Literary Studies: General

'you'll find another man to harvest, Glycerion: let this one go' The Greek satirist Lucian was a brilliantly entertaining writer who invented the ...

Leading international scholars explore the party's significance to Modernism. Have you ever been struck by the number of parties in Modernist liter...

«How had it ever happened here?», Thomas Pynchon’s protagonist Oedipa Maas asks towards the end of his second novel The Crying of Lot 49. This ques...

Explores Woolf's writing alongside Deleuze's philosophy and new materialist theories of 'sex', 'animal', and 'life' How does Virginia Woolf concept...

The present volume is a contribution to the theory of narrative by scholars from various disciplines, mainly scholars from Comparative Literature b...

In The Humblest Sparrow, Michael Roberts illuminates the poetry of the sixth-century bishop and poet Venantius Fortunatus. Often regarded as an imp...

Strong cultural, commercial, literary and intellectual links have existed for many centuries between the Celtic cousins France and Ireland and cont...

This volume offers an analysis of colonial literature in the late Victorian age with a specific focus on the works of Henry Rider Haggard (1865-192...

Virginia Woolf, Fashion and Literary Modernity places Woolf's writing in the context of sartorial practice from the Victorian period to the 1930s, ...

This book contends that the haptic sense - combining touch, kinaesthesis and proprioception - was first fully conceptualised and explored in the mo...

This book explores the use of idioms in Salman Rushdie’s eleven novels. Firstly, the key concepts in phraseology are discussed as a background to t...

Astrid Lindgren, author of the famed Pippi Longstocking novels, is perhaps one of the most significant children's authors of the last half of the t...

Chinese medicine is a culturally dependent art of healing deeply rooted in the culture and philosophy of the country it originated from: China. Thi...

Philosophy as a discipline has not only been distinct and crucial but also consistent in the enduring search for practical solutions to human probl...

'Radical, intrepid, compendious, /A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures/, goes far toward restoring 'postcolonialism' to its historica...

Introduces a Renaissance masterpiece to a modern audience. This Guide will help new readers to understand and enjoy The Faerie Queene, drawing atte...

Focusing on works by Derek Walcott, Les Murray, Anne Carson, and Bernardine Evaristo, Katharine Burkitt investigates the relationship between liter...

"Manning the Margins is provocative, timely, and very original and makes a significant contribution to a variety of fields, including French litera...

Cet ouvrage constitue les actes du colloque international « Théorie, analyse, interprétation des récits/Theory, analysis, interpretation of narrati...

Recently, scholars in a variety of disciplines—including philosophy, film and media studies, and literary studies—have become interested in the aes...

This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings t...

An incisive study of modern American literature, casting new light on its origins and themes. Exploring canonical American writers such as Ezra Pou...

Eyes deep with unfathomable histories is a quotation taken from the poem by Pauline Melville entitled «Homeland». This volume was inspired by two a...

This multi-authored volume focuses on Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press (1917-1941). Scholars from the UK and the US use previously unpubl...