Literature: history & criticism books

""A introduction to the life of Saigyo, from his day job as court minister in the throes of political maneuvering,...  Read More >>

Hier stehen jene sprachlichen und kulturellen Übersetzungspraktiken im Mittelpunkt, die fremdkulturellen Begegnungen...  Read More >>

This includes, for example, numerous allusions to Irish mythology, the repeated employment of Hiberno-English and...  Read More >>

Mit dem Titel 'Die Stadt in Literatur und Kunst - Kunst und Literatur in der Stadt' verfolgt der Band einen zweifachen...  Read More >>

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Delves into the evolution of Black speculative thought and Afrofuturism from the early twentieth century onward,...  Read More >>

A lack of grammars of Post-Classical Greek (III BCE - VI AD) has triggered research interest into the syntax of...  Read More >>

A satirical tale of a young man flush with newfound wealth who promptly gets swindled, Quincas Borba is an inspired...  Read More >>

""We have many poets of the First Book,"" the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense...  Read More >>

A coming-of-age novel highlights a young protagonist as she migrates from Guadeloupe to Florida  Read More >>

This book examines how German-speaking women of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds represent Africa and Blackness,...  Read More >>

The figure of the Devil represents human folly and moral convictions. This study looks at the fifteenth-century...  Read More >>

""Through exploring the marginal writings of medieval manuscripts and early modern printed books in the Iberian...  Read More >>

""A collection of unpublished essays by one of the world's leading medieval historians""-  Read More >>

A wealth of insight not only into the development of Veitch's graphic innovations and metaphysical explorations,...  Read More >>

An in-depth exploration of popular Russian-language Soviet children's texts and illustrations  Read More >>

The first full-length monograph to explore how US comics artists have depicted environmental destruction, mass extinctions,...  Read More >>

A new study of the contributions of women to the history of copyright and their participation in the book trade...  Read More >>

Analyzing works of film and literature by writers and artists from Beyoncé to Ntozake Shange, this book explores...  Read More >>

This volume collects seventeen pieces on the classical Latin poetry of the late Republican and Augustan period (between...  Read More >>

This volume offers a guided, chronological tour through the 19th Century British novel, featuring authors including...  Read More >>

The study concerns how the Jacob Story of the Book of Genesis was interpreted by the author of the Book of Jubilees...  Read More >>

This book is the first study of the Egyptian Sufi Ibn Mughayzil (fl. 895/1490). Through examination of the themes...  Read More >>

Written in honour of Professor Huw Pryce, this volume brings together exciting new research on writing and performing...  Read More >>