Literature: history & criticism books

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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 >>

Combining unsettling imagery with inventive form, this powerful collection explores the inner struggle to resist...  Read More >>

Available for the first time in paperback, ""The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara"" reflects the poet's growth as...  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 >>

A collection of colourful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy today, featuring twenty-five...  Read More >>

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C'est à Paris que l'écrivain Pierre Herbart (1903-1974), s'est formé professionnellement. Revenu d'un voyage au...  Read More >>

Early Daoist Hagiographies offers an engaging new translation of six key Daoist texts that illuminate the interplay...  Read More >>

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Arab-speaking regions of the Ottoman Empire saw a crucial change...  Read More >>

""In 2024 the literary community commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Joseph Conrad. This volume of...  Read More >>

Is conflict inherent to the politics of borders? Recent global events, erupting from national, religious, class,...  Read More >>

Commentary on Plotinus, Volume 1: Ennead I contains the first modern edition of the Latin text and first translation...  Read More >>

An examination of Spanglish, Portuñol, and Judeo-Spanish literatures that builds on sociolinguistic understandings...  Read More >>

Theorizes the development of a minimalist mode in American fiction since 1970, frequently seen to interrogate US...  Read More >>

First published in 1983, The Development of Word Order Patterns in Old English tests theories of word order change...  Read More >>