Literature: history & criticism books

Tracing the linkages between the postcolonial bildungsroman and spatial discourses, this volume emphasizes three...  Read More >>

Jews, women, and animals have been notoriously considered in Western thought as antithetical to the “civilized,” and...  Read More >>

Hyakunin’shu: Reading the Hundred Poets in Late Edo Japan explores the ""popular literary literacy"" of the Japanese...  Read More >>

""This title serves as a field guide for the identification of common edible and poisonous mushrooms of New York...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive study of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Jorie Graham Since her first book appeared in 1980,...  Read More >>

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Examines fifteen novels and one testimony written on the topic of dictatorship to illustrate how these Chilean narratives...  Read More >>

A goldmine of treasures grant access into this twentieth century modernist poet's extraordinary work. Includes unpublished...  Read More >>

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Dana Gioia’s characters and verses cry from the depths, their faith tried—and purified—in the furnace of doubt....  Read More >>

Few Urdu essays act as mirrors of literature, tracing journalism, Deccani classics, progressive thought, poetic...  Read More >>

In Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms, Jessica Brantley offers an innovative introduction to manuscript...  Read More >>

Contends that the twentieth century novel's approach to character fundamentally shifted in response to contemporaneous...  Read More >>

Examines an important relational shift in British and German cultural depictions of Palestine and Israel since 1987....  Read More >>

Studies the intertwined manner in which Arabic and Turkish literatures took shape as national traditions.  Read More >>

Advances our understanding of the literary legacy of contemporary ecological crises to investigate the interfaces...  Read More >>

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A uniquely comprehensive, groundbreaking two-volume study of Loy's relationship to the human body and soul.  Read More >>

Develops a new approach to the politics of reproduction in literature and film.  Read More >>

Delve into a robust guide of nearly 12,000 children’s titles spanning fiction, nonfiction, picture books, story...  Read More >>

This book offers a history of the most critically derided subgenre in American comics: the ""bad girl"" comics of...  Read More >>

""This book examines the writings and experimental film collaborations of William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson,...  Read More >>

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Volume IV of E.J.W. Gibb's classic study of Ottoman Poetry here reissued with a new foreword by Christine Woodhead,...  Read More >>

Volume 7 of Reynold A. Nicholson's 8-volume authoritative translation and edition of Rm's magnum opus now reissued...  Read More >>