Literary Studies: General

What does it mean to write in a socialist revolution? What defines labor in a communist society? In revolutionary China, writers were regularly dis...

This book provides a critical overview of the cultural impact of the Murder, She Wrote TV series and its paratextual elements, including board and ...

Shakespeare is at the heart of the British theatrical tradition, but the contribution of Ira Aldridge and the Shakespearean performers of African, ...

A unique study of the only physical manuscript containing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as both a material and literary object.   In this book, A...

The work of Michel Houellebecq – one of the most widely read and controversial novelists of our time – is marked by the thought of Schopenhauer. Wh...

Commenting on the Bible was the principal way in which early medieval Christians conducted the work of theology; commentaries also open a window fo...

Considers how Irish poets have drawn on discourses of locality to articulate new forms of place and belonging amid Ireland's transforming global id...

The international community of letters mourns the recent death of Yves Bonnefoy, universally acclaimed as one of France's greatest poets of the las...

Nationalist and tribal cohesion in Ireland, South Africa, the US, and elsewhere often relies on an absence of female and gender-nonconforming bodie...

As a writer and forward-thinking social critic, Lillian Smith (1897–1966) was an astute chronicler of the twentieth-century American South and an e...

For forty-five years, the expatriate Juan Goytisolo has been widely acknowledged as both Spain's greatest living writer and its most scabrous criti...

The relationship between philosopher-critic Walter Benjamin and playwright-poet Bertolt Brecht was both a lasting friendship and a powerful intelle...