Literature: history and criticism Books

First published in 1940. The Byronic Teuton explores the delineation in German literature, between 1800 and 1933, of certain pessimistic ideas and emotions that were being expressed by writers, artists and academics. This manifestation of negative...

First published in 1980, this book surveys Dickens' growing power to drive deep into the causes of his contemporary conditions. It reveals the importance of nature to Dickens as a rich metaphor of human freedom and potentiality, and emphasises his...

There is no English novelist whose reputation has fluctuated so violently as that of George Meredith. First published in 1971, this volume of essays reassesses the works of George Meredith. Despite his unevenness, the essays demonstrate that Meredith was...

Using an understudied archive of American news broadcasts, and tracing their flashes and echoes through travel guides and narratives of return written by Eastern European-Americans, this book explores American ways of seeing and mapping communism's...

First published in 1969. This title concerns itself with the ambivalence of Lawrence's attitude towards corruption. At the same time this is a study of Lawrence's debt as a novelist to the English Romantic poets. This title will be of interest to...

Das Buch untersucht das Phänomen der Gastfeindschaft und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Integration von postkolonialen Gastmigrant*innen sowie auf die soziale Kohäsion in fiktiven europäischen Gesellschaften. Dabei erforscht es Formen fortgesetzter...

Comment écrire aujourd'hui face à une accélération incontrôlable du temps, un passé historique encore traumatique et un futur planétaire souvent perçu comme anxiogène? Ce volume entreprend de sonder les enjeux de notre époque à travers les configurations...

This volume explores how Jansenism was transmitted into Central European literatures and how it shaped the concept of literature in the region. It investigates how and through which translators, publishers and patrons Jansenist ideas, texts and readings...

This book fills a gap in early developmental psychology by providing a critical reconsideration of the status of artifact objects as protagonists of children's actions and communication. The main thesis explored in the book is that objects are part of...

This biographical volume includes Lilian Sauter's only published collection of poetry, Through High Windows, along with letters, photographs, and extensive biographical material, all framed by a scholarly introduction, detailed annotations, and...

The author is highly educated in Odia language and literature, with a strong academic foundation and years of experience in the field. Her deep-rooted passion for the Odia literary tradition has driven her to pursue extensive research focused on both...

Fowler has emerged as a force in the world of experimental poetry and his work deserves serious critical engagement; therefore, The authors utilize The Great Apes as an entry into his larger body of work. He is so prolific because his work as an...

The discipline of world literature has traditionally focused on written literatures, particularly the novel, with little emphasis placed on the unwritten verbal arts, despite the significance of oral literary expressions around the world, in the past as...

It is with great pleasure that we present to you the 54th issue of Reader's House, a celebration of literary excellence and the extraordinary authors who bring these stories to life. In this edition, we continue our tradition of showcasing works that not...

Joseph, Judah, and Plot is an exploration of narrative continuity in Genesis 37-50. It offers a new and literary reading of the story about Jacob and his sons, tracing its plot-structure from the narrative world of Genesis to the world of the reader...

Translating Petrarch in early modern Britain gathers twelve essays by international scholars focusing on the translation of Petrarch's vernacular verse (Canzoniere and Triumphi) into English, from the Tudor age to the mid-seventeenth century (and beyond)...

This book explores the relationship between altered states of consciousness and their influence on art, literature, archaeology, and religion. The essays and responses in this collection provide a range of perspectives on how these states have the power...

Children's Literature & Culture: An Introduction guides readers in the study of culture in, around, and through children's literature.

The Odeon, a new volume of essays by the celebrated poet and critic Daniel Tobin, takes its title from the classical Greek and Roman buildings designed for the presentation of musical and poetic compositions. Organized around the question of...

This collection explores how women writers in the English-speaking world transform personal intimacy into political engagement, challenging cultural oppression across genres—life writing, novels, poetry, and theatre—from the 19th century to...

"Jason's writing is absolutely wonderful..."-A.D. Jones, author of Born of BloodshedRemember when strangers came door-to-door with fresh-baked pies, families gathered around black-and-white TV sets, and small towns held tight to their secrets? Jason...

This book discusses the English translations of Cervantes's works, the literary genres which developed in his shadow, and the best-known authors who consciously emulated him. It explores the Cervantes's influence upon British literature.

In this sustained full length study of Marlowe's plays, Andrew Duxfield argues that Marlovian drama exhibits a marked interest in unity and unification, and that in doing so it engages with a discourse of anxiety over social discord that was prominent in...

Bringing together children's literature scholars from China and the United States, this collection provides an introduction to the scope and goals of a field characterized by active but also distinctive scholarship in two countries with very different...

This book offers a historical analysis of key classical translated works for children, such as writings by Hans Christian Andersen and Grimms' tales. Translations dominate the earliest history of texts written for children in English, and stories...

Traveling through Text compares religious ravel writing by Muslims, Christians and Jews in later Middle Ages. This comparative approach allows us to see that writers in all three religious communities used travel writing in the same way, to shape the...

The essays in this collection explore various physical and conceptual spaces, moving from physical environments to the two-dimensional spaces of paintings, illustrations, and photographs, to chart similarities, differences, and complex nuanced...

James Merrill: Knowing Innocence reevaluates the achievement of this important poet by showing how he takes up an old paradigm - innocence - and reinvents it in response to new historical, scientific, and cultural developments including the bomb,...

This book presents the first comprehensive study of over 120 printed news reports of murders and infanticides committed by early modern women. It offers an interdisciplinary analysis of female homicide in post-Reformation news formats ranging from...

Recently, scholars in a variety of disciplines-including philosophy, film and media studies, and literary studies-have become interested in the aesthetics, definition, and ontology of the screenplay. To this end, this volume addresses the fundamental...

Klar gives a compelling examination of the prophets Job, Saul, David, Noah and Solomon as portrayed in Tha'labi's 'Arais Al-Majalis' and questions its efficacy as a tool for the exploration for the human condition via a close analysis of the tales of the...

First published in 2001. Part of the Routledge Who's Who series, this is an accessible, authorative and enlightening definitive biographical guides to a range of subjects. Focusing on mythology, this book provides a uniquely comprehensive guide to world...

What Steven Walker labels a cryptic subtext, is an extreme case of hypertextuality. It involves a series of allusions to another text that have been inserted by the author into the primary text as potential points of reference. This book takes a deep...

The Routledge Introduction to Canadian Crime Fiction provides a much-needed investigation into how crime and detection have been, are, and will be represented within Canada's national literature, with an attention to contemporary popular and literary...

The Routledge Companion to Literary Media examines the fast-moving present and future of a media ecosystem in which the literary continues to play a vital role. This authoritative collection is an invaluable resource for scholars and students working at...

This collection of essays by world-leading translation specialists sheds light on some of the major shifts in thinking about translation that are taking place today. Written in an accessible and engaging style, this is essential reading for all advanced...

This book deals with the two key concepts of indigeneity and nation of the indigenous people from across the world. It looks at issues and ideas of indigeneity, nationhood, nationality, State, identity, selfhood, constitutionalism, and citizenship in...

First published in 1991. These ten essays by the distinguished Milton scholar Edward Le Comte examines the various themes, context and structure of Milton's poetry and prose, including particular focus on both Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. This...

Brooklyn has long been known as having one of the most vibrant poetry scenes in the world, yet there has never been an anthology devoted to celebrating the many contemporary poets who call it home. The Brooklyn Poets Anthology is a landmark...

Contemporary Galician literature is a central pillar of Galician cultural production and a key driver of the consolidation of Galicia's identity in the twenty-first century, yet it remains largely invisible outside of the borders of Spain. In Translation...

Karoline von Günderrode's biography - and in particular her early death - have long overshadowed an appreciation of her literary works. Closer attention to her poems, prose writings and plays reveals Günderrode's remarkable engagement with the...

This volume brings together diverse contributions from an international team of scholars, asking what has sustained Russian cultural development across the centuries and how Russian culture has evolved to this day. It covers a broad range of Russian...

In 1945, Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) brought back to Paris six matchboxes filled with the work of his war years: minute figurines that crumbled upon a single touch. Around this time, Irish playwright Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) began...

本书是潘莉的散文选集，全书分四个部分：少年、远行、家园、朋友，汇集她最近三年在《世界日报》等刊物发表的三十八篇散文。潘莉用质朴淡雅的文笔写身边平凡的人和事，包括她的亲人、朋友和同事，她的工作和生活，例如她的第一次心动、第一次远行、第一次工作面试、第一次出书等。她体察细致，一人一事、一情一景、一草一畜，经过她的视角，便充满乐趣和温情。

若蓝在2020年3月11日-2022年6月19日断断续续写了272篇有关新冠疫情的日记。2020年3月到6月写了100篇。2021年底到2022年6月写了172篇。这272篇疫情日记不仅记录了有关中美疫情的时事新闻，也记录了若蓝身边的生活琐事。2020年3月11日，若蓝因为疫情回家上班第一天的晚上，在手机上写下了若蓝的第一篇美国疫情日记，当时没有意识到人们正站在历史的边缘，整个世界即将被呼啸而来的新冠病毒冲入一场史无前例的世纪级的灾难漩涡里。2020年若兰写了100篇日记，记录了若蓝在美国疫情期间的感受，...

Many commentaries have been devoted to Lewis Carroll's masterpiece, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The interpretations range from Freudian analysis to speculations about the real-life people who may have inspired the animal characters. In this unique...

Upon its original publication in 1962, Edward Wagenknecht's The Movies in the Age of Innocence immediately earned recognition as a classic in the history of early cinema. A tribute to American silent film from the first-person perspective of one who grew...

La memoria poetica, che costituisce il fondamento di questo lavoro, si realizza in Milo De Angelis con gli strumenti offerti dalla dimensione dialogica che mette in un rapporto reale e concreto la materia del presente con i ricordi del vissuto, le...