Literary category: 117525 books
Literature on Trial
The Emergence of Critical Discourse in Germany, Poland & Russia, 1700-1800
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Literature on Trial traces the rise of modern literary criticism in Central and Eastern Europe during the eighteenth century. S.D. Chrostowska juxtaposes the discourse's written forms in three linguistic-cultural regions — Germany, Poland, and Russia — to show how fluid the relationship once was...
Hart Crane
After His Lights
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
A critical reassessment of the life’s work of a major American poet.
With his suicide in 1932, Hart Crane left behind a small body of work—White Buildings (1926) and The Bridge (1930). Yet, Crane’s poetry was championed and debated publicly by many of the most eminent literary...
A Sea of Languages
Rethinking the Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Medieval European literature was once thought to have been isolationist in its nature, but recent scholarship has revealed the ways in which Spanish and Italian authors – including Cervantes and Marco Polo – were influenced by Arabic poetry, music, and philosophy. A Sea of Languages brings together...
Figures of Memory
From the Muses to Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Zsolt Komáromy’s Figures of Memory: From the Muses to Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics effects a rapprochement between memory studies and eighteenth-century British aesthetics. It argues that the assessment of memory in the history of aesthetics and criticism has been determined by the ideological...
Remembering Africa
The Rediscovery of Colonialism in Contemporary German Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
In the late 1990s, in the wake of German unification, multiculturalism, and globalization, a surge of historical novels about German colonialism in Africa and its previously neglected legacies hit the German literary scene. This development, accelerated by the centenary in 2004 of Germany's colonial...
Same–sex desire in early modern England, 1550–1735
An anthology of literary texts and contexts
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Balancing long-overlooked and well-known works from early modern England, Same-sex desire in early modern England, 1550–1735: An anthology of literary texts and contexts is a collection of English texts about homoerotic love, relationships, desires, and sexual acts. The anthology’s core texts...
Shakespeare's Hamlet
Philosophical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Does philosophy gain or lose when it is embedded within literature or embodied by drama? Does literary criticism gain or lose when it turns to literary works as occasions for abstract reflection? Leading literary scholars and philosophers interrogate philosophical dimensions of Shakespeare's Hamlet...
The Making and Marketing of Tottel’s Miscellany, 1557
Songs and Sonnets in the Summer of the Martyrs’ Fires
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
First published in the summer of 1557 - as the protestant martyrs’ pyres blazed across England - Songes and Sonettes, written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other (more generally known as Tottel’s Miscellany) is widely regarded as the first anthology of English...
Arms and the Woman
War, Gender, and Literary Representation
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2000
Although the themes of women's complicity in and resistance to war have been part of literature from early times, they have not been fully integrated into conventional conceptions of the war narrative. Combining feminist literary criticism with the emerging field of feminist war theory, this collection...
South African Literature's Russian Soul
Narrative Forms of Global Isolation
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
How do great moments in literary traditions arise from times of intense social and political upheaval? South African Literature's Russian Soul charts the interplay of narrative innovation and political isolation in two of the world's most renowned non-European literatures. In this book, Jeanne-Marie...
Building Socialism
Architecture and Urbanism in East German Literature, 1955-1973
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Building Socialism reveals how East German writers' engagement with the rapidly changing built environment from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s constitutes an untold story about the emergence of literary experimentation in the post-War period. It breaks new ground by exploring the centrality of architecture...
Memos from the Besieged City
Lifelines for Cultural Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Memos from the Besieged City argues for the institutional and cultural relevance of literary study through foundational figures, from the 1200s to today, who defied precarious circumstances to make significant contributions to literacy and civilization in the face of infelicitous human acts. Focusing...
by Sandra Parmegiani
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"The history of the literary relations between Italy and England has its most celebrated early modern representative in Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827). Foscolo's translation of Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy is often regarded as the benchmark of his English experience,...
Pulse Points
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
‘With precise and beautiful prose, the short stories in Jennifer Down’s Pulse Points carry an emotional clarity and intensity that is truly impressive.’ Books+Publishing
The characters in Jennifer Down’s Pulse Points live in small dusty towns, glittering exotic cities and slow droll...