Literary studies: general books

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 >>

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 >>

Venture to the shores of creation. This profound essay explores the shifting landscapes of a literary icon's mind,...  Read More >>

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

This book examines representations of mothering and matrifocality in twenty-first-century Caribbean fiction. The...  Read More >>

Atmabodha ou De la connaissance de l'esprit est une version commentée du poème védantique de Çankara Acharya, traduite...  Read More >>

This book examines the history of goblins from the Middle Ages to the present. It shows that goblins—whether interpreted...  Read More >>

A visionary reckoning with prophecy, possession, and the grammar of liberation A bold, experimental intervention...  Read More >>

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An exploration of how everyday Renaissance practices of folding, sending, archiving, and arranging manuscript poetry...  Read More >>

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Through psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic lenses, the book examines how literary mentoring in eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

This book meticulously analyzes Cruiskeen Lawn, a popular column published in The Irish Times by Irish writer Myles...  Read More >>

This XpressRead Cram Edition of Illustrated history of ancient literature, oriental and classical pairs the complete...  Read More >>

This XpressRead Cram Edition of Charles Dickens: A critical study pairs the complete original text with carefully...  Read More >>