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Seafarer - New Poems with Earthling and Forever

Standing on the shore, preparing to journey into the unknown, James Longenbach wrote these final poems with astonishing courage and clari...

How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator

An enormous bestseller in Greece, this is a bold, witty and iconoclastic take on the story of Ancient Greece by a rising star in archaeology

Trace Elements - Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy

From two of the most acclaimed writers in the field today, a groundbreaking look at how SF and fantasy writing--and reading! Jo Walton an...

Cassandra - A Dramatic Poem

In Lesia Ukrainka's rendering, Cassandra's prophecies are uttered in highly poetic language and are not believed for that reason, rather ...

Bite by Bite - Nourishments and Jamborees

From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays about food, offering a banquet of tastes, ...

Is Free Speech Under Threat?

One big question. Two great answers. In Is Free Speech Under Threat? two leading thinkers tackle the issue at the very heart of the cultu...

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 Room of One's Own

A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Virginia WoolfâEUR(TM)s classic plea for aworld in which women are free to use their gifts. ...

Joseph Conrad and the Narration of Silence

Considers how Joseph Conrad's works engage with silence

Batgirl and Beyond - The Dynamic History of the Heroines of Gotham City

For over sixty years, the women who took on the mantle of Batgirl have served as inspirational superheroes for legions of underrepresente...

Eduardo Galeano: Through The Looking Glass - Through The Looking Glass

Eduardo Galeano--the single most important literary voice to come out of Latin America in the last decades.

Kleanthes and Habrokome

"Kleanthes and Habrokome" by Konstantinos Manos, a Phanariot Greek high officer in late-eighteenth/early-nineteenth-century Romania, is a...

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...

The Worlds of George RR Martin

This is an in-depth bringing together of the enormous range of inspirations behind Martin's work - from historical borrowings as wide-ran...

The Little Prince - The Visual Encyclopedia

Everything you need to know about Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s globally beloved classic This is the story of a timeless tale for readers bo...

Sir Andrew Wylie of That Ilk

Derek Walcott's Encounter with Homer - Landscape, History, and Poetic Voice in Omeros

Derek Walcott's Encounter with Homer puts Walcott's epic poem Omeros in conversation with Homer to show how reading them against each oth...

The Haunted Wood - A History of Childhood Reading

A panoramic and poignant history of children¿s literature

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...

Poetry and the Built Environment - A Theory of the Flesh of Art

This book is about how poems, as well as other kinds of art, show us how to experience them. It offers a new approach to criticism that r...

The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad

The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad makes learning about this foundational epic easier than ever, investigating each of its 24 boo...

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...

The Shoemakers' Holiday

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

Music, Mind, and Language in Chinese Poetry and Performance - The Voice Extended

This innovative study introduces the rhythms, melodies, language, and organization of traditional Chinese poetry and vocal arts. Using in...

Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling

Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling embraces the sublime and the ridiculous to offer a compelling new reading of British Romantici...

How to Read Middle English Poetry

A textbook that introduces students to Middle English poetry and offers advice about the understanding and interpretation of the genre, c...

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...

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...

Experiencing Epiphanies in Literature and Cinema - Arts and Humanities for Sustainable Well-being

Experiencing Epiphanies in Literature and Cinema uses health and psychological humanities to explore literary and cinematic epiphanies.

Statius and Ovid - Poetics, Politics, and Intermediality in the Thebaid

"Moving beyond Virgil-centric readings of Statius' poetry, this book offers an innovative, intermedial, and Ovidian reading of the Thebai...

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...

Hanshan: Cold Mountain Poems

Long ranking among the most inspiring works of world literature, the poems of Hanshan (whose name means Cold Mountain), were written at l...

Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's "Heroides"

"Incorporates contemporary feminist theories and provides interdisciplinary perspectives on motherhood within Ovidian works and classical...

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 ...

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...

Feminist Comedy - Women Playwrights of London

Feminist Comedy argues that the development of modern feminist thought is closely linked to theatrical comedy. Through analysis of plays ...

David, Donne, and Thirsty Deer - Selected Essays of Anne Lake Prescott

For fifty years Anne Lake Prescott has been a central force in the study of Anglo-French literary relations in the early modern period. H...

Searching for Feminist Superheroes - Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics

How superhero narratives in the margins of the mainstream tell innovative, feminist stories.

Volpone, Or, the Fox

Prose and Poetry Through Time - Hebrew Verb Form Semantics in Zechariah

This book makes a convincing argument that the verbal system of Biblical Hebrew is basically the same in prose and poetry. In addition, i...

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...

Catholic Horror and Rhetorical Dialectics

Catholic Horror and Rhetorical Dialectics argues that Catholic horror fiction works distinctively to inspire the philosophical, theologic...

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 Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World

Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber's most important essays and interviews...

The New Modernist Novel - Literary Criticism and the Task of Reading

Reconsiders the historical connections between modernism and close reading and argues that new modernist fiction can bring with it new mo...

Harryette Mullen, Her Silver-Tongued Companion - Reading Poems by Harryette Mullen

[headline]The first critical edition of Harryette Mullen's remarkable poetry, from her early works to the present-day Harryette Mullen is...

Never by Itself Alone - Queer Poetry, Queer Communities in Boston and the Bay Area, 1944--Present

Through its comprehensive history of post-war queer writing in Boston and San Francisco from the 1940s through the 21st century, Never By...

Histrionic Hamlet - Shakespeare's Ultimate Metatheatrical Experiment

An original intervention in the critical history of Shakespeare's most famous play, Histrionic Hamlet argues that the Danish Prince is a ...

Gombrowicz - An Introduction

This book is a short introduction to Witold Gombrowicz's life and work as one of the most prominent figures in twentieth-century literatu...

Time and Causality in Early Modern Drama - Plotting Revenge

The opening of the first theatre in 1579 created an interplay between the innovations of producers and the perceptions of orally-conditio...

Rotten London, Rotten Elsewhere - Letters To Power

A collection of letters written to people in positions of authority between 2008 and 2023.

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...