Literary studies: general books

At the surface, fantastic storyworlds appear free of the constraints of reality - yet for all their limitless potential,...  Read More >>

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The main question confronted in this book is why James Joyce’s characters so often repeat the words of other characters....  Read More >>

Im Kontext der gesellschaftlichen Unruhen vom Mai 1968, der feministischen Revolte und dem Vietnamkrieg entfalteten...  Read More >>

Dieser Zeitraum ist durch wichtige Einschnitte gekennzeichnet. Nach den Wiener Marzunruhen war das Ehepaar Stifter...  Read More >>

Although digital music videos reach a broad audience and have significantly altered practices of cultural participation,...  Read More >>

This academic volume delves into the complex cultural dynamics of civil war in the ancient world, examining the...  Read More >>

In recent years, despite the growing body of research on Giordano Bruno, there has been a striking lack of attention...  Read More >>

This book offers an alternative reading of Silius Italicus’ Punica against the political and literary backdrop of...  Read More >>

This open access book offers the first full study of the phenomenon of self-wounding as it is represented in early...  Read More >>

This study explores intertextual and intergeneric relations, focusing on contemporary literary theory. This volume...  Read More >>

The ""Graduiertenkolleg 1876"" in Mainz examined how concepts of humans and nature developed in the Middle East,...  Read More >>

""Avocado Dreams tells the story of how and why Salvadorans migrated to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and...  Read More >>

An examination of the way in which small presses expanded authorship to include publishing practices as forms of...  Read More >>

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An experiment in reading and interpretation, which shows how different interpretive metaphors transform our experience...  Read More >>

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Reveals how Nigerian writers redefine masculinity to challenge social norms and affirm relationalities.  Read More >>

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The first cross-historical study of the relationship between methods of close reading and discourses on attention....  Read More >>

Seeing the invisible, measuring the infinite, controlling motion, representing absence, drawing the horizon: these...  Read More >>

This poetic-rhetorical-epic-treatise uses poetry and prose to explore the human desire to escape the material body...  Read More >>

The Routledge Anthology of Global Science Fiction Origins brings together short stories from writers of science...  Read More >>

Transnation: Identity and Mobility in Postcolonial Literature and Culture offers a fresh and thought-provoking exploration...  Read More >>

Giraldi, in his trend-setting tragedy, Orbecche, first produced in 1541, sought to create a stage-worthy play while...  Read More >>