Literary Companions, Book Reviews & Guides

Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita, set in Stalin's Moscow, is an intriguing work with a complex structure, wonderful comic episodes...

Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita, set in Stalin's Moscow, is an intriguing work with a complex structure, wonderful comic episodes...

Literary Britain and Ireland features more than 100 locations associated with the world's leading authors. From the tower at Sissinghurst where Vit...

Pushing the boundaries of critical reading and the role of objects in literature How does literary objecthood contend with the challenge of writing...

This literary guide leads students with advanced knowledge of Russian as well as experienced scholars through the text of Nikolai Gogol's absurdist...

This literary guide leads students with advanced knowledge of Russian as well as experienced scholars through the text of Nikolai Gogol's absurdist...

The iconic masks of the Italian commedia dellarteHarlequin, Pierrot, Colombina, Pulcinella, and othershave been vagabonding the roads of Russian cu...

Acts of Logos examines the 19th-century foundations of St. Petersburgs famous literary heritage, with a focus on the unifying principle of material...

This volume focuses on several Russian authors among many who immigrated to Israel with the big wave of the 1990s or later, and whose largest part ...

In the six essays of this book, Ksana Blank examines affinities among works of nineteenth and twentieth-century Russian literature and their connec...

Imperial Russia's large wolf populations were demonized, persecuted, tormented, and sometimes admired. That Savage Gaze explores the significance o...

This far-ranging study develops Morsons concept of prosaics, which stresses the importance of ordinary events and the novels unique ability to port...

Imperial Russias large wolf populations were demonized, persecuted, tormented, and sometimes admired. That Savage Gaze explores the significance of...

This collection of essays examines selected works in the American literary tradition from an evolutionary perspective. Using an interdisciplinary f...

This collection of essays examines selected works in the American literary tradition from an evolutionary perspective. Using an interdisciplinary f...

Since the dawn of the Space Age, when the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite and sent the first human into the cosmos, science fi...

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is one of Vladimir Nabokovs most autobiographical novels and it has often been observed that Sebastians passionat...

This bilingual collection in honor of the great scholar and writer Alexander Zholkovsky brings together new work from forty-four leading scholars i...

Since the dawn of the Space Age, when the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite and sent the first human into the cosmos, science fi...

This bilingual collection in honor of the great scholar and writer Alexander Zholkovsky brings together new work from forty-four leading scholars i...

Edited by Maxim D. Shrayer, a leading specialist in Russias Jewish culture, this definitive anthology of major nineteenth- and twentieth-century fi...

Who will mourn with me? Who will break bread with me? Who is my neighbor? In the wake of the religious reformations of the sixteenth century, such ...

Reading lists, course syllabi, and prizes include the phrase '21st-century American literature,' but no critical consensus exists regarding when th...

Reading lists, course syllabi, and prizes include the phrase '21st-century American literature,' but no critical consensus exists regarding when th...

A novel is an act, an intervention, which, most often, the naïve reader takes as a representation. The novel intervenes to modify or correct our co...

Mosaic Fictions is the first book-length critical analysis of Canadian Spanish Civil War literature. Exploring published and archival writings, the...

Scholarship on Italian emigration has generally omitted the Julian-Dalmatians, a group of Italians from Istria and Dalmatia, two regions that, in t...

Celebrated as a novelist and made famous by her novel Anne of Green Gables and its sequels, L.M. Montgomery (18741942) is far less known for also w...

Understanding an epic storys key belief patterns can reveal community-level values, the nature of familial bonds, and how divine and human concerns...