Although history records that the British nineteenth century was obsessed with order, conventionality, and conformity, this study highlights myriad Victorians from all walks of life, across lines of class, race, and gender, who resisted social mores...Lasīt vairāk
This companion is an essential contribution to the study of historical materialism in general and the social history of art in particular....Lasīt vairāk
This text offers a comprehensive and tightly focused account of the emergence and flourishing of British modern-life paintings at midcentury....Lasīt vairāk
In the wake of both Joycean and Dantean celebrations, this volume aims to investigate the fecund influence of Italian culture on Samuel Becketts work, with a specific focus on the Twentieth Century....Lasīt vairāk
In Reading Lovecraft in the Anthropocene: A New Dark Age, the intersection of environmental, philosophical, and literary discourses is explored through the lens of H.P. Lovecrafts weird fiction....Lasīt vairāk
This monograph is the first history of ballets based on William Shakespeares works from the birth of ballet as an independent art form in the eighteenth century to the present. It focuses on two main questions: How can Shakespeare be danced , and Ho...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines the overlaps, differences, and complementarities between narratology and stylistics, and shows the consequences of this examination for the practical analysis of prose narrative....Lasīt vairāk
The present volume focuses on a two-fold issue: food as a cultural element that united Mediterranean European society, and food as a cultural encounter between European explorers and new worlds during the early Renaissance....Lasīt vairāk
This book examines six English translations of Tang Shi San Bai Shou (Three Hundred Tang Poems), the renowned anthology of Tang poetry, and explores the challenges and strategies involved in conveying the essence of classical Chinese poetry to an En...Lasīt vairāk
This companion brings together an internationally and interdisciplinarily diverse group of emerging and established fan studies scholars to reflect on the state of the field and to chart new directions for research....Lasīt vairāk
Analysing the thirty-four surviving manuscript copies, this book studies the way the text was transcribed, the notes that readers made in the margins, and the contexts in which it was copied....Lasīt vairāk
A literary and, to a lesser degree, socio-political, history of America, from its indigenous past to 2026, the book offers the reader a great deal of information about America, understood not merely as the domain of one nation but as a giant, hemisp...Lasīt vairāk
This book studies gender, sexuality, and representation in The Mahabharata. Drawing on Feminist theory, Queer theory and Deconstructivist theory, it revisits the epic as a saga of agency, empowerment, and subversion, and examines how it gives the ge...Lasīt vairāk
Oscar Wilde and Nihilism examines Wildes major works in the context of nineteenth-century philosophical nihilism and the Victorian religious unsettlement....Lasīt vairāk
The Greek Language after Antiquity offers an in-depth look at the diachrony of the Greek language, focusing on a period relatively neglected by modern scholarship: the more than 1,000 years between the end of Antiquity and the early modern period....Lasīt vairāk
This book provides an in-depth study of depictions of England in the Saga of Icelanders (Ķslendingasögur), examining their utility as sources for the history of Viking Age Anglo-Scandinavian cultural contact....Lasīt vairāk
The funeral of Paddy Dignam in James Joyces Ulysses serves as the pivotal event of the Hades episode. This volume explores how Dignams interment in Glasnevin Cemetery allowed Joyce the freedom to consider the conventions, rituals and superstitions a...Lasīt vairāk
Shakespeares Exiles addresses fundamental ethical, political, and anthropological questions by looking at two of Shakespeares most eccentric big men....Lasīt vairāk
This book presents an overall picture of the constraints faced at different stages of the translation process, providing a more scientific approach to descriptive translation studies....Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
The classic verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, now with an introduction by the poet Yusef Komunyakaa.Gilgamesh is the story of the godlike ruler of the ancient Mesopotamian city Uruk. The start of the p...Lasīt vairāk
The Routledge Companion to Early Modern Music and Literature considers musico-literary production from the period 15001800, as well as its contemporary resonances, and seeks to unpick these often knotty intersections....Lasīt vairāk
Dominique Bauer, Alexandre Dubois, Jill Cornish, Kathryn A. Haklin
Sērija : Spatial Imageries in Historical Perspective
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Jun-2026, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9789463723978)
This book explores the concept of critical interiority in literature, art, and architecture within European francophone culture, spanning the late eighteenth to early twentieth centuries.As a lived, imagined, or conceptualized interi...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the forms through which Chinese intellectual thought is expressed. It systematically addresses the crucial question of how Chinese thought is articulated according to different conventions and examines the historical interplay b...Lasīt vairāk
This book reexamines William Faulkners If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem (1939), a novel of increasing sociohistorical importance despite being one of Faulkners lesser known and studied works. Wainwright traces Faulkners 1925 visit to Paris, where he f...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores aspects of Sanskrit cultural production from the last two centuries, paying attention to Sanskrits inherently dialogical nature and pluralism within Indian history....Lasīt vairāk
This book explores how the Anancy tales have been reinvented at critical political junctures to speak to identity and heritage. In her monograph, Natalie Lucy considers the influence of an Anancy aesthetic on the writing of British authors with Cari...Lasīt vairāk
This book seeks to untangle the cosmological treatise on the relationship between the physical and spiritual universe found in Edgar Allan Poes Eureka, the work he considered to be his magnum opus but which was also largely ignored by scholars unti...Lasīt vairāk
Gene Wolfe, Antony Ferguson, Grover Gardner, Dion Graham, Jim Meskimen, Donald Corren, Jason Culp, Nick Sullivan, Charlie Thurston, Edoardo Ballerini...
The Best of Gene Wolfe is the definitive collection of the best of Gene Wolfes short fiction.One of the greatest writers in genre (and literary fiction) of the twentieth century, Gene Wolfe was a national treasure...Lasīt vairāk
Gene Wolfe, Antony Ferguson, Grover Gardner, Dion Graham, Jim Meskimen, Donald Corren, Jason Culp, Nick Sullivan, Charlie Thurston, Edoardo Ballerini...
The Best of Gene Wolfe is the definitive collection of the best of Gene Wolfes short fiction.One of the greatest writers in genre (and literary fiction) of the twentieth century, Gene Wolfe was a national treasure...Lasīt vairāk
Author Alice Munro (1931-2024) solved one of the conundrums of science--how to quantify what happens in human interaction. She wrote 14 collections of stories and stand-alone narratives based on matter-of-fact observation and evaluation of unfa...Lasīt vairāk
Husband gets X to kill his wife.She kills X.Husband fixes things to make it appear that she had murdered X.Wife arrested for murder.orWife convicted and about to be hanged. So wr...Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: 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...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: 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...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Jun-2026, Hardback, Izdevniecība: 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 with ingen...Lasīt vairāk
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.As cloning steps out of science f...Lasīt vairāk
A bilingual edition of the devotional poems of Dutch scholar and poet Anna Maria van Schurman, illuminating the period of her withdrawal from public life. The life and reputation of Anna Maria van Schurman (160778) swung dramatically...Lasīt vairāk
The essential pocket edition of this most beloved and quoted of poets. Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love. In lines perfectly constructed and as beautiful as they are plain-spoken, Philip Larkin fou...Lasīt vairāk
August Wilsons extraordinary memory play about his early life in Pittsburgh. Originally written and performed by August Wilson himself in 2003, How I Learned What I Learned is the autobiographical story of a young black artists...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Jun-2026, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Talon Books,Canada, ISBN-13: 9780887540165)
August Wilsons extraordinary memory play about his early life in Pittsburgh. Originally written and performed by August Wilson himself in 2003, How I Learned What I Learned is the autobiographical story of a young black artists...Lasīt vairāk
