Literature: History & Criticism

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...

In a collection of sixteen essays, Gagiano addresses over twenty texts from various African regions and periods. The works discussed here range fro...

This study aims at delineating the cultural work of magical realism as a dominant narrative mode in postcolonial British fiction through a detailed...

In this compilation, the authors suggest a temporal model interpretation for the stele from the Scythian Senior Trekhbratnyi barrow (IVIII centurie...

The Copper Garden: New Zealand Novels is a book of literary criticism and review about Aotearoa New Zealand fiction over the past one hundred fifty...

A literary and cultural history of the intimate space of the eighteenth-century closetand how it fired the imaginations of Pepys, Sterne, Swift, an...

Cicatrices provides an understanding of the mood in Central American fiction over the last five years. Many recent novels and short stories are aes...

Through its unique kaleidoscopic lens, this book analyzes the work of Algeria''''s first postcolonial woman writer to publish a novel in Arabic, Ah...