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Poetry of Loss and the Early Medieval Chinese Court of the Warlord Cao Cao (155-220)

Shows how the accomplished poets of the Cao court in early medieval China, following the fall of the Han empire, drew on experiences of l...

Alternative Temporalities - The Emancipatory Power of Narrative

Alternative Temporalities reveals how modern literature can help us rethink temporal categories and practices to resist normative time an...

Stranger Than Fiction - Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel

A legendary editor's survey of the twentieth-century novel and how it shaped the fiction of the future'Edwin Frank's masterly account of ...

Oliver Goldsmith in Context

The Vicar of Wakefield, The Deserted Village, and She Stoops to Conquer number among the greatest literary works of the eighteenth centur...

Introduction to Afrofuturism - A Mixtape in Black Literature & Arts

Introduction to Afrofuturism delivers a fresh and contemporary introduction to Afrofuturism, discussing key themes, understandings, and i...

Beyond sentidino - New Diasporic Reflections on Galician Culture

New Diasporic Reflections on Galician Literature and Culture is an interdisciplinary study of Galician literature, languages, and cultures.

George Orwell and Communist Poland - Emigre, Official and Clandestine Receptions

George Orwell and Communist Poland is the first major account of George Orwell's Polish reception during WWII and the cold war.

The Real Thing - Reflections on a Literary Form

A clear-sighted and entertaining defence of literary realism, and an account of its key practitioners

Fear of Aging - Old Age in Horror Fiction and Film

In the genre of horror, elderly people are often used as a trope to evoke both a fear of death and a fear of aging. Old age is therefore ...

The Cambridge History of the British Essay

"This book provides multiple perspectives on a key form of public discourse, addressing the essay's postcolonial (Irish, Indian, African,...

Flannery O'Connor's Manhattan

"This book offers a unique twist to the Who's Who of midcentury writers, editors, and artists. Much is made of Flannery O'Connor's life o...

The Legacy of Plato's Timaeus - Cosmology, Music, Medicine, and Architecture from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century

The Legacy of Plato's Timaeus examines the influence of the Timaeus on the early disciplinary histories of cosmology, music, medicine, an...

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...

An Apology for Pictures - Studies in Popular Illustrated Narrative in Europe, 1918-1939

Illustrierte Bücher sind für viele Kinder der Einstieg ins eigene Lesen, nachdem Oma oder Papa ihnen vorgelesen und ihren 'Leseappetit' g...

Theory and Practice in Vocabulary Research in Digital Environments

This collection is a comprehensive resource on the state of second language vocabulary learning today, building on earlier studies to spo...

An Introduction to Child Language

This accessible and inclusive new textbook introduces Child Language Acquisition (CLA) with unique coverage of bilingual and early second...

Not Waving but Drowning and other poems

'Cheerful, brutal, beautiful! Stevie Smith is the wildest poet of them all.' Nick CaveStevie Smith was not only a famous poet in her life...

Liminal Diasporas - Contemporary Movements of Humanity and the Environment

This book offers readers a new lens to critically meditate on the necropolitics of migration. Using the term "liminal diasporas," the co-...

English Literacy Educators Working with Refugee Families - An Intercultural Approach to Adult Education

This book highlights best practices for English literacy instruction when working with refugees in the United States. The volume addresse...

Ted Hughes

Originally published in 1985, this study provides a clear and intelligent introduction to the work of the former Poet Laureate, Ted Hughe...

The Spanish Hermes and Wisdom Traditions in Medieval Iberia - Alfonso X's General Estoria

A captivating study of translation, adaptation, and intellectual cross-pollination that situates the Castilian Hermes in the center of me...

Linguistic Labor and Literary Doulas - Spanglish, Portuñol, and Judeo-Spanish Languages and Literatures

"Building on sociolinguistic understandings of the intersections of language, nation, and identity, this book examines the literatures of...

Semiotic Ideologies - Patterns of Meaning-Making in Language and Society

This book unlocks the hidden world of meaning in language and beyond. It explores the captivating realm of semiotic ideologies, revealing...

Reading Words into Worlds - Phenomenological Mimesis of Givenness in the Novel

Reading Words into Worlds asks: how can reading a novel make us feel as if we are living in a world? The book argues that novels can give...

Conflict Zone Literatures - A Genre in the Making

This book examines the metanarratives promoted by the state that determine the ideological framework and how these respond under extraneo...

Twentieth-Century Literature and the Aftermath of War

The notion that wars impel conceptual and aesthetic innovations is well-established in studies of modern literature. This book offers nua...

Dilemmas of Discourse - Controversies about the Sociological Interpretation of Language

First Published in 1975, Dilemmas of Discourse brings together strands of arguments from disciplines like sociology, anthropology, lingui...

Theology and the Mythic Sensibility - Human Myth-Making and Divine Creativity

Theology and the Mythic Sensibility will be attractive to anyone with an interest in stories and how they reveal the world to be full of ...

Liturgy, Ritual, and Secularization in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

Liturgy incarnates unseen realities in concrete forms - bread, wine, water, the architectural arrangement of religious buildings. Uncover...

Tolstoy

Originally published in 1970, this account of Tolstoy's achievement as a novelist concentrates on the best known of his works, in particu...

Critical Essays on the Poetry of Tennyson

First Published in 1960, Critical Essays on the Poetry of Tennyson presents a collection of essays, most of which have been previously pu...

Seamus Heaney

In this book, originally published in 1982, Blake Morrison identifies the central characteristics of his achievement, uncovering the sour...

Gunter Grass

In this important study, originally published in 1985, Ronald Hayman scrutinizes Grass's development and assesses his achievement. While ...

Mystical Landscapes in Medieval Persian Literature

Examines the rich corpus of early medieval Persian mystical literature

Audiovisual Translation in India - Trends and Practices

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Audiovisual Translation (AVT) in India. It examines the AVT of TV advertisements, anal...

The Philosophy of Transformative Experience

This volume examines the nature and significance of transformative experiences as they occur across a variety of contexts in human life. ...

Reading the River in Shakespeare's Britain

[headline]Explores how perceptions of rivers shaped identity and culture in Shakespeare's Britain In Shakespeare's Britain rivers were no...

On Fiction and Being a Good Animal

[headline]Argues that literature has a special role to play in developing a wishful, visionary and utopian sensibility for living in a mo...

Finnegans Wake - Human and Nonhuman Histories

[headline]Explores the productive tension between historicist and nonhuman readings of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake Finnegans Wake - Huma...

Life Writing and the Nineteenth-Century Market

[headline]Articulates life writing's complex engagement with the nineteenth-century literary market Life Writing and the Nineteenth-Centu...

Dickens and Switzerland

The first in-depth study of the essential role Switzerland played in Charles Dickens's imagination

Hybrid Workflows in Translation - Integrating GenAI into Translator Training

Voltaire - A Reference Guide to His Life and Works

VOLTAIRE: A REFERENCE GUIDE TO HIS LIFE AND WORKS offers an introduction to this unique 18th-century French author. The multifaceted Volt...

Suffering in Anglophone Literatures

This book engages with postclassical Trauma Studies in order to widen the scope of discussion about trauma to concepts such as toleration...

Kirkyard Romanticism - Death, Modernity and Scottish Literature in the Nineteenth Century

[headline]Examines Scottish Romantic writers' shared focus on the ideological import of an imagined national dead The early nineteenth ce...

Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature

[Headline]Argues that Victorian literature uses traces of a lingering past to theorise time as non-progressive and discontinuous For deca...

The Proposition - Uncollected Early Poems 1963-1983

[headline]A remarkable collection of Lyn Hejinian's previously uncollected early poems from 1963 to 1983 Lyn Hejinian is considered one o...

Katherine Mansfield and London

[headline]A collection of essays by Mansfield scholars presenting criticism on Katherine Mansfield's relationship to London Katherine Man...

Poetry of the Second World War - An Anthology

This new anthology brings together a generous selection of famous wartime poets alongside works by civilians and soldiers, offering a sym...

The Way to Hell - Machiavelli for Catastrophic Times

"We are living in Machiavellian times, argues Nathan Crick in The Way to Hell: Machiavelli for Catastrophic Times. Just as Machiavelli wa...

The Handbook of Persian Dialects and Dialectology

This innovative, investigative, and expansive handbook covers a multitude of angles through which the intricacies of Persian and its many...

Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terror - Post-9/11 Narratives of Dissent and American War Literature

"The first study of the literature of dissent that has emerged from the veterans of the global War on Terror. Veteran Activism and the Gl...

The (Latin) American Scene, Present and Future (Im-)Perfect - Five Critical Conversations

The author converses with five noted scholars who have done important academic work in the United States since the 1980s. The conversatio...

English Literature and the Crusades - Anxieties of Holy War, 1291-1453

"This is an essential resource for anyone interested in the history and literature of the crusades, Christian-Muslim relations, and emoti...

Transnationalism in Irish Literature and Culture

Transnationalism in Irish Literature and Culture offers a wide-ranging set of essays exploring the travels of Irish literature and cultur...

The Legacy of John Polidori - The Romantic Vampire and Its Progeny

John Polidori is the least regarded figure in the history of literary vampirism and yet his influential novella The Vampyre (1819) is per...

The Intersection of Poetry and Jungian Analysis Through Metaphor - In Creation You Are Created

This book demonstrates the intersection of poetry and the practice of Jungian analysis through the metaphor. It enriches language in the ...

Botanical Culture and Popular Belief in Shakespeare's England

Addressing an imbalance in early modern studies, Bonnie Lander Johnson reveals how, through interest in popular plant cultures and belief...

James Buchanan Elmore (1857-1942) - Literary Ethnographer and Folk Poet

James Buchanan Elmore (1857-1942): Literary Ethnographer and Folk Poet details the life and work of Elmore as a "folk poet," emphasizing ...

Graham Greene

This book, originally published in 1983, begins with an analysis of the patterns of Graham Greene's mind. It explores the way the pattern...