Literary reference works books

In the late 1940s, a new generation of young writers revisited the conventions governing the fictional private eye...  Read More >>

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This book analyses how friendship in Tolkien’s seminal work collaborates in the development of the characters. Using...  Read More >>

Presents literary criticism on the works of writers of the period 1400-1800. Critical essays are selected from leading...  Read More >>

Presents literary criticism on the works of short-story writers of all nations, cultures, and time periods. Critical...  Read More >>

"""This detailed series provides comprehensive coverage of critical interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare....  Read More >>

Each volume of this resource covers four to eight significant dramatists or plays. For each play or playwright featured,...  Read More >>

In this volume, scholars from diverse research fields (literature, history, art history, and folklore studies) scan...  Read More >>

Volume 2 of the new authoritative edition of Katherine Mansfield's complete correspondence.  Read More >>

Provides a tour of human geography, history and culture that establishes the foundation for the The Hunger Games...  Read More >>

Sitting at the intersection of literary studies and masculinity studies, this reading reconstructs Washington Irving’s...  Read More >>

Batman created by Bob Kane with Bill Finger.  Read More >>

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Incorporates sources from philosophy, criminology, psychology, and history to argue that Dostoevsky's thinking about...  Read More >>

Common Readers casts a fascinating light on the literary experiences of ordinary people.  Read More >>

Subversive Readers explores the strategies used by readers to question authority, challenge convention, resist oppression,...  Read More >>

Since the eighteenth century, landscape has played complex psychological and political roles in the narrative of...  Read More >>

Randall Kenan is an American author best known for his novel A Visitation of Spirits and his collection of stories...  Read More >>

In this post-Arab Spring novel, Ahmad Tarawneh tells the story of conflicting loyalties between two Jordanian brothers,...  Read More >>

Investigates the emergence and meaning of the cult of death. This book links the mounting demand for images of violent...  Read More >>

Although many depictions of the city in prose, poetry and visual art can be found dating from earlier periods in...  Read More >>

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Breaks new ground by comparing the politics of resistance alongside moments of improvisation by examining recurring...  Read More >>

An environmental humanist’s study of extractive capitalism and colonial occupation in Indian fiction, Rogues in...  Read More >>

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