Literature: history & criticism books

Julia Kristeva embarks on a wide-ranging and stimulating inquiry into Dostoyevsky’s work and the profound ways it...  Read More >>

Queer Psychoanalysis offers a detailed study of the tensions and contiguities between the field of queer theory...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking study examines how Carroll's Victorian masterpieces and six major screen adaptations (1966-2016)...  Read More >>

A poetic journey through five decades of Karnataka's history, this collection brings K. S. Nisar Ahmed's timeless...  Read More >>

This Norton Critical Edition includes: Robert M. Adams's translation, which renders French intent in English...  Read More >>

La pensée de Dostoïevski a joué un rôle essentiel de charnière entre la philosophie rationaliste héritée de Descartes...  Read More >>

What Love's Labor's Lost, Hamlet, and The Tempest can teach us about discovery, growth, and change Shakespeare...  Read More >>

Deeply witty, attuned to the quotidian, these are necessary poems alive to the awareness of our mortality.  Read More >>

In a world that often feels chaotic and devoid of inherent meaning, Optimistic Absurdism emerges as a beacon of...  Read More >>

This book examines Alexander Pope’s Dunciad, focusing on the role played by cultural periphery (what Pope called...  Read More >>

The highly anticipated sequel to BOOKWORM about how books of all kinds delight, guide, comfort and strengthen us...  Read More >>

This Element focuses on three Chinese productions of The Vagina Monologues, Yin Dao Du Bai, Yin Dao Zhi Dao, and...  Read More >>

Published for the first time, John Berger and Susan Sontag's collaboration and correspondence across a quarter-century...  Read More >>

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A new play from playwright Sarah Power (Grud) about what we owe each other when the past demands a reckoning.  Read More >>

In The Art of Looking Back, Maggie McKinley evaluates the complex nature of nostalgia in the canon of Joan Didion,...  Read More >>

This is the first full-length study to explore how contemporary, Western manifestations of Sufism are represented...  Read More >>

Beginning with her 29th birthday and ending with her 30th, Cazzie tries to mature in the span of one year. Along...  Read More >>

Part of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ann Radcliffe, this volume presents the first fully annotated edition...  Read More >>

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Based on two decades of original research and exclusive access to unpublished material, a ground-breaking biography...  Read More >>

This Element focuses on three Chinese productions of The Vagina Monologues, Yin Dao Du Bai, Yin Dao Zhi Dao, and...  Read More >>

A rigorous exploration of literature as a tool for social change, revealing how gender and national identity intertwine...  Read More >>

Dieses Buch bietet einen Überblick über rhetorische Strategien, in zentralen literarischen Streitigkeiten des 18....  Read More >>

How can social critique respond to a catastrophic world? From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique...  Read More >>