Literature: history & criticism books

This book uncovers how violence stems from our desires. It explores why we compete, envy, and sometimes escalate...  Read More >>

The Candleberry Tales is a collection of humorous and often fanciful modern-day parables told by a group of pastors...  Read More >>

सआदत हसन मंटो हिंदी-उर्दू के सर्वाधिक महत्त्वपूर्ण, श्रेष्ठ, चर्चित और विवादास्पद लेखक हैं। इस एक साहित्यकार को...  Read More >>

सआदत हसन मंटो हिंदी-उर्दू के सर्वाधिक महत्त्वपूर्ण, श्रेष्ठ, चर्चित और विवादास्पद लेखक हैं। इस एक साहित्यकार को...  Read More >>

This scholarly analysis highlights key features of Ukrainian folk traditions reflected in the much-loved fantasy...  Read More >>

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Presenting the text of a notorious Jesuit attack on Queen Elizabeth I’s treatment of her Catholic subjects, this...  Read More >>

This book is the first edited collection to explore Shakespeare’s life as depicted on the modern stage and screen....  Read More >>

An exploration of how espionage narratives give access to cultural conceptions of gender and sexuality before and...  Read More >>

Drawing together new research from emerging and senior scholars, this open-access volume presents an up-to-date...  Read More >>

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Engaging a diverse range of contemporary anglophone literature from authors of the Asian, Middle Eastern and Caribbean...  Read More >>

Satire, irony and humour have long been features of Persian literature’s rich tradition, taking various forms from...  Read More >>

The first study of the reception of Iranian culture, history, and literature in 19th -century France, including...  Read More >>

""The first collection to show the full range of ways in which the Bible was mediated through both popular and elite...  Read More >>

""Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction focuses on the resurgence of biological racism in 21st-century public...  Read More >>

Latin Political Propaganda offers the first comprehensive study of the central role played by the Latin language...  Read More >>

Using an innovative multidisciplinary approach which is deeply invested in posthumanist thought, this book demonstrates...  Read More >>

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""A pioneering work in cognitive versification studies, scrutinizing the rhythmical means of free verse""--  Read More >>

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Presenting a range of Neo-Latin poems written by distinguished classical scholars across Europe from c. 1490 to...  Read More >>

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""From Virginia Woolf to David Foster Wallace and beyond, 'redemptive hybridism' - a new way of reading texts full...  Read More >>

""An interdisciplinary analysis of how aesthetic and religious discourses function in dialogue in the work of Gerard...  Read More >>