Literature: History & Criticism

This book analyses one of the many levels of complexity not readily apparent to the reader of Zolas fiction: the question of the authors family sec...

This book is a ten-step journey around the thought and poetry of the most sensitive Italian visionary of modernity, Giacomo Leopardi, whose contrib...

The decision to reject motherhood is the subject of several key works of literature in French since the new millennium. This book looks at first-pe...

Despite the considerable amount of criticism that Vladimir Nabokovs literary legacy has produced since the sixties, the studies on his female chara...

The translations by Juan Ramón Jiménez, first resident of the Caribbean to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, have been neglected, likely because ...

This book traces a hundred years of the development of Chinese nursery rhymes, childrens rhymes and childrens poems from the early twentieth centur...

The body of the «Other» exotic, unfamiliar, fascinating is the topic of this collection of essays on nineteenth-century British theatre. Arranged...

This book offers an overview of issues related to the regulated, formal organization of sound and speech in verse intended for singing. Particularl...

William Morriss last romances are strikingly original stories written in his final years, but they remain relatively neglected in both Morris studi...

Drawing on the entire corpus of Coleridge's prose, Emerson Marks shows how the poet's rationale was grounded in the mimetic theory that informed hi...

Drawing on the entire corpus of Coleridge's prose, Emerson Marks shows how the poet's rationale was grounded in the mimetic theory that informed hi...

This book offers a new, complex understanding of Indian writing in English by focusing its analysis on both Indo-Pakistani Partition fiction and no...

This book offers a new, complex understanding of Indian writing in English by focusing its analysis on both Indo-Pakistani Partition fiction and no...

Published in 1972, New Portuguese Letters addressed censored issues such as the colonial war, immigration, the Catholic Church, violence, and the ...

In this innovative book, Bahman Solati presents a comparative study of fe, an internationally renowned poet in the West, particularly in Germany, F...

Translation of fiction is always interpretation. This book discusses the challenges facing translators of fictional works from German into English ...