Inside one of Contemporary India's most Influential Poets The twenty-four papers in Philosophical Musings for a Meaningful Life study the poetry collections Winged Reason (2010), Write Son, Write (2011), and Multicultural Symphony (2014), of Dr.
This volume introduces a fresh exploration of Classical literature, examining its engagement with personal or collective tragedy, horrific events, and fear-inflicting episodes.
The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa's most important early twentieth-century statesman and intellectualThe African Gold Coast writer and statesman J.
The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa's most important early twentieth-century statesman and intellectualThe African Gold Coast writer and statesman J.
"e;Simply Proust pulls off with ease the arduous task of making Marcel Proust's masterwork accessible, without sacrificing none of the complexity that makes it one of the most important novels of the 20th Century.
An expert on presidential history and national identity explores the complicated and conflicted ways Americans remember Thomas Jefferson and what these impressions reveal about the nation he helped to found.
Der italienische Humanist und Historiker Paolo Giovio schuf mit seinen Elogia virorum literis illustrium (1546) eine faszinierende Sammlung an Kurz-Biographien berühmter zeitgenössischer Gelehrter, die nicht nur aufgrund ihrer Fülle an anekdotischen Informationen zu Größen wie Giovanni Boccaccio, Angelo Poliziano oder Thomas Morus beeindrucken.
From the pre-Islamic Jahilia, early modern Sikri and Florence, to postcolonial Bombay and Karachi, cities have played a pivotal role in Salman Rushdie's fiction.
In the first decades of the twenty-first century, science fiction literature has been transformed in many ways, as the genre has reacted to the dominating influence of films, television, and video games, the growing popularity of fantasy, the rise of young adult science fiction and graphic novels, the impact of the internet and social media, and the increasing diversity of the authors, characters, and often non-Western settings.
Die Romane Ohnehin (2004) und Andernorts (2010) von Doron Rabinovici, Broken German (2016) von Tomer Gardi und Die Leinwand (2010) von Benjamin Stein werden in diesem Band entgegen gangigen Verortungen in der Forschung nicht als asthetischer Ausdruck postmoderner Theorie, sondern als Intervention in den Bereich theoretischer Auseinandersetzung gelesen.
When Sylvain Tesson left the colourful yellow houses of the French Riviera for a ski trek across the Alps with his friend, a high-altitude mountain guide, he didn't know what exactly awaited him.
Although Dalmatia is not at the core of the contemporary imagination of the Habsburg Empire, which has recently been idealised in scholarship, it shares several similarities with the majority of the ex-Habsburg borderlands, one of which is its complex ethnic makeup in the period of politicisation of a modern nationalist agenda (1890-1941).
This volume provides the first English translations of The Tale of Troy and The Tale of Achilles, two medieval Greek romances by anonymous authors of the 14th/15th centuries that narrate the lives and loves of Achilles and Paris before and during the Trojan War.
