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Contemporary Poetry - A Retrospective from the Quarterly Review of Literature

Here in one volume is some of the most exciting poetry written during the last thirty years, culled from the pages of one of America's fo...

The Homeric Hymns

The Homeric Hymns honor the Greek gods. Once attributed to Homer, it is now accepted that the hymns were composed by later poets working ...

The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley

A milestone in literary scholarship, the publication of the Johns Hopkins edition of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley makes av...

Romanticism and the Forms of Ruin - Wordsworth, Coleridge, the Modalities of Fragmentation

Despite their hopeful aspirations to wholeness in life and spirit, Thomas McFarland contends, the Romantics were ruins amidst ruins," fra...

The Postcolonial Low Countries - Literature, Colonialism, and Multiculturalism

The Postcolonial Low Countries is the first book to bring together critical and comparative approaches to the emergent field of neerlando...

King Henry V

A thorough account of its performance history including introduction, full text of play and footnotes.

Comics and Narration

This book is the follow-up to Thierry Groensteen's ground-breaking The System of Comics, in which the leading French-language comics theo...

The Infant Sphinx - Collected Letters of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

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Forgetting Futures - On Meaning, Trauma, and Identity

Forgetting Futures reignites the debate about the crisis of memory and the search to understand the relationship between past and present...

Can Fiction Change the World?

Can fiction change the world? Does it in fact do so? From Don Quixote's delusions to Emma Bovary's romantic daydreams, fiction has often ...

Seeing the Psalter

What is the key to both seeing and hearing the ancient poetry of the 150 Psalms? Seeing the Psalter is a detailed examination of patterns...

HAWAII 1 THE BIG ISLAND - The Last State-The Big Island of Hawaii one of a four book series

This book is the first of a series of four books on the Hawaiian Islands. It covers the Big Island of Hawaii in travel photographs and co...

Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 4.3 - The Songs and Sonets: Part 3: Texts, Commentary, Notes, and Glosses

This tenth, and final, volume in the series of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne presents newly edited critical texts of 3...

Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography - New Evidence of an Authorship Problem

As the world's greatest author, Shakespeare has attracted attention from scholars and laypersons alike. But more and more people have que...

Nanyo-Orientalism - Japanese Representations of the Pacific

This book mainly deals with twentieth-century discourses on postcolonial relationships between Japanese and Pacific Islanders, as have be...

Plagiarizing the Victorian Novel - Imitation, Parody, Aftertext

Explores the notion of plagiarism in Victorian fiction and how many writers of this period stole, altered or parodied the characters and ...

Paracomedy - Appropriations of Comedy in Greek Tragedy

Paracomedy: Appropriations of Comedy in Greek Drama examines the previously overlooked practice of paracomedy: how ancient Greek tragedia...

A Commentary on Horace, Odes, Book III

This Commentary takes critical account of recent writing on the Odes. It deals with detailed questions of interpretation, and shows how H...

Horace Odes I - Carpe Diem

Though Horace is a great poet, much loved and imitated in the past, he is very little read today. This is partly because he has never bee...

Salman Rushdie Interviews - A Sourcebook of His Ideas

Without some insight into his thinking process, Salman Rushdie's complex novels must remain baffling even to the well-read. This volume p...

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature

A comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the interrelationship between law and literature in Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and Tudor England.

Lord Byron and Scandalous Celebrity

This book examines the relationship between Lord Byron's life and work, and the Regency culture of scandal.

Postmodern Traces and Recent Hindi Novels

Postmodernism is a notoriously elusive concept and still the object of critical debates among scholars across a range of different discip...

The Complete English Poems - Saját képpel

Footprints in my Heart - You took my breath away

Writing therapy and journaling in the form of poetry combined with photography and art is how Jen Hall demonstrates the use of creative e...

Destins de femmes - French Women Writers, 1750-1850

Destins de femmes is the first comprehensive overview of French women writers during the turbulent period of 1750-1850. John Isbell provi...

The Contemporary African American Novel - Multiple Cities, Multiple Subjectivities, and Discursive Practices of Whiteness in Everyday Urban Encounters

This book examines the post-1990s African American novels, namely the "neo-urban novel," and develops a new urban discourse for the twent...

I Wanted It To Be You

Author, Zachry K. Douglas, takes you through his relationship and breakup with someone he'd thought would always be there. He speaks abou...

The A to Z of Lesbian Literature

While lesbian literature can trace its name back to the Greek poet Sappho, who was born on the Island of Lesbos in 630 B.C., it was not u...

The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition - The Complete Works

A completely new modern-spelling edition of all of Shakespeare's plays and poems, edited afresh from the original texts. With extensive i...

The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry

The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry offers an authorative collection of original essays and is an essential resource for those intere...

World under Revision - The Poetry of Wis¿awa Szymborska

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the entirety of Wis¿awa Szymborskäs poetic oeuvre. The author employs in-depth historical ...

The Myth of the Picaro - Continuity and Transformation of the Picaresque Novel, 1554-1954

This critical interpretation of the origins of modern fiction follows the transformation of the picaresque novel over four centuries thro...

The Norton Anthology of Poetry [With Access Code]

This highly anticipated new edition features NEW poets, NEW poems and innovative digital resources. The Sixth Edition of The Norton Antho...

Fictioning Namibia as a Space of Desire - An Excursion into the Literary Space of Namibia During Colonialism, Apartheid and the Liberation Struggle

Modern-day Namibian history has largely been shaped by three major eras: German colonial rule, South African apartheid occupation, and th...

Iliad / Odyssey [boxed set]

Hailed by reviewers and readers alike, Peter Green's landmark translations of Homer's timeless epics are now available for the first time...

The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250 - 1900 - Volume II.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. ...

Mary Higgins Clark - A Critical Companion

Best-selling author Mary Higgins Clark, the Queen of Suspense, uses a popular literary genre, the novel of mystery and suspense, to explo...

Rifqa

In Rifqa, El-Kurd tightropes between statelessness and uncertainty, still one thing remains clear: "Jerusalem is ours! / The biggest punc...

Blake - Saját képpel

'Das Zeitlose ist von kürzester Dauer' - Interviews, Meinungen und Proteste 1891-1931

Eine »öffentliche Biographie« Arthur Schnitzlers im Spiegel der Zeit - in bislang unerforschten Interviews, Meinungen und Protesten. Arth...

The Plays of Heinrich Von Kleist - Ideals and Illusions

This is an accessible study of the plays of Heinrich von Kleist (1777 1811), whose work has been highly influential in contemporary Germa...

Emily Dickinson's Poems - As She Preserved Them

A major new edition of Dickinson's verse.

Graphic Novels as Philosophy

Contributions by Eric Bain-Selbo, Jeremy Barris, Maria Botero, Manuel "Mandel" Cabrera Jr., David J. Leichter, Ian MacRae, Jeff McLaughli...

Expanding Art of Comics - Ten Modern Masterpieces

In The Expanding Art of Comics: Ten Modern Masterpieces, prominent scholar Thierry Groensteen offers a distinct perspective on important ...

Homemade Mistakes

Life will not give you purpose laid out like a feast; you must seek it out (especially on the difficult days). I'm working on being inten...

Homer - Odyssey Books XIX and XX

A general survey of the Odyssey, together with comment on the action, characterisation and style of books XIX and XX.

Enduring Cuba : Thirty Essays

Enrico Mario Santí gathers here thirty years¿ worth of essays on Latin American literature and Literary theory. The title reflects his en...

Bela Lugosi in Person (hardback)

The latest in a series of books by researchers extraordinaire Gary D. Rhodes and Bill Kaffenberger, Bela Lugosi in Person brims with new ...

The Divine Comedy (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition)

A beautiful edition of the classic Italian poem, in a leatherbound volume. This is the 1867 translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, wi...

The Oxford Book Of English Verse 1250 - 1900 - Volume I.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. ...

The Bi-Literal Cypher of Sir Francis Bacon

The Oxford Shakespeare - The Complete Works

Hailed by "The Washington Post" as "a definitive synthesis of the best editions" and by "The Times of London" as "a monument to Shakespea...

Die Toten von Spoon River

Auf dem Friedhof von Spoon River, einer Kleinstadt im amerikanischen Mittelwesten, liegen 244 Menschen begraben. Aus ihren Gräbern sprech...

Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung - The Taming of the Shrew. (Gesamtausgabe, 13)

Band 13. Komödie. In diesem Stück werden drei Handlungsstränge verknüpft: Im Rahmen wird der betrunkene Schlau von seiner Wirtin vor die ...

Macbeth / Macbet (Shakespeare Gesamtausgabe, Band 6) - zweisprachige Ausgabe - Band 6

Band 6. Tragödie. Vom Schlachtfeld heimkehrend, begegnen Macbeth und Banquo, die siegreichen Feldherren des schottischen Königs Duncan, a...

Music by Max Steiner - The Epic Life of Hollywood's Most Influential Composer

In Music by Max Steiner, the first full biography of the legendary film composer, author Steven C. Smith interweaves the dramatic inciden...

Antonius und Kleopatra /Antony and Cleopatra [Zweisprachig] (Shakespeare Gesamtausgabe, Band 3)

Band 3. Tragödie. Marcus Antonius, einer der Triumvirn, die nach Cäsars Ermordung die Herrschaft des römischen Weltreiches übernommen hab...

Zwei Herren aus Verona - The Two Gentlemen of Verona. (Gesamtausgabe, 9)

Band 9. Komödie. Die beiden Jugendfreunde Valentin und Proteus sind die beiden Herren aus Verona. Valentin verlässt die Stadt und reist n...

The Iliad

When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017-revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that "combines intelle...