This book offers a groundbreaking literary-ethical examination of cloning narratives in science fiction, positioning itself at the intersection of speculative fiction and emerging biotechnological realities....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226849553)
Joining the unfinished conversation between the satirist Jonathan Swift and the critic Edward Said, The Last Amateur argues for the transformative potential of literature. What does Swiftian mean to you? For many, the name is synonymous w...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226849560)
Joining the unfinished conversation between the satirist Jonathan Swift and the critic Edward Said, The Last Amateur argues for the transformative potential of literature. What does “Swiftian” mean to you? For many, the name is...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226849287)
Dedicated to discussing writings of the European Renaissance that dissented from the dominant values of the period. Who during the Renaissance could have dissented from the values of reason and restraint, patience and humility, rejection...Loe edasi...
Nature, Literature and Culture: Affinities, Influences, Lives and Ideas explores the profound connections between scientific inquiry and literary expression across generations. The volume focuses on great scientific and literary minds, concluding wi...Loe edasi...
How does French poetics navigate the advent of the digital and an increasingly polarized political landscape? Centering on the 1990s to the present, this book examines French poetry’s turn away from lyrical expression towards the language and practic...Loe edasi...
What happens when reading depends on swiping, tapping, or pressing glass? Haptic Interfaces in Electronic Literature: The Digital Midas Touch explores how digital literature turns ordinary gestures into part of the story itself. Examining works by S...Loe edasi...
Replacement is always dramatic, carrying rivalry, envy and supersession: the replacer may be haunted by the uncanny survival of the replacee, they are both distinct and inseparable, substitution is never absolute and yet we all long to be irreplaceab...Loe edasi...
This book offers a novel approach to the study of the Roman imperial cult, disrupting the traditional Eurocentric narrative and tendency to relativise the cults religious dimension in favour of its political implications. Instead, this collection ar...Loe edasi...
Who is your favourite woman writer from the 1800s? Today, many readers are likely to name Jane Austen, but in the 1880s, a common answer across Europe might well have been E. Marlitt. Redrawing Europes Literary Map sets out to uncover which female a...Loe edasi...
The Reliques of Father Prout (1836) by Francis Sylvester Mahony is a key text in the early genealogy of the Anglo-Irish literary tradition. Initially published under the pseudonym of Father Prout in the London periodical, Frasers Magazine, Mahonys e...Loe edasi...
The legendary Academy Award–winning actress reflects on her love affair with poetry and makes us all believers.We all want inspiration. We want to feel connected to something universal. And we want to be able to share that...Loe edasi...
This is the first book to explore the history of self-translation in Chinese. It reveals how self-translation was widespread among literary authors during one of the most fertile periods of translation in human history, an era that marks both the da...Loe edasi...
Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Bury née Campbell is one of the most influential womens rights activists of the 19th century. The Divorced has been out of circulation in the UK for almost two centuries; this new edition redefines her work not as silver-f...Loe edasi...
This volume reproduces the full biography from the Robert Southeys 1836 Life and Works of William Cowper. Comprehensive critical apparatus written by Southey scholar Tim Fulford will assist the reader in making sense of the major issues posed by the...Loe edasi...
This open access book offers a profound exploration of Bracha L. Ettingers theory of the matrixial borderspace through the lens of Jacques Lacans psychoanalytic teachings. By situating Ettingers work within a Lacanian context, this volume illumina...Loe edasi...
Coming soon! Race, Space, and Culture edited by K. Ian Grandison and Marlon B. Ross.Coming soon! Race, Space, and Culture edited by K. Ian Grandison and Marlon B. Ross....Loe edasi...
The first complete English-language collection of Simone Weil’s letters to her loved ones, A Life in Letters deepens appreciation of one of the twentieth century’s great thinkers by offering insight into her relationships, spiritual and occupa...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674997790)
Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45–120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia, in central Greece. He is renowned for his forty-six Parallel Lives, biographies planned to be...Loe edasi...
The first book-length study of dream interpretation in classical GreeceLong before Freud, dreams and how to make sense of them fascinated ancient thinkers. In The Ancient Interpretation of Dreams, Mirjam Kotwick traces a cont...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691263557)
The first book-length study of dream interpretation in classical GreeceLong before Freud, dreams and how to make sense of them fascinated ancient thinkers. In The Ancient Interpretation of Dreams, Mirjam Kotwick traces a cont...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781049804248)
The first comprehensive study of five feminist publications – Room of One’s Own, Contemporary Verse 2, Fireweed, Tessera, and (f).Lip – this book shares the story of a vibrant and transf...Loe edasi...
Sari: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231223911)
The final volume of Julia Kristevas trilogy on female genius, Colette interlaces commentary on the life and work of the notorious French novelist who made it possible for women to write erotic literature....Loe edasi...
This book investigates the many ways in which African literature has engaged with themes of migration and postcolonial disillusionment. Highlighting the interconnectedness of postcolonial instability and migratory experiences, this is an important...Loe edasi...
Moves beyond issues of translation to consider cultural boycotts, censorship and the ways translation is harnessed to promote or subvert political and aesthetic values....Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Camden House Inc, ISBN-13: 9781640142350)
Describes the relationship between economic and novelistic form within the period 1900-1934 by way of major novels by Kafka, Thomas Mann, Brecht, B. Traven, Ödön von Horváth, and Vicki Baum....Loe edasi...
Moves beyond issues of translation to consider cultural boycotts, censorship and the ways translation is harnessed to promote or subvert political and aesthetic values....Loe edasi...
Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues....Loe edasi...
This book explores the impact of political bias on the translation of contemporary Russian fiction into English and its reception in the UK and US between 2008 and 2022. This book explores the impact of political bias on the...Loe edasi...
Not just your regular textbook, this unique book uses popular culture as a teaching tool by taking the work of Stephen King, to illustrate concepts that are essential to health psychology. The book uses his story telling and character development...Loe edasi...
How does French poetics navigate the advent of the digital and an increasingly polarized political landscape? Centering on the 1990s to the present, this book examines French poetry’s turn away from lyrical expression towards the language and practic...Loe edasi...
This book provides a new translation of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskys novel he Return of Munchausen, with an extensive commentary that is accessible to any reader. In the novel the famous old baron, a virtuoso of imaginative creation who has returned to...Loe edasi...
The legendary Academy Award–winning actress reflects on her love affair with poetry and makes us all believers.We all want inspiration. We want to feel connected to something universal. And we want to be able to share that...Loe edasi...
The Reliques of Father Prout (1836) by Francis Sylvester Mahony is a key text in the early genealogy of the Anglo-Irish literary tradition. Initially published under the pseudonym of Father Prout in the London periodical, Frasers Magazine, Mahonys e...Loe edasi...
These intimate love letters reveal the close, open relationship between de Beauvoir and Sartre, two of the twentieth century’s most groundbreaking thinkers - two people living out their philosophy. De Beauvoir lived her feminist philosophy. S...Loe edasi...
Who is your favourite woman writer from the 1800s? Today, many readers are likely to name Jane Austen, but in the 1880s, a common answer across Europe might well have been E. Marlitt. Redrawing Europes Literary Map sets out to uncover which female a...Loe edasi...
This book offers a novel approach to the study of the Roman imperial cult, disrupting the traditional Eurocentric narrative and tendency to relativise the cults religious dimension in favour of its political implications. Instead, this collection ar...Loe edasi...
You are asking me where I live and its making me think all these things about space, where I start and end in space and where space starts and ends in me and when, in space, I am a body and when Im a book, in space. So begins Renee Gladmans Theor...Loe edasi...
Replacement is always dramatic, carrying rivalry, envy and supersession: the replacer may be haunted by the uncanny survival of the replacee, they are both distinct and inseparable, substitution is never absolute and yet we all long to be irreplaceab...Loe edasi...
Celebrate your love of books and engaging conversation with this book club hosting set that includes everything you need to host your own book club....Loe edasi...
What happens when reading depends on swiping, tapping, or pressing glass? Haptic Interfaces in Electronic Literature: The Digital Midas Touch explores how digital literature turns ordinary gestures into part of the story itself. Examining works by S...Loe edasi...
This open access book offers a profound exploration of Bracha L. Ettingers theory of the matrixial borderspace through the lens of Jacques Lacans psychoanalytic teachings. By situating Ettingers work within a Lacanian context, this volume illumina...Loe edasi...
This volume reproduces the full biography from the Robert Southeys 1836 Life and Works of William Cowper. Comprehensive critical apparatus written by Southey scholar Tim Fulford will assist the reader in making sense of the major issues posed by the...Loe edasi...
Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Bury née Campbell is one of the most influential womens rights activists of the 19th century. The Divorced has been out of circulation in the UK for almost two centuries; this new edition redefines her work not as silver-f...Loe edasi...
This is the first book to explore the history of self-translation in Chinese. It reveals how self-translation was widespread among literary authors during one of the most fertile periods of translation in human history, an era that marks both the da...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9798895270813)
This volume addresses the unique relationship between the American dream and the manifold ways in which food and food-related topics support and expand upon elements that constitute the American dream. The contributors discuss instances in which Ame...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University, Asia Center, ISBN-13: 9780674303423)
In Performing Enlightenment, Mengxiao Wang argues that the late Ming and early Qing Buddhists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries resolved their conflict between religion and worldly entertainment by transforming playwriting, stage perf...Loe edasi...
