Literature: history & criticism books

A comprehensive study of how fiction has depicted and responded to terrorism in the twenty-first century  Read More >>

Examines the role occupied by the senses and the self in approaches to literary mimesis in nineteenth-century European...  Read More >>

日文的「別格」，有特殊、出眾之意。我大半輩子欲一窺堂奧的日本最「別格」是四國遍路，禮拜88座經世遺認證的佛寺。 從8世紀開始，受空海大師直接影響的遍路者，大都是在山林野地裡修行的「山伏」，日本人注意並嘗試遍路是在12世紀，到17世紀有人寫了遍路指南後才開始大流行。...  Read More >>

本書是美國加州顧宜雄醫師將2024年6月至2025年6月所經歷的美中社會重大事件以及人生領悟整理成集，內容廣含自作者本人自1992年起在美國洛杉磯地區留學、工作，在科研、臨床一線奮鬥了30多年，對美國社會深入接觸後的心得，對美國政治體制和社會分配機制有其入木三分的觀察。...  Read More >>

Demonstrates how African literature grapples with the enforced optimism of US empire that circulates in postcolonial...  Read More >>

A critically sophisticated yet highly readable exploration of Shakespeare's career as a mass entertainer.  Read More >>

Draws on theories of Marxism, feminism and the biopolitics of affect to investigate the psycho-dynamic properties...  Read More >>

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Inspired by and committed to global Indigenous solidarity and South-South encounters, Indigenous Affinities examines...  Read More >>

""This book examines the writings and experimental film collaborations of William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson,...  Read More >>

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Explores Borges' infatuation with Jewish history and culture.  Read More >>

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Few Urdu essays act as mirrors of literature, tracing journalism, Deccani classics, progressive thought, poetic...  Read More >>

Contends that the twentieth century novel's approach to character fundamentally shifted in response to contemporaneous...  Read More >>

Examines an important relational shift in British and German cultural depictions of Palestine and Israel since 1987....  Read More >>

Studies the intertwined manner in which Arabic and Turkish literatures took shape as national traditions.  Read More >>

Advances our understanding of the literary legacy of contemporary ecological crises to investigate the interfaces...  Read More >>

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A uniquely comprehensive, groundbreaking two-volume study of Loy's relationship to the human body and soul.  Read More >>

Discusses the ways in which post-independence novels and films understand the relationship between subjectivity...  Read More >>

Argues that J. M. Coetzee's works constitute a form of late modernism that situates life at the heart of questions...  Read More >>

A uniquely comprehensive two-volume study of Mina Loy's relationship to the human body and soul  Read More >>

This is the story of Mashya and Mashyana Unearthed, an exploration of when and where ancient myths become metonymic...  Read More >>

Migration, Dictatorship, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe examines the impact of migration on the self-understanding...  Read More >>