Literary studies: general books

A new translation into English by G. J. Racz of José Hernández's long narrative poems The Gaucho Martín Fierro and...  Read More >>

Richly illustrated with manuscripts, printed objects, and art works, Bibliophobia tells a 5000-year history of writing...  Read More >>

Considering poetry, narrative, and performances from diverse oral societies and the earliest scribal cultures, Ethics...  Read More >>

The Innocent Midwest explores how the Midwest came to symbolize innocence in American culture. Through literature...  Read More >>

Queer Autobibliography undertakes a novel mode of analysis by coupling queer theory and autobiography studies by...  Read More >>

This book offers a reading of Montaigne's Essais through the prism of visual art, chiefly the notion of 'design'...  Read More >>

This is the first in-depth study exploring the theatrical afterlives of nineteenth-century women novelists--including...  Read More >>

Considering poetry, narrative, and performances from diverse oral societies and the earliest scribal cultures, Ethics...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking book offers a fresh perspective on classical Chinese literature. Using literary sociology, it...  Read More >>

This book offers a panoramic review of the translation and academic study of Chinese classics spanning philosophy,...  Read More >>

Against the backdrop of cultural exchange between China’s Central Plains and Western Regions during the Sui, Tang,...  Read More >>

This open-access volume explores translations of catechisms produced during the Early Modern period (1450–1800),...  Read More >>

This volume provides a timely contribution to the ongoing conversation on the agency of matter in environmental...  Read More >>

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

This Element shows how Poland became a gothic setting in British fiction between the 1790s and the 1830s as a result...  Read More >>

A cultural and social critique of early-twentieth-century America, addressing issues of race, ethnicity, class and...  Read More >>

Henry James was a leading commentator on the art of his time. Readers of this complete collection of his nonfictional...  Read More >>

Henry James is a highly readable commentator on the theatre and performance practices of his time. Readers of this...  Read More >>

This book shows how novels and films set in the near future can shed light both on our failures of imagination before...  Read More >>

ଭାଗବତ ହେଉଛି ଭାବର ବିଷୟ । ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାବେ ଏପରି କୌଣସି ବ୍ୟକ୍ତି ନାହିଁ ଯେ ଭାଗବତ ବିଷୟରେ ଜାଣିନାହିଁ । ଶିକ୍ଷିତ ଅଶିକ୍ଷିତ ନିର୍ବିଶେଷରେ...  Read More >>

This book reveals how modernist artists across Europe and the United States turned to trees and wooden materials...  Read More >>

This book assesses the life and works of leading Zimbabwean poet and novelist, Chenjerai Hove. Proposing a reading...  Read More >>

Combining sound studies and contemporary philosophy, this study reveals the ethical potency of the sound of the...  Read More >>

Exploring Romantic-period works as open-ended collections of discrete book parts, prints, watercolours, manuscripts,...  Read More >>

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