Literary Reference Works

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...

In this elegant but pocketable edition in the Ross's Discoveries series, passionate bibliophile Michael Ross has curated his favorite literary quo...

History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century....

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...

Professor Moynahan's object in this illuminating, critical survey has been to consider Lawrence entirely in his most important role...as the author...

In this deconstructionist interpretation of a major eighteenth-century work, William Dowling analyzes Boswell's Life of Johnson as a paradigm of an...

Most contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and linguists think of language as basically a means by which speakers reveal their thoughts to othe...

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...

With her trademark brio and deep-tissue understanding, Maria Tatar opens the glass casket on this undying story, which retains its power to charm t...

Bob Dylan has helped transform music, literature, pop culture, and even politics. The World of Bob Dylan chronicles a lifetime of creative inventio...

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 ...

This volume offers the most nuanced treatment available of Black engagement with print in the transitional years after the Civil War. It locates an...