Stephen H Rigby, Shannon McSheffrey, Alex T Brown, David Crook, Anne Curry, Louisa Foroughi, Helen Fulton, Martin Heale, Katherine J Lewis, John Marshall...
This book examines the enduring appeal of Odysseus in artistic representation from antiquity to the present. The volume aims to provide a sense of how this character changes from ancient Greek myth through modern poetry, and how this capacity for ch...Loe edasi...
This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of storytelling and cultural adaptation, revealing how narratives can transform individual suffering into powerful acts of resistance and survival. By examining the works of Margaret Atwood and Toni Morr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197699690)
The problem of the twentieth century was one of the most important factors in the development of American modernism. W. E. B. Du Bois, of course, identified that problem as the color line a phrase for the broad array of laws and practices that pr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781032608075)
This volume explores the ways in which religion in the South Asian literary landscape play a significant role in the creation of political structures and secular democracies in South Asia. It highlights how the concepts of nation, nationalism, and se...Loe edasi...
The Embattled Academy delves into the world of contemporary U.S. drama, exploring how the twenty-first-century academy has become a central stage for the Culture Wars and their impact on academic labor and institutionaldynamics....Loe edasi...
Master-Narrative Transitions from the Vikings to Artificial Intelligence: How Fiction Helps Communities Adapt to a Changing World examines how societies survive and transform when their foundational stories begin to collapse. By tracing a m...Loe edasi...
This book argues that corporate harms can and should be conceptualised as horrific because they are novel forms of damage on an unprecedented scale. This book argues that corporate harms can and should be conceptualised as horrific because...Loe edasi...
Origins of Apocalyptic Science Fiction: The Last Man argues that apocalyptic science fiction found its origins in the early 19th century, in works of literature centred on the figure of the Last Man on Earth. This character, inexistent be...Loe edasi...
From the International Man Booker Prize-winning author of Cant and Wont and The End of the Story - a crystalline collection of literary essays for fans of Susan Sontag and Joan Didion Among my most favourite writers. Read her now! A....Loe edasi...
Theorizing Flash Fiction: Postmodern Perspectives aims to theorize the genre of flash fiction. A close theoretical analysis of the genre brings forth the supposition that for any genre to thrive and dominate, the literary fabric of times mu...Loe edasi...
This book connects the memoir boom of recent decades with the growing public debate about transnational adoption. Through the close reading of a range of American and Swedish memoirs by transnationally adopted persons, the study considers the functi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198896364)
This volume presents a selection of eight letters in verse from Ovids Heroides in Latin with English translations. P. J. Daviss introduction and accompanying commentary discuss the literary themes and historical context of the poems....Loe edasi...
Sari: Race In Nineteenth-Century Literatures And Cultures
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198905950)
Fermanis argues that nineteenth-century settler fiction encodes complex and mobile interrelationships between settlers and migrants across the colonial southern hemisphere. By focusing on novels that depict short-term movement, this book demonstrate...Loe edasi...
The remarkable life and work of Simone Weil has fascinated scholars from many disciplines, with Camus calling her the only great spirit of our times. This book is invaluable resource for anyone studying Weils thought, whether in philosophy and...Loe edasi...
Language is the labyrinth were enmeshed in, and any line of exploration we think is leading us out only adds a further strand to the entanglement. Rope presents an alluring and provocative array of insights as it follows a mind on the mo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198930822)
The Tamil Realist Novel in South and Southeast Asia examines how Tamil writers from India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Singapore reimagined the realist novel between the 1940s and 1980s as a vehicle for political critique and cultural transform...Loe edasi...
This book offers a history of shyness in France. In particular, it interrogates the seeming strangeness of shyness in the long nineteenth century, positing it as an everyday experience which nonetheless troubled the stories that the nation sought to...Loe edasi...
This anthology of scholarly translations of medieval French farces continues Jody Enderss recovery of a repertoire that remains surprisingly little known. While more than 200 comedies have survived from late medieval and early Renaissance France, t...Loe edasi...
Huining Ouyang’s Reimagining the Madame Butterfly Narrative examines Asian American literary revisions of the Butterfly story since the beginning of American expansionism in Asia. Through textual, intertextual, and contextual analyses, Ouyang demo...Loe edasi...
This original and provocative book, The Enlightenment and Its Shadows (originally published in 1990) subject both Enlightenment and subsequent responses to it to critical scrutiny. Essential reading for students of the history, literature,...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1972 and as a second edition in 1979, this widely acclaimed biography of Africa’s first modern statesman tells the story of Kenyatta’s extraordinary and enigmatic career. It is the story of a life punctuated by dramatic twi...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1972 and as a second edition in 1979, this widely acclaimed biography of Africa’s first modern statesman tells the story of Kenyatta’s extraordinary and enigmatic career. It is the story of a life punctuated by dramatic twi...Loe edasi...
First published in 1984, Fantasy and Reason (now with a new foreword by Judith Summerfield) retraces the major philosophical, moral and social factors bearing on children’s development in the eighteenth century, leading up to the poetic exp...Loe edasi...
Examining the forgotten publications of nineteenth-century asylums, Mila Daskalova draws on book history and periodical studies to explore the history of psychiatry and patients experiences, showing their active role in treatment and cultural life...Loe edasi...
This book considers the significance of the filial relationship to the graphic narrative oeuvres of Art Spiegelman and Alison Bechdel. Bringing to bear a wealth of previously undiscussed texts and materials, it offers a lively, theoretically eclecti...Loe edasi...
The privatisation of relationships of care and dependency is increasing; the new social media is facilitating a "confessional" society and our press is keen to interrogate every dimension of our relationships. The combined cultural effec...Loe edasi...
Sari: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009785273)
Examining the forgotten publications of nineteenth-century asylums, Mila Daskalova draws on book history and periodical studies to explore the history of psychiatry and patients experiences, showing their active role in treatment and cultural life...Loe edasi...
Sari: Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009712392)
Profiling a dozen prominent British poets of color who engage urgent social crises spanning policing and racial violence through cultural recognition by museums, publishing, and prizes, this book will appeal to scholars of race and literature and po...Loe edasi...
This book examines the enduring appeal of Odysseus in artistic representation from antiquity to the present. The volume aims to provide a sense of how this character changes from ancient Greek myth through modern poetry, and how this capacity for ch...Loe edasi...
This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of storytelling and cultural adaptation, revealing how narratives can transform individual suffering into powerful acts of resistance and survival. By examining the works of Margaret Atwood and Toni Morr...Loe edasi...
Origins of Apocalyptic Science Fiction: The Last Man argues that apocalyptic science fiction found its origins in the early 19th century, in works of literature centred on the figure of the Last Man on Earth. This character, inexistent be...Loe edasi...
This book argues that corporate harms can and should be conceptualised as horrific because they are novel forms of damage on an unprecedented scale. This book argues that corporate harms can and should be conceptualised as horrific because...Loe edasi...
Master-Narrative Transitions from the Vikings to Artificial Intelligence: How Fiction Helps Communities Adapt to a Changing World examines how societies survive and transform when their foundational stories begin to collapse. By tracing a m...Loe edasi...
The Embattled Academy delves into the world of contemporary U.S. drama, exploring how the twenty-first-century academy has become a central stage for the Culture Wars and their impact on academic labor and institutionaldynamics....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781032608075)
This volume explores the ways in which religion in the South Asian literary landscape play a significant role in the creation of political structures and secular democracies in South Asia. It highlights how the concepts of nation, nationalism, and se...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jul-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The Catholic University of America Press, ISBN-13: 9780813241180)
This book will fill a gap in the current resources available to students of the Confessions in Latin. The scope, method, and intended readership will align not only in college Latin classrooms, but also by high school students who have completed the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197699690)
The problem of the twentieth century was one of the most important factors in the development of American modernism. W. E. B. Du Bois, of course, identified that problem as the color line a phrase for the broad array of laws and practices that pr...Loe edasi...
A groundbreaking scholarly account of translation as a form of resistance in Ukrainian and Czech history, from imperial oppression to Soviet censorship and beyond. In cultures and communities under pressure, whether from a powerful nei...Loe edasi...
Language is the labyrinth were enmeshed in, and any line of exploration we think is leading us out only adds a further strand to the entanglement. Rope presents an alluring and provocative array of insights as it follows a mind on the mo...Loe edasi...
The remarkable life and work of Simone Weil has fascinated scholars from many disciplines, with Camus calling her the only great spirit of our times. This book is invaluable resource for anyone studying Weils thought, whether in philosophy and...Loe edasi...
Sari: Race In Nineteenth-Century Literatures And Cultures
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198905950)
Fermanis argues that nineteenth-century settler fiction encodes complex and mobile interrelationships between settlers and migrants across the colonial southern hemisphere. By focusing on novels that depict short-term movement, this book demonstrate...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198896364)
This volume presents a selection of eight letters in verse from Ovids Heroides in Latin with English translations. P. J. Daviss introduction and accompanying commentary discuss the literary themes and historical context of the poems....Loe edasi...
This book connects the memoir boom of recent decades with the growing public debate about transnational adoption. Through the close reading of a range of American and Swedish memoirs by transnationally adopted persons, the study considers the functi...Loe edasi...
Theorizing Flash Fiction: Postmodern Perspectives aims to theorize the genre of flash fiction. A close theoretical analysis of the genre brings forth the supposition that for any genre to thrive and dominate, the literary fabric of times mu...Loe edasi...
From the International Man Booker Prize-winning author of Cant and Wont and The End of the Story - a crystalline collection of literary essays for fans of Susan Sontag and Joan Didion Among my most favourite writers. Read her now! A....Loe edasi...
“Of special interest.”—Sir Ian McKellenIn Shakespeare on Sex, readers will discover William Shakespeare as they have never seen him before: a rebellious playwright determined to challenge Elizabethan England’s sexual mores and c...Loe edasi...
