Literary studies: general books

The study of Roman ethical thought has long been shaped by the voices of philosophers, statesmen, and historians,...  Read More >>

Pastoral poetry has long been associated with simplicity, serenity, and the imagined purity of rural life, yet Virgil's...  Read More >>

W świecie bez gwarancji najlatwiej jest zostac czlowiekiem poprawnym. Wyważonym. Umiarkowanym. Takim, który ""rozumie...  Read More >>

This is the first new edition of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations in over forty years. Robert A. Kaster draws on an...  Read More >>

An investigation into how the emotional language in texts intended for solitary women became the foundation for...  Read More >>

A vibrant account of the remarkable novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, tracing its life over the last century  Read More >>

What Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, and The Tempest can teach us about discovery, growth, and change. Shakespeare...  Read More >>

Gaston Frommel présente une série d'études sur des figures littéraires contemporaines telles que Pierre Loti, H.-F....  Read More >>

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To understand the cultural and civic life of classical Athens, one must begin with the texts that Athenians themselves...  Read More >>

To speak of Homer is to speak of the origins of poetic authority in the Greek world, for no other figure-real or...  Read More >>

From the earliest centuries of Greek literacy, the Iliad occupied a place of extraordinary authority, shaping not...  Read More >>

The first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater's writing, this Companion presents incisive...  Read More >>

An exploration of how everyday Renaissance practices of folding, sending, archiving, and arranging manuscript poetry...  Read More >>

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

King Arthur legends spark enduring debates about leadership, love, and community, weaving medieval texts with modern...  Read More >>

This book charts the Hollywood studio system's genesis, international dominance, and self-understood demise by way...  Read More >>

Recherche littéraire / Literary Research has for mission to inform comparative literature scholars worldwide of...  Read More >>

Homer stands at the beginning of the Greek imagination, not simply as a poet but as the architect of a cultural...  Read More >>

By his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the...  Read More >>

Will appeal to all readers interested in the ecological power of literature. Views fiction as a sensing instrument...  Read More >>

This inspirational book is a delightful gift for readers and fans of Charlotte Bronte's novels.  Read More >>

El Monte's New Itineraries is the first book fully devoted to the study of Cuban author and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera's...  Read More >>

This book is the first sustained study of the role and function of dialogue in late medieval and early modern England,...  Read More >>

The first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater's writing, this Companion presents incisive...  Read More >>