The Reception of Shakespeare’s Works in Greece
Not for an Age, but for All Time!
This book contains new information on Shakespeare’s life and works. It compares the Greek translations with the English text of 8 plays and provides an annotated bibliography of over 230 Greek translations, placing Shakespeare first among foreign writers in Greece.
This book contains new information on Shakespeare’s life and works. It compares the Greek translations with the English text of 8 plays and provides an annotated bibliography of over 230 Greek translations, placing Shakespeare first among foreign writers in Greece.
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The Afterlives of Narratives
Adaptation and Appropriation in British Theatre and Performance
This book analyzes how narratives are reinterpreted in British theatre. Discussing case studies from Shakespeare to Zadie Smith, this volume interrogates adaptation and appropriation, exploring the dialogic relationship between source texts and their contemporary reimaginings.
This book analyzes how narratives are reinterpreted in British theatre. Discussing case studies from Shakespeare to Zadie Smith, this volume interrogates adaptation and appropriation, exploring the dialogic relationship between source texts and their contemporary reimaginings.
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£67.99
This book explores how contemporary fiction confronts global challenges by reshaping genre conventions. It highlights how hybrid narratives address themes of identity, memory, and survival, offering critical insights into literary innovation in the twenty-first century.
This book explores how contemporary fiction confronts global challenges by reshaping genre conventions. It highlights how hybrid narratives address themes of identity, memory, and survival, offering critical insights into literary innovation in the twenty-first century.
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American Multiculturalism in Context
Views from at Home and Abroad
This text brings together the reflections of a group of experts who met with the leading African American writer Ishmael Reed in 2015. It reports on Reed’s thoughts from the meeting, and looks at the concept “multiculturalism” in the United States, Europe and elsewhere.
This text brings together the reflections of a group of experts who met with the leading African American writer Ishmael Reed in 2015. It reports on Reed’s thoughts from the meeting, and looks at the concept “multiculturalism” in the United States, Europe and elsewhere.
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Ideological Battlegrounds – Constructions of Us and Them Before and After 9/11
Volume 2 Perspectives in Language
Focusing on language and discourse, this volume explores the construction of “Us” and “Them” in texts before and after 9/11. The book shows how language reflects the tragic event, bringing us closer to understanding its roots, consequences, and relevance today.
Focusing on language and discourse, this volume explores the construction of “Us” and “Them” in texts before and after 9/11. The book shows how language reflects the tragic event, bringing us closer to understanding its roots, consequences, and relevance today.
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This book investigates language contact and the language-culture relationship, as well as stylistic and syntactic perspectives on the English language. It also looks at 20th-century literature and theoretical approaches in cultural studies.
This book investigates language contact and the language-culture relationship, as well as stylistic and syntactic perspectives on the English language. It also looks at 20th-century literature and theoretical approaches in cultural studies.
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Rhianus of Crete, Hellenistic Poet and Grammarian
Introduction, Text, Translation and Commentary
This edition of the poetic and grammatical fragments of Rhianus of Crete analyzes his work in the sociopolitical environment following Alexander the Great. It highlights the connection between historical events and poetic expression, showcasing the nuances of Hellenistic poetry.
This edition of the poetic and grammatical fragments of Rhianus of Crete analyzes his work in the sociopolitical environment following Alexander the Great. It highlights the connection between historical events and poetic expression, showcasing the nuances of Hellenistic poetry.
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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 Story of Perfume
Scented Narratives and Olfactory Journeys
Scent is an invisible force shaping memory, identity, and artistic expression. This groundbreaking volume redefines the role of olfaction, exploring its influence on literature, culture, and history, from classical texts to its implications in contemporary branding.
Scent is an invisible force shaping memory, identity, and artistic expression. This groundbreaking volume redefines the role of olfaction, exploring its influence on literature, culture, and history, from classical texts to its implications in contemporary branding.
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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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An Evaluation of Fantasy as Antifantasy
Cosmological Implication of Consciousness and Fictionality
This study challenges traditional views of fiction. It proposes that fictionality is a fundamental aspect of reality with cosmological significance, arguing that imagined worlds and consciousness are intertwined with the fabric of the universe, revealing its hidden structures.
This study challenges traditional views of fiction. It proposes that fictionality is a fundamental aspect of reality with cosmological significance, arguing that imagined worlds and consciousness are intertwined with the fabric of the universe, revealing its hidden structures.
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America’s Oldest Birth Certificate
An Over 500-year old Hidden Treasure
Washington’s famous Waldseemüller map is dethroned. A watershed reappraisal of an older world map proves that descriptions by Amerigo Vespucci prompted the name America. For all interested in the discovery and naming of America, this historic milestone is an eyeopener.
Washington’s famous Waldseemüller map is dethroned. A watershed reappraisal of an older world map proves that descriptions by Amerigo Vespucci prompted the name America. For all interested in the discovery and naming of America, this historic milestone is an eyeopener.
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A unique hybrid of historical Gothic, this novel is set amid the sanguinary events of post-revolutionary France. It follows Countess Adelaide de Narbonne’s rebellion against male authority, connecting her story with that of Charlotte Corday, Marat’s murderer.
A unique hybrid of historical Gothic, this novel is set amid the sanguinary events of post-revolutionary France. It follows Countess Adelaide de Narbonne’s rebellion against male authority, connecting her story with that of Charlotte Corday, Marat’s murderer.
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This monograph considers the status of the verse novel as a genre and traces its mainly English-language history from its beginnings. The discussion will be of interest to genre theorists, prosodists, narratologists and literary historians.
This monograph considers the status of the verse novel as a genre and traces its mainly English-language history from its beginnings. The discussion will be of interest to genre theorists, prosodists, narratologists and literary historians.
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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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This book covers the vampire from its classical image to contemporary interpretations related to psychology, capitalism, gender, and race. It analyzes how the figure evolved to express ideas of power, disease, and the complexity of human nature. Highly accessible and engaging.
This book covers the vampire from its classical image to contemporary interpretations related to psychology, capitalism, gender, and race. It analyzes how the figure evolved to express ideas of power, disease, and the complexity of human nature. Highly accessible and engaging.
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Emotionally Absent Parents
How Does the Literary Child Build Resilience and Grow Out of Trauma?
This book is a mirror for the traumatized, transforming the past into a healing journey. Literature becomes a reflective tool, allowing readers to grow out of childhood trauma by empathizing with literary children. Acknowledge the repressed past; the child shows us who we are.
This book is a mirror for the traumatized, transforming the past into a healing journey. Literature becomes a reflective tool, allowing readers to grow out of childhood trauma by empathizing with literary children. Acknowledge the repressed past; the child shows us who we are.
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£72.99
This book investigates how myth and folklore in Indian fiction are paradoxically used to generate new modes of writing. It explores this stylistic innovation, the use of an 'oral narrative style', and the relationship between women and folklore in South Asian tradition.
This book investigates how myth and folklore in Indian fiction are paradoxically used to generate new modes of writing. It explores this stylistic innovation, the use of an ‘oral narrative style’, and the relationship between women and folklore in South Asian tradition.
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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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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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