Literature: History & Criticism

This book presents the first large-scale investigation of the structure and functions of linguistic impoliteness and impoliteness metalanguage in c...

The Philosophical Transactions and the letters preserved in the Royal Societys archives provide precious insights into the making of science and th...

There was a time when the word modern would not have appeared in folklore scholarship in general and in proverb studies in particular. After all, f...

This book explores interconnections between high literary modernism and the revolution in dress design of the early twentieth century. During this ...

Includes some of Valery's finest strokes of imagination, Broken Stories; some of his wittiest observations, Mixtures, Poems in the Rough; and even ...

This volume was inspired by the 9th edition of the Phonetik & Phonologie conference, held in Zurich in October 2013. It includes state of the a...

This book addresses the representation of masculinities in the work of J. M. Coetzee, with a particular focus on the writers trilogy: Boyhood (1997...

The Spectators, also known as Moral Weeklies, were an important magazine genre which came into being in the early 18th century and which shaped Eur...

This study of Voss by the Anglo-Australian Patrick White analyses the historical novel, set in the 1850s and concerning Vosss exploration of the in...

This study examines a series of self-representations from the 19th century (by Goethe, Sand, Nietzsche) that obstruct a confessional and psychologi...

The second of two studies devoted to the interrelations of poetry and prose fiction, this volume examines the origins, development and flowering of...

«Thinking Through Relation brings together an outstanding collection of essays that explore the diverse ways in which works of art and aesthetic ex...

This book analyzes the literature that emerged from World War II. It also examines the literature that resulted from the two major earthquakes that...

Voix et silence se considèrent traditionnellement comme deux phénomènes opposés, sexcluant lun lautre. Les contributions contenues dans ce volume s...

Was Edgar Allan Poe's work vulgar or a «new specimen of beauty»? Did he represent a critical puzzle for his influential readers or a basis for rede...

Theres No Word for Saudade contains twenty-one essays aimed at a readership interested in cultural and historical materials, including those relate...

This study of a novel by William T. Vollmann offers a port of entry into his fiction. Like other titles from his planned «Seven Dreams» collection,...

This book studies the history, literature and culture of Portuguese-speaking countries through the lens of utopia. The role of utopia in Portuguese...