Literature: History & Criticism

The roots of children''s literature are commonly known to lie in adaptation. The texts most frequently adapted for a child audience are either cano...

Hebrew literature, from the second half of the nineteenth century to well into the twentieth, was unmistakably influenced in style and substance by...

One of the foremost thinkers of his generation, Furio Jesi began to publish scholarly essays in academic journals at the age of fifteen. By the tim...

Author of The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien, talked of ''desiring dragons''; that he would prefer ''a wilderness of dragons'' to the bleak territory of the u...

In Hillary Gravendyk''s The Soluble Hour, the speaker sings with visionary passion how the beloved and dear ones will soon be without her and lamen...

Selected by Brian Evenson as winner of the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Prize In a future short on fossil fuels and flora, the military compels it...

In her book, Chrusciel maps the biblical event of annunciation onto the current migration crises. Annunciation becomes a symbol of the yes that w...

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. Groucho MarxOutside of a Dog is the captivating account of t...

Having been marginalized from the literature-proper sphere of Confucian elite culture, the novel began to transform significantly at turn of the tw...

Can todays society, increasingly captivated by a constant flow of information, share a sense of history? How did our media-making forebears balance...

Following the convening of Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2013, The World of Words is a collection of selected works by some of the most int...

The aftermath of Franz Kafka''s love affair with Dora Diamant is legend: refusing to honor his instructions to destroy his work when he died, Diama...

On one level Elsewhere is a satire that takes aim at a number of sacred cows: identity, nationalism, Holocaust commemoration and the moral obligati...

Following the convening of Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2011, The World of Words is a collection of selected works by some of the most int...

Following his acclaimed life of Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates the tangled history of two lives and two books. Drawing on numerous u...