Literature: history & criticism books

More than twenty years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the disappearance of Marxism as a (supposed) state...  Read More >>

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El Monte's New Itineraries is the first book fully devoted to the study of Cuban author and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera's...  Read More >>

'¿Invisibles? Trans-identidades en la España contemporánea' analiza la experiencia, corporeidad, identidad y representación...  Read More >>

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A richly imagined, physically charged poetry collection in which history, myth, and protest are transformed into...  Read More >>

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The Melancholy of Kinship in Post-reform China and Postcolonial Literature, brings post-reform Chinese cultural...  Read More >>

There is no such thing as a people's philosopher but Duffer O'Grady set out to be one. From his earliest years,...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary series explores the relationship between liturgy and the vernacular in the Middle Ages and...  Read More >>

Author Alice Munro (1931-2024) solved one of the conundrums of science--how to quantify what happens in human interaction....  Read More >>

Poems inspired by the strong women in award-winning poet Amit Majmudar's life, celebrating the influence and energy...  Read More >>

A major new biography that reveals how politics profoundly shaped Joyce's life, thought and writings The young...  Read More >>

How the ""Asian girl"" is central to the story of US imperialism and the formation of Asian America Representations...  Read More >>

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El Monte's New Itineraries is the first book fully devoted to the study of Cuban author and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera’s...  Read More >>

Christ's war examines Carolingian holy war from the forging of their empire in the eighth century to its dissolution...  Read More >>

An archivally driven poetry collection that tells the story of the antislavery movement in the United States with...  Read More >>

Ansāb al-Asrāf is a genealogical encyclopedia of the Arab-Islamic state. This volume contains biographies of the...  Read More >>

Johanna Spyris (1827-1901) Heidi-Stoff hat zweifellos Eingang in das kulturelle Gedächtnis gefunden - ausgehend...  Read More >>

A young mother, her infant son and a Catholic priest are all murdered by a delusional young man.  Read More >>

A groundbreaking reassessment of W. H. Auden's early life and poetry, shedding new light on his artistic development...  Read More >>

Offers an authoritative account of British utopian literature and culture from the postwar to the present. Written...  Read More >>

This definitive guide to Molière's world offers an accessible, interdisciplinary contextual guide for academics,...  Read More >>

Tom Stoppard in Context provides cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts to help readers enjoy one of the...  Read More >>