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With Bodies - Narrative Theory and Embodied Cognition

We read not only with our eyes and minds, but with our entire body. In With Bodies, Marco Caracciolo and Karin Kukkonen move systematical...

Nietzsche's Last Laugh - Ecce Homo as Satire

This book demonstrates that Nietzsche's autobiographical and much-maligned Ecce Homo is a sophisticated satire by which the thinker unifi...

The End of the World in Medieval Thought and Spirituality

This essay collection studies the Apocalypse and the end of the world, as these themes occupied the minds of biblical scholars, theologia...

British Romanticism in Asia - The Reception, Translation, and Transformation of Romantic Literature in India and East Asia

This book examines the reception of British Romanticism in India and East Asia (including China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan). Building on re...

Helping Skills for Counselors and Health Professionals - Building Culturally Competent Relationships

Helping Skills for Counselors and Health Professionals provides a model of foundational helping skills that is grounded in a multicultura...

Shelley: Selected Poems

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major Romantic Poets and wrote what is critically recognised as some of the finest lyric poetry in th...

Sidonius Apollinaris' Letters, Book 2 - Text, Translation and Commentary

Provides the first commentary on the full second book of Sidonius Apollinaris' letters The works of Sidonius Apollinaris, poet, politicia...

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...

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

'Rich, authoritative, and highly readable ... [a] tour de force' David Kynaston Chairman Mao was a librarian. Stalin was a published poet...

The Gutenberg Parenthesis - The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet

PROSE AWARDS MEDIA ADN CULTURAL STUDIES FINALIST 2024 The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to ...

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...

Ayn Rand - Writing a Gospel of Success

A deeply researched biography of the prominent and divisive writer Ayn Rand, whose pro-capitalist novels and nonfiction have influenced t...

The Seven Basic Plots - Why We Tell Stories - 20th Anniversary Edition

This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small numbe...

Opening The Box of Delights [new edition] - A Stunning visual celebration of John Masefield's Christmas classic

A substantial new edition of the popular Opening the Box of Delights by Philip W. Errington, released for Christmas 2024 to mark the 40th...

John Berger - Ways of Learning

Iona Heath relates the importance that John Berger's work and friendship had on her working life as a GP. It includes extracts from lette...

Dangerous Fictions - The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality

"Fictional stories have long been imagined to hold an uncanny power over hearts and minds. These days, everybody frets about fiction: acc...

Getting Carter: Ted Lewis and the Birth of British Noir

Literature at the End of History - Returning Politics to Culture

On the cultural backwardness of the West

Genius After Psychoanalysis - Freud and Lacan

"Drawing on the work of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, Genius After Psychoanalysis argues that genius is not exceptional talent or inte...

The Trouble in Room 519: Money, Matricide, and Marginal Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century

Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 2 - 1955-1963

"Since her death in 1963, Sylvia Plath has become an endless source of fascination for a wide audience, ranging from readers of The Bell ...

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 ...

The Creative Writing Compass

The Creative Writing Compass presents a dynamic navigational instrument for creative writers, providing a method for developing and advan...

Goethe - His Faustian Life

A.N. Wilson is a noted and prize winning biographer with studies of Tolstoy, Dickens, Milton and C.S. Lewis to his credit among others. H...

Literary Journeys - Mapping Fictional Travels across the World of Literature

A beautifully illustrated guide to over seventy-five important journeys in world literature, spanning more than thirty countries and twen...

The Island - W. H. Auden and the Last of Englishness

A groundbreaking reassessment of W. H. Auden's early life and poetry, shedding new light on his artistic development as well as on his sh...

Hemingway's Passions - His Women, His Wars, and His Writing

Hemingway scholar Nancy Sindelar captures Ernest Hemingway's life and romantic adventures, revealing his own feelings about his relations...

(Post-)Koloniale Welten - Umschreiben und Umkartieren hegemonialer Verhältnisse

Koloniale Verhältnisse und ihre postkolonialen Folgen prägen seit der Frühen Neuzeit die Welt und finden angesichts von Widerstandsbewegu...

Abducting the Outside - Collected Writings 2003-2018

From decay to geotrauma to universalism to rationalist inhumanism, a collection that charts the evolution of a uniquely radical thinker. ...

Believe Nothing Until It Is Officially Denied - Claud Cockburn and the Invention of Guerrilla Journalism

Can a journalist be a revolutionary?

A Wilder Shore - The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson

The extraordinary story of the creative and romantic partnership between Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife and muse, Fanny Van de Grift...

With the Face of the Enemy - Arab American Literature Since 9/11

Terrorist, Ölscheich, voll verschleierte Frau - Stereotype über Araber sind seit dem 11. September in den US-Medien und der Populärkultur...

Always Connect - Transdisciplinarity and Intercultural Contact in Literary Discourse

Literature and its interactions with other disciplines such as history, philosophy, anthropology, the visual and multimedia arts, social ...

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 ...

A Companion to Literary Theory

Introduces readers to the modes of literary and cultural study of the previous half century A Companion to Literary Theory is a collectio...

Re-imagining the Public Sphere in the Long Nineteenth Century - Literatur, Theater und das soziale Imaginäre

The crisis afflicting political discourse in many western democracies today is often explained in terms of a fragmentation of the public ...

Soziale Medien / Réseaux sociaux / Social Media

Soziale Medien haben die Art und Weise, wie wir das Internet wahrnehmen und nutzen, entscheidend verändert. Die anhaltende Popularität vo...

Gender durch Technologie / Le genre à travers la technologie / Gender through Technology

Das Verhältnis von Technik und Gender ist in den vergangenen Jahren immer stärker in den Blick der Forschung gerückt. Prozesse der Techni...

An Apprehension of Splendor - A Biography in Photographs of F. Scott Fitzgerald and His Family

Ethnic Modernism and the Making of US Literary Multiculturalism

Ethnic Modernism and the Making of US Multiculturalism in which ethnic literary modernists of the 1930s play a crucial role. Focusing on ...

From Paragraphs to Plots - Architecture of the Novel

"From Paragraphs to Plots continues the larger project that Matthew Clark began in How to Reread a Novel of examining the techniques thro...

Geographies of Travel - Impressions of America in the Long Nineteenth Century

Greek and Latin Roots of Scientific and Medical Terminologies

New edition of an established, well-regarded, and evidence-based resource on the subject of renal nursing Greek and Latin Roots of Medica...

Baltic Peripeties - The Power of Narration and the Making of Regions

In Aristotle's Poetics, the well-constructed turning point, peripeteia, makes a story by unfolding its tragic - or, more broadly, literar...

A Companion to Plautus

An important addition to contemporary scholarship on Plautus and Plautine comedy, provides new essays and fresh insights from leading sch...

David Peace

Providing the first analysis of screen and stage adaptations of Peace's writings, and featuring an exclusive interview with the author, t...

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 ...

Hybrid Workflows in Translation - Integrating GenAI into Translator Training

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...

The Collected Prose of T.S. Eliot Volume 4

The definitive edition of the published prose of the Nobel laureate, the most important poet-critic of modern times.

The Collected Prose of T.S. Eliot Volume 2

The definitive edition of the published prose of the Nobel laureate, the most important poet-critic of modern times.

The Collected Prose of T.S. Eliot Volume 3

The definitive edition of the published prose of the Nobel laureate, the most important poet-critic of modern times.

A Cultural History of Laughter

This book explores the social history of laughter in the West, from classical antiquity to the present day. A broad, historical study of ...

Joe Orton

Originally published in 1982, this study examines Orton's principal plays, but its main concern is to identify his aesthetic, to elaborat...

Malcolm Lowry

Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano is now recognized as one of the major novels of the 20th Century, whose breadth and experimental prose ...

J. G. Farrell

When it was originally published in 1986, this book was the first full-length study of Farrell's fiction. Ronald Binns provides a compreh...

Elevating Humanity via Africana Womanism - An Introduction to Elevate Humanity

Elevating Humanity via Africana Womanism is a short and powerful book, advocating unity/collectivity as a panacea for all societal ills.

Tolkien and the Kalevala

This book explores J. R. R. Tolkien's unique and warm relationship to the Kalevala, a poem usually hailed as the Finnish and Karelian nat...

The Amazonian 'Other' - Representations of Indigenous Peoples in Contemporary Cultural Texts

This book explores representations of Amazonian Indigenous peoples in contemporary cultural texts.