Literature: history & criticism books

A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet examines the lives and sacrifices of his foremothers in his most personal collection...  Read More >>

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How Shakespeare's exploration of central human questions-about identity, politics, religion and right and wrong-explains...  Read More >>

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The essays in Mezukak Shivatayim pay tribute to Bernard Septimus’s writing and teaching, covering rabbinic culture,...  Read More >>

Syaman Rapongan is a chronicler of his people, the Tao, an Indigenous community who live on Orchid Island near the...  Read More >>

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Explores typographic display and experimentation in printed play-texts from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries...  Read More >>

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Nagisa Natsunagi was enjoying her daily routine with her two best friends, finally living out her dream of being...  Read More >>

A panoramic, non-Eurocentric view of theatre history that emphasizes the variety of connections among the world's...  Read More >>

An exploration of the philosophical dimensions of translation, celebrating it as a practice that preserves and proliferates...  Read More >>

An authoritative perspective on the evolution and politics of theater performance in and beyond India. In Centrestage,...  Read More >>

Bringing together an historian of political thought and a literary scholar, this book offers a historically wide-ranging...  Read More >>

This book is the perfect starting point for those who want to read their way through New Orleans, for it orchestrates...  Read More >>

Dublin: A Writer's City can be imagined as a map of one of the world's great literary cities, taking the reader,...  Read More >>

'Transfiction' refers to the phenomenon of language mediators featured as characters in literature. Research investigating...  Read More >>

Nel libro ci sono storie che raccontano pericoli che vengono superati e conflitti reali o immaginari devastanti....  Read More >>

A fresh and thrilling take on a modern love story from Olivier nominee Maimuna Memon (Standing at the Sky’s Edge),...  Read More >>

Demonstrates the formative influence of Arab nationalist thought on Arabic literature since decolonization. It is...  Read More >>

This book will appeal to scholars in literary studies and the history and philosophy of science, offering a new...  Read More >>

A panoramic, non-Eurocentric view of theatre history that emphasizes the variety of connections among the world's...  Read More >>

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Through an in-depth analysis of wartime essays and literary works, Literature and Cultural Identity during the Korean...  Read More >>