Literature: History & Criticism
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War & Literature
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£33.99| /This comprehensive volume analyzes the radical change in the nature of armed conflicts and in the way they are narrated and represented. Ever since...
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We Are Not Avatars
Palimpsest Press£15.99| /Renowned poet and editor John Barton collects his most provocative essays, public lectures, and reviews produced over the past twenty-five years. B...
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We Never Sleep
Ariadne Press (US)£22.99| /In this masterfully constructed docu-novel Kathrin Röggla ventures into the dysfunctional, self-contained and self-destructive universe of a New Ec...
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Were the Bees
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£11.99| /This is an innovative collection of poetry from a fresh Canadian voice. Andy Weaver explores the boundaries of the poetic form to create a playful ...
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When the bad bleeds
V & R Unipress GmbH£71.99| /The study "When the bad bleeds" examines the function of manticism in the English revenge tragedy of the Renaissance. Mantic elements are supernatu...
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Where the Truth Lies
Newest Press (CA)£19.99| /The problem with writer longevity can be a complicating, even contradictory oeuvre. Hopefully". This book collects forty years of essays and speech...
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Who Needs Books?
University of Alberta Press (CA)£9.99| /"We look around and feel as if book culture as we know it is crumbling to dust, but there's one important thing to keep in mind: as we know it." Wh...
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Who Shaped Science Fiction?
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£29.99| /This book combines the reading public's interest in science fiction with the always popular biography genre. The book contains one hundred concise ...
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Wild Strawberries
Presa Press (US)£15.99| /"Wild Strawberries" collects fifty-nine new poems previously published in three dozen plus literary journals such as Backwards City Review, The Cal...
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Will not forget both laughter and tears
University of Alberta Press (CA)£21.99| /Geishas and samurai, manga and animé come to mind when Japan enters the conversation. While these traditional and modern images about the island na...
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Wire Dancing
Spinifex Press£11.95| /Circus as drama and risk, as exuberance and irrepressible spirit, is the central metaphor Patricia Sykes uses to open a world where public and priv...
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Witness
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£50.00| /This book offers a complex and thought-provoking anthology of critical essays respecting the notion of the witness and phenomena of witnessing in W...
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Words of Wisdom from Ancient Greece
Aiora Press£12.99| /His poetry sings of the beauty of the natural world and offers a vision of the paradise that the world could be, but it is also imbued with a deep ...
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Works of Peter Handke
Ariadne Press (US)£39.99| /Since his now famous appearance on the literary stage in 1968 novelist, playwright and poet Peter Handke has remained on the forefront of the liter...
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World Literature in Motion
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£45.00| /By bringing in different degrees of circulation in different regions and languages, this collection shows that while literary centers do exist in w...
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World-Fixer
Ariadne Press (US)£17.99| /This translation of Thomas Bernhard's Der Weltverbesserer makes a contemporary masterpiece available to English language readers for the first time...
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Writer Who Stayed
Paul Dry Books (US)£15.99| /William Zinsser, author of "On Writing Well" and many other books, wrote a weekly blog for the American Scholar -- about writing, the arts, New Yor...
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Writers, Lovers, Soldiers, Spies
Author's Club£19.99| /Where did Oscar Wilde indignantly denounce the censorship of his play Salome? Where did Arthur Conan Doyle and Jerome K Jerome read from their unpu...
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Writing Home
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£28.99| /When the SS Empire Windrush berthed at Tilbury docks in 1948 with 492 ex-servicemen from the Caribbean, it marked the beginning of the post-war mig...
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Writing the Sacred
Northstone Publishing (CA)£19.99| /In this unique book, Ray McGinnis offers us a new, deeper, and more meaningful way to explore and understand the Psalms. Vividly connecting us with...
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Writing Within / Without / About Sri Lanka
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£28.99| /Paola Brusasco's study offers an original insight into Sri Lankan literature in English and an exploration of cultural, social, and linguistic issu...
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Yiddish and the Field of Translation
Bohlau Verlag GmbH & Co.KG£71.99| /Yiddish literature and culture take a central position in Jewish literatures. They are shaped to a high degree, not least through migration, by enc...
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Your Unselfish Kindness
Otago University Press (NZ)£17.95| /Robin Hyde's extraordinary but short life (1906-39) included a precocious early career as poet and parliamentary reporter. As a journalist, she jug...
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Todo se ha hecho a mi voluntad
Iberoamericana/Vervuert£22.99| /Esta investigación literaria examina el personaje de Melibea desde una perspectiva que, más allá del contenido textual, privilegia la estructura fo...
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