Literature: history & criticism books

Long treated with skepticism in literary and cultural studies, love – as a subject of serious scholarly inquiry...  Read More >>

Alexander Kluge explores the madcap, multifaceted world of the circus through a global geopolitical lens. The...  Read More >>

The first collection of Italian poet Jolanda Insana's work to be published in English, featuring transgressive poems...  Read More >>

This book explores the meanings of European peripheries in postcolonial literary imagination. Acknowledging the...  Read More >>

A study on the use of humor and comedy in African literary texts across the twentieth century. Adwoa A. Opoku-Agyemang,...  Read More >>

This Element focuses on representations of social and psychological entrapment demonstrating how Dickens employs...  Read More >>

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This interdisciplinary book represents the attempt at unpacking the legacy of modern ideas of race initiated and...  Read More >>

The first collection of plays from Olivier-nominated playwright Isley Lynn, whose award-winning work uplifts their...  Read More >>

This Element explores a new print genre which became popular in England at the end of the seventeenth and early...  Read More >>

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Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-59 traces Tolkien's career-long engagement with the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and shows...  Read More >>

Long treated with skepticism in literary and cultural studies, love – as a subject of serious scholarly inquiry...  Read More >>

A study on the use of humor and comedy in African literary texts across the twentieth century. Adwoa A. Opoku-Agyemang,...  Read More >>

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Arab-speaking regions of the Ottoman Empire saw a crucial change...  Read More >>

New parts for thirty of Shakespeare's women, letting them speak their minds, written by famed stage and screen actress,...  Read More >>

This volume addresses the notion of (in)hospitality in the culture, literature, and thought of Chicanx and Latinx...  Read More >>

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Inspired by the Greek myth of Alcestis, this poetry collection brings to life myriad voices who venture beyond the...  Read More >>

""Godwin ... was the inspiring intelligence behind the humanist attitudes of the English Romantic poets and Utopian...  Read More >>

Over thirty years after his initial ascent to super stardom, Todd McFarlane (b. 1961) remains one of the most popular...  Read More >>

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A captivating debut collection exploring longing, loneliness and connection in stories that feature Cuban American...  Read More >>

All dieseTexte haben die Bedeutung von Körpergedächtnis und Wahrnehmungsgewohnheiten, den Einfluss von Sprache und...  Read More >>