Literary studies: from c 1900 - books

Considers how a series of poets reimagined the possibilities of ""O"" as a gesture of apostrophe and, even more...  Read More >>

Literary Forensics: How Reading Can Make You a Better Writer is a unique reference guide designed to teach writers...  Read More >>

Literary Forensics: How Reading Can Make You a Better Writer is a unique reference book that breaks into simple...  Read More >>

Employing recent findings in neuroscience to explain consistent patterns in the representation of space in literature,...  Read More >>

This book offers an in-depth analysis of Keith Roberts's Pavane and explores why this work was instrumental to the...  Read More >>

With postmodernism being associated with playfulness, parody, irony, and even négationnisme, how suitable a medium...  Read More >>

A conventional view of Russia represents it as a country where autocracy, centralised rule, and domination by the...  Read More >>

How do we decide what to value as music, or as poetry, or as art? For at least a century, since we were first told...  Read More >>

In this book, Mairéad Hanrahan examines the shifts in political focus in Genet's writing, from the intimate fantasies...  Read More >>

Since her rise to notoriety among the dissident artists of the 1970s Leningrad underground, Elena Shvarts (1948-2010)...  Read More >>

Thomas Mann ist bekannt für die enge Verknüpfung seines Werks und seiner Selbstinszenierung mit Deutschland, seiner...  Read More >>

An original and thought-provoking reassessment of J. R. R. Tolkien's world, revealing how his visionary creation...  Read More >>

An original and thought-provoking reassessment of J. R. R. Tolkien's world, revealing how his visionary creation...  Read More >>

Les textes rassemblés dans Afrique plurielle mettent en relief quelques aspects de la foisonnante diversité littéraire...  Read More >>

Ce livre aborde pour la première fois la totalité de l'œuvre de Benoît Peeters, jeune écrivain franco-belge dont...  Read More >>

This is a collection by diverse hands on the thematic, conceptual and contextual impact of time in and around Joyce's...  Read More >>

It is easy simply to attribute the high profile of Sollers, the numerous autobiographical details in his novels,...  Read More >>

L'image obsédante de la route parcourt toute l'oeuvre de l'écrivain nigérian Wole Soyinka, prix Nobel de littérature...  Read More >>

This book's aim is to provide a critical bird's eye view of Blaise Cendrar's oeuvre, through readings which sample...  Read More >>

Uwe Johnson's major novel, Jahrestage, is recognized as one of the most important and ambitious works of post-war...  Read More >>

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Explores the relationship between radical poetry and radical politics from the formation of the welfare state to...  Read More >>

Demonstrates how African literature grapples with the enforced optimism of US empire that circulates in postcolonial...  Read More >>