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The Quality of Life

Essays on Cultural Politics, 1978-2018

By: Richard Pine

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Spanning 40 years, these essays explore the political dimensions of cultural life. They include seminal papers that pioneered the concept of Cultural Democracy and close readings of novels and plays that explore how all forms of self-expression have a political message.

A Literary and Historical Exploration of the Life and Works of Runar Schildt

By: George C. Schoolfield

Edited By: Susan C. Brantly, Kathy Saranpa

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This is the first English book on the Finland-Swedish author Runar Schildt (1888-1925). A cosmopolitan writer, his work bears witness to the turbulent birth of modern Finland amid the Russian Revolution and the Finnish Civil War, offering vital insights into European history.

A Detailed Explication of T. S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

By: Harry Eiss

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T. S. Eliot’s famous poetry expresses not a rejection of faith, but a struggle with it. This book explores how he and Michelangelo wrestled with the highest meanings of existence, seeking to express a modernist view of mystical awe—the experience of God.

A Critical Study of Japanese Right-Wing Views of Chinese History

By: Xiangyuan Wang

Edited By: Wan Hu

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This book critically examines the historical views of Japanese right-wing scholars, focusing on the post-Cold War intellectual right. Using in-depth case studies, it analyzes representative figures and criticizes their viewpoints on the Japanese cultural invasion of China.

Modern Fantasies on Love versus Classical Romances

On the Success of Fifty Shades of Grey

By: Ljuba Tarvi

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Viewed through quantum physics, love conquers nothing. This book introduces the Token Valence Method, which treats a word as a quantum state to reveal three models of love patterns in fiction: adaptation, alienation, and imagination.

New Perspectives on International Comparative Literature

Edited By: Cao Shunqing, Theo D’haen, Liang Chang, Zhou Shu

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Bringing together renowned scholars, this volume offers a multi-dimensional view of comparative and world literature. It connects disparate research contexts to illuminate the future of literary studies for scholars and readers interested in a cross-culturized world.

P. Ovidius Naso, Heroides 9 to 15

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

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Ovid's Heroides are fictional letters from heroines to their absent lovers. This unique volume presents a comprehensive collection of all medieval and renaissance manuscript readings for poems 9-15, vital for understanding how the established text was created.

Ovid’s Heroides are fictional letters from heroines to their absent lovers. This unique volume presents a comprehensive collection of all medieval and renaissance manuscript readings for poems 9-15, vital for understanding how the established text was created.

The Modern Philosopher, Letters to Her Son and Verses on the Siege of Gibraltar, by Elizabeth Craven

Edited By: Julia Gasper

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Gasper offers a modern edition of three fascinating and important works by Elizabeth Craven (1750-1828), an English author who lived for many years on the Continent. Put together, these three works demonstrate Craven’s versatility as a writer and startling modernity.

Poetry and Philosophy as Handlung

A Tactical Sequence

By: Frederic Will

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Poetry and Philosophy as Handlung offers verbal “doings” where sentences show both complicity and dissonance. Through this tactical sequence, time and place emerge, capturing the era's peculiar aroma in a text that remains open to its own immediate future.

Poetry and Philosophy as Handlung offers verbal “doings” where sentences show both complicity and dissonance. Through this tactical sequence, time and place emerge, capturing the era’s peculiar aroma in a text that remains open to its own immediate future.

An Annotated Edition of Helen Waddell’s Peter Abelard

Edited By: Jennifer FitzGerald, Constant J. Mews

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Helen Waddell’s classic novel tells the powerful love story of 12th-century teacher Peter Abelard and the learned Heloise. This annotated edition introduces the extensive literary and historical sources Waddell incorporated into the best-selling story of love and theology.

Glycoscience

The Intriguing Area to Understand Human Biology, Health and Disease

By: Gherman Wiederschain

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This book presents compact data in glycoscience, a developing field linking biology, chemistry, and medicine. It covers the structure, biosynthesis, and biological roles of carbohydrates, highlighting their connection to cancer, hereditary disorders, and other human diseases.

Selected Studies on Genre in Middle Eastern Literatures

From Epics to Novels

Edited By: Hülya Çelik, Petr Kučera

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These 12 case studies by experts in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish literature offer new insights into the intellectual universe of the Middle East. Spanning genres from classical poetry and epics to travelogues and novels, this book creates a new comparative framework.

Representations of Childhood in Art and Literature

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

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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.

P. Ovidius Naso, The Heroides

Text and Translation

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

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Ovid's Heroides is a collection of fictional letters from heroines to their absent lovers. This volume presents a radically new text and translation of the collection, separating the original core from later accretions. The translation is designed to aid interpretation.

Ovid’s Heroides is a collection of fictional letters from heroines to their absent lovers. This volume presents a radically new text and translation of the collection, separating the original core from later accretions. The translation is designed to aid interpretation.

A Study of Ethics for All Disciplines with Foundations in Humanity

By: Beverly J. Whelton, Jane Neuenschwander

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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.

Illness, Disease and Death in the Poems of Constantine Cavafy

By: Iakovos Menelaou

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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.

Romanticism Gendered

Male Writers as Readers of Women’s Writing in Romantic Correspondence

By: Andrea Fischerová

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This study examines the letters of the great male Romantics—Byron, Coleridge, Keats, Scott, Shelley, and Wordsworth—to discover their views on women writers. Their correspondence reveals a long list of now-marginalized female authors, offering a new gendered perspective.

Recounting Cultural Encounters

Edited By: Marija Knežević

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This book highlights how cultural encounters change our world and its reflection in literature. It emphasizes the rising importance of fostering cultural pluralism and global understanding, focusing on our perception of the Other in an era of globalization.

Madness, Love and Tragedy in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Spain

Edited By: Marta Manrique Gomez

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This book analyzes madness in masterpieces of 19th and 20th-century Spanish literature. It explores how conceptions of madness intersect with love, religion, and politics in works by writers like Galdós, Unamuno, Pardo Bazán, and others.

The Invention of Illusions

International Perspectives on Paul Auster

Edited By: Stefania Ciocia, Jesús A. González

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International scholars examine Paul Auster’s recent work, viewing him as an inventor of illusions. Not as deceitful gimmickry, but as an imaginative testing of possibilities and the establishment of real bonds between people through storytelling.