William Shakespeare 
Hamlet. Der Kaufmann von Venedig. Wie es euch gefällt [PDF ebook] 

First Published in 2005. Distinctly interdisciplinary, Kingship, Conquest, andPatria brings together French and Welsh studies with literary and historical analysis, genre study with questions of medi …

This book offers a transnational feminist response to the gender politics of torture and terror from the viewpoint of populations of color who have come to be associated with acts of terror. Using th …

This book examines Thomas Hardy“s representations of the road and the ways the archaeological and historical record of roads inform his work. Through an analysis of the uneven and often competing ro …

In this book, first published in 1990, Edgard Sienaert and Richard Whitaker offer the first English translation of Marcel Jousse’s crucially important work, Le style oral. As the translators observe, …

How did nerves and neuroses take the place of ghosts and spirits in Meiji Japan? How does Natsume Soseki’s canonical novel Kokoro pervert the Freudian teleology of sexual development? What do we make …

Oliver Taplin“s seminal study was revolutionary in drawing out the significance of stage action in Greek tragedy at a time when plays were often read purely as texts, rather than understood as perfo …

The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature is an engaging and accessible guide to Russian writing of the past thousand years. The volume covers the entire span of Russian literature, from the Midd …

Annabel Patterson tackles the hottest topic in literary studies today – `the Great Books debate – providing a superbly formulated moderate stance between the Western canon“s radical oppponents and i …

This is the standard reference guide to the works of Charles Dickens. The material is arranged alphabetically, in dictionary style, and provides a quick means of reference to the plots of the novels …

This book uses texts from classical to modern Japanese literature to examine concepts of “respect for the strong“, as a notion of an evolutionary society, and “sympathy for the weak“, as a notion …