Literature: history & criticism books

Distinctive illustrations and charming stories celebrating the pawsitively purrfect relationships between renowned...  Read More >>

Featuring a curated list of over 10,000 fiction and non-fiction titles, this guide is designed for children and...  Read More >>

Through up-to-date essays by historians, biographers, and Shakespeare critics, this Companion offers, first, a systematic...  Read More >>

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The father of Chinese landscape poetry in time and place During the dark centuries between the fall of the Han...  Read More >>

In a complete collection of works by one of Malaysia’s foundational poets, Wong confronts the struggles of cultural...  Read More >>

Un jeune homme des contrées du Midi reçoit des leçons de vie de son bien-aimé grand-père dont il s'inspire de la...  Read More >>

Examines the life and works of Ernest Hemingway through the lens of posthumanism.  Read More >>

This book provides an overview of the literary genre of Middle English lyrics, anonymous short poems that were composed...  Read More >>

Examines the way recent Irish poems interrogate the status of a place or being or phenomenon considered 'magic'....  Read More >>

À la critique souvent réductrice du XXe siècle, Jean Biès oppose une approche inédite de la littérature considérée...  Read More >>

Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature explores the crucial role of paper in the early history of books...  Read More >>

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Julian Preece explores how the novel Venus in Furs, and the plays La Ronde and Lulu were adapted into films that...  Read More >>

This book’s argument is that Walser “toys” with style in ways that are not purely literary, but which carry the...  Read More >>

Drawing on the 19th-century Amistad Case, this book unravels how interpreters and translators shaped the history...  Read More >>

The first practical guide to exploring Shakespeare and Brecht together with a view to expanding staging and performing...  Read More >>

The father of Chinese landscape poetry in time and place During the dark centuries between the fall of the Han...  Read More >>

The first critical study of innovation in contemporary life writing offering a combination of contextual overview...  Read More >>

The Problem with the Seventh Year is a bloody, unflinching drama about the fine line between being clever and being...  Read More >>

In the fascinating narrative of ""Unifying Theory,"" James W. Jenkins takes readers on a powerful journey into the...  Read More >>

A timely, moving, and piercingly intelligent essay collection from one of our finest contemporary writers For thirty...  Read More >>

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