Literary studies: general books

What is the status of the 1,500 quotations that punctuate the Essais? This study analyzes the critical reception...  Read More >>

Los índices de asuntos críticos en la salud mental se ha incrementado. La Biblia provee mucho material para ayudarnos...  Read More >>

This book examines the many reincarnations of Carroll’s texts, illuminating how the meaning of the original books...  Read More >>

A la fin du IVe ou au debut du Ve siecle, sensiblement a la meme epoque que Macrobe qui ecrit un important Commentaire...  Read More >>

This volume is a study of eight major novels from the postwar period (1945-65) in conjunction with the films made...  Read More >>

This book conducts a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of Franz Kafka’s relation to China. Highlighting kindred...  Read More >>

Four Caribbean Women Playwrights aims to expand Caribbean and postcolonial studies beyond fiction and poetry by...  Read More >>

This new edition introduces the core elements of ancient Greek and Roman narratives about immortal gods and heroic...  Read More >>

A wide-ranging introductory guide for readers making their first steps into the world of manga, this book helps...  Read More >>

A cultural history of Manila as explored through Anglo-American writing on the city.  Read More >>

From the Pampas lowlands of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil to the Altiplano plateau that stretches between Chile...  Read More >>

Making extensive use of the rich archival material contained within the Coetzee collections in Texas and South Africa,...  Read More >>

The Taming of the Shrew has puzzled, entertained and angered audiences, and it has been reinvented many times throughout...  Read More >>

Focusing on the mythological narratives that influence Irish children’s literature, this book examines the connections...  Read More >>

Previously considered an avowed nationalist, this book explores how Ian Fleming’s writings and his representational...  Read More >>

In the hands of such writers as Rebecca Solnit, Claudia Rankine, David Shields, Zadie Smith and many others, the...  Read More >>

Staging Britain's Past is the first study of the early modern performance of Britain's pre-Roman history. The mythic...  Read More >>

Providing an overview of the dynamic field of comics and graphic novels for students and researchers, this Essential...  Read More >>

Le tome V de la nouvelle edition de La langue latine forme une paire avec le precedent. Le livre IX se presente...  Read More >>

Jane Austen's richly textured worlds have enchanted readers for centuries and this neatly organised, playful book...  Read More >>

In the Kitchen insists that the preparation of food, whether imaginative, physical, or spatial, is central to a...  Read More >>

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This book uses diaries written by ordinary British people over the past two centuries to examine and explain the...  Read More >>

Exploring the Romantic period's experiments in individual and national self-consciousness, this essential comparative...  Read More >>

A new insight into the brilliant poet who loved an aristocratic girl, attacked Julius Caesar and became a satirical...  Read More >>