Literature: history & criticism books

This book explores transitional post-Soviet cultural consciousness in Ukraine at the beginning of the twenty-first...  Read More >>

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Every day, women suffer the consequences of a world built with men as the default and women largely excluded. The...  Read More >>

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

English translation of Euripides' tragedy based upon the story of Medea's revenge against her husband Jason. Includes...  Read More >>

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Argues that lying is fundamental to the survival of the human species, through a series of philosophical, psychological...  Read More >>

Going against most accounts of Futurism in England, this book unpacks the profound influence of Italian Futurism’s...  Read More >>

Addresses the main characters’ thoughts on women and on God  Read More >>

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Collected interviews with the National Book Award-winning author of Victory Over Japan and many other critically...  Read More >>

An exploration of the various literary and artistic influences of a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance  Read More >>

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Collected interviews with the National Book Award-winning author of Victory Over Japan and many other critically...  Read More >>

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Everyone uses the word, usually somewhat in awe, certainly with respect; Alfred Nobel by means of his will left...  Read More >>

Outlines British literature's relation to global empire from the 16th century to the present. Twenty-one chapters...  Read More >>

This Element considers pregnant women and their costumes in the staging of Shakespeare's plays. The author focusses...  Read More >>

This Element examines Walter Scott's work by investigating the influence of his French wife, Charlotte Charpentier,...  Read More >>

Alone With Others provides an unparalleled intellectual-historical account of tact in modernist literature, film,...  Read More >>

For any reader curious about the wilder flights of fancy in eighteenth-century fiction and how they challenge colonial...  Read More >>

The freedom to read is under attack. From the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to today's state-sponsored...  Read More >>

Explores how F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories reveal the full depth of his life and literary genius The Life...  Read More >>

A new edition of John Millington Synge’s riveting story of youth and self-discovery, published to coincide with...  Read More >>