Literature: history & criticism books

Reframing debates surrounding long narratives to explore their impact, this book develops a critical vocabulary...  Read More >>

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Beginning with its central insight--that the life of literature is in fact a double life, a life shared between...  Read More >>

A rethinking of the evolution of the British novel that departs from dominant narratives and argues for an importantly...  Read More >>

An exploration of nineteenth-century fiction written by descendants of Puritans and Pilgrims who intended to shape...  Read More >>

This book analyzes how racialized and gendered city spaces are presented in post-apartheid South African literature....  Read More >>

A collection of five new, English-language translations of works by prominent and award-winning, female playwrights...  Read More >>

An analytical look at mothers and mother figures in multiple works under a feminist psychoanalytic framework  Read More >>

Explores various aspects of Arabic literature of migration published over the past three decades, focusing on the...  Read More >>

This book explores low-budget horror and exploitation movies produced in filmmaking capitals of the Western Hemisphere....  Read More >>

HINENI is not a performance. It is a rite. Rooted in Jewish tradition and feminist ritual practice, HINENI:...  Read More >>

Putting medieval Italian poets and Renaissance artists in conversation with contemporary philosophers and pop culture,...  Read More >>

This book uses the latest techniques in textual analysis to reveal the influence of a community of English playwrights...  Read More >>

""Situates Chaucer's proverbs in their premodern cultural and intellectual contexts, arguing that Chaucer places...  Read More >>

A bold, dialectic engagement with Fredric Jameson's thought Fredric Jameson (19342024) is widely regarded as the...  Read More >>

This scholarly monograph is an original philosophical reflection on poetics, elucidating the metaphysical and mystical...  Read More >>

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The Spanish Civil War (19361939) inspired an outpouring of responses among Canadian cultural producers. Yet, the...  Read More >>

This fourth volume of The Collected Works of Charles and Mary Lamb contains Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia,...  Read More >>

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Justin Mann analyzes the work of Octavia E. Butler, Colson Whitehead, Janelle Monáe, and other Black writers, musicians,...  Read More >>

HINENI is not a performance. It is a rite. Rooted in Jewish tradition and feminist ritual practice, HINENI:...  Read More >>

Putting medieval Italian poets and Renaissance artists in conversation with contemporary philosophers and pop culture,...  Read More >>

Beckett and Broadcasting pioneered the study of Beckett and the media in 1976. Originally a doctoral dissertation...  Read More >>

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