Modern readings of ancient Athenian drama tend to view it as a presentation of social or moral problems, as if ancient drama showed the same realism seen on the present-day stage.
From the Poetry of Sumer: Creation, Glorification, Adoration by Samuel Noah Kramer offers modern readers a rare window into the world's earliest recorded literature.
Chinas Great Leap Forward of 1958-1961 was a time of official rejoicing over the achievements of Communism, but it was also a time of immense suffering.
Two Novels of Mexico: The Flies / The Bosses by Mariano Azuela translated by Lesley Byrd Simpson brings the founding novelist of the Mexican Revolution back to the scenes that forged his art: panic, opportunism, and moral reckoning in a society unmade by war.
Stream of Consciousness in the Modern Novel by Robert Humphrey is a foundational study that clarifies one of the most elusive terms in modern literary criticism.
This book focuses on previously unexplored gaps, limitations and avenues of inquiry within the canon and scholarship of Irish modernism to develop a more attentive and fluid theoretical account of this conceptual field.
Alongside the scores of travel books about China written by foreign visitors, Chinese travelers' impressions of their own country rarely appear in translation.
Stream of Consciousness in the Modern Novel by Robert Humphrey is a foundational study that clarifies one of the most elusive terms in modern literary criticism.
Das jiddische Sefer Misle Su'olim, 1583 gedruckt, ist die erste vollständige Übertragung der hebräischen Fabelsammlung Misle Su'alim von Berechja ben Natronaj haNakdan (um 1200) in eine europäische Sprache.
The Munich-based Carl Hanser Verlag was one of the most important publishers in the 1950s and 1960s when it came to promoting Polish literature in West Germany.
In this book, pre-eminent semiotician Arthur Asa Berger decodes the meanings of common objects of consumption and their perceived 'sacredness' in consumerist cultures.
Joyce in Nighttown offers a compelling psychoanalytic examination of James Joyces Ulysses, positioning the novel as a complex psychological gesture both deeply personal and universally resonant.
The Routledge Companion to Sally Rooney offers an in-depth examination of one of the most influential contemporary Irish authors, Sally Rooney, offering valuable insights into her writing and its socio-cultural significance.
Shakespeare and the Courtly Aesthetic, by Gary Schmidgall, situates *The Tempest* and the other late plays within the elaborate cultural and political framework of Jacobean court art.
Poems Without Names: The English Lyric, 12001500 is an in-depth exploration of the Middle English lyric tradition, offering a study of anonymous poems written between 1200 and 1500.
Poems Without Names: The English Lyric, 12001500 is an in-depth exploration of the Middle English lyric tradition, offering a study of anonymous poems written between 1200 and 1500.
The Anatomy of Drama by Alan Reynolds Thompson argues that drama, as an art form, is essential to the vitality of civilization, especially during times of global upheaval.
Joyce in Nighttown offers a compelling psychoanalytic examination of James Joyces Ulysses, positioning the novel as a complex psychological gesture both deeply personal and universally resonant.
Geriatrics, Lifestyle Medicine and Healthy Aging: A Practical Guide is a book for those interested in promoting healthy aging through lifestyle approaches.
Shakespeare and the Courtly Aesthetic, by Gary Schmidgall, situates *The Tempest* and the other late plays within the elaborate cultural and political framework of Jacobean court art.