Literary studies: general

A fresh and exciting study of Cicero''s philosophical activities and the enduring interest of his ethical and political thought.

Translation and Translanguaging brings into dialogue translanguaging as a theoretical lens and translation as an applied practice.

An engaging introductory guide to Chekhov, one of the most important and influential modern writers of fiction and drama.

Focusing on the ways in which women writers from across the political spectrum engage with and adapt Wollstonecraft's political philosophy in order to advocate feminist reform, Andrew McInnes explores the aftermath of Wollstonecraft's death, the controversial publication of William Godwin's memoir of his wife, and Wollstonecraft's reception in the early nineteenth century.

The life story of the Victorian novelist George Eliot is as dramatic and complex as her best plots.

Many female athletes struggle with body confidence and change their nutrition in unhealthy ways, only to the detriment of both their performance and their health.

What is experimental literature?

Milton''s Visual Imagination contends that Milton enriches his biblical source text with acute and sometimes astonishing visual details.

The Experimental Novel (1880) is an essay by French author Emile Zola.

This book is the first to analyse how BBC radio presented Anglophone Caribbean literature and in turn aided and influenced the shape of imaginative writing in the region.

Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters.

In this study of sexual violence and rape in French medieval literature and law, Kathryn Gravdal examines an array of famous works never before analyzed in connection with sexual violence.

Despite the fact that post-modern aesthetics deny the existence or validity of genres, the tendency nowadays is to assume that there was in Antiquity a homogeneous group of works of narrative prose fiction that, despite their differences, displayed a series of recurrent, iterative, thematic, and formal characteristics, which allows us to label them novels.

Though medieval "e;saints' lives"e; are among the oldest literary texts of Western vernacular culture, they are routinely patronized as "e;pious fiction"e; by modern historiography.

With full attention to the classical, medievel, and Renaissance traditions that constituted the milieu in which Milton wrote, Lieb explores the sacral basis of Milton's thought.

This Guide discusses the range of critical reactions to three of Jane Austen's most widely-studied and popular novels.

This multidisciplinary collection examines different dimensions of the interrelationships between sport and the arts.

Shelley's Music: Fantasy, Authority and the Object Voice regards music images and allusions to music in Shelley's writing as evidence that Shelley sought to infuse the masculine word with the music of feminine expression.

Narrating Postcolonial Arab Nations significantly enhances the interface between postcolonial literary studies and the hitherto under-studied Arab world.

Sir Philip Sydney was born in 1534 and by the time of his death only 32 years later had come to exemplify the ideal courtier.

A familiar story holds that modernization radiates outward from metropolitan origins.

The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture reflects current approaches to Holocaust literature that open up future thinking on Holocaust representation.

The first study of English historical plays about the Turks, using works in Greek, Arabic, and Turkish.

El volumen Cosas que el dinero puede comprar demuestra que la poesía española del último siglo no ha dejado de dialogar con la publicidad mediática, la propaganda política y las divisas cívicas.

This volume makes conveniently available to students and others the group of chapters in Professor Geoffrey Tillotson's Augustan Studies in which he deals with the poetic theory and practice of the Augustan age as a whole, rather than with particular works.

Dieser Band versammelt dreizehn eigenständige Aufsätze zur Literatur- und Philosophiegeschichte, die einen Bogen von der griechischen und römischen Antike bis zur neueren deutschen Literatur schlagen: Behandelt werden unter anderem das archaische Epos sowie griechische Philosophie und Sophistik; das altrömische Buchwesen und die römische Historiographie; der Nietzsche-Wagner-Komplex und der Zauberberg Thomas Manns.

This collection of original essays on Virginia Woolf by leading scholars in the field opens up new debates on the work of one of the foremost modernists of the 20th century.

This book maps the history of literary celebrity from the early nineteenth century to the present, paying special attention to the authors' crafting of their writerly self as well as the afterlife of their public image.

Edited with introduction and notes.

Narrating Desire: Moral Consolation and Sentimental Fiction in Fifteenth-Century Spain proposes a new taxonomy and conceptual frame for the controversial Iberian genre of sentimental fiction.

The History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 and 1909, was the principal product of E.

Environmental problems - particularly climate change - have become increasingly important to governments and social researchers in recent decades.

This book is a guide to the extraordinarily diverse literature of the Hellenistic period.

This volume brings together an unprecedented gathering of women and men from the Atlantic World during the Age of Revolutions.

The lifestyles and socio-economic status that are prevalent in regions of the world with limited resources form the background for the unique features of neoplastic diseases in these areas, where the majority of the world population lives.

The volume offers new insights into the intricate theme of silence in Greek literature, especially drama.

The problem of the nature of fiction and the problem of nonexistence are closely tied because fiction often talks about nonexistent entities.