Literature: history & criticism books

This book examines the ways in which literary form facilitates mentalization and our ability to be aware of our...  Read More >>

This edited book focuses on the role of scholars in studying their own individual traumas, exploring the complex...  Read More >>

A satirical tale of a young man flush with newfound wealth who promptly gets swindled, Quincas Borba is an inspired...  Read More >>

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Edward Mendelson explores the deepest questions of Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway, focusing on the core themes...  Read More >>

This Palgrave Pivot makes a case for ‘sojourner literature’, a new literary genre within transnational literature,...  Read More >>

Entering into productive dialogue with recent trends in criticism, Strange matter: Medieval disruptions of time...  Read More >>

This book provides a new perspective on the work of Jim Henson, the important but often overlooked creator of screen...  Read More >>

This book examines the theological questions posed by portrayals of love, sexual violence, and sacrifice in medieval...  Read More >>

First published in 1978, Reviewing before the Edinburgh is a study of English literary reviewing during the fifteen...  Read More >>

First published in 1986, Sex, Class and Culture is a collection of Marxist feminist essays that develops an original...  Read More >>

First published in 1984, Social Texts and Context illustrates the ways in which familiar psychological concepts...  Read More >>

Establishing the unique opportunities and characteristics of doing research in Publishing and Book Studies, this...  Read More >>

史言的長篇紀實文學《蒼生》分上下二冊出版。故事以山東某村張姓家族為核心，輻射宗族鄰里、基層幹部、知識青年等群體，在土改分田的歡欣、合作社的集體勞作、大躍進的狂熱與饑荒的煎熬中，展現農民與土地的血脈羈絆，勾勒出新中國成立至改革開放四十年間中國農村的滄桑畫卷。""蒼生""在國人的語境中，指的就是農民，人們說到""天下蒼生""，會由然感到歷史的亙遠，人生的壯闊，胸中洋溢著濃重的悲憫，還帶著某種蒼涼的意味兒。作者以深情的筆觸，描絵農民的苦樂、悲歡、煎熬、掙扎，認命......  Read More >>

献給我的凄苦一生，垂老之時，孤單地蜷縮在趴趴屋裡的兒時玩伴，品學兼優，卻淪落為腳夫，像牛馬一樣奔波於風雨路上的中學同學，在暗夜中，抖抖索索，不敢大聲說話的親戚們。 ...  Read More >>

献給我的凄苦一生，垂老之時，孤單地蜷縮在趴趴屋裡的兒時玩伴，品學兼優，卻淪落為腳夫，像牛馬一樣奔波於風雨路上的中學同學，在暗夜中，抖抖索索，不敢大聲說話的親戚們。 ...  Read More >>

献給我的凄苦一生，垂老之時，孤單地蜷縮在趴趴屋裡的兒時玩伴，品學兼優，卻淪落為腳夫，像牛馬一樣奔波於風雨路上的中學同學，在暗夜中，抖抖索索，不敢大聲說話的親戚們。 ...  Read More >>

史言的長篇紀實文學《蒼生》分上下二冊出版。故事以山東某村張姓家族為核心，輻射宗族鄰里、基層幹部、知識青年等群體，在土改分田的歡欣、合作社的集體勞作、大躍進的狂熱與饑荒的煎熬中，展現農民與土地的血脈羈絆，勾勒出新中國成立至改革開放四十年間中國農村的滄桑畫卷。""蒼生""在國人的語境中，指的就是農民，人們說到""天下蒼生""，會由然感到歷史的亙遠，人生的壯闊，胸中洋溢著濃重的悲憫，還帶著某種蒼涼的意味兒。作者以深情的筆觸，描絵農民的苦樂、悲歡、煎熬、掙扎，認命......  Read More >>

The Kingdom of Middle Children is the scorching third poetry collection by veteran poet, Mark Parsons. Stills, his...  Read More >>

This second volume of the Letters of Dr Charles Burney covers the years 1785-1793. During this period, Burney consolidated...  Read More >>

Provides new insights into the influential, yet enigmatic intellectual Jean Baudrillard.  Read More >>

A revealing portrait of Romantic writer, composer and public figure E.T.A. Hoffmann.  Read More >>

This monograph examines the appropriation and ludification of the Germanic heroic tradition in video games as a...  Read More >>

In 13 essays, the great poetry critic offers her final word on the poems and poets who have meant the most to her,...  Read More >>

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