This translation contains an introduction, commentary and interpretive essay and well as numerous notes and annotations to provide the history and ...

Theory of Literature was originally published in 1949. It is not a textbook introducing the young to the elements of literary appreciation nor a su...

America's most influential literary figure worldwide is familiar to most readers of short fiction through only about a dozen stories. This is becau...

America's most influential literary figure worldwide is familiar to most readers of short fiction through only about a dozen stories. This is becau...

This book delves into the stories of forty authors of the past whose works, although initially rejected, are today very much alive. Their experienc...

Inspired by working at the Royal Ontario Museum, gifted poet Nina Berkhout spins a catastrophic yet enduring tale of love set amidst the chaos of a...

Though now associated mainly with Sophocles' Theban Plays and Euripides' Bacchae , the theme of Thebes and its royalty was a favorite of ancient Gr...

Though now associated mainly with Sophocles' Theban Plays and Euripides' Bacchae , the theme of Thebes and its royalty was a favorite of ancient Gr...

This book brings together a group of women interested in, even consumed by, the region they inhabit physically or mentally. They know that the Sout...

These essays deal with Ingeborg Bachmann, the most important and most widely read Austrian woman writer of the twentieth century. Her work spans th...

This study views the early work of William Wordsworth as partaking in a general Western European cultural movement in which the realm of the numino...

Gianluca Delfino's study is based on the assumption that Wilson Harris's works as a whole show a remarkable unity of thought rooted in their author...

George Lyman Kittredge's perceptive editions have endured in part because of his eclecticism, his diversity of interests, and his wide-ranging acco...

A good biography is a well-staged illusion. It creates - on paper - a vivid, rounded, and immediate sense of lived life. In contrast to purely fict...

Tragic Workings in Euripides’ Drama offers a substantially new theory and method for understanding Attic tragedy. Starting from anthropological ins...

It has been very difficult over the years for collectors to know just what has been produced from the works of Tolkien, and where it can be purchas...

This volume presents the breadth and scope of Turkish-German studies in the United States. The various chapters deal with the influence of Jewish i...

A new poetry collection by Canberra poet, Lizz Murphy. Share in Lizz Murphy's experiences on the shop floor, her frustrations with today's supermar...

This book presents two important Persian-language works on music theory from the post-scholastic era (16th 18th centuries). They are Resalah-e Karr...

This is a study of the major English translations of Hans Christian Andersen's Tales and Stories, and of the people who made them. The basic assump...

Like travellers from fabled lands, voices come telling tales, sometimes shocking, sometimes familiar, sometimes magnetic, like echoes, like ultra s...