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¡Ay Tú!

A comprehensive volume on the life and work of renowned Chicana author Sandra Cisneros.

Performing Shakespeare in India

This book is envisaged as an intervention in the ongoing explorations in social and cultural history, into questions of what constitutes Indianness for the colonial and the postcolonial subject and the ro…

Myka Tucker-Abramson

Cartographies of Empire

The road novel is often dismissed as a mundane, nostalgic genre: Jack, Sal, and other tedious white men on the road trying to recapture an authentic youth and American past that never existed. Yet, new ro…

Adam Roberts

Fantasy

One of the most popular genres of modern times, fantasy literature has as rich a cultural and literary heritage as the magical worlds that so enrapture its readers. In this book, a concise history of the …

Ani Kokobobo

Leo Tolstoy

"The Tolstoy that emerges from this volume is a thinker who resists easy answers, explores contradictions, and seeks deeper reconciliation. This collection presents him as an open-ended conversation …

David Ben-Merre

O

Considers how a series of poets reimagined the possibilities of "O" as a gesture of apostrophe and, even more so, of writing.In poetry circles, "O" is commonly associated with apostrop…

Ira Nadel

The American Sentence

A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book uses four stages in the story of American letters - the sermon, the telegraph, the newspaper and the screen - to ask …

Dion Dobrzynski,

Forest Ecology and Fantasy Fiction

Examining books by William Morris, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Ursula K. Le Guin, three of the most influential writers of the modern fantasy tradition, this book explores how fantasy writers engage with forest…

Robert Harvey

The Rhetoric of Manipulation

A provocative and timely look at how language is used to manipulate the truth, how our gullibility leaves us susceptible to manipulation, and what we can do to reverse these trends.The Rhetoric of Manipul…

The Collected Works of Anna Letitia Barbauld: Volume 2

This volume presents Anna Letitia Barbauld's educational writing and her ground-breaking works for children, including Lessons for Children , with texts presented in their original special format, and the…

Teaching the Arthurian Tradition

Essays on teaching medieval Arthurian literature and modern adaptationsFrom the Middle Ages to the present, legends of King Arthur and his court have fascinated readers, inviting contemplation of leadersh…

Debra Baldwin, Debra Romanick Baldwin

The Inwardness of Things

The Inwardness of Things examines Joseph Conrad as a modern voice in a long-standing and timeless dispute between poetry and philosophy.

Myka Tucker-Abramson

Cartographies of Empire

The road novel is often dismissed as a mundane, nostalgic genre: Jack, Sal, and other tedious white men on the road trying to recapture an authentic youth and American past that never existed. Yet, new ro…

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature in Translation

Offering the first systematic overview of modern and contemporary Chinese literature from a translation studies perspective, this handbook provides students, researchers and teachers with a context in whi…

Penny Bradshaw

An A-Z of Beatrix Potter

A lively way into the works of beloved children's author Beatrix Potter, this book provides fresh understanding of her writing and its legacies via twenty six alphabetically arranged and interlinked essay…

In the Shadow of the Holocaust

" In the Shadow of the Holocaust is a collection of newly translated short fiction written in the aftermath of one of the most significant Jewish tragedies of the 20th century. In these works, Jewish…

Writing Borders and Other Barriers in the Era of Climate Crisis

Bringing together intersectional perspectives across disciplines such as the humanities, arts and social sciences, this book explores borders and crossings in relation to environmental damage and injustic…

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

Tod und Verklärung op. 24 (1889)

Julie Nelson Couch, Kimberly K. Bell

Gaming in the Medieval English Text

This book innovatively combines traditional manuscript study with contemporary cultural game theory to show how the enigmatic fourteenth-century Middle English romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, la…