Literary studies: general books

This unique volume presents cutting-edge research on the nature and extent of a wide range of scams, cons, frauds,...  Read More >>

Via a hermeneutics focused on Chinese numerology and concentric arrangements, the book offers a novel construal...  Read More >>

Bama is a Tamil Dalit feminist writer and novelist. This book presents a dedicated study of Bama’s work as a writer...  Read More >>

This book examines the reading cultures developed by communities of readers and book lovers on BookTube, Bookstagram,...  Read More >>

When her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes inherited a trunk stuffed with letters and diaries belonging to...  Read More >>

Yosefa Raz reveals surprising entanglements between scholarly and poetic traditions in the project of reinventing...  Read More >>

This is the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of sympathy in the early modern period, providing an...  Read More >>

This collection makes a new, profound and far-reaching intervention into the rich yet neglected terrain? between...  Read More >>

A funeral speech was delivered almost every year in classical Athens. Forty years ago, Loraux showed how important...  Read More >>

This book redefines the non-Western roots of world literature. A humanist imagination negotiated the struggles of...  Read More >>

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This book addresses the rise of the concept of the ""Global Anglophone” in contemporary literary studies, both as...  Read More >>

Dans La Mort de Balzac, Octave Mirbeau livre un récit saisissant et polémique sur les derniers instants du grand...  Read More >>

The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett...  Read More >>

From a celebrated critic, a heartfelt and adventurous reflection on the art of writing about art  Read More >>

Examines the role of the body in Indigenous-language religious texts from colonial Latin America Words Made Flesh...  Read More >>

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With critical commentary by L.M. Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre, Schooled with Briars reprints six of Montgomery's...  Read More >>

A strategic reconstruction of modern German thought from the standpoint of aesthetic theory. Focusing on seminal...  Read More >>

In African literature, Christianity has long been represented as a foreign religion, associated with the history...  Read More >>

This book highlights the stories of women from premodern history and literature through models of adaptations, retellings,...  Read More >>

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This book follows a close textual analysis approach and offers a discussion of love as portrayed in ‘Modern’ popular...  Read More >>

Christianity and the African Counter-Discourse in Achebe and Beti: Cultures in Dialogue, Contest and Conflict goes...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics offers a comprehensive coverage of the vital and growing movement of ecopoetics,...  Read More >>