Literary studies: general books

Reflecting the diversity of postcolonial print cultures, this book examines the cultural output that serve as the...  Read More >>

""The first study of the two great ""outsider"" artists of the twentieth century, including comparative treatment...  Read More >>

Hiding Places is a powerful, fragmentary meditation on early motherhood and creativity. Blending memoir, family...  Read More >>

This book presents an original and engaging study of the cultural history and literary significance of hairwork...  Read More >>

Explores and illuminates Stanley Cavell's profound impact on our understanding of literary modernism.  Read More >>

A comparative study of the political-literary scenes between 1928-1968 in Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Zagreb, and Belgrade...  Read More >>

Through a close reading of Charles Anthon’s personal notes, this book studies the persistence of the American Revolutionary...  Read More >>

Engaging with recent research in literary multilingualism studies, the global anglophone and comparative studies,...  Read More >>

This book considers how Shakespeare’s theatre investigates and reveals “Being-in-the-world”. Through the lens of...  Read More >>

Shedding light on a relatively neglected yet demonstrably crucial concern for dramatists in Elizabethan and Jacobean...  Read More >>

A comprehensive history and analysis of the Soviet illustrated editions of The Lord of the Rings published between...  Read More >>

Using an Ecogothic approach, Wolves, Woods and Wilderness offers a new conceptual framework in literary criticism...  Read More >>

The first major work to explore and analyse the popular 'extra-theatrical' performances which occurred in late medieval...  Read More >>

Enriches Possible Worlds Theory and stylistics by using reader response data and stylistic analysis in a framework...  Read More >>

This book introduces contemporary critical perspectives to the study of ancient Latin narrative texts, demonstrating...  Read More >>

A Theory of Metaphor: Truth, Falsity, and the Uncanny is a strikingly original analysis of metaphor. Scholarly and...  Read More >>

This book explores Clarice Lispector's work through the lens of ""affirmative biopolitics,"" highlighting the ontological...  Read More >>

I Jonathan Kief follows the triangular flow of texts linking North Korea, South Korea, and Japan from 1945 until...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive investigation of premodern Jewish travel writing about the Islamic world, Reorienting the...  Read More >>

Interweaving canonical nineteenth-century authors with Black and Indigenous thinkers who transformed their work,...  Read More >>

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Toda una vida leyendo Don Quijote. «Muñoz Molina no defrauda, la suya es una escritura cautivadora que aboca a...  Read More >>

A Theory of Metaphor: Truth, Falsity, and the Uncanny is a strikingly original analysis of metaphor. Scholarly and...  Read More >>

Tending to Stories in Feminist Theologies is interested in the place of story-tellers in communities of hope. Where...  Read More >>