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Is Marx relevant any more? Why should we care what he wrote? What difference could it make to our reading...

An exciting analysis of the myriad literary effects of Tiananmen, Belinda Kong's Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square is the first...

A splendid work of criticism that introduces us to Howell, the well-versed literary critic. He discusses the writings of various...

This book examines how the early American poets Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley gained agency within a traditionally patriarchal field...

A philosophic grounding for textual criticism that shows how textual criticism is an integral part of the activity of reading. Author:...

A lively and comprehensive introduction to the art of literary translation for readers of foreign fiction and poetry who wonder what...

A collection of essays that reexamine literature through a feminist gaze from "one of our most versatile and gifted...

Focusing on key works of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American literary realism, Phillip Barrish traces the emergence of new...

-- Robert Hegel, Washington University Author: Chang, Sung-sheng Yvonne Publisher: Columbia University Press Illustration: N Language: ENG Title: Literary C......

A person who reads a book for self-improvement rather than aesthetic pleasure is “reading up.” Reading Up is Amy Blair's engaging study...

Drawing on a wide array of literary, historical, and theoretical sources, Rachel Lee addresses current debates on the relationship among...

The most notorious poet-critic of his generation, William Logan has defined our view of poets good and bad, interesting and...

Comic poets are inspired best by the bittersweet nature of their art-the thrill of skewering the world's power elite while...

Since the 1960 publication of her first novel, The Country Girls, award-winning Irish writer Edna O'Brien has been both celebrated...

This original book examines the way in which the Romantic period's culture of posterity inaugurates a tradition of writing which...

'The longer I live, the more I am convinced of the importance of children's books.' When Robert Bloomfield wrote...

According to the dominant tradition of literary criticism, the novel is the form par excellence of the private individual. Empty...

In this broad-ranging and ambitious intervention in the debates over the politics, ethics, and aesthetics of cosmopolitanism, Rebecca L. Walkowitz...

Constructing the Stalinist Body brings together contemporary body theory with studies on Stalinist ideology and cultural mythology in order to...

While Patrick Kavanagh (1904-67) was above all a poet, for most of his writing life he was a prolific producer...