Cavafy’s preoccupation with the fragile human condition—illness, old age, and death—continues to challenge readers. This book draws on the medical humanities to provide a new framework for his poetry, for literary scholars and medical practitioners alike.
This book provides a framework for ethical reasoning, exploring how values shape our worldview and principles guide our practice. Placing humanity at its heart, it discusses applications within the beginning and end of life, science, education, and business.
African Tragedy
Unknown since 1946, African Tragedy is the original version of Wulf Sachs’s famous Black Hamlet. This enthralling novel tells the story of John Chawafambira, an nganga in a psychic and political struggle within the inhospitable Johannesburg of the 1930s.
P. Ovidius Naso, The Heroides
Ovid’s Heroides is a collection of fictional letters from heroines to their absent lovers. This volume presents a radically new text and translation of the collection, separating the original core from later accretions. The translation is designed to aid interpretation.
This book rejects the idea of childhood as an unambiguous monolith. It explores the constantly evolving term’s literary, artistic, and cultural representations, offering critical approaches to its treatment with all its complexities in art and literature.
Selected Studies on Genre in Middle Eastern Literatures
These 12 case studies by experts in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish literature offer new insights into the intellectual universe of the Middle East. Spanning genres from classical poetry and epics to travelogues and novels, this book creates a new comparative framework.
Glycoscience
This book presents compact data in glycoscience, a developing field linking biology, chemistry, and medicine. It covers the structure, biosynthesis, and biological roles of carbohydrates, highlighting their connection to cancer, hereditary disorders, and other human diseases.
Helen Waddell’s classic novel tells the powerful love story of 12th-century teacher Peter Abelard and the learned Heloise. This annotated edition introduces the extensive literary and historical sources Waddell incorporated into the best-selling story of love and theology.
The Urban Environmental Crisis in India
This compendium represents a unique collection of thoughts and views of various water management experts. It highlights that the future of the emerging urban society lies in the proper management of waste and not in mere disposal.
Ovid’s Heroides are fictional letters from heroines to their absent lovers. This unique volume presents a comprehensive collection of all medieval and renaissance manuscript readings for poems 9-15, vital for understanding how the established text was created.
Bringing together renowned scholars, this volume offers a multi-dimensional view of comparative and world literature. It connects disparate research contexts to illuminate the future of literary studies for scholars and readers interested in a cross-culturized world.
This book critically examines the historical views of Japanese right-wing scholars, focusing on the post-Cold War intellectual right. Using in-depth case studies, it analyzes representative figures and criticizes their viewpoints on the Japanese cultural invasion of China.
This is the first English book on the Finland-Swedish author Runar Schildt (1888-1925). A cosmopolitan writer, his work bears witness to the turbulent birth of modern Finland amid the Russian Revolution and the Finnish Civil War, offering vital insights into European history.
Detecting Sherlock’s Descendants
This book explores the history of British detective fiction, analyzing the evolution of the investigator since Sherlock Holmes. It reveals Holmes’s legacy and the genre’s development by embedding them in a broader socio-cultural, historical, and political context.
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.
A Brief History of Nobel Prize in Literature Winners from 1901-2024
A history of the Nobel Prize-winning authors from 1901 to 2024. This reference volume provides concise summaries of the authors and their works, featuring selected extracts and critical commentaries. An essential guide for students, teachers, and readers of great literature.
Modern Fantasies on Love versus Classical Romances
Viewed through quantum physics, love conquers nothing. This book introduces the Token Valence Method, which treats a word as a quantum state to reveal three models of love patterns in fiction: adaptation, alienation, and imagination.
T. S. Eliot’s famous poetry expresses not a rejection of faith, but a struggle with it. This book explores how he and Michelangelo wrestled with the highest meanings of existence, seeking to express a modernist view of mystical awe—the experience of God.
This book helps aspirant researchers find a proper topic for their research degrees and review the related literature. Including a bibliography of PhD theses, it guides them to theses available on Shodhganga—a reservoir of Indian theses—and in academic libraries.
The Quality of Life
Spanning 40 years, these essays explore the political dimensions of cultural life. They include seminal papers that pioneered the concept of Cultural Democracy and close readings of novels and plays that explore how all forms of self-expression have a political message.
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