Literary studies: general books

Von besonderer Bedeutung ist die Frage, wie der Autor Elemente der Volksliteratur kunstvoll transformiert und überzeitliche...  Read More >>

A conventional view of Russia represents it as a country where autocracy, centralised rule, and domination by the...  Read More >>

How do we decide what to value as music, or as poetry, or as art? For at least a century, since we were first told...  Read More >>

Imagined as an armed old man leaping like a locust or as a young man walking in the dark, doubt occupies a prominent...  Read More >>

This volume explores the complex phenomenon of exegetical work produced from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary volume sheds light on the fascination with origins from different perspectives: how is the...  Read More >>

The whole project has deep connections with games and rules, partly via the notion of constraint in experimental...  Read More >>

Drawing on two years of ethnographic research mixed with archival work, Immigrants, Brokers, and Literacy as Affinityexplores...  Read More >>

Martin Zenck porträtiert den 2024 verstorbenen Wolfgang Rihm als einen kosmopolitischen Komponisten, der auf der...  Read More >>

Divine predication is a central concern of two key authors of Western medieval culture: the theologian and poet...  Read More >>

This monograph is one of the first on the market that focuses entirely on Damon Galgut’s novels. The authors of...  Read More >>

Written by leading experts, this volume focuses on key aspects of Carthusian life, from the origins of the order...  Read More >>

National imagination at work in multicultural borderlands of Dalmatia in the period 1890 to 1941  Read More >>

A selection of short stories centred on Athens that portray the wealth and vibrancy of Athens literature and the...  Read More >>

Die deutschsprachige Gegenwartslyrik zeichnet sich durch eine intensive Rezeption und Aktualisierung des Barocks...  Read More >>

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This new anthology brings together a generous selection of famous wartime poets alongside works by civilians and...  Read More >>

In this book, originally published in 1974, Cecily Mackworth writes about four outstanding French poets who came...  Read More >>

This book combines close literary readings with detailed considerations of visual media to demonstrate that key...  Read More >>

Vivir no es hacer más, sino elegir mejor. En Sobre la brevedad...  Read More >>

The books offer intimate views of the most important woman of her times as she shares her love of her family and...  Read More >>

Edward Thomas (1878-1917) wrote in the last two and a half years of his life a body of poetry that has endured....  Read More >>

In the Future of Yesterday offers a refreshing approach to the life and work of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig and...  Read More >>

Who were the women writers that inspired Jane Austen? Why have they all but disappeared from our bookshelves? Rare...  Read More >>

How have global commodities such as coffee, oil and lithium shaped literary texts, movements and genres? And how...  Read More >>