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Star Wars The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire

A history of the dark times "So this is how liberty dies-with thunderous applause." -Senator Padmé Amidala When Palpatine declared the bi...

Graphisches Erzählen in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur

Der vorliegende Band erscheint als zweiter Band der Schriftenreihe »Wiener Vorlesungen zur Kinder- und Jugendliteratur« und nimmt Vorträg...

Jane Austen Children's Stories: 8 Book Box Set (Easy Classics)

An adaptation of Austen's famous novels, plus her rarely published novella Love and Friendship. A perfect introduction to the works of Ja...

Libri-Fachkatalog Just the Best Juli - Dezember 2024 - Neue englischsprachige Bücher - Bestseller aus Frankreich, Spanien und der Türkei

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...

Before Night Falls: A Memoir - A Memoir

The acclaimed memoir of homosexual Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas chronicling his tumultuous yet luminary life, from his impoverished upbri...

Shakespeare and Senecan Tragedy

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

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

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...

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 ...

Teaching the Global South - Pedagogical Approaches to a Decolonizing Curriculum in Literary and Cultural Studies

Ezra Pound and the Spanish World

This collection gathers for the first time criticism on Ezra Pounds lifelong involvement with Spain and Spanish culture, from his early v...

Global Trespassers - Sanctioned Mobility in Contemporary Culture

Global Trespassers explores contemporary representations of minoritised migrants permitted to remain in the Global North. With reference ...

The Collected Poems of Henry Kirke White

This is the first scholarly edition of one of the best-selling poets of the nineteenth century -- a poet influential on Keats, Shelley an...

Recipes and Book Culture in England, 1350-1600

Thirteen essays providing new perspectives on medieval and early modern recipes - short instructional texts on a variety of topics includ...

The Entremés for Performance - Translations of One-Act Plays from Golden Age Spain

These comic interludes highlight the politics, social commentary, and brilliant comedy of Spain's classical theater period. With many app...

Out of This World: Gnostic Encounters in Modern French Literature and Thought

How to escape this world, this body? How can one invent a world parallel to this one? How do language and literature strive for a heterot...

David Peace

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

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 ...

Literature at the End of History - Returning Politics to Culture

On the cultural backwardness of the West

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...

Intra/Sections - Towards Post-Anthropocentric Concepts of Multiplicity

The global socio-ecological crisis is making it increasingly clear that 'we' do not only act in interpersonal social and political relati...

Adventure at Arms - On the Narrative Formation of Violence

Adventure fiction suggests that social conflicts can be displaced from the centre to the periphery of culture in order to be settled ther...

Freudians and Schadenfreudians - Loving and Hating Psychoanalysis

"Focusing on ten key writers and scholars who either passionately loved or gleefully loathed Freud, this book represents Freud's wide leg...

New Global Realism - Thinking Totality in the Contemporary Novel

"A comparative study of contemporary realist novels that employ totality as a method and a formal principle to represent the social and e...

Metamodernism and the Postdigital in the Contemporary Novel

"Drawing on a range of authors that includes Zadie Smith, Sally Rooney, Ben Lerner, Ali Smith, Tom McCarthy, Duncan Speakman and Kate Pul...

Herman Melville and Neurodiversity, or Why Hunt Difference with Harpoons? - A Primitivist Phenomenology

Focusing on the difference between lower-level perceptual processes in the "neural unconscious" and higher-order thought in the frontal l...

Re-Embodying and Rethinking Greek and Roman Drama in Modern Times

Bridging disciplinary boundaries, this volume explores the reception of Greek and Roman drama in a variety of times and places, and by a ...

Making World Literature - Actors, Institutions, and Networks in the United States Since 1890

From universities to governments, the Big Five publishers to Amazon, the influence of institutions abounds in US publishing. A diverse ar...

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

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...

The Creative Writing Compass

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

Texts and Contexts - The Roman Writers and Their Audience

First published in 1979, Texts and Contexts identifies those classics of Roman literature which deserve to survive because of their intri...

Into Another Mould - Change and Continuity in English Culture 1625-1700

Although 1660 to some extent marks a turning point, this comprehensive book (originally published in 1992) demonstrates an underlying con...

Method and Postmethod in Language Teaching

Method and Postmethod in Language Teaching is both an accessible and engaging introductory textbook and a handy reference guide that expl...

Rediscovering Ancient Egyptian Literature through Arabic Poetics

"This book is the first of its kind to thoroughly and systematically compare ancient Egyptian and Arabic literary devices. Hany Rashwan c...

Pulcinella's Brood - Popular Culture in the Enlightenment

This book traces the transnational arc of the Neapolitan clown Pulcinella in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, exploring how this...

Expressive Therapeutic Writing - Guiding Transformation and Restorative Care through Intermodal Arts, Word by Word

This book brings engagement and conversation to a cross-pollination of creative and expressive writing and multi-modal art forms.

The Collected Poems of J. R. R. Tolkien

World first publication of the collected poems of J.R.R. Tolkien, spanning almost seven decades of the author's life and presented in an ...

Habib Tanvir and His Legacy in Theatre - A Centennial Reappraisal

Essays exploring the lasting impact of Habib Tanvir's pioneering theatre which blended tradition with modernity in the post-Independence ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...