Literary studies: general books

This book introduces scholars and students to apply key critical theories to literary texts. It focuses on representative...  Read More >>

Undecidability is a fundamental quality of literature and constitutive of what renders some works appealing and...  Read More >>

This book explores postcolonial myths and histories within colonially structured narratives which persist and are...  Read More >>

This is the first book to demonstrate how mnemotechnical cultural commonplaces can be used to account for the look,...  Read More >>

Environment and Narrative in Vietnam brings together essays about Vietnam’s natural environments and environmental...  Read More >>

This concise volume addresses the question of whether or not language, and its structure in literary discourses,...  Read More >>

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Postmodern, Marxist, and Christian Historical Novels: Hope and the Burdens of History argues historical novels can...  Read More >>

This collection of essays addresses the concept of ‘disaster’ through a variety of literary texts dating back to...  Read More >>

This book is targeted for clinicians, scientists, cultural theorists, and other scholars and students of trauma...  Read More >>

This book analyses Julian the Apostate from the perspectives of Byzantine Culture.  Read More >>

Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology explores the relationship between narrative, race, and...  Read More >>

Compiled by experts on the works of each individual poet, this book covers the poetry and poets of the Constitutional...  Read More >>

The main objective of this book is to explain how contemporary literatures in Spanish and Portuguese are dealing...  Read More >>

This book explains the elimination of maternal characters in American, British, French, and German literature before...  Read More >>

This book offers the first systematic study of death in the later novels of Don DeLillo. It focusses on Underworld...  Read More >>

This book examines novels of Faulkner and Morrison as well as Mark Twain and Ralph Ellison in order to show that...  Read More >>

This book reconstructs Istanbul through the prism of Orhan Pamuk’s fiction. It navigates the multiple selves and...  Read More >>

This book is an innovative & unconventional study of Jhumpa Lahiri's Indian American female characters' lived &...  Read More >>

Aldous Huxley is one of the most well-known modernist intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century -...  Read More >>

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This is the first book-length comparison of Joyce’s work with the mythic structure of the mandala, using his “collideorscape”...  Read More >>

Erich Auerbach was a Jewish refugee who in exile in Istanbul during WWII wrote one of the major works of 20th Century...  Read More >>

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