Literature: history & criticism books

Exploring the power of smell to build connections and transform our world Smell is a vital, if underappreciated,...  Read More >>

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

From acclaimed critic, novelist and academic W. G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn, a collection...  Read More >>

Haunted shorelines, oppressively expansive beaches, and the crumbling edgelands around coastal cliffs have been...  Read More >>

The book explores how Catholicism operates in Seamus Heaney's poetry at the level of a felt sense. It is written...  Read More >>

In Other Words, the definitive translation coursebook for three decades, offers practical guidance based on linguistic...  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of the classical influence on Hungarian culture in the 19th and 20th century, exploring issues...  Read More >>

""The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth provides a comprehensive, must-have survey of interdisciplinary scholarship...  Read More >>

With seemingly obsessive regularity, American authors, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, evoke the...  Read More >>

Focusing on the works of Camillo Sbarbaro and Giovanna Bemporad, this book offers the first in-depth analysis of...  Read More >>

Through an extensive series of extracts and accompanying interpretative and contextual essays, this open access...  Read More >>

Considering Butler’s “tragic trilogy”—a set of interventions on Sophocles’ Antigone, Euripides’ Bacchae, and Aeschylus’s...  Read More >>

This analysis of the Stratford Festival examines the full history of one of the largest and oldest dedicated centres...  Read More >>

The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his...  Read More >>

A long overdue examination of Rubén Darío's multilingual work and influences alongside the contexts and politics...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive history of Russian literature on film, analyzing the changing cinematic art and politics...  Read More >>

Examines how postwar French writers constitute the thinking subject and reshape its relation to the external social...  Read More >>

Fills a gap in comparative studies, interrogating strategies of Empire in dominating the Indigenous and linking...  Read More >>

Imagination and Evolution is the history of that conversation, which brought what we now call science fiction into...  Read More >>

In an era when a future audience is very much not guaranteed, what possible purpose could there be in something...  Read More >>

Expanding on common perceptions of the drone as a tool of war and surveillance, this book argues that they are also...  Read More >>

Renowned Shakespearean Stephen Orgel reveals how Shakespeare's scripts were transformed from popular drama into...  Read More >>

Reading Better States traces the persistence of desires for the postcolonial state in an era of environmental harms...  Read More >>

A collection of works by one of twentieth-century Morocco’s greatest writers Appearing for the first time in...  Read More >>

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