Literary studies: general

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This fully revised and updated new edition provides a comprehensive look at nitrite and nitrate and their effect on human health and disease.

Montaigne's English Journey examines the genesis, early readership, and multifaceted impact of John Florio's exuberant translation of Michel de Montaigne's Essays.

Mirigavati or The Magic Doe is the work of Shaikh Qutban Suhravardi, an Indian Sufi master who was also an expert poet and storyteller attached to the glittering court-in-exile of Sultan Husain Shah Sharqi of Jaunpur.

From The Death of Nancy Sykes (1897) to The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) and beyond, cinematic adaptations of British literature participate in a complex and fascinating history.

Originally published in 1985, this book traces the development of an ideal of work in English writing which runs parallel to that of the Protestant work ethic.

Originally published in 1994, Oral Tradition in Middle English is an edited collection providing a multidisciplinary look at the importance and nature of oral tradition in Middle English literature.

Johnson himself wrote in 1782: 'I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets'.

The essays in Word and Self Estranged in English Texts, 1550-1660, consider diverse historical contexts for writing about 'strangeness'.

Worthen uses contemporary Shakespeare performance to explore the technicity of theatre: its changing work as an intermedial technology.

An important contribution to the understanding of George Orwell's thought, particularly to Nineteen Eighty Four.

This chronology covers the whole sweep of Evelyn Waugh's varied and eventful life and career, including his numerous friendships, his active social life and his exotic travels.

The presentation of Tennyson's personal and poetic development is supplemented by an introduction, brief biographical sketches of more than 30 of his friends, and maps of relevant areas in Lincolnshire and the Isle of Wight.

Essays lay the groundwork for a theory of humour in Old English literature.

This collection of sixteen articles, written by leading specialists in Classical and English literature, is an important contribution to the critical assessment of Ted Hughes, one of the most popular and controversial English poets of the late 20th century.

Full translation together with detailed introduction, commentary and discussion of terminology.

This book discusses quality-related aspects of milk and milk products, covering the various analytical procedures for testing the quality and composition.

A survey of the motif of the revenant, showing how medieval themes and motifs persist today.

This book is a study of children, their books and their reading experiences in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain.

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries?

Die Studie untersucht erstmals die in Ulrich Fuetrers ›Buch der Abenteuer‹ sich abzeichnende Schnittstelle zwischen Kompilationsverfahren und Narrativik und zeigt, dass Fuetrer zwar auf bekannte Adaptationstechniken zurückgreift, aber diese Bearbeitungsverfahren neu instrumentalisiert.

This annotated edition of The Scarlet Letter enhances student and reader comprehension of a standard work studied in literature classes, exploring names, places, objects, and allusions.

This New Casebook explores the enduring significance of George Eliot's novels The Mill on the Floss (1860) and Silas Marner (1861).

This revealing study looks at the influences and creative impulses that shape one of today's most progressive, thoughtful filmmakers.

Prepare students for the WJEC Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Food Preparation and Nutrition exams with this photocopiable pack, including two full exam-style practice papers and detailed mark schemes with sample answers.

A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020'Radical Wordsworth deserves to take its place as the finest modern introduction to his work, life and impact' Financial Times'Richly repays reading .

The eighteen studies included here reflect three particular aspects of Leonard Boyle's remarkable impact on teaching and scholarship.

GWF Hegel famously described philosophy as 'its own time apprehended in thoughts', reflecting a desire that we increasingly experience, namely, the desire to understand our complex and fast-changing world.

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This book examines the topic of excess in modern Irish writing in terms of mysticism, materialism, myth and language.

Occupy Pynchon examines power and resistance in the writer's post-Gravity's Rainbow novels.

This volume provides an interdisciplinary collection of studies that cover the trends and issues related to agricultural productivity and availability, food and nutrition security, and sustainability in India.

Culinary Nutrition: The Science and Practice of Healthy Cooking is the first textbook specifically written to bridge the relationship between food science, nutrition and culinology as well as consumer choices for diet, health and enjoyment.

Sacrifice and Modern War Literature is the first book to explore how writers from the early nineteenth century to the present have addressed the intimacy of sacrifice and war.

This volume provides an account of collaborative poetry translation in practice.

Over the last two decades, focus has become a prominent topic in major fields in linguistic research (syntax, semantics, phonology).

Nicholas Rowe was the first Poet Laureate of the Georgian era.

From Latin love poetry's dominating and enslaving beloveds, to modern popular culture's infamous Cleopatras and Messalinas, representations of the Roman mistress (or the mistress of Romans) have brought into question both ancient and modern genders and political systems.

This volume publishes for the first time the collected journals of the East India Company's Third Voyage (1607-10), England's first to reach India, which proved pivotal to England's emergence as a global player.

This book is a part of ICL new book series "e;ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction"e; founded in 2019.