Literature: history & criticism books

Presenting a new approach to Euripides’ plays, this book explores the playwright’s ancient tragedies in relation...  Read More >>

The first study of the translations of Andy Warhol's writing and ideas, Translating Warhol reveals how translation...  Read More >>

This book brings together a diverse array of researchers and seasoned educators to present a sweeping exploration...  Read More >>

Interweaving Tapestries of Culture and Sexuality, Volume 2 looks at Caribbean sexuality from around the region and...  Read More >>

This newly updated edition of John Day’s The Parliament of Bees includes both the 1641 quarto and also a complete...  Read More >>

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This book is an Encyclopedia of Gods and Deities, featuring creation stories, pantheons, and sacred myths from Ancient...  Read More >>

Bringing together book historians, textual editors, and new media theorists, this is an engaging and wide-ranging...  Read More >>

Take a tour of New York City as inspiration, place and context in the work of America's greatest playwright of the...  Read More >>

Disillusioned former high school sweethearts must come to terms with their past and present in the face of a tragedy....  Read More >>

Poems that capture a transformative and visionary way of life in Haiti. Konbit is a Haitian Creole word, a way...  Read More >>

An ambitious collection of poems that reckon with life and death through the point of view of famous speakers throughout...  Read More >>

Follow the everyday lives of those trying to keep up with a changing Nashville, Tennessee. Set in the rapidly...  Read More >>

Reflects on the dark rise and fall of an ambitious rock music collective in the upper Midwest. Matthew Pitt's...  Read More >>

This book explores the life and authorial development of Jack Kerouac through previously unpublished papers, letters,...  Read More >>

Presents authoritative, annotated versions of major stories and essays from three late eighteenth-century American...  Read More >>

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The essential companion to Toni Morrison's work, written by Namwali Serpell, 'one of the most innovative and intelligent...  Read More >>

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