Literature: history & criticism books

First published in 1967, The Diary of a Mystic is Edward Thornton’s spiritual autobiography, tracing his journey...  Read More >>

El amor personal, como realidad profundamente humana, ha sido poco explorado filosóficamente, pese a su centralidad...  Read More >>

'Recovering Lost Voices' explores what recovery work looks like in the twenty-first century and why its continued...  Read More >>

Este es uno de los pocos manuales en español enfocados en la escritura sobre literatura a nivel universitario. Influido...  Read More >>

'The Sound of the Past' collects nine essays on the topic of Modernism and its relationship to past histories, literatures,...  Read More >>

A new electric play, NICE THINGS explores the relationship of a gay couple, in the midst of their comfortable years,...  Read More >>

""Ajuan Mance's original and provocative study fills a gap in the scholarship on African American women poets. The...  Read More >>

This volume consists of 10 chapters that include specific texts with literary commentary written by well-know Spanish...  Read More >>

This book is about learning. And living. Learning occurs within the flow of living, and living is the flow from...  Read More >>

Very little has been done to show the explicit connection between the representation and the study of information...  Read More >>

After twenty-six-year-old author Breece D'J Pancake took his own life in April 1979, the West Virginian's posthumously...  Read More >>

The first in-depth study of Paule Marshall's fiction, this book traces the development of the writer's Afrocentric...  Read More >>

This volume in offers a definitive account of newspaper and periodical press activity across Britain and Ireland...  Read More >>

Comprehensively sets out the cross-regional and transnational dimension of press history in early-modern Britain...  Read More >>

A remarkable collection of Lyn Hejinian's previously uncollected early poems from 1963 to 1983  Read More >>

Explores how perceptions of rivers shaped identity and culture in Shakespeare's Britain  Read More >>

Offers a new understanding of doubt in Montaigne's Essais and early modern intellectual culture  Read More >>

Recovers a forgotten and short-lived form of American fiction: the midcentury minor novel  Read More >>

Examines the work and reception of the Arab emigre writer Gibran...  Read More >>

This is a unique collection of essays examining nineteenth-century British and Irish newspaper and periodical history...  Read More >>

In Literature for Little Bodhisattvas, Natasha Heller makes two key interventions: first, she argues that picturebooks...  Read More >>

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Lyrical Translation is a literary history of modern Korean poetry's origins and its development through translation....  Read More >>

Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death investigates the tension between death as necessary for bringing about...  Read More >>

Imagines great artificial fiction that represents the world in creatively nonhuman ways while challenging how we...  Read More >>