Literary Studies: General

Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr's The Liars' Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She ...

The long-awaited memoir from one of the most acclaimed radical writers in American literature. Described by the London Review of Books as one of t...

This is the first Chronology of Portuguese Literature to be published in any language. It presents a comprehensive year-by-year list of significant...

This is a critical and philosophical investigation into the unforeseeable and the surprising in narrative and life. This new study asks how stories...

Bestselling author and renowned professor Mary Karr offers a master class in the essential elements of great memoir-delivered with her signature wi...

This volume stems from the assumption that broadly-understood borderlands, as well as peripheries, provinces or uttermost ends of different kinds, ...

Postmodern revisions of fairy tales have influenced several discourses and disciplines especially during the second half of the twentieth century. ...

This ground-breaking study examines visual and literary responses to, and representations of, illness, dying and death from the perspective of the ...

In over fifteen years, the cultural and artistic response to 9/11 has been wide-ranging in form and function. As the turbulent post-9/11 years have...

This volume offers a collection of papers dealing with how adversities have been tackled and expressed artistically from various perspectives in Ir...

In Three Guineas, first published in June, 1938 (as the threat of war between Britain and Nazi Germany was looming larger day by day) Virginia Wool...