Literature: history & criticism books

Award-winning British playwright Leo Butler looks back over 25 of writing for the stage and his extensive experience...  Read More >>

This volume offers new critical and performance approaches to Shakespeare’s most well-known comedy of desire, a...  Read More >>

The book argues that Ian McDonald’s globalized science fiction functions as a complex, hybrid fusion of magic realism...  Read More >>

This book uncovers how knowledge was transmitted and transformed in 18th-century Britain, using digital tools to...  Read More >>

A critical and theoretical interpretation of six major modern Persian poets and the idea of a homeland, by Hamid...  Read More >>

How mobility and its impediment serve as frameworks for expressions of political dissent in cultural production...  Read More >>

From a celebrated critic, a heartfelt and adventurous reflection on the art of writing about art  Read More >>

A collection of interdisciplinary critical essays examining the political and aesthetic practices of Martinican...  Read More >>

What happens when strangers meet in film? The Cinema of Converging Lives explores a group of films within an important...  Read More >>

Preface This volume, entitled ""The Art of Poetry"", seeks to explore the fundamental principles that underpin...  Read More >>

Examines the role of the body in Indigenous-language religious texts from colonial Latin America Words Made Flesh...  Read More >>

""Explores how twenty-first century Nigerian novels engage with Christianity as a locally rooted aspect of postcolonial...  Read More >>

In this deeply interdisciplinary and poetically written book, Jamall A. Calloway explores the presence of Eden and...  Read More >>

In The Classroom and the Crowd, Al Filreis reflects on his decades of experience as a founder of participatory literary...  Read More >>

Tracing the influence and impact of Plato's Timaeus-and its major themes, creation and beauty-through the centuries...  Read More >>

Investigating the origins of theatre in archaic Rome Theatre was an integral part of Roman civic, religious and...  Read More >>

""Explores how twenty-first century Nigerian novels engage with Christianity as a locally rooted aspect of postcolonial...  Read More >>

Drawing on memory studies and theatrical history, Commemorative Acts analyses a neglected body of plays staged in...  Read More >>

In this deeply interdisciplinary and poetically written book, Jamall A. Calloway explores the presence of Eden and...  Read More >>

This book explores the importance of contemporary Canadian literature as a kind of nuance-making machine in a world...  Read More >>

In The Classroom and the Crowd, Al Filreis reflects on his decades of experience as a founder of participatory literary...  Read More >>

Eileen was an accomplished writer in her lifetime, and the letters are erudite and entertaining, whilst offering...  Read More >>

This book highlights the efforts of contemporary writers of ""meatfiction"" to balance postmodern innovation with...  Read More >>

This sixth volume of the Letters of Dr Charles Burney covers the years 1810-1814, when he died at the age of 88....  Read More >>

This book promotes a novel and nuanced understanding of how the practices of comparative literature have engaged...  Read More >>