Andreas Gryphius and T.S. Eliot’s “The Dissociation of Sensibility”
Cataclysm, Despair, Healing
A new appraisal of Andreas Gryphius, the great Baroque poet, through T.S. Eliot’s “Dissociation of Sensibility.” Supported by new translations, it shows how Eliot illuminates Gryphius as Gryphius illuminates Eliot. Both suffered the cataclysm of civil war and despair.
A new appraisal of Andreas Gryphius, the great Baroque poet, through T.S. Eliot’s “Dissociation of Sensibility.” Supported by new translations, it shows how Eliot illuminates Gryphius as Gryphius illuminates Eliot. Both suffered the cataclysm of civil war and despair.
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The Remapping of Spain
La Leyenda Negra
This volume analyzes depictions of Spain in ten Western travelogues. Shaped by the "Black Legend" of a brutal empire, these writers observed the country's transformation from a superpower into a fallen kingdom struggling to reconstruct its identity after the Disaster of 1898.
This volume analyzes depictions of Spain in ten Western travelogues. Shaped by the “Black Legend” of a brutal empire, these writers observed the country’s transformation from a superpower into a fallen kingdom struggling to reconstruct its identity after the Disaster of 1898.
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Octavio Paz and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Studies in Biography, Poetry, and Poetics
This book explores Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Octavio Paz, two Mexican writers separated by centuries yet united by their defiance of religious and political orthodoxies. It analyzes their landmark poems, El Sueño and Blanco, and includes an English translation of El Sueño.
This book explores Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Octavio Paz, two Mexican writers separated by centuries yet united by their defiance of religious and political orthodoxies. It analyzes their landmark poems, El Sueño and Blanco, and includes an English translation of El Sueño.
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Arab writers must deal with a harsh reality shaped by non-stop wars. This book uses a semiotic approach, arguing the whole truth is not in a text, but in how reality is re-presented. By connecting form and content, it asks: How does Arabic literature represent its agenda?
Arab writers must deal with a harsh reality shaped by non-stop wars. This book uses a semiotic approach, arguing the whole truth is not in a text, but in how reality is re-presented. By connecting form and content, it asks: How does Arabic literature represent its agenda?
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A practical guide to Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, & Julius Caesar, designed for English language learners. It simplifies Shakespeare’s complex language with act-wise summaries, character analysis, & key themes to help you explore his dramatic genius with confidence.
A practical guide to Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, & Julius Caesar, designed for English language learners. It simplifies Shakespeare’s complex language with act-wise summaries, character analysis, & key themes to help you explore his dramatic genius with confidence.
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Women and Literature in India
A Critical Perspective
This collection explores Indian women's writing, from ancient poets to contemporary voices, as a powerful tool for resistance and emancipation. The essays delve into the intersections of caste, class, and gender to reveal the complex, textured realities of women in India.
This collection explores Indian women’s writing, from ancient poets to contemporary voices, as a powerful tool for resistance and emancipation. The essays delve into the intersections of caste, class, and gender to reveal the complex, textured realities of women in India.
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£72.99
Time and space in fiction are not given; they are built. This book reveals how figurative language actively constructs narrative worlds, reshaping our understanding of human experience and cultural imagination.
Time and space in fiction are not given; they are built. This book reveals how figurative language actively constructs narrative worlds, reshaping our understanding of human experience and cultural imagination.
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Re-reading Kazantzakis’s Askitiki
Centenary Reflections
Emerging and established scholars plunge into the abyss of Kazantzakis’s most arresting philosophical treatise, Askitiki. This volume sheds new light on one of his most misunderstood works, bringing fresh voices to the study of one of Greece’s most important figures.
Emerging and established scholars plunge into the abyss of Kazantzakis’s most arresting philosophical treatise, Askitiki. This volume sheds new light on one of his most misunderstood works, bringing fresh voices to the study of one of Greece’s most important figures.
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A new take on the relationship between Latin America and China, from pre-Columbian voyages to 21st-century geopolitics. Did the Chinese visit America before Columbus? Was the poet César Vallejo secretly poisoned by Soviets? Can we read the US-China tech-war in a video game?
A new take on the relationship between Latin America and China, from pre-Columbian voyages to 21st-century geopolitics. Did the Chinese visit America before Columbus? Was the poet César Vallejo secretly poisoned by Soviets? Can we read the US-China tech-war in a video game?
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£74.99
This is the first comprehensive account of Franz Kafka’s significant impact on British and Irish novelists. It explores how writers from Samuel Beckett and Kazuo Ishiguro to W. G. Sebald and Ali Smith adapted his techniques and devices for their own purposes.
This is the first comprehensive account of Franz Kafka’s significant impact on British and Irish novelists. It explores how writers from Samuel Beckett and Kazuo Ishiguro to W. G. Sebald and Ali Smith adapted his techniques and devices for their own purposes.
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£72.99
Thomas Hardy’s career as an architect profoundly shaped his literary imagination. This pioneering study explores the ethical, political, and aesthetic implications of his engagement with architecture, from the symbolic weight of ruins to memory and desire in built form.
Thomas Hardy’s career as an architect profoundly shaped his literary imagination. This pioneering study explores the ethical, political, and aesthetic implications of his engagement with architecture, from the symbolic weight of ruins to memory and desire in built form.
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This critical compendium dissects forty plays by thirty-five Indian playwrights, spanning from classical Sanskrit to contemporary works. Featuring famous and lesser-known dramatists alongside regional voices, it renders a kaleidoscopic view of Indian dramatic traditions.
This critical compendium dissects forty plays by thirty-five Indian playwrights, spanning from classical Sanskrit to contemporary works. Featuring famous and lesser-known dramatists alongside regional voices, it renders a kaleidoscopic view of Indian dramatic traditions.
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Postcolonialism and African Women’s Identity
Emecheta's Second-Class Citizen
This book explores African women’s identity in Buchi Emecheta's novel Second-Class Citizen from a feminist viewpoint. It critically analyzes how hybridity, race, and gender roles shape narratives of resistance, internalized oppression, and the struggle for selfhood.
This book explores African women’s identity in Buchi Emecheta’s novel Second-Class Citizen from a feminist viewpoint. It critically analyzes how hybridity, race, and gender roles shape narratives of resistance, internalized oppression, and the struggle for selfhood.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her Circle
Laurel Garland
In Victorian Florence, women forbidden education or the vote used pens and scalpels. They educated themselves and each other with novels, poems and sculptures, fighting in solidarity for the liberation of slaves, children, and nations, whose oppression mirrored their own.
In Victorian Florence, women forbidden education or the vote used pens and scalpels. They educated themselves and each other with novels, poems and sculptures, fighting in solidarity for the liberation of slaves, children, and nations, whose oppression mirrored their own.
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The Moroccan Diasporic and Transnational Experiences
Space, Media, and Narratives
Moroccan diasporic narratives navigate the spaces between the country of origin and residence. These spaces are central to cultural survival and community identity, forging identities that are dynamic and plural rather than fixed and singular.
Moroccan diasporic narratives navigate the spaces between the country of origin and residence. These spaces are central to cultural survival and community identity, forging identities that are dynamic and plural rather than fixed and singular.
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The Self, the Other and the World
Epistemology and Ethics in Joseph Conrad's Oeuvre
This book examines Joseph Conrad’s narratives and the protagonists’ confrontation with alterity—the self, the other, and the external world. It uniquely links Conradian ethics to the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, arguing that the meeting with the Other determines self-knowledge.
This book examines Joseph Conrad’s narratives and the protagonists’ confrontation with alterity—the self, the other, and the external world. It uniquely links Conradian ethics to the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, arguing that the meeting with the Other determines self-knowledge.
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Collaboration, Exchange and Transformation in Literary and Cultural Practices
Intercultural Conversations
This collection of essays focuses on the transformational potential of intercultural conversations. Through respectful dialogue, we can resist narrow conceptions of history and identity, and instead forge new, exciting and transcendent modes of being.
This collection of essays focuses on the transformational potential of intercultural conversations. Through respectful dialogue, we can resist narrow conceptions of history and identity, and instead forge new, exciting and transcendent modes of being.
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This book charts Britain's transition from the ancient to the medieval world by examining the changing concept of Nature. It explores this shift among both prominent thinkers and regular people, whose lives are interpreted through translated and examined Anglo-Saxon poetry.
This book charts Britain’s transition from the ancient to the medieval world by examining the changing concept of Nature. It explores this shift among both prominent thinkers and regular people, whose lives are interpreted through translated and examined Anglo-Saxon poetry.
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Contextual Confluence
Media, Text and Traditions
This book explores the radical mutuality of media, literature, and culture. Through Black feminist ethics, postcolonial female visibility, and ecological reimaginings, it reveals literature as a living archive of resistance, reinvention, and reconciliation.
This book explores the radical mutuality of media, literature, and culture. Through Black feminist ethics, postcolonial female visibility, and ecological reimaginings, it reveals literature as a living archive of resistance, reinvention, and reconciliation.
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This book explores the dark labyrinths of the criminals from Dickens’s greatest novels, including Oliver Twist and Great Expectations. It supplants his image as the Santa Claus of Victorian society with another Dickens: one who understood the dark souls of his age.
This book explores the dark labyrinths of the criminals from Dickens’s greatest novels, including Oliver Twist and Great Expectations. It supplants his image as the Santa Claus of Victorian society with another Dickens: one who understood the dark souls of his age.
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