History & Criticism

By The End Of Volume 1 Of The Life Of William Faulkner (a Filling, Satisfying Feast For Faulk7ner Aficianados-- Kirkus), The Young Faulkner Had Gone From An...

This revised edition of the Arden Shakespeare Complete Works includes the full text of Double Falsehood, which was published in the Arden Third series to c...

Mae West, wise-cracking vaudeville performer, was one of the most controversial figures of her era. Rarely, however, do people think of Mae West as a writer...

metaphor Is A Central Concept In Literary Studies, But It Is Also Prevalent In Everyday Language And Speech. Recent Literary Theories Such As Postmodernis...

Communications, Philosophy, Film And Video, Digital Culture: Media Studies Straddles An Astounding Array Of Fields And Disciplines And Produces A Vocabulary...

Narrative is an important element in our daily life and the novel is arguably the most popular genre of our times. The theory of narrative or narratology, w...

Irwin Traces The Development Of The Stories Within Stories From Prehistoric India And Pharaonic Egypt To Modern Times, Explores Translations, Additions, Imi...

In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mourning political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original...

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 5, spanning 1932 through May 1934, traces the completion and publication of Death in the Afternoon and Winner Take N...

Sophocles' Ajax Is One Of The Most Disturbing And Powerful Surviving Ancient Tragedies. But It Is Also Difficult To Understand And Interpret. What Are We To...