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.
P. Ovidius Naso, The Heroides
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.
P. Papinius Statius
Volume III on Statius’ Thebaid and Achilleid is divided into two parts. The first discusses the textual transmission, manuscripts, and editions. The second part comprises a secondary apparatus with further evidence and all unrecorded conjectures.
P. Papinius Statius Volume I
This three-volume work offers a revised text, prose translation, and extensive secondary apparatus for the two epics of Statius: his magnum opus, the Thebaid, and the unfinished Achilleid.
P. Papinius Statius Volume II
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.
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 argues that Paradise Lost contains the traits of early modern novels, and that Milton’s Satan is a novelistic character par excellence. His modern individualism and complexity prove the novel owes an immense, unintentional debt to Milton’s epic.
Paradoxes in Selected Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath
This book explores the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath without sensationalizing the writers or their work. It adopts a multi-pronged approach to provide a holistic view of the issues, similarities, and differences in the poetry of the two women.
Parallaxes
Despite being major Modernists, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are seldom studied together. This volume fills that void, using the concept of parallax to provide new perspectives on the connections between their respective work and their difficult encounter.
Passages
This collection of essays navigates literal and metaphorical “passages”—crossings, boundaries, and identity. Combining close textual readings with cultural theory, it stimulates debate on how old texts are revisited and how identity is renegotiated.
This book analyzes the spacetime continuum in science fiction, synthesizing cutting-edge research from literary analysis, quantum physics, and astrophysics. These essays offer fresh views and analytical tools to stimulate the curiosity of educators, researchers, and students.
Passion and Precision
These essays bring passionate and precise attention to ten major poets from the fourteenth and twentieth centuries. The collection explores English and Irish writers from Chaucer and the Pearl-poet to T. S. Eliot, Yeats, and Seamus Heaney.
This book examines the diverse literature and culture of Newfoundland and Labrador. Scholars and writers explore its unique context across fiction, poetry, and filmmaking, bringing Indigenous histories to the foreground and encouraging international dialogue.
In an era of standardization, dialect and patois are marks of identity. No in-depth treatment has been offered as to the causes and consequences of language mixing from both linguistic and literary views. This book aims to fill this lack of analysis.
Asayesh considers how magical realism was used in the works of three contemporary female writers, namely Marina Warner, Isabel Allende, and Raja Alem. She shows how, by applying magical realism, these writers empowered women changed the process of history writing by the powerful.
Patriarchy in Eclipse
This book examines two types of women in post-Civil War literature and art: the femme fatale and the New Woman. It explores how they challenged patriarchal culture and why they precipitated so much intellectual and artistic angst in their educated male readers.
Patrick McGrath
This is the first collected volume dedicated to the work of Patrick McGrath. Scholars survey his 25-year career, from his Gothic tales of transgression and decay to the growing complexity of his recent fiction. Features an exclusive afterword by the author.
This critical study of Hughes’s poetry from 1957 to 1989 explores how his fascination with violence developed into a vision of cosmic energy. It charts his transition from a poet of ‘blood and guts’ into a messiah of ‘bio-centric life’.
At the end of the 18th century, the British focus shifted from classical ideals to the rediscovery of Old Germanic culture. This book examines travel narratives from 1794 to 1845, shedding light on the representation of Germanness in relation to British national identity.
Peripheral Transmodernities
This collection of essays explores the critical dialogue between the Hispanic/Latino world and Asian and Arab cultures. Bypassing old colonial centers, these South-to-South dialogues provide vivid examples of de-colonizing impetus and cultural resistance.