Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

A retablo is a painting created in thanks for divine protection or a miracle. Michelle Penn transposes the art form...  Read More >>

Vengeance Untamed is a chilling tale of obsession, rivalry, and the devastating cost of betrayal. Damian Rossi...  Read More >>

The 'A Poetry Archive' series traces a poet's development and the evolution of a unique 'voice'. Volume 7 incorporates...  Read More >>

The poems in Barbara Carlson's Current take us under the surface into what lives below and just to the side of the...  Read More >>

Marcus Aurelius's Meditations offers timeless Stoic wisdom on virtue, resilience, and inner peace-private reflections...  Read More >>

Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus (1947) recounts the life of a solitary composer, Adrian Leverkühn, whose personal and...  Read More >>

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This volume contains a generous selection of the short fiction Thomas Mann published in the years 1897 to 1912,...  Read More >>

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The idea underlying this Element is that a historical text is a translation of past events. Translating His-stories...  Read More >>

Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish Writing is the first dedicated study of British and Irish...  Read More >>

This Element shows how Poland became a gothic setting in British fiction between the 1790s and the 1830s as a result...  Read More >>

Race Class identifies two competing aesthetics, the 'recognitional' and the 'redistributive,' that developed in...  Read More >>

A cultural and social critique of early-twentieth-century America, addressing issues of race, ethnicity, class and...  Read More >>

Henry James was a leading commentator on the art of his time. Readers of this complete collection of his nonfictional...  Read More >>

Henry James is a highly readable commentator on the theatre and performance practices of his time. Readers of this...  Read More >>

This book shows how novels and films set in the near future can shed light both on our failures of imagination before...  Read More >>

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

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Book VII is a pivotal book in Herodotus' Histories. It brings together many of the work's themes and contains the...  Read More >>

This book reveals how modernist artists across Europe and the United States turned to trees and wooden materials...  Read More >>

What does it take to escape a faith that's become a cage? Brittany Hart's poetry maps the journey from spiritual...  Read More >>

Give Me 24 Minutes is a wide-ranging work, containing several short stories along with in several forms, it is a...  Read More >>