Literature: history & criticism books

An introduction to Terence’s Eunuchus, a dramaturgically complex play addressing questions of behaviour still relevant...  Read More >>

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Examines a variety of representations and forms of anger in 20th- and 21st-century Anglophone literature to show...  Read More >>

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Welcome to the ""Chinese HSK Test Level 7-9 Preparation Guide,"" a self-study resource designed for learners ready...  Read More >>

Unearthing the ethical entanglements of early children's books with the Atlantic slave economy. What ethical lessons...  Read More >>

Julia Kristeva embarks on a wide-ranging and stimulating inquiry into Dostoyevsky’s work and the profound ways it...  Read More >>

This book presents an analysis of the poet Robinson Jeffers in view of his contributions to recent debates about...  Read More >>

This book examines apparently dichotomous aspects of Gaskell’s short stories: her failed fathers and her travel...  Read More >>

Henry IV by William Shakespeare sets against the turbulent reign of England's Lancastrian king, exploring the fragile...  Read More >>

The study of Roman ethical thought has long been shaped by the voices of philosophers, statesmen, and historians,...  Read More >>

Pastoral poetry has long been associated with simplicity, serenity, and the imagined purity of rural life, yet Virgil's...  Read More >>

W świecie bez gwarancji najlatwiej jest zostac czlowiekiem poprawnym. Wyważonym. Umiarkowanym. Takim, który ""rozumie...  Read More >>

El problema no es que nadie piense. Es que todos gritan. El Libro de los Brutos no retrata villanos. Retrata creyentes...  Read More >>

This is the first new edition of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations in over forty years. Robert A. Kaster draws on an...  Read More >>

An investigation into how the emotional language in texts intended for solitary women became the foundation for...  Read More >>

What Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, and The Tempest can teach us about discovery, growth, and change. Shakespeare...  Read More >>

Deeply witty, attuned to the quotidian, these are necessary poems alive to the awareness of our mortality.  Read More >>

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

A life affirming play about the elusive connection between loss and rebirth.  Read More >>

This volume compiles critical essays that explore the evolution of progressive poetry in India from the 1920s onwards....  Read More >>

A vibrant account of the remarkable novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, tracing its life over the last century  Read More >>

This volume illustrates Asian speculative fiction's potential to interrogate and inspire humanity's ecological and...  Read More >>

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Childhood is often seen as a natural and innocent stage of life. This book challenges that view, arguing that childhood...  Read More >>