In Literary Writing in the 21st Century an incredible array of today's leading fiction writers, poets, critics, editors, publishers, and booksellers engage in no-holds-barred dialogue about the challenging issues facing writing and publishing today.
Shortlist--2023 Oscar Kenshur Book PrizeWinner--2022 Walker Cowen Memorial Prize Nineteenth-century European representations of Africa are notorious for depicting the continent with a blank interior.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORTNUM & MASON FOOD AND DRINK AWARDS 2021The Food Almanac is a seasonal collection of recipes and stories celebrating the joy of food - a dazzling, diverse mix of memoir, history, short stories and poems alongside recipes, cooking tips, menus and reading lists.
First published in English in 1926, this work by Nikolai Bukharin, a highly influential Marxist and Soviet Politician who would later become one of the most famous victims of Stalin's show trials, expands upon Karl Marx's theory of historical materialism.
First published in 1909, with a second edition in 1923, this concise and easily accessible overview of Shelley's life and work presents the poet not as popular legend would have it, but in a more objective light.
First published in 1968, A Handbook to Sixteenth-Century Rhetoric is designed primarily to assist the student of renaissance literature in the science of rhetoric.
In this book, the first to explore the role of disability in the writings of James Joyce, contributors approach the subject both on a figurative level, as a symbol or metaphor in Joyces work, and also as a physical reality for many of Joyces characters.
First published in 1990, this title provides a compendium of useful information for any reader of Donne to have at hand: crucial biographical material, historical contextualisation, and details about his life's work.
First published in 1916, The Textual Tradition of Chaucer's Troilus compares the best unprinted manuscripts of Chaucer's Troilus with the printed texts.
This Companion presents key texts, authors, themes, and contexts of Latina/o literature and highlights its increasing significance in world literature.
The first book to analyse cultural dynamics of Chinese migration to Italy, Migration and the Media compares Italian, Chinese migrant, and international media interpretations between 1992 and 2012.
Comparing second generation children of immigrants in black Canadian and black British women's writing, Settling Down and Settling Up extends discourses of diaspora and postcolonialism by expanding recent theory on movement and border crossing.
Ein detaillierter Wegweiser durch Prousts JahrhundertromanDieser Band gibt einen Überblick über Prousts Leben und familiären Hintergrund, über die Entstehung von »Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit«, über die Struktur, Rezeption und zeitgeschichtlichen Grundlagen des Werks.
Apollo, the classical god of poetry, truth, light, and the healing arts, held a special fascination for poets and scholars in the late-medieval period.
Manuscripts from the Byzantine era hand down lists of outstanding Greek authors or canons in the various literary and scientific-philosophical genres, but there has been a lack of research into their nature, chronology, origin, formation and use.
Saul Steinberg's inimitable drawings, paintings, and assemblages enriched the New Yorker, gallery and museum shows, and his own books for more than half a century.
In this fascinating and revealing book, first published in 1952, Maxwell shows the development of Eliot's poetry and poetic thought in the light of his political and religious attachments.
For as long as the United States owed its prosperity to a New World plantation complex, from colonial settlement until well into the twentieth century, the toxic practices associated with its permutations stimulated imaginary solutions to the contradiction with the nation's enlightenment ideals and republican ideology.
Este libro reúne la colaboración de tres importantes escritores, así como la de dieciséis destacados investigadores, en torno a la obra del escritor mexicano Mario Bellatin.
Accounts of the rise of American literature often start in the 1850s with a cluster of "e;great American novels"e;-Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Melville's Moby-Dick and Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
With the decline of formalism and its predilection for Old English poetry, Old English prose is leaving the periphery and moving into the center of literary and cultural discussion.
Surveying the development of medieval scholarship through biography, this volume contains 23 original essays on scholars whose work shaped medieval historiography for the past 300 years.
Borrowing its title from Oscar Wilde's essay "e;The Decay of Lying,"e; this study engages questions of fraudulent authorship in the literary afterlife of Oscar Wilde.
The first book to analyse cultural dynamics of Chinese migration to Italy, Migration and the Media compares Italian, Chinese migrant, and international media interpretations between 1992 and 2012.
Founded by Vladimir Lenin in 1919 to instigate a world revolution, the Comintern sought to advance not only the proletarian struggle but also a wide variety of radical causes, including fighting against imperialism and racism in settings as varied as Ireland, India, the United States, and China.
Postmodernism of Resistance in Roberto Bolano's Fiction and Poetry examines the ways in which Bolano employs a type of literary aesthetics that subverts traits traditionally associated with postmodernism.
Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita, set in Stalin's Moscow, is an intriguing work with a complex structure, wonderful comic episodes and moments of great beauty.
