Literature: history and criticism Books

En Escena: Crónicas Y Retazos Literarios is a collection of essays and literary fragments by Rafael Pérez Cabello. This volume offers a diverse range of reflections on literature, culture, and personal experiences. Pérez Cabello's...

Diese Sammlung enthält eine Auswahl der berühmten "Canterbury Geschichten" von Geoffrey Chaucer in deutscher Übersetzung. Die "Canterbury Geschichten", ein Eckpfeiler der mittelalterlichen englischen Literatur, präsentieren eine lebendige Vielfalt...

Eine Sammlung von Essays des österreichischen Schriftstellers Hermann Bahr, die um die Jahrhundertwende entstanden sind. In seinen Essays setzt sich Bahr mit philosophischen, sozialen und kulturellen Fragen seiner Zeit auseinander. Seine Beobachtungen...

'Casas Tomadas: Monsters and Metaphors on the Periphery of Latin American Literature and Media' examines how Latin American writers, filmmakers, and artists use monstrosity to reflect on marginalization, identity, and social trauma. This volume brings...

African-American scholars in the United States and Western Europe continue to concentrate on African-American literary studies. The expanding interest in Caribbean publishing, which focuses on the intersection of Afro-Caribbean and African-American...

Explores the coevolution of Absolute idealist philosophy and British fiction from the Romantic period forward.Absolute Fiction examines the principal form of idealism in the modern period, Absolute idealism, which posits that mind and matter must be...

Analyzes how French and Chinese literary and filmic texts enact a series of feminist affective responses to the erasure of historical trauma.Remnants of Refusal traces an affective discourse of feminist refusal across a series of French and Chinese works...

Rewrites the dominant narrative of the political work of lyric poetry in the United States since the nineteenth century.What if increased visibility of marginalized identities-a goal of much socially committed lyric poetry in the United States-does not...

Shows how US literary representations of mothering across racial, ethnic, and LGBTQ communities challenge ideological prescriptions about motherhood and maternal love.Mothers, Mobility, Narrative pairs women-identified writers whose work illuminates a...

Shakespeare's Theater of Nature argues that Shakespeare combined art and nature in new ways while experimenting with relations between words, images, and objects as sources of knowledge and pleasure.  Shakespeare's re-centering of nature as a...

V Verse Is I is a contemplation of poetic encounters centered in the house of good and evil off the beaten path of toxic relationships, homelessness, and higher education. Comprised of poetry, exposé, creative nonfiction, literary criticism and theory, V...

Mastering Chinese through the HSK journey just got easier! This comprehensive series is designed to guide learners through various HSK proficiency levels, blending practice sentences with essays and stories. Each book focuses on real-life learning,...

Mastering Chinese through the HSK journey just got easier! This comprehensive series is designed to guide learners through various HSK proficiency levels, blending practice sentences with essays and stories. Each book focuses on real-life learning,...

Do you want your kids to learn Mandarin Chinese? Are you wondering how they can start learning to recognize and differentiate confusing Chinese characters? The book in this series will certainly help your kids jumpstart their Mandarin Chinese endeavors!...

Do you want your kids to learn Mandarin Chinese? Are you wondering how they can start learning to recognize and differentiate confusing Chinese characters? The book in this series will certainly help your kids jumpstart their Mandarin Chinese endeavors!...

Do you want your kids to learn Mandarin Chinese? Are you wondering how they can start learning to recognize and differentiate confusing Chinese characters? The book in this series will certainly help your kids jumpstart their Mandarin Chinese endeavors!...

Sixty-Six Reveries: A Poet’s Walk Through the Field of Scripture is a unique and evocative collection of poetry that invites readers on a reflective journey through the entire Bible. With one poem dedicated to each of the sixty-six books of the...

This collection of essays by a team of internationally respected researchers at the cutting edge of translation studies was inspired by the idea of "writing forward" as a strategy for theatre translation proposed by David Johnston, the award-winning...

Early Modern Women Writers of Venice: Looking for Happiness explores the ways in which five women used their writing to challenge misogynistic views about female inferiority, develop a sense of agency, and form meaningful interpersonal relationships that...

The Routledge Introduction to Canadian Literature and Illness considers the key literary and historical frameworks for reading stories about sickness.

Vladimir Odoevsky (1804-1869) was a fascinating and encyclopedic figurein nineteenth-century Russian culture, who in his day was mentioned in the same breath as Pushkin and Gogol. Thinker, pedagogue, musicologist, amateur scientist and public servant, he...

Catching the Torch examines contemporary novels and plays written about Canada's participation in World War I. Exploring such works as Jane Urquhart's The Underpainter and The Stone Carvers, Jack Hodgins's Broken Ground, Kevin Kerr's Unity (1918),...

A key figure in contemporary speculative fiction, Jamaican-born Canadian Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) is the first Black queer woman as well as the youngest person to be named a "Grand Master" of Science Fiction. Her Caribbean-inspired narratives--Brown Girl...

A key figure in contemporary speculative fiction, Jamaican-born Canadian Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) is the first Black queer woman as well as the youngest person to be named a "Grand Master" of Science Fiction. Her Caribbean-inspired narratives--Brown Girl...

In Asian Political Cartoons, scholar John A. Lent explores the history and contemporary status of political cartooning in Asia, including East Asia (China, Hong Kong, Japan, North and South Korea, Mongolia, and Taiwan), Southeast Asia (Brunei, Cambodia,...

In Asian Political Cartoons, scholar John A. Lent explores the history and contemporary status of political cartooning in Asia, including East Asia (China, Hong Kong, Japan, North and South Korea, Mongolia, and Taiwan), Southeast Asia (Brunei, Cambodia,...

The School Story: Young Adult Narratives in the Age of Neoliberalism examines the work of contemporary writers, filmmakers, and critics who, reflecting on the realm of school experience, help to shape dominant ideas of school. The creations discussed are...

Jack Kent (1920-1985) had two distinct and successful careers: newspaper cartoonist and author of children's books. For each of these he drew upon different aspects of his personality and life experiences. From 1950 to 1965 he wrote and drew King Aroo, a...

Arriving in New York at the tail end of what has been termed the "Golden Age" of Broadway and the start of the Off Broadway theater movement, Terrence McNally (1938-2020) first established himself as a dramatist of the absurd and a biting social critic...

Arriving in New York at the tail end of what has been termed the "Golden Age" of Broadway and the start of the Off Broadway theater movement, Terrence McNally (1938-2020) first established himself as a dramatist of the absurd and a biting social critic...

In 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote about the Talented Tenth in an influential essay of the same name. The concept exalted college-educated Blacks who Du Bois believed could provide the race with the guidance it needed to surmount slavery, segregation, and...

Contributions by Cynthia Neese Bailes, Nina Batt, Lijun Bi, Hélène Charderon, Stuart Ching, Helene Ehriander, Xiangshu Fang, Sara Kersten Parish, Helen Kilpatrick, Jessica Kirkness, Sung-Ae Lee, Jann Pataray-Ching, Angela Schill, Josh Simpson, John...

Joanna Scott (b. 1960) has been one of America's leading writers since the 1990s. Both critically acclaimed and winner of numerous prestigious awards, Scott's unique and probing vision and masterful writing has inspired readers to adjust their...

Conversations with Graham Swift is the first collection of interviews conducted with the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel Last Orders. Beginning in 1985 with Swift's arrival in New York to promote Waterland and concluding with an interview...

Food is a signifier of power for both adults and children, a sign of both inclusion and exclusion and of conformity and resistance. Many academic disciplines--from sociology to literary studies--have studied food and its function as a complex social...

Contributions by Joshua T. Anderson, Chad A. Barbour, Susan Bernardin, Mike Borkent, Jeremy M. Carnes, Philip Cass, Jordan Clapper, James J. Donahue, Dennin Ellis, Jessica Fontaine, Jonathan Ford, Lee Francis IV, Enrique García, Javier...

Today fans still remember and love the British girls' comic Misty for its bold visuals and narrative complexities. Yet its unique history has drawn little critical attention. Bridging this scholarly gap, Julia Round presents a comprehensive cultural...

In Children's Books on the Big Screen, Meghann Meeusen goes beyond the traditional adaptation approach of comparing and contrasting the similarities of film and book versions of a text. By tracing a pattern across films for young viewers, Meeusen...

There are many things in this world that happen. Some of them are unexplained. For the past thirty-nine years, my family and I have witnessed uncountable paranormal activities in several homes that were built on my land. All in which remain unexplained...

ANDAMO: Msafiri Safarini ni diwani ya kwanza kuchapishwa na mshairi wa Kiswahili, Mohammed Khelef Ghassani, mzawa wa Zanzibar anayeishi na kufanya kazi nchini Ujerumani. Ndani yake ni muakisiko wa safari yake ya ukuwaji baina ya muongo wa mwisho wa 1990...