Literary studies: general books

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The interplay between ill health and artistic creativity is demonstrated in fascinating surveys of afflicted artists,...  Read More >>

The earliest version of William Langland’s Piers Plowman shows this elusive and centrally important fourteenth-century...  Read More >>

This is the first ever verse translation into English of the entirety of Book Six of Rumi'sThe Masnavi. Book Six...  Read More >>

This book compares the writings of Samuel Joseph Agnon (1887-1970) with other writers, including Gustav Flaubert,...  Read More >>

This collection of case studies reconsiders the cultural (in)visibility of translators in the long eighteenth century,...  Read More >>

Brings together the many, often seminal, contributions of a leading Hellenist to our understanding of major genres...  Read More >>

Cultural memory theory explains why, how, and with what results we remember. This book explores these questions...  Read More >>

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This original collection of essays written by scholars and poets explores the life and work of Hyam Plutzik (1911-1962),...  Read More >>

A new translation into English of The Vagabond by Colette tells the story of thirty-three-year-old Renée Néré as...  Read More >>

This commentary provides a thoroughly modern reading of Plautus’ Persa.  Read More >>

Der Sangspruch ist ein faszinierendes literarisches Phanomen des Mittelalters, das uber Jahrhunderte fortbesteht...  Read More >>

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This striking collection of seven books with specially designed spines and illustrated page edges encompasses the...  Read More >>

This original collection of essays written by scholars and poets explores the life and work of Hyam Plutzik (1911-1962),...  Read More >>

Providing the reader with a systematic study of visual subjectivity in comparative thought and literature, this...  Read More >>

In this monumental contribution to Old English philology, Geoffrey Russom integrates important discoveries about...  Read More >>

Explore the evolution of English poetry from Chaucer to the Romantics in this accessible guide. Tailored for second-language...  Read More >>

Tennessee Williams’s America is the first full-length study of homes, families, and familial exile in the plays...  Read More >>

This edited collection focuses on the nexus between literary consumption, memory and collective identity formation...  Read More >>

The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts contain early versions of six episodes later included...  Read More >>

Classical reception implies a parenthetical relationship where Antiquity appears to be inserted into while remaining...  Read More >>

'The greatest book by Portugal's greatest novelist.' Jose Saramago  Read More >>

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