Autoethnography in the 21st Century offers interpretive, analytic, interactive, performative, experiential, and embodied forms of autoethnography from around the globe.
Le roman raconte l'histoire d'un quatuor de musiciens français dans une île flottante, Standard-Island, propulsée, comme l'indique le titre, par des hélices.
The first part of the yearbook contains ten essays on Futurist art and literature in Italy, France, Russia, Poland, Portugal and the former colony of Goa.
Beat Film, Beat Writers is the first monograph to analyze the films of Christopher Maclaine, Lawrence Jordan, ruth weiss, Ron Rice, Robert Frank, Barbara Rubin, Shirley Clarke, William S.
James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family is the first monograph focusing on Sweeney Todd and Varney the Vampyre's creator James Malcolm Rymer (1814-1884).
This book explores Yeats's later poetry through the metaphor of the poetic tower, where different kinds of 'building' - architectural, textual, political and symbolic - were closely interrelated.
'Titurel', a later offshoot of Wolfram von Eschenbach's 'Parzival', can be seen as one of the most enigmatic works in the history of German literature.
Dulcinea plural presenta diferentes creaciones artísticas y audiovisuales de la imagen impalpable e imperecedera evocada por don Quijote de la dama del Toboso.
This book aims to provide evidence of the impact of climate change and urbanization on cities' urban environments thus on human health and wellbeing; and principles and methods for the improvement of the resilience of a city to extreme weather and long-term climatic changes through case studies.
An examination of the role nutrients play in mental health, this book reviews the scientific literature from many fields of science: health, psychology, nutrition, mental well-being, and the interface with chronic disease.
Genesis Myth in Beowulf and Old English Biblical Poetry explores the adaptation of antediluvian Genesis and related myth in the Old Testament poems Genesis A and Genesis B, as well as in Beowulf, a secular heroic narrative.
Originally published in 1963, this is a study of the greatness of Dante, Michelangelo and Milton, and of the differences in the power and effect of their work.
In the Romantic period, women writers developed specific aesthetics and writing strategies in their engagements with climate change and climate catastrophe.
James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family is the first monograph focusing on Sweeney Todd and Varney the Vampyre's creator James Malcolm Rymer (1814-1884).
Though Orton's roots lay in traditions as diverse as those represented by such writers as Wycherley, Congreve, Wilde, Shaw, Carroll, Firbank, Feydeau, Beckett and Pinter, he developed a form of 'anarchic farce' which was very much his own - hence the word 'Ortonesque'.
Certain moments in British Romantic poetry and art depict a state from which the attributes of existence - time and space, subject and object, language and visuality - have fallen away, leaving a domain prior to the world and to thought, the condition of mere existence.
Literature and Computation presents some of the most relevantly innovative recent approaches to literary practice, theory, and criticism as driven by computation and situated in digital environments.
This book highlights the importance of global Anglophone literature in global health humanities, shaping perceptions of health issues in the Global South and among minorities in the Global North.
This Sourcebook contains numerous original translations of ancient poetry, inscriptions and documents, all of which illuminate the multifaceted nature of sexuality in antiquity.
This book fills a unique gap in the research on the cultural history of vegetarianism and veganism, children's literature and Victorian periodicals, and it is the first publication to systematically describe the phenomenon of Victorian children's vegetarianism and its representations in literature and culture.
La historia de la lectura y de la escritura abordada por Martyn Lyons sigue la línea de investigaciones de Roger Chartier, Guglielmo Cavallo y Armando Petrucci; como ellos, en lugar de poner el acento en los productores de libros o en los autores, Lyons lo sitúa en los lectores, en su capacidad para seleccionar, interpretar y rehacer lo que leen.
This book offers a unique journey into the worlds of preachers, sages, ascetics, and princes through rare excerpts of their sayings that embody moral, religious, and scientific depth.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Collected Works of Theodore Dreiser"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey take a different approach to Dante, by examining the main themes and issues that run through all of his work, ranging from autobiography, to understanding God and the order of the universe.
Dieses eBook: "Das Leben der Schwedischen Gräfin von G***" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
