Literary companions books

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The essays collected in Parallel Encounters offer close analysis of an array of cultural representations of the...  Read More >>

Interpreting Dante is a collection of essays discussing the significance of the Dante commentary tradition on general...  Read More >>

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Today’s critical establishment assumes that sentimentalism is an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary mode...  Read More >>

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The first critical study of William Styron since his death in 2006, Rereading William Styron offers an eloquent...  Read More >>

Selected contributions to the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, which took place in July 2011 in Prague, represent...  Read More >>

From the 1910s to the 1950s, Edna Ferber published a series of bestselling novels that transformed her into a literary...  Read More >>

Robert Browning, the great Victorian poet, is often claimed to be hard to understand, largely on account of the...  Read More >>

Masked and costume balls thrived in Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries during a period...  Read More >>

The Los Angeles Review of Books launched in April of 2011 as a humble Tumblr, with a 2600-word essay by Ben Ehrenreich...  Read More >>

This book is a ready reference for students of English literature looking for help navigating the poetry of some...  Read More >>

Offers rich insights into the closing chapter of Robert Penn Warren's professional and personal life, making it...  Read More >>

For the US South, the myth of chivalric masculinity dominates the cultural and historical landscape. Visions of...  Read More >>

Ever since Bessie Smith's powerful voice conspired with the ""race records"" industry to make her a star in the...  Read More >>

Ever since Bessie Smith's powerful voice conspired with the ""race records"" industry to make her a star in the...  Read More >>

Although the theme of blindness occurs frequently in literature, literary criticism rarely engages the experiential...  Read More >>

In When Sex Changed, Layne Parish Craig analyzes the ways literary texts responded to the political, economic, sexual,...  Read More >>

This book paints a vivid portrait of Anton Chekhov-a Russian writer whose elusive personality and richly detailed...  Read More >>

Making Modernism Soviet provides a new understanding of the ideological engagement of Russian modern artists such...  Read More >>

The outpouring of Native American literature that followed N. Scott Momaday's Pulitzer Prize-winning House Made...  Read More >>

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