Literary studies: general books

Leading scholars take stock of McCarthy's final novels, illuminating the arc of his career, influence, and legacy...  Read More >>

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. This book examines joy...  Read More >>

The Avant-Garde after Bolaño: Literature and Affects in Latin America studies how the paradigmatic impact of the...  Read More >>

This book addresses an absence in queer readings of Shakespeare’s work: the pregnant body. Through discussions of...  Read More >>

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How did nineteenth-century writers contend with corporations, and how can their work inform our own confrontations...  Read More >>

The first systemic analysis of time travel as a narrative device in literature and pop culture, drawing on readings...  Read More >>

Scholars and critics have long understood the writing of nineteenth-century Black women as critiquing the figure...  Read More >>

This book offers a fresh reading of the work of Reinaldo Arenas, showing how the Cuban writer reimagined literary...  Read More >>

This book theorizes the slave ship as a unique site for the imaginative and material convergence of abolitionism...  Read More >>

This book addresses an absence in queer readings of Shakespeare’s work: the pregnant body. Through discussions of...  Read More >>

Explores how Ancien Régime writers theorized public communication through acoustic metaphors The salons, cafés,...  Read More >>

A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. Why do we look...  Read More >>

An experiment in criticism that explores Henry James's late works through the lens of minimalism. Henry James's...  Read More >>

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

James Wright (1927–80) was considered one of the major poets of his era, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1972, even...  Read More >>

This book offers a fresh reading of the work of Reinaldo Arenas, showing how the Cuban writer reimagined literary...  Read More >>

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Scholars and critics have long understood the writing of nineteenth-century Black women as critiquing the figure...  Read More >>

Bringing together nineteen essays from leading specialists in poetics and American music, this collection offers...  Read More >>

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The 1810s are often overlooked as a transitional time between Romantic and Victorian literature and culture. The...  Read More >>

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Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für ""Geschichte der althoch- und altniederdeutschen Literatur"" verfügbar.  Read More >>