Literature: history & criticism books

This book offers a profound exploration of the classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber, recognized as a masterpiece...  Read More >>

本书是潘莉的散文选集，全书分四个部分：少年、远行、家园、朋友，汇集她最近三年在《世界日报》等刊物发表的三十八篇散文。 潘莉用质朴淡雅的文笔写身边平凡的人和事，包括她的亲人、朋友和同事，她的工作和生活，例如她的第一次心动、第一次远行、第一次工作面试、第一次出书等。她体察细致，一人一事、一情一景、一草一畜，经过她的视角，便充满乐趣和温情。...  Read More >>

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In this book, editor Ben Berman Ghan has worked to curate a collection of essays and interviews that capture the...  Read More >>

Der Vertrauensverlust in das politische System, das Erstarken populistischer Stromungen und das Gefuhl einer unlesbaren...  Read More >>

Folding Rock is a bold magazine publishing the best short fiction, creative non-fiction and literary criticism from...  Read More >>

The acclaimed philosopher Peter Sloterdijk offers a magisterial and profound investigation into the vicissitudes...  Read More >>

Although they often go unnoticed, processes of correcting constitute alongside writing the foundation of almost...  Read More >>

This volume deals with three anonymous specimens of short commentary on Byzantine logic. All three opuscula shed...  Read More >>

Lasting from September 1980 to August 1988, the Iran-Iraq War was the longest conventional war fought between two...  Read More >>

This collection of essays was born from a wish to show to a wider audience how exciting and productive Samuel Beckett...  Read More >>

The first in-depth study of comics about refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, and detainees by artists from the Global...  Read More >>

""Marcel Proust passed away in November 1922. One day, I could no longer resist: I went in search of him. I prowled...  Read More >>

Through a postcolonial lens, this book explores the various ways in which francophone writers, visual artists and...  Read More >>

A compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library  Read More >>

Candid and instantly engaging, this will be the go-to introduction to Lynne Tillman for readers everywhere and is...  Read More >>

Frames of Resistance offers a comprehensive overview of the origins, trends, and regional differences of Indigenous...  Read More >>

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A groundbreaking story of Japanese comics from their nineteenth-century origins to the present day  Read More >>

This book focuses on the expression of the national traumas caused by An Gorta Mór and the Holodomor in Irish and...  Read More >>

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This volume brings together contributions on transnational European drama of the early modern period, covering Neo-Latin,...  Read More >>

A formidable literary critic explores how nine women artists flourished creatively in their final acts  Read More >>

Demonstrates how early modern women writers such as Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter wielded poetics as a tool...  Read More >>

Lasting from September 1980 to August 1988, the Iran-Iraq War was the longest conventional war fought between two...  Read More >>