This is the first book to explore color history in Asia. Color is a language of signals, associated with changes in society, economic development, and dynasties. A valuable resource for practitioners of art and design, it offers a new perspective on Chinese aesthetics.
This book illustrates the Europe of the 1500s-1600s, focusing on England and Italy. It explores how military interventions, literature, art, and philosophy formed the continent we have inherited, and delves into the mystery of who wrote the Shakespearean works.
A practical guide to Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, & Julius Caesar, designed for English language learners. It simplifies Shakespeare’s complex language with act-wise summaries, character analysis, & key themes to help you explore his dramatic genius with confidence.
Bringing together renowned scholars, this volume offers a multi-dimensional view of comparative and world literature. It illuminates the future of literary studies in a cross-culturalized world for scholars and interested readers alike.
Did Shakespeare write the 17th-century drama Thomas of Woodstock? For over 150 years, scholars have debated the question. This anthology of articles and book extracts introduces readers to both sides of this fascinating literary controversy.
This book details a philosophical approach to Freemasonry designed to take it where it has never been. It provides a system of esoteric work and interdisciplinary education—a creative synthesis of esotericism and science—to create polymaths for a better world order.
Secretis bene uiuere siluis
Honoring Robert Maltby, this rich collection of scholarship covers Latin literature from Augustan times to the Renaissance. It offers fresh interpretations of texts, with special focus on the Corpus Tibullianum, etymology, and textual criticism. For classicists and beyond.
Coleridge and Hinduism
The only comprehensive study of Coleridge’s profound ties to Oriental Tales, revealing how Hindu works, especially the Bhagavadgītā, shaped his poetic imagination and his quest for the “One life.”
Whodunits in Dubliners
This super-sleuth investigation places Joyce’s Dubliners under a microscope, revealing how he manipulates readers while reality is hidden in plain sight. The book solves mysteries that have eluded scholars, and for any who read it, Dubliners will never be the same.
Ovid’s Heroides, or Letters of Heroines, is a collection of fictional letters from heroines to their absent lovers. This volume offers an essential databank for the final six poems: the three pairs of letters. It is arranged as an enlarged critical apparatus for the text.
These essays offer a multifaceted discourse on the soul. Using a multicultural approach, they explore fundamental themes of human existence, revealing universal values in cultures distant in time and space through religious, philosophical, and historical debates.
This monumental work on the late Romantic Irish poet George Darley features a scholarly edition of his complete poetry and a new biography. For the first time, it establishes Darley as a translator of Virgil’s Æneid and includes newly discovered poems and over 40 new letters.
P. Papinius Statius Volume V
The first-century AD poet Statius wrote epics and the Siluae, a collection of occasional poems. This volume provides a comprehensive conspectus of manuscript readings of the Siluae, with a complete register of conjectures by modern scholars.
This book explores how Shakespeare used pagan mythology to reframe the Christian conflicts of his day. It offers a powerful new reading of The Winter’s Tale, one of his most spiritually rich and emotionally demanding plays.
Horace’s Odes brought Greek lyric metres to Rome and have been loved for 2000 years. These elegant verse translations recreate the original metres, capturing the poetry’s unique structure and sound. Includes a full introduction, extensive notes, and facing-page Latin text.
The Legacy of Karen Gershon
Based on private archives, this is the story of Karen Gershon, a child survivor rescued on the Kindertransport whose writing became the voice of a generation. It reveals her search for identity and home, and a family’s struggle with immigration and inherited trauma.
Change and Confusion in Catholicism
We live in a liminal time of severe disorientation. This book uses the author’s personal and professional experiences to analyse how Catholics experience liminality today and dealt with it in the past, providing a historical case study of what to expect and what comes next.
Cavafy’s preoccupation with the fragile human condition—illness, old age, and death—continues to challenge readers. This book draws on the medical humanities to provide a new framework for his poetry, for literary scholars and medical practitioners alike.
This book provides a framework for ethical reasoning, exploring how values shape our worldview and principles guide our practice. Placing humanity at its heart, it discusses applications within the beginning and end of life, science, education, and business.
African Tragedy
Unknown since 1946, African Tragedy is the original version of Wulf Sachs’s famous Black Hamlet. This enthralling novel tells the story of John Chawafambira, an nganga in a psychic and political struggle within the inhospitable Johannesburg of the 1930s.