Literary studies: general books

Reading Better States traces the persistence of desires for the postcolonial state in an era of environmental harms...  Read More >>

A collection of works by one of twentieth-century Morocco’s greatest writers Appearing for the first time in...  Read More >>

Charting how a vast variety of writers, filmmakers, and artists channel Herman Melville, Joseph Allen Boone offers...  Read More >>

Commitment Ingrained in Loss: Subjugation, Dislocation and Trauma in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro offers a profound...  Read More >>

From acclaimed critic, novelist and academic W. G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn, a collection...  Read More >>

Haunted shorelines, oppressively expansive beaches, and the crumbling edgelands around coastal cliffs have been...  Read More >>

The book explores how Catholicism operates in Seamus Heaney's poetry at the level of a felt sense. It is written...  Read More >>

In Other Words, the definitive translation coursebook for three decades, offers practical guidance based on linguistic...  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of the classical influence on Hungarian culture in the 19th and 20th century, exploring issues...  Read More >>

Focusing on the works of Camillo Sbarbaro and Giovanna Bemporad, this book offers the first in-depth analysis of...  Read More >>

Through an extensive series of extracts and accompanying interpretative and contextual essays, this open access...  Read More >>

Considering Butler’s “tragic trilogy”—a set of interventions on Sophocles’ Antigone, Euripides’ Bacchae, and Aeschylus’s...  Read More >>

The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his...  Read More >>

A long overdue examination of Rubén Darío's multilingual work and influences alongside the contexts and politics...  Read More >>

Examines how postwar French writers constitute the thinking subject and reshape its relation to the external social...  Read More >>

Fills a gap in comparative studies, interrogating strategies of Empire in dominating the Indigenous and linking...  Read More >>

Expanding on common perceptions of the drone as a tool of war and surveillance, this book argues that they are also...  Read More >>

Renowned Shakespearean Stephen Orgel reveals how Shakespeare's scripts were transformed from popular drama into...  Read More >>

Reading Better States traces the persistence of desires for the postcolonial state in an era of environmental harms...  Read More >>

A collection of works by one of twentieth-century Morocco’s greatest writers Appearing for the first time in...  Read More >>

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An account of Arabic literary history through the lens of the reception of the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī, a twelfth-century...  Read More >>

Charting how a vast variety of writers, filmmakers, and artists channel Herman Melville, Joseph Allen Boone offers...  Read More >>

A landmark book-the first complete publication of Langston Hughes's translations of thirty-three stories by eighteen...  Read More >>

The first book to focus on the newspapers edited by Frederick Douglass and their impact on Black organizing A robust...  Read More >>