Literary studies: general books

This book explores J. R. R. Tolkien’s unique and warm relationship to the Kalevala, a poem usually hailed as the...  Read More >>

Don Quixote’s madly ideal fiction is as relevant as ever in our “post-truth” era of virtual reality. Classic Christian...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's time and ours each engage intensely with Troy. What both periods share is a view that the matter of...  Read More >>

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A timely look into how fascist ideas permeate contemporary culture well beyond the far right. Presenting a view...  Read More >>

This volume provides translations of significant passages in the fourteenth-century Franciscan Nicholas of Lyra's...  Read More >>

Reading with Jane Austen rereads Austen's novels within the context of the rich Georgian literary culture that she...  Read More >>

Drawing on literature, legal texts, and archival materials from the Italian Renaissance, The Ambassador and the...  Read More >>

Bringing together diverse perspectives from authors situated in both the South and the Global North, this ground-breaking...  Read More >>

Situating itself against the transitional moment of first direct contact of English merchants with the Indian subcontinent,...  Read More >>

It can be argued that Anglo-Indian fiction is a criticism of the life of the English in India, and of Indians before...  Read More >>

This book explores the interplay of literature, the public sphere and the notion of personhood as understood through...  Read More >>

This is the first work that examines the actions and conduct of both immortal and mortal female figures in the Odyssey,...  Read More >>

This book (1988) challenges widely held assumptions about Victorian culture and shows that its poetry was far more...  Read More >>

This book explores Carlos de Sigüenza’s curious investiture of the viceroy with royal immortality and two bodies...  Read More >>

Die Einführung behandelt die von den vier augusteischen Dichtern Gallus, Tibull, Properz und Ovid gewählte Sonderform...  Read More >>

Der römische Dichter Martial, Klassiker des antiken Epigramms, wurde bis in die 1980er Jahre nicht literaturwissenschaftlich...  Read More >>

Die griechischen Romane des Chariton, Xenophon von Ephesos, Achilleus Tatios, Longos und Heliodor sowie die römischen...  Read More >>

Im Gegensatz zu den Neuphilologien zeigte die Altphilologie bis in die jüngste Zeit wenig Interesse an den griechischen...  Read More >>

This volume presents the extraordinary discovery at St Catherine's Monastery, Sinai of a fragment of an early illustrated...  Read More >>

Beowulf tells of a legendary hero who battles monstrous foes, exploring courage, honor, and mortality in one of...  Read More >>

Examining historical play performances and texts, Spanish Drama on the Dutch Stage demonstrates that seventeenth-century...  Read More >>

A masterclass in telling stories - and how they shape our world - from the internationally renowned narrative expert...  Read More >>

Examines how early films used medieval stories and tropes to propagate contemporary political, national, and social...  Read More >>

Millennium transcends boundaries – between epochs and regions, and between disciplines. Like the journal Millennium-Jahrbuch,...  Read More >>