William Shakespeare 
Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung. Viel Lärm um Nichts. Die Comödie der Irrungen [PDF ebook] 

William Faulkner and Mortality is the first full-length study of mortality in William Faulkner’s fiction. The book challenges earlier, influential scholarly considerations of death in Faulkner’s work …

Mimesis has been addressed frequently in terms of literary or visual representation, in which the work of art mirrors, or fails to mirror, life. Most often, mimesis has been critiqued as a simple att …

Few literary phenomena are as elusive and yet as persistent as realism. While it responds to the perennial impulse to use literature to reflect on experience, it also designates a specific set of lit …

Emma is one of Jane Austen”s most popular novels, in large part due to the impact of Emma Woodhouse, the ’handsome, clever and rich’ heroine. This lively, informed and insightful guide to Emma explo …

Citizenship studies is at a crucial moment of globalizing as a field. What used to be mainly a European, North American, and Australian field has now expanded to major contributions featuring scholar …

Masculinity in Contemporary New York Fiction is an interdisciplinary study that presents masculinity as a key thematic concern in contemporary New York fiction. This study argues that New York author …

The Routledge Handbook to Contemporary Jewish Cultures explores the diversity of Jewish cultures and ways of investigating them, presenting the different methodologies, arguments and challenges withi …

Guiding readers through key writers and genres, historical contexts and major theoretical approaches, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of popular fiction. Charting the rise of commer …

One of our earliest surviving Greek tragedies, Aeschylus” Seven Against Thebes is an extraordinarily rich poetic text. It dramatises the civil war between the sons of Oedipus Polynices – the exile, …

In the past both the significance and purpose of Martial”s poetry have often been misinterpreted or missed altogether because of the particular literary and social background and context that inform …