Literary Studies: General

The writings and life of Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) have enjoyed considerable attention both from admirers of her work and from scholars. In thi...

This book is a translation of one of the most important Turkish scholarly works of the twentieth century. It was the masterpiece of M.F. Koprulu, o...

Upon his death in 1898, the French Symbolist poet Stephane Mallarmé (b. 1842) left behind a body of published work which though modest in quantity ...

Defining Acts considers how the surviving English theatrical works of the fifteenth century represent competing practices of interpretation. The pl...

Uses the ethnographic and literary work of Hurston to augment the few official documents and family records to reconstruct the social world of all-...

"Authorialism is like a chronic and progressive disease of modernity. It leads art to the impasse of a totally reflected and 'rationalized' practic...

Throughout the Americas, performances deriving from medieval European rituals, ceremonies, and festivities made up a crucial part of the cultural c...

The writings and life of Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) have enjoyed considerable attention both from admirers of her work and from scholars. In thi...

The period 1830–1832 witnessed a remarkable series of cultural and political milestones in France. In 1830, a revolution overturned one monarchy, o...

In Whores of Babylon, Frances E. Dolan offers a perceptive study of the central role that Catholics and Catholicism played in early modern English ...

By the beginning of the twentieth century, epistolary novels in Spain increasingly grappled with homoerotic and homosexual desire, treating it as a...

Were it not for the Marquis de Sade's explicit use of language and complete disregard for the artificially constructed taboos of a religious morali...

This is the first extended treatment of the English translations, stagings, and reception of the political plays of Dario Fo and Franca Rame. Focus...

As the world around us becomes more fantastic, and science itself more surreal, the realms of science fiction and fantasy become correspondingly bo...

âWhat is the difference, asks Martha Rhodes, between forgetting and being forgotten? Why do our most primal images of self-definition - the house, ...

In the ancient Mediterranean world, the sea was an essential domain for trade, cultural exchange, communication, exploration, and colonisation. In ...

With monumental changes in the last two decades, Taiwan is making itself anew. The process requires remapping not only the country's recent politic...

Recovered Legacies: Authority and Identity in Early Asian American Literature employs contemporary and traditional readings of representative works...

The most important woman in the history of southern California never lived. The eponymous heroine of Helen Hunt Jackson's popular 1884 novel Ramona...

This elegant and thoughtful work offers an important new way of understanding Jane Austen by defining the fundamental impact and influence of Briti...

Mississippi bluesman Robert Johnson died young and left behind just twenty-nine recorded songs. But the legacy, legends, and lore surrounding him l...

A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic BookSpanish American novels of the Boom period (1962-1967) attracted a world readership to Latin American li...

Larry McMurtry declares, "Texas itself doesn't have anything to do with why I write. It never did." Horton Foote, on the other hand, says, "I've ju...