Boekenportaal Suriname | Patricia (Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature Dailey

Promised Bodies

Patricia (Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature Dailey

Reeks: Gender, Theory, and Religion

ISBN: 9780231161206 , Hardcover

Afwijkende levertijd: 16 tot 18 Dagen.

rossing linguistic and historical boundaries, Patricia Dailey connects the embodied poetics of Hadewijch of Brabant’s visions, writings, and letters t

€ 86,95

The Myth of the Fall in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Linda (Associate Professor of English and American Literature Freedman

ISBN: 9780198969570 , Hardcover

Nog niet verschenen Beschikbaar vanaf 15-8-2025

The Myth of the Fall in Nineteenth-Century Literature offers fresh close readings of both canonical and less well-known works and is divided into two

€ 125,00

Emile Zola

Rachel (Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus Bowlby

Reeks: My Reading

ISBN: 9780198874126 , Hardcover

Afwijkende levertijd: 4 tot 6 Dagen.

A book on the novels of Émile Zola. The first part covers most of the writing of the Rougon-Macquart novel sequence and the second part turns to the e

€ 27,95

Ethical Living through Stories

Dr. Wen-chin (Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature Ouyang

Reeks: World of Islam

ISBN: 9780755657490 , Paperback

Afwijkende levertijd: 6 tot 8 Dagen.

This book shows that Muslim literature can be an ethical guide for how human beings live on earth.

€ 13,95

Anthony Trollope

Dinah (Emeritus Professor of English Literature Birch

Reeks: Very Short Introductions

ISBN: 9780192845627 , Paperback

Afwijkende levertijd: 6 tot 8 Dagen.

This Very Short Introduction will place Trollope's work in the context of his life and times, drawing on recent scholarship to illuminate his central

€ 13,95

Literature and Learning

Stefan (Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History and English Literature Collini

ISBN: 9780198800187 , Hardcover

Afwijkende levertijd: 6 tot 8 Dagen.

The first comprehensive history of 'English' as an academic discipline in Britain, covering the development of the subject from its late-eighteenth-ce

€ 49,95

Myth

David (Professor of English and Comparative Literature Leeming

ISBN: 9780195161052 , Paperback

Afwijkende levertijd: 4 tot 6 Dagen.

In Myth David Leeming traces the role of myth and mythologies in the human experience. Stresing myths of creation, deity, the hero, and union, he part

€ 35,95

George Steiner

George (Professor of English and Comparative Literature Steiner

ISBN: 9780195050684 , Paperback

Afwijkende levertijd: 16 tot 18 Dagen.

This volume offers a rich sampling of George Steiner's writing, including essays from his seminal books After Babel, The Death of Tragedy, Tolstoy or

€ 55,95

Arab Brazil

Wail S. (Professor of Comparative Literature and English Hassan

ISBN: 9780197688762 , Hardcover

Afwijkende levertijd: 6 tot 8 Dagen.

Arab-Brazilian relations have been largely invisible to area studies and Comparative Literature scholarship. Arab Brazil is the first book of its kind

€ 75,00

Literature and Capital

Prof. Thomas (Professor of English and Comparative Literature Docherty

ISBN: 9781350064645 , Hardcover

Afwijkende levertijd: 6 tot 8 Dagen.

What is the value of literature? In this important new work, Thomas Docherty charts a new economic history of literary culture and its institutio

€ 125,00

World Mythology

David A. (Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature Leeming

Reeks: Very Short Introductions

ISBN: 9780197548264 , Paperback

Afwijkende levertijd: 6 tot 8 Dagen.

The mythologies of the world are collective cultural dreams, and as such should be analyzed first from cultural perspectives. How do myths of the anci

€ 14,95

The Oxford Companion to World Mythology

David (Professor of English and Comparative Literature Leeming

Reeks: Oxford Companion To... (Paperback)

ISBN: 9780195387087 , Paperback

Afwijkende levertijd: 6 tot 8 Dagen.

Written by David Leeming, one of the world's most trusted voices on mythology, The Oxford Companion to World Mythology is a lively, non-pedantic yet i

€ 31,95

A Dictionary of Asian Mythology

David (Professor of English and Comparative Literature Leeming

ISBN: 9780195120530 , Paperback

Afwijkende levertijd: 16 tot 18 Dagen.

This is an A-Z dictionary of mythologies of the Asian continent. Major characters, places and events of Asian mythology, as well as certain relevant t

€ 39,95

Marcel Proust

Michael (Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature Wood

Reeks: My Reading

ISBN: 9780192845825 , Hardcover

Afwijkende levertijd: 6 tot 8 Dagen.

A witty, refreshing, and fun book on the experience of reading Marcel Proust that allows author and reader to meet and perhaps quarrel, perhaps agree,

€ 27,95

Ethics for Apocalyptic Times

Daniel Shank (Associate Professor of English Cruz

ISBN: 9780271095653 , Paperback

Nog niet verschenen Beschikbaar vanaf 15-7-2025

Ethics for Apocalyptic Times is about the role literature can play in helping readers cope with our present-day crises, including the COVID-19 pandemi

€ 39,95

Worldly Spirits, Extra-Human Dimensions, and the Global Anglophone Novel

Dr Hilary (Associate Professor of English Thompson

ISBN: 9781350373853 , Paperback

Nog niet verschenen Beschikbaar vanaf 26-6-2025

Engaging a diverse range of contemporary anglophone literature from authors of the Asian, Middle Eastern and Caribbean diasporas, this book explores h

€ 39,95

Women Writing Antiquity

Helena (Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature Taylor

ISBN: 9780192870445 , Hardcover

Afwijkende levertijd: 16 tot 18 Dagen.

Considers classical reception in the works of women writers of the long seventeenth century in France to demonstrate how their engagements with the li

€ 117,50

Chinese Literature

Sabina (Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature Knight

Reeks: Very Short Introductions

ISBN: 9780195392067 , Paperback

Afwijkende levertijd: 6 tot 8 Dagen.

Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe more t

€ 14,95