Literature: History & Criticism

The Instructions are Saint Louis''s second set of recommendations, which he addressed to his daughter Isabelle, who later became Queen of Navarre. ...

Barbarino''s orthographic study is a quantitative and comparative analysis of the alternation of B and V in Latin inscriptions. His data is drawn f...

Based on an analysis of Sherwood Anderson's letters, this study explores the novelist's principal inspiration during his final years (1938-1941)...

Game of Thrones has changed the landscape of television during an era hailed as the Golden Age of TV. An adaptation of George R.R. Martins epic fan...

Playwright, biographer, screenwriter, and critic S. N. Behrman (1893-1973) characterized the years he spent writing for The New Yorker as a time de...

When Vladimir Nabokov's translation of Pushkins masterpiece Eugene Onegin was first published in 1964, it ignited a storm of controversy that famou...

Despite centuries of Catholic conservatism, Spain stands among the Western countries that have recently embraced non-traditional families. A declin...

In the life stories of Holocaust survivors, biblical imagery can be invoked to explicate the unexplainable, to make real the unreal. This text e...

Robert Louis Stevenson's cinematic legacy is studied in-depth here, with a look at his life and his body of work. From The Sire De Maletroit's Door...

This series provides comprehensive reading and study guides for some of the world's most important literary masterpieces. Each title features: ...

Greed and guilt, near-indecipherable codes, murder plots born of madness--these motifs drive the best modern mysteries, but they are rooted in t...

Language into Language, conceived as both a theoretical and a practical source for aspiring and practicing interpreters and translators, also se...

The ever-shifting boundaries of the public and private spheres have exerted strong, though often subtle, pressures on modern life. This collecti...

The writing of Iris Murdoch has long been of interest to both literature enthusiasts and students of philosophy. The years Murdoch spent studyin...

These 15 essays investigate comic books and graphic novels, beginning with the early development of these media. The essays also place the work ...

Some critics rank biographers just above serial murderers. The author of this book, a self-described member of the Samuel Johnson school, doesn'...

Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish jo...

This epic French poem was most likely written in the fourteenth century. The edition contains an introduction examining the plot, structure, langua...

This general chronology of Voltaire''s letters by an eminent Voltairiste contains a chronological appendix, followed by a bibliography and an i...

This critical, annotated essay is followed by appendices on painters in French fiction and selected paintings by them. A descriptive bibliography i...