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Captured by the City

Perspectives in Urban Culture Studies

Edited By: Blagovesta Momchedjikova

£44.99

This collection of essays explores cities in North America, Europe, and Asia as dynamic encounters. Different disciplines intersect to shape the unique field of Urban Culture Studies and grant us a new understanding of how we inscribe cities and how they inscribe us.

P. Papinius Statius Volume II

Thebaid and Achilleid

By: A. L. Ritchie, J. B. Hall

£39.99

This three-volume work offers a revised text, prose translation, and extensive commentary for the two epics of Statius: his magnum opus, the Thebaid, and the Achilleid, which was left unfinished at his death.

Studies in the Victorian and Neo-Victorian Novel

Edited By: Adrian Radu

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This volume’s ten studies analyze Victorian and Neo-Victorian novels. The authors investigate preserved or recycled Victorian themes and discuss how key issues like gender, sexuality, race, and empire are used to update the great tradition for a new age.

Diversity in Narration and Writing

The Novel

Edited By: Kornélia Horváth, Judit Mudriczki, Sarolta Osztroluczky

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These essays take an international perspective on the novel, deepening understanding of classic authors like Flaubert and Joyce. It also offers a profound contribution to scholarship, covering Hungarian and Central European writers that have not been discussed in English before.

The Development of Tropes in Arabic Wine Poetry up to the 12th Century AD

By: Nader Masarwah

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This book explores the evolution of poetic imagery, showing how poets took over metaphors from their predecessors. It follows the development of wine imagery from pre-Islamic times to the days of Abo Nuwas, and how poets built on existing imagery to create new metaphors.

Thirty Years After

New Essays on Vietnam War Literature, Film and Art

Edited By: Mark Heberle

£49.99

The first major collection of Vietnam War criticism since the 1990s, these new essays on literature, film, and art explore the conflict's traumatic cultural legacy and enduring impact. An indispensable work for understanding this crucial period in history.

The first major collection of Vietnam War criticism since the 1990s, these new essays on literature, film, and art explore the conflict’s traumatic cultural legacy and enduring impact. An indispensable work for understanding this crucial period in history.

Literary Essays on Explicable Splendours

By: Ethan Lewis

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For the curious reader, these essays explore Shakespeare and his re-envisioners; modern novels that interrogate identity; and underappreciated writers. They conclude with a series of pensees that reflect upon the interpretative craft itself.

Reading Enid Blyton

By: Philip Gillett

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Despite criticism, a continuing affection for Enid Blyton's work is apparent. This book places her work in its cultural and historical context, examining recurring themes of childhood, class, and fantasy, and asks whether she was as reactionary a writer as she appeared.

Despite criticism, a continuing affection for Enid Blyton’s work is apparent. This book places her work in its cultural and historical context, examining recurring themes of childhood, class, and fantasy, and asks whether she was as reactionary a writer as she appeared.

Contemporary Crime Fiction

Crossing Boundaries, Merging Genres

Edited By: Charlotte Beyer

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This book presents nine compelling essays on contemporary crime fiction, bringing fresh perspectives to the vibrant genre. Topics range from domestic noir and historical crime to race and ethnicity, examining authors like Gillian Flynn, Ian Rankin, and Tana French.

Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek

Five Readings

By: Wook-Dong Kim

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This book analyzes Zorba the Greek, the modern classic by one of Greece's greatest writers, Nikos Kazantzakis. It reads the acclaimed novel from five critical perspectives: formalist, existentialist, feminist, ecocritical, and intercultural. Useful for scholars and readers.

This book analyzes Zorba the Greek, the modern classic by one of Greece’s greatest writers, Nikos Kazantzakis. It reads the acclaimed novel from five critical perspectives: formalist, existentialist, feminist, ecocritical, and intercultural. Useful for scholars and readers.

Critical Essays on Barack Obama

Re-affirming the Hope, Re-vitalizing the Dream

Edited By: Melvin B. Rahming

£44.99

In this collection of critical essays, diverse scholars move beyond personal opinion to examine Barack Obama’s life, writings, and presidency. They explore his impact on race and public policy, his potential to re-shape America, and to re-vitalize the American Dream.

Technoculture in Margaret Atwood’s Science Fiction Novels

By: Jasmine Sharma

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This book takes a philosophical approach to technocultural studies in Margaret Atwood’s science fiction. It explores how technology and culture reconstitute her literary landscape, from the gender politics of cyborgs to the hyperreal dimensions of video gaming and digital sex.

How Adaptations Awaken the Literary Canon

Transformative Reimaginings

By: Suzy Woltmann

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This book illuminates how reimagining narratives creates empowerment. It explores adaptations—from classic literature to fairy tales—that retell and awaken the literary canon, interrogating conventions and revealing the unique power of reframing stories.

Maurice Aristide Chapelan, Man of Three Parts

By: Mary Munro-Hill

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Maurice Chapelan was three distinct writers: a poet, a famed grammarian, and an author of romans galants. But a unifying thread ran through his literary output: a beauty, simplicity and elegance of style, revealing a love of the French language and a hint of libertinage.

The Poems of Paul Valéry

By: Jan Schreiber

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Paul Valéry’s complex and graceful writing presents daunting obstacles for the translator. This volume is the culmination of 50 years devoted to bringing his poems into fluent English. It shows him as both the supreme poet of the mind and a consummate linguistic musician.

Reclaiming Home, Remembering Motherhood, Rewriting History

African American and Afro-Caribbean Women’s Literature in the Twentieth Century

Edited By: Marie Drews, Verena Theile

£44.99

This collection of essays examines how African American and Afro-Caribbean women writers reclaim home, motherhood, and history. Through their female characters, they create more inclusive concepts of community, gender, and history.

What Do We Tell the Children? Critical Essays on Children’s Literature

Edited By: Ciara Ní Bhroin, Patricia Kennon

£39.99

This collection of critical essays addresses debates on “suitable” texts for young audiences. It examines what adult writers “tell” child readers about sexuality, gender, death, trauma, race, and national identity in Irish and international fiction.

Rewriting/Reprising in Literature

The Paradoxes of Intertextuality

Edited By: Claude Maisonnat, Josiane Paccaud-Huguet, Annie Ramel

£39.99

This book offers a fresh outlook on rewriting-reprising. Taking a text’s origin as untraceable, it reconsiders trauma in relation to creative repetition. The act of reprising is a creation ex nihilo: the repetitive stitching of what is constantly ripped up.

Dystopia(n) Matters

On the Page, on Screen, on Stage

Edited By: Fátima Vieira

£49.99

Reputed scholars explain why dystopia is important. Through studies of literature, film, and theatre, they argue that while dystopia has invaded contemporary discourse, utopia has not been eradicated. The tension between them is instrumental to our future.

A Bengali Lady in England by Krishnabhabini Das (1885)

Edited By: Somdatta Mandal

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This is the first woman’s travel narrative from late 19th-century colonial India. Krishnabhabini Das defied convention by writing about her life in England to educate fellow Indians on British culture, offering a rare female perspective on the colonial world.