Literature: History & Criticism

In The Case of Literature, Arne Höcker offers a radical reassessment of the modern European literary canon. His reinterpretations of Goethe, Schill...

This long-awaited volume presents the fifth and final category of Noh plays, often called kiri-n, or ending Noh, because they are staged last in a ...

Long a topic of intricate political and social debate, Canadianidentity has come to be understood as fragmented, amorphous, andunstable, a multifac...

Pearl, a dream vision, presents its poignant story of the education of a misguided Christian soul in metrically intricate and verbally ornate stanz...

For centuries, cats have been worshipped, adored and mistrusted in equal measure. This beautiful gift book contains a selection of essays, stories,...

In the quiet countryside or by the sea - and always very close to London - Sussex has offered a creative space for writers for centuries, from Lord...

Finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism Nothing about Jenny Diski is conventional. Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring ... highly int...

James Joyce is one of the greatest writers in English. His first book, A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man laid down the template for the Comin...

Daniel Albright was one of the preeminent scholars of musical and literary modernism, leaving behind a rich body of work before his untimely passin...

An engrossing novel about the lives in a small Slovak town during the tumultuous twentieth century. In this highly acclaimed novel, Jana Bodnárová ...

Enjoy a whole year of the very finest nature writing, with one carefully selected piece to savour every day. This beautifully illustrated daily ant...

International in scope and varied in its theoretical approaches, this collection of ten new critical essays examines the prevailing trends in re...