Literary studies: general books

By considering why the desert, and the human story therein, continues to fascinate Western writers, it reveals no...  Read More >>

This volume brings together perspectives from multimodal stylistics and adaptation studies for a unified theoretical...  Read More >>

This book demonstrates that Rorty offers a coherent ethical vision. Its chapters explore his emphasis on the importance...  Read More >>

This book offers a systematic, bottom-up account of irony across both everyday contexts and literary and linguistic...  Read More >>

It addresses the changes mediasphere and communication technologies have brought for the contemporary subject, submitting...  Read More >>

This book addresses a little-considered aspect of the study of the history of emotions in medieval literature: the...  Read More >>

This book examines contemporary stories of migration belonging to multiple literary genres such as nonfiction, memoir,...  Read More >>

This book argues that the act of compiling texts together into collections in the eighteenth century is politically...  Read More >>

Proposes a new way to read one of the most significant works of the New Negro Renaissance, Jean Toomer’s Cane. John...  Read More >>

"Fran�ois Pierre Guillaume Guizot (1787-1874) was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot is famous for...  Read More >>

This book of autobiographical, autoethnographic illness narratives tackles the intersection between cultural and...  Read More >>

"""Explores and articulates Jean-Luc Nancy's profound impact on our understanding of artistic and literary modernism""--"...  Read More >>

Bringing new research from true crime writers, scholars, and media practitioners around the world, this book offers...  Read More >>

A nuanced, passionate exploration of the life and work of one of the most misunderstood writers of the twentieth...  Read More >>

In this incisive introduction, leading Plath scholar Heather Clark explores the intersections between Plath's life...  Read More >>

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The writings of the medieval period come down to us in manuscripts, which are highly vulnerable. This book explores...  Read More >>

Introduction to Afrofuturism delivers a fresh and contemporary introduction to Afrofuturism, discussing key themes,...  Read More >>

How ordinary forms of writing-including manuals, petitions, almanacs, and magazines-shaped the way colonial subjects...  Read More >>

Introduction to Afrofuturism delivers a fresh and contemporary introduction to Afrofuturism, discussing key themes,...  Read More >>

Henrik Ibsen’s plays were written at a critical juncture in late nineteenth-century European culture. By reading...  Read More >>

It discusses the issues women writers are faced with when they try to combine their literary vocation with their...  Read More >>

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How ordinary forms of writing-including manuals, petitions, almanacs, and magazines-shaped the way colonial subjects...  Read More >>

Philip Gould examines nineteenth-century literature in light of the transformation of the federal state's power...  Read More >>