Literature: history & criticism books

This book offers a comprehensive understanding of O.V. Vijayan’s work by analysing his fictional and non-fictional...  Read More >>

This collection explores the translation of dialogue from the adaptations of literary classics across audiovisual...  Read More >>

Eighteenth-Century Transplantations places the existence of this transcultural circulation at the centre of attention...  Read More >>

This collection casts the spotlight on Asia and its place in global studies on trauma to explore the ways in which...  Read More >>

This book brings into conversation geographically diverse theorists to question the meaning, purpose, and place...  Read More >>

This book examines Nordic civil societies from 1800 until today, by studying the roles of voluntary action and associations...  Read More >>

It explores the potentialities of “negative” affect in postcolonial literature and theory. It seeks to rebrand “negative”...  Read More >>

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This book is the first monograph devoted entirely to English dialect literature published between the sixteenth...  Read More >>

Delving into his biological imagery, Tara Lee shows how Blake articulates radical views about spirituality and embodiment,...  Read More >>

This book uses the medium of film to explore poetic history as a subtle form of psychology expressed within Islamic...  Read More >>

Cormorant is the natural and cultural history of a 'greedy' bird that is hated across the world and the object of...  Read More >>

This revised edition investigates first-hand evidence of the use of special effects in fire and flame in medieval...  Read More >>

A study of the fragments of Old Comedy, arguing that these fragments greatly enlarge our understanding of the history...  Read More >>

Volume 53 of the academic journal devoted to Shakespeare and Early Modern English Drama, Culture and Literature,...  Read More >>

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Insightful essays explore a prolific writer’s vast work of novels, plays and journalism, addressing issues of feminism,...  Read More >>

A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. Why do we look...  Read More >>

A reflection on the realities of animal extinction and endangerment, focusing especially on the force of human impact...  Read More >>

This book explores the development and features of Malawian poetry of resistance, which arguably began with the...  Read More >>

Music in World Literature: From Tolstoy to Manga examines the relationship between music and literary works within...  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of Black women writers in the official journal of the African Methodist Episcopal Church  Read More >>

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The Historical Poem takes up Georg Lukács's classic account of the historical novel to tell the forgotten story...  Read More >>