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English Without Boundaries

Reading English from China to Canada

Edited By: Trudi Darby, Jane Roberts

£64.99

This conference proceedings demonstrates the strength of English studies across the world, with contributions from scholars in China, Finland, Israel, Italy, Japan and Portugal, as well as from Canada, the UK and the USA, showing the energy and breadth of English studies today.

Trans-Pacific Encounters

Asia and the Hispanic World

Edited By: Koichi Hagimoto

£47.99

This title challenges the current dearth of studies of the literary, cultural, and historical relations between Asia and the Hispanic world, despite the fact that the origin of trans-pacific contact between these regions can be traced as far back as the pre-Columbian period.

Nadine Gordimer and the Rhetoric of Otherness in Post-Apartheid South Africa

By: Maria-Luiza Caraivan

£45.99

Caraivan examines issues central to the South African writer’s works, including annihilating racial oppression and the racism-led psychological alienation. She also focuses on literary topics specific to Gordimer’s post-Apartheid writings.

Technologies of Perspective on Contemporary Literary Texts

By: Cristina Mirela Nicolaescu

From £29.99

For students and professionals of textual analysis, this book offers a new way to understand fiction. It replaces traditional linear models with flexible, circular methods that prevent errors of interpretation while providing the keys for testing a reading's validity.

Modern African American Poets

From Hughes to Parker

By: Yasser K. R. Aman

£61.99

Spanning the Harlem Renaissance to the present, this book offers new perspectives on poets like Hughes and Cullen, viewed through self-acceptance and self-dejection. It explores multi-ethnic roots, Dual Inheritance Theory, and the redefinition of black womanhood.

Fictional Realities / Real Fictions. Contemporary Theatre in Search of a New Mimetic Paradigm

Edited By: Mateusz Borowski, Malgorzata Sugiera

£34.99

This collection tackles the problem of fictionality and reality in contemporary theatre. It analyzes how phenomena like new media and post-dramatic forms challenge the basic dichotomy between the fictional and the real on which Western theatre is based.

Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi

A Taste for Eccentricity

By: Marianna D’Ezio

£39.99

More than a hostess or a footnote to Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi was a pioneering writer. This volume links her subversive biography to her innovative works, revealing how a scandalous marriage launched her career as a public author.

“What Countrey’s This? And Whither Are We Gone?”

Papers presented at the Twelfth International Conference on the Literature of Region and Nation (Aberdeen University, 30th July – 2nd August 2008)

Edited By: Rosa E. Penna, Karoline Szatek-Tudor, Janet Hadley Williams

£49.99

This volume includes twenty-two peer-reviewed papers from an international conference on the Literature of Region and Nation. The essays explore literature from all five continents, considering diaspora, exile, language, and cultural interactions.

American Modernism

Cultural Transactions

Edited By: Catherine Morley

£39.99

This book explores American literary modernism as a by-product of cultural transactions between the United States and Europe. Eminent scholars re-examine the works of Wharton, Pound, and Eliot, viewing American literature in a broad international context.

Food and Appetites

The Hunger Artist and the Arts

Edited By: Ann McCulloch, Pavlina Radia

£44.99

This book traces food as hunger, desire, and appetite in the arts. Examining hunger in literature and art, it explores food's significance as a metaphor for social class, inequality, and gluttony, revealing the problems of excessive human cravings.

This book traces food as hunger, desire, and appetite in the arts. Examining hunger in literature and art, it explores food’s significance as a metaphor for social class, inequality, and gluttony, revealing the problems of excessive human cravings.

New Essays on Life Writing and the Body

Edited By: Christopher Stuart, Stephanie Todd

£39.99

The physical body is an inescapable object of inquiry in life writing. This collection of new essays by established and emerging scholars offers a timely, interdisciplinary study with subjects ranging from Wharton and Stein to disability memoirs.

The Essays of Chitta Ranjan Das on Literature, Culture, and Society

On the Side of Life in Spite of

Edited By: Ananta Kumar Giri, Ivan Marquez

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The essays of Chitta Ranjan Das present a different vision of the post-colonial imagination. This book offers radical new pathways, breaking conventional boundaries between the periphery and the centre, literature and life, and East and West.

Business and Institutional Translation

New Insights and Reflections

Edited By: Éric Poirier, Daniel Gallego-Hernández

£61.99

As the demand for economic, business, and financial translation increases, this peer-reviewed publication gathers practitioners, researchers, and teachers to discuss new issues in institutional, finance, and specialized translation.

Deceptive Fictions

Narrating Trauma and Violence in Contemporary Writing

By: Ulrike Tancke

£41.99

This book explores how contemporary fiction uses trauma and violence. It argues these texts are counter-narratives to postmodern thought, using the body and experiential reality to reassert the individual as an ethical agent and originator of meaning.

A World of Lost Innocence

The Fiction of Elizabeth Bowen

By: Nicola Darwood

£39.99

A World of Lost Innocence charts the psychological journey from innocence to experience in Elizabeth Bowen's fiction, exploring her characters' confrontations with identity, sexuality, and politics.

A World of Lost Innocence charts the psychological journey from innocence to experience in Elizabeth Bowen’s fiction, exploring her characters’ confrontations with identity, sexuality, and politics.

A Portrait of the Lady in Modern American Literature

Poor Little Rich Girl

Edited By: Aimee Pozorski

£61.99

This collection of fifteen original essays and a reprint of a classic essay reconsiders the figure of the woman in distress in canonical American texts. In taking up the question “What does a woman want?” it finds answers in artistic endeavour, political agency, and independence.

Dream Tonight of Peacock Tails

Essays on the Fiftieth Anniversary of Thomas Pynchon’s V.

Edited By: Umberto Rossi, Paolo Simonetti

£47.99

The first in-depth examination of Pynchon’s debut masterpiece. This collection of essays provides new insights into a too-often underestimated work that established Pynchon as one of the great masters of twentieth-century American literature.

C. S. Lewis and the Inklings

Reflections on Faith, Imagination, and Modern Technology

Edited By: Jason Fisher, Mark Hall, Salwa Khoddam

£52.99

The Inklings’ views on the negative impacts of technology and their resolution through fellowship and faith. Essays demonstrate how their literary craft can enchant readers, empowering them with a keener spiritual vision to tackle present concerns.

Identifying Cultural Intersections in the Works of Shota Rustaveli and Nizami Ganjavi

Edited By: Maka Elbakidze, Irma Ratiani

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Shota Rustaveli's The Knight in the Panther’s Skin organically unites the cultural traditions of the Christian West and Muslim East. This book conducts comparative research, showing the similarities and differences between the works of Rustaveli and Nizami Ganjavi.

Shota Rustaveli’s The Knight in the Panther’s Skin organically unites the cultural traditions of the Christian West and Muslim East. This book conducts comparative research, showing the similarities and differences between the works of Rustaveli and Nizami Ganjavi.

Censorship across Borders

The Reception of English Literature in Twentieth-Century Europe

Edited By: Alberto Lázaro, Catherine O’Leary

£39.99

These essays explore European censorship of English literature, revealing why authors like Joyce and Orwell were targeted by opposing ideologies, from conservative Catholic morality to communism. This study uncovers the complex relationship between the state and culture.