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  • An Introduction to Literary Studies

    by Mario Klarer ...
    The fourth edition of this classic beginner’s guide to literary studies has been fully updated throughout. Mario Klarer offers a concise and accessible discussion of central issues in English and world literature as well as film and television series. Starting with the basics of what constitutes a literary text, the book moves through an analysis of major genres, important periods, and key ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • A Short Literary History of the United States

    by Mario Klarer ...
    A Short Literary History of the United States offers an introduction to American Literature for students who want to acquaint themselves with the most important periods, authors, and works of American literary history. Comprehensive yet concise, it provides an essential overview of the different currents in American literature in an accessible, engaging style. This book features:the pre-colonial ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Barbary Captives

    An Anthology of Early Modern Slave Memoirs by Europeans in North Africa

    Edited by Mario Klarer ...
    In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both male and female, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave market, and enslaved in North Africa. Between the sixteenth and the early nineteenth centuries, pirates from Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, and Morocco not only attacked sailors and merchants in the Mediterranean but also roved as far as Iceland. A substantial number of the ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Barbary Captives

    An Anthology of Early Modern Slave Memoirs by Europeans in North Africa

    Edited by Mario Klarer ...
    In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both male and female, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave market, and enslaved in North Africa. Between the sixteenth and the early nineteenth centuries, pirates from Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, and Morocco not only attacked sailors and merchants in the Mediterranean but also roved as far as Iceland. A substantial number of the ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Mediterranean Slavery and World Literature

    Captivity Genres from Cervantes to Rousseau

    Edited by Mario Klarer ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    Mediterranean Slavery and World Literature is a collection of selected essays about the transformations of captivity experiences in major early modern texts of world literature and popular media, including works by Cervantes, de Vega, Defoe, Rousseau, and Mozart. Where most studies of Mediterraneanslavery, until now, have been limited to historical and autobiographical accounts, this volume looks ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean

    1550-1810

    Edited by Mario Klarer ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Early Modern History
    Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean explores the early modern genre of European Barbary Coast captivity narratives from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. During this period, the Mediterranean Sea was the setting of large-scale corsairing that resulted in the capture or enslavement of Europeans and Americans by North African pirates, as well as of North Africans by European forces, ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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    by Adams Media ...
    Series series The Very Lazy Intellectual Series
    Do great works of literature confound you? Can you not tell the difference between Expressionism and Impressionism? Fear not! The Very Lazy Intellectual: Language Arts delves into the speech, composition, and literature of modern culture. With information on everything to etymology, to literary criticism, to myriad literary styles, you'll have everything you need to be modern-day Bill Shakespeare. ... Read more

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  • Crafting Presence

    The American Essay and the Future of Writing Studies

    by Nicole B. Wallack ...
    Essays are central to students’ and teachers’ development as thinkers in their fields. In Crafting Presence, Nicole B. Wallack develops an approach to teaching writing with the literary essay that holds promise for writing students, as well as for achieving a sense of common purpose currently lacking among professionals in composition, creative writing, and literature.Wallack analyzes examples ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms

    by Chris Baldick ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    The bestselling Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms provides clear and concise definitions of the most troublesome literary terms, from abjection to zeugma. It is an essential reference tool for students of literature in any language. Now expanded and in its fourth edition, it includes increased coverage of new terms from modern critical and theoretical movements, such as feminism, schools of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon

    Edited by Inger H. Dalsgaard, Luc Herman, Brian McHale ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The most celebrated American novelist of the past half-century, an indispensable figure of postmodernism worldwide, Thomas Pynchon notoriously challenges his readers. This Companion provides tools for meeting that challenge. Comprehensive, accessible, lively, up-to-date and reliable, it approaches Pynchon's fiction from various angles, calling on the expertise of an international roster of ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • In Search of the Phoenicians

    by Josephine Quinn ...
    Series series Miriam S. Balmuth Lectures in Ancient History and Archaeology
    Who were the ancient Phoenicians, and did they actually exist?The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art of navigation. But who these legendary sailors really were has long remained a mystery. In Search of the Phoenicians makes the startling claim that the “Phoenicians” never actually existed. Taking readers ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • A History of American Literature

    by Richard Gray ...
    Updated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of American Literature from pre-Columbian times to the present.The most comprehensive and up-to-date history of American literature available todayCovers fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction, as well as other forms of ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD