Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

This book explores the meanings of European peripheries in postcolonial literary imagination. Acknowledging the...  Read More >>

A study on the use of humor and comedy in African literary texts across the twentieth century. Adwoa A. Opoku-Agyemang,...  Read More >>

This Element focuses on representations of social and psychological entrapment demonstrating how Dickens employs...  Read More >>

Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature As with the rest of her literary career, Dubravka Ugresic's...  Read More >>

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Winner of the Blessing the Boats Selection Foreword by Aracelis Girmay Charleen McClure's d-sorientation wanders...  Read More >>

A bold, multilingual anthology of Yazidi poetic voices. Ten years have passed since 2014 and the seventy-fourth...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary book represents the attempt at unpacking the legacy of modern ideas of race initiated and...  Read More >>

The first collection of plays from Olivier-nominated playwright Isley Lynn, whose award-winning work uplifts their...  Read More >>

Sophocles' epic tragedy transformed into an essential, explosive human thriller by visionary director Robert Icke....  Read More >>

A dystopian stage play exploring migrant experiences in all their complexity – and the troll that lives within all...  Read More >>

A hilarious and heartfelt play set in West Cumbria, about first loves, forging identities and the wild, wild hearts...  Read More >>

This Element explores a new print genre which became popular in England at the end of the seventeenth and early...  Read More >>

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A fairytale twist on the timelessness of love, heartbreak and death, this is a collection of iconic short stories...  Read More >>

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Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-59 traces Tolkien's career-long engagement with the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and shows...  Read More >>

A haunting anthology of supernatural stories and the macabre by well-known authors of gothic novels, folklore and...  Read More >>

Long treated with skepticism in literary and cultural studies, love – as a subject of serious scholarly inquiry...  Read More >>

This new critical edition of Dissoi Logoi starts from a codicological analysis that is unprecedented in scope (the...  Read More >>

A study on the use of humor and comedy in African literary texts across the twentieth century. Adwoa A. Opoku-Agyemang,...  Read More >>

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Arab-speaking regions of the Ottoman Empire saw a crucial change...  Read More >>

New parts for thirty of Shakespeare's women, letting them speak their minds, written by famed stage and screen actress,...  Read More >>

This volume addresses the notion of (in)hospitality in the culture, literature, and thought of Chicanx and Latinx...  Read More >>

Winner of the Blessing the Boats Selection Foreword by Aracelis Girmay Charleen McClure's d-sorientation wanders...  Read More >>