Literature: history & criticism books

Windows into Urdu poetry's soul: Daryabadi's essays on Ghalib, Hali & more in Soch Ke Dareeche.  Read More >>

Theodore Hughes crosses borders to demonstrate how stories of dying and death—what he calls the thanatographic imagination—in...  Read More >>

Crocker explores what happened to virtue when late-medieval and early-modern English poets thought about the material...  Read More >>

This collective study of the James siblings--Alice, William, and Henry--lights up their shared intellectual project:...  Read More >>

A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature. Emily Dickinson and...  Read More >>

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In this standalone essay, Margaret Randall looks to poets Bertolt Brecht, Carolyn Forché, Nâzım Hikmet, Roque Dalton,...  Read More >>

Des mémoires vibrantes sur la vie littéraire parisienne et la passion des livres.  Read More >>

Un essai inspiré sur la poésie, la création et la mission spirituelle de l'écrivain.  Read More >>

Discover the Rome that has inspired writers for centuries, from the Classical era to the present day. Walk in the...  Read More >>

Through his journals (19351950), Cesare Pavese opens a door into his life as one of Italy's most influential writers....  Read More >>

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This book is a phenomenological study of the crime fiction of Benjamin Black and John Banville, including novels...  Read More >>

Praktiken, Verfahren und Episteme des Selfpublishings in Kunst, Literatur und Wissenschaft treten heute konkurrierend...  Read More >>

This volume brings together a selection of articles published in the Quaderni di Arda, edited by the Italian Association...  Read More >>

Kurzprosa gehört zu den präzisesten und zugleich offensten Spielarten des Erzählens. Sie kann ein Experimentierfeld...  Read More >>

Originally published: Boston, Mass.: Houghton, Mifflin, 1870.  Read More >>

Top Gs Like Me dives headfirst into the influence of online culture, the pull of toxic masculinity, and the search...  Read More >>

John Ruskin's ""Sesame and Lilies"", first published in 1865, is a classic 19th-century statement on the natures...  Read More >>

In An Ark, the first play created for mixed reality, four actors guide you through a deeply personal exploration...  Read More >>

This book is an Encyclopedia of Gods and Deities, featuring creation stories, pantheons, and sacred myths from Ancient...  Read More >>

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Take a tour of New York City as inspiration, place and context in the work of America's greatest playwright of the...  Read More >>

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