Literature: history & criticism books

Considering Butler’s “tragic trilogy”—a set of interventions on Sophocles’ Antigone, Euripides’ Bacchae, and Aeschylus’s...  Read More >>

This analysis of the Stratford Festival examines the full history of one of the largest and oldest dedicated centres...  Read More >>

The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his...  Read More >>

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

A long overdue examination of Rubén Darío's multilingual work and influences alongside the contexts and politics...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive history of Russian literature on film, analyzing the changing cinematic art and politics...  Read More >>

Examines how postwar French writers constitute the thinking subject and reshape its relation to the external social...  Read More >>

Fills a gap in comparative studies, interrogating strategies of Empire in dominating the Indigenous and linking...  Read More >>

A ground-breaking anthology showcasing the voices of ten remarkable Hungarian women poets for English-language readers....  Read More >>

Showing how poetry and art articulate forms of life beyond settler colonialism.  Read More >>

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How collaboration between creators, editors, artists, and fans drives the creation, evolution, and enduring impact...  Read More >>

A collection of works by one of twentieth-century Morocco’s greatest writers Appearing for the first time in...  Read More >>

""This title explores contemporary Irish writing by women to identify strategies used in actively revising folktales...  Read More >>

Imagination and Evolution is the history of that conversation, which brought what we now call science fiction into...  Read More >>

A multilinguistic resource uncovering women's poetic activity across Ireland, Scotland, and Wales from 1400 to 1800,...  Read More >>

A systematic account of the nature of fiction explaining why fictions can refer to the world and state facts about...  Read More >>

This ambitious study argues that in the long eighteenth century the meanings of Britain and Britishness, once synonymous...  Read More >>

Investigating the peculiar literary history of interpolated tales and the ways in which they persistently unnerve...  Read More >>

A new history of modern Hebrew literature updated according to contemporary theories of literature, culture, identity,...  Read More >>

Haunted shorelines, oppressively expansive beaches, and the crumbling edgelands around coastal cliffs have been...  Read More >>

Née sous Pétain en son ère de suspicion - répression - exécutions. Voit le bonheur de la Libération en échappant...  Read More >>

In Other Words, the definitive translation coursebook for three decades, offers practical guidance based on linguistic...  Read More >>

Providing a methodology for identifying literary narratives of climate change, this book draws on historical narrative...  Read More >>

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