Biography, Literature and Literary studies

India, colourful and vibrant, is a land as diverse as its people.

Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Translation of Female Kingship provides the first feminist analysis of the part of The History of the Kings of Britain that most readers overlook: the reigns before and after Arthur's.

In prose and poetry the selections contained here reveal the personal experiences, feelings and angst of three English writers who lived through World War I.

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Alexander Hamilton rose from his humble beginnings as an illegitimate West Indian orphan and emigrant to become the premier statebuilder and strategic thinker of the American Founding generation.

In the wake of Guantanamo Bay, extraordinary renditions, and secret torture centres in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, Revenge versus Legality addresses the relationship between law and wild or vigilante justice; between the power to enforce retribution and the desire to seek revenge.

This book creates a taxonomy for the major bestselling fictional genres: romance (e.

War as Spectacle examines the display of armed conflict in classical antiquity and its impact in the modern world.

Alice Keppel, lover of Queen Victoria's son Edward VII and great-grandmother of Camilla Parker-Bowles, was the acceptable face of Edwardian adultery.

Canada did not fight in the Vietnam War, but the conflict seized the Canadian imagination with an energy that has persisted.

This fourth edition brings together a diverse range of experts in nutrition-related areas to discuss recent thinking and discoveries in nutrition, especially in relation to topics that have the greatest capacity to improve human health and nutritional implementation.

Eighteenth-century France is understood to have been the dominant cultural power on that era's international scene.

A broken heart and a moment of drunken bravado inspires middle-aged, and typically rather cautious, journalist Mike Carter to take off on a life-changing six month motorcycle trip around Europe.

The secret vice: Masturbation in Victorian fiction and medical culture provides a unique consideration of writings on self-abuse in the long nineteenth century.

This volume brings together a number of leading scholars working in the field of ancient Greek mathematics to present their latest research.

This book brings together innovative research that examines respectively climate change, agricultural production, environmental impacts, food security, nutrition and human health issues with regard to international policies as well as sustainable development goals.

Containing more than three hundred poems, including nearly a hundred previously unpublished works, this unique collection showcases the intellectual range of Claude McKay (1889-1948), the Jamaican-born poet and novelist whose life and work were marked by restless travel and steadfast social protest.

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In his latest book, Terry Eagleton, one of the most celebrated intellects of our time, considers the least regarded of the virtues.

Die Dissertation beleuchtet das japanische Haiku, seinen Weg in den Westen, den Einfluss auf die Dichtung Ezra Pounds und der Imagisten, auf das Werk von Autoren wie Yeats, Hemingway, Eliot, Huxley, Salinger, den "Black Poets" und "Black Mountain Poets", W.

In this original study, Rachel Coventry expands Heidegger's philosophy of art to include his ontological account of poetry and technology.

Rikki and her sister, Linda, fell out with one another four months ago.

This collection of essays offers a series of reflections on the specific literary and cultural forms that can be seen as the product of modernity's spatial transformations, which have taken on new urgency in today's world of ever increasing mobility and global networks.

This Handbook offers a comprehensive and engaging overview of contemporary issues in Literary Translation research through in-depth investigations of actual case studies of particular works, authors or translators.

Gunther Kress argues for a radical reappraisal of the phenomenon of literacy, and hence for a profound shift in educational practice.

In her powerful, prophetic teaching style, bestselling author Jennifer Eivaz helps readers to continually sharpen their gifting in order to minister healing, breakthrough, and a supernatural display of God's glory.

Environmental and animal studies are rapidly growing areas of interest across a number of disciplines.

The skirmish between painting and poetry-from Plato and Praxiteles to Rembrandt and ShakespeareWhy do painters sometimes wish they were poets-and why do poets sometimes wish they were painters?

This volume explores the multiple connections between the two most canonical authors in English, Jane Austen and William Shakespeare.

This is a music autobiography to remember.

An important new voice for African-American theatre, Katori Hall explores the lives of black and often invisible Americans with vivid language, dynamic narratives and richly textured characterisation.

American Literature as an Expression of the National Mind (1931) is a remarkable work that traces not only the history and development of literature in the United States, but also the national characteristics that have arisen out of America's unique background.

An engaging and accessible overview of the Enlightenment as a global phenomenon, with updated material and additional online resources.

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Filling a major gap in scholarship, this is the first full-length study of the Athenian politician Aeschines.

This book presents an approach to narrative analysis from a critical social perspective.

Selina Boan's debut poetry collection, Undoing Hours, considers the various ways we undo, inherit, reclaim and (re)learn.

This book is a study of the methodological, metaphysical, and epistemological work of the Eastern Han Dynasty period scholar Wang Chong.

The individual and cultural upheavals of early colonial New France were experienced differently by French explorers and settlers, and by Native traditionalists and Catholic converts.