Literature: history & criticism books

Takes a psychoanalytic approach to screen adaptation by examining the role of deep-rooted desire in the persisting...  Read More >>

Drawing from a life shared with her partner and their cats, Rebecca van Laer shows that cats’ supposed faults –...  Read More >>

In this textbook, ‘dark comedy’ is re-imagined as an ecological instrument: a volatile compound of irony, grotesquerie,...  Read More >>

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This is the first English translation of the ancient scholia to the Iliad, the richest and most extensive collection...  Read More >>

The Middle Ages laid the foundations for the long European and Middle Eastern history of colonialism, expansion,...  Read More >>

Surveys the career of the influential Nobel-prize winning author Ernest Hemingway. Pays close attention to prose...  Read More >>

This book is for people who want to learn about mass incarceration. It covers all of the major figures in prison...  Read More >>

Cheney explores the literary trope of Elysium from ancient Greek poetry to the English Renaissance, with attention...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1979, the central focus of this study is the concept of culture as employed by English literary...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1988, this book brings brain science to...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1981, this book examines why and how textual difficulty became a norm of modernist literature...  Read More >>

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Why do people wear shirts with the Shakespeare quote “to be or not be?” or a portrait of philosopher Slavoj Žižek?...  Read More >>

An accessible introduction to Plautus' Cistellaria, highlighting the performative, literary and socio-cultural aspects...  Read More >>

An essential guide to making picture books for writers and illustrators from award-winning writer Libby Gleeson....  Read More >>

Analysing the evolution of the myth of the Amazons that has survived in our imagination for millenia.  Read More >>

A transatlantic study of Hispanic literary modernism’s use of prophetic discourse as an attempt to counter modern...  Read More >>

Takes a psychoanalytic approach to screen adaptation by examining the role of deep-rooted desire in the persisting...  Read More >>

Explores how Russian literature kindled the American imagination in the 20th century, told through case studies...  Read More >>

Hybrid Novels answers long-gestating questions in Contemporary Literary Studies about how to define post-postmodernism....  Read More >>

Explores the impact of modernist literature and art on the writing and thought of Jacques Lacan, emphasizing the...  Read More >>

Drawing on the popularity of fairy-tale literature and its retellings, this guide provides insightful annotations...  Read More >>

This book critically examines Whitehead’s genre-driven fiction as a powerful intervention in debates on race, memory,...  Read More >>

Drawing upon the theories of memory studies, this book challenges the historical authenticity of colonialism that...  Read More >>