Literature: history & criticism books

Structuring the Cosmos in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica offers a comprehensive reading of a Latin epic from the...  Read More >>

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This is a book about the archival worlds of literature and computing, and the myriad of relations that have existed...  Read More >>

Alice Wickenden uses Hans Sloane's remarkable collection – the founding core of the British Library and British...  Read More >>

Written for literary and animal studies scholars, this book shows how animal illnesses influence our cultures and...  Read More >>

In a forest where every step is familiar, Sára searches for mushrooms—but what she unearths instead are the long-buried...  Read More >>

This book analyses the treatment of the emotions in liberal writing in Britain over the long nineteenth century,...  Read More >>

Klassenzugehörigkeiten spielen für die Verortung des Einzelnen in der gesellschaftlichen Realität, aber auch für...  Read More >>

In der abendländischen Poetik gilt das lyrische Gedicht als Paradigma von formverdichteter Poesie, es steht an der...  Read More >>

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This Element revisits the relation between Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett. It suggests that Leopardi becomes...  Read More >>

What does 'Irish romanticism' mean and when did Ireland become romantic? Claire Connolly proposes an understanding...  Read More >>

This Element is the first scholarly study of the theatre of Lauren Gunderson, one of the most produced US playwrights...  Read More >>

A sharp and hilarious exploration of faith and loneliness in a Travelodge written by celebrated playwright David...  Read More >>

What does democracy sound like when it's shouted through a distortion pedal? In 1975, Spain emerged from the long...  Read More >>

An exploration of the philosophical dimensions of translation, celebrating it as a practice that preserves and proliferates...  Read More >>

Focusing in turn on history, powerful individuals, under-represented voices and the arts, the essays in this collection...  Read More >>

In his philosophical project, aesthetic orientation and political leanings, Alain Badiou is a product of, and a...  Read More >>

This book examines the work of acclaimed director Tina Packer, founder of Shakespeare & Company, whose ground-breaking...  Read More >>

An exploration of concepts and representations of artificial intelligence in ancient Greek and Roman epic as well...  Read More >>

Writing the Mountains reconsiders the role of mountains in German language fiction from 1800 to the present and...  Read More >>

Tapping into the emergence of scholarly comedy studies since the 2000s, this collection brings new perspectives...  Read More >>

Using comparative analyses of source and target texts, Leone Anderson examines Jorge Luis Borges’s residual presence...  Read More >>