Literary Studies: General

This book studies Wallace Stevens and pre-Socratic philosophy, showing how concepts that animate Stevens’ poetry parallel concepts and techniques f...

First published in 1985, the essays in this edited collection offer a representative sample of the descriptive and systematic approach to the study...

Romance was criticized for its perceived immorality throughout the Renaissance, and even enthusiasts were often forced to acknowledge the shortcomi...

Set against the backdrop of a rapidly fissuring disciplinary landscape where poetry and science are increasingly viewed as irreconcilable and unrel...

In her compelling reexamination of Djuna Barnes's work, Daniela Caselli raises timely questions about Barnes, biography and feminist criticism, ide...

In der Untersuchung wird aufgezeigt, wie deutschsprachige Autoren südosteuropäischer Herkunft transkulturelle Räume in ihren Werken artikulieren un...

Perspectives on America's greatest living playwright that explore his longstanding commitment to forging a uniquely American theaterArthur Miller's...

This book is a study of twentieth century Polish literature in the contexts of queer theory, psychoanalysis and modernism studies. It presents read...

The purpose of this book is to present to scholars, students and enthusiasts in the fields of literature and linguistics a way to study a text anal...

In her lively and accessibly written book, Juliet McMaster examines Jane Austen’s acute and frequently uproarious juvenile works as important in th...

In both feminist theory and Shakespearean criticism, questions of sexuality have consistently been conflated with questions of gender. First publis...

Madame Bovary ranks among the world’s most famous and widely read novels, and has inspired numerous critical theories. First published in 1987, thi...

Ways of Reading is a best-selling textbook for undergraduate students of English Language and English Literature, providing readers with the tools ...

Editor Howard Goldblatt explains that while most societies analyse and revere their literary trends in retrospect, post-Liberation China’s literary...

As a comparative study which includes the analysis of both English-Canadian and Quebec novels, this book provides an overview of the novel as it ha...

This collection of twenty-one unabridged interviews puts us immediately in the company of one of the presiding literary figures of our times. This ...

Conversations with Erskine Caldwell contains thirty-two interviews with this major writer, who during his long career enjoyed both the celebrity an...

This book, written in Spanish, focuses on the literary and artistic works of such avant-garde figures as Ramon Gomez de la Serna, Benjamin Jarnes, ...

The English middle class in the late nineteenth century enjoyed an increase in the availability and variety of material goods. With that, the visua...

Responding to the pressures of current theoretical trends toward models of cultural globalization, the essays collected here bring a historical foc...

In Conversations with James Thurber this remarkable man who has been called America's twentieth-century Mark Twain and who was one of the great tal...

Why do writers so often write about writers? This book offers the first comprehensive account of the phenomenon of the fictional novelist as a char...

Between 1905 and 1939 a conspicuously tall white man with a shock of red hair, dressed in a silk shirt and white linen trousers, could be seen on t...

“A good place to be from.” That’s how some people might characterize the Buckeye State. The writings in Good Roots: Writers Reflect on Growing Up i...

The last fifty years have witnessed the growing pervasiveness of the figure of the map in critical, theoretical, and fictional discourse. Reference...

The study of Assamese literature has so far been in terms of the history of the Assamese language. This book is a history of the narratives written...

In a draft attached to a letter to his friend and confidante Wilhelm Fliess (May 31, 1897), Freud develops an idea: The mechanism of fiction is the...

Known today primarily as the author of Our Town, probably America's most beloved and widely produced play, Thornton Wilder is the only writer ever ...

First published in 1993. This annotated bibliography covers all material relating to A Tale o f Two Cities from Dickens’s first hints of it in his ...

Is knowledge power? In Teach the Nation , Anne-Elizabeth Murdy explores the history and contradictions in the notion that education and literacy a...

Most critics and literary historians have ignored Marxist-inspired creative literature in Canada, or dismissed it as an ephemeral phenomenon of the...

The caste system is supposed to be inescapable-you cannot change the caste into which you are born. But are there ways to elude the system? Conceal...

First published in 1984, this title examines the development of a special rhetoric in Dickens’ work, which, by using grotesque effects, challenged ...

During the eighteenth century, treatises on the science of elocution, gesture and naturalness abounded. This title draws together a representative ...

The monograph discusses the relation between language and visual culture, focusing on two Chaucerian narratives, «Knight’s Tale» and «Troilus and C...

The Social Life of Criticism explores the cultural representation of the female critic in Victorian Britain, focusing especially on how women write...

Medieval manuscript culture organizes reading as a visual experience. Early fifteenth-century Paris saw a proliferation of luxury manuscripts whose...

A new reading of madness in Don Quixote based on archival accounts of insanity. From the records of the Spanish Inquisition, Dale Shuger presents a...

The scientific, political, and industrial revolutions of the Romantic period transformed the status of humans and redefined the concept of species....

Inspiration and Transcendence in the Fiction of Kate Chopin: Echoes of Nineteenth Century German Women and Women Writers marks the first comprehens...

In Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus, author Arum Park explores two notoriously difficult ancient Greek poets and seeks to art...

Winner of the 2021 Best International Book Award from the Mormon History Association In the late nineteenth century, numerous French plays, novels,...