Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

Time, Tripods, Textiles, and Trees focuses on metaphorical and metonymical elements in the Odyssey to better understand...  Read More >>

Dana Gioia’s characters and verses cry from the depths, their faith tried—and purified—in the furnace of doubt....  Read More >>

""The Story of the Peony Lantern"" by the Chinese author Qu You (1347–1433) traveled across lingual, cultural, and...  Read More >>

Vocabulario y enseñanza del español delves into the nature and acquisition of vocabulary, its relevance to linguistic...  Read More >>

CHamoru Legends retells twelve CHamoru legends and features personal reflections from author Teresita Lourdes Perez,...  Read More >>

Modern parallels to Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil disobedience can be found in black theater, where the black body...  Read More >>

Graphic War introduces graphic border poetics to the field of comics, which enables a methodological response to...  Read More >>

A serene beach. The classroom of an elite private school. The still nights in an upscale residential neighborhood....  Read More >>

Boys Behind Glass is a cheeky documentary of contemporary masculinity through the lens of matchmaking, pop culture,...  Read More >>

The varied meanings of empties coalesce in vivid and timely poems that teach endurance ""in the face of all that...  Read More >>

First time in paper, these essays are an extension of the author's previous books Mayordomo and A Garlic Testament....  Read More >>

Examines fifteen novels and one testimony written on the topic of dictatorship to illustrate how these Chilean narratives...  Read More >>

Camus on Justice investigates Albert Camus's rich and overlooked theory about the relationship between the absurd,...  Read More >>

Explores the productive tension between historicist and nonhuman readings of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake  Read More >>

Exposes writers' reliance on conservative language during one of the most radical periods of English history  Read More >>

The first in-depth study of Vladimir Nabokov's humour, investigating its physical aspects such as farce, slapstick,...  Read More >>

Considers relationships between modernist literature and literary criticism and argues that new modernist fiction...  Read More >>

Examines Scottish Romantic writers' shared focus on the ideological import of an imagined national dead  Read More >>

A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. Why do we look...  Read More >>

It is rare to find a collection so grounded in the manifold meanings of motherhood—in all its anxiety, ambivalence,...  Read More >>

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The definitive, all-access biography of one of the world's most beloved literary voices, showcasing a life as triumphant...  Read More >>

This is a book for anyone interested in the intersections between faith and culture-making, guided by the belief...  Read More >>

An inspiring work about creativity and resilience from the multi-award-winning author of Stone Yard Devotional....  Read More >>

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