Literary Studies: General

From one of our most astute observers, a haunting and unexpected investigation of the many voices he carries inside himself 'The Man Within My Hea...

An analysis of novelistic explorations of modernism in mathematics and its cultural interrelationsModernism in mathematics this unusual notion tur...

Dead Pledges is the first book to explore the ways that U.S. culturefrom novels and poems to photojournalism and horror movieshas responded to the ...

For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician, theologian, poet and lov...

This superb anthology brings together some of the most powerful and compelling writing about the Grand Canyon - stories, essays, and poems written ...

This title includes the authoritative texts for eleven pieces written between 1868 and 1902. It publishes, for the first time, the complete text of...

After retiring from a lifetime of teaching literature, Patricia Meyer Spacks embarked on a year-long project of rereading dozens of novels: childho...

Romes foreign wars, nation by nation.Appian (Appianus) is among our principal sources for the history of the Roman Republic, particularly in the se...

Romes foreign wars, nation by nation.Appian (Appianus) is among our principal sources for the history of the Roman Republic, particularly in the se...

While modernism's engagement with the occult has been approached by critics as the result of a loss of faith in representation, an attempt to draw ...

This unique exchange of letters between literary icon Sinclair Ross and several prominent writers, publishers, agents, and editors asks why many Ca...

This is a groundbreaking re reading of the literary response to a decade of trauma and transformation. This study focuses on the thematic preoccupa...

Through critical readings Gerald Alva Miller, Jr., examines the life of William S. Burroughs and the evolution of his various radical styles not ju...