Literary Criticism
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Allegorical Moments: Call to the Everyday [Hardback]
Lyn Hejinian (Author)
£70.50ISBN: 9780819580849
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Considers allegory as a catalyst of transformative thinking
Allegorical Moments is a set of essays dedicated to rethinking allegory and arguing for its significance as a creative and critical response to sociopolitical, environmental, and... .... Learn More -
Allegorical Moments: Call to the Everyday [Paperback]
Lyn Hejinian (Author)
£19.95ISBN: 9780819580856
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Considers allegory as a catalyst of transformative thinking
Allegorical Moments is a set of essays dedicated to rethinking allegory and arguing for its significance as a creative and critical response to sociopolitical, environme... .... Learn More -
Traces of Sufism in British Romanticism [Hardback]
Naji Oueijan (Author)
£76.00ISBN: 9781463245528
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Gorgias Islamic Studies
Volume: 20
This work argues that there are traces of Sufism to be found in British Romanticism. Most scholars of Romanticism have overlooked the impact of Sufism on Romanticism in favour of Christian and neo-Platonic Mysticism, but this work fills in this ga... .... Learn More -
South Sea Island: Geography of Pleasure [Hardback]
Frits Andersen (Author)
£46.00ISBN: 9788771849134
Published by : Aarhus University Press
Not yet published - available for pre-order
South Sea Island. The Geography of Pleasure is a literary history of European, Russian and American travelogues, films, paintings, philosophical treatises, all fascinated by the Polynesian islands. Our ideas of nature, growth and sustainability ar... .... Learn More -
The Language of the In-Between: Transvestism, Subalternity, and Writing in Contemporary Chile and Peru [Hardback]
Erika Almenara (Author)
£37.00ISBN: 9780822947271
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Illuminations
Often, the process of modern state formation is founded on the marginalisation of certain groups, and Latin America is no exception. In The Language of the In-Between, Erika Almenara contends that literary production replicates this same ... .... Learn More -
Munere Mortis: Studies in Greek Literature in Memory of Colin Austin [Hardback]
Eftychia Bathrellou (Editor); Margherita Maria Di Nino (Editor)
£60.00ISBN: 9781913701444
Published by : Cambridge Philological Society
Series: Cambridge Classical Journal Supplements
Volume: 45
Colin Austin (1941–2010), Professor of Greek at Cambridge and distinguished editor of poetic texts, was renowned for the precision and brilliance of his scholarship. This collection of studies, offered by some of his pupils, aims to honour his mem... .... Learn More -
Peter Churchill: The forgotten novels of a British secret agent [Paperback]
Andrea Cominini (Author)
£9.99ISBN: 9788869773983
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Literature
After researching the life of a British Special Operation Executive agent, Oliver Churchill, who operated over the summer of 1944, Andrea Cominini found that his brother, Peter, had also been an SOE agent operating in France during WWII. Peter car... .... Learn More -
The Selected Letters of John Cage [Paperback]
John Cage (Author); Laura Kuhn (Editor); Mark Swed (Author)
£20.50ISBN: 9780819580870
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
This selection of over five hundred letters gives us the life of John Cage with all the intelligence, wit, and inventiveness that made him such an important and groundbreaking composer and performer. The missives range from lengthy reports of his ... .... Learn More -
Children's Literature in the Nordic World [Paperback]
Nina Christensen (Author); Charlotte Appel (Author)
£12.00ISBN: 9788772195919
Published by : Aarhus University Press
Series: The Nordic World
This volume introduces an international readership to the role books have played in the lives and upbringing of young people in the Nordic countries from the 1750s until today. Charlotte Appel and Nina Christensen look beyond an overview of notewo... .... Learn More -
Occasional Views, Volume 2: "The Gamble" and Other Essays [Paperback]
Samuel R. Delany (Author)
£18.50ISBN: 9780819579782
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Occasional Views brings together a diverse collection of essays by, and interviews with, one of literature's most iconic voices.
Samuel R. Delany is an acclaimed writer of literary theory, queer literature, and fiction. His works... .... Learn More
