Literary studies: general books

Provides an edition and translation of the Trees of Vices and Virtues by Conrad of Hirsau (c.1070 – c.1150), as...  Read More >>

This book explores transitional post-Soviet cultural consciousness in Ukraine at the beginning of the twenty-first...  Read More >>

It brings together scholars from literature, linguistics, and media studies to explore how storytelling can confront...  Read More >>

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Offers a dedicated and detailed theorization and genre study of the ""bonkbuster,"" a phenomenally popular genre...  Read More >>

This collection demonstrates how to achieve more comprehensive scholarship on J. R. R. Tolkien, connecting Tolkien...  Read More >>

Employing theoretical lenses of implicit theology and secular spirituality, this book blurs the boundaries between...  Read More >>

Examines the practice of literary declamation in German literature and its place alongside print culture in the...  Read More >>

The idea underlying this Element is that a historical text is a translation of past events. Translating His-stories...  Read More >>

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Examines Ovid’s Amores through a comics-based methodology to demonstrate how Latin elegy uses its segmented format...  Read More >>

Provides the English-speaking reader with a comprehensive guide to the fiction of Alfred Döblin, a major figure...  Read More >>

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Volume 38 of a continuing academic journal dedicated to research in the field of early drama and theatrical studies....  Read More >>

Essays examining the poetry and leading poets of the Xhosa-speaking peoples in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....  Read More >>

Edition and translation of all of William Wellington Gqoba's clearly identifiable writings in isiXhosa and English,...  Read More >>

Essays examining isiXhosa oral literature, novels and journalism and the interconnections between them in the nineteenth...  Read More >>

All the clearly identifiable writings of Jonas Ntsiko, the 'national harp' of South Africa, in English and in isiXhosa....  Read More >>

Articles on Xhosa language and folklore.  Read More >>

This book explores cultural parallels and divergences across Christian and Islamic civilizations through the lens...  Read More >>

This book explores transitional post-Soviet cultural consciousness in Ukraine at the beginning of the twenty-first...  Read More >>

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This book analyzes the development of nationalist and bio-political narratives and their role in perpetuating exclusionary...  Read More >>

Die erste Untersuchung zur Überlieferung des Etymologicum von Orion  Read More >>

The first great 'resistance' drama - and perhaps the definitive Greek tragedy.  Read More >>