Literary studies: general books

""Euripides and His Influence"" offers a comprehensive exploration of one of Ancient Greece's most provocative and...  Read More >>

""The Eumenides"" (also known as ""The Furies"") stands as the powerful conclusion to Aeschylus's monumental trilogy,...  Read More >>

""Marcel Proust His Life and Work"" provides an illuminating and detailed examination of one of the most significant...  Read More >>

""Marcel Proust"" by Leon Pierre Luins is a foundational critical biography and analysis of one of the most significant...  Read More >>

""Martial Epigrams"" presents a vibrant and unflinching look at life in Imperial Rome through the eyes of one of...  Read More >>

""Medieval Narrative: A Book of Translations"" is a comprehensive anthology that brings together the diverse and...  Read More >>

""Men Seen: Twenty-Four Modern Authors"" is a masterful collection of literary portraits and critical essays penned...  Read More >>

""Virgil"" is an insightful and scholarly examination of the life, works, and legacy of Publius Vergilius Maro,...  Read More >>

""Virgil and Those Others"" is an illuminating collection of essays and literary studies centered on the life, artistry,...  Read More >>

""Urkundenfälschung in Der Hellenistisch-JÃ1/4dischen Literatur"" ist eine tiefgreifende wissenschaftliche Untersuchung...  Read More >>

""The Use of the Optative Mood in the Works of St. John Chrysostom"" is a meticulous philological investigation...  Read More >>

When the guns fell silent in 1945, one man uncovered a secret the world was never meant to see. Special Officer...  Read More >>

In Print for the Pocket, Madeline Zehnder examines how nineteenth-century Americans understood a common but often...  Read More >>

Blood of Others offers a cultural history of Crimea and the Black Sea region, one of Europe's most volatile flashpoints,...  Read More >>

Acclaimed author and translator Sophus Helle considers an ancient creation story with themes of humanity, class...  Read More >>

Massacres in Early Modern Drama analyses the dynamically ambivalent meanings constructed by the language and action...  Read More >>

Russo-Soviet imperialist hauntings conceptualizes neo-Gothic texts from the former Eastern Bloc countries and Soviet...  Read More >>

This new theory of reader response describes ""perverse attachment,"" or the powerful desire to intervene in a story,...  Read More >>

Is Shakespeare a philosophical playwright or not? T S Eliot suggests he is not, a point of view which this work...  Read More >>

Bringing together a broad range of case studies written by a team of international scholars, this Concise Companion...  Read More >>

This is the first book-length, interdisciplinary investigation into the relationship between animals and the rational...  Read More >>

The Element adopts a historical approach to explore the psychological functioning of Cleopatra VII, the last ruler...  Read More >>

This volume provides an analysis of the constitution of the idea of furor poeticus (poetic frenzy), the conception...  Read More >>

This radical new work of cultural history is not concerned with the effeminacy of Shakespeare the man, but with...  Read More >>

This book explores how hand-constructed minicomics are made, how they circulate and are stored in readers’ homes,...  Read More >>