Literary studies: general books

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An exploration of the philosophical dimensions of translation, celebrating it as a practice that preserves and proliferates...  Read More >>

Bringing together an historian of political thought and a literary scholar, this book offers a historically wide-ranging...  Read More >>

This book is the perfect starting point for those who want to read their way through New Orleans, for it orchestrates...  Read More >>

Demonstrates the formative influence of Arab nationalist thought on Arabic literature since decolonization. It is...  Read More >>

This book will appeal to scholars in literary studies and the history and philosophy of science, offering a new...  Read More >>

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Through an in-depth analysis of wartime essays and literary works, Literature and Cultural Identity during the Korean...  Read More >>

An interrogation of the poetry of Mazisi Kunene that places his work in the context of African literature and the...  Read More >>

An examination of alternate imaginaries of ‘the global’ in post-millennium anglophone African literature and the...  Read More >>

Ancient philosophers developed a rich toolbox to better reach, teach, and affect their addressees or, indeed, practitioners,...  Read More >>

The first text, translation and commentary of an unpublished 18th-century Latin didactic poem about the Brazilian...  Read More >>

This commentary offers a close reading of one of the most famous ancient texts, Herodotus' Histories. It focuses...  Read More >>

Refocuses Sylvia Plath's affiliations with 'the occult' on the legacies of the early modern witch trials. Drawing...  Read More >>

This gripping history offers a unique understanding of the pervasive influence of nationalism in both politics and...  Read More >>

From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience...  Read More >>

Jack Kerouac was one of America's great writers of the latter half of the 20th century, yet he endured a life characterized...  Read More >>

Commentary on Plotinus, Volume 1: Ennead I contains the first modern edition of the Latin text and first translation...  Read More >>

A bracing feminist chronicle of the history of the West told through seven texts, exposing where our most virulent...  Read More >>

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This is a unique collection of essays examining nineteenth-century British and Irish newspaper and periodical history...  Read More >>