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Re-reading The Alexandria Quartet of Lawrence Durrell (Durrell Studies 8)

Edited By: Richard Pine

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Lawrence Durrell’s compelling Alexandria Quartet continues to provoke discussion. This volume of essays by leading scholars addresses its central themes—from memory, Gnosticism, and the uncanny to its famous mixture of “sex and the secret service”—and explores its sequels.

Re-Reading Zola and Worldwide Naturalism

Miscellanies in Honour of Anna Gural-Migdal

Edited By: Marie-Sophie Armstrong, Riikka Rossi, Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt

£54.99

Beyond Zola and France. This collection traces naturalism's global journey and evolution, tracking its transformations across Europe, the Americas, and Asia into the twenty-first century.

Beyond Zola and France. This collection traces naturalism’s global journey and evolution, tracking its transformations across Europe, the Americas, and Asia into the twenty-first century.

Re-Thinking Character in the Theatre of the Absurd

By: Carmen Dominte

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This volume provides insights into the Theatre of the Absurd by focusing on the character. Using mathematical approaches, it introduces new algebraic and geometric models to analyze dramatic relations. Useful for any reader interested in analyzing, staging, or writing a play.

Re-visiting and Re-staging

By: Anupam Vatsyayan

£47.99

This cross-cultural study investigates what happens when 20th century European plays are adapted to the Indian context. Go into the minds of creators and directors through interviews that reveal the theatrical, cultural, and ideological concerns of reimagining landmark works.

Readers, Audiences and Coteries in Early Modern England

Edited By: Geoff Baker

£29.99

This interdisciplinary collection explores how early modern texts were appropriated by individuals and groups. Case studies show how a text's physical form impacts its readership, concluding that texts hold no fixed meaning but are interpreted by each reader.

This interdisciplinary collection explores how early modern texts were appropriated by individuals and groups. Case studies show how a text’s physical form impacts its readership, concluding that texts hold no fixed meaning but are interpreted by each reader.

Reading America

New Perspectives on the American Novel

Edited By: Elizabeth Boyle

£34.99

This collection of essays offers a refreshing perspective on classic American novels. It explores familiar texts through unfamiliar lenses, shedding light on surprising aspects of works by authors from Toni Morrison to F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Reading Communities

A Dialogical Approach to French and Francophone Literature / Communautés de lecture

Edited By: Oana Panaïté

£47.99

This book represents the product of long-term collaboration between French and American scholars sharing a common preoccupation with reading canonical and contemporary works of literature and cinema in a theoretical and pedagogical context.

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.

Reading Henry James in the Twenty-First Century

Heritage and Transmission

By: Dennis Tredy, Annick Duperray, Adrian Harding

Edited By: Dennis Tredy, Annick Duperray, Adrian Harding

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Leading scholars re-evaluate Henry James's legacy. This collection explores his influence on culture, the artists who shaped his work, and radical new readings for the 21st century. A guide to tracing his 'figure in the carpet' and understanding his continued impact today.

Leading scholars re-evaluate Henry James’s legacy. This collection explores his influence on culture, the artists who shaped his work, and radical new readings for the 21st century. A guide to tracing his ‘figure in the carpet’ and understanding his continued impact today.

Reading Old English Riddles

The Dark Glass

By: Robert DiNapoli

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The riddles of the Exeter Book are designed to intrigue, baffle, and entertain. Ranging from the learned to the vulgar, the devotional to the existential, they are a powerful part of the Old English poetic tradition. This book presents them in modern English verse translations.

Reading Old English Wisdom

The Fetters in the Frost

By: Robert DiNapoli

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This book translates and comments on a selection of superb Old English wisdom poems. Composed from the ninth to eleventh centuries, they mingle Christian beliefs with pre-Christian sensibilities, exploring how the human psyche responds to life's challenges.

Reading Othello as Catholic Tragedy

By: Greg Maillet

£58.99

This book builds upon recent analysis of Shakespeare’s Othello, in order to show how the discourse of religion might affect our understanding of this play. It specifically looks at how Catholicism, a contested topic in Shakespeare’s world, affects our understanding of Desdemona.

Reading the Fantastic Imagination

The Avatars of a Literary Genre

Edited By: Dana Percec

£44.99

This volume investigates the fantastic imagination and its hybrid nature as a postmodern form. Continuing a project on popular genres, this collection of studies confronts the paradox of trendy 'lowbrow' fiction being studied by canonical scholars.

This volume investigates the fantastic imagination and its hybrid nature as a postmodern form. Continuing a project on popular genres, this collection of studies confronts the paradox of trendy ‘lowbrow’ fiction being studied by canonical scholars.

Realism’s Others

Edited By: Eva Aldea, Geoffrey Baker

£44.99

Challenging the idea that realism promotes sameness, this volume argues that realist narratives actively create otherness. Essays examine how collisions of class, gender, and nationality reveal the strategies of constructing difference in realist and postmodern texts.

Recent Scholarship on Japan

Classical to Contemporary

Edited By: Richard Donovan

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This collection of cutting-edge scholarship surveys Japanese literature from classical to contemporary. It explores works from Heian-era female authors to Haruki Murakami, relating them to Japanese society, the global context, and the vital role of translation.

Reception Studies and Adaptation

A Focus on Italy

Edited By: Giulia Magazzù, Valentina Rossi, Angela Sileo

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This volume explores the Italian adaptation of English literary, multimedia, and audiovisual texts. It investigates how translation choices, by imprinting "Italianness" on the original, can alter a work's meaning and success, directing or even undermining audience reception.

This volume explores the Italian adaptation of English literary, multimedia, and audiovisual texts. It investigates how translation choices, by imprinting “Italianness” on the original, can alter a work’s meaning and success, directing or even undermining audience reception.

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.

Reconciliation in Selected Shakespearean Dramas

Edited By: Beatrice Batson

£34.99

This study explores the complex term reconciliation in Shakespeare's dramas. Contributors examine its theological, social, and political dimensions, including reconciliation with God, between persons, and its narrative significance in the plays.

This study explores the complex term reconciliation in Shakespeare’s dramas. Contributors examine its theological, social, and political dimensions, including reconciliation with God, between persons, and its narrative significance in the plays.

Reconsidering Shakespeare’s ‘Lateness’

Studies in the Last Plays

By: Xing Chen

£47.99

This book reconsiders Shakespeare’s “lateness” by analyzing his last plays. It reveals a pattern of steady artistic development, arguing that his final works show a continuation of his sustained professional energy and ongoing self-challenge.

Reconsidering the Origins of Recognition

New Perspectives on German Idealism

Edited By: John Van Houdt, Arthur Kok

£47.99

A new generation of researchers explores German idealism's central topic: recognition. Overcoming classical divisions, they offer critical re-readings of foundational texts, showing how this philosophy continues to inspire new generations of thinkers.

A new generation of researchers explores German idealism’s central topic: recognition. Overcoming classical divisions, they offer critical re-readings of foundational texts, showing how this philosophy continues to inspire new generations of thinkers.