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Wissenschaft weltoffen 2022 - Facts and Figures on the International Nature of Studies and Research in Germany and Worldwide

This publication compiles and analyses the latest data on the international nature of studies, research and universities from Germany and...

Masters of British Comic Art

An informative and entertaining story of British comics art, taking in the cartooning of the nineteenth century, the rise of "2000 AD" an...

The New Frontier - Reflections From the Irish Border

The New Frontier is a landmark publication of writing from the Irish Border, a chorus of voices from some of the island's greatest writer...

On Dogs - An Anthology

A literary anthology on the varied and ineffable appeal of dogs as felt by humans in deep and various ways. Includes pieces from Vita Sac...

The Iberian Apollonius of Tyre

The Iberian Apollonius of Tyre includes the poem The Book of Apollonius, a creative and Christianized adaptation, and the prose Life and ...

A Radiant Birth - Advent Readings for a Bright Season

In this volume, Christian literary writers of the Chrysostom Society reflect on Advent and Christmastide as a bright and meaningful seaso...

Poetry from the Waverley Novels and Other Works

FRONT FLAP THE EDINBURGH EDITION OF WALTER SCOTT'S POETRY GENERAL EDITOR: Alison Lumsden Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh in 1771 and h...

Children's Literature Review - Excerts from Reviews, Criticism, and Commentary on Books for Children and Young People

This illustrated series covers more than 600 writers and illustrators for children and young adults, including such notable figures as Lo...

Poetry Criticism - Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of the Most Significant and Widely Studied Poets of World Literature

Each volume of this reference provides substantial critical essays and biographical information on four to eight major poets from all era...

Poetry Criticism - Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of the Most Significant and Widely Studied Poets of World Literature

Each volume of this reference provides substantial critical essays and biographical information on four to eight major poets from all era...

Poetry Criticism - Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of the Most Significant and Widely Studied Poets of World Literature

Each volume of this reference provides substantial critical essays and biographical information on four to eight major poets from all era...

Poetry Criticism - Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of the Most Significant and Widely Studied Poets of World Literature

Each volume of this reference provides substantial critical essays and biographical information on four to eight major poets from all era...

Poetry Criticism - Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of the Most Significant and Widely Studied Poets of World Literature

Each volume of this reference provides substantial critical essays and biographical information on four to eight major poets from all era...

Poetry Criticism - Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of the Most Significant and Widely Studied Poets of World Literature

Each volume of this reference provides substantial critical essays and biographical information on four to eight major poets from all era...

Children's Literature Review - Excerts from Reviews, Criticism, and Commentary on Books for Children and Young People

This illustrated series covers more than 600 writers and illustrators for children and young adults, including such notable figures as Lo...

Children's Literature Review - Excerts from Reviews, Criticism, and Commentary on Books for Children and Young People

This illustrated series covers more than 600 writers and illustrators for children and young adults, including such notable figures as Lo...

Children's Literature Review - Excerts from Reviews, Criticism, and Commentary on Books for Children and Young People

This illustrated series covers more than 600 writers and illustrators for children and young adults, including such notable figures as Lo...

Poetry in Byzantine Literature and Society (1081-1204) - New Texts, New Approaches

Explores the abundant poetic production of an especially fertile period in Byzantine literary history. Examines schools as important venu...

The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction

provides an overview of the study of science fiction across multiple academic fields. It offers a new conceptualisation of the field toda...

The Pushcart Prize XLVI - Best of the Small Presses 2022 Edition

Over 60 brilliant stories, poems and essays from ?dozens of small presses, ?as selected from 900 presses worldwide by ?more than ?200 dis...

Plato's Gorgias - A Critical Guide

"This Critical Guide offers detailed analysis of all parts of Plato's Gorgias, together with diverse perspectives on its advocacy of a ph...

Boethius' 'Consolation of Philosophy' - A Critical Guide

"The first collection of philosophical essays devoted to Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, one of the most widely read and influentia...

Everyday Evil in Stephen King's America - Essays, Images, Paratexts

This edited collection variously interrogates how everyday evil manifests in Stephen King's now-familiar American imaginary; an imaginary...

Early Modern Improvisations - Essays on History and Literature in Honor of John Watkins

With a panoramic sweep across continents and topics, Early Modern Improvisations is an interdisciplinary collection that analyzes the rel...

Zombie Futures in Literature, Media and Culture - Pandemics, Society and the Evolution of the Undead in the 21st Century

"A study that classifies zombies as a vehicle to communicate humanity's pathway into, and out of, the ideological, health and environment...

The Ecologies of Dress in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

[headline]Offers an ecocritical approach to understanding dress in early modern plays and performance This volume posits that clothing in...

The Stark Munro Letters

First scholarly edition of Conan Doyle's semi-autobiographical, epistolary novel originally published at the height of his initial fame, ...

Geographical Imaginations - Literature and the 'Spatial Turn'

The book is aimed at providing a short introduction to the divergent ways in which space and place evince themselves in literature. With ...

Papers of John Adams

This volume chronicles the first year of Adams's presidency, as he sought to protect America's commercial interests while preparing the c...

The Poems of Shelley: Volume Six - 1822

The final volume of a six-volume edition of The Poems of Shelley, which aims to present all of Shelley's poems in chronological order and...

Agatha Christie's Poirot - The Greatest Detective in the World

From the very first book publication in 1920 to the upcoming film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into Agatha Christie's...

Virtue Revisited in the Novels of Doris Lessing

This study focuses on Doris Lessing's claim to improve a virtuous life not only for the individual but also for societies, referring to h...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

A Christmas gift edition of Simon Armitage's translation of the ancient Arthurian legend, with revised text and colour illustrations from...

A Book of Monsters - Promethean Horror in Modern Literature and Culture

A book of monsters presents a cultural history of Promethean Horror in the modern age. Beginning with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, this b...

Jane Austen's Sanditon - With an Essay by Janet Todd

Sanditon is Jane Austen's last novel, left unfinished when she died. A comedy, it continues the strain of burlesque and caricature she wr...

Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript - Speculation, Shapes, Delight

A unique study of the only physical manuscript containing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as both a material and literary object. In this...

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When he composed T...

Orwell's Ghosts - Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century

With Orwell claimed by all sides of the culture wars, returning to his own world and words offers sharp and surprising lessons for today'...

International Futurism 1945-2012 - A Bibliographic Handbook

In 2009, Futurism has not ended up in a waste paper bin, as Marinetti predicted in 1909, but rather is being celebrated everywhere around...

Crime Fiction in the Age of #Metoo

Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo presents a compelling and timely fourth-wave feminist reading of crime fiction in the age of #metoo.

Helping Friends and Harming Enemies - A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics

Sophocles is often considered the least philosophical of the three great Greek tragedians. By analysing a fundamental principle of Greek ...

How to Read and Why

Harold Bloom, one of the great literary critics and champion of written culture, asserts that we read in order to better understand and f...

The Seven Basic Plots - Why We Tell Stories

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

How Proust Can Change Your Life

Whatever the merits of Proust's work, even a fervent admirer would be hard pressed to deny one of its awkward features: length. A novel i...

Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-1959

Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-59 traces Tolkien's career-long engagement with the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and shows how Chaucer was a major ...

Why We (Still) Need Russian Literature - Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Others

For nearly two centuries readers all over the world have turned to the great canon of Russian literature. Love and death, war and peace, ...

Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness

"This work explores how, through shifts in narrative tone and pacing at the conclusions of her novels, Jane Austen gives her readers the ...

Batman and the Shadows of Modernity - A Critical Genealogy on Contemporary Hero in the Age of Nihilism

It is a multidisciplinary work that brings together comic studies, philosophical criticism and literary criticism to try to reconstruct t...

100 Books that Changed the World

A thought-provoking chronological timeline of the world¿s most influential books.

Silence in Contemporary Poetry

You've Always Been Wrong

You've Always Been Wrong is a collection of prose and poetic works by the French writer Rene Daumal (1908-1944). A fitful interloper amon...

Romanticism

Romanticism was a revolutionary intellectual and artistic movement which generated some of the most popular and influential texts in Brit...

The Shoemakers' Holiday

Thomas Dekker's singular comic drama, The Shoemakers' Holiday moves through the urban landscape of 16th century apprenticeships and artis...

Orations, Volume II - Orations 18-19: De Corona, De Falsa Legatione

Demosthenes (384-322 BCE), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatnes...

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Complete is the keyword here as this is the only edition currently available that contains all of Dickinson's poems. The works were origi...

The Poetry Book - Big Ideas Simply Explained

The perfect introduction to poetry, The Poetry Book offers a fascinating exploration of more than 90 of the world's greatest poetic works...

Recipes from the World of H.P Lovecraft - Recipes inspired by cosmic horror

Eliot's Book of Bookish Lists - A Book of Bookish Lists

Who had birds called Death, Wigs and Spinach? How do you spell the noise of a door slamming? Whose working title was The Chronic Argonaut...

The Collected Works of Anna Letitia Barbauld: Volume 2 - Writings for Children and Young People

This volume presents Anna Letitia Barbauld's educational writing and her ground-breaking works for children, including Lessons for Childr...

Romanticism - 100 Poems

100 Romantic-era poems, both major and lesser-known, in English and translated from six languages, with an engaging introduction and notes.