Literature: history & criticism books

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Exploring the frozen past to rethink our warming future Do we really know what cold is? In Arcticologies, Lowell...  Read More >>

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A detailed study of Egyptian papyri describing rituals related to Osiris, with high-quality photographic reproductions...  Read More >>

This book explores what, if anything, defines women’s writing in Italy’s long 1970s. Through a Deleuzean lens, it...  Read More >>

An English translation of Slovak Jewish writer Leopold Lahola's collection of short stories that face the atrocities...  Read More >>

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Health and the Art of Living offers reflections on health and illness in early medieval Chinese literature (ca....  Read More >>

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

""This book explores eighteenth-century British American print shops, highlighting their diverse output--including...  Read More >>

In Stitch, Unstitch, Kristin Grogan argues that modernist poetry was deeply shaped by ordinary labor and the people...  Read More >>

This book is an interdisciplinary study of the narrating of catching, prosecuting, punishing and pardoning thieves...  Read More >>

This study challenges the traditional view of Girolamo Vida’s Christiad as a purely Virgilian poem, revealing that...  Read More >>

This book explores how working-class experience is represented in contemporary Australian literature and theatre...  Read More >>

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An engaging, approachable introduction to literary modernism Modernism represented an astonishing outbreak of...  Read More >>

Dialogues in the Dark traces how Chinese readers and scholars since the Han dynasty have variously interpreted the...  Read More >>

This volume gathers all the articles and pamphlets published by Constant between 1821 and 1824, as he was fighting...  Read More >>

天父地母孕育的大山，亘古不变。大山曾经沧海桑田，世事白云苍狗，现又迎来往昔到此""战天斗地""而自称""知识青年""的群体诸人。 现正老去的知青们陆陆续续地结伴返游山场，那个耗去了他们珍贵青春年华的地方。 劫后余生的老知青们，在大山里寻寻觅觅，竟意外发现，当年失去的年轻同伴依然在大山里忽隐忽现；自己失去的宝贵青春仍在山坳间到处游荡。...  Read More >>

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Parmenides & Translation: Figures of Motion, Figures of Being activates translation in multiple ways to explore...  Read More >>

""The first full translation of the 1605 anonymously-authored satire that created an uproar for its irreverent portrayal...  Read More >>

Examines the state of African poetry today, the enduring influence of Africa's pioneer poets, today's new generation...  Read More >>

Offering a reproducible method for exploring new forms of postcolonial reader engagement that strengthens the postcolonial...  Read More >>