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...Loe edasi...
This companion is an essential contribution to the study of historical materialism in general and the social history of art in particular....Loe edasi...
This text offers a comprehensive and tightly focused account of the emergence and flourishing of British modern-life paintings at midcentury....Loe edasi...
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....Loe edasi...
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....Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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....Loe edasi...
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....Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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....Loe edasi...
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....Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781032988276)
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...Loe edasi...
Oscar Wilde and Nihilism examines Wildes major works in the context of nineteenth-century philosophical nihilism and the Victorian religious unsettlement....Loe edasi...
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....Loe edasi...
This book provides an in-depth study of depictions of England in the Saga of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur), examining their utility as sources for the history of Viking Age Anglo-Scandinavian cultural contact....Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
Shakespeares Exiles addresses fundamental ethical, political, and anthropological questions by looking at two of Shakespeares most eccentric big men....Loe edasi...
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....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...
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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Picador USA, ISBN-13: 9781250437594)
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...Loe edasi...
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....Loe edasi...
Dominique Bauer, Alexandre Dubois, Jill Cornish, Kathryn A. Haklin
Sari: Spatial Imageries in Historical Perspective
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: 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...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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....Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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 Wolfe’s short fiction.One of the greatest writers in genre (and literary fiction) of the twentieth century, Gene Wolfe was a national treasure...Loe edasi...
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 Wolfe’s short fiction.One of the greatest writers in genre (and literary fiction) of the twentieth century, Gene Wolfe was a national treasure...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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...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...
(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...
(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, 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 with ingen...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
Anna Maria van Schurman, Albert Gootjes, John L. Thompson, Albert Gootjes, John L. Thompson
Sari: The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Iter Press, ISBN-13: 9781649591463)
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 (1607–78) swung dramatically...Loe edasi...
The first study of the canonical Poems (Shi ?) within their social and interpretive community at the ancient Warring States capital of Chu, based on archaeological data and the analysis of recently discovered bamboo manuscripts from ca....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.Housed in a keepsake book box, this set contains everything you’ll need to host your ow...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Little Betty, ISBN-13: 9781913268961)
William Wylds The Butterfly Bush exposes the mercurial, merciless absurdities of living in a body, of grief, art and hope, the way a garden, up close, reveals an endless orchestra of life: its dirt; its baroque and brutal euphoria....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...
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...
Interweaving the sacred and the erotic, This Elegance engages with visual arts through the concept of sacra conversazione (sacred conversation), a style of Renaissance painting that imagines divine communion across time and space. Here, artists, thi...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...
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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Talon Books,Canada, ISBN-13: 9780887540165)
August Wilson’s 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...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Talon Books,Canada, ISBN-13: 9780887540059)
August Wilson’s 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...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
How does the Sanskrit Mahbhrata act as a religious text? What is the relation between this texts ideas of salvation and its main character King Yudhihira? This book shows that Yudhihira serves as a medium for the organization of diverse soteriologic...Loe edasi...
