Literary studies: general books

100 years after Proust's death, In Search of Lost Time remains one of the greatest works in World Literature. At...  Read More >>

100 years after Proust's death, In Search of Lost Time remains one of the greatest works in World Literature. At...  Read More >>

This Very Short Introduction introduces the life, work, and influence of one of the greatest dramatists of all time,...  Read More >>

This volume celebrates the works of Gilles Roussineau. In the wake of his research, it deals with medieval drama,...  Read More >>

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""Published in hardcover as The World According to Proust in 2023""--Title page verso.  Read More >>

Discussions of Coward’s achievement in the theatre between 1920 and 1966 have tended to stay with the colourful...  Read More >>

Intertextual readings of David Lynch’s films that reveal him as an artist in conversation with literature and popular...  Read More >>

Explores the influences and re-imaginings of Romanticism in John Cowper Powys's work, specifically as part of an...  Read More >>

The most current multidisciplinary and multivocal engagement with Sade’s enduring influences on modernism and the...  Read More >>

A bold intervention into the lingering debates on Serbian writers Njegos and Andric in the late Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav...  Read More >>

The book offers a study of Victorian and neo-Victorian women as portrayed on the pages of the selected nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Examining the cultural confidence and metropolitan elitism identified with the 1870s, this volume establishes a...  Read More >>

This is the first interdisciplinary literary-critical study of vivisection. It reveals how animal experimentation...  Read More >>

Embark on an epic journey to Middle-earth, a world where magic and destiny are intertwined in a legendary struggle...  Read More >>

Le présent essai présente un mélange d'anticipation et de réalité alors que les personnages de Mahfouz naviguent...  Read More >>

It is in the great writers of kavya alone, headed by Kalidasa that we find an indepth feeling for life and nature...  Read More >>

The book provides a major insight into the Victorian age of illustration. The presence of images on the page (from...  Read More >>

What happens when the 'modern woman' ages? Modernist Poetics of Ageing: The Late Lives and Late Styles of Mina Loy,...  Read More >>

Explores the way that numbers interact with literary forms in the nineteenth century. The close literary readings...  Read More >>

Provides new insights into constructive activism by showing how literature can operate as a 'poetics of justice'...  Read More >>

""Featuring readings of texts from poets including Ed Dorn, A.M.J. Crawford, P. Inman, Chris Vitiello, Yedda Morrison...  Read More >>

This book establishes a new approach to totality in contemporary fiction by looking critically at writers’ engagements...  Read More >>

This volume presents new readings of the representation of space in literature of the Roman imperial period, focusing...  Read More >>

An introduction to Aristophanes' Wasps, its themes, stagecraft and reception.  Read More >>