Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

This engaging volume provides an authoritative assessment of the middle period in the career of the widely-read,...  Read More >>

Uncovers the role of children's periodicals in the development of charitable ideals for children between 18401930...  Read More >>

Examines traditional oral narratives to uncover function and meaning within the unique folkloric expressions of...  Read More >>

Argues that literature has a special role to play in developing a wishful, visionary, and utopian sensibility for...  Read More >>

A variety of essays by Mansfield scholars presenting criticism on Katherine Mansfield's relationship to London  Read More >>

Explores how Shakespeare uses global wisdom literatures to encourage spiritual and moral growth and the arts of...  Read More >>

The first new critical edition in a generation of the first volume of Sherlock Holmes short stories  Read More >>

Considershow Joseph Conrad's works engage with silence  Read More >>

The essential, authoritative new guide to Russian literature, this innovative volume considers literature's multiple...  Read More >>

China through the Camera Lens combines Chinese language learning with film analysis, offering a unique and comprehensive...  Read More >>

The Queerness of Psychoanalysis is an exploration of psychoanalysis’ often complicated and fraught history with...  Read More >>

Rhythmic lyrical poems that embody black music, existence, and tragedy. The poems in this collection center on...  Read More >>

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The issue of the lynchings of Africans and African Americans in the United States is a sensitive subject for historical...  Read More >>

Within the pages of This is What Love is, you will find honey for your Soul and salve for your mind, while being...  Read More >>

How His Light Shines Through Us ""This Is My Story"" - Is a must read for anyone who is searching for a deeper meaning...  Read More >>

David Copperfield - Tome I de Charles Dickens raconte l'enfance et la jeunesse tumultueuses de David, un jeune garçon...  Read More >>

Mrs. Abdul Qadir's fictions have a level of mystery and curiosity by revealing the amazing dimensions of the human...  Read More >>

Loud is a revolutionary collection of channeled poetry and art, written in just a few days. The poems emerged effortlessly...  Read More >>

"Aleksander Wat was born in 1900 in Warsaw, and died in 1969, after a life of picaresque variety and severe hardship...  Read More >>

Black history, cultural expression, and the natural world fuse in Janice N. Harrington's Yard Show to investigate...  Read More >>

Charles Lamb (1775-1834) was a poet, critic and, above all, an essayist of great distinction. Charles Lamb: Man...  Read More >>

How does the act of performance speak to the concept of commemoration? How and why does commemorative theatre operate...  Read More >>