Literature: history & criticism books

This book is the perfect starting point for those who want to read their way through New Orleans, for it orchestrates...  Read More >>

Nel libro ci sono storie che raccontano pericoli che vengono superati e conflitti reali o immaginari devastanti....  Read More >>

Bringing together an historian of political thought and a literary scholar, this book offers a historically wide-ranging...  Read More >>

A fresh and thrilling take on a modern love story from Olivier nominee Maimuna Memon (Standing at the Sky’s Edge),...  Read More >>

Nagisa Natsunagi was enjoying her daily routine with her two best friends, finally living out her dream of being...  Read More >>

Dublin: A Writer's City can be imagined as a map of one of the world's great literary cities, taking the reader,...  Read More >>

Between Here and the Sound of a Groaning Interstate is a poetry collection. The Groaning Book, its companion, documents...  Read More >>

In Britain, the parameters of citizenship and its reciprocal relations shifted dramatically during and after the...  Read More >>

Demonstrates the formative influence of Arab nationalist thought on Arabic literature since decolonization. It is...  Read More >>

A panoramic, non-Eurocentric view of theatre history that emphasizes the variety of connections among the world's...  Read More >>

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Through an in-depth analysis of wartime essays and literary works, Literature and Cultural Identity during the Korean...  Read More >>

An interrogation of the poetry of Mazisi Kunene that places his work in the context of African literature and the...  Read More >>

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This book will appeal to scholars in literary studies and the history and philosophy of science, offering a new...  Read More >>

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

From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience...  Read More >>

This book explores a unique and under-researched chapter in German-Jewish cultural history: the engagement of German-speaking...  Read More >>

An intimate archive emptied and overwritten by a fear of words, a book of mingled fates The poems of Our Prediction...  Read More >>

Written around 720 CE, The Chronicles of Japan, or The Nihon Shoki is the oldest official history of the Japanese...  Read More >>

This book attempts to provide a basic theory for all narratives, in order to shake narratology off its age-long...  Read More >>

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Ovid's Metamorphoses and its lasting impact on visual art The Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses is among the most...  Read More >>