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

Transcanada Letters by Roy Kiyooka was a landmark when it first appeared in 1975. Almost thirty years later, it remains one of the most remarkable ...

John Reibetanz captures the ordinary details of life -- family and friendship, birth and death -- and transforms them into the extraordinary. His s...

"The travel writings of Matsuo Bashō are of enormous literary importance, and so it is a joy to see them collected in this compact volume, in trans...

"The travel writings of Matsuo Bashō are of enormous literary importance, and so it is a joy to see them collected in this compact volume, in trans...

Demers revives the memory of journalist Miriam Green Ellis, an all-but-forgotten feminist, suffragist, and agricultural reporter who documented the...

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 fast-moving Modern English version of Chaucer's greatest tragic romance highlights the poem's rapid shifts in register and diction as well as ...

This fast-moving Modern English version of Chaucer's greatest tragic romance highlights the poem's rapid shifts in register and diction as well as ...

Winner, Archibald Lampman Poetry Award and Ottawa Book AwardThese poems chart moments where the beauty of life is glimpsed like a carnival through ...

The breath held or expelled in wonder, frustration or delight energises Emma Neale's writing. Poems in The Truth Garden take risks because they nee...

"It's a losing battle: my words have no chance against time. Sometimes, unable to catch up with imagination, I leave the battle, candle in hand, in...

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...

Here in one convenient volume are the two earliest examples of the ancient Greek novel.

Here in one convenient volume are the two earliest examples of the ancient Greek novel.

Diana Bridge’s subjects are reflected through a range of cultural lenses. To engagement with Western and New Zealand literature should be added her...

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

Finally -- a collection of duologues from the best-selling author of Winning Monologs for Young Actors and her granddaughter. These humorous and th...

Each of the plays is a complete dramatic work varying in length from 10--30 minutes. Scripts are excellent for secondary and university level. Comp...

Shortlisted, Dorothy Livesay Poetry PrizePart roving eye, part devotion, you wander hotel corridors, entering rooms not quite yours, trying on clot...

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...

Ambulance lights flash as a baby is born on a busy city street, pine beetles paint forests a palette of new colours, a young boy faces a watery dea...

CONTENTS: Preface; Introduction; Uppsala Edda; Chapter Headings; Prologue; Gylfaginning; Skáldatal; Geneaology of the Sturlungs; List of Lawspeaker...

The parallel between poetry and painting harks back to Antiquity. It seemed obvious because both arts appeal to the intellect as well as the eye. I...

Chenu was a French Dominican friar, a renowned historian, and a theologian with extraordinary creative insight. He shaped the Dominican study cente...

Chenu was a French Dominican friar, a renowned historian, and a theologian with extraordinary creative insight. He shaped the Dominican study cente...