Literature: history & criticism books

This book investigates a forgotten chapter of history: the role of Italian sciences within the child study movement....  Read More >>

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Shakespeare and the Law argues that Shakespeare was not primarily concerned with the technical accuracy of law,...  Read More >>

Arabic for Politics and International Relations is the first textbook for high-intermediate to advanced students...  Read More >>

This lyrical, pay-it-forward story encourages readers to engage with those around them, seeing each similarity and...  Read More >>

One girl's tummy flutters with butterflies  Read More >>

From the snowy window, look out to see a wondrous, Christmasy world  Read More >>

Variously translated as “estrangement,” “enstrangement” or “defamiliarization,” Viktor Shklovsky’s concept of ostranenie...  Read More >>

It examines one of modernity’s most trenchant problems.The project rests on the argument that detective fiction...  Read More >>

Beat Film, Beat Writers is the first monograph to analyze the fims of Christopher Maclaine, Lawrence Jordan, ruth...  Read More >>

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An important addition to contemporary scholarship on Plautus and Plautine comedy, provides new essays and fresh...  Read More >>

Covering novels set in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados, Grenada, and Haiti, Lucy Evans explores how...  Read More >>

Drawing on a series of 60-minute interviews (N=49) conducted with speakers recruited from the community, this study...  Read More >>

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In light of the COVID-19 crisis, this edited volume explores the changing landscape of International Student Education...  Read More >>

The book proposes a critical historical reconstruction of early Soviet adventure-craze and its lasting popularity...  Read More >>

SELECTED BY MAHOGANY L. BROWNE FOR THE NATIONAL POETRY SERIES An irreverent poetry collection that wrestles with...  Read More >>

Based on Lu Xun's works and book collections, this book explores the significant influence of Russian literature,...  Read More >>

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This book tracks the rise of modern cultural regionalism across the turn of the nineteenth century. Regional Romanticism...  Read More >>

A newly discovered and translated jewel of a story from the Nobel laureate  Read More >>

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Significantly expanded and updated—a lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its increasing influence within...  Read More >>