Literature: History & Criticism

Identifies and explores Roman modes of poetry as received by twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglo-American, German, and French poets. Analo...

Soleil cou coupé (Solar Throat Slashed) is Aimé Césaire's most explosive collection of poetry. Animistically dense, charged with eroticism and blas...

From his earliest shorts to his recent feature lms The Departed and Shutter Island, this book offers an in-depth analysis of the deepest archety...

In The New Nancy Jeff Karnicky explores how todays successful daily comic strips are flexible and relatable, and he uses Olivia Jaimess 2018 reboot...

This collection looks beyond the literary, religious, and philosophical aspects of Chaucers texts to a new mode of interdisciplinary scholarship: o...

Concentrating on major figures of women in The Faerie Queene, together with the figures constellated around them, Anderson's Narrative Figuration e...

Wallace Stevens' dark rabbi, from his poem Le Monocle de Mon Oncle, provides a title for this collection of essays on the lordly study of modern Je...

Oton de Granson, slain in a duel in 1397, was a knight, diplomat, and poet, who lived an active, almost storybook life at or near the center of man...

Since the Renaissance, scholars have attempted to reconstruct ancient Greek music mainly on the basis of literary testimonies. Since the late 19th...

'The moment I got my job at Virago in 1978 I knew it would be a long time before I would leave. I certainly wouldn't have had the brazen hope then-...

In recent years, the American fiction writer David Foster Wallace has been treated as a symbol, as an icon, and even a film character. Ordinary Unh...

This pioneering Handbook offers a comprehensive consideration of the dynamic relationship between English literature and religion in the early mode...

A literary masters entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and greater pleasure What makes a work of literature go...

Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby has become one of the world's best-loved books. Careless People tells the true story behind F. Scot...