Litteraturvetenskap

This prize-winning work provides a facsimile of the 1609 Quarto printed in parallel with a conservatively edited, modernized text, as well as commentary that ranges from brief …

Exploring beyond the usual boundaries of social anthropology, a leader in the field shows why our readings of ancient literary texts may be off the mark Many famous antique texts …

What does eating have to do with aesthetic taste? While most accounts of aesthetic history avoid the gustatory aspects of taste, this book rewrites standard history to uncover the …

The first major career-spanning collection of the poems of Adonis, widely acknowledged as the most important poet working in Arabic today   “Poetry for [Adonis] is not merely a …

This volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets explores love, grief, the opioid epidemic, and coming of age  “Elegiac and witty.”—Elisa Gabbert, New York Times, “The Best Poetry …

A searing testament to poetry’s power to define and defy injustice, from iconic writer-activist Serhiy Zhadan   Finalist for the PEN America Literary Award for Poetry in …

A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy  “Spare, elegant and poignant. . . . If there is a single contemporary book …

The second book in the Why I Write series provides generous insight into the creative process of the award-winning Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard “Why I Write” may prove to …

A devastating story of the struggle of civilians caught up in the conflict in eastern Ukraine  Chosen as one of “Six Books to Read for Context on Ukraine” by the New York Times …

In this third Why I Write volume, Eileen Myles addresses the social, political, and aesthetic conditions that shape their work  “A sharply etched, unvarnished …