Grammar-school students in Shakespeare's time were taught to recognise the two hundred figures of speech that Renaissance scholars had derived from...

This study offers an overview and critical analysis of emerging women's movements and of a feminist consciousness in women's literature across the ...

Shirley Hazzard: New Critical Essays is the first collection of scholarly essays on the work of the acclaimed Australian-born, New York-based autho...

"We're not exactly scene-stealers, so you don't hear much from us shy folk-and that's usually how we like it." -Elizabeth Zotova, "My Dear X" The p...

Presents a critical analysis and reflection on fifty heroes, heroines and villains of English and American literature, folklore, history, film and ...

A dazzling recreation of the most memorable Middle English poem, and one that captures the original alliterative verse in all its dimensions: sense...

A dazzling recreation of the most memorable Middle English poem, and one that captures the original alliterative verse in all its dimensions: sense...

This is an English translation of Plato presenting a new conception of the Theory of Forms. Socrates and others discuss the epistemological and met...

What is the soul of poetry? The most influential answer was probably given in Aristotle's Poetics, but even within that tradition which claimed the...

In recent decades, the conceptualisation of space and place as social constructs, rather than static settings has received significant attention an...

In this investigation, creative writing and philosophy are shown to be specific types of language games, distinct from speech as used in communicat...

What is the purpose of an intelligence organisation? The short answer is to transform disparate and ambiguous information into a product that clari...

The author was one of the major Expressionist painters of the first half of the 20th century, and also wrote a number of plays, poems, and stories....

Volume 2 opens and closes with tales of tragic conflict between a king and his son: Prince Seyavash and Prince Esfandiyar are both driven from the ...

With our third and final volume of stories from the Shahnameh we move from mythology and legend to romanticized history. Here the mighty events tha...

How does a city make a writer? Described by Fiona Kidman as a ‘ravishing, immersing read’, A Strange Beautiful Excitement is a ‘wild ride’ through ...

Study of Medieval Greek Romance

To love in a language prised from my wishbone. To sing a landscape where village girls burst the moon with giggles. To dance through the fattest ey...

A pillar of the West African oral tradition for centuries, this epic traces the adventures and achievements of the Mande hero, Sunjata, as he liber...

A pillar of the West African oral tradition for centuries, this epic traces the adventures and achievements of the Mande hero, Sunjata, as he liber...