Literary studies: general books

In der Reihe werden wichtige Neuausgaben und Kommentare zu Texten der griechisch-römischen Antike publiziert, insbesondere...  Read More >>

'Recovering Lost Voices' explores what recovery work looks like in the twenty-first century and why its continued...  Read More >>

Dante's Divine Comedy is one of those classics more often cited than read. This is a shame because, in addition...  Read More >>

Tragedy and comedy were part of diverse discourses in the late Republican and Imperial Roman Empire. They were not...  Read More >>

A soul laid bare. A love that shatters and resurrects. A journey through ruin, rebirth, and the infinite pulse of...  Read More >>

What if The Prince is not a manual for power-but a story about losing control? The Prince: A Renaissance Narrative...  Read More >>

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Aphra Behn is renowned as the first professional woman writer in English. The plays in this volume, published and...  Read More >>

A masterclass in telling stories - and how they shape our world - from the internationally renowned narrative expert...  Read More >>

A collection of essays that examines literature in seven languages from across the Islamic world and explores the...  Read More >>

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From acclaimed critic, novelist and academic W. G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn, a collection...  Read More >>

Haunted shorelines, oppressively expansive beaches, and the crumbling edgelands around coastal cliffs have been...  Read More >>

The book explores how Catholicism operates in Seamus Heaney's poetry at the level of a felt sense. It is written...  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of the classical influence on Hungarian culture in the 19th and 20th century, exploring issues...  Read More >>

Focusing on the works of Camillo Sbarbaro and Giovanna Bemporad, this book offers the first in-depth analysis of...  Read More >>

Through an extensive series of extracts and accompanying interpretative and contextual essays, this open access...  Read More >>

Considering Butler’s “tragic trilogy”—a set of interventions on Sophocles’ Antigone, Euripides’ Bacchae, and Aeschylus’s...  Read More >>

A long overdue examination of Rubén Darío's multilingual work and influences alongside the contexts and politics...  Read More >>

Examines how postwar French writers constitute the thinking subject and reshape its relation to the external social...  Read More >>

Fills a gap in comparative studies, interrogating strategies of Empire in dominating the Indigenous and linking...  Read More >>

The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his...  Read More >>

Renowned Shakespearean Stephen Orgel reveals how Shakespeare's scripts were transformed from popular drama into...  Read More >>

In Other Words, the definitive translation coursebook for three decades, offers practical guidance based on linguistic...  Read More >>