Literature: history & criticism books

""Traces the long history of skepticism and unbelief in Christianity and Western culture that leads to Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

""The Novel Experience makes a plea and offers a methodology for reclaiming and recentering the reading experience...  Read More >>

""An English-language translation from German of the literary theorist Rainer Nèagele's concise collection of 8...  Read More >>

""Forced by Circumstance gathers foundational essays by, and interviews with, Norma Alarcon, noted scholar of Chicana/o,...  Read More >>

""Traces the long history of skepticism and unbelief in Christianity and Western culture that leads to Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

This book explores how monsters articulate questions about the sacred in nineteenth-century Irish Gothic literature....  Read More >>

Going against the grain, this refreshing book argues for a non-ideological portrait of the Enlightenment as having...  Read More >>

This timely book shows how complex narratives-from memoirs to propaganda-can illuminate and respond to ideologically...  Read More >>

Blending folklore studies, media theory, horror criticism and cultural geography, this collection charts an unprecedented...  Read More >>

This collection includes three stories written between 1927 and 1930. They cover a range of themes, from an allegory...  Read More >>

A tale of mercenaries and myths, set amid the political turmoil of Bengal. In the largely undocumented sphere...  Read More >>

A lecturer's descent into psychological chaos unfolds against the turbulent backdrop of 1990s Budapest. In Other...  Read More >>

A collection of short stories that intertwine the lives of six women, revealing the profound realities beneath their...  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 >>

The central works of one of France's most renowned poets, now translated into English for the first time. The central...  Read More >>

Graphic War introduces graphic border poetics to the field of comics, which enables a methodological response to...  Read More >>

A serene beach. The classroom of an elite private school. The still nights in an upscale residential neighborhood....  Read More >>

The twentieth-anniversary edition of the path-clearing study of Cherokee writing in English, with an emphatic refocus...  Read More >>

I Am the Wounded Victim of a Suicide Bomber presents a selection of poems, translated into English and including...  Read More >>

Oscar Wilde's Paris explores Wilde's connection with the French capital from his rise to fame to his eventual exile...  Read More >>

Echoes of the Past offers a cross-media analysis of how the Carinthian Slovene community in Austria has commemorated...  Read More >>

Embrace a new, more community-centered era of book clubs and make reading a shared experience! Book clubs aren’t...  Read More >>

Queer Print Cultures brings together interdisciplinary scholarship to consider what printed materials can tell us...  Read More >>

The way in which the spectator responds to the song and how narrative, lyrics, music, mise-en-scenes, all come together...  Read More >>

Graphic War introduces graphic border poetics to the field of comics, which enables a methodological response to...  Read More >>