Literary Studies: General

This study of Voss by the Anglo-Australian Patrick White analyses the historical novel, set in the 1850s and concerning Vosss exploration of the in...

This study examines a series of self-representations from the 19th century (by Goethe, Sand, Nietzsche) that obstruct a confessional and psychologi...

This book analyzes the literature that emerged from World War II. It also examines the literature that resulted from the two major earthquakes that...

Voix et silence se considèrent traditionnellement comme deux phénomènes opposés, sexcluant lun lautre. Les contributions contenues dans ce volume s...

Was Edgar Allan Poe's work vulgar or a «new specimen of beauty»? Did he represent a critical puzzle for his influential readers or a basis for rede...

This book studies the history, literature and culture of Portuguese-speaking countries through the lens of utopia. The role of utopia in Portuguese...

This book analyses one of the many levels of complexity not readily apparent to the reader of Zolas fiction: the question of the authors family sec...

This book is a ten-step journey around the thought and poetry of the most sensitive Italian visionary of modernity, Giacomo Leopardi, whose contrib...

The decision to reject motherhood is the subject of several key works of literature in French since the new millennium. This book looks at first-pe...

Despite the considerable amount of criticism that Vladimir Nabokovs literary legacy has produced since the sixties, the studies on his female chara...

The translations by Juan Ramón Jiménez, first resident of the Caribbean to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, have been neglected, likely because ...

This book traces a hundred years of the development of Chinese nursery rhymes, childrens rhymes and childrens poems from the early twentieth centur...

The body of the «Other» exotic, unfamiliar, fascinating is the topic of this collection of essays on nineteenth-century British theatre. Arranged...

This book offers an overview of issues related to the regulated, formal organization of sound and speech in verse intended for singing. Particularl...

William Morriss last romances are strikingly original stories written in his final years, but they remain relatively neglected in both Morris studi...

This book offers a new, complex understanding of Indian writing in English by focusing its analysis on both Indo-Pakistani Partition fiction and no...

This book offers a new, complex understanding of Indian writing in English by focusing its analysis on both Indo-Pakistani Partition fiction and no...

Published in 1972, New Portuguese Letters addressed censored issues such as the colonial war, immigration, the Catholic Church, violence, and the ...

In this innovative book, Bahman Solati presents a comparative study of fe, an internationally renowned poet in the West, particularly in Germany, F...

Translation of fiction is always interpretation. This book discusses the challenges facing translators of fictional works from German into English ...