Literature: history & criticism books

'The greatest book by Portugal's greatest novelist.' Jose Saramago  Read More >>

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James Joyce’s Legacies in Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing is a ground-breaking study that, for the first time,...  Read More >>

Th​is​​ b​ook offers a survey of current ​and past ​German-language Holocaust writing​. ​Wolfgang Koeppen’s a​ppropriation​​...  Read More >>

The conquest that begot the Roman Empire. Caesar (C. Iulius, 102-44 BC), statesman and soldier, defied the dictator...  Read More >>

Trotz seiner philosophien sowie gesellschaftlichen Bedeutung stehen linguistische Aufarbeitungen zu Martin Heidegger...  Read More >>

This scholarly edition makes available two little-known story collections by the modernist writer H.D., encouraging...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-century America saw profound changes in the ways people viewed their bodies, their health, and their...  Read More >>

Who were the women writers that inspired Jane Austen? Why have they all but disappeared from our bookshelves? Rare...  Read More >>

Die Alexias Anna Komnenes, ein herausragendes Werk der byzantinischen Literatur, bietet einerseits eine Fülle von...  Read More >>

What if your nightly cinema is not a by-product of sleep but the universe's laboratory? A voice in the dark....  Read More >>

Recent developments in literary modernism have turned towards the archive to study the process of how literary narratives...  Read More >>

A comprehensive philological study by modern Georgian literary critics, this book chronicles all significant stages...  Read More >>

Between the Thaw and the Prague Spring, Socialist Europe experienced a brief period of intellectual ferment. This...  Read More >>

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An original account of the successive posthumous phases of Keats's fame and reputation, beginning with his death...  Read More >>

Featuring 100 captivating portraits of many of Ireland’s greatest contemporary writers, alongside conversations...  Read More >>

In the infinite expanse between a heartbeat and a supernova, where logic dances with wonder, this book of sci-fi...  Read More >>

In the infinite expanse between a heartbeat and a supernova, where logic dances with wonder, this book of sci-fi...  Read More >>

Liebe Leserin, lieber Leser, halten wir einen Moment inne: Was wäre, wenn dieser alte Knochenmann, dieser Schatten...  Read More >>

In the shadowy corridors of 20th-century literature, Franz Kafka stands as an unparalleled master of the human psyche's...  Read More >>

This accessible guide to 1 Enoch invites readers into one of the most mysterious and influential texts of ancient...  Read More >>

An analysis of the concept ""we"" and the central role it plays in the interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences....  Read More >>

This is the first book entirely about the 6 Gallery reading of October 7, 1955. It aims to explain how that event...  Read More >>

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