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Teresa de la Parra

A Literary Life

By: RoseAnna Mueller

£44.99

This is the first comprehensive study of Teresa de la Parra for English readers. It includes analyses of her novels and lectures, plus translations of her letters and stories, showcasing her as a model of Latin American women’s writing.

Positioning the New

Chinese American Literature and the Changing Image of the American Literary Canon

Edited By: Elisabetta Marino, Tanfer Emin Tunc

£39.99

This volume explores Chinese American authors' place in the Western literary canon. It questions not only whether this literature is inside or outside the canon, but if a canon should exist at all, probing the by-products of cultural fusion and collision.

This volume explores Chinese American authors’ place in the Western literary canon. It questions not only whether this literature is inside or outside the canon, but if a canon should exist at all, probing the by-products of cultural fusion and collision.

Jesuit Education and The Classics

Edited By: Shannon Byrne, Edmund P. Cueva

£39.99

Is Classics still relevant to a Jesuit education? This series of essays proves that Classics and Jesuit education are indivisibly intertwined, and any Jesuit school embracing liberal arts must have Classics at the core of its curriculum.

Revolutionary Leaves

The Fiction of Mark Z. Danielewski

Edited By: Sascha Pöhlmann

£44.99

Hailed as the most exciting author in contemporary American literature, Mark Z. Danielewski's fiction is explored in Revolutionary Leaves. This collection of essays discusses his major works, House of Leaves and Only Revolutions, from a variety of perspectives.

Hailed as the most exciting author in contemporary American literature, Mark Z. Danielewski’s fiction is explored in Revolutionary Leaves. This collection of essays discusses his major works, House of Leaves and Only Revolutions, from a variety of perspectives.

“Romanticism” – and Byron

By: Peter Cochran

£44.99

This book argues "Romanticism" is a meaningless academic construct. Dr. Cochran then examines Byron's life and work, showing how his antithetical nature was an embarrassment for his social life, but a great benefit to his creativity.

This book argues “Romanticism” is a meaningless academic construct. Dr. Cochran then examines Byron’s life and work, showing how his antithetical nature was an embarrassment for his social life, but a great benefit to his creativity.

Post-Millennial Cultures of Fear in Literature

Fear, Risk and Safety

Edited By: Mustafa Kirca, Adelheid Rundholz

From £36.99

This volume investigates our contemporary “cultures of fear.” Original articles explore post-millennial works ranging from political fictions and trauma narratives to literary disaster discourses and apocalyptic scenarios, using insights from multiple disciplines.

Bioregion and Indigeneity in Literary Imagination

By: Aleena Manoharan

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This book theorizes the bioregional concept as an ecocritical tool for reading literary works. It highlights the interface between nature and culture, using Aboriginal plays to extend ecocriticism beyond prose and sensitize us to place-based cultural nuances.

Trends in Language Assessment Research and Practice

The View from the Middle East and the Pacific Rim

Edited By: Vahid Aryadoust, Janna Fox

£73.99

The contributions brought together here offer a fresh look at language assessment in the Middle East and the Pacific Rim and provides a unique overview of contemporary language assessment research.

Exploration of Mythological Elements in Contemporary Narratives

Edited By: Murat Kalelioğlu, V. Doğan Günay

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Mythology offers cultural codes essential to the construction of culture and identity. This volume compares mythological elements in contemporary narratives with the motifs of classical narratives, and investigates their functions through semiotics and narratology.

Re-Joining R. L. Stevenson’s and James Reeves’ Poetry for Children through Reader-Oriented Theories

By: Dimitris Politis

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Combining “light” verses with theoretical issues, this book studies the children's poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson and James Reeves through Reader-Oriented Theories. It offers a new perspective to scholars, teachers, critics, and readers of these beloved poets.

Combining “light” verses with theoretical issues, this book studies the children’s poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson and James Reeves through Reader-Oriented Theories. It offers a new perspective to scholars, teachers, critics, and readers of these beloved poets.

Representations of Childhood in Art and Literature

Edited By: Kanak Kanti Bera, Anindita Bhaumik, Krishanu Maiti

From £38.99

This book rejects the idea of childhood as an unambiguous monolith. It explores the constantly evolving term’s literary, artistic, and cultural representations, offering critical approaches to its treatment with all its complexities in art and literature.

English Writings from Northeast India

Of Inclusions, Exclusions and Beyond

By: Priyanka Kakoti

From £32.99

This volume explores English writings from Northeast India, analysing issues of ethnicity, identity, migration, and insurgency born from ongoing conflicts. These are voices from the periphery answering the mainstream and re-examining their own history.

Nonsense and Other Senses

Regulated Absurdity in Literature

Edited By: Elisabetta Tarantino with the collaboration of Carlo Caruso

£49.99

This collection of essays offers a gallery of “nonsense practices” in literature across periods and countries. It reveals literary nonsense not as chaos, but as a deliberate, “regulated” attempt to snatch order from the jaws of chaos.

The Exercise of Biopower through Race and Class in the Harry Potter Series

By: Nilay Erdem Ayyıldız

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This book offers a biopolitical analysis of the Harry Potter series. Applying the theories of Foucault, Hardt, and Negri, it reveals how the fantasy world both perpetuates power inequalities and provides a dissident perspective on power relations.

The Canterbury Tales Revisited – 21st Century Interpretations

Edited By: Kathleen A. Bishop with a Foreword by David Matthews

£39.99

In The Canterbury Tales Revisited, diverse international scholars offer 21st-century interpretations. Articles cover new areas like Chaucer and Judaism, Queer studies, and feminism, with an insightful opening piece by eminent Medievalist David Matthews.

Vanishing Voices

Silence(s) in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, T. S. Eliot and R. S. Thomas

By: Katarzyna Dudek

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This first study bringing together Hopkins, Eliot, and Thomas explores silence in their poetry. Situated at the crossroads of poetics, philosophy, and theology, it shows how the poets sought a new language to talk about the Ineffable God and one’s experience of the divine.

New Women’s Writing in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe

Gender, Generation and Identities

Edited By: Rosalind Marsh

£64.99

This book investigates the explosion of women’s writing in post-socialist Russia, Central and Eastern Europe. It explores why this writing has become so prominent, whether writers see their gender as a burden or empowering, and its links to nationality and class.

Humour and Identity in Jewish American Fiction

No Laughing Matter

By: Zuzana Buráková

From £29.99

This book explores the connection between humour and identity in contemporary Jewish American literature. It is a serious investigation into the strategic use of humour in identity formation, revealing the serious undertones in works that may first appear merely humorous.

Exploring the Autobiography as a Genre and a Data Collection Tool

Edited By: Nadia Abid, Elena Bonta

From £32.99

This book provides a deeper understanding of the autobiography as a genre and a data collection method. It presents various forms of autobiographies, with a unique focus on foreign language education, and applies a wide variety of qualitative and quantitative analytical tools.

Traumatic Affect

Edited By: Meera Atkinson, Michael Richardson

£49.99

Traumatic Affect examines the intersection of trauma and affect theory. This collection of essays offers timely critiques of film, art, and politics, venturing into bold new territories to illuminate pressing realities that demand our engagement.