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...

The Babel Guide to Hungarian Literature presents modern Hungarian literature that has been translated into English: novels, short story collections...

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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 ...