This study provides a critical survey of views on reality and truth in the realm of philosophy and literary theory. Its aim is to show how importan...

Barry Hill is a multi-award winning writer of poetry, essays, biography, history, criticism, novels, short stories, libretti and reportage. His maj...

This volume is meant to be a retrospective look at the field of Comparative Literature as it has developed in the past two decades, as well as a re...

Plutarch's Lives of great Greek and Roman public figures are among the central texts of European culture. Like most Greek authors Plutarch had been...

"Scholars who know classical Chinese have been reading and citing Hon Mai's wonderful collection for many years. Now students can access these info...

"Scholars who know classical Chinese have been reading and citing Hon Mai's wonderful collection for many years. Now students can access these info...

The saga of the Three Kingdoms—which recounts the dramatic story of the civil wars (ca. 180--220 CE) that divided the old Han Empire into the Shu, ...

The saga of the Three Kingdoms—which recounts the dramatic story of the civil wars (ca. 180--220 CE) that divided the old Han Empire into the Shu, ...

Buttressed by a wealth of new, collaborative research methods and technologies, the contributors of this collection examine women's writing in Cana...

Five scholars of different periods of English literature produce original essays on how business and businesspeople have been portrayed by novelist...

Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays is the first book to be published about the life and work of this major world author. Written by twelve leading c...

One hundred years ago, a shy bank clerk sent a collection of his poems south from the Yukon to be privately published and shared with a small group...

This anthology contains English translations of five plays by two of the best practitioners of Roman comedy, Plautus and Terence. The plays, Menaec...

This is a multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the study of romantic-era cultural productions and concepts. The journal promotes innovative resea...

Adolph Caso reprints the first short stories and novellas written by Italian authors as a basis for Shakespeare supreme work. By reading these stor...

The great names of Russian literature read like a who's who of great names in the world literature: Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Chekhov, Bunin, ...

Frank analyses five of Rushdie's novels, Grimes, Midnight's Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses and The Ground Beneath Her Feet. Claiming an intell...

Frank analyses five of Rushdie's novels, Grimes, Midnight's Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses and The Ground Beneath Her Feet. Claiming an intell...

This new Satyricon features not only a lively, new, annotated translation of the text, but fresh and accessible commentaries that discuss Petronius...

Edited with prolegomena, critical apparatus, appendix and index.

This book explores the (dis)connections between writing and women's experience. Key western narratives of women's identity are questioned, as are t...

B N Oakman finds poetry in the ordinary, the exotic, the political and the aesthetic. No head of State or classical film is safe from his exacting ...