Literary studies: general books

Presents literary criticism on the works of writers of the period 1400-1800. Critical essays are selected from leading...  Read More >>

What would it mean to reorient the study of Haitian literature toward ethics rather than the themes of politics,...  Read More >>

A timely survey of an important sector of American letters, this fourth edition of The Encyclopedia of African-American...  Read More >>

This book traces how Saint-Cyran came into full possession of his intellectual and spiritual faculties. It studies...  Read More >>

Contributeurs: Francois Angelier, Marie-Eve Benoteau-Alexandre, Beatrice Didier, Catherine Mayaux, Dominique Millet-Gerard,...  Read More >>

This monograph works to develop an intellectual and moral portrait of Petrarch that reflects his Italian and especially...  Read More >>

This work seeks to account for the escape routes of thought in the Essais on the road elsewhere. Underlying meanings...  Read More >>

This work analyzes the main thematic nuclei of Marie de Gournay's work and their metamorphosis over the years. It...  Read More >>

Breaking down the topic by theme, this anthology highlights the coherence and metamorphoses of the expression of...  Read More >>

Contributeurs: Julie Andre, Beatrice Athias, Mathilde Bertrand, Edward Bizub, Stephane Chaudier, Sophie Duval, Yves-Michel...  Read More >>

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Chinese Whispers examines multiple contact zones between the Anglophone and Sinophone worlds, investigating how...  Read More >>

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This book traces how Saint-Cyran came into full possession of his intellectual and spiritual faculties. It studies...  Read More >>

Breaking down the topic by theme, this anthology highlights the coherence and metamorphoses of the expression of...  Read More >>

This work analyzes the main thematic nuclei of Marie de Gournay's work and their metamorphosis over the years. It...  Read More >>

This monograph works to develop an intellectual and moral portrait of Petrarch that reflects his Italian and especially...  Read More >>

This work seeks to account for the escape routes of thought in the Essais on the road elsewhere. Underlying meanings...  Read More >>

This expansive edited collection explores in depth the georgic genre and its connections to the natural world. It...  Read More >>

This book is a study of how transfictional and transmedia storytelling emerges in the nineteenth century and how...  Read More >>

Countering an established tradition that has read novels by women writers as heavily autobiographical and confessional,...  Read More >>

Chinese Whispers examines multiple contact zones between the Anglophone and Sinophone worlds, investigating how...  Read More >>

And what can they tell us about the poetics and politics of the twentieth century? This book reads one by way of...  Read More >>

This Element examines the eighteenth-century novel's contributions to empirical knowledge. Realism has been the...  Read More >>

Essays on music, art, pop culture, literature, and politics by the renowned essayist and observer of contemporary...  Read More >>