Literary Reference Works

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Unpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books is an edited collection of essays that ponders the cultural meaning and signif...

Arcing across thirty years and seven volumes, Jan Zwicky's poetry has always been acutely musical (and sensitive to the silence out of which music ...

The image of the dusty, undisturbed archive has been swept away in response to growing interest across disciplines in the materials they house and ...

Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition critiques ways of approaching Indigenous texts that are informed by the Western academic traditi...

Space Between Her Lips presents the first selected works of one of Canada's most important poets of the last few decades. Margaret Christakos write...

Literature not only represents Canada as our home and native land but has been used as evidence of the civilization needed to claim and rule that l...

Can literary criticism help transform entrenched Settler Canadian understandings of history and place? How are nationalist historiographies, insula...

The Bronte family produced and consumed art across a range of media and genres. Haworth Parsonage and the local region proved a crucible of inspira...

Anyone genuinely curious about what makes South Korean pop culture tick should look no further than Gangnam. Celebrated in a song by an unlikely K-...

Anyone genuinely curious about what makes South Korean pop culture tick should look no further than Gangnam. Celebrated in a song by an unlikely K-...

This is a collection of selected and translated Chinese legends and tales arranged under specific topics important to Chinese culture, with an intr...

This is a collection of selected and translated Chinese legends and tales arranged under specific topics important to Chinese culture, with an intr...

Ghost stories as a window on the American settler psyche In this innovative book, Sladja Blaan explains the foundational role of ghost stories in f...

Ghost stories as a window on the American settler psyche In this innovative book, Sladja Blaan explains the foundational role of ghost stories in f...

Contributions by Beverly Lyon Clark, Christine Doyle, Gregory Eiselein, John Matteson, Joel Myerson, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, Anne K. Phillips, ...

From new insights into the Chickasaw sources and far-reaching implications of Faulkners fictional place-name Yoknapatawpha, to discussions that rev...

Isiah Lavender III's Dis-Orienting Planets amplifies critical issues surrounding the racial and ethnic dimensions of science fiction. This edited v...

Who's afraid of Edna O'Brien? asks an early interviewer in Conversations with Edna O'Brien. With over fifty years of published novels, biographies,...

Patrick Chamoiseau: A Critical Introduction examines the career, oeuvre, and literary theories of one of the most important Caribbean writers livin...

Larry Brown (1951-2004) was unique among writers who started their careers in the late twentieth century. Unlike most of them-his friends Clyde Edg...

Before the innovative work of Zora Neale Hurston, folklorists from the Hampton Institute collected, studied, and wrote about African American folkl...

In The Story-Time of the British Empire, author Sadhana Naithani examines folklore collections compiled by British colonial administrators, militar...

Its been barely twenty years since Dave Eggers (b. 1970) burst onto the American literary scene with the publication of his memoir, A Heartbreaking...

Paul Auster (b. 1947) is one of the most critically acclaimed and intensely studied authors in America today. His varied career as a novelist, poet...

Contributions by Lauren R. Carmacci, Keridiana Chez, Kate Glassman, John Granger, Marie Schilling Grogan, Beatrice Groves, Tolonda Henderson, Nusai...

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was one of the most acclaimed, popular, and controversial American playwrights of the twentieth century. The Glass M...

In 1925 William Faulkner began his professional writing career in earnest while living in the French Quarter of New Orleans. He had published a vol...

John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac's life they were--in Holmes's words--Brot...

A Tyrannous Eye: Eudora Welty's Nonfiction and Photographs is the first book-length study of Eudora Welty's full range of achievements in nonfictio...

The fascinations of John Clare's life are manifold. A labouring-class poet and naturalist, he was lionised in the early 1820s but spent his final d...

The fascinations of John Clare's life are manifold. A labouring-class poet and naturalist, he was lionised in the early 1820s but spent his final d...

Known internationally for his Japanese-style poetry, Lenard D. Moore (b. 1958) has published eight poetry collections over the course of his career...