Literary studies: general books

Padrón reveals the evolution of Spain’s imagining of the New World as a space in continuity with Asia. Narratives...  Read More >>

This volume analyses the rhetorical thought of Eustathios of Thessalonike in his monumental Commentary on the Iliad....  Read More >>

This book addresses the much-neglected topic of fictional character and its relationship to actual human identity....  Read More >>

Im zeitkritischen Diskurs der Zwischenkriegsjahre wird eine Bindungssemantik entwickelt, die allen voran mit der...  Read More >>

This book engages with the socio-cultural imaginings of Gandhi in literature, history, visual and popular culture....  Read More >>

Examines the reception of Walt Whitman in Poland from 1872 to the present day. The many ways in which Whitman was...  Read More >>

"""A deeply felt celebration of ... classic [novels] and a reflection on the ways our favorite books can shape and...  Read More >>

The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novel  Read More >>

Smaro Nikolaidou-Arampatzi analyzes the direct and indirect evidence of Euripides’ fragmentary play, the Ino, and...  Read More >>

In the late nineteenth century, a young Italian aristocrat made an astonishing confession: In a series of revealing...  Read More >>

This book discusses the pivotal role and importance of African indigenous knowledge systems (AIKS) in promoting,...  Read More >>

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This book engages with the socio-cultural imaginings of Gandhi in literature, history, visual and popular culture....  Read More >>

Medieval literary voices explores literary voice in relation to its authorial, scribal and socio-political settings....  Read More >>

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This anthology explores the relationships and interdependencies between literary production and distinctions of...  Read More >>

In the late nineteenth century, a young Italian aristocrat made an astonishing confession: In a series of revealing...  Read More >>

Published in its entirety for the first time, John Van Buren's 'Travel journal for a trip to Europe, 1838-1839'...  Read More >>

One fall evening in 1880, Russian painter Ilya Repin welcomed an unexpected visitor to his home: Lev Tolstoy. The...  Read More >>

This volume looks at both the range among, and legacy of, vampires in the nineteenth century including race, culture,...  Read More >>

This book argues that embryology and the reproductive sciences played a key role in the rise of the Gothic novel...  Read More >>

Mirjam Geissbühler studierte Germanistik und Geschichte an der Universität Bern und absolvierte im Anschluss die...  Read More >>

Polish contemporary literature is not a closed book to European and world readers. Those not involved professionally...  Read More >>

The book offers a sharp analysis of the relationship between transnationalism and patterns of identity negotiation...  Read More >>