Literature: history & criticism books

CHamoru Legends retells twelve CHamoru legends and features personal reflections from author Teresita Lourdes Perez,...  Read More >>

Examines fifteen novels and one testimony written on the topic of dictatorship to illustrate how these Chilean narratives...  Read More >>

The first in-depth study of Vladimir Nabokov's humour, investigating its physical aspects such as farce, slapstick,...  Read More >>

These letters between Theodore Dreiser, pioneer of literary realism, and the actress and artist Kyra Markham (born...  Read More >>

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Ellen McLarney explores how writers in the Black Arts Movement identified with Islam as integral to the African...  Read More >>

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

Rongbin Han examines the production and consumption of online alt-history fiction in China, offering new insight...  Read More >>

Julien Columeau examines three movements for the defense and promotion of Punjabi formed between 1947 and 1960,...  Read More >>

Modern parallels to Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil disobedience can be found in black theater, where the black body...  Read More >>

A thorough examination of four Peruvian intellectuals who found inspiration in Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's work...  Read More >>

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A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. Why do we look...  Read More >>

The definitive, all-access biography of one of the world's most beloved literary voices, showcasing a life as triumphant...  Read More >>

Literature for the Masses is the first English-language book on popular stories known in Japan alternatively as...  Read More >>

Exposes writers' reliance on conservative language during one of the most radical periods of English history  Read More >>

Considers relationships between modernist literature and literary criticism and argues that new modernist fiction...  Read More >>

Examines Scottish Romantic writers' shared focus on the ideological import of an imagined national dead  Read More >>

With incisive purpose and clear-eyed nuance, West of the Ghetto showcases Jewish women writers' vital and wide-ranging...  Read More >>

""The Story of the Peony Lantern"" by the Chinese author Qu You (1347–1433) traveled across lingual, cultural, and...  Read More >>

Furious Harvests, a collection of striking poetry by Alex Averbuch, explores existential questions that war raises:...  Read More >>

Graphic War introduces graphic border poetics to the field of comics, which enables a methodological response to...  Read More >>

A serene beach. The classroom of an elite private school. The still nights in an upscale residential neighborhood....  Read More >>

Camus on Justice investigates Albert Camus's rich and overlooked theory about the relationship between the absurd,...  Read More >>

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