Literature: history & criticism books

Explores the relationship between radical poetry and radical politics from the formation of the welfare state to...  Read More >>

Throughout his career Shakespeare, although steeped in expert knowledge of military matters, weighted his plays...  Read More >>

The first edited essay collection of its kind to focus on innovators and innovations in the mass-market press from...  Read More >>

Brings together queer theory and textual studies to revise our understanding of nineteenth-century print culture...  Read More >>

Demonstrates how African literature grapples with the enforced optimism of US empire that circulates in postcolonial...  Read More >>

A critically sophisticated yet highly readable exploration of Shakespeare's career as a mass entertainer.  Read More >>

Welcome to China's Jiangsu Province: Locations & Geography-a fun, interactive book designed to help kids master...  Read More >>

Membre du jury Renaudot, Jean-Noël Pancrazi poursuit depuis 1979 une oeuvre singulière et cohérente, maintes fois...  Read More >>

This is an English-language translation of the first, second, and fourth books of poetry by Francis Vielé-Griffin...  Read More >>

1929年至1933年，世界經濟大蕭條。孤兒林喬治1931年在一隻被遺棄的竹籃中出現人間，孤苦無依、身無一物，被已有35名女孤兒的明光孤兒院命名為明光36號，卻憑藉著社會各方的援手與他自身堅韌不拔的奮鬥，一步一步走過風雨坎坷。時光流轉，至2025年，他已是九十四高齡的長者。這位曾經的孤兒，如今卻成為擁有一切的幸福老人。...  Read More >>

Le poids des épreuves, la légèreté de l'espoir est un récit autobiographique et philosophique dans lequel Mamadou...  Read More >>

As past and future blur, this work from Alexander Kluge reveals the emotional and intellectual currents that drive...  Read More >>

The first critical edition of Harryette Mullen's remarkable poetry, from her early works to the present-day  Read More >>

Draws on theories of Marxism, feminism and the biopolitics of affect to investigate the psycho-dynamic properties...  Read More >>

Analyses how the political career of Sir Thomas Overbury exposes the changing systems of power at the English court...  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of how fiction has depicted and responded to terrorism in the twenty-first century  Read More >>

Examines the role occupied by the senses and the self in approaches to literary mimesis in nineteenth-century European...  Read More >>

日文的「別格」，有特殊、出眾之意。我大半輩子欲一窺堂奧的日本最「別格」是四國遍路，禮拜88座經世遺認證的佛寺。 從8世紀開始，受空海大師直接影響的遍路者，大都是在山林野地裡修行的「山伏」，日本人注意並嘗試遍路是在12世紀，到17世紀有人寫了遍路指南後才開始大流行。...  Read More >>

本書是美國加州顧宜雄醫師將2024年6月至2025年6月所經歷的美中社會重大事件以及人生領悟整理成集，內容廣含自作者本人自1992年起在美國洛杉磯地區留學、工作，在科研、臨床一線奮鬥了30多年，對美國社會深入接觸後的心得，對美國政治體制和社會分配機制有其入木三分的觀察。...  Read More >>

Inspired by and committed to global Indigenous solidarity and South-South encounters, Indigenous Affinities examines...  Read More >>

This book offers a history of the most critically derided subgenre in American comics: the ""bad girl"" comics of...  Read More >>

""This book examines the writings and experimental film collaborations of William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson,...  Read More >>

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Explores Borges' infatuation with Jewish history and culture.  Read More >>

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