Literary studies: general books

Broad-ranging comprehensive but concise this is a historical overview of the rise of genre Fantasy, tracings it...  Read More >>

Providing a new framework for understanding the contingent self, this book is of interest to scholars and students...  Read More >>

New insights into the work of an acclaimed science fiction author Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006), a pioneer of science...  Read More >>

Oscar Wilde's Oxford Notebooks, which was originally published in 1989, was the first publication of Oscar Wilde's...  Read More >>

The critical edition (sub-volume II.1) together with several apparatuses (critical apparatus, descendants, parallels,...  Read More >>

The theme of the great Shakespearean tragedies is the fall from grace of a great man due to a flaw in his nature....  Read More >>

Examines how Imperial Germany's loss of Oceania after the First World War and its post-war crises of national identity...  Read More >>

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This volume of essays explores how the global city is confronting new forms of crises and disruption. Examining...  Read More >>

The year 1925 was arguably the peak of literature's centrality. There were more magazines, more journals, more reviews,...  Read More >>

A Re-mapping of Womanhood and Creativity investigates the diverse ways in which women set out to find a matrilineal...  Read More >>

Broad-ranging comprehensive but concise this is a historical overview of the rise of genre Fantasy, tracings it...  Read More >>

This book studies a wide range of canonical authors from across the nineteenth century from the perspective of the...  Read More >>

Interdisciplinary scholars rethink strategies for moving contemporary decolonization politics forward by revisiting...  Read More >>

The indispensable guide to Shelley's life and career for students and general readers interested in his vital literary...  Read More >>

This book provides a comprehensive overview of influential and popular Chinese drama actors and actresses, innovative...  Read More >>

Through a reappraisal of the work of four major figures in critical theory – Ernst Bloch, Georg Lukács, Theodor...  Read More >>

Bringing together scholars in fields from literary studies and journalism to history, political science and economics,...  Read More >>

It is generally accepted that the contingencies of manuscript survival have disproportionately destroyed some sorts...  Read More >>

New insights into the work of an acclaimed science fiction author Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006), a pioneer of science...  Read More >>

Auerbach's reading of Renaissance writing presents a challenge to the pessimism of today, and in Mimesis he reveals...  Read More >>

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This book discusses four stories told in antiquity about the meeting between Alexander the Great and the Judeans...  Read More >>

Rubriche Dantesche è una raccolta di saggi critici sull'opera di Dante Alighieri, in particolare sulla Divina Commedia....  Read More >>

Lucan's take on some guy name of Caesar crossing the Rubicon to duke it out with a volcano -- maybe I have that...  Read More >>