A rich anthology of pre-Islamic and early Islamic poetry on the beauties and perils of the hunt In the poems of Fate the......more

The Jargon Society, a boundary-pushing publisher of poetry and experimental writing, was founded by Jonathan Williams (1......more

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A history of American Western genre comics and how they interacted with contemporaneous political and popular culture....more

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What is the relationship between aesthetic presentation of thought and scientific conceptions of cognition? Torsa Ghosal......more

The power of Colette’s work comes from its modernist storytelling. Colette was a pioneering, ground-breaking modernist w......more

The opening of classified documents from the Soviet era has been dubbed the "archival revolution" due to its unprecedent......more

The opening of classified documents from the Soviet era has been dubbed the "archival revolution" due to its unprecedent......more

Examines the need to recenter the category of sex - theorizing sex itself as nonbinary - in contemporary studies of gend......more

A novel approach to understanding the work of James Baldwin and its transformative potential The relationship of James B......more

A novel approach to understanding the work of James Baldwin and its transformative potential The relationship of James B......more

A rediscovery of Thoreau’s interactions with everyday objects and how they shaped his thought. Though we may associate H......more

From Shakespeare to Autofiction studies authorship throughout modernity, from oral tradition to the shifting roles of au......more

Essays exploring the lasting impact of Habib Tanvir’s pioneering theatre which blended tradition with modernity in the p......more

Essays exploring the lasting impact of Habib Tanvir’s pioneering theatre which blended tradition with modernity in the p......more

Israel’s cultural space is frequently studied as if it were synonymous with the Hebrew-Israeli one. But within the borde......more

The idea of the end is an essential motivic force in the poetry of Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016). This book shows that Hill’......more

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The first English-language study of contemporary Russian poetry and its embrace of freedom--formally, thematically, and ......more

The life and times of Dante’s soaring poetic allegory of the soul’s redemptive journey toward God Written during his exi......more

The first English-language study of contemporary Russian poetry and its embrace of freedom--formally, thematically, and ......more

The contemporary literary movement of Maya writers of Chiapas and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (or EZLN) in......more

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This book situates the nuanced intervention of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa within the international......more

The study intervenes in a field hitherto dominated by formal and historical analyses of the literary letter. Across the ......more

Examines the increasingly reciprocal nature of Franco-Japanese cultural exchange through films that center on nuclear is......more

The history of travel writing goes back thousands of years. Long practised in several different cultures and languages a......more

This series presents critical views on the most widely studied writers of short fiction. Each volume includes overviews ......more

Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 4-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other creati......more

This highly useful series presents substantial excerpts from the best criticism on the major literary figures and nonfic......more

Turn to this authoritative international resource for complete critical coverage of the careers and works of the greates......more

This series presents critical views on the most widely studied writers of short fiction. Each volume includes overviews ......more

This highly useful series presents substantial excerpts from the best criticism on the major literary figures and nonfic......more

Classical and Medieval Literature CriticismM assembles and contextualizes critical responses to the works of writers of ......more

Each volume of this reference provides substantial critical essays and biographical information on four to eight major p......more

Mari Sandoz’s The Battle of the Little Bighorn encouraged a change in how Americans viewed this infamous fight. By the m......more

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With the 1989 Beijing massacre fading from popular memory in the West, China from the mid-1990s to a few years ago felt ......more

A close reading of James Baldwin’s short story "Sonny’s Blues" that provides insight into his life and ideas about art. ......more

Instead of making readers into better people, what if fiction could help us to become better animals? On Fiction and Bei......more

This volume interweaves Shakespeare’s wisdom with ancient spiritual practices and the insights of a post-secular age in ......more

Katherine Mansfield’s complicated relationship with London began in 1903, when her parents sent her and her two older si......more

This book unravels the complexities of traditional storytelling and uses creative analytical techniques to uncover the m......more

Lyn Hejinian is considered one of the most important avant-garde poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Begi......more

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Since the beginning of his artistic career in 1959, Bahram Beyzaie’s oeuvre has incorporated various aspects of Iranian,......more

This book opens up new perspectives on the English fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien, arguing that he was an influential thi......more

What is ’translation’? Even as the scholarly viewpoint of translation studies has expanded over recent years, the notion......more

An exploration of the burgeoning field of Anglophone Asian diaspora poetry, this book draws on the thematic concerns of ......more

Despite the popularity of plays about the East, the representation of the East in early modern drama has been either ove......more

Love and the Politics of Intimacy articulates the concept of love within the relationship between the intimate and the s......more

The Aesthetic Movement, a collection of artists, writers and thinkers who rejected traditional ideas of beauty as guided......more

Joseph Conrad and the Narration of Silence investigates how Conrad’s narrators speak without speaking, focusing first on......more

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In a cultural moment when panics over the stories we tell are at their peak, Dangerous Fictions shows us exactly what we......more

Welcome to the ultimate TBR list! With meticulously researched book descriptions and hundreds of guided prompts and read......more

Perhaps no period better clarifies our current crisis of digital information than the nineteenth century. Self-aware abo......more

Since the mid-nineteenth century, there has been a notable acceleration in the development of the techniques used to con......more

Marguerite Higgins was both the scourge and envy of the journalistic world. A longtime reporter for the New York Herald ......more

A bilingual edition of poetry that provides a unique window into Cuban émigré life A rare glimpse into the history of th......more

How might literary scholarship engage with the sustainability debate? Aimed at research scholars and advanced students i......more

The first English-language biography in over fifty years to tell the full, vibrant story of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, kno......more

The early twenty-first century has seen a sharp rise in Black US poets employing the mask of persona, often including an......more

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2024 is the 40th anniversary of Hans Walter Gabler’s critical and synoptic edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses, published i......more

Actor, memoirist, novelist, playwright and poet, Stephen Haggard was a highly individual figure in the English literatur......more