Literary Companions, Book Reviews & Guides

Vladimir Sorokin is the most prominent and the most controversial contemporary Russian writer. Having emerged as a prose writer in Moscow's artisti...

Vladimir Sorokin is the most prominent and the most controversial contemporary Russian writer. Having emerged as a prose writer in Moscow's artisti...

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There is no shortage of explanations for the longevity of Defoes Robinson Crusoe, which has been interpreted as both religious allegory and frontie...

This book brings together ten essays on John Donne and George Herbert composed by an international group of scholars. The volume represents the fir...

Holy adolescence, Batman! Robin and the Making of American Adolescence offers the first character history and analysis of the most famous superhero...

Holy adolescence, Batman! Robin and the Making of American Adolescence offers the first character history and analysis of the most famous superhero...

Seafaring activity for trade and travel was dominant throughout the Spanish Empire, and in the worldview and imagination of its inhabitants, the sp...

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...