Literature: History & Criticism

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the entirety of Wisawa Szymborskas poetic oeuvre. The author employs in-depth historical reflection ...

The book is an analysis of Greek Hellenistic literature with the help of conceptual tools of cultural studies and media theory. Its main aim is to ...

Anorexia, bulimia, binge eating and troubled relationships with food and bodies have been depicted by writers across a variety of languages and cul...

The work of Peter von Matt, Switzerlands finest living literary critic, offers a model of humanisticscholarship par excellence: learned, gracious, ...

Gérard de Nervals French translations of Goethes Faust are key works in FrancoGerman cultural relations, but they have often been mythologized. Thi...

The purpose of the book is to emphasize the role of some women writers (who lived from 19th century to the present) who have devoted a large part o...

Mia Couto has been recognised internationally as one of the most important African authors of our times. His rapidly growing opus shifts fluidly be...

This book is devoted to investigating the relationships and correspondences that hold between the poetry of Wallace Stevens and philosophy. Stevens...

The Covid-19 pandemic has thrust us all into a warped, disjointed coronatime, which has both uncontrollably accelerated, and interminably decelerat...

The volume demonstrates the scope of utopian thinking and the enduring significance of past utopian fictions and historical events as potentially c...

In the politically fluid landscape of modern America, Kurt Vonnegut offers his readers a mirror of cultural self-reflection. Through his personal e...

The 50th volume of Stanford Slavic Studies brings together prominent international specialists in the study of Russian literary history. 42 contrib...

«Deeply versed in recent theoretical discussions of the lyric form in general and the elegy in particular, Adele Bardazzi also brings to bear queer...

This book, Nature Walks: Peripatetic Tradition in Non-fiction Travel Writing of Robert Macfarlane examines pedestrianism in the long history of Br...

American Studies Over_Seas I: Narrating Multiple America(s) is a contribution to the ongoing debate in the field of American Studies in its most re...

Several poetic and prose compositions in early Italian literature contain references to the bubonic plague and other illnesses that were used in th...

The monograph presents the Polish history of haiku and the forms associated with this genre in literature and visual arts. Polish works are confro...