Kirjallisuudentutkimus: yleinen

How did you first learn about sex? If you grew up in the 1970s, it may have been from a gleefully lusty tour guide named Xaviera Hollander In the late 1960s -- that era of sexual …

Tietokirjallisuudesta puhutaan usein yhtenäisenä kokonaisuutena, vaikka se sisältää lukuisia eri lajeja elämäkerroista kädentaito-oppaisiin ja matkakertomuksista …

'Pray, pray be composed,' cried Elinor, 'and do not betray what you feel to every body present. Perhaps he has not observed you yet.' For Elinor Dashwood, sensible and sensitive, …

An astonishing work of cultural criticism, this book is widely recognized as a brilliant and devastating challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, religion, and …

Translated by H.F. Cary With an Introduction by Claire Honess. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing …

Features 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', 'The Task of the Translator' and 'Theses on the Philosophy of History', as well as essays on Kafka, storytelling, …

Of all the classical poets Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84-54 BC) is the most accessible to the modern reader. Presented alongside the original Latin text, this new translation …

Ihmiset elävät materiaalisessa maailmassa. Hengitysilma, ravinto, vaatteet ja asumukset ovat välttämättömiä heidän hengissä säilymisekseen. Ihmisten materiaalinen maailma on …

Winner of both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books, Paul …