Literature: history & criticism books

Two important books of criticism by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and former U.S. poet laureate now combined in a...  Read More >>

The first in-depth study of the dark side of worldbuilding, exploring the connection between speculative imagination...  Read More >>

The life and times of Dante's soaring poetic allegory of the soul's redemptive journey toward God  Read More >>

Die Gründerin der Internationalen Jugendbibliothek Jella Lepman (1891-1970) gehört zu den prägenden Persönlichkeiten...  Read More >>

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El libro discute sobre como el desantropocentrismo no puede predicarse...  Read More >>

This anthology brings together the unpublished poetry of Jacob Bronowski (1908-74). One of the last great polymaths,...  Read More >>

Prolific British writer Matthew Phipps Shiel (1865-1947) took his place with Arthur Machen, Lord Dunsany, Algernon...  Read More >>

A cross-cultural memoir and a love story an account of ntercultural, interracial and interfaith journeys--and the...  Read More >>

THE MIRIAM SYNDROME How Women Who Lead Are Removed, Rewritten, and Forgotten Miriam led. She brought the women...  Read More >>

Water Margin (水浒传, Shuǐhǔ Zhuàn) is a timeless tale of heroism and adventure in ancient China. It follows 108 outlaws...  Read More >>

Taking an innovative approach to the study of religious literature and literary modernity, this book examines an...  Read More >>

Explores Bengal> 's political, social, and cultural history through Rabindranath Tagore> 's music and ideas. Using...  Read More >>

Redefining Faith in Dante’s ""Divine Comedy"" offers a bold reinterpretation of one of the world’s most studied...  Read More >>

History has shown that antisemitism reactivates and rises like a latent viral infection at the slightest crisis...  Read More >>

From Sarajevo to Tunisia to Rome, these five plays trace the invisible scars of exile, where memory and identity...  Read More >>

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Massacres in Early Modern Drama analyses the dynamically ambivalent meanings constructed by the language and action...  Read More >>

Russo-Soviet imperialist hauntings conceptualizes neo-Gothic texts from the former Eastern Bloc countries and Soviet...  Read More >>

I belong to a small country. A rocky promontory in the Mediterranean, it has nothing to distinguish it but the efforts...  Read More >>

Dans La Plume et l'Épée: la quête de Malraux pour un renouveau artistique, H.H. Soltan propose une analyse approfondie...  Read More >>

This book is part of ""China's Literary Masterpieces 中国文学瑰宝"", a series that presents classical Chinese literature...  Read More >>