Literary studies: general books

This Companion examines conceptions and uses of Homeric poetry in philosophy, literature, and scholarship from the...  Read More >>

The volume examines popular sensibilities via textual, visual, performative, spatial, digital frames of inquiry...  Read More >>

This book considers how the literature of the Somali diaspora deploys themes of ambivalent belonging in cosmopolitan...  Read More >>

How do twenty-first-century Black satirists rewrite American ideas of race? This book plunges into the New Black...  Read More >>

""Es war die beste aller Zeiten, es war die schlimmste aller Zeiten..."" Vor dem Hintergrund der Französischen...  Read More >>

It focuses on the life writings of three Colombian social movement leaders and contrasts them with the memoirs of...  Read More >>

It brings together scholars from literature, linguistics, and media studies to explore how storytelling can confront...  Read More >>

This book explores cultural parallels and divergences across Christian and Islamic civilizations through the lens...  Read More >>

The history of modern German drama begins with Lessing. However, he is regarded as an author who stands at a threshold,...  Read More >>

Provides the English-speaking reader with a comprehensive guide to the fiction of Alfred Döblin, a major figure...  Read More >>

Essays examining the poetry and leading poets of the Xhosa-speaking peoples in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....  Read More >>

Edition and translation of all of William Wellington Gqoba's clearly identifiable writings in isiXhosa and English,...  Read More >>

Essays examining isiXhosa oral literature, novels and journalism and the interconnections between them in the nineteenth...  Read More >>

All the clearly identifiable writings of Jonas Ntsiko, the 'national harp' of South Africa, in English and in isiXhosa....  Read More >>

Articles on Xhosa language and folklore.  Read More >>

This broad-ranging book draws on Freudian and post-Freudian theory to offer a new and original perspective on courtly...  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of the mortality of Norse gods, with close readings of the Prose Edda, Poetic Edda and Saxo...  Read More >>

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This volume provides the first English (or indeed any modern) translation of two early ninth-century hagiographical...  Read More >>

Revealing how legal developments in Britain shaped and were shaped by imaginative writing, this volume provides...  Read More >>

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library...  Read More >>

Supported by careful, theoretically and critically sophisticated analyses of exemplary literary works, this important...  Read More >>

A critical edition of all eleven Arthurian texts in the 'Percy Folio', with transcriptions taken directly from BL...  Read More >>

Charles Darwin's theories of evolution began a revolution in thought, displacing the human from the centre of the...  Read More >>

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