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Lives in Adab

Alexander (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature Key ; Letizia (Associate Professor in the Department of Languages Osti

Reeks: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature

ISBN: 9781399543132 , Hardcover

Nog niet verschenen Beschikbaar vanaf 30-4-2026

Essays and translations by modern-day scholars organised along the principles of the Arabic narrative tradition.

€ 127,00

Emile Zola

Rachel (Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus Bowlby

Reeks: My Reading

ISBN: 9780198874126 , Hardcover

Afwijkende levertijd: 6 tot 8 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

Remembering Hope

Ann (Emeritus Professor of Comparative Literature Rigney

Reeks: Studies in Collective Memory

ISBN: 9780197789711 , Hardcover

Afwijkende levertijd: 16 tot 18 Dagen.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform

€ 106,95

Lynda Barry

Dr Maaheen (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature Ahmed

Reeks: Bloomsbury Comics Studies

ISBN: 9781350453678 , Paperback

Afwijkende levertijd: 6 tot 8 Dagen.

A complete introduction to the comics of Lynda Barry, this book maps her historical and biographical contexts, key texts, the critical themes and deba

€ 31,95

Reading with Peter Brooks

Rachel (Professor of Comparative Literature Bowlby

ISBN: 9781399538381 , Paperback

Nog niet verschenen Beschikbaar vanaf 1-6-2026

Short, sharp and original commentary inspired by Peter Brooks’s diverse critical work.

€ 28,95

Writing Happiness

Kirsty (Associate Professor of English Literature Martin

ISBN: 9780198892304 , Hardcover

Nog niet verschenen Beschikbaar vanaf 13-8-2026

This book explores the link between literature and happiness. Ranging across an eclectic selection of writers, from George Eliot to Zadie Smith, it tr

€ 42,50

Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel

Wen-chin (Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature Ouyang

ISBN: 9781399564885 , Paperback

Nog niet verschenen Beschikbaar vanaf 1-6-2026

Uncovers the politics of nostalgia and madness inherent in the Arabic novel.

€ 28,95

Minutes of Empire

Alexander B. (Associate Professor of Practice Bick

ISBN: 9780197582831 , Hardcover

Nog niet verschenen Beschikbaar vanaf 23-7-2026

This book explores how the West India Company was granted a monopoly over all trade and settlement in the Western Hemisphere. It examines why a mariti

€ 89,95

Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel

Hoda (Professor of English and Comparative Literature Elsadda

Reeks: Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature

ISBN: 9781399564984 , Paperback

Nog niet verschenen Beschikbaar vanaf 1-6-2026

Provides a nuanced understanding of literary imaginings of masculinity and femininity in the context of the 'national' canon of Egypt.

€ 34,95

Writing Beirut

Samira (Professor of English and Comparative Literature Aghacy

Reeks: Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature

ISBN: 9781399565530 , Paperback

Nog niet verschenen Beschikbaar vanaf 1-6-2026

Takes a geographical/spatial approach to Beirut to understand how the city is imagined in 16 modern Arabic novels.

€ 28,95

Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel

Wen-chin (Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature Ouyang

ISBN: 9781399564878 , Paperback

Nog niet verschenen Beschikbaar vanaf 1-6-2026

Considers the Arabic novel within the triangle of the nationstate, modernity and tradition.

€ 34,95

Back to the Shops

Rachel (Professor of Comparative Literature Bowlby

ISBN: 9780198815914 , Hardcover

Afwijkende levertijd: 6 tot 8 Dagen.

What will become of the shops? More than ever, the high street appears to be under mortal threat, its shops boarded up as the sad 'bricks and mortar'

€ 31,95

Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf

Marit (Professor of Comparative Literature Grøtta

ISBN: 9781399526982 , Hardcover

Afwijkende levertijd: 6 tot 8 Dagen.

Considers the emotional and relational implications of portrait photographs for three modernist writers

€ 125,00

Control Culture

Frida (Professor of Comparative Literature Beckman

ISBN: 9781474436762 , Paperback

Afwijkende levertijd: 6 tot 8 Dagen.

Starting from Deleuze’s brief but influential work on control, the 11 essays in this book focus on the question of how contemporary control mechanisms

€ 32,95

Idols of Perversity

Bram (Professor of Comparative Literature Dijkstra

Reeks: Oxford Paperbacks

ISBN: 9780195056525 , Paperback

Afwijkende levertijd: 6 tot 8 Dagen.

Fully illustrated, this volume provides a provocative analysis of the unprecedented eruption of misogyny at the turn of the 20th century in the works

€ 49,95

Decadence

David (Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature Weir

Reeks: Very Short Introductions

ISBN: 9780190610227 , Paperback

Afwijkende levertijd: 6 tot 8 Dagen.

Decadence: A Very Short Introduction provides an elegant overview of the culture of decadence - defined as the artistic expression of a conflicted sen

€ 14,95

Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf

Marit (Professor of Comparative Literature Grøtta

ISBN: 9781399526999 , Paperback

Afwijkende levertijd: 6 tot 8 Dagen.

Considers the emotional and relational implications of portrait photographs for three modernist writers

€ 28,95

Rachel Bowlby – Unexpected Items

Rachel (Professor of Comparative Literature Bowlby

ISBN: 9781399528412 , Paperback

Afwijkende levertijd: 6 tot 8 Dagen.

The mid-twentieth-century woman was stereotypically seen as a housewife and mother, who shopped. But whether as purchaser, parent or professional, wom

€ 28,95