Literature: history & criticism books

In Britain, the parameters of citizenship and its reciprocal relations shifted dramatically during and after the...  Read More >>

Demonstrates the formative influence of Arab nationalist thought on Arabic literature since decolonization. It is...  Read More >>

This book will appeal to scholars in literary studies and the history and philosophy of science, offering a new...  Read More >>

A panoramic, non-Eurocentric view of theatre history that emphasizes the variety of connections among the world's...  Read More >>

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Through an in-depth analysis of wartime essays and literary works, Literature and Cultural Identity during the Korean...  Read More >>

An interrogation of the poetry of Mazisi Kunene that places his work in the context of African literature and the...  Read More >>

Ancient philosophers developed a rich toolbox to better reach, teach, and affect their addressees or, indeed, practitioners,...  Read More >>

Bringing together an historian of political thought and a literary scholar, this book offers a historically wide-ranging...  Read More >>

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Jack Kerouac was one of America's great writers of the latter half of the 20th century, yet he endured a life characterized...  Read More >>

From the author of dying in the scarecrow's arms, new poems powered by the twin musical engines of punk and Hip-Hop....  Read More >>

The National Book Award-winning writer’s intimate exploration of how fact is transformed into fiction  Read More >>

From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience...  Read More >>

This book explores a unique and under-researched chapter in German-Jewish cultural history: the engagement of German-speaking...  Read More >>

An intimate archive emptied and overwritten by a fear of words, a book of mingled fates The poems of Our Prediction...  Read More >>

Contrasting works by queer Chicano writers against the legal landscape of sexuality and migration to interrogate...  Read More >>

Written around 720 CE, The Chronicles of Japan, or The Nihon Shoki is the oldest official history of the Japanese...  Read More >>

Examining culture and history from the early nineteenth century to the present, Horizons of Catastrophe in the American...  Read More >>

This book attempts to provide a basic theory for all narratives, in order to shake narratology off its age-long...  Read More >>

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