Literary studies: general books

The study of Roman ethical thought has long been shaped by the voices of philosophers, statesmen, and historians,...  Read More >>

Pastoral poetry has long been associated with simplicity, serenity, and the imagined purity of rural life, yet Virgil's...  Read More >>

W świecie bez gwarancji najlatwiej jest zostac czlowiekiem poprawnym. Wyważonym. Umiarkowanym. Takim, który ""rozumie...  Read More >>

This book examines apparently dichotomous aspects of Gaskell’s short stories: her failed fathers and her travel...  Read More >>

An investigation into how the emotional language in texts intended for solitary women became the foundation for...  Read More >>

A vibrant account of the remarkable novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, tracing its life over the last century  Read More >>

What Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, and The Tempest can teach us about discovery, growth, and change. Shakespeare...  Read More >>

This is the first new edition of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations in over forty years. Robert A. Kaster draws on an...  Read More >>

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This work uses an adaptation of monster theory to rethink the foundations of epic-heroic immortality. Rather than...  Read More >>

A prose work interspersed with poetry, Le Printemps d'Yver was highly popular in its day, seeing thirty editions...  Read More >>

This study explores how Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, and Milton among many others appropriated Spenser’s...  Read More >>

Gaston Frommel présente une série d'études sur des figures littéraires contemporaines telles que Pierre Loti, H.-F....  Read More >>

Redécouvrez les Chroniques parisiennes de Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, éminent critique littéraire du XIXe siècle....  Read More >>

Gaston Boissier explore la société romaine du temps de César à travers les lettres de Cicéron. L'ouvrage offre un...  Read More >>

Covering a wide range of approaches to Hungarian literature across historical periods, themes and genres, this volume...  Read More >>

This book explores classical parody, from ancient Greek and Roman insider humor to modern parodies, revealing how...  Read More >>

To understand the cultural and civic life of classical Athens, one must begin with the texts that Athenians themselves...  Read More >>

To speak of Homer is to speak of the origins of poetic authority in the Greek world, for no other figure-real or...  Read More >>

From the earliest centuries of Greek literacy, the Iliad occupied a place of extraordinary authority, shaping not...  Read More >>

A masterfully lyrical translation of the complete Commedia that brings Dante’s famous terza rima to contemporary...  Read More >>

Examines the economic, political, and cultural transitions in 1970s France through literature and cinema to reconsider...  Read More >>

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The first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater's writing, this Companion presents incisive...  Read More >>

Explores how Ancien Régime writers theorized public communication through acoustic metaphors The salons, cafés,...  Read More >>