Third in the series of texts of the The Carlsberg Papyri. It contains a series of contributions on a variety of Demotic subjects including a new ve...

Of all of Raymond Smullyan's many books, this perhaps best captures the timeless delight of the casual conversation of this American polymath. A se...

The last soldier who saw trench action in the Great War died in 2009. With his passing, all direct memory of the horror of that war ceased-memory b...

Volume II continues the goal of introducing readers to significant works of modern Austrian prose within the broader field of German-language liter...

The sixteen articles compiled here are devoted to individual prose works published after 1970 that reflect the "Austrian tradition" within the fiel...

This is a study of the prose literature written in Persia since the end of the nineteenth century, and it is comprehensive and self contained. It b...

Moliere is considered the Shakespeare of France. Moliere's plays are enacted throughout the world in virtually every language, as much today as ever.

The success of One-Act Plays for Acting Students prompted this follow-up book of twenty-eight contemporary short dramas by nationally known playwri...

"In all creative writing, the question of what is true and what is real are two very different considerations. Figuring out how to dance between th...

This is the first full-length collection of poems by poet and scholar Jason Dewinetz. From the sun drenched Okanagan Valley of B.C. to "Géricault's...

The legend of Mulan--the daughter who disguises herself as a man, dons her father's armor, and heads off to war in his place--remains one of the mo...

The legend of Mulan--the daughter who disguises herself as a man, dons her father's armor, and heads off to war in his place--remains one of the mo...

This book gathers essays by noted poet and translator Erín Moure, and records a quarter century of writing practice emerging from a city of exhilar...

Twenty-eight contemporary American poets reflect on the poems that have most influenced their own creative vision and offer their best new works in...

Dr. Ruth Westheimer, America';s favorite sex therapist, analyzes ancient myth and its relevance to 21st century relationships in her new book Myths...

The first extensive study of Japan in Australian literary consciousness, this is a broad chronological exploration of Australian writers representa...

The two stories contained in this edition -- 'Love at First Sight: A Recollection' and 'History of a Promise' -- reveal Erich Hackl's unique and lu...

Research during the last decades has demonstrated the critical importance of Neo-Latin literature for the formation of cultural identities on both ...

"This is a book for dramaturgs of new work, but it is also a particularly effective book for anyone working on new plays: playwrights, directors, p...

In 2001 the Royal Library in Copenhagen launched a digital facsimile on the Internet of the unique manuscript Nuevà corónica from 1616 by the ethni...

This is a translation of the spiritual poems of one of the greatest Ottoman Sufi masters, Mehmed Muhyiddin Üftade (1490-1580). Üftade was born and ...

In June 2014, to mark the appearance of volume 25 of the journal NIKEPHOROS, a conference was held in Graz on the theme of sport in antiquity. It d...