An examination of how ancient environments were socio-culturally constructed as responsive living entities that could undermine or even challenge humankinds sense of control....Loe edasi...
A vivid and authoritative account of the Middle Easts recent history to the present day, from the BBCs long-serving correspondent in the region....Loe edasi...
Verse drama is not a dead form, but very much alive on the contemporary stage. Drawing on plays from throughout the English-speaking world, including the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Caribbean, Staging the Lyric seeks to explain t...Loe edasi...
Through an examination of paratextuality in late antique literature, this collection of essays reconsiders the importance of the written material that appears in the margins of ancient poetic texts. Paratexts such as headings, prefaces, l...Loe edasi...
Examining the relationship between borders and the environment in Scottish literature from the nineteenth-century to the present, this book focuses particularly on how Scottish literary works can contribute to complex theoretical debates....Loe edasi...
An exploration of the marketing, presentation and construction of popular Chinese childrens authors for their youthful audience, parents and teachers, Marketing Chinese Childrens Books surveys the internal and international disseminati...Loe edasi...
?aha ?usayn: A Bi-Lingual Arabic Reader is an Arabic language reader that focuses on passages from works authored by the renowned Egyptian litterateur and public intellectual ?aha ?usayn. ?aha ?usayn: A Bi-Lingual Arabic R...Loe edasi...
?aha ?usayn: A Bi-Lingual Arabic Reader is an Arabic language reader that focuses on passages from works authored by the renowned Egyptian litterateur and public intellectual ?aha ?usayn. A critical introduction discusses ?usayn’s wr...Loe edasi...
The best in short fiction from around the world, from celebrated anthologist and author John Freeman and award-winning novelist Rabih Alameddine In The Penguin Book of the International Short Story, writers from different nations, languag...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: not a cult LLC, ISBN-13: 9781945649608)
The second title from Gabi Abrão, a collection of short stories and poems inspired by real-life currents that take the poet from digital, to earth, beyond, and back again. Practices in Apparition is an offering to ghosts and Gods and the...Loe edasi...
A fully contextualised catalogue of one of the most significant archival Joyce acquisitions of recent times. When Stephen James Joyce died on 23 January 2020, he and his wife Solange bequeathed an archival collection and library to...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780197901274)
This book examines the narrative function of architecture in Miguel de Cervantess late novelistic fiction, drawing on philological analysis and methods from art history. It discusses Renaissance architectural theory and classical conceptions of the...Loe edasi...
Moving from the micro world of quantum physics to the macro scales of earth science and ecology, this book considers how, in contemporary literature, affective experiences like desire, suffering, anxiety, and joy shape scientific persons, pract...Loe edasi...
From a range of academic and practice-led perspectives, this book explores how a combination of place-based writing and location-based technologies are producing new kinds of experimental ambient literary experience....Loe edasi...
Explores how material culture is represented in archaeological fiction and media and what it reveals about the cultural practices involved in representing and recognizing objects designated as artefacts. Investigating the represe...Loe edasi...
The first full-length study to bring together the fields of Health Humanities and German studies, this book features contributions from a range of key scholars and provides an overview of the latest work being done at the intersection of these two d...Loe edasi...
This book examines Occidentalism, or the set of cultural, literary and political uses of the West, in the works of canonical 20th and 21st century Egyptian novelists. Beginning with the writings of Muhammad Husayn Haykal, Lorenzo Casini...Loe edasi...
Featuring contributions from key names in the field alongside some of the most exciting new voices, this collection presents cutting-edge environmental humanities work on species extinction from a wide variety of perspectives across the humanities....Loe edasi...
Featuring contributions from key names in the field alongside some of the most exciting new voices, this collection presents cutting-edge environmental humanities work on species extinction from a wide variety of perspectives across the humanities....Loe edasi...
Through new ecocritical readings of 18th and 19th century English genre fictions, this book explores the intersection between English national identity and the environment in 16 key novels to highlight the importance of centering the green imaginati...Loe edasi...
Through new ecocritical readings of 18th and 19th century English genre fictions, this book explores the intersection between English national identity and the environment in 16 key novels to highlight the importance of centering the green imaginati...Loe edasi...
Crossing the boundaries of a single-author study, this book uncovers Flann OBriens attempt to forge a commercially successful Irish literary project from international avant-garde influences. Situating OBriens early work within a glob...Loe edasi...
The third play collection of work by one of Americas most provocative and probing playwrights, grappling with contemporary themes and modern problems in a dramatic and incisive form....Loe edasi...
Studies the use of the Persephone myth to explore the initiation of young girls into adulthood within six contemporary young adult books....Loe edasi...
Using works by Hafid Bouazza, Najat El Hachmi, Tsjêbbe Hettinga, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Leïla Slimani, Zadie Smith, and Kjell Westö, this book looks at post-national feelings of belonging in contemporary European literature....Loe edasi...
A reassessment of Dickens use of antiquity to address race, sex, empire and class, highlighting his collaboration with his illustrator, Phiz....Loe edasi...
Using critical race theory to explore the racial, colonial and imperial ideologies underpinning Enid Blytons fiction, this book assesses the edits publishers have made to her work and digs into the effects of censorship and rebranding of childrens...Loe edasi...
Poetry that imagines how to live with realness, creativity, and vibrance. The poems in Clouds Upside Down Among the Flowers speak to the emotionally and existentially tough challenge presented by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in What...Loe edasi...
Exploring the ongoing histories of human-centered ecosystem management in North America, this book tracks the diverse ways in which human-environmental relations have been presented across different forms of media and highlights the potential in I...Loe edasi...
Sari: Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198211)
Part recovery and part new reading method, this work locates the few kept mistresses in Victorian literature, while offering a queer way to read for their existences when less legible. This book offers a way to read old material with new eyes and a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198198)
This cross-disciplinary collection of feminist approaches to gesture offers new explorations of how gesture/s and feminism/s have animated one another in feminist and interdisciplinary artistic practice from the 1960s onwards. -- ....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198228)
This collection explores the genesis of John Polidoris foundational novella The Vampyre (1819). It then tracks his bloodsucking progeny across the centuries and maps his disquieting legacy from the melodramatic vampire theatricals in the 1820s, thro...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: White Pine Press, ISBN-13: 9781945680878)
Dimitrova suggests through vivid, sometimes ironic imagery that our life is imperfect, but we dont have a better one.Kristin Dimitrova seems to want to stop time, to make us notice how important the things we consider trivial or coi...Loe edasi...
In ghost stories and family history, this lyrical memoir explores mercy as resistance to generational violence In ghost stories and family history, this lyrical memoir explores mercy as resistance to generational violenceIn this lu...Loe edasi...
Sari: Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300186277)
This volume of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization covers the religious, political, economic, and geographic transformations of Jewish life through the early Middle Ages Volume 3 of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civiliza...Loe edasi...
For many, Mary Wollstonecraft functions as Western feminisms indisputable origin point and anchor. Once scorned as scandalous, later rehabilitated by the Victorians as a figure of hardworking traditional femininity, Wollstonecraft is today incorp...Loe edasi...
“Peacock works her trademark lyrical magic.” —Alex Gurtis, Rain TaxiA book-length sequence of poems that dares to affirm the vast variety of emotional colors in loss and rejuvenation. After her husband’s death, Molly P...Loe edasi...
The world’s greatest thriller writers prove they’re up to a unique challenge in this action-packed collection.It all started with a simple, yet sneakily difficult challenge from global best-selling author Harlan Coben: Pick a bird of p...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198204)
The first ever critical edition of Thomas Heywoods 1626 play, Dick of Devonshire, presented for the first time with an anthology of its source material. -- ....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198266)
This book shows that the poems of Geoffrey Hill (19322016) are characteristically end-directed, tending constantly towards prosodic and thematic consummations. It offers a new thematic reading of Hills entire body of work and touches on questions o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198181)
This collection investigates the methodological problem of how to see, or read, art that references literature through a series of object-focused chapters on post-1960 artworks. Variously eccentric, playful, reverential and procedural, the diverse r...Loe edasi...
This interdisciplinary volume explores how graphic narratives engage with urgent global issuesranging from identity, trauma, and health to racial injustice, reproductive rights, disability, and ecological awareness. Featuring contributions from the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198280)
This book charts emergent geographical imaginaries of the Arctic in twenty-first century cultural production from literature and cinema to comics, hip hop, and cartography. It is a timely intervention into circumpolar studies at a time when Indigen...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781807070007)
This collection gathers leading international scholars in the humanities, who offer cutting-edge responses to the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer for the current critical moment. The range of methodological approaches exemplifies significant trends in...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781807070403)
This volume looks at how Leif Eirikssons visit to Vinland around the year 1000 has been reimagined in the modern era, taking on a range of media from scholarly works on history and mythology to novels, films and comic books. More broadly, it asks wh...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526199805)
This study explores how writers reconciled provocative biblical stories with late-medieval culture. Highlighting the many variations and points of conflict across renditions of the same story, the book unfolds a creative theological discourse throug...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526199799)
A new translation of an important source for medieval monastic history that provides interesting insights the background to the Norman Conquest of England. -- ....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487570811)
Digital Combat examines how contemporary warfare and historical traumas reshape the study and practice of film in Eastern Europe. Bringing together leading international scholars, the volume interrogates cultural canons, reframes national...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198259)
This book argues that early Romantic-Period women novelists used female madness to critique patriarchal structures of control and to revise misogynistic medical and popular sentimental models that blamed inherent female weakness and the aberrant fem...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198235)
A scholarly, modern-spelling edition of a play by the Caroline dramatist John Ford which was accidentally omitted from the 1652 edition of his works and so has not received much attention. A full introduction explores what made the play interesting...Loe edasi...
Becoming GeorgeBecoming George A long–overdue reappraisal of a groundbreaking nineteenth–century writer who reshaped the literary and social norms of her age....Loe edasi...
In this book, the author explores the different aspects of the lives of the men and women of the desert. The harmattan is a literary expression of the life of the Nomads and Tuaregs. In this book, the author explores the different...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503646292)
How should we speak of humanism today? To answer this question, Moroccan philosopher Ali Benmakhlouf turns to Montaigne. Through a rich and attentive reading of Montaignes Essays, Benmakhlouf reminds us why the sixteenth-century author rem...Loe edasi...
Award-winning poet Enid Shomer’s new and selected poems explore the many facets of womanhood, from youthful desire to life’s later stages.In Riptide, Shomer’s poems, written over the last forty years, illuminate the nature of...Loe edasi...
This edition of Paradise Lost (1667, 1674) makes its own distinctive contribution to the editorial tradition. It presents the two lifetime versions of Miltons poem in juxtaposition with each other. However, unlike previous scholarly edition...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198920649)
This edition of Paradise Lost (1667, 1674) presents the two lifetime versions of Miltons poem in juxtaposition with each other, with a new intellectual context for interpreting the work, demonstrating its intricate intersections with the political...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199237555)
This edition of Paradise Lost (1667, 1674) presents the two lifetime versions of Miltons poem in juxtaposition with each other, with a new intellectual context for interpreting the work, demonstrating its intricate intersections with the political...Loe edasi...
Volume I of Charlotte Lennoxs The Female Quixote introduces Arabella, a heroine whose imagination is shaped by French romances. A witty and perceptive classic, the novel explores the power of reading, the nature of desire, and the constraints placed...Loe edasi...
The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of Americas greatest 20th-century writers.You dont write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of...Loe edasi...
After exploring the arts and spoken word worlds of her native Chicago and the US East Coast, award-winning journalist, poet, and dreamer Clara Rose Thornton visited Germany for what was supposed to be three idyllic months of writing and rest. What fo...Loe edasi...
Ilka Kressner, Ana María Mutis, Ana María Mutis, Elizabeth Marcela Pettinaroli, Ilka Kressner, Elizabeth Marcela Pettinaroli, Josué Chavajay Quincaín, Giovanna Montenegro, Katja Cecchetti-Higgins, Alejandra Olarte...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813954516)
Reframing traditional conceptions of ecologyEcologies of Resistance brings together fourteen groundbreaking studies on Latin American and Latinx writing, visual and performing arts, film, and activism that propose alternatives...Loe edasi...
How should we speak of humanism today? To answer this question, Moroccan philosopher Ali Benmakhlouf turns to Montaigne. Through a rich and attentive reading of Montaignes Essays, Benmakhlouf reminds us why the sixteenth-century author rem...Loe edasi...
Getting Real About College Compositiontranslates critical scholarly perspectives on writing into a usable and provocative classroom curriculum. What is writing, really? How does writing reflect reality? And create new realities? ...Loe edasi...
Ilka Kressner, Ana María Mutis, Ana María Mutis, Elizabeth Marcela Pettinaroli, Ilka Kressner, Elizabeth Marcela Pettinaroli, Josué Chavajay Quincaín, Giovanna Montenegro, Katja Cecchetti-Higgins, Alejandra Olarte...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813954523)
Reframing traditional conceptions of ecology Ecologies of Resistance brings together fourteen groundbreaking studies on Latin American and Latinx writing, visual and performing arts, film, and activism that propose alternatives to prevaili...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503643543)
For many, Mary Wollstonecraft functions as Western feminisms indisputable origin point and anchor. Once scorned as scandalous, later rehabilitated by the Victorians as a figure of hardworking traditional femininity, Wollstonecraft is today incorpor...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691277820)
How a once-forgotten Dutch painter inspired generations of artists, writers, and filmmakersJohannes Vermeer (1632–1675) is one of the most beloved painters in the world. But when an enterprising French journalist and art critic set...Loe edasi...
In the spring of 1689, Basho set off from Tokyo on a now-famous pilgrimage: this epic walk, spanning about 1500 miles, took him to the deep north of Honshu, and then back along the island’s western coast and finally down to Lake Biwa. Along his route...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487560805)
Why do we keep returning to the Weimar Republic as a focal point for queer and trans histories, and why are images so crucial to our understanding of this period? This volume brings together research from disciplines including history, art history...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781049801094)
“Were I the Author of This Tale” foregrounds Tolstoy’s lifelong habit of intervening in the work of others. Tolstoy’s work as an editor, commentator, anthologizer, re-writer, and especially translator began in...Loe edasi...
This collection brings together three interrelated volumes by Michael Fried, one of the most influential and distinguished scholars currently at work in the humanities...Loe edasi...
