Literary Studies: General

This collection, covering 500 years of transgressive Gaelic poetry with new English translations, breaks the mould for anthologies of Gaelic verse....

Daisy Bacon, the opinionated, autocratic and complex editor of Love Story Magazine from 1928 to 1947, chose the stories that would be read by hu...

Until quite recently, Asian American literary criticism had little to do with form. Instead, the tendency was to bind the literary tradition to ide...

In the course of compiling his highly acclaimed three-volume biography of Kafka, while foraying to libraries and archives from Prague to Israel, Re...

The Tooth that Nibbles at the Soul brings together Marshall Browns new and previously published writings on literature and music. These essays enga...

Essays tackling the difficult but essential question of how medievalism studies should look at the issue of what is and what is not authentic. Giv...

A collection of essays on Spanish poetry honouring a distinguished British Hispanist. Trevor J. Dadson is a British Hispanist of international dis...

If you want to know what its like to pull up a stool with the likes of Hemingway, Updike or Capote, are curious how Jay McInerney takes his martini...

*This major new biography finally and fully illuminates a pivotal episode in Greene''s life and career in the kind of detail that will sate any fan...

This is the first book to deal with the self-reflexive nature of narration of Beckett and Bernhard. Samuel Beckett's and Thomas Bernhard's works ar...

The winner of every major American literary prize, John Updike (1932-2009) was one of the most popular and prolific novelists of his time and a maj...

This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his co...

Until recently no one could read the stories that formed the basics of the detective story in America and made it one of the most popular kinds of ...