A comprehensive examination of the meaning, history, and evolution of the basic notion of "literature" from antiquity to the seventeenth century.

These essays on the problems and functions of biography - particularly those of writers, thinkers and artists - investigate a subject of enduring importance for

This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the be

What is Literature? challenges anyone who writes as if literature could be extricated from history or society. But Sartre does more than indict. He offers a def

This textbook is an anthology of significant theoretical discussions of biography as a genre and as a literary-historical practice. Covering the 18th to the 21s