This book brings together the complete poetic works of Palestinian poet Ibrahim Tuqan, one of the most prominent poetic voices of the twentieth-century Arab literary renaissance.
This companion is the first comprehensive study of courier poetry-in which someone, usually a lonely lover, sends an unlikely messenger (a cloud, a bee, a goose, a bat, a language, the wind, a poem, and so on) to the beloved or to a close friend or patron.
Erich Hartmann: Das Ass der Asse Autor: Ralf HagedornBuchbeschreibungDiese Biografie zeichnet den Weg von Erich Alfred Hartmann (1922 1993) nach, der als "e;Ass der Asse"e; in die Militarluftfahrtgeschichte einging.
Al-Jahiz, part of the Imams of Literature series, presents the biography of one of the greatest minds of the Abbasid era and one of the most influential figures in Arab and Islamic culture.
Empire of Elites investigates the self-representation of the late Roman senatorial aristocracy in epigraphic evidence to illuminate the cultural, social, and political dynamics of the Later Roman Empire.
In this enchanting and moving memoir, Christina Hall writes with sharp observation about her childhood on the Hebridean island of SouthUist in the 1940s and 50s.
This volume reveals music''s role in Victorian liberalism and its relationship with literature, locating the Victorian salon within intellectual and cultural history.