Literature

Bringing together internationally leading scholars whose work engages with the continued importance of literary experiment, this book takes up the ...

the Muses have been sacked their role in the pantheon sold up for some new real estate venture When the Muses are sacked, what are we to do? The M...

The wildly unrestrained poems in Splinters Are Children of Wood, Leia Penina Wilson's second collection and winner of the Ernest Sandeen Prize in P...

The wildly unrestrained poems in Splinters Are Children of Wood, Leia Penina Wilson''s second collection and winner of the Ernest Sandeen Prize in ...

The undisputed masterpiece of fourteenth-century Spain by Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita, affords a particularly privileged locus for the implementa...

The Broken Angel is the first book-length examination of a mythopoetic configuration that pervades Valery''s entire textual universe. The Angel is ...

Germain Nouveau (1851-1920), poet and painter, friend of Rimbaud and Verlaine, discreet disciple of Mallarme, led a vie de boheme while composing p...

The Mahabharata is one of the greatest stories ever told. Though the basic plot is widely known, there is much more to the epic than the disput...

Hayashi Fumiko, one of the most popular prose writers of the Showa era, began writing as a down-and-out poet wandering the streets of 1920s Tokyo. ...