Literature: history and criticism

This title offers a profound exploration of Catalonia's rich poetic tradition, tracing its origins, influences, and thematic evolution over centuries.

Conceived in 1976 and published in 1980, LEGEND exemplifies the political and linguistic commitments of then-nascent Language writing.

Our Naked Frailties: Sensational Art and Meaning in Macbeth by Paul A.

Encoding Bioethics addresses important ethical concerns from the perspective of each of the stakeholders who will develop, deploy, and use artificial intelligence systems to support clinical decisions.

Nabati Poetry: The Oral Poetry of Arabia offers a deep exploration of a vibrant poetic tradition that has long captured the cultural and social essence of Arabia.

Nabati Poetry: The Oral Poetry of Arabia offers a deep exploration of a vibrant poetic tradition that has long captured the cultural and social essence of Arabia.

Provence and Pound offers a compelling exploration of the relationship between Ezra Pound and the tradition of Provenal poetry.

Our Naked Frailties: Sensational Art and Meaning in Macbeth by Paul A.

From the Poetry of Sumer: Creation, Glorification, Adoration by Samuel Noah Kramer offers modern readers a rare window into the world's earliest recorded literature.

Lu Xun and His Legacy explores the profound and complex impact of Lu Xun, a towering figure in modern Chinese literature, whose influence has extended far beyond his writings.

Prophetic Woman: Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England offers an incisive exploration of how the story of Anne Hutchinson has been repeatedly reshaped in American cultural narratives to address anxieties about female autonomy, dissent, and individualism.

In Mans Estate, the exploration of masculine identity takes center stage as Shakespeare's works are examined through the lens of psychoanalytic theory and historical context.

All This Thinking explores the deep friendship and the critical and creative thinking between Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge, focusing on an intense three-year period in their three decades of correspondence.

Fifty Spanish Poems introduces English-language readers to the lyrical intensity of Nobel laureate Juan Ramon Jimenez, the poet at the center of Spain's modernist revival.

The Ill-Framed Knight: A Skeptical Inquiry into the Identity of Sir Thomas Malory embarks on a meticulous and spirited investigation into the enigmatic figure behind the Le Morte dArthur.

Lu Xun and His Legacy explores the profound and complex impact of Lu Xun, a towering figure in modern Chinese literature, whose influence has extended far beyond his writings.

Fifty Spanish Poems introduces English-language readers to the lyrical intensity of Nobel laureate Juan Ramon Jimenez, the poet at the center of Spain's modernist revival.

This title was originally published in 1951.

This title was originally published in 1970.

Modern readings of ancient Athenian drama tend to view it as a presentation of social or moral problems, as if ancient drama showed the same realism seen on the present-day stage.

From the Poetry of Sumer: Creation, Glorification, Adoration by Samuel Noah Kramer offers modern readers a rare window into the world's earliest recorded literature.

Chinas Great Leap Forward of 1958-1961 was a time of official rejoicing over the achievements of Communism, but it was also a time of immense suffering.

Two Novels of Mexico: The Flies / The Bosses by Mariano Azuela translated by Lesley Byrd Simpson brings the founding novelist of the Mexican Revolution back to the scenes that forged his art: panic, opportunism, and moral reckoning in a society unmade by war.

Stream of Consciousness in the Modern Novel by Robert Humphrey is a foundational study that clarifies one of the most elusive terms in modern literary criticism.

The allure of Mexico in modern English fiction is a compelling and underexplored subject, particularly in the works of D.

The allure of Mexico in modern English fiction is a compelling and underexplored subject, particularly in the works of D.

This book focuses on previously unexplored gaps, limitations and avenues of inquiry within the canon and scholarship of Irish modernism to develop a more attentive and fluid theoretical account of this conceptual field.

Alongside the scores of travel books about China written by foreign visitors, Chinese travelers' impressions of their own country rarely appear in translation.

Stream of Consciousness in the Modern Novel by Robert Humphrey is a foundational study that clarifies one of the most elusive terms in modern literary criticism.

Volume XV contains three of Dryden's Plays, along with accompanying scholarly appartus: Albion and Albanius, Don Sebastian, and Amphitryon.

Edited by poet and scholar Ryan Dobran, this volume of correspondence between the American poet Charles Olson (1910-1970) and the English poet J.

Paul Alpers's Singer of the Ecloguesargues that Virgil's ten*Eclogues(composed c.

Paul Alpers's Singer of the Ecloguesargues that Virgil's ten*Eclogues(composed c.

Das jiddische Sefer Misle Su'olim, 1583 gedruckt, ist die erste vollständige Übertragung der hebräischen Fabelsammlung Misle Su'alim von Berechja ben Natronaj haNakdan (um 1200) in eine europäische Sprache.

Volume XV contains three of Dryden's Plays, along with accompanying scholarly appartus: Albion and Albanius, Don Sebastian, and Amphitryon.

The Munich-based Carl Hanser Verlag was one of the most important publishers in the 1950s and 1960s when it came to promoting Polish literature in West Germany.

In this book, pre-eminent semiotician Arthur Asa Berger decodes the meanings of common objects of consumption and their perceived 'sacredness' in consumerist cultures.

John Foxe and the Elizabethan Church by V.

Joyce in Nighttown offers a compelling psychoanalytic examination of James Joyces Ulysses, positioning the novel as a complex psychological gesture both deeply personal and universally resonant.

Spontaneity and Tradition: A Study in the Oral Art of Homer by Michael N.

This title was originally published in 1986.