Literature: history & criticism books

In a complete collection of works by one of Malaysia’s foundational poets, Wong confronts the struggles of cultural...  Read More >>

Jews, women, and animals have been notoriously considered in Western thought as antithetical to the “civilized,” and...  Read More >>

Delve into a robust guide of nearly 12,000 children’s titles spanning fiction, nonfiction, picture books, story...  Read More >>

Explore creative approaches for teaching literature that interlace pressing social issues—climate challenges, political...  Read More >>

The various words for ""divorce"" in Japanese—rien, enkiri, fūfu wakare, rikon—reflect how the socially constructed...  Read More >>

This book offers a history of the most critically derided subgenre in American comics: the ""bad girl"" comics of...  Read More >>

Provides a first-hand account of the revolutionary politics and culture of 1970s Tehran.  Read More >>

The first comprehensive study of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Jorie Graham Since her first book appeared in 1980,...  Read More >>

Challenging received scholarship on the practice of Shakespeare’s theatre, this book displaces a contemporary cultural...  Read More >>

A goldmine of treasures grant access into this twentieth century modernist poet's extraordinary work. Includes unpublished...  Read More >>

Japanese writers' engagement with kanshi unveils a journey from the Meiji era's mastery of Literary Sinitic poetry...  Read More >>

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Explores and illuminates the impact of French theorist, writer, and critic Hélène Cixous on our understanding of...  Read More >>

Auto/Biography and Reputation Politics brings together for the first time these two research fields to demonstrate...  Read More >>

Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century is the first book to explore overlooked histories of women who...  Read More >>

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A study of the transformation of the realist novel in the hands of early-twentieth-century American writers, who...  Read More >>

A ruthless ideological manifesto that fuses myth, politics, race, culture, & state power into a single doctrine...  Read More >>

Kalaam-e-Urdu: Naqd-o-Nazar critically analyzes Urdu's current state, challenges, and future. Essays explore public...  Read More >>

Redefining space, power, and identity in China's largest internal diaspora In the late imperial period of China,...  Read More >>

Welcome to China's Jiangsu Province: Locations & Geography-a fun, interactive book designed to help kids master...  Read More >>

Welcome to China's Jiangsu Province: Locations & Geography-a fun, interactive book designed to help kids master...  Read More >>

Plongez dans l'univers fascinant des Bourbons à travers les yeux d'Eugène Asse. Passionné de livres, Asse nous entraîne...  Read More >>

Examining a strain of feminine speculative thought that resonates with contemporary efforts to recenter pleasure....  Read More >>