Literature: history & criticism books

A seminal work of trans theater, Sylvan Oswald's Pony investigates themes of class, identity, and place.  Read More >>

Essays exploring the literary, material, scholarly and linguistic ties between the Continent and early medieval...  Read More >>

Examines how authors of color, in writing against white-dominated, Eurocentric fantasy narratives, counteract Christian...  Read More >>

Based on rich literary, historical and legal data, Ismail Nashef offers a fresh case study of literary settler colonial...  Read More >>

This volume provides a new set of methodological and theoretical approaches to the study of literary multilingualism...  Read More >>

This book investigates how Scandinavian poetry works in the context of digital media from a historical and theoretical...  Read More >>

This collection of essays explores the connection between ritual and textual closure in Flavian literature (Valerius...  Read More >>

In times of relativism - marked by the critique of Western universalism on the one hand, and resurgent identitarian...  Read More >>

The idea of universalism inherited from the French Revolution has been strongly discredited by its colonial history;...  Read More >>

The urge to claim one's voice in the visual landscape is one of the universals of literate societies, past and present....  Read More >>

Unfinishedness and incompleteness represent a central feature of both ancient literature and its ongoing reception...  Read More >>

Post-Holocaust Jewish thinkers argue that forgiveness and resentment are crucial in coping with national trauma....  Read More >>

This book deals with Roman love elegist Ovid (43 BCE-17 CE) and his reception of Roman comic playwright Terence...  Read More >>

In this study, Vasileios Liotsakis moves beyond the narratologists' traditional interest in Plato's classification...  Read More >>

Our knowledge of the ancient theatre is limited by the textual and iconographic character of the evidence available...  Read More >>

This book investigates the insights poetry generates into contemporary visual culture. Its main hypothesis is that...  Read More >>

From the Middle Ages to present day, the volume offers a thorough introduction to Jewish Literatures in Spanish...  Read More >>

Can we portray the history of early modern knowledge through the eyes of early modern students? The volume answers...  Read More >>

Author Fictions is a wide-ranging and systematic study of how literature makes authors. It explores European and...  Read More >>

This book compels scholars, activists, artists and planetary citizens of all ilk to reconsider their relationships...  Read More >>

After the First World War, many German-speaking authors discovered their interest in China and increasingly devoted...  Read More >>

Im (Informations-)Krieg gegen Napoleon und die Preußischen Reformen, später dann in der Restaurationszeit, nutzt...  Read More >>

Most theories of philological research rely on a seemingly obvious premise: one imagines written signs as graphical...  Read More >>

The vocabulary from the beginning of the Low German language, the period of Old Saxon, has not been captured in...  Read More >>

This handbook fully updates research on Stefan Zweig and, for the first time, presents his life, work, and impact...  Read More >>