Literature: history & criticism books

Interviews that illuminate a life shaped by jazz, history, and verse  Read More >>

Interweaving stories of poets who took their own lives with the long history of suicide in his own family, J. T....  Read More >>

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Print Passages researches the history of the coming of the printed book in Indonesia and the consequences this new...  Read More >>

This volume explores Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus within the traditions of Greek literary and rhetorical...  Read More >>

A meticulously curated reference aid streamlines the exploration of vital contemporary literature through rigorous...  Read More >>

Exploring intricate links among aesthetics, anthropology, and political economy, this work examines cultural production...  Read More >>

The debut play by INSPIRE graduate David Pearson, Firewing is a striking new play about connection, artistry and...  Read More >>

The Future is Fiction is the first cultural history of the idea that people have an obligation to protect the world...  Read More >>

Explores the history of legal theatricality from antiquity to the eighteenth-century. It recovers a long tradition...  Read More >>

An instant cult classic that remains deeply relevant today: both an incisive and funny travelogue and a revealing...  Read More >>

Adapting The Tempest: Explorations in Ecophenomenology examines five female-authored novelizations of The Tempest,...  Read More >>

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The Delirium Archive is a world premiere by Shane Mac an Bhaird. It is about family, and the intangible love technology...  Read More >>

Please Please Me is the electrifying story of The Beatles’ meteoric rise and the hidden struggles of their beloved...  Read More >>

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""This book analyzes physical disability in sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century English plays by Shakespeare,...  Read More >>

Welcome to Brian Bilston's ‘writing masterclass': a collection of more than 100 poems woven into a charming and...  Read More >>

Carwyn Graves explores how the Welsh poetic tradition offers a different view of nature and connecting to our place...  Read More >>

An essential volume for bibliophiles and collectors- a complete list of all available Penguin Classics, in a clothbound...  Read More >>

Focusing on the poetry and poetics of four pivotal authors, this book examines how experimental approaches to poetic...  Read More >>

Takes stock of the extraordinary range of book-based adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, comprising reimaginings,...  Read More >>

An exploration of the relationships between American rurality, conceptions of wellness and civic “fitness,” and...  Read More >>

An examination of vernacular authors' expression of religious experience and theology through metaphors of food...  Read More >>

An analysis of haiku-related poetic forms that traces their histories and analyzes current trends, while arguing...  Read More >>