Literature: history & criticism books

These newly translated stories chart the making of a literary provocateur, one experiment and ethical dilemma at...  Read More >>

In a forest where every step is familiar, Sára searches for mushrooms—but what she unearths instead are the long-buried...  Read More >>

The 1810s are often overlooked as a transitional time between Romantic and Victorian literature and culture. The...  Read More >>

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By tracing Shakespearean threads throughout Nabokov's intricate narrative structure, this study offers new insights...  Read More >>

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Perhaps Greece's most important poet, Yannis Ritsos follows such eminent predecessors as Cavafy, Sikelianos, and...  Read More >>

An authoritative perspective on the evolution and politics of theater performance in and beyond India. In Centrestage,...  Read More >>

Charting how a vast variety of writers, filmmakers, and artists channel Herman Melville, Joseph Allen Boone offers...  Read More >>

When asked if being a woman had a negative impact on her ability to succeed as a writer, Argentine poet Alejandra...  Read More >>

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How the master of French realism formulated a new, distinctly modern theory of authenticity and identity Is there...  Read More >>

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This new theory of reader response describes ""perverse attachment,"" or the powerful desire to intervene in a story,...  Read More >>

This critical play anthology brings together twenty-three plays by seventeen playwrights from the Frontera/Borderlands...  Read More >>

Why do we read literature? Literature enables us to develop our judgment through observation and reflection. We...  Read More >>

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Understanding the source of our current political and social malaise through our emotional responses to it  Read More >>

In What's in a name?, historian Susan Amussen traces William Shakespeare's life through early modern England to...  Read More >>

knightfall by Rohan Phadnis is a collection of modern poetry that explores politics, philosophy, and the human condition....  Read More >>

Charting how a vast variety of writers, filmmakers, and artists channel Herman Melville, Joseph Allen Boone offers...  Read More >>

The first memoir from Geoff Dyer, author of Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It, recollecting his childhood...  Read More >>

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig... Cavorting naked through...  Read More >>

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