Literary Studies: General

Playing the Martyr is a book about the interplay between theater and religion in early modern France. Challenging the standard narrative of moderni...

Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium: The Ends of Spanish Identity investigates the predominant perception of liminalityidentity situated ...

Though the progress of technology continually pushes life toward virtual existence, the last decade has witnessed a renewed focus on materiality. D...

In The Ecological Thought, eco-philosopher Timothy Morton has argued for the inclusion of dark ecology in our thinking about nature. Dark ecology, ...

A study of the prophetic tradition in medieval England brings out its influence on contemporary politics and the contemporary elite. The period fr...

New essays by prominent scholars in German and Holocaust Studies exploring the boundaries and confluences between the fields and examining new tran...

New essays exploring the tension between the versions of the past in secret police files and the subjects' own personal memories-and creative worki...

This study demonstrates the ways that Latina authors contest how power and space exploit women while simultaneously subverting the Nation-State thr...

The first study to utilize the Klagenfurt Edition of Musil's Nachlass offers a close reading of textual variations, emphasizing Musil's commitment ...

Proposes an interdisciplinary solution to the Thoreau problem through the connection between his ecological study of nature and his intense interes...

Newest volume of the central scholarly forum for discussion of Brecht and aspects of theater and literature of particular interest to him, especial...

Excerpts from texts (with translation) from the French of medieval England offer a guide to medieval literary theory. From the twelfth to the fift...

An invigorating annual for those who are interested in medieval textual cultures and open to ways in which diverse post-modern methodologies may be...

First awarded in 1993, the Américas Award is given in recognition of books that authentically and engagingly portray Latino/as in Latin America, th...

This collection of new essays examines third-generation Holocaust narratives and the inter-generational transmission of trauma and memory. This col...

In Composing Selves, award-winning author Peggy Whitman Prenshaw provides the most comprehensive treatment of autobiographies by women in the Ameri...

In his new book, Christian Moraru argues that post-Cold War culture in general and, in particular, the literature, philosophy, and theory produced ...

Reveals Ann Tizia Leitich, American correspondent for Austrian newspapers in the 1920s and 1930s, as an important cultural mediator between the two...

Published in 1937, Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not is that rare example of a novel whose cultural impact far outweighs its critical reputat...

Ernest Hemingway's place in American letters seems guaranteed: a winner of Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, Hemingway has long been a fixture in high sch...

As a highly visual writer, Ray Bradbury's works have frequently been adapted for film and television. One of the most stylized and haunting dramati...

Essays looking at the idea of science fiction as it can be applied to medieval texts, and the synergies between the genres. This volume brings two...

Thinking of Ernest Hemingway often brings to mind his travels around the world, documenting war and engaging in thrilling adventures. However, full...