Literature: history & criticism books

Investigating the peculiar literary history of interpolated tales and the ways in which they persistently unnerve...  Read More >>

A new history of modern Hebrew literature updated according to contemporary theories of literature, culture, identity,...  Read More >>

Née sous Pétain en son ère de suspicion - répression - exécutions. Voit le bonheur de la Libération en échappant...  Read More >>

In Other Words, the definitive translation coursebook for three decades, offers practical guidance based on linguistic...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

Renowned Shakespearean Stephen Orgel reveals how Shakespeare's scripts were transformed from popular drama into...  Read More >>

A nuanced study of the profound impact of German culture, literature, and philosophy on Edith Wharton’s work and...  Read More >>

I Do is a site-specific jigsaw puzzle through 6 hotel rooms just before the deed is done…  Read More >>

In an era when a future audience is very much not guaranteed, what possible purpose could there be in something...  Read More >>

An exploration of how Pakistani Anglophone novels engage with prior texts to shape meaning, reinforce themes, and...  Read More >>

How does contemporary US-American literature reimagines narrative forms to confront humanity's impact in the Anthropocene?...  Read More >>

Haunted shorelines, oppressively expansive beaches, and the crumbling edgelands around coastal cliffs have been...  Read More >>

Expanding on common perceptions of the drone as a tool of war and surveillance, this book argues that they are also...  Read More >>

Great writing can seem to be an act of mystery, a gift given to just a few, but these renowned writers pull back...  Read More >>

Providing a methodology for identifying literary narratives of climate change, this book draws on historical narrative...  Read More >>

The first book-length treatment of the problem of slowness in Deleuze’s philosophy and its uses in understanding...  Read More >>

This book explores how Shakespeare’s original audience might have responded to his scenes of violence and, in the...  Read More >>

An introductory study of the Pseudo-Senecan Octavia, its main themes, historical context, and subsequent reception....  Read More >>

 Read More >>

Ici est présenté un auteur singulier, méconnu souvent et pire, confondu avec sa caricature dix-neuviémiste. Or Savinien...  Read More >>

Whether through medical encyclopedias, daily-use almanacs, or novels and anecdotes, readers pursued knowledge of...  Read More >>

This handbook consolidates the large and growing amount of knowledge and expertise in the field in the form of targeted...  Read More >>

This book presents a wide-ranging and original meditation on cartographies of connection in all the arts of the...  Read More >>

This book discusses the various cultural forms and literary works by which information, myth and misinformation...  Read More >>

Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure provides a reading of Rochester's poems, dramatic works, and letters in a...  Read More >>