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The father of pastoral poetry and his Hellenistic heirs. Theocritus (early third century BC), born in Syracuse and also active on Cos and at Alexandria, was the inventor of the bucolic genre. Like his contemporary Callimachus, Theocritus was a learned poet who followed the aesthetic, developed...

In a bold and brilliantly persuasive series of moves, Lorna Hutson draws upon new historicist and feminist theories to examine closely Renaissance literature and the cultural impact of the humanist project. The Usurer's Daughter: provides startling new readings of Shakespeare takes an entirely...

Retellings of the best-loved Brothers Grimm fairy tales. With this book, the author opens up a new dimension to the best-loved fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm - so familiar to us and yet so full of unfamiliar imagery and inexplicable plot twists. He reminds us that these are stories originally...

John Banville offers a close analysis of most of Banville’s major novels, his Quirke crime novels, and his dramatic adaptations of Heinrich von Kleist’s plays. Banville’s work has been marked by an embedded discourse about the significance of art and by a concurrent self-consciousness of its own...

Adorno's Gamble offers a startling reinterpretation of the evolution of Theodor W. Adorno's thought, usually seen as a mix of critical Marxism, Freudian psychoanalysis, aesthetic modernism, and Jewish tradition. Mikko Immanen argues for another, previously unacknowledged source of Adorno's...

We're used to the novel being declared dead, dying, or endangered. Seemingly every few years, a critic will read it the last rites - yet the form remains more popular than ever with readers. In The Future of the Novel, author Simon Okotie presents a bold future for long-form fiction, and...

Chaucer’s Ethical Philosophy argues that Chaucer's fictions engage with the most urgent questions of modern political and moral philosophy. Close analysis of Troilus and Criseyde, the Canterbury Tales, and the Book of the Duchess reveals the ways in which Chaucer anticipates modern philosophical...

Aimé Césaire is arguably the greatest Caribbean literary writer in history. Best known for his incendiary epic poem Notebook of a Return to My Native Land, Césaire reinvented black culture by conceiving ‘négritude’ as a dynamic and continuous process of self-creation. In this essential new...

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Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism Shortlisted for the Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society A history of the chapter from its origins in antiquity to today Why do books have chapters? With this seemingly simple question, Nicholas Dames embarks on a...

One of Europe’s greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben, analyzes the life and work of one of Europe’s greatest poets, Friedrich Hölderlin. What does it mean to inhabit a place or a self? What is a habit? And, for human beings, doesn’t living mean—first and foremost—inhabiting? Pairing a...

Aimé Césaire is arguably the greatest Caribbean literary writer in history. Best known for his incendiary epic poem Notebook of a Return to My Native Land, Césaire reinvented black culture by conceiving ‘négritude’ as a dynamic and continuous process of self-creation. In this essential new...

Grief faces all of us in the end. This collection explores how poets have expressed and attempted to come to some kind of understanding of this universal but often under-discussed emotion. M. Wynn Thomas explores how each poet gives full, unbridled expression of their pain, before moving...

An urgent study of Homer’s Iliad, exposing the beginnings of the ecological disaster we now face and facilitating our understanding of its history The roots of today’s environmental catastrophe run deep into humanity’s past. Through this unprecedented reading of Homer’s Iliad, the...

This Element studies historians' autobiographies from a global perspective, containing gender, postcolonial, and trauma experiences. This Element analyses the autobiographies of historians from a global perspective and looks at all eras, from antiquity to the present day. It includes twenty...

Why was typography enthusiastically adopted in Japan in the 1590s and then abandoned fifty years later? This Element first sets the history of printing in Japan in its East Asian context, showing how developments in China, Korea and elsewhere had an impact upon Japan. It then undertakes a...

This Element discussed slime's importance; despite its ubiquity, there is a its dearth of discussions within the Environmental Humanities. Slime has always stirred the imagination and evoked strong responses. It is as central to life and growth as to death, degeneration, and rot. Slime heals and...

A critical investigation of the biographical corpus on Mary Wollstonecraft. Betwixt and Between identifies the biases, errors and ambiguities that have run rampant in the biographies on Mary Wollstonecraft, many of them left unchecked and perpetuated from publication to publication. Brenda Ayres...

Fascinating compendium of facts, folklore, superstitions, myths, and anecdotes about trees and the forest. Describes forest customs, temples and sacred groves, mythical forest creatures, famous trees, unusual trees, tree worship, fossil trees, Yule logs, and much more. "If you have a feeling for...

Discover beauty beyond the boundaries of the ordinary with the Monster Romance Coloring Book. Monster romance is the hottest new literary phenomenon. Building off the popular genre of Romantasy, these stories blend elements of horror and romance and offer a fresh take on love stories. Now you...

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The breathtaking first instalment in the new epic fantasy romance series, the Ashes of Thezmarr from rising romantasy star, Helen Scheuerer. Iron & Embers follows Wren, alchemist and poisoner as she fights for a place at the ancient alchemy academy of Drevenor - and her growing attraction to the...

'A really thrilling and totally original story of Greek mythology that I can't recommend highly enough' JENNIFER SAINT Before Gods and mortals, there were The Fates . . . You've heard the legends: three sisters born out of Nyx's darkness, destined to weave the lives, and deaths, of humankind...

Who were the women writers that inspired Jane Austen? Why have they all but disappeared from our bookshelves? Rare books dealer Rebecca Romney sheds a light on Austen's inspirations and contemporaries in this page-turning literary adventure, publishing to coincide with the 250th anniversary of...

A Waterstones Best Memoir of 2024 An Independent and Stylist Best Non-Fiction Book for 2024 The captivating true story of an underdog business – a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher’s Britain – from a woman at the heart of the women’s liberation movement. What was it like to start a feminist...

Unlike books familiar to us from print culture, every medieval book is unique, the product of individual circumstances of planning, execution, and history. This is a fundamental difficulty for study, particularly for those beginning the investigation of texts in manuscript. There are two...

Історія книжки — однієї з найстійкіших та найвпливовіших технологій людства за останнє тисячоліття. Стівен Кінг якось сказав, що книжки — це «унікальна кишенькова магія», і не помилився. Від спростування міфу про те, що верстат Гутенберга був першим друкарським обладнанням, до декоративних...

Find creative inspiration in this fascinating rummage through the wastebaskets, secret diaries, and abandoned files of 20 literary superstars. If you like to write—whether it’s a pastime, a passion, or a profession—you’ve probably found yourself reading something brilliant and thinking, “I...

'The letters provide us with an intimate, multilayered understanding of this extraordinary poet’s life and mind. Every now and again I need to get down here, to get into the Diogenes tub, as it were, or the Colmcille beehive hut, or the Mossbawn scullery. At any rate, a hedge surrounds me, the...

Одного весняного дня наприкінці XIV століття строкатий гурт прочан на шляху до англійського міста Кентербері наздоганяють двоє незнайомців – канонік у чорному вбранні, спітнілий наче перегінний куб, та його слуга, який твердить, що канонік – великий учений, здатний встелити весь шлях до самого...

Нова монографія професора Петра Іванишина у формі нарисів висвітлює низку методологічних і теоретико-літературних питань з позицій націософської герменевтики. Студія присвячена трьом важливим напрямам сучасної теоретичної літературології: методології науки про літературу, феноменові художності...

'It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.' The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) proclaims that it is 'A Trivial Play for Serious People'. In fact, collected here alongside Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Salome (1891, 1894), A Woman of No Importance...

Set sail for the stars in this official Dungeons & Dragons novel set in the worlds of Spelljammer: Adventures in Space! In the colossal void of Shatterspace, besieged by bloodthirsty marauders and brimming with monstrous aberrations, the only constant is power: The deft will escape the slow...

An exiled princess teams up with the last man she thought she could trust in the start of an immersive debut fantasy series filled with a sizzling reluctant allies-to-lovers romance, a world to get lost in, dangerous quests, and dragon bonds. An exiled princess teams up with the last man she...

New York Times bestselling author Trang Thanh Tran crafts a harrowing story about a teen searching for a future where she can finally be free from the monsters that haunt her … ‘Trang Thanh Tran has a story for everyone who wants to tear off their skin and craves the strange ache of becoming...

An eminent Austen authority shows us how living with Jane Austen can transform the way we look at our world. Fanny Price, in Mansfield Park, tells her persistent suitor that 'we have all a better guide in ourselves...than any other person can be'. Sometimes, however, we crave external guidance...

'Can't repeat the past? ... Why of course you can!' Often called 'the great American novel', F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a story of adulterous love, dreams, and betrayal among the super-rich in 1920s New York. The mysterious and wealthy Jay Gatsby throws extravagant parties while...

Дарія Віконська (справжнє ім'я — Іванна-Кароліна Федорóвич-Малицька, 1893—1945) — маловідома письменниця, одна з найменш досліджених постатей у сучасному літературознавстві та мистецтвознавстві. Вона піднесла художнє слово й українську критичну думку на високий естетичний рівень. «За відродження...

Це перший в Україні навчальний посібник, в якому за допомогою легенд та народних переказів висвітлюються відомі у нашій країні пам’ятні місця як об’єкти туристичного значення. Оригінальність посібника у його структурі. До нього включені лише легенди та народні перекази, що розповідають про...

A remarkable portrait of the hidden history of Cambridge's gay academic community and its impact on wider politics and culture. Queer Cambridge recounts the untold story of a gay community living, for many decades, at the very heart of the British Establishment. Making effective use of chiefly...

The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world’s greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to include more than 150 previously unseen letters, with revealing new insights into The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. J.R.R. Tolkien...

The 'green man', or foliate head, can be found in almost every pre-Reformation cathedral and in many churches. It often decorates arches, corbels, roof bosses, choir stalls and chancel screens. The foliate head was depicted in a variety of ways, some beautiful and some grotesque, and imbued with...

Rough Music explores transgression and shame in British folklore and customs. It takes in a wide array of examples including Bonfire Night, Wassail, Morris dancing, Mari Lwyd and Twelfth Night, along with events like the Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake, and street football. Liz Williams...

The hilarious and moving tell-all memoir from the UK's queen of crime drama. 'A rollercoaster ride' THE TIMES 'Fascinating and funny' SUNDAY EXPRESS Lynda La Plante has lived an illustrious life and has the stories to prove it. From her early days in Liverpool to her unexpected acceptance...

An intimate, personal exploration of the emotional and restorative power of the Lake District landscape and its poets. In her twenties, Esther Rutter suffered an acute mental breakdown while living in Japan. Sectioned and held in a Japanese psychiatric institution until she could be flown home...

Best known today for his critical pronouncements, Matthew Arnold has still not received his due as a wonderfully moving poet, and only one of his poems, ‘Dover Beach’, is remembered by most – although it’s a strong candidate for the nation’s favourite. John Greening’s personal selection invites...

In this darkly romantic reimagining of the Minotaur myth, a sorceress and a demon are entwined in sensual battle to escape a deadly maze and reclaim their freedom In this darkly romantic reimagining of the Minotaur myth, a sorceress and a demon are entwined in sensual battle to escape a deadly...

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A collaboration between Belgian artist François Schuiten and French writer Benoît Peeters, The Obscure Cities is one of the few comics series to achieve massive popularity while remaining highly experimental in form and content. Set in a parallel world, full of architecturally distinctive...

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Anna Nasilowska's A History of Polish Literature is a one-volume guide that immerses readers in the rich tapestry of Polish literature and reveals its enduring impact on European identity from the Middle Ages to the late twentieth century. By exploring key themes, writers, and works and...

Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love grapples with the same fundamental question that has vexed philosophers and theologians since the advent of monotheistic religion, and continues as a barrier to belief for many today. Namely, if God is so good, how can natural disaster, genocide...

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William Shakespeare's Hamlet is probably the best-known and most commented upon work of literature in Western culture. The paradox is that it is at once utterly familiar and strangely elusive—very like our own selves, argues Gabriel Josipovici in this stimulating and original study. Moreover...

The untold story of the complex word battles fought by the creators of the first Oxford English Dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) holds a cherished position in English literary culture. The story behind the creation of what is indisputably the greatest dictionary in the language...

In addition to being an essential book on Austen, this is the smartest, not to mention the most stylish, discussion of style there is. Miller approaches this forbiddingly elusive concept and beautifully captures its weirdness and its emotional complexity. This book has a heart, as well as an...

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On the World and Religious Life (c. 1381) is the first surviving treatise of Coluccio Salutati (1332–1406), chancellor of the Florentine Republic (1375–1406) and the leader of the humanist movement in Italy in the generation after Petrarch and Boccaccio. The work was written for a lawyer who had...

This richly illustrated guide to 650 places will appeal to those who want to explore Britain's lost animist landscape of fairies, folklore, myth and paganism. Discover pre-Christian healing shrines and Norse mythology. Learn where rock, water and hill spirits come alive, and their meaning for...

What was it like to be a soldier on a Napoleonic battlefield? What happened when cavalry regiments charged directly at one another? What did the generals do during battle? Drawing on memoirs, diaries, and letters of the time, this dramatic book explores what actually happened in battle and how...

A history and examination of dystopia and angst in popular culture that speaks to our current climate of dread. A history and examination of dystopia and angst in popular culture that speaks to our current climate of dread. At the dawn of the 20th century, a wide-ranging utopianism dominated...

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Argues that Shakespeare transforms philosophies of comedy and melancholy by revising them concomitantly Iconic as Hamlet is, Shakespearean comedy showcases an extraordinary reliance on melancholy that ultimately reminds us of the porous demarcation between laughter and sorrow. This richly...

'It was not predictable in any sense and kept me so gripped I could not put it down' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Meet Kavithri. Outcast. Underdog. Survivor. Kavi is a Taemu. Her people, once feared berserkers and the spearhead of a continent-spanning invasion, are the dregs of Raayan society. Their spirits...

Shakespeare is everywhere in contemporary media culture. This book explores the reasons for this dissemination and reassemblage. Ranging widely over American TV drama, it discusses the use of citations in Westworld and The Wire, demonstrating how they tap into but also transform Shakespeare’s...

The first transnational visual reading history of Robinson Crusoe, examining the earliest illustrated editions both British and continental. Bringing illustration studies, the history of reading and transnational book history together, the Element offers an original micro-history of illustrated...

This Element reconsiders the construction of the cultural memory of Jacobitism within the changing 18th- and 19th-century media ecology. This Element has three objectives. First, it highlights the diversity of the nature of Jacobitism in the long eighteenth century by drawing attention to...

Gives readers a sharp new critical understanding of how racial whiteness in Shakespeare begets anti-Blackness and sustains white supremacy. Examining the racially white 'others' whom Shakespeare creates in characters like Richard III, Hamlet and Tamora – figures who are never quite 'white...

Pharos and Pharillon is one of E. M. Forster’s most unusual works, and also one of his most personal. It takes the form of a series of impressionistic “sketches” of the Egyptian city of Alexandria: beginning with brief, deftly drawn narratives of Alexandria’s ancient origins and its central role...

Joseph Conrad’s last completed novel is a masterpiece of narrative tension and psychological insight. Set in the late eighteenth century and centred around the morally ambiguous figure of Captain Peyrot—a seafarer returning to France in the wake of the revolutionary Terror—The Rover presents a...

Virginia Woolf’s third novel is an unconventional literary portrait of its title character—an awkward but strangely fascinating young man coming of age in the years leading up to the First World War—that is pervaded throughout by a sense that “nobody sees any one as he is”. Jacob’s Room marks a...

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In an era of political and social turmoil on both sides of the Atlantic, where issues of gender, race and class are linked with concerns of how to survive in a capitalist society, a new aesthetic of Absurdist poetry has emerged. This aesthetic has a troubled relationship to race, pervaded by...

Nietzsche and Irish Modernism demonstrates how the ideas of the controversial German philosopher played a crucial role in the emergence and evolution of a distinctly Irish brand of modernist culture. Making an essential new contribution to the history of modernism, the book traces the...

Set against the backdrop of a changing urban landscape, the poems in Tender Machines swing between the domestic and the surreal, charting motherhood, desire and an immigrant family’s haunted inheritance. Mapping the lives of women and the lives they inhabit, poems such as “Small Essays on...

Alchemy is popularly viewed as a secret way of turning worthless base metal into gold, and then a precursor to modern chemistry. This is often taken as a metaphor for psychological development. This book describes an innovative "third way" for both the education and exercise of an alchemical...

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Using a broad range of archival material from Washington University, St. Louis, the University of Glasgow, and the British Library, Useless Activity: Work, Leisure and British Avant-Garde Fiction, 1960-1975 is the first study to ask why the experimental writing of the 1960s and 1970s appears so...

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This book charts the evolution of Islamic dialectical theory (jadal) over a four-hundred year period. It includes an extensive study of the development of methods of disputation in Islamic theology (kalām) and jurisprudence (uṣūl al-fiqh) from the tenth through the fourteenth centuries. The...

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Language death is an aspect of language contact which has occupied the interest of linguists from the past twenty-five years or so. Although the phenomenon of language death is occuring all over the world very few instances of it have been dealt with both from a sociolinguistic and formal...

Since Mary Shelley drew inspiration for Frankenstein from the scientific speculations to which she attended as a 'nearly silent listener' at the now famous chateau in Switzerland, many other women have been similarly motivated to produce works informed by scientific theory. Successive chapters...

The New Woman was the symbol of the shifting categories of gender and sexuality and epitomised the spirit of the fin de siècle . This informative monograph offers an interdisciplinary approach to the growing field of New Woman studies by exploring the relationship between first-wave feminist...

An intellectual history of contrasting ideas around the power of the arts to bring about personal and societal change - for better and worse. A fascinating account of the value and functions of the arts in society, in both the private sphere of individual emotions and self-development and public...

This book examines ethical problems raised by a number of key twentieth-century theoretical and fictional texts by authors such as Levinas, Sartre, Beauvoir, Yourcenar, Duras and Genet. It argues that even texts which apparently espouse ethical positions based on respect for and responsibility...

List of interviewees: LINDA BASSETT is an internationally renowned actress. BODIES IN FLIGHT was formed in 1990 by choreographer Sara Giddens and writer Simon Jones, and makes interdisciplinary performance work. GLYN CANNON is a British playwright. MARISA CARNESKY is an Olivier award winning...

The poetry of the Great War is among the most powerful ever written in the English language. Unique for its immediacy and searing honesty, it has made a fundamental contribution to our understanding of and response to war and the suffering it creates. Widely acclaimed as an indispensable guide...

The road novel is often dismissed as a mundane, nostalgic genre: Jack, Sal, and other tedious white men on the road trying to recapture an authentic youth and American past that never existed. Yet, new road novels appear every year, tackling unexpected questions and spanning new geographies...

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Writing and Other Familiar Things: Autoethnographic Possibilities puts on display a number of distinct ways of structuring essays that can be used in qualitative research and creative writing. The book takes as its subject an assortment of things. Part 1 approaches writing from a variety of...

Shakespeare’s tutor: The influence of Thomas Kyd adds to the critical and scholarly discussion that seeks to establish the early modern playwright Thomas Kyd’s dramatic canon, and indicates where and how Kyd contributed to the development of Shakespeare’s drama through influence, collaboration...

Reading Oscar Wilde is a comprehensive interpretive guide designed for students and readers who come to Wilde’s writings for the first time, delivering a fuller understanding of the works and the background from which the canon has emerged. This ready-at-hand compendium details the scholarly...

Revisiting an almost-forgotten American interracial literary culture that advanced racial pluralism in the decades before the 1960s In Impermanent Blackness, Korey Garibaldi explores interracial collaborations in American commercial publishing—authors, agents, and publishers who forged...

Remembering the Jewish and German Questions: Essays on Fairy Tales, Poetry, and Culture is a selection of Jack Zipes’s insightful essays and presentations on fairy tales, Jewish studies, philosophy, drama, and the German public sphere. The collection begins by considering how fairy tales have...

As one of the foundational texts in the field of postcolonial writing, Barbara Harlow’s Resistance Literature introduced new ground in Western literary studies. Originally published in 1987 and now reissued with a new Preface by Mia Carter, this powerfully argued and controversial critique...

How to Do Discourse Analysis provides a comprehensive toolkit for conducting discourse analysis, offering 26 practical tools to examine how language is used to construct meaning, enact identities, and shape social realities. Written by renowned linguist James Paul Gee, it introduces key concepts...

A new life of Wuthering Heights author Emily Bronte told through her poems Emily Jane Brontë was born in July 1818; along with her sisters Charlotte and Anne, she is famed as a member of the greatest literary family of all time, and helped turn Haworth into a place of literary pilgrimage. Whilst...

Refractive Realisms positions the township as a lens through which to engage the South African canon, endeavouring to provide a reorientation towards a black creative archive and surfacing under-represented forms of literary and cultural expression. The book converses with the long history of...

An account of the emergence of creative nonfiction, written by the “godfather” of the genre “When [Gutkind] stops to look back on his own evolving perspective . . . [and] reflects upon his writing career, the choices he made . . . he puts himself, and us, right back in the moment—and the...

Through meticulous textual and contextual analysis of the sixteenth-century Chinese tale The Seven Brothers and its fifteen contemporary variants, Juwen Zhang unveils the ways in which the translation and illustration of folk and fairy tales can perpetuate racist stereotypes. By critically...

Bringing key Shakespeare texts into dialogue with feminist socio-legal research, this book investigates the notion of a ‘crime of passion’ – indicatively, wife-killing. Its key concern is to bring attention to a cultural and legal revolution widely overlooked even in the law field where it...

The Poetry of Physics explores the intersection of science and art, blending the intricate beauty of physics with the evocative power of poetry. This unique work takes readers on a journey through the physical world, from the delicate patterns of living organisms to the vast reaches of the...

This book introduces the Bible as one of the greatest works of world literature. Luke Ferretter provides a comprehensive history of the field, alongside detailed readings of the texts of the Bible and the most influential theories in the area. The Bible as Literature: A New Introduction is...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY “To disrupt the relationship of predator and prey, to reshape one’s relation to power, is to renovate the lived and living world,” Elizabeth Willis writes in her visionary work that delves deep into the ancient enchantments and disciplinary...

A spellbinding, atmospheric mystery, rich with Icelandic myth and perfect for fans of Burial Rites and The Witches of Vardo. 'Spellbinding . . . I could not put The Swell down' Anya Bergman 'A deeply satisfying, deftly woven novel of female power and resistance' Anna Hope 'Bewitching . . . as...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Anthony Trollope is among the best-loved novelists in the English language. His strongly drawn characters and skilful plots are compelling, while his moral judgements are often subtly challenging. He is an entertainer, but his power to make...

The new #1 SUNDAY TIMES bestselling dark romantasy from Amélie Wen Zhao The war between the Kingdom of Night and the Kingdom of Rivers tore the mortal realm apart. Now it is an increasingly dangerous place, falling into eternal night where ravenous demons roam and every day is a fight for...

Writers publish under other names for a variety of reasons. Some use literary aliases in order to fit in while others employ them to stand out from the crowd. This book traces the history of pen names from the nineteenth century to the present day through forty novelists, poets and playwrights...

‘Still Writing offers up a cornucopia of wisdom, insights, and practical lessons gleaned from Dani Shapiro’s long experience as a celebrated writer and teacher of writing. The beneficiaries are beginning writers, veteran writers and everyone in between’ Jennifer Egan From Dani Shapiro...

A captivating tale of fantasy and adventure from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit A charming new paperback edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s major pieces of short fiction, and his only finished work dating from after the publication of The Lord of the...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Mary Wollstonecraft is widely hailed as the mother of modern feminism. The book that made her famous, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, is a work of worldwide renown. Yet the range of her achievements as a thinker and writer reaches far...

A foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves over the course of the country's history. Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates Jr's legendary Harvard course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race is...

In this perceptive and rich collection of essays, Colm Tóibín investigates the lives as well as the work of homosexual writers and artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In Love in a Dark Time, Colm Tóibín looks at the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential...

Explore the wildwood and uncover the origins of famous--and not so famous--cryptids, ghosts, goblins, and other supernatural creatures and phenomena. For the intrepidly curious comes an essential guide to the cultural origins behind some of your favorite urban legends, superstitions, and ghost...

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Reveals the hidden history of the house where Shakespeare was born and its changing fortunes over four centuries, mirroring the changing attitudes towards Shakespeare as a man and global icon. '[A] page-turning story' - Laurie Maguire, Times Literary Supplement 'A terrific addition to the...

Monster mayhem unleashed: This Kaiju manga grips readers from page one, delivering an epic battle for survival against towering beasts that threaten humanity's existence. As the fog clears and colossal creatures stand as tall as mountains, be one of the bystanders in their shadows by opening...

The highly anticipated sequel to the action-packed dark fantasy SILVER UNDER NIGHTFALL! Perfect for fans of CASTLEVANIA and Jay Kristoff's EMPIRE OF A VAMPIRE! Bound by fate, united by darkness. Vampire hunter Remy Pendergast and his unexpected vampiric royal companions, Lord Zidan Malekh...

Harnessing the power of storytelling for political progress Mythocracy examines the narrative mechanisms that script our lives through the stories we tell one another. Digging beneath common anxieties about fake news, Yves Citton looks at the attention economy, which organises our political...

'A spectacular journey... Highly recommended!' Dr Simon Smith, The Shakespeare Institute 'A fascinating and hugely entertaining guide to Shakespearean mathematics.' Prof Sarah Hart, author of Once Upon A Prime 'The Bard by Numbers, brilliantly accounted for by Rob Eastaway.' Johnny Ball...

Віктор Петров, він же В. Бер, Борис Веріґо, В. Домонтович — письменник, автор «Доктора Серафікуса» та «Дівчини з ведмедиком». Син священнослужителя і шостий з неокласиків. Емігрант та шпигун. А ще етнограф, філолог, публіцист, історіософ. Його есеї — чистий інтелектуалізм. Це віртуозні тексти...

«Ліричні пісні українців Кубані» – четвертий випуск серії фонографічних збірників «Антологія українських народних пісень Кубані», що є результатом збирацької, транскрипційної та дослідницької роботи докторки мистецтвознавства, професорки кафедри музичної фольклористики Львівської національної...

Step onto the shores of Cornwall's enchanted land and delve deep into a seam of windswept stories. High up on the cliffs lurk lovesick giants, playful piskies and hungry dragons. Below on the sands, beware hissing spriggans, merrymaids and restless ghosts. In granite villages meet dashing devils...

Examines the novels of Joris-Karl Huysmans, Marcel Proust, Tom McCarthy and Rachel Cusk to reconsider aesthetic experience as it has been articulated in Western philosophy This book examines the question of aesthetic experience in the novels of Joris-Karl Huysmans, Marcel Proust, Tom McCarthy...

For three decades, the legacy of writer, editor, performer, and activist Essex Hemphill has been lovingly sustained through xeroxed copies of his few published works. They are as potent now as they were in the 1980s. With tenderness and rage, Hemphill's poems unflinchingly explore the complex...

The First Witches: Women of Power in the Classical World takes you on a journey into the world of Classical literature, from the adventurous Homeric epic of the Odyssey to the grim warfare of Lucan’s De Bello Civili. In doing so, you will be introduced to a handful of powerful women who will...

A fascinating collection of questions and answers—about courtship, marriage, love, and sex—from a seventeenth-century periodical The Athenian Mercury—a one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s London—included the world’s first personal advice column. Acclaimed historian and Pulitzer...

Beginning in 789AD, the Vikings raided monasteries, sacked cities and invaded western Europe. They looted and enslaved their enemies. But that is only part of their story. In long boats they discovered Iceland and America (both by accident) and also sailed up the Seine to Paris (which they...

A ground-breaking biography of a cult British novelist. The extraordinary twentieth-century writer Barbara Comyns led a life as captivating as the narratives she spun. This pioneering biography reveals the journey of a woman who experienced hardship and single-motherhood before the age of...

Are Demons Real? An Evidence-Based Quest to Unmask the Truth Possessed by curiosity, paranormal investigator Richard Estep hunts down firsthand experiences and historic accounts of the most legendary demonic activity. He consults with experts ranging from a medical doctor to an ordained Catholic...

‘Before we face experience, that miserable enemy, let us have some more innocence, just for a while....' INTRODUCED BY ZADIE SMITH In this masterwork of literary memoir, Martin Amis tells the stories of his life, both the ordinary and the outlandish — from his bohemian childhood, through fame...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books ‘It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate’ Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', The Fire...

Award-winning classicist and historian Emily Hauser takes readers on an epic journey to uncover the astonishing true story of the real women behind ancient Greece’s greatest legends, and the real heroes of those ancient epics, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey . . . 'Bold and intellectually thrilling...

The Ashfire King continues the tale of myth and magic that began with The Stardust Thief, Chelsea Abdullah's unmissable debut. 'A masterpiece of a book! I couldn't stop reading . . . This book was literally perfection!!' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ NEITHER HERE NOR THERE, BUT LONG AGO . . . After...

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The Second World War is now recognized as a watershed for British poetry. The changes that arose were masked for some time by the enormous power and shock of the conflict itself, and by the restrictions on poetry publishing consequent on paper rationing and the general business of wartime. This...

A biography of Vergil, Rome’s greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid “Ms. Ruden has converted the writer of the Aeneid from a noble and stodgy ‘ancient’ into our contemporary . . . persuasively re-imagined [as] a sympathetic, three-dimensional figure. . . . The existence of...

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A witchcraft and folklore anthology for spring 2025 and beyond A Curiosity of Folklore, Magic and Spells is a lovingly curated compendium of time-honoured traditions and curious customs that have bewitched us for generations. Discover simple magic, heirloom recipes and forgotten fairytales in...

A gothic romance from the award-winning Sunday Times bestseller From award-winning bestseller Laura Purcell comes her YA debut, MOONSTONE. 'Brilliant and beautiful, Moonstone is the gothic werewolf love story we've all been waiting for. Easily one of my favourite books of the year!' JJA Harwood...

From bestselling author, Sally Coulthard, comes this charmingly illustrated guide to our favourite feathered friends and folklore that surround their lives. Even today, birds are hugely symbolic. From songbirds to seagulls, nightingales to morning larks, we still use the cultural language of...

Much-anticipated follow-up to the whimsical, joyous, zombie-packed World Fantasy Award-winning Saint Death's Daughter Lanie Stones is the necromancer that Death has been praying for. Heartbroken, exiled from her homeland as a traitor, Lanie Stones would rather take refuge in good books and...

The elemental pull of water is irresistible, whether it's to bathe, swim, shower, splash about, sail or simply paddle. We are drawn to it not just for pleasure but for its healing and wellbeing benefits. Destinations, from holy wells to mysterious lakes and enchanted rivers, also have spiritual...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Storyland and Wild, comes a sweeping new legendary of miracles, magic, human frailty and heroic strength. Illustrated with over thirty original paper cutouts by the author. 'Jeffs writes beautifully, erring just on the right side of florid, and her...

Усе найцікавіше криється між рядками. Підтекст може бути найважливішим елементом у тексті, це невидима сила, яка звертається безпосередньо до підсвідомості читачів, поглиблюючи їхнє розуміння. Майстерний підтекст розкриває більше, ніж простий діалог чи дія, і лежить в основі найкращих книжок і...

«Анатомія письменниці» — це книжка-подорож, книжка-інструмент, книжка-натхнення, де під однією палітуркою зібралися разом сучасні українські авторки та письменниці минулого. Це інтимна розмова про творчість, під час якої ви дізнаєтеся про методи письма кожної авторки, їхні історії успіхів та...

У «Мистецтві роману» славетний Мілан Кундера постає в новому для українського читача амплуа: як автор нехудожнього жанру літератури. У книжці містяться статті, есеї та інтерв’ю, написані в період із 1979-го по 1985 рік. Роздуми про роман ґрунтуються на засадах феноменологічної філософії Едмунда...

«Як писали класики» – це збірка практичних порад від світових майстрів слова, чий успіх підтверджений визнанням читачів на всіх континентах. Книга підсумовує погляди на художню творчість мегапопулярних Аґати Крісті, Джорджа Орвелла, Рея Бредбері, Курта Воннеґута, а також ближчих до нас у часі...

366 книжок, 366 історій та 366 днів. Оновлений інтелектуальний роман Ганни Улюри — це вишукана мозаїка літературного світу, яка розсипається перед читачем на 366 окремих картин. У книжці з неабиякою майстерністю вплетено думки і враження про образи культових творів. Щоденний формат допомагає...

До перевидання бестселера «Як читати класиків» Ростислав Семків вніс суттєві оновлення й доповнення, врахував культурні та суспільні зміни, які відбулися після першої публікації. Ця книжка – про підкорення могутньої сили літератури. Це інструкція до найдавнішої доступної всім машини часу. Автор...

«Як читати українських класиків» – нова книжка літературознавця Ростислава Семківа. У виданні проаналізовано ключові постаті української літератури та їх найбільш визначні тексти, що вплинули на хід літературного процесу. Запропоновано мапу – як рухатися і що читати, як вловлювати неочевидні...

Тарас Шевченко має багато імен (від патетичного Кобзаря до дружнього Ше), він постійно присутній у нашому повсякденні (від шкільних підручників до трендів у ТікТок, від пафосних пам’ятників до графіті на революційних барикадах). Він є однією з найбільш знаних українських постатей у світі, про що...

Видання є тематичним продовженням попередньої праці проф. Б. Б. Шалагінова «Класики і романтики. Штудії з історії німецької літератури XVIII–ХІХ століть» (2013) і містить статті, кожна з яких, будучи присвяченою окремому літературному явищу або конкретному твору, підпорядкована спільній ідеї...

Хто кого переговорить? Десять тамтешніх чи десять тутешніх? Письменники з Бельгії, Франції та Швейцарії чи наші літературні діячі? Впродовж кількох років український журналіст, перекладач і критик Іван Рябчій випитував найцікавіше у впливових постатей європейської та української літератури. До...

От издателя: Зта книга — первая полная научная публикация дневниковых записей Александра Петровича Довженко за период с 1939 г. по 1956 г. Согласно дневниковому жанру автор фиксирует основные события своей личной и творческой жизни, начиная с выхода на экраны фильма "Щорс" (1939) и до завершення...

«Апологети писаризму» Миколи Хвильового — один з публіцистичних творів, у якому автор висловлює свої погляди на проблему масової літератури та інтелігенції. Найвідомішими творами автора є новели «Я (Романтика)», «Кіт у чоботях», «Арабески», «Мати», «Редактор Карк», «Свиня», «Ревізор», «Повість...

Ім’я Івана Драча (нар. 1936 р.) відомо не тільки в Україні, але й далеко за її межами. Поет, кіносценарист, драматург, перекладач, мислитель, громадсько-політичний діяч, перший голова Народного Руху України, Герой України (2006), I. Драч до того ж має й величезний публіцистичний доробок. До...

У сфері інтересів автора інтелектуальні, культурологічні теми, початки яких у далекому і близькому минулому. Наприклад, текст лекції «Як створювалася книга у минулому?» чи статті «Хто придумав букви?» перенесе читача у глибоку давнину. До слова, ви чули про хурритів? На кам’яних надгробних...

Не всі важливі для автора зарубіжні письменники представлені у цій книжці, але всі представлені (за винятком одного) є для нього важливими. Автор не знає, як окреслити жанр зібраних тут текстів, однак підозрює, що вони не є ані літературознавчими статтями, ані літературно-критичними есеями, ані...

«Розмови про життя і мистецтво» — діалог відомих письменників на мистецькі, філософські та соціально-політичні теми. Це захоплююча бесіда про досвід і знання, які людина отримує в процесі творчого осмислення дійсності — у часі написання художнього твору. Книга писалася протягом 2014–2016 років...

Ми звикли до стабільності географічних карт і непорушності кордонів. Коли навесні та влітку 2014 року межі держави раптом стали по-новому перекроювати, це виявилося шоком для більшості українців — тієї більшості, яка вважає, що Україна — це частина цивілізованого європейського простору з чітко...

Із позицій новітньої біографістики видання висвітлює основні етапи життя, презентує світогляд та простежує історію виданих до сьогодні творів видатного українського дитячого письменника, лауреата Національної премії України імені Т. Шевченка Володимира Григоровича Рутківського. Книга містить...

У мистецтві модернізм згодом стає класикою. Феномен прóклятості, знедоленої людини, невизнаності - природна реакція «академіків» на геніальне новаторство і сміливість юності. Мистецтво, естетика, як і культура в цілому, розвиваються шляхом зміни парадигм, народження нових, раніше невідомих...

Чому відьма літає на мітлі, а чорт має роги? Чому заяча лапка приносить удачу, а сім – щасливе число? Як ім’я впливає на долю людини і яким був знак Каїна? Арі Турунен знайомить читача зі строкатим і захопливим світом забобонних звичаїв – звичаїв, які в повсякденному житті ми часто навіть не...

Петро Кралюк (нар. 1958 р.) — доктор філософських наук, професор. Автор понад 150 наукових праць з історії, філософії, релігієзнавства, політології, літературознавства, а також історико-інтелектуальних художніх творів, в яких він подає власні версії історичних подій та біографій видатних людей...

Хто ми — Україна чи Малоросія? Європа чи Росія? Чи українська релігійність — це те саме, що візантійське православ’я? Чи й справді українці — «селянська нація»? Яку таємницю берегли «таємні товариства» малоросійських дворян ХІХ століття? Звідки в «Лісовій пісні» зашифрована легенда про Грааль...

Книга «Шевченків міф України. Спроба філософського аналізу» вперше вийшла друком 1997 року і справила ефект бомби в українському літературознавстві — не менший, ніж «Польові дослідження з українського сексу» в літературі. Авторський метод інтерпретації класичних текстів скандалізував адептів...

Чи може травма залишитися в минулому разом із завершенням війни? Чи може вона не впливати на поведінку, свідомість, культуру суспільства поза межами фронту? Відповіді на ці та багато інших запитань знайде для себе читач цієї книги. Це не лише дослідження літературної рецепції воєн, які...

Збірник статей, виданий за результатами конференції «Сучасний Кіплінґ — нові акценти інтерпретації», включає статті як провідних українських науковців, так і молодих дослідників творчості Ред’ярда Кіплінґа. Вміщені розвідки присвячено ретроспективному аналізу перекладів віршів та прози Кіплінґа...

Гуляючи Києвом, легко впізнати численні локації, описані в поемах і романах початку ХХ століття. Десь змінилися номери помешкань, по-новому пофарбовані фасади, іноді інші назви вулиць, але якщо придивитися, то можна уявити, як у «Льоху мистецтв» на Городецького сиділи за одним столом Тичина й...

Вашій увазі колекція статей Оксани Ковацької, викладачки краківського Ягеллонського університету, представниці тих україністів, для яких Україна стала не лише предметом дослідження, але і опікування, – бажання діяти задля спільного добра та об’єднувати людей задля досягнення цієї мети. Формою...

Микола Зеров (1890—1937) — блискучий поет, перекладач, визначний вчений-літературознавець, критик, неперевершений викладач-професор. До видання «Українське письменство XIX сторіччя» увійшов курс лекцій Миколи Зерова з історії української літератури від І. Котляревського до кінця 1860-х рр...

Микола Зеров (1890—1937) — блискучий поет, перекладач, визначний вчений-літературознавець, критик, неперевершений викладач-професор. «Українське письменство ХХ сторіччя. Від Куліша до Винниченка» — це фундаментальні праці з літературознавства та українського письменства. Під пером дослідника...

Фундаментальне дослідження, якому видатний мислитель Леонід Плющ (1939–2015) присвятив понад двадцять років праці, пропонує радикально новий погляд як на творчість Хвильового, так і загалом на «наші 1920-ті». Шляхом копіткого історичного, біографічного й текстологічного аналізу поезії і прози...

Метою цих нотаток є спростування довільних або ж снобістських суджень про Іммануїла Канта, котрі склалися протягом двох «з гаком» століть. Перші зводяться до того, щоб ганити Канта — «маленького чоловічка з великими амбіціями», який пише незрозуміло що і незрозуміло для кого. Другі — до того...

Микола Зеров (1890—1937) був одним із перших українських науковців 20–30 років XX ст., який по-новому спробував збагнути творчу спадщину І. Франка, зокрема його поезії. Літературознавець вбачав у авторові «Каменярів» і «Мойсея» індивідуальність з усіма притаманними їй рисами. До цієї книжки...

Запропонована Вашій увазі мініатюра присвячена лауреатові Нобелівської премії в галузі літератури (1957-й р.) Альберу Камю: з акцентом на його працю «Людина, яка бунтує». Висловлювання генія за своїм сенсом здебільшого виявляються суголосними найрізноманітнішим станам і настроям різних людей...

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«Ой на горі та женці жнуть» та «Стоїть явір над водою» – тексти відомих українських пісень, які входять до скарбниці народної творчості. Традиційні мотиви – любов до України, відвага і сила – є в них центральними. https://www.yakaboo.ua/ua/iz-pisennih-skarbiv-vipusk-2.html

У статті, котра запропонована вашій увазі, мова піде про китайського мудреця Кун-цзи, чиє ім’я звично для європейського вуха лунає як Конфуцій. Воно вже давно стало символом китайської культури та її досягнень, поруч із шовком, папером, порцеляною, компасом, порохом і похідними від нього...

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До книги ввійшли 45 есеїв, які вперше побачили світ у 2012–2013 роках на шпальтах газети «Україна молода» в рубриці «Уроки літератури від Леоніда Ушкалова». У них автор порушує цілу низку питань, важливих для кожної людини: щастя, свобода, любов, правда, поезія, самотність... А героями есеїв є і...

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Підручник містить відомості про літературознавчі підходи до вивчення сучасного плину літератури «критичний вимисел», де, узагальнюючи надбання французьких учених, виокремлюється парадигма провідних аспектів творчої організації тексту. На матеріалі маловивчених творів сучасних зарубіжних...

Монографія пропонує прочитання літературних творів французької письменниці Сімони де Бовуар (1908–1986) «Мандарини» (1954), «Сила обставин» (1960), «Дуже солодка смерть» (1964), «Чарівні картинки» (1966), «Зламана жінка» (1968), «Трансатлантичне кохання» (1997), переглядає її репутацію (виводить...

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«Волинська височина» Юлії Бондючної, що поєднує багатообразність поетеси й точний аналіз літературознавця, фундамент книжної традиції і тепло особистого спілкування з живими класиками української літератури, які живуть і працюють на землях Великої Волині: Василем Слапчуком, Надією Гуменюк...

Английский детектив! Неперестающий удивлять, интриговать, увлекать, восхищать. На страницах книги перед читателем предстанут великие создатели и бессмертные герои классического английского детектива. И Англия - от Викторианской эпохи до наших дней. Автор ненавязчиво, легко, изящно и с юмором...

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Добірка різноманітних передмов, написаних Хорхе Луїсом Борхесом з 1924-го по 1974 рік. У книжці зібрано десятки розсіяних по різних виданнях текстів, які належать до цього особливого жанру, в якому Борхес також показав свій майстер-клас. У цьому томі серед багатьох інших літературних аватарів...

Збірник наукових праць присвячений 60-річчю відомого в Україні літературознавця, есеїста-культуролога, ідеолога й теоретика сучасного українського націоналізму, публіциста Олега Багана. Видання містить студії українських істориків та теоретиків політичної думки, літературознавців, які...

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Гарольд Блум (1930—2019) — знаменитий американський літературний критик і літературознавець, стерлінгський професор гуманітарних наук у Єльському університеті й берг-професор англійської мови в Нью-Йоркському університеті. Автор двадцяти книг, член Американської академії, лауреат багатьох...

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Усебічно обдарований, енциклопедично освічений Іван Франко (1856–1916) відомий не лише як поет, прозаїк, драматург, але й як літературознавець, перекладач, публіцист, учений. Особливе місце серед його фольклористичних праць займають «Галицько-руські народні приповідки». Ці три томи (у шести...

Усебічно обдарований, енциклопедично освічений Іван Франко (1856–1916) відомий не лише як поет, прозаїк, драматург, але й як літературознавець, перекладач, публіцист, учений. Особливе місце серед його фольклористичних праць займають «Галицько-руські народні приповідки». Ці три томи (у шести...

Усебічно обдарований, енциклопедично освічений Іван Франко (1856–1916) відомий не лише як поет, прозаїк, драматург, але й як літературознавець, перекладач, публіцист, учений. Особливе місце серед його фольклористичних праць займають «Галицько-руські народні приповідки». Ці три томи (у шести...

<p>Усебічно обдарований, енциклопедично освічений Іван Франко (1856–1916) відомий не лише як поет, прозаїк, драматург, але й як літературознавець, перекладач, публіцист, учений. Особливе місце серед його фольклористичних праць займають «Галицько-руські народні приповідки». Ці три томи (у шести...

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366 книжок, 366 історій та 366 днів. Оновлений інтелектуальний роман Ганни Улюри — це вишукана мозаїка літературного світу, яка розсипається перед читачем на 366 окремих картин. У книжці з неабиякою майстерністю вплетено думки і враження про образи культових творів. Щоденний формат допомагає...

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Mirabile Dictu covers in six separate chapters the works of Virgil, Dante, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Tasso, and Spenser. Its broad aim is to provide a select cross-section of works in the Middle Ages and Renaissance in order systematically to examine and compare for the first time the marvelous in the...

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Hamlet stands as a high water mark of canonical art, yet it has equally attracted rebels and experimenters, those avant-garde writers, dramatists, performers, and filmmakers who, in their adaptations and appropriations, seek new ways of expressing innovative and challenging thoughts in the hope...

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When E.A. (Archie) Markham came to London in 1956 from his native Monserrat, his ambitions were to make it as a writer or pop singer, and at the same time, fulfil family expectations to become a scholar and academic. Unfortunately, the young Archie's attempts to combine elements of Little...

An important and prolific playwright, Philip Barry wrote hit plays such as The Philadelphia Story and Holiday. However, he has been largely forgotten and no book-length analysis of his work has appeared in more than forty years. With this book, Donald R. Anderson rescues the playwright from...

Those who have read Orpheus in the Bronx, Reginald Shepherd's previous collection of essays about the act of creating poetry, and those who take on the task, can immediately understand why it was a national finalist for a prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award. Shepherd was candid and...

Those who have read Orpheus in the Bronx, Reginald Shepherd's previous collection of essays about the act of creating poetry, and those who take on the task, can immediately understand why it was a national finalist for a prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award. Shepherd was candid and...

Grab a cozy blanket, light a few flickering candles, and enjoy the unnerving tales of Haunted Wisconsin. Gathered from personal interviews with credible eyewitnesses, on-site explorations, historical archives, newspaper reports, and other sources, these scores of reports date from Wisconsin's...

A fleeting figure dressed in a white party dress roams the streets of southwest Chicago. A long-dead Iowa college student treads the staircase in an old building. A ghostly, plaid-shirted workman plays peek-a-boo with a ticket seller in a Minnesota theater. A phantom wolf prowls Ohio's Jackson...

This book investigates how French Romanticism was shaped by and contributed to colonial discourses of race. It studies the ways in which metropolitan Romantic novels—that is, novels by French authors such as Victor Hugo, George Sand, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, François René de Chateaubriand...

"Orpheus in the Bronx not only extols the freedom language affords us; it embodies that freedom, enacting poetry's greatest gift---the power to recognize ourselves as something other than what we are. These bracing arguments were written by a poet who sings." ---James Longenbach A highly acute...

A legend's multi-faceted role in shaping science fiction One of science fiction's undisputed grandmasters, Frederik Pohl built an astonishing career that spanned more than seven decades. Along the way he won millions of readers and seemingly as many awards while producing novels, short stories...

A legend's multi-faceted role in shaping science fiction One of science fiction's undisputed grandmasters, Frederik Pohl built an astonishing career that spanned more than seven decades. Along the way he won millions of readers and seemingly as many awards while producing novels, short stories...

In Rewriting Womanhood, Nancy LaGreca explores the subversive refigurings of womanhood in three novels by women writers: La hija del bandido (1887) by Refugio Barragán de Toscano (Mexico; 1846–1916), Blanca Sol (1888) by Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera (Peru; 1845–1909), and Luz y sombra (1903) by...

In Rewriting Womanhood, Nancy LaGreca explores the subversive refigurings of womanhood in three novels by women writers: La hija del bandido (1887) by Refugio Barragán de Toscano (Mexico; 1846–1916), Blanca Sol (1888) by Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera (Peru; 1845–1909), and Luz y sombra (1903) by...

For almost forty years, from 1378 to 1417, the Western Church was divided into rival camps headed by two—and eventually three—competing popes. The so-called Schism provoked a profound and long-lasting anxiety throughout Europe—an anxiety that reverberated throughout clerical circles and among...

Postcolonial and diaspora studies scholars and critics have paid increasing attention to the use of metaphors of food, eating, digestion, and various affiliated actions such as loss of appetite, indigestion, and regurgitation. As such stylistic devices proliferated in the works of non-Western...

Bridging the divide between American pragmatism and contemporary european thought In this incisive commentary, Mitchell Aboulafia examines the relevance of the American pragmatist philosopher George Herbert Mead to current debates on pluralism, universalism, and the fostering of a democratic...

The challenges of interracial fieldwork Drawing on over thirty-five years of fieldwork, Patrick B. Mullen considers how African American cultural representations in folklore relate to racial dynamics in the United States. Providing insight into white folklorists\u2019 relationships with black...

Gaelic Prose in the Irish Free State, 1922–1939 is an authoritative and balanced account of this major but neglected aspect of the Irish cultural renaissance. Gaelic Prose in the Irish Free State, 1922–1939 is a continuation of Philip O’Leary’s previous path-breaking book on the prose...

Proverbs of the Pennsylvania Germans is a follow-up and companion volume to Edwin Miller Fogel’s 1915 publication Beliefs and Superstitions of the Pennsylvania Germans. This volume focuses on the proverb in its broadest sense, including adages, aphorisms, and some appropriate idiomatic...

Uncovering a substantial variety of books by women about the diverse West Women Writers of the American West, 1833–1927 recovers the names and works of hundreds of women who wrote about the American West during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some of them long forgotten and others...

Born in 39 C.E., the Roman poet Lucan lived during the turbulent reign of the emperor Nero. Prior to his death in 65 C.E., Lucan wrote prolifically, yet beyond some fragments, only his epic poem, the Civil War, has survived. Acclaimed by critics as one of the greatest literary achievements of...

Unspeakable: Literature and Terrorism from the Gunpowder Plot to 9/11 explores the representation of terrorism in plays, novels, and films across the centuries. Time and time again, writers and filmmakers including William Shakespeare, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Gillo Pontecorvo, Don DeLillo...

Indian literature is not a corpus of texts or literary concepts from India, argues Preetha Mani, but a provocation that seeks to resolve the relationship between language and literature, written in as well as against English. Examining canonical Hindi and Tamil short stories from the crucial...

Margaret Cavendish (1623 - 1673) was a philosopher, poet, scientist, novelist, and playwright of the seventeenth century. Her work is important for a number of reasons. It presents an early and compelling version of the naturalism that is found in current-day philosophy; it offers important...

A probing and holistic meditation on the key question: Why do we continue to make art, and thus beauty, out of war? Beautiful War: Studies in a Dreadful Fascination is a wide-ranging exploration of armed conflict as depicted in art that illustrates the constant presence of war in our everyday...

The rise of the novel paradigm—and the underlying homology between the rise of a bourgeois middle class and the coming of age of a new literary genre—continues to influence the way we analyze economic discourse in the eighteenth-century French novel. Characters are often seen as portraying...

A penetrating study of the anti-Semitic attitudes held by major American naturalist authors American Naturalism and the Jews examines the unabashed anti-Semitism of five notable American naturalist novelists otherwise known for their progressive social values. Hamlin Garland, Frank Norris, and...

A new look at the unique poetics of C. P. Cavafy Konstantinos P. Kavafis--known to the English-reading world as C. P. Cavafy--has been internationally recognized as an important poet and attracted the admiration of eminent literary figures such as E. M. Forster, F. T. Marinetti, W. H. Auden...

Drama in Medieval and Early Modern Europe moves away from the customary conceptual framework that artificially separates ‘medieval’ from ‘early modern’ drama to explore the role of drama and spectacle in England, France, the Low Countries, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, and the German-speaking areas...

The relentless motions and blinding colors of lucha libre, the high-flying wrestling sport, are the arresting backdrop to Nandi Comer’s collection Tapping Out. Mexican freestyle wrestling becomes the poet’s lyrical motif, uncovering what is behind the intricate masks we wear in society and our...

W. B. Yeats is one of the most important writers in English of the twentieth century, and the system of A Vision is generally recognized as fundamental to the power and achievement of his later poetry. Yet this strange mixture of esoteric geometry, lunar symbolism, and sweeping generalization...

Why have so many contemporary poets turned to source material, from newspapers to governmental records, as inspiration for their poetry? How can citational poems offer a means of social engagement? Contested Records analyzes how some of the most well-known twenty-first century North American...

Paul Gough examines the aftermath of the Great war and the impact of terrain militaria on contemporary British and Australian painters, photographers and writers. Формат: Скан PDf https://www.yakaboo.ua/ua/dead-ground-war-and-peace-remembrance-and-recovery.html

An analysis of social mobility in contemporary French literature that offers a new perspective on figures who move between social classes. Social climbers have often been the core characters of novels. Their position between traditional tiers in society makes them touchstones for any political...

A revised edition of groundbreaking voice coach Patsy Rodenburg's seminal work on words. As one of the world’s leading voice coaches, Patsy Rodenburg describes practical ways to approach language, using Shakespeare, Romantic poetry, modern prose and a range of other texts to help each of us...

Destruction, Ethics, and Intergalactic Love: Exploring Y: The Last Man and Saga offers a creative and accessible exploration of the two comic book series, examining themes like nonviolence; issues of gender and war; heroes and moral failures; forgiveness and seeking justice; and the importance...

The modern novel, so the story goes, thinks poorly of mere description—what Virginia Woolf called “that ugly, that clumsy, that incongruous tool.” As a result, critics have largely neglected description as a feature of novelistic innovation during the twentieth century. Dora Zhang argues that...

Experience the Civil War's most eerie occurrences, spooky events, unsolved mysteries, and myths and legends related and debunked. From the legend of the Yankee “human shield” behind Nathan Bedford Forrest’s saddle to the unexplained sinking of the Hunley, Civil War Myths and Legends makes...

WOMEN WRITERS TODAY ARE CONCERNED WITH ISSUES OF GENDER AND SPACE AND HOW TIGHT PERSONAL AND CULTURAL SPACES CAN OPEN UP THROUGH THE WORK OF THE IMAGINATION. Minrose Gwin's lyrical meditation on material, textual, and cultural space in women's literature covers a varied terrain, encompassing how...

Speed began transforming social perceptions even before the expansion of the railroad, and the realist novel portrays and is structured by the effects of the perceptions of speed in the exchange of information and in the moving of people. In Real Time David F. Bell explores the decisive impact...

A contemporary gothic debut with a feminist edge, for fans of Naomi Alderman and Madeline Miller 'The simmering menace and mystery kept me absolutely gripped' Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne 'Rebecca meets The Secret History. Gloriously dark, gloriously gothic' Sara Collins, author of The...

In The Third Gender, McDaniel addresses the idea of the "third gender" in early hagiography and Latin treatises on virginity and then examines Aelfric's treatment of gender in his translations of Latin monastic Lives for his non-monastic audiences. She first investigates patristic ideas about a...

The Savage Detectives elicits mixed feelings. An instant classic in the Spanish-speaking world upon its 1998 publication, a critical and commercial smash on its 2007 translation into English, Roberto Bolaño’s novel has also been called an exercise in 1970s nostalgia, an escapist fantasy of a...

Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) is best known for the intense lyrical vision of his first three collections of poetry, written between the 1920s and early 1950s. With the publication of "Satura" in 1971, the profile of his work changes irrevocably as a new disillusioned voice emerged, commenting...

A must-read for the millions of fans of the books and television series, Origins of The Wheel of Time is a deep dive into the inspirations behind The Wheel of Time, including Robert Jordan's creative processes. NOW WITH EXCLUSIVE BONUS MATERIAL From author and scholar Michael Livingston...

In the early twentieth century, Japan was awash with typographic text and mass-produced print. Over the short span of a few decades, affordable books and magazines became a part of everyday life, and a new generation of writers and thinkers considered how their world could be reconstructed...

California Dreams and American Contradictions establishes a genealogy of western American women writers publishing between 1870 and 1965 to argue that both white women and women of color regionalized dominant national literary trends to negotiate the contradictions between an American liberal...

Jack Kerouac was one of America's great writers of the latter half of the 20th century, yet he endured a life characterized by persistent hardship and disillusion. Leading Kerouac scholar Paul Maher Jr. targets the writer's embattled insight of self as central to his life and work. He reveals...

In Inkface, Miles P. Grier traces productions of Shakespeare's Othello from seventeenth-century London to the Metropolitan Opera in twenty-first-century New York. Grier shows how the painted stage Moor and the wife whom he theatrically stains became necessary types, reduced to objects of...

In Inkface, Miles P. Grier traces productions of Shakespeare's Othello from seventeenth-century London to the Metropolitan Opera in twenty-first-century New York. Grier shows how the painted stage Moor and the wife whom he theatrically stains became necessary types, reduced to objects of...

A personal essay on exposure, auto-fiction, internet feminism and the anxiety epidemic. Last year Olivia Sudjic published Sympathy, a novel about surveillance and connection in the internet age. If a debut novel is written by a woman, it is often read and discussed as if it were a memoir...

Folklore scholar Jan Harold Brunvand assembles the best-known urban legends—including "The Hook," "The Spider in the Hairdo," and "The Baby-Sitter and the Man Upstairs"—and provides an enlightening and entertaining analysis of their variants and evolution. The Vanishing Hitchhiker was Professor...

Raped and colonized, coerced and silenced--this has been the position of Haitian women within their own society, as well as how they have been seen by foreign occupiers. Romanticized symbols of nationhood, they have served, however unwillingly, as a politicized site of contestation between...

An artistic discussion on the critical potential of African American expressive culture In a major reassessment of African American culture, Phillip Brian Harper intervenes in the ongoing debate about the “proper” depiction of black people. He advocates for African American aesthetic...

An artistic discussion on the critical potential of African American expressive culture In a major reassessment of African American culture, Phillip Brian Harper intervenes in the ongoing debate about the “proper” depiction of black people. He advocates for African American aesthetic...

“State alert as pregnant asylum seekers aim for Ireland.” “Country Being Held Hostage by Con Men, Spongers, and Those Taking Advantage of the Maternity Residency Policy.” From 1997 to 2004, headlines such as these dominated Ireland’s mainstream media as pregnant immigrants were recast as...

New Playwriting Strategies has become a canonical text in the study and teaching of playwriting, offering a fresh and dynamic insight into the subject. This thoroughly revised and expanded second edition explores and highlights the wide spread of new techniques that form contemporary theatre...

Smitten by the modernity of Cervantes and Borges at an early age, Carlos Fuentes has written extensively on the cultures of the Americas and elsewhere. His work includes over a dozen novels, among them The Death of Artemio Cruz, Christopher Unborn, The Old Gringo, and Terra Nostra, several...

Driven by intensive industrialisation and urbanisation, the nineteenth century saw radical transformations in every facet of life in the United States. Immigrants and rural Americans poured into the nation’s cities, often ahead of or without their families. As city dwellers adapted to the new...

"Spider Eaters" is at once a moving personal story, a fascinating family history, and a unique chronicle of political upheaval told by a Chinese woman who came of age during the turbulent years of the Cultural Revolution. With stunning honesty and a lively, sly humor, Rae Yang records her life...

In this volume, Ngugi wa Thiong'o summarizes and develops a cross-section of the issues he has grappled with in his work, which uses a combination of imagery, language, folklore, and character to "decolonize the mind." He also confronts the politics of language in African writing; the problem of...

A universal test of great writers is the quality of their response to the human dilemma. Prophet in the Wilderness traces the development of that response in the works of the Argentine writer Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, from the first ambitious poems to its definitive expression in the essays and...

A new bridge between literary studies and analytic aesthetics, drawing on a diverse range of texts--from Scheherazade and Raymond Chandler to graphic novels and Woody Allen films In a new approach to interdisciplinary literary theory, Literature, Analytically Speaking integrates literary studies...

Novels such as One Hundred Years of Solitude have awakened English-language readers to the existence of Colombian literature in recent years, but Colombia has a well-established literary tradition that far predates the Latin American "boom." In this pathfinding study, Raymond Leslie Williams...

Uncovering a substantial variety of books by women about the diverse West Women Writers of the American West, 1833–1927 recovers the names and works of hundreds of women who wrote about the American West during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some of them long forgotten and others...

According to traditional accounts, the history of tragedy is itself tragic: following a miraculous birth in fifth-century Athens and a brilliant resurgence in the early modern period, tragic drama then falls into a marked decline. While disputing the notion that tragedy has died, this...

With a backdrop of religious violence and escalating regional tensions in South Asia, Priya Kumar’s Limiting Secularism probes the urgent topic of secularism and tolerance in Indian culture and life. Kumar explores Partition as the founding trauma of the Indian nation-state and traces the...

Proposes a theory of cognitive style that emphasizes the ways in which distinct cultural identities are expressed through the structure of a narrative Spaces of the Mind reveals how both immigrant European and modern Native communities and individuals use oral and written narratives to define...

An in-depth exploration, through his plays and poems, of the philosophy of Shakespeare as a great poet, a great dramatist and a "great mind". Written by a leading Shakespearean scholar Discusses an array of topics, including sex and gender, politics and political theory, writing and acting...

A must-have book for the millions of fans of the books and television series Origins of The Wheel of Time is a deep dive into the inspirations behind The Wheel of Time, including Robert Jordan's creative processes. With an introduction by Harriet McDougal, Origins of The Wheel of Time by Michael...

Disputes conventional thinking about the political status of Puerto Rico One-third of the population of Puerto Rico moved to New York City during the mid-twentieth century. Since this massive migration, Puerto Rican literature and culture have grappled with an essential change in...

In Reality and Other Stories discover how the stories we tell reveal our deepest desires, and point to the meaning of the reality we live in. Stories shape us and give us meaning - but is it coincidence that the same seven basic plots repeat over time and across the world? What if stories not...

A compelling revision of the history of experimental writing from Pound and Stein to Language poetry, disclosing its uses and its limits. A compelling revision of the history of experimental writing from Pound and Stein to Language poetry, disclosing its uses and its limits. In this bold new...

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In researching accounts of diasporic Chinese offspring who returned to their parents’ ancestral country, author Patricia Chu learned that she was not alone in the experience of growing up in America with an abstract affinity to an ancestral homeland and community. The bittersweet emotions she...

In researching accounts of diasporic Chinese offspring who returned to their parents’ ancestral country, author Patricia Chu learned that she was not alone in the experience of growing up in America with an abstract affinity to an ancestral homeland and community. The bittersweet emotions she...

"On one level, this is a brilliant scholarly answer to the bedeviling question asked by non-Latin Americanists, 'What is Latin American literature like?' On another level, it coordinates and clarifies, for specialists, the complex of current issues that are often confusing and even discouraging...

"This is the work on Guillermo Cabrera Infante that I would recommend to the non-specialist... Quite simply, it will be by far the most important book to date on this author" -- William L. Siemens, Professor of Foreign Languages, Houghton College A native Cuban who has lived in London since...

This book advances the notion of autotextuality, the dialogue between works in an author’s oeuvre, and the ways in which new texts are created in self-repetition through the tracing and revisiting of past texts and the subsequent uncovering of undisclosed meanings, unexhausted constructive...

Classical Hollywood Cinema, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Face examines the representation of iconic female faces in the golden age of Hollywood – Greta Garbo, Gloria Swanson, Elizabeth Taylor – and the gay male fetishization of those faces. Classical Hollywood cinema is given to an...

A brilliant postmodern critique of Renaissance subjectivity, Cultural Aesthetics explores the simultaneous formation and fragmentation of aristocratic "selfhood" in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Patricia Fumerton situates the self within its sumptuous array of "trivial"...

Assembling Ethnicities in Neoliberal Times: Ethnographic Fictions and Sri Lanka’s War argues that the bloody war fought between the Sri Lankan state and the separatist Tamil Tigers from 1983 to 2009 should be understood as structured and animated by the forces of global capitalism. Using Aihwa...

The Savage Detectives elicits mixed feelings. An instant classic in the Spanish-speaking world upon its 1998 publication, a critical and commercial smash on its 2007 translation into English, Roberto Bolaño’s novel has also been called an exercise in 1970s nostalgia, an escapist fantasy of a...

Two sisters. Divided they burn. Two sisters raised to be fierce dragon slayers end up on opposing sides of an impending war when one forms an unlikely, magical bond with a dragon, in this exciting, fresh contemporary young adult fantasy. Dani and Eden Rivera were both born to kill dragons, but...

In this engaging book David Clark guides the reader through the theology of CS Lewis and illuminates the use and understanding of scripture in the works of this popular author. Examines his life, work, world view, and the implications of his theology in relation to his other writings Looks at...

This study revolutionises our understanding of both literary modernism and early cinema. Trotter draws on the most recent scholarship in English and film studies to demonstrate how central cinema as a recording medium was to Joyce, Eliot and Woolf, and how modernist were the concerns of Chaplin...

For decades T. S. Eliot has been applauded and denounced as a staunch champion of high art and an implacable opponent of popular culture. But Eliot's elitism was never what it seemed. "T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide" represents this great writer as the complex figure he was, an artist...

This clear and succinct book is designed for general readers who want to know how to go about reading Shakespeare’s works for pleasure. Encourages readers to approach Shakespeare's works aggressively, interactively, and questioningly Focuses on six popular Shakespeare plays - A Midsummer...

This clear and succinct book is designed for general readers who want to know how to go about reading Shakespeare’s works for pleasure. Encourages readers to approach Shakespeare's works aggressively, interactively, and questioningly Focuses on six popular Shakespeare plays - A Midsummer...

This concise introduction to American drama gives readers an overview of how American drama developed from the end of the Second World War to the turn of the twenty-first century. Provides a balanced assessment of the major plays and playwrights of the period. Shows how these dramatists broke...

This concise introduction to American drama gives readers an overview of how American drama developed from the end of the Second World War to the turn of the twenty-first century. Provides a balanced assessment of the major plays and playwrights of the period. Shows how these dramatists broke...

Édith Thomas (1909–1970), a remarkable French woman of letters, was deeply involved in the traumatic upheavals of her time: most crucially the resistance to Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy regime, but also the Spanish Civil War and the Algerian War. During the occupation, she...

Published in the early 1950s, C. S. Lewis's seven Chronicles of Narnia were proclaimed instant children's classics and have been hailed in The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature as "the most sustained achievement in fantasy for children by a 20th-century author." But how could Lewis (a...

The extended second edition of this inspiring introduction to Shakespeare offers readers more insights into what makes Shakespeare great, and why we still read and perform his works. A highly innovative introduction to the extraordinary phenomenon of Shakespeare Explores Shakespeares works...

By the beginning of the twentieth century, epistolary novels in Spain increasingly grappled with homoerotic and homosexual desire, treating it as a secret communicated through private letters from one reader to another. Patrick Paul Garlinger reveals how this confidential model persists in these...

"Classrooms and curricula should be structured to foster the playful interaction that can teach students how to negotiate social and political differences in an emancipatory, noncoercive manner.... Teaching reading as a playful exercise of reciprocity with otherness can help prepare students for...

Reveals how both immigrant European and modern Native communities and individuals use oral and written narratives to define and center themselves in time and space. Spaces of the Mind reveals how both immigrant European and modern Native communities and individuals use oral and written...

Fictions Inc. explores how depictions of the corporation in American literature, film, and popular culture have changed over time. Beginning with perhaps the most famous depiction of a corporation—Frank Norris’s The Octopus—Ralph Clare traces this figure as it shifts from monster to man, from...

William Marston was an unusual man—a psychologist, a soft-porn pulp novelist, more than a bit of a carny, and the (self-declared) inventor of the lie detector. He was also the creator of Wonder Woman, the comic that he used to express two of his greatest passions: feminism and women in bondage...

Considers how these books both depict contemporary American-ness and contribute critically to public dialogue about national belonging. Popular genre fiction written by Asian American women and featuring Asian American characters gained a market presence in the late twentieth and early...

Considers how these books both depict contemporary American-ness and contribute critically to public dialogue about national belonging. Popular genre fiction written by Asian American women and featuring Asian American characters gained a market presence in the late twentieth and early...

Until quite recently, Asian American literary criticism had little to do with form. Instead, the tendency was to bind the literary tradition to identity formation. For Elda Tsou, however, the distinctions of ethnic writing extend beyond such facile referential practices to incorporate form and...

Until quite recently, Asian American literary criticism had little to do with form. Instead, the tendency was to bind the literary tradition to identity formation. For Elda Tsou, however, the distinctions of ethnic writing extend beyond such facile referential practices to incorporate form and...

A unique approach to teaching, understanding and enjoying Shakespeare from the Director of the American Shakespeare Center. For teachers and lovers of Shakespeare, ShakesFear and How to Cure It provides a comprehensive approach to the challenge and rewards of teaching Shakespeare and gives...

The most strikingly missing piece of functionality in current digital editions is that of annotation. Digital editions should offer a facility where researchers can store structured and unstructured observations with respect to the edited texts. This book discusses a number of approaches to...

The essays brought together in this book understand phobia not as a pathology, but as a versatile moral, political, and aesthetic resource – and one with a history. They demonstrate that enquiry into strong feelings of aversion has enabled writers and film-makers to say and show things they...

An exciting study of ancient slavery in Greece and Rome This book provides an introduction to pivotal issues in the study of classical (Greek and Roman) slavery. The span of topics is broad—ranging from everyday resistance to slavery to philosophical justifications of slavery, and from the...

An exciting study of ancient slavery in Greece and Rome This book provides an introduction to pivotal issues in the study of classical (Greek and Roman) slavery. The span of topics is broad—ranging from everyday resistance to slavery to philosophical justifications of slavery, and from the...

A Short History of Early Modern England presents the historical and cultural information necessary for a richer understanding of English Renaissance literature. Written in a clear and accessible style for an undergraduate level audience Gives an overview of the period’s history as well as an...

Covering the period 1879 to 1959, and taking in everything from Ibsen to Beckett, this book is volume one of a two-part comprehensive examination of the plays, dramatists, and movements that comprise modern world drama. Contains detailed analysis of plays and playwrights, connecting themes and...

In this book, published on the occasion of Pieter W. van der Horst's 60th birthday and his retirement from the chair of early Christian, Jewish, and Hellenistic studies at Utrecht University, the author presents a selection of 30 essays (most of them recent) on the religious and cultural milieu...

GREEK DRAMA and the Invention of Rhetoric “An impressively erudite, elegantly crafted argument for reversing what ‘everybody knows’ about the relation of two literary genres that played before mass audiences in the Athenian city state.” Victor Bers, Yale University “Sansone’s book is first-rate...

This bilingual English-Swedish study of August Strindberg’s renowned play Miss Julie (1888) provides a penetrating analysis of the author’s text and of Ingmar Bergman’s praised 1985 production. The book is a paradigmatic illustration of similarities and differences between text and performance...

The Crime Fiction Handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, and cultural significance of the crime fiction genre, focusing mainly on American British, and Scandinavian texts. Provides an accessible and well-written introduction to the genre of crime fiction...

Women, Science and Fiction Revisited is an analysis of selected science fiction novels and short stories written by women over the past hundred years from the point of view of their engagement with how science writes the world. Beginning with Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland (1918) and ending...

Why Victorian Literature Still Matters is a passionate defense of Victorian literature’s enduring impact and importance for readers interested in the relationship between literature and life, reading and thinking. Explores the prominence of Victorian literature for contemporary readers and...

Why Victorian Literature Still Matters is a passionate defense of Victorian literature’s enduring impact and importance for readers interested in the relationship between literature and life, reading and thinking. Explores the prominence of Victorian literature for contemporary readers and...

Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry recaptures for modern readers the urgency, distinctiveness and rewarding nature of this challenging and powerful body of poetry. An essential guide to reading eighteenth-century poetry, written by world-renowned critic, Patricia Meyer Spacks Exposes the...

Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry recaptures for modern readers the urgency, distinctiveness and rewarding nature of this challenging and powerful body of poetry. An essential guide to reading eighteenth-century poetry, written by world-renowned critic, Patricia Meyer Spacks Exposes the...

In this engaging book David Clark guides the reader through the theology of CS Lewis and illuminates the use and understanding of scripture in the works of this popular author. Examines his life, work, world view, and the implications of his theology in relation to his other writings Looks at...

Greek Tragedy sets ancient tragedy into its original theatrical, political and ritual context and applies modern critical approaches to understanding why tragedy continues to interest modern audiences. An engaging introduction to Greek tragedy, its history, and its reception in the contemporary...

Basic Elements of Narrative outlines a way of thinking about what narrative is and how to identify its basic elements across various media, introducing key concepts developed by previous theorists and contributing original ideas to the growing body of scholarship on stories. Includes an...