287 is an international issue, exploring the importance of archives, libraries and AI in the wide world of poetry, with powerful translations from the Taiwanese and cla…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Lisa Stice
From Reluctant Earth

From Reluctant Earth is in conversation with women poets/writers/artists of the past. While some wrote in the shadows of male relatives/spouses, were silenced by the times in which they wrote, or departed…

lieferbar ab 30.6.2026.

Buch

Moon Tae-Jun, Tae-Jun Moon,
Flatfish

In his poetry collection, Flatfish, Moon Tae-jun offers an aesthetic that emphasizes the author's exploration of the inner self. At times sparse and allusive, his poems use blank space and other stylistic…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Dune and Philosophy

Frank Herbert's "Dune" is the biggest-selling science fiction story of all time; the original book and its numerous sequels have transported millions of readers into the alternate reality of the…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Moon Tae-Jun, Tae-Jun Moon,
Flatfish

In his poetry collection, Flatfish, Moon Tae-jun offers an aesthetic that emphasizes the author's exploration of the inner self. At times sparse and allusive, his poems use blank space and other stylistic…

lieferbar innerhalb 2-3 Wochen

Buch

Lewis H Lapham,
The Education of Lewis Lapham

This engaging memoir, assembled with precision from Lewis Lapham's extensive archive, tells the story of an editor, essayist, and political journalist distinguished by his erudition, elegance and, above a…

lieferbar ab 3.11.2026.

Buch

Trefferliste "Literary Essays" - alle Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr