Literary essay

Randall Jarrell and His Age

by Stephen Burt

Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) was the most influential poetry critic of his generation. He was also a lyric poet, comic novelist, translator, children's book author, and close friend of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert...

Confronting the Horror: The Novels of Nelson Algren

by James R. Giles

Because naturalism seems antithetical to modernism and literary existentialism, slight attention has been given to the existence of a contemporary, or post-World War II, naturalism. Indeed, the very term serves...

John Brent

by Theodore Winthrop & Dean H. Propst

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Hamish Henderson: The Making of the Poet

by Timothy Neat

A biography of Hamish Henderson, well-known as a songwriter, a poet, and a pioneer in the field of Scottish folksong. This book assesses his place in the context of the twentieth century. It is based on interviews...

Blood Diamonds, Revised Edition: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones

by Greg Campbell

Journalist Greg Campbell leads the reader down the international diamond trail of brutality, horror, and profit - providing an on-the-ground and in-the-mines story of global consequence

Sport and the Spirit of Play in American Fiction: Hawthorne to Faulkner

by Christian K. Messenger

In this comprehensive and insightful study, Christian K. Messenger contends that American writers have always created characters at play in the sure knowledge that to be active in sport in America is to be in...

Zongmi on Chan

by Jeffrey Lyle Broughton

Japanese Zen often implies that textual learning ( gakumon) in Buddhism and personal experience ( taiken) in Zen are separate, but the career and writings of the Chinese Tang dynasty Chan master Guifeng Zongmi...

But Enough About Me: Why We Read Other People's Lives

by Nancy K. Miller

In her latest work of personal criticism, Nancy K. Miller tells the story of how a girl who grew up in the 1950s and got lost in the 1960s became a feminist critic in the 1970s. As in her previous books, Miller...

Literature, Life, and Modernity

by Richard Eldridge

Richard Eldridge explores the ability of dense and formally interesting literature to respond to the complexities of modern life. Beyond simple entertainment, difficult modern works cultivate reflective depth...

Anxieties of Empire and the Fiction of Intrigue

by Yumna Siddiqi

Focusing on late nineteenth- and twentieth-century stories of detection, policing, and espionage by British and South Asian writers, Yumna Siddiqi presents an original and compelling exploration of the cultural...

Writing the Republic: Liberalism and Morality in American Political Fiction

by Anthony Hutchison

In this provocative book, Anthony Hutchison challenges the belief that the American novel is "antipolitical" and condemns the relative absence of American literature in studies of the political novel. In Hutchison's...

Hatred and Civility: The Antisocial Life in Victorian England

by Christopher Lane

To understand hatred and civility in today's world, argues Christopher Lane, we should start with Victorian fiction. Although the word "Victorian" generally brings to mind images of prudish sexuality and well-heeled...

Arabic Literature - An Overview

by Pierre Cachia

Assuming no previous knowledge of the subject, Arabic Literature - An Overview gives a rounded and balanced view of Arab literary creativity. 'High' literature is examined alongside popular folk literature,...

Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion

by Jack Zipes

The fairy tale may be one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers...

Algernon Swinburne: The Critical Heritage

by Clyde K. Hyder

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read...

Ernest Hemingway

by Jeffrey Meyers

This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes.

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Robert Browning

by Stefan Hawlin

Accessibly written throughout, this guidebook covers biographical details, information on the historical and social contexts of Browning's work, an overview of the full range of his work and a survey of the...

Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory

by David Herman, Manfred JAHN & Marie-Laure RYAN

The past several decades have seen an explosion of interest in narrative, with this multifaceted object of inquiry becoming a central concern in a wide range of disciplinary fields and research contexts. As...

Louis Althusser

by Luke Ferretter

Best known for his theories of ideology and its impact on politics and culture, Louis Althusser revolutionized Marxist theory. His writing changed the face of literary and cultural studies, and continues to...

The New North American Studies: Culture, Writing and the Politics of Re/Cognition

by Winfried Siemerling

Winner of the English Book Award, Grand Prix du Livre 2006 de la Ville de Sherbrooke.

In this original and groundbreaking study, Winfried Siemerling examines the complexities of recognition and identity, rejecting...