Literary studies: general books

Wesentliche Bezugspunkte bilden die Verfolgung und Ermordung der jüdischen Familie Aichinger und das Exil der Zwillingsschwester...  Read More >>

This book revisits women’s literature in 1922, long hailed as the miracle year of literary modernism, a landmark...  Read More >>

Drawing upon the theories of memory studies, this book challenges the historical authenticity of colonialism that...  Read More >>

margin-bottom: .0001pt;"">Frances Molloy: The Portrait of a Postwar Northern Irish Woman Writer is the story of...  Read More >>

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Hybrid Novels answers long-gestating questions in Contemporary Literary Studies about how to define post-postmodernism....  Read More >>

Originally published in 1979, the central focus of this study is the concept of culture as employed by English literary...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1988, this book brings brain science to...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1981, this book examines why and how textual difficulty became a norm of modernist literature...  Read More >>

An accessible introduction to Plautus' Cistellaria, highlighting the performative, literary and socio-cultural aspects...  Read More >>

Analysing the evolution of the myth of the Amazons that has survived in our imagination for millenia.  Read More >>

font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;"">This book draws on historical sources and current research findings, skillfully...  Read More >>

Cheney explores the literary trope of Elysium from ancient Greek poetry to the English Renaissance, with attention...  Read More >>

This book critically examines Whitehead’s genre-driven fiction as a powerful intervention in debates on race, memory,...  Read More >>

Explores how Russian literature kindled the American imagination in the 20th century, told through case studies...  Read More >>

Drawing on theoretical frameworks from cultural studies and postcolonial theory, the project examines the role of...  Read More >>

Considers how a series of poets reimagined the possibilities of ""O"" as a gesture of apostrophe and, even more...  Read More >>

This book aims to offer preliminary answers to the question of Asia’s (self-)representation. It is divided in three...  Read More >>

With postmodernism being associated with playfulness, parody, irony, and even négationnisme, how suitable a medium...  Read More >>

In this book, Mairéad Hanrahan examines the shifts in political focus in Genet's writing, from the intimate fantasies...  Read More >>

Since her rise to notoriety among the dissident artists of the 1970s Leningrad underground, Elena Shvarts (1948-2010)...  Read More >>

A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature...  Read More >>

This volume, originally published in 1991, presents English translations of four complete Latin texts essential...  Read More >>

Giovanni P. Marana was probably the first writer to use the device of a series of letters written by a visitor to...  Read More >>

Understanding Jonathan Swift’ s medical and literary life The Dean Disordered bridges biography and literary...  Read More >>