Literary studies: general books

A timely look into how fascist ideas permeate contemporary culture well beyond the far right As challenges posed...  Read More >>

This book explores Middle-Eastern adaptations of Greek tragedy in Europe and the Middle East from the turn of the...  Read More >>

The essays collected in this volume examine manifestations of our sublime cosmos in ancient literature and its reception....  Read More >>

Offering new and original approaches to the Roman civil wars of 49-30 BCE, the eleven papers presented here for...  Read More >>

This new translation of Pindar’s songs for victorious athletes marries philological rigour with poetic sensibility...  Read More >>

The dismantlement of the British Empire had a profound impact on many celebrated white Anglophone writers of the...  Read More >>

Approaching translations of Tolkien's works as stories in their own right, this book reads multiple Chinese translations...  Read More >>

Vestiges of the Three Kingdoms of Ancient Korea (Samguk yusa) is the first annotated English translation of one...  Read More >>

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Examines the life and works of Ernest Hemingway through the lens of posthumanism.  Read More >>

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Uncovers the previously neglected links between the nineteenth-century American canon and twentieth-century Asian...  Read More >>

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Examines the life-affirming and enchanting aspects of Woolf's and Rhys's modernism with feminist, affect and new...  Read More >>

Through up-to-date essays by historians, biographers, and Shakespeare critics, this Companion offers, first, a systematic...  Read More >>

Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature explores the crucial role of paper in the early history of books...  Read More >>

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A thoughtful compilation that chronicles a nearly fifty-year friendship with the renowned Mississippi writer  Read More >>

Now in paperback , A Companion to Charles Dickens concentrates on the historical, ideological, and social forces...  Read More >>

This book’s argument is that Walser “toys” with style in ways that are not purely literary, but which carry the...  Read More >>

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