Journey into the best of British Isles literati in this comprehensive and concise review of 50 of the greatest writers and poets. Learn how these d...

The construction of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as an Anglo-American sage and literary icon was the product of a cult of personality that lay at the...

By turns quirky, startling, earthy, and hope-filled, Micheline Maylor's poems slip effortlessly through topics ranging from what we give up as we a...

"Ma'am, you sound like a very reasonable person. Can I advise you to just move?" Carissa Halton and her young family move into a neighbourhood with...

Living Waters - Scandinavian Oriental Studies. In Honour of Frede Løkkegaard

This collection examines the production and recreation of religious ideas and images in different times and locations, achieving a comparative pers...

This book brings together three collections of extraordinarily vigorous and electric poetry from the quicksilver mind of Anis Shivani: Confessions ...

The time for autobiographies has arrived. Interest in authentic life stories seems greater than ever, even greater than well written works of ficti...

After moving to Vancouver’s West End in 2014, The Human is drawn to a small body of water called Lost Lagoon in Stanley Park. Daytime visits, with ...

Reading, reading and reading. In the 21st century, the computer is king and the cell phone is its only competitor. For those who have ever intervie...

Text in English & German. This volume contains a bilingual (German-English) edition of poems by the Austrian-Jewish writer Theodor Kramer (1897...

What keeps us together? What breaks us apart? In Love Me True, 27 creative nonfiction writers and 20 poets explore how marriage and committed relat...

Incorporates poems that trace the development of the relationship among the lover, the beloved, and love, in Shamlu's poetry. The selection include...

For decades, H.P Lovecraft's horror stories -- such as The Dunwich Horror and The Call of Cthulhu -- have intrigued and horrified readers from all ...

Meredith Quartermain’s Lullabies in the Real World is a sequence of poems about a train journey from West to East coast that invokes a patchwork of...

This collection of imagist poems combines mythology, archaeology and translation. Susan Hawthorne draws on the history and prehistory of Rome and i...

Madison Jones is the author of eleven novels, among them are The Innocent, An Exile (film: I Walk the Line), A Cry of Absence, Season of the Strang...

This study aims at delineating the cultural work of magical realism as a dominant narrative mode in postcolonial British fiction through a detailed...

"Windburned, eyes closed, this: beneath the keening of bergs, a deeper thresh of glaciers calving, creaking with sun. Sound of earth, her bones, wi...

This book is the first anthology of writings to be devoted to Icelandic theologian and religious writer Magnús Eiríksson (1806–81). A contemporary ...

The fifteen essays cover the life and works of the major authors representing the generation who began their literary careers before Word War 2, we...

The purpose of this projected seven-volume series is to help make the major figures of Austrian literature from 1800 to the present accessible to a...