Literary Studies: General

Un trabajo que estudia la compleja relación entre exilio y literatura en la Argentina durante un período de profundos cambios sociales y políticos....

A miscellany of learned literature from Alexandria and beyond.This volume presents a selection of Hellenistic prose and poetry, ranging chronologic...

America is a nation making itself up as it goes alonga story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unpre...

The Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), best known for his violent, erotic novels, such as 120 Days of Sodom and Justine, was also one of the key inspirat...

Mark Twain's complete, uncensored Autobiography was an instant bestseller when the first volume was published in 2010, on the centennial of the aut...

This revelatory volume brings together significant works in translations from nearly fifty Chinese writers. It includes poems, essays, fiction, son...

Turkey lies at the crossroads of history. Since the beginning of civilisation, Anatolia has been crossed and re-crossed by waves of ancient people:...

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...

The Trappist abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Kentucky (the house of Thomas Merton) owns the eclectic Dom Edmond Obrecht Collection of manuscript...

This book contains new, annotated, and literal yet accessible translations of Xenophons eight shorter writings, accompanied by interpretive essays ...

From novels to films, our everyday lives are filled with stories that comfort and connect us and enable new ways of thinking. One of the most in...

Now in its second edition, How to Read Texts introduces students to key critical approaches to literary texts and offers a practical introduction f...

Laurence Hutchman, in Writers' Words: Conversations with Eight Canadian Poets, interviews major poets of the modernist period: Ralph Gustafson, Geo...

Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage is the first critical biography of one of todays most important novelists. Drawing on unpublished emails and b...

Literature can be used to disseminate ideas with devastating real-life consequences. In How Bad Writing Destroyed the World, Adam Weiner spans deca...

The 6th/5th century BCE Greek melic (or songwriting) poet Pindar was one of the most celebrated lyricists of antiquity. His famous victory odes off...