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 >>

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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 >>

Why was eighteenth-century English culture so fascinated with the things its society discarded? This book explains...  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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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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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 >>

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

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Get It While It's Hot brings together scholars, food writers, influencers, and even a CEO to discuss the phenomenon...  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 >>

An entertaining romp through bookish mishaps, exposing all the weird, wow! and wtf? moments that the literary world...  Read More >>

Richard Barnfield was an Elizabethan writer and poet and author of the most overtly queer poetry of the English...  Read More >>

This book illuminates the extent to which the thought of modernist authors resonated with the affective legacy of...  Read More >>