Zhu, Moratto, Chao and the contributors bring readers upon a captivating journey into the intersections of Chinese and Western intellectual traditions.Through a diverse collection of essays, the book navigates the complex terrain of...Loe edasi...
The Play of Belief in Nineteenth-Century Fairy Tales and Fairy Narratives examines the range of playful negotiations with truth claims in British and American fantasies for children of the nineteenth century within the context of the era’s...Loe edasi...
Sari: Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198944973)
This book is the first major study of dialogue in England from the fifteenth to the late seventeenth century: a golden age of dialogue, and a crucial period for its development. The spread of humanist education placed a premium on classical forms (...Loe edasi...
Early Modern English Foodways: A Critical Sourcebook is the first anthology devoted to food-related writing in Renaissance England. Bringing together seventy passages from a two-hundred-year sweep of British history, the volume demonstrates...Loe edasi...
This book is a sustained engagement with Mahadeva’s work that seeks to fill this lacuna. It includes translations of select samples of Mahadeva’s fiction and nonfiction writings and some of the major responses to these works from Kannada. ...Loe edasi...
Arguably the greatest novel of the twentieth century, James Joyces Ulysses remains as much of a shocking and redemptive testament to the human condition as it was when it was first conceived in 1914. Following the events of a single day in D...Loe edasi...
This is the first full-length biography of Sulpicia, the earliest extant female author of classical Latin poetry. Unmentioned by her contemporaries, Sulpicia belonged to the pinnacle of the Roman aristocracy and wrote openly about her life and love a...Loe edasi...
The creation of meaningful and beautiful similarities as part of a pattern is a vital means humankind has developed to create, or respond to, order in various contexts. The present volume focusses on the manifold forms and functions which repetition...Loe edasi...
This textbook explores vital networks and relationships among geographies and cultures that shaped medieval societies. Designed for students new to the subject, this second edition has been fully updated to include expanded coverage of Africa, the...Loe edasi...
This textbook explores vital networks and relationships among geographies and cultures that shaped medieval societies. Designed for students new to the subject, this second edition has been fully updated to include expanded coverage of Africa, the...Loe edasi...
A pioneering biography of George Orwell told through moments of everyday life A clever, offbeat history of mid-century Britain through George Orwell’s eyes. Helen Lewis When we think about Orwell, we imagine an angular...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198999058)
This monograph challenges popular and critical orthodoxies about twentieth and twenty-first century literature and visual culture. It unearths a buried alternative history of the novel of the English-speaking world by demonstrating how stalled and i...Loe edasi...
We are in the middle of a vibrant renaissance of queer writing. But LGBTQ+ writers, characters and readers have been here since the beginning quietly, defiantly, and persistently telling their stories if you know where to look. ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197800621)
The representation of the ancient world in film has long been an established site of scholarly interest, but animation remains understudied. Given the mediums popularity and its role as an access point to ancient history for young audiences, it dese...Loe edasi...
“Through identifying connections between teaching and learning, I suggest that teaching can give a life meaning, that we might define ourselves, understand ourselves, meaningfully, as teachers. Teaching is a way of living and not just a way to mak...Loe edasi...
“Through identifying connections between teaching and learning, I suggest that teaching can give a life meaning, that we might define ourselves, understand ourselves, meaningfully, as teachers. Teaching is a way of living and not just a way to mak...Loe edasi...
This innovative collection explores the intersection of magic, reproduction, and horror in contemporary culture, examining how these elements reflect and critique societal anxieties during a time of unprecedented challenges to reproductive rights,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807182338)
Professing Darkness confirms the centrality of Catholic thought, imagery, and sacrament to the spiritual and ethical outlook of the work of Cormac McCarthy and, more specifically, its consistent assessment of Enlightenment values and their often-cat...Loe edasi...
First published in 1985, Novel and Society in Elizabethan England presents a whole range of English fiction of the Elizabethan period against its social background. It considers the major authors of prose fiction and examines how they organised thei...Loe edasi...
The literature of the English Renaissance demands some attention to the intellectual and educational background which produced it, in order to be seen in proper perspective. The selection in this book, originally published in 1985, both illustrate t...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1973, this is foremost a study of Dryden as a writer, but, the author maintains, his ideas cannot be separated from his art. Drydens concern with familiar 17th Century problems make him almost as important to the historian as...Loe edasi...
The year 1688 is a turning point in English culture, and one from which can be dated numerous distinctively modern notions of truth, property and political order. The texts assembled in this collection, originally published in 1986, focus on this in...Loe edasi...
Henry Fielding (1933) examines Fieldings prodigious activity as dramatist, journalist, novelist and magistrate. Though Fielding lived mainly by his pen, the profession he had chosen for himself was that of the law, and this book takes the man as a w...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1971, this book elucidates Becketts work in the light of his concern with literary form. This is seen as an increasingly compressed and dense medium for the purer and purer statement of his view of mans existence....Loe edasi...
Archipelagothic: Studies in the Philippine Gothic is an edited collection that brings together essays that examine the place of the gothic in Philippine culture. This groundbreaking volume, the first book on the topic, is appropriately co...Loe edasi...
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Rodger L. Tarr, Brent E. Kinser
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9780813081472)
This collection of early work, college writing, newspaper pieces, and stories of life in Florida by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is an intimate glimpse into the artistic development of a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. A collection of l...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197839300)
The environmental and political crises humanity faces today have given rise to influential new theories of life, matter, and time. Vitalism, a controversial term describing the ideas of philosophers from Lucretius to Bergson, provides a common intell...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...
A study in the literature of selfhood across time, Self-Haunting analyses how the Gnostics, the Romantics, Kierkegaard, Beckett and Ashbery dramatize the self’s struggle to fulfill an ideal of integrity and autonomy that...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526187772)
Letter writing in the Northumbrian Kingdom offers a pioneering exploration of Northumbrias epistolary culture, demonstrating how letters functioned as a medium for intellectual exchange, political diplomacy, and religious expression....Loe edasi...
This book examines the plays Thomas Middleton wrote for the King’s Men between 1620 and 1624, arguing that they constitute one of the most sustained and ambitious engagements with contemporary politics in early modern English drama. Situating thes...Loe edasi...
Andrew D Buck, Katy Mortimer, James H. Kane, Stephen J Spencer, Edward Caddy, Peter W Edbury, Susan B. Edgington, Katrine Funding Højgaard, Katherine J Lewis, Mark McCabe...
This collection offers a holistic understanding of the impact of both crusading and settlement on the literary cultures of Latin Christendom....Loe edasi...
Stephen H Rigby, Shannon McSheffrey, Alex T Brown, David Crook, Anne Curry, Louisa Foroughi, Helen Fulton, Martin Heale, Katherine J Lewis, John Marshall...
Offers a comprehensive thematic introduction to a wide range of medieval writings about the outlaw-hero from a series of different historical perspectives....Loe edasi...
Sari: SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855804584)
The first volume of essays in English on one of the most renowned contemporary Italian Philosophers. Remo Bodei (19382019) was one of Italys most influential philosophers of the past half-century. His intellectual influence was wide-reac...Loe edasi...
Sari: SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855804799)
Illuminates the interplay of gender, fashion, and nationalism in Victorian literature and culture. Dressing for England argues that womens interest in fashionable clothingin dress that appealed to a sophisticated, cultured, and continent...Loe edasi...
An edition with facing page translation of the Old English Admonition to a Spiritual Son, a treatise penned at the turn of the first millennium by Ælfric of Eynsham....Loe edasi...
Ancient Greece was rich with stories of queer love and genderfluid identity—but what can these ancient stories tell us about our contemporary world?Tales as old as antiquity—whether the love affair of Achilles and Patroclus, the gend...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855807585)
Explores in both theory and practice the deconstructive demand to never let traces die. At a time when technological advancements, especially LLMs, have all of us wondering about the future of reading and writing, Derrida and Prosthetic U...Loe edasi...
Sari: SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855808001)
Counters universalist narratives of mainstream feminism by examining the power exerted by four white women writer-activists to shape American society from the 1860s to 1930s. White Womans Burden focuses on four American writer-activists...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496246523)
Named a 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In Shades of Gray Molly Littlewood McKibbin offers a social and literary history of multiracialism in the twentieth-century United States. She examines the African American and white racial bi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197839218)
Print for the Pocket investigates how early nineteenth-century Americans living in a rapidly expanding country understood and utilized the material features of small, portable books. Analyzing archival print artifacts alongside major and lit...Loe edasi...
This volume provides an analysis of the constitution of the idea of furor poeticus (poetic frenzy), the conception of the poet as an individual inspired and possessed by a kind of divine madness. This idea, deeply rooted in the Platonic tradition, w...Loe edasi...
