Literature: history & criticism books

Welcome to Jaja’s! Written by award-winning playwright Jocelyn Bioh, this new comedy takes us into a bustling Harlem...  Read More >>

Contextualizes Pablo Neruda's opus by including 42 essays focusing on his journeys, the Cold War, and how literary...  Read More >>

This book provides innovative, up-to-date essays about Elizabeth Bowen's fiction. Recognising herself as a child...  Read More >>

Exploring 'early globalism and Chinese literature' through the lens of 'literary diffusion,' this Element analyzes...  Read More >>

An interdisciplinary and international roster of contributors demonstrate how discourses of poison in popular culture...  Read More >>

An exploration of variations on the theme of disappearance in contemporary women's writing  Read More >>

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How the ""Asian girl"" is central to the story of US imperialism and the formation of Asian America Representations...  Read More >>

This book uses the latest techniques in textual analysis to reveal the influence of a community of English playwrights...  Read More >>

This scholarly monograph is an original philosophical reflection on poetics, elucidating the metaphysical and mystical...  Read More >>

HINENI is not a performance. It is a rite. Rooted in Jewish tradition and feminist ritual practice, HINENI:...  Read More >>

Justin Mann analyzes the work of Octavia E. Butler, Colson Whitehead, Janelle Monáe, and other Black writers, musicians,...  Read More >>

Grounds itself in the critical trajectory related to what Sara Ahmed calls affective economies to offer fresh insights...  Read More >>

Putting medieval Italian poets and Renaissance artists in conversation with contemporary philosophers and pop culture,...  Read More >>

This volume presents acomparison of Welsh writing in English and Catalan writing inSpanish, andanalysesthe work...  Read More >>

""A blend of inquisitive narrative, philosophy, literary theory, and experimental lyricism""-- Provided by publisher....  Read More >>

A resonant new collection from the ""Secrecy Officer of American Poetry"" (J.H. Prynne) ""With its uncanny ability...  Read More >>

Jennifer Moxley's The Midnight Work is a meditation on the fragility of memory and love in the increasingly mediated...  Read More >>

This book explores the eighteenth-century concept of “mentorship” in literary works, founded on voluntary, reciprocal...  Read More >>

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""Reading as Method provides a systematic account of the most influential reading methods in literary studies, demonstrated...  Read More >>

Interviews that illuminate a life shaped by jazz, history, and verse  Read More >>