Literary studies: general books

This collection of eight essays by world-renowned philosophers and literary critics thoroughly examines the philosophical...  Read More >>

Realism and the Novel will be of interest to anyone who has found themselves absorbed in the world of a novel, analysing...  Read More >>

This study is a history of a medieval bestseller--Rabbi Isaac of Corbeil's handbook of accessible religious law...  Read More >>

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An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic...  Read More >>

An anthology of essays devoted to Slavic horror fiction assesses current trends in East/Central European horror...  Read More >>

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What did medieval people call the animals they lived and worked with? Why did they give them the names they did?...  Read More >>

""This title explores how a generation of Jewish artists and intellectuals used self-expression and their artistic...  Read More >>

This is an in depth exploration of how the Gothic literature boom of the late-eighteenth century was a response...  Read More >>

This edited anthology offers a collection of essays that each look at various types of wayfinding. Together they...  Read More >>

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This volume examines how texts addressed to children are meant to assist socioemotional education and whether we...  Read More >>

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Nationalist and tribal cohesion in Ireland, South Africa, the US, and elsewhere often relies on an absence of female...  Read More >>

An untold history of Franz Kafka's reception in his homeland under two totalitarian regimes, from his death in 1924...  Read More >>

This valuable and insightful study into chronic pain and its treatment advances a striking analysis of the complex...  Read More >>

Focusing on literary representations of gentrification, this book analyses twenty-first century anglophone novels...  Read More >>

A study of the dramatic traditions and literary features of private libel occurring in the provinces during the...  Read More >>

Mental Libraries: The Reception of the Arts of Memory in Literature and Culture explores the enduring legacy of...  Read More >>

Lasting from September 1980 to August 1988, the Iran-Iraq War was the longest conventional war fought between two...  Read More >>

A wide ranging discussion of emotions in the key historically oriented prose genres of medieval Iceland, explored...  Read More >>

""Nan Z. Da, who immigrated to the United States from China as a child, analyzes Shakespeare's King Lear as a way...  Read More >>