Literary Companions, Book Reviews & Guides

Revealing episodes in the life of the elusive writer, as told by acquaintancesThis book collects reminiscences by contemporaries, friends, and asso...

This comprehensive collection of Italian tales in English encourages a revisitation of the fairy-tale canon in light of some of the most fascinatin...

This stimulating study of black literature of the 1960s is an analysis of a period of American history through the literary art it produced. In Co...

Contributions by Malin Alkestrand, Joshua Yu Burnett, Sean P. Connors, Jill Coste, Meghan Gilbert-Hickey, Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Sierra Hale, Ka...

This collection of theater writings by the Russian modernist Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky brings his powerful, wildly imaginative vision of theater to ...

During and after the Harlem Renaissance, two intellectual forces --nationalism and Marxism--clashed and changed the future of African American writ...

The essays in this volume address William Faulkner and the issue of race. Faulkner resolutely has probed the deeply repressed psychological dimensi...

A never before published H.D. work, White Rose and the Red is the fictional biography of Elizabeth Siddall, wife of English poet and painter Dante ...

In 1979, the Marxist-Leninist New Jewel Movement under Maurice Bishop overthrew the government of the Caribbean island country of Grenada, establis...

A beautiful photographic stroll around the bookshops, restaurants, literary locations and authors’ neighbourhoods in the Big Apple. ...

Would it surprise you to learn that there was a contemporary of Ernest Hemingway’s who, in his romantic questing and hell-or-high-water pursuit of ...

In the late 1950s, Ted Geisel took on the challenge of creating a book using only 250 unique first-grade words, something that aspiring readers wou...

In 1952, Faulkner noted the exceptional nature of the South when he characterized it as ""the only really authentic region in the United States, be...

Conversations with W. S. Merwin is the first collection of interviews with former United States Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin (b. 1927). Spanning almo...

In the early 1800s, American critics warned about the danger of literature as a distraction from reality. Later critical accounts held that America...

As the most widely read Roman poem in antiquity, the Aeneid was indelibly burned into the memories of generations of Roman school children. In her ...

This study argues that Faulkner's writings about racial matters interrogated rather than validated his racial beliefs and that, in the process of q...

Joan Didion (b. 1934) is an American icon. Her essays, particularly those in Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album, have resonated in Ame...

Addressing texts produced by writers who lived through the Civil War and wrote about it before the end of Reconstruction, this collection explores ...

After the Second World War Gertrude Stein asked a friend's support in securing a visa for Richard Wright to visit Paris. ""I've got to help him, s...

Catching the Torch examines contemporary novels and plays written about Canada's participation in World War I. Exploring such works as Jane Urquhar...

Panepiphanal World is the first in-depth study of the forty short texts James Joyce called "epiphanies." Composed between 1901 and 1904, at the beg...

By examining the novels of critically and commercially successful authors such as Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You), Stephenie Meyer (the Twilight se...

William Faulkner wrote during a tumultuous period in southern racial consciousness, between the years of the enactment of Jim Crow and the beginnin...

What Persists contains eighteen of the nearly fifty essays on poetry that Judith Kitchen published in The Georgia Review over a twenty-five-year sp...

Film noir, which flourished in 1940s and 50s, reflected the struggles and sentiments of postwar America. Dennis Broe contends that the genre, with ...

This bibliography is the result of research in the libraries of Buenos Aires, particularly the Biblioteca Nacional, the library of the University o...

Across two decades of intense creativity, David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) crafted a remarkable body of work that ranged from unclassifiable essays...

Forms of Contention argues for the centrality of sonnet writing to African American poetry, focusing on significant sonnets, key anthologies, and c...

Conversations with Donald Hall offers a unique glimpse into the creative process of a major American poet, writer, editor, anthologist, and teacher...

Critical Collaborations: Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies is the third volume of essays produced as part of the Tran...

A hierarchical model of human societies' relations with the natural world is at the root of today's climate crisis; Narrating the Mesh contends th...

Forms of Contention argues for the centrality of sonnet writing to African American poetry, focusing on significant sonnets, key anthologies, and c...

This is the first scholarly edition of Gil Vicente's last play Floresta de enganos(1536). The Spanish and Portuguese text, based on the fascimile r...

The present study is distinctive in that the author examines Byron as an artist and self-critic. Based mainly upon Byron's own self-analytical and ...

Toni Morrison: Memory and Meaning boasts essays by well-known international scholars focusing on the author's literary production and including her...

Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace brings to light the relationship between writers in Canada and the market...

The Memory Effect is a collection of essays on the status of memory - individual and collective, cultural and transcultural - in contemporary liter...

From 30 Americans to Angry White Boy, from Bamboozled to The Boondocks, from Chappelle's Show to The Colored Museum, this collection of twenty-one ...

Absalom, Absalom! has long been regarded as one of William Faulkner's most difficult, dense, and multilayered novels. It is, on one level, the stor...

Absalom, Absalom! has long been regarded as one of William Faulkner's most difficult, dense, and multilayered novels. It is, on one level, the stor...

The Souls of White Folk: African American Writers Theorize Whiteness is the first study to consider the substantial body of African American writin...

Amihay offers a pioneering study of the unique nexus between literature and photography in the works of Hebrew authors. Exploring the use of photog...

Within the realm of American culture and its construction of its citizenry, geography, and ideology, who are southerners and who are queers, and wh...

Craig discusses the impact of modern thought and invention upon literature's essential business of communication; the continuing vitality of a clas...