Literature: history & criticism books

A new volume by acclaimed poet Kim Addonizio, whose work is known for its streetwise, unflinching explorations of...  Read More >>

Focusing on the work of Tanya Tagaq, Nelly Arcan, Sheila Heti, and Sina Queyras, Myra Bloom offers a dynamic exploration...  Read More >>

Eugene Manlove Rhodes, who coined New Mexico’s official state nickname “the Land of Enchantment,” was a superlative...  Read More >>

When civility is just a mask, what happens when it slips? This collection of gripping stories pries open the cracks...  Read More >>

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The author of short stories, children's literature, philosophical essays, plays, and The Picture of Dorian Gray,...  Read More >>

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An exploration of displacement and exile in Shakespeare's plays and our world today. This compelling collection...  Read More >>

This timely monograph explores the critical, yet often overlooked, role of genre in non-traditional authorship attribution...  Read More >>

Nomadic Narratives, Water, and Transformations: The Dynamics of Alterity in Yoko Tawada’s Literature  Read More >>

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Exploring intricate links among aesthetics, anthropology, and political economy, this work examines cultural production...  Read More >>

A Systemic Functional Grammar of Cantonese adopts Systemic Functional Linguistics to describe the grammar of Cantonese,...  Read More >>

An exploration of how everyday Renaissance practices of folding, sending, archiving, and arranging manuscript poetry...  Read More >>

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Part memoir, part literary history, Ground to Stand On offers vivid testimony of the tenacity of the first generations...  Read More >>

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From the international bestselling author of The Disappeared comes a profound meditation on the cultural impact...  Read More >>

An exploration of displacement and exile in Shakespeare's plays and our world today. This compelling collection...  Read More >>

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The Origins of Ukrainian Gothic examines how Gothic literary aesthetics, over the first century of its incipience,...  Read More >>

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A collection of five new, English-language translations of works by prominent and award-winning, female playwrights...  Read More >>