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A Book of Verses

Books That Changed History - From the Art of War to Anne Frank's Diary

Featuring a foreword by James Naughtie. Turn the pages of the most famous books of all time and marvel at the stories behind them. Over 7...

Literary Wonderlands - A Journey Through the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created

From the advent of the first works of literature many millennia ago, writers have used imaginary worlds both to entertain their readers a...

The Koran - Or, Essays, Sentiments, Characters, and Callimachies, of Tria Juncta in Uno, M.N.a. Or Master of No Arts. Three Volumes Complete in One

Beyond Borders - Transgressions in European Literatures

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Astrid Lindgren - The Woman Behind Pippi Longstocking

The first English-language biography of Astrid Lindgren provides a moving and revealing portrait of the beloved Scandinavian literary ico...

Clear and Simple as the Truth - Writing Classic Prose - Second Edition

Praise for the first edition: "[Clear and Simple as the Truth] has changed the way that I write and think about writing."--Paul Bloom, Ya...

Pandemic Protagonists - Viral (Re)Actions in Pandemic and Corona Fictions

During the first mandatory lockdowns of the Covid-19 pandemic, citizens worldwide turned to »pandemic fictions« or started to produce the...

The Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition

Wordplay has been at the heart of Western literature for many centuries, and medieval riddles provide insights into the extraordinary and...

The Queer Limit of Black Memory - Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution

The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution identifies a new archive of Black women's literature that has ...

Language, Society and Power - An Introduction

Language, Society and Power provides an accessible introduction to the study of language in a variety of social contexts. This book exami...

The Penguin Classics Book

Henry Eliot is the Creative Editor of Penguin Classics. Before joining Penguin he organized various literary tours, including a mass publ...

The Book at War - Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict

A Sunday Times Best Book of 2023 'Magisterial' Kathryn Hughes, The Sunday Times (A Sunday Times Book of the Week) 'Rich, authoritative an...

The Penguin Modern Classics Book

The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world For six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-d...

Exil in Kinder- und Jugendmedien

Das Jahrbuch Exilforschung 2023 widmet sich der Vermittlung von Exil- und Migrationserfahrung in Kinder- und Jugendmedien aus kindlicher ...

Memoirs

A complete collection of Robert Lowell's autobiographical prose, from unpublished writings about his youth to reflections on the triumphs...

Exil, Flucht, Migration - Konfligierende Begriffe, vernetzte Diskurse?

Begriffe wie Flucht, (Zwangs-)Migration, Vertreibung, Asyl oder Diaspora beschreiben Phänomene, die auch von der Exilforschung verhandelt...

The Unquiet Englishman - A Life of Graham Greene

One of the most celebrated British writers of his generation, Graham Greene's own story was as strange and compelling as those he told of...

A Century of Poetry - 100 Poems for Searching the Heart

All good poetry has the power to transport and transform us, to inspire and challenge us, to comfort and heal us, and to hold up a mirror...

The Modern Weird Tale

This is a critical study of many of the leading writers of horror and supernatural fiction since World War II. The primary purpose is to ...

1,000 Books to Read Before You Die - A Life-Changing List

The best and most significant books across genres, nations and history, from Grimm to Grisham, Aeschylus to Edwidge Danticat.

Popular Theatre in Early Modern England, Germany and Italy (1570-1640) - A Study in Incultural Theatricality with an Analysis of 'Engelische Comedien und Tragedien' (1620)

This study explores the influence of English and Italian itinerant companies on early modern German theatre. A central aspect that mediat...

Literature, Translation, and the Politics of Meaning - Polish, American, and German Literary Traditions

This book deals mostly with American avant-garde literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and the present-day practice and...

Kreativität - Schöpferischer Wille und (Über-)Lebensstrategie

Die Studie fasst Kreativität als Kunstprinzip, kulturelles Phänomen und genuines Prinzip der Existenz. Als Begriff für beobachtete Phänom...

In the Beginning were Puppets: Towards a Poetics of Puppetry - Towards a Poetics of Puppetry

The study privileges the puppet as a new and revealing point of access to contemporary critical debates regarding performance, genre, aff...

Uncanny Subjects: Aging in Contemporary Narrative

Political Changes and Transformations in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Children's Literature

Tying in with political and cultural changes in Europe, this volume focuses on current discourses on the significance of democratic syste...

Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea as a Hypertext of Bronte's Jane Eyre - A Post-modern Perspective

Hypertextuality provides a comprehensive system of analyzing any relationship between literary texts. It is a generic architext which enc...

Articulations of the Nuclear - Postwar Japan under the Spell of the Atomic Age

The dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945 marked the beginning of a new era: the atomic age. Nuclear...

The Op-Ed Novel - A Literary History of Post-Franco Spain

The Op-Ed Novel follows a clutch of globally renowned Spanish novelists who swept into the political sphere via the pages of El Pais. The...

Postmodernizing the Holocaust - A Comparative Study of Chosen Novels

Marta Tomczok presents all Polish postmodern novels about the Holocaust, starting with "The First Splendor" by Leopold Buczkowski and end...

Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth

Catalogue published for the exhibition at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (2018), and at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York...

Jenseits der Grenze: De-/Re-Lokalisierung | Hybridisierung

Während die künstlerische Praxis paradigmatisch auf Andersheit zielt, stellt sich für die Wissenschaft die Frage nach dem Neuen in der We...

The River Fans Out - Literature and its Theories in China

This book presents 18 highly influential essays on Chinese literature and semiotics by Professor Zhao Yiheng, including his analysis and ...

(Inter)Cultural Dialogue and Identity in Lithuanian Literature

This book illustrates that the idea of a 'national' literature is profoundly problematic. Chapters on boundaries and crisscrossing show h...

Idylle und Geschichte - Studien zur europäischen Idylle von Vergil bis W. H. Auden

Die Gattung der Idylle, spätestens unter dem Druck des bürgerlichen Realitätspostulats seit ca. 1800 eher belächelt, hat seit geraumer Ze...

Finnegans Wake, Ulster and Partition - The Sanguine Boundary Limit

"This book explores the rich seam in Finnegans Wake of references to Ulster, to its geography, myth and history: a subject which has rece...

Emigration and Caribbean Literature

During and after the two World Wars, a cohort of Caribbean authors migrated to the UK and France. Dissecting writers like Lamming, Césair...

Vladimir Nabokov - Bergsonian and Russian Formalist Influences in His Novels

Glynn provides a new reading of Vladimir Nabokov s work by seeking to challenge the notion that he was a Symbolist writer concerned with ...

Paris, a New Rome

However shared the Roman inheritance may be, it hardly unifies. Which Rome is the model, the Republic or the Empire? The Rome of imperial...

Navigating Narratives - Tsurayuki's Tosa Diary as History and Fiction

Drawing on both contemporaneous historical sources and modern literary criticism, Navigating Narratives offers unique insights into Heian...

The German Model in Romanian Culture / Das deutsche Vorbild in der rumänischen Kultur

The book contains contributions on the significance of German culture for Romanian art, language, and literature. Not only will the direc...

Geographies of Perpetration - Re-Signifying Cultural Narratives of Mass Violence

This volume maps cultural representations of Mass Violence from the perpetrators' perspective. It analyzes spaces where political crimes ...

The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama

A lively and accessible account of the most popular form of nineteenth-century English theatre, and its continuing influence today.

Saint Perpetua across the Middle Ages - Mother, Gladiator, Saint

This study traces the genealogy of Saint Perpetuäs story with a straightforward yet previously overlooked question at its center: How was...

Transgressing Boundaries in Jeanette Winterson¿s Fiction

The subsequent chapters of the book deal with selected questions from Jeanette Winterson's fiction, such as gender issues, love and eroti...

Animal Dreams in Aesthetic Media - Comparative Perspectives

Der Sammelband untersucht aus intermedialer und komparatistischer Perspektive die Funktion von Tierfiguren in Traumdarstellungen in Liter...

Treading Paths - Lemko Literature in the Years 1848-1918

The monograph is a presentation of the writings of the stateless people called Lemkos-Rusyns, from the earliest awareness of their own cu...

Der Traum vom Berg - Bergvisionen zwischen Symbolik und Erfahrungsraum

Der vorliegende Band untersucht das Zusammenwirken von Bergdarstellungen und Traumnarrativen in Literatur und Film aus epochen- und kultu...

Silence in Modern Literature and Philosophy - Beckett, Barthes, Nancy, Stevens

This book discusses the elusive centrality of silence in modern literature and philosophy, focusing on the writing and theory of Jean-Luc...

Gauss - A Biographical Study

Procreare iucundum, sed parturire molestum. (Gauss, sec. Eisenstein) The plan of this book was first conceived eight years ago. The manus...

Trees as Symbol and Metaphor in the Middle Ages - Comparative Contexts

Highlights human encounters with the forest and its trees at the time of the European Middle Ages, when their lofty boughs were weighted ...

Love among the Poets - The Victorian Poetics of Intimacy

Many of the greatest love poems in English date from the Victorian period, yet this is the first scholarly book in decades to consider th...

Spirits and Spirituality in Victorian Fiction

Spirits and Spirituality in Victorian Fiction argues that supernatural encounters in nineteenth-century fiction show Victorians trying to...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - With Pearl and Sir Orfeo

This elegant deluxe slipcased edition of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing rom...

Making Hamlet German - Forms of Translation and Recreation

This book examines the retranslation of Hamlet in Germany in the 20th and the early 21st century. It adopts a comparative approach, juxta...

Shakespeare and Senecan Tragedy

A new approach to understanding the relationship between Shakespearean tragedy and Senecan tragedy, this book has implications for our un...

Romanticism and the Cultures of Infancy

This collection of essays explores the remarkable range and cultural significance of the engagement with 'infancy' during the Romantic pe...

Russian Formalism and Anglo-American New Criticism - A Comparative Study

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- I. MARKING THE BOUNDARIES -- 1. RUSSIAN FORMALISM -- 2. NEW CRITICISM -- II. THE...

The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson - Composition as Conversation

Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson are known as much for their formidable egos as for their contributions to twentieth-century arts. That ...