Literary studies: general books

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

This book explores how two early modern and two modern Japanese writers – Yosa Buson (1716–83), Ema Saikō (1787–1861),...  Read More >>

Harnessing new enthusiasm for Nan Shepherd’s writing, The Living World asks how literature might help us reimagine...  Read More >>

"The instalments of Ezra Pound's life-project, The Cantos, composed during his incarceration in Washington after...  Read More >>

This book introduces readers who may have no previous knowledge of Menander's comedies to Epitrepontes (The Arbitration),...  Read More >>

The contemporary moment is characterized by precarity – an expanding and intensifying vulnerability conditioned...  Read More >>

This book offers an in-depth engagement with the growing body of Anglophone Arab fiction in the context of theoretical...  Read More >>

"""An innovative look at the relevance of DeLillo's work to contemporary literature and thought through the lens...  Read More >>

In this book, leading international scholars explore the major ideas and debates that have made the study of modernist...  Read More >>

Draws on media studies and the history of books and reading to bring to life a history of realism concerned with...  Read More >>

This book introduces Asian American literary studies by engaging the conditions, contingencies, and immediate and...  Read More >>

This book examines the letters, essays, and fiction of Joseph Conrad through an Aristotelian lens.  Read More >>

Homer's Iliad is the acknowledged masterpiece of Greek literature. Reading Homer makes it accessible to students...  Read More >>

This concise volume offers an accessible introduction to state-of-the-art AI language models, providing a platform...  Read More >>

A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation...  Read More >>

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The Asthma Recipes Cookbook for a healthier life is a comprehensive guide to managing asthma through diet and nutrition....  Read More >>

Arthritis Recipes Cookbook for healthier you is a cookbook that offers a collection of recipes specifically designed...  Read More >>

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Novel Approaches to Lesbian History tells a tale about history and community in our allegedly post-identity era,...  Read More >>

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Aeschylus’ Persians is unique in being the only extant Greek tragedy on an historical subject: Greece’s victory...  Read More >>

James Joyce spent the last decade of his life in Paris, struggling to finish his great final work Finnegans Wake...  Read More >>

Thucydides is well known for his fondness for abstract nominal phrases. As Joho shows in this book, these constructions...  Read More >>

Draws on media studies and the history of books and reading to bring to life a history of realism concerned with...  Read More >>