Literature: history & criticism books

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This book examines the evolution of queer Dominican literary and cultural production from the 1950s to the present,...  Read More >>

THE TRUTH THEY HIDE. THE SACRIFICE THEY ERASE. THE UNITY WE STILL DESPERATELY NEED. America is being torn apart-but...  Read More >>

Winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets  Read More >>

A career-spanning collection of critical and personal essays from a titan of Canadian literature. Building and...  Read More >>

Arianna Sterling was the golden girl of a powerful dynasty-beautiful,...  Read More >>

In a series of incandescent lectures given at Harvard in 1967–1968, Jorge Luis Borges explores poetic meaning, prose...  Read More >>

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This collection examines ghostly presences (and absences) in both classic and lesser-known Gothic texts from the...  Read More >>

Interweaving canonical nineteenth-century authors with Black and Indigenous thinkers who transformed their work,...  Read More >>

Yanbing Er reveals how a literary mode of enchantment fundamentally transforms feminist theory and praxis, imagining...  Read More >>

I Jonathan Kief follows the triangular flow of texts linking North Korea, South Korea, and Japan from 1945 until...  Read More >>

Giovanni Boccaccio's RIME is the first complete English translation of Boccaccio's lyric poetry.  Read More >>

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This book investigates a forgotten chapter of history: the role of Italian sciences within the child study movement....  Read More >>

This book considers Byron’s borrowings from Thomas Moore, Tasso, Percy Shelley, Ugo Foscolo, and Madame de Stael....  Read More >>

Since their inception, superheroes in comic books and other media have endeavored to guide the nation's children...  Read More >>

With his tenth book, celebrated author Brock Clarke once again demonstrates his mastery of the story form. In...  Read More >>

John Ashbery appraises the lesser-known poets who shaped his own confounding, infinitely inventive work. In lectures...  Read More >>

This book examines the evolution of queer Dominican literary and cultural production from the 1950s to the present,...  Read More >>

This book reveals how, in southern Chile, famous poet and politician Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) assembled one of the...  Read More >>

""""This book considers the influence of Piers Plowman on Edmund Spenser's writing about Ireland. It traces the...  Read More >>

Provides an in-depth look at author Kiese Laymon as an educator, creative writer, activist, family member, and Mississippian....  Read More >>

Explores the idea that trauma and healing hold an imbalance in many forms of literature; but especially in the world...  Read More >>