Literary studies: general books

""Explores how key figures in major Middle English texts use silence strategically in public life. Drawing on Latin...  Read More >>

How to remake the world with neurodivergence at its heart What if we embraced neurodivergent ways of being not...  Read More >>

The scholar is transparent and accountable, the poet inward and errant: anyone who reads Anne Carson has to suspend...  Read More >>

Sarah Danielle Allison illuminates the collective creation of celebrity by tracing unexpected connections within...  Read More >>

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Welcome to the delightful and fascinating world of Old English animals  Read More >>

Jack Kerouac was one of America's great writers of the latter half of the twentieth century, yet he endured a life...  Read More >>

Jack Kerouac was one of America's great writers of the latter half of the twentieth century, yet he endured a life...  Read More >>

In der wissenschaftlichen Abhandlung über das Leben von Walther von der Vogelweide legt Sascha Demant den Wirkungskontext...  Read More >>

Marie Neurath was a graphic designer who, from 1948 onwards, created more than 80 informational picturebooks for...  Read More >>

Alice’s Adventures in Lacan-Land is an accessible exploration of Lacanian psychoanalysis through the prism of Lewis...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore provides a wide-ranging survey of the oral traditions of...  Read More >>

The tragic conscience of modern China's most revered critic-translator is portrayed in this biography. Discoveries...  Read More >>

This book links human rights law and literary studies, analysing dystopian novels through the Universal Declaration...  Read More >>

""Moving from the divinatory rituals of the ancient world to Freud and Lacan, from Homer and Augustine to Edgar...  Read More >>

These developments are presented in France and the Spanish-speaking world, while also considering Germany and England:...  Read More >>

This book aims to explore the expansive field of life writing, both as a practice and genre of literature, and its...  Read More >>

An important and extensive addition to contemporary proverb studies  Read More >>

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A thorough and much-needed volume of scholarship devoted to a trailblazing author of African American children's...  Read More >>

The literatures of medieval Wales and Ireland are among the richest vernacular traditions of medieval Europe. From...  Read More >>

This volume re-examines the manuscript tradition of Pollux' Onomasticon, an Atticist lexicon that circulated widely...  Read More >>

One of the most diverse and maverick intellectuals of the early modern period, Margaret Cavendish is known for critiquing...  Read More >>

This book aims to explore the expansive field of life writing, both as a practice and genre of literature, and its...  Read More >>

Drawing on research from the evolutionary sciences, Ania Grant proposes that narrative patterns of romantic stories...  Read More >>