Literature: history & criticism books

Acting Heightened Text: The Basics offers a foundational understanding of heightened text in drama, fused with a...  Read More >>

This book initiates a dialogue between two discursive fields of study, the Anthropocene and the Subaltern Studies....  Read More >>

This book is grounded in the belief that every nation had its own ‘Great War’, with children’s picture books being...  Read More >>

This book examines the public perception, scholarly reception, and critical analysis of Japan through translations...  Read More >>

Step into the shadowed corridors of the unseen with Ars Goetia, a masterful exploration of the seventy-two spirits...  Read More >>

Providing a collection of E.S. Dallas's work, this volume explores the significance of the Scottish writer’s practical...  Read More >>

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I am sharing my personal experience as a Christian living in Sydney who opposed Antisemitism in my Islam indoctrinated...  Read More >>

An exploration of the global medievalism phenomenon of assigning remarkable female figures the title ""Joan of Arc,""...  Read More >>

First published in 1937, in Scepticism and Poetry the author argues that a theory of poetry is primarily a theory...  Read More >>

First published in 1980, this volume examines English literature (1900-1930) within its socio-political context....  Read More >>

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

Explores Jacques Derrida's thoughts on what it means to 'remain'.  Read More >>

Uncovers the previously neglected links between the nineteenth-century American canon and twentieth-century Asian...  Read More >>

This book is set to revolutionise understanding of the relationship between Greek philosophy and Christianity in...  Read More >>

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

Examines real-world crisis narratives as represented in literary texts including nuclear disaster, the 'refugee...  Read More >>

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

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

Examines how women poets have expressed resistance against neoliberalism in Chile at times of intense political...  Read More >>

Argues that temporality and affect are critical dimensions of the proliferation of second-person narratives in the...  Read More >>

Examines the life-affirming and enchanting aspects of Woolf's and Rhys's modernism with feminist, affect and new...  Read More >>

This book explores significant literary and critical thinking achievements that have shaped our world. This slim...  Read More >>

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