Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

From Rachel Carson and Julia Kristeva to Rebecca Solnit and Nandi Chinna, the writers and artists featured here...  Read More >>

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Applying the methodology of 'reading-as-a-writer' to the craft of writing for young people, this critical and practical...  Read More >>

The rise of the Mafia and the story of its most vocal opponent, renowned Italian writer Leonardo Sciascia, expertly...  Read More >>

Global in scope, this volume uncovers the deep history of the short story as an ""impure"" genre by challenging...  Read More >>

Explores the cult status popularity of Kurt Vonnegut in the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War era,...  Read More >>

An interdisciplinary study of the literary representation and exploration of emotions and moral values in German...  Read More >>

This intersectional study demonstrates for the first time how the lens of Graeco-Roman antiquity has informed Irish...  Read More >>

This is the first book to offer a pan-European analysis of Macbeth adaptations across a range of media in the long...  Read More >>

This is the first comprehensive study of Shakespearean ballets and their unique interpretive possibilities.  Read More >>

A thought-provoking new assessment of this important Greek dramatic text by a major scholar.  Read More >>

Establishing the existence of a category of poems from the Modernist and contemporary periods which give agency...  Read More >>

The first to systematically examine Waugh’s relationship with cinema in the context of modernism, this book examines...  Read More >>

This updated edition explores the birth of psychoanalysis alongside fundamental psychoanalytic concepts. It discusses...  Read More >>

A renowned Brontë scholar and dress historian’s innovative, richly illustrated biography explores Charlotte Brontë's...  Read More >>

This book explores the nexus between religion and literature by examining central developments in J.M. Coetzee’s...  Read More >>

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This Element focuses on the career of Henry Harris, a leading member of the Duke's Company between 1661 and 1682,...  Read More >>

Grief Work as Autotheory is an interdisciplinary, narrative non-fiction book that tests the boundaries between experimental...  Read More >>

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