This book explores the techniques, themes, and subtexts in the fictional works of one of America's best-known and most-loved storytellers, Stephen King.
Bestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon addresses the strange fact that, in both European and Middle Eastern medieval studies, those texts that we now study and teach as the most canonical representations of their era were in fact not popular or even widely read in their day.
Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, published in 1900, has been one of the most influential texts of the modern era, fundamentally changing the ways in which people have thought about their waking lives as well as their dreams.
Passages: On geo-analysis and the aesthetics of precarity is a multi-genre and transdisciplinary text addressing themes such as colonialism, nuclear zones of abandonment, migration control regimes, transnational domestic work, the biocolonial hostilities of the hospitality industry, legal precarities behind the international criminal justice regime, the shadow-worlds of the African soccerscape, and immunity regimes related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Arguing that the 19th century concept of living form (the idea that, like an organism, a poem develops itself from within, according to an internal logic) is not, as some critics have argued, anathema to avant-garde writing, this book contends that the concept survived and flourished in the work of a number of contemporary experimental poets.
This book explores the techniques, themes, and subtexts in the fictional works of one of America's best-known and most-loved storytellers, Stephen King.
Boccaccios Werke sind schon früh europaweit rezipiert worden, das spiegelt sich eindrucksvoll in den prachtvoll illuminierten Handschriften von Filocolo, Filostrato und Teseida, von De casibus virorum illustrium, De mulieribus claris und Decameron.
Two actors, a thousand characters, and the story of how a kingdom is changed An epic new adaptation of the 4,000-year-old Egyptian poem about the Warrior King, Sinuhe written by Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri that captures the essence of humanity and the complexities of immigration.
Contested Waste' examines socio-environmental conflicts involving waste pickers in the Global South, uncovering the systemic injustices that underpin contemporary waste policies.
Noel Coward combines a fresh appraisal of major plays by one of the twentieth century's most popular dramatists, with an account of critical and theatrical responses to his life and work.
Entre un couple au secret bien gardé, un inspecteur porté sur la bouteille et une victime revenue de l’au-delà, il est bien difficile de connaître le meurtrier, surtout lorsque personne ne finit vraiment ses phrases.
This edited volume looks at the ways in which films, literature, photography and social media construct images of homelands and diasporas as well as the ways in which they facilitate exchanges between them.
Barbara Bray (1924-2010) was an English woman of letters who translated some hundred novels, plays, and essays from French to English and was Marguerite Duras's preferred translator.
