Literature: history & criticism books

Set in April 1917, this book explores the rising tide of Bolshevism, the elements of resistance, and decency as...  Read More >>

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At the Crossroads of the Avant-Garde: Ivan Aksyonov and Russian Modernism is a pioneering study of Ivan Aksyonov,...  Read More >>

Nonaligned Imagination: Yugoslavia, the Global South, and Literary Solidarities Beyond the Cold War Blocs recovers...  Read More >>

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A clarifying analysis of how authors from Bosnia-Herzegovina translate and transmit the memory of the Bosnian War...  Read More >>

""Rereading Baldwin's nonfiction in the context of midcentury Black Atlantic thought""-- Provided by publisher....  Read More >>

The One and the Others: Metaphysics, Poetry, and the Antinomies of Plato's ""Parmenides"" shows how modern philosophers...  Read More >>

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Anamorphic Distortion in Literature, Visual Art and Film explores four key types of anamorphic distortion in media...  Read More >>

""Avocado Dreams tells the story of how and why Salvadorans migrated to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and...  Read More >>

First Published in 1972, The Scholar-Critic argues that it's a mistake to consider literary criticism and literary...  Read More >>

Marguerite de Navarre was one of the most educated and powerful women of Renaissance Europe. The Heptaméron, her...  Read More >>

Bakhtin's Adventure: An Essay on Life without Meaning offers a bold rereading of Mikhail Bakhtin's groundbreaking...  Read More >>

The description provided is unavailable, leaving an empty canvas where insights into narrative depth, thematic intrigue,...  Read More >>

The life and work of Katherine Mansfield, one of literary modernism's most significant writers.  Read More >>

Empire of Elites investigates the self-representation of the late Roman senatorial aristocracy in epigraphic evidence...  Read More >>

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A revised edition of the comedy covers the playwright's life and theater, an introduction to the play, sources,...  Read More >>

Poems from a new Slovak voice reminiscent of Rilke and Sharon Olds. An evocative collection by Slovak poet Eva...  Read More >>

In August 1886, Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) received a letter asking permission to dramatize Alice's...  Read More >>

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