Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

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The poems in Barbara Carlson's Current take us under the surface into what lives below and just to the side of the...  Read More >>

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In an era marked by dizzying technological advances, material excess, and relentless distractions, the call to pause,...  Read More >>

Lineage - patrilineal, matrilineal - the lines of connection among family are not so easy. Relationships are complex,...  Read More >>

Barry Vitcov's third collection of poems is a poetic coming-of-age, skillfully picturing a Jewish boyhood as seen...  Read More >>

A poetic conversation across miles and millennia, Sappho Prompts engages an ancient voice in contemporary poems...  Read More >>

A poetic portrait of unwelcome inheritances from New England to The American South, OVUM is a personal reckoning....  Read More >>

Qasida for When I Became a Woman is a lyrical reckoning with state violence, exile, and the intimate afterlives...  Read More >>

This still ain't your Mama's anthology. Whether they crawl up from the gutters or stroll down from the mansions,...  Read More >>

Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus (1947) recounts the life of a solitary composer, Adrian Leverkühn, whose personal and...  Read More >>

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This volume contains a generous selection of the short fiction Thomas Mann published in the years 1897 to 1912,...  Read More >>

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The idea underlying this Element is that a historical text is a translation of past events. Translating His-stories...  Read More >>

Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish Writing is the first dedicated study of British and Irish...  Read More >>

This Element shows how Poland became a gothic setting in British fiction between the 1790s and the 1830s as a result...  Read More >>

Race Class identifies two competing aesthetics, the 'recognitional' and the 'redistributive,' that developed in...  Read More >>

A cultural and social critique of early-twentieth-century America, addressing issues of race, ethnicity, class and...  Read More >>

Henry James was a leading commentator on the art of his time. Readers of this complete collection of his nonfictional...  Read More >>

Henry James is a highly readable commentator on the theatre and performance practices of his time. Readers of this...  Read More >>

This book shows how novels and films set in the near future can shed light both on our failures of imagination before...  Read More >>

This book explores transitional post-Soviet cultural consciousness in Ukraine at the beginning of the twenty-first...  Read More >>