Literature: history & criticism books

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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 >>

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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The first book-length treatment of the problem of slowness in Deleuze’s philosophy and its uses in understanding...  Read More >>

In an era when a future audience is very much not guaranteed, what possible purpose could there be in something...  Read More >>

Expanding on common perceptions of the drone as a tool of war and surveillance, this book argues that they are also...  Read More >>

Renowned Shakespearean Stephen Orgel reveals how Shakespeare's scripts were transformed from popular drama into...  Read More >>

This book explores how Shakespeare’s original audience might have responded to his scenes of violence and, in the...  Read More >>

Great writing can seem to be an act of mystery, a gift given to just a few, but these renowned writers pull back...  Read More >>

An exploration of how Pakistani Anglophone novels engage with prior texts to shape meaning, reinforce themes, and...  Read More >>

A nuanced study of the profound impact of German culture, literature, and philosophy on Edith Wharton’s work and...  Read More >>

An introductory study of the Pseudo-Senecan Octavia, its main themes, historical context, and subsequent reception....  Read More >>

How does contemporary US-American literature reimagines narrative forms to confront humanity's impact in the Anthropocene?...  Read More >>

This book reconsiders Iamblichus’ Response to Porphyry, Late Antiquity’s seminal work on theurgy, which is often...  Read More >>