Literature: history & criticism books

This updated edition explores the birth of psychoanalysis alongside fundamental psychoanalytic concepts. It discusses...  Read More >>

This book explores the nexus between religion and literature by examining central developments in J.M. Coetzee’s...  Read More >>

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This Element provides an analysis of digital mystery game narratives through the lens of game studies approaches,...  Read More >>

This Element adopts a holistic approach to the processing of colours in language and literature, weaving together...  Read More >>

This volume offers a new reading of Macrobius' place in late antique literary history with an exploration of the...  Read More >>

Grief Work as Autotheory is an interdisciplinary, narrative non-fiction book that tests the boundaries between experimental...  Read More >>

The first study examining the translation and reception of Dutch literature in Eastern and Central Europe during...  Read More >>

This intersectional study demonstrates for the first time how the lens of Graeco-Roman antiquity has informed Irish...  Read More >>

A renowned Brontë scholar and dress historian’s innovative, richly illustrated biography explores Charlotte Brontë's...  Read More >>

An interdisciplinary study of the literary representation and exploration of emotions and moral values in German...  Read More >>

Rediscover the capital through the eyes of the Queen of Crime  Read More >>

This book sets out an unconventional literary history of progressive Urdu poetry by Pakistani women in the twentieth...  Read More >>

This work examines the evolution of the Peruvian indigenistaliterary tradition in the twentieth century in its relation...  Read More >>

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Five Sundays. Five strangers. One mystery drug. What could go wrong?  Read More >>

An intimate collection of poems about mothers and daughters, female friendship, and memory. Rebecca Hart Olander's...  Read More >>

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Showing how poetry and art articulate forms of life beyond settler colonialism.  Read More >>

A history of Black poets in Washington, DC, reveals how they have reflected and transformed American cultural discourse...  Read More >>

The Ecstasy of Reproduction is a piercing analysis of contemporaneity which the author still terms postmodernity....  Read More >>

Set against the backdrop of escalating environmental collapse, this novel is a timely exploration of the terrifying...  Read More >>

A powerful testament to writing as an act of beauty and rebellion that speaks truth and condemns violent legacies...  Read More >>

Offering a fresh perspective on the Latin American climate crisis through the lens of natural history and its institutions,...  Read More >>