Literature: history & criticism books

Through a wide variety of essays on language, history, politics, and culture in the works of James Joyce, this book...  Read More >>

Magic can’t fix bad economics—discover why the wizarding world is still stuck in the Dark Ages! Discover the Shocking...  Read More >>

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Katharine Mershon examines the unacknowledged religious underpinnings of stories about dogs, revealing deeply rooted...  Read More >>

It's a tangle. It is a big tangle of a novel. A series of knots within knots within knots within knots. Long, winding,...  Read More >>

High in the Andes, the Inca built one of the most sophisticated empires in human history. They did so without the...  Read More >>

""No other study of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to say."" Washington Post...  Read More >>

Please Please Me is the electrifying story of The Beatles’ meteoric rise and the hidden struggles of their beloved...  Read More >>

An exploration of Stephen King's writing from the first academic granted full access to King's archives.  Read More >>

Kir Kuiken argues for the existence of a geopoetic literary genre extending from the late eighteenth century to...  Read More >>

Interweaving stories of poets who took their own lives with the long history of suicide in his own family, J. T....  Read More >>

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This collectionreassesses and revitalises the gendered and gendering debates associated with nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

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A lively guide for educators reinterpreting an ancient epic through modern lenses. It examines memorable figures...  Read More >>

Katharine Mershon examines the unacknowledged religious underpinnings of stories about dogs, revealing deeply rooted...  Read More >>

Wie kann der Leitbegriff ""Weltliteratur"" unseren Blick auf chinesische Literaturgeschichte ändern? Zum ersten...  Read More >>

在瘟疫与背叛之间，一个女人重新寻找自我与爱的意义。  Read More >>

You sang these songs as a child. So did your parents. So did theirs. You had no idea what you were singing. Behind...  Read More >>

This volume explores Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus within the traditions of Greek literary and rhetorical...  Read More >>

Outlines a method of story interpretation inspired by the work Joseph Campbell which begins with the premise that...  Read More >>

Vous devez lire Candide pour le lycée ou par curiosité... mais vous manquez de temps, ou le style vous freine ?...  Read More >>