Literary studies: general books

A popular novelist and literary blogger answers those who claim the classics are too difficult, too problematic,...  Read More >>

This book reexamines William Faulkner's If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem (1939), a novel of increasing sociohistorical...  Read More >>

In a documentarian research study of artifacts from archives across the United States, this book examines how homophobia...  Read More >>

This new theory of reader response describes ""perverse attachment,"" or the powerful desire to intervene in a story,...  Read More >>

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This edited volume presents a collection of new essays on Shakespeare and Psychoanalysis from leading figures in...  Read More >>

The Element adopts a historical approach to explore the psychological functioning of Cleopatra VII, the last ruler...  Read More >>

This volume provides an analysis of the constitution of the idea of furor poeticus (poetic frenzy), the conception...  Read More >>

This book explores how hand-constructed minicomics are made, how they circulate and are stored in readers’ homes,...  Read More >>

This monograph examines Irish narratives produced in Argentina between 1900 and 1994, bringing critical attention...  Read More >>

In these stories, survival is never clean. It is negotiated in whispers, in silences held too long, in choices that...  Read More >>

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In a documentarian research study of artifacts from archives across the United States, this book examines how homophobia...  Read More >>

Gary Burge's study explores the Roman context for Colossians and demonstrates how Paul's gospel would overturn the...  Read More >>

This book explores that transformation, tracing the evolution of Roman literature as an ideological battleground...  Read More >>

In the intense, highly competitive arena of Roman public life, a politician's survival and success depended entirely...  Read More >>

This is the first book-length, interdisciplinary investigation into the relationship between animals and the rational...  Read More >>

Bringing together a broad range of case studies written by a team of international scholars, this Concise Companion...  Read More >>

Provides both scholars and interested readers the context necessary to understand how Allen Ginsberg's life and...  Read More >>

This book is for scholars and students of Latin American and Caribbean literature, and for a general audience familiar...  Read More >>

The Element adopts a historical approach to explore the psychological functioning of Cleopatra VII, the last ruler...  Read More >>

This is the only stand-alone edition of Dryden's prose available; it presents texts central to Dryden's career,...  Read More >>

In these stories, survival is never clean. It is negotiated in whispers, in silences held too long, in choices that...  Read More >>

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Gary Burge's study explores the Roman context for Colossians and demonstrates how Paul's gospel would overturn the...  Read More >>