Literary studies: general books

Originally published in 1949 this book is a study of comedy based on representative works of drama and narrative,...  Read More >>

In this brief study, originally published in 1984, David Hirst examines the meaning of the term ‘tragicomedy’ by...  Read More >>

First published in 1992, the twenty-one original essays in this volume explore the way women have used humor to...  Read More >>

This book examines how Chinua Achebe presented the Igbo-African world in his writing by analyzing his engagement...  Read More >>

Taking up case studies of four poets who began writing during the 1950s and 1960s, M.C. Kinniburgh shows that the...  Read More >>

Dieses Set versammelt alle von 2018 bis 2022 erschienenen Fabelbände, übersetzt von Niklas Holzberg, und spannt...  Read More >>

Are we unique as individuals, or are we replaceable? Seventeenth-century English literature pursues these questions...  Read More >>

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This volume provides modern, uncensored translations of Aristophanes’ Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps. These translations...  Read More >>

Wilson’s study depicts Bester as an SF insider as much as an outlier, writing in the spirit of the genre but breaking...  Read More >>

Of interest to linguists, literary scholars and historians, this interdisciplinary volume examines the shifting...  Read More >>

An edition and translation of The Owl and the Nightingale and other Middle English works from Oxford, Jesus College...  Read More >>

This edited collection, with contributions from literary scholars and art historians, maps how satire became a less...  Read More >>

Are we unique as individuals, or are we replaceable? Seventeenth-century English literature pursues these questions...  Read More >>

Au cœur d’un contexte culturel et politique explosif en France et en Italie (1770-1840), les autrices mènent ensemble...  Read More >>

This book deals with the mutual translations between the modern Arabic and Hebrew literatures. It examines the impact...  Read More >>

The book analyses Alan Lomax’s role as a cultural mediator during the time of the American Folk Music Revival. With...  Read More >>

This is NOT the original works of Dr. Nate Zinsser, NOR is affiliated with him. This is an independent publication...  Read More >>

THIS IS NOT A BOOK BY LIZ FOSSLIEN OR MOLLIE WEST DUFFY, NOR IS IT AFFILIATED WITH THEM. IT IS AN INDEPENDENT PUBLICATION...  Read More >>

Apres avoir ecrit Rome restauree qui traitait de la topographie de l'Vrbs, Flavio Biondo (1392-1463), premier encyclopediste...  Read More >>

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Originally published in 1973, the history of French tragedy and tragicomedy from their origins in the sixteenth...  Read More >>

In tracing the course of French comedy from the Renaissance, through the age of Louis XIV and the 18th century,...  Read More >>

This book examines the depictions of anthropomorphised animals found on ostraca and papyri from Deir el-Medina and...  Read More >>

The Contemplacioun of Synnaris of William Touris is a poem (c.1494) for Holy Week. Though intended for James IV...  Read More >>