A reprint of the University of Oklahoma Press edition of 1980. This reliable text presents a clear and simple outline of Greek and Latin meters in ...

This new bilingual edition of The Mirror of My Heart -– the poems in Persian and English on facing pages -– is a unique and captivating collection ...

"William of Rubruck was a Franciscan friar who wrote the first great travel book about Asia. In 1253--55 he made the journey from the Holy Land to ...

Vasily Yan (Vassily Grigoryevich Yanchevetsky, 1874–1954) was a writer of historical novels whose popularity survives the test of time. He was wide...

Bound together by myth and music, Michael Harlow’s The Moon in a Bowl of Water is a stunning new collection from a poet in complete control of his ...

Filled with portrayals of deception, love, murder, and revenge—yet defying traditional medieval epic conventions for representing character—the Nib...

In ancient Roman times rituals were performed to sanctify the ground on which new cities were founded. With this invocation, space could then be oc...

Featuring Cecelia Eaton Luschnig's annotated verse translations of Euripides' Electra , Iphigenia among the Tauri , and Orestes , this volume offer...

Featuring Cecelia Eaton Luschnig's annotated verse translations of Euripides' Electra , Iphigenia among the Tauri , and Orestes , this volume offer...

In this sensuously defiant collection of new poems, the winner of the 2004 Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal expands and deepens a poetic ruse. In hi...

The Paper Nautilus is about loss – the forms it takes, how we go on living in the face of it, and the mysterious ways that new life and new beginni...

Browsing through books and TV channels we find people pre-occupied with eating, cooking and competing with chefs. Eating and food in today’s media ...

"The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be prai...

"The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be prai...

This collection of essays explores the contact zones produced by the migrations of two German-born cultural figures: New York Dada poet and artist ...

Your brain cells are prison cells! Break free with The Power of Ignorance, the smash Fringe play! Join certified Ig-master Vaguen on the road to bl...

To investigate the imaginative leaps of so agile and incisive a mind as Machiavelli's one needs as much commentary about history, political theory,...

To investigate the imaginative leaps of so agile and incisive a mind as Machiavelli's one needs as much commentary about history, political theory,...

Noticing the importance of the fact that there is a growing interest in oriental countries and cultures, Hasan Baktir studies in his book the repre...

This collection of essays by established and emerging scholars of Australian publishing examines the industry in the wake of both the Global Financ...

In this study of three of Barbara Pym’s novels, Naghmeh Varghaiyan, drawing on examinations of women’s humour by Eileen Gillooly, Regina Barreca, a...

In this fascinating book, Johanna Emeney examines the global proliferation of new poetry related to illness and medical treatment from the perspect...

The first English language translation of Bedier's classic work in nearly seventy years, this volume is the only edition that provides ancillary ma...

The first English language translation of Bedier's classic work in nearly seventy years, this volume is the only edition that provides ancillary ma...

In reading this vast new collection by the prolific Iván Argüelles, written in ten months straddling 2017 and 2018, we participate in a universal m...

Muses have been sacked' their role in the pantheon, sold up for some new, real estate venture. When the Muses are sacked, what are we to do? The Mu...

As Tammy Armstrong rode horseback on a one-month sojourn in Iceland, up rose the ley lines that crosshatched the landscape -- ancient tracks rife w...

By exposing the perversion, repression, corruption, and injustice at the heart of Justinian's regime, Prokopios' The Secret History destroyed forev...

This is the first comprehensive exploration of the openings of novels. With a title that deliberately echoes Frank Kermode’s famous book on endings...

The Most Comprehensive Bibliography of the 1857 Revolt in Print -- 1191 Entries on the Sepoy Rebellion. Published in 2007, this is the most current...

The Sets returns again and again to the ever-present sea – as a metaphor, a mirror, a compan-ion and an otherworld that contains our dreams and nig...

Winnipeg is a place of extremes. Winters are fierce and relentless. Summers are unbearbly hot. It has been both the murder and auto theft capital o...