Literary Studies: General

This book is the first of its kind to significantly concentrate on trans-nation, transnationalism and its dialogue with various nationalisms in Sou...

He was the leading light of the Beat Generation writers and the most dynamic author of his time, but Jack Kerouac also had a lifelong passion for m...

From the Teddy Boys of the post-war decade to the heroin chic of Cool Britannia, the many subcultures of Britains teenagers have often been at the ...

A revised and updated edition of a comprehensive biographical and critical reading of the works of American poet and memoirist Maya Angelou (1928-2...

Considering the support behind Brexit and Donald Trumps America first policies, this book challenges the idea that they are motivated solely by fea...

Claudia Brodsky marshals her equal expertise in literature and philosophy to redefine the terms and trajectory of the theory and interpretation of ...

This significant new study is concerned with the role of interpreting in Nazi concentration camps, where prisoners were of 30 to 40 different natio...

The reactionary Comicsgate campaign against alleged forced diversity in superhero comics revealed the extent to which comics have become a key batt...

This book is one English professors assessment of university life in the early 21st century. From rising mental health concerns and trigger warning...

There are sons who grow up unhappily believing that no matter what they do, they cannot please their fathers. Often unable to shed their sense of l...

In recent years, the biographical novel has become one of the most dominant literary forms-J.M. Coetzee, Margaret Atwood, Hilary Mantel, Colum McCa...

Beyond the Mother Tongue examines distinct forms of multilingualism, such as writing in one socially unsanctioned mother tongue about another langu...

This book's underlying claim is that English Renaissance tragedy addresses live issues in the experience of readers and spectators today: it is not...

The original Blackfriars closed its doors in the 1640s, ending over half-a-century of performances by men and boys. In 2001, in the Shenandoah Val...

Since the premiere of his play FOB in 1979, the Chinese American playwright David Henry Hwang has made a significant impact in the U. S. and beyond...

Edward Said was an exiled individual - the 'out of place' Palestinian in the USA. He saw the consequences of the 1948 dismantling of Palestine and ...

Animals were omnipresent in the everyday life and the visual arts of classical Greece. In literature, too, they had significant functions.This book...

A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature.   In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-speaking world developed a...

Topics covered include New Citizenship Studies, an emergent methodology for reading the role of literature in the cultural making and unmaking of c...

Amidst the popularization of race science and rapid colonial expansion that characterized the Romantic era, newly urgent discussions about the mora...

Amidst the popularization of race science and rapid colonial expansion that characterized the Romantic era, newly urgent discussions about the mora...

Social Ethics and Governance in Contemporary African Writing is the first book to bring rigorous literary, philosophical, and artistic discourse to...

Company was first composed in English over two years, with Beckett breaking a 20-year-long pattern of composing primarily in French to craft this m...