Literature: history & criticism books

 Read More >>

The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett...  Read More >>

This book explores the connections between the body and narrative across the early modern world. It examines how...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

Rilke's timeless letters about poetry, sensitive observation, and the complicated workings of the human heart.  Read More >>

 Read More >>

Following the concept of multiple modernities, the contributors to the volume view modernity as a meta-cultural...  Read More >>

Clare Pollard thumbs her nose at Dr Johnson's all-male Lives of the Poets in chronicling her own life and theirs...  Read More >>

YAHWEH UNMASKED - VOLUME 2 is a daring work that challenges one of the deepest-rooted images in history: the God...  Read More >>

This book, a collection of fifty-five love duets, is more than just poetry-it is a tender, soul-stirring dialogue...  Read More >>

Why is it that some of us feel a strange stirring in our hearts when we read about Aslan? Why did some of us think...  Read More >>

If you're raising a son, teaching boys, mentoring young men-or wondering why so many men are struggling-this book...  Read More >>

Questo libro si inserisce in una macro-area di studi che esplora la letteratura come modalità conoscitiva e i suoi...  Read More >>

To coincide with the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth in 2025, The Worlds of Jane Austen explores the themes...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

 Read More >>

""From Denne Michele Norris and Electric Literature, a vital anthology of essays by trans and gender-nonconforming...  Read More >>

Humour and cruelty - two themes that have been central to Baruchello's philosophical work for decades - combine...  Read More >>

An exploration of the mind of one of America's most beloved Founding Fathers and most brilliant minds, through the...  Read More >>

This edition of Apuleius's fragmentary works presents sixty-two items, along with a larger set of dubious items,...  Read More >>

Variously translated as “estrangement,” “enstrangement” or “defamiliarization,” Viktor Shklovsky’s concept of ostranenie...  Read More >>

In his new book, Gyles Brandreth both explores - and explains - the phenomenon of Winnie-the-Pooh and tells the...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1973, Dukore discusses the theory of drama that is the basis of Shaw’s comedies, which present...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

From Proems....To Poems is a powerful literary collection of poetry that speaks to the pulse of our times. Through...  Read More >>