Literature: history & criticism books

This book is a study of the impact of nineteenth-century popular literature on its contemporary society as well...  Read More >>

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How can social critique respond to a catastrophic world? From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique...  Read More >>

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

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

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

After storming the scene with Stereo(TYPE), the PEN America Award-winning poet makes his highly anticipated return-with...  Read More >>

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

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

Transforms the study of borders into an immersive visual and intellectual experience, revealing how boundaries are...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and the Senses explores how audiences of Shakespeare’s time would have understood the sensual world...  Read More >>

Set in the underbelly of Calcutta, a story that reimagines a city's relationship with its abandoned animals, interlacing...  Read More >>

A river that once carried gold now bears the weight of memory and the struggles of those who call its banks home....  Read More >>

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 >>

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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 >>

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 >>

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

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