Holderlin felt his Germany as a Russian doll made of prison-like "containers". He suffered from both personal and political claustrophobia, from wh...

Cathy Sosnowsky's poems stand testament to a grieving mother's love for her son who died in an accident just days after his seventeenth birthday. A...

In this new translation of the Homeric Hymns , Sarah Ruden employs a melodious and flexible non-rhyming line of eleven syllables, offering a close ...

In this new translation of the Homeric Hymns , Sarah Ruden employs a melodious and flexible non-rhyming line of eleven syllables, offering a close ...

Fruto de la investigación de la autora a lo largo de los últimos 10 años sobre el humor verbal en español, presenta un análisis desde una doble per...

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Annabel Lyon's passion for historical novels and her love of ancient Greece make her lecture on the process of creating characters of historical fi...

Text in Spanish. Investigación sobre los textos impresos en Lima durante la colonia, sus géneros literariosy las condiciones políticas y materiales...

The politics of difference, mired in the violence of colonial history, are a dominant force in the socio-economic development of contemporary socie...

By a singular ruse, the author of this account obtained entrance to the most exclusive party in the scientific world of the 20th century: The Einst...

"Tatiana Chemi's book is consistent in its argumentation and comprehensive in regards to the subject it deals with. It results in an original contr...

Anna O [Bertha Pappenheim] (1859-1936), a friend of Freud's wife in Vienna, is regarded as the first patient of psychoanalysis. It was she who inve...

In Wineseller's Street is about hope. About a world seen through eyes that don't idolise individualism and separation. It reflects the human potent...

Examines the "Royal Commentaries" of the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and sets forth a new and alternative reading of this foundational text, paying c...

Text in Spanish. La novela de deformación es la novela en la que la escritura de la infancia configurauna resistencia a la formación del adulto mod...

An attractive new alternative as both a translation and a pedagogical tool. The volume includes an excellent introduction by Dante scholar Steven B...

This book examines the cultural work of space and memory in Canada and Canadian literature, and encourages readers to investigate Canada within its...

The Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature.

This book takes a look at the arc of the storyline in Harry Potter, digging below the surface to explore ethical, mythological, and religious meani...

Covering a wide range of topics and texts, "Invention of Space" explores ways in which space has been represented and recreated during the twentiet...

An acclaimed translator of Euripidean tragedy in its earlier and more familiar modes, Diane Arnson Svarlien now turns to three plays that showcase ...

An acclaimed translator of Euripidean tragedy in its earlier and more familiar modes, Diane Arnson Svarlien now turns to three plays that showcase ...

This volume is based on the ongoing studies on post-Avicennian philosophy in the context of naturalising philosophy and science in Islam from the 1...

Often overlooked by Kierkegaard scholars, On the Concept of Irony -- Kierkegaard's dissertation -- is in fact a foundational text that established ...

In his third book of the Israel for Beginners series, the author again uses his personal experience to highlight the challenges of non-natives (abo...

The intersection between literature and music is a major feature in Anglo-American cultural history. The present volume analyzes the transatlantic ...

Here we come to know Jane Austen by the company she keeps: her predecessors Fielding, Sterne, Lennox, and Burney, her contemporary Scott, and her s...

Bruce Stovel championed Jane Austen studies and blues music with equal measures of expertise and passion. The outpouring of affection at the celebr...

Consagrado a la escritura del uruguayo Julio Herrera y Reissig (1875-1910), este libro convierte la obra herreriana en un caso paradigmático para v...

This is an English translation of Sophocles' famous tragedy of Oedipus and the fate he so much tries to avoid. Focus Classical Library provides clo...

Aiming in his translation for an English haunted and affected by the strangeness of the original, David Constantine offers a wealth of Heinrich von...

Aiming in his translation for an English haunted and affected by the strangeness of the original, David Constantine offers a wealth of Heinrich von...

12th century Georgian poet and thinker Shota Rustaveli, author of the Georgian national epic poem The Knight in the Panther’s Skin, is considered b...

Eyewitness accounts of September 11, 2001 and the wars of the 17th century span the scope of the contributions in this volume. An analysis of the m...

TEXT IN FRENCH. Acts from the international symposium held at the University of Copenhagen, October 2002, on the occasion of the bicentenary of Vic...

TEXT IN ITALIAN. The work of A Tabucchi, one of Italy's greatest contemporary writers, is imbued with the topic of individual identity. His texts q...

La conversación civil (Brescia, 1574) de Stefano Guazzo (1530-1593) es uno de los diálogosrenacentistas sobre la educación moral que tuvo más éxito...

Los Estudios Hispánicos se presentan actualmente como un campo académico tan dinámico como heterogéneo que requiere su redefinición. Teniendo en cu...

En este libro se dan a conocer más de cien cartas enviadas a la poeta uruguaya Delmira Agustini a lo largo de su trayectoria profesional. Se trata ...

A collection of articles dealing with the reception of classical texts in the Middle Ages. The book was published in celebration of Professor Birge...

Este volumen colectivo se dedica a analizar cómo el tema de la niñez, la adolescencia y la mirada infantil se hacen presentes en el relato español ...