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The Survival of Myth

Innovation, Singularity and Alterity

Edited By: Paul Hardwick, David Kennedy

£39.99

What are myths? The Survival of Myth explores the continuing power of primal stories to inhabit our thinking. Contributors examine figures from the Bible to Cormac McCarthy to show how ancient stories give access to the unconscious and transform society.

Railway Discourse

Linguistic and Stylistic Representations of the Train in the Anglophone World

By: Esterino Adami

£58.99

Adami considers the train trope in a variety of cultural, literary and linguistic contexts, from contemporary crime fiction and dystopian graphic narratives to postcolonial railway travelogues, by employing a range of methods and frameworks.

Interface between Literature and Science

Cross-disciplinary Approaches to Latin American Texts

Edited By: Victoria Carpenter

£47.99

This volume explores the permeable boundaries between science and literature in Latin American narrative. It uses a cross-disciplinary approach to offer new readings of authors like Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, and Ernesto Sábato.

Evolutionary Aesthetics of Human Ethics in Hardy’s Tragic Narratives

By: Rıza Öztürk

£34.99

This analysis of Hardy’s tragedies finds his famed pessimism is a mask for evolutionary ethics. Women's suffering is an adapted parental investment in survival, a force of superiority granting greater fitness than the heroic deeds of men.

This analysis of Hardy’s tragedies finds his famed pessimism is a mask for evolutionary ethics. Women’s suffering is an adapted parental investment in survival, a force of superiority granting greater fitness than the heroic deeds of men.

Come Weep With Me

Loss and Mourning in the Writings of Caribbean Women Writers

Edited By: Joyce C. Harte

£39.99

This groundbreaking anthology examines loss and mourning in the work of Caribbean women writers like Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid, and Maryse Condé. These original essays explore slavery, dictatorships, and disaster, challenging customary discourses on loss.

What’s in a Balcony Scene? A Study on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and its Adaptations

Edited By: Hortensia Pârlog

£45.99

Addressing the question “what’s in a balcony scene?”, this book discusses its representation in a number of adaptions of Romeo and Juliet. It shows that there are several fresh angles from which to look at the topic, which, in turn, provide unique insights into the balcony scene.

POCA 2007

Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology Conference

Edited By: Paraskevi Christodoulou, Anna Satraki

£44.99

This multidisciplinary collection of papers on the history and archaeology of Cyprus spans from the prehistoric to the medieval times. It is a significant contribution to archaeological research that will engage scholars and provide the groundwork for future ideas.

The Ladies Complete Letter-Writer (1763)

Edited By: Alain Kerhervé

£49.99

In 1763, The Ladies Complete Letter-Writer was the first manual exclusively for women in eighteenth-century Britain. It questioned pre-conceived ideas on women and their writing. Unedited since 1765, it is now presented with a new introduction and notes.

The Cycle of Troy in Geoffrey Chaucer

Tradition and “Moralitee”

By: José Maria Gutiérrez Arranz

£34.99

In the Middle Ages, Trojan myths were transformed into models of human behaviour. This book explores how Geoffrey Chaucer recreates those myths, manipulating his material and integrating them into the contexts of his own works.

Culture Wars and Literature in the French Third Republic

Edited By: Gilbert D. Chaitin

£34.99

In the French Third Republic (1870-1914), literature was mobilized for political and social warfare. These essays analyze how literature became the site for fierce culture wars over national identity, secular education, women’s liberation, and more.

Ireland’s Cultural Empire

Contacts, Comparisons, Translations

Edited By: Giuliana Bendelli

£58.99

This volume highlights Ireland’s cultural and linguistic influence in the world. Contributions focus on 18th, 19th and 20th century Irish writers who export their legacy abroad, in addition to offering new perspectives on Irish emigration to Australia and the USA.

States of Decadence

On the Aesthetics of Beauty, Decline and Transgression across Time and Space Volume 2

Edited By: Guri Barstad, Karen P. Knutsen

£57.99

This two-part anthology focuses on the literary and cultural phenomenon of decadence, with particular attention given to literature from the end of the 1800s. It goes beyond literary studies too, drawing on a number of the tropes and themes of decadence in the arts and culture.

Conversational Exchanges in Early Modern England (1549-1640)

Edited By: Kristen Abbott Bennett

£47.99

These essays explore how conversational exchanges in Early Modern England informed cultural productions. Conversation functioned as a method for creation and interpretation, a metamorphic force that did not simply reproduce, but transformed with each interaction.

Retold Stories, Untold Histories

Maxine Hong Kingston and Leslie Marmon Silko on the Politics of Imagining the Past

By: Joanna Ziarkowska

£44.99

This text explores how Maxine Hong Kingston and Leslie Marmon Silko challenge official history. Coming from marginalized groups, both writers use creative writing to reconstruct silenced pasts and counter stereotypical narratives of American identity.

Tabish Khair

Critical Perspectives

Edited By: Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández, Om Prakash Dwivedi

£44.99

This volume approaches Tabish Khair’s writings from numerous perspectives, analyzing his social and political concerns. It is highly enriched by Khair's unpublished play, a satirical commentary on tourism and the ability of common Indians to adapt and thrive.

This volume approaches Tabish Khair’s writings from numerous perspectives, analyzing his social and political concerns. It is highly enriched by Khair’s unpublished play, a satirical commentary on tourism and the ability of common Indians to adapt and thrive.

Approaches to Genre in the Ancient World

Edited By: Michelle Borg, Graeme Miles

£39.99

Ancient genres were contested, hybrid and ambiguous. This volume presents case studies on understandings of genre, examining well-known texts like Ovid and late-antique works from Rome and Greece to Gaza and Syria.

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.

Dialogic Openness in Nikos Kazantzakis

By: Charitini Christodoulou

£44.99

Charitini Christodoulou argues that a "dialogic openness" permeates Nikos Kazantzakis’ The Last Temptation. Antithetical forces clash in unresolved tension, revealing that subjectivity and identity are always in the process of becoming.

Charitini Christodoulou argues that a “dialogic openness” permeates Nikos Kazantzakis’ The Last Temptation. Antithetical forces clash in unresolved tension, revealing that subjectivity and identity are always in the process of becoming.

Writing Fundamentalism

Edited By: Axel Stähler, Klaus Stierstorfer

£39.99

Fundamentalism is text-centred, but its complex and paradoxical relationship with literature remains largely unexplored. These essays explore this relationship, analysing literary representations of fundamentalism and revealing unexpected affinities between the two.

Politics, Poetics, Affect

Re-visioning César Vallejo

Edited By: Stephen M. Hart

£39.99

This book re-visions the life and work of Peruvian poet César Vallejo. Ten essays are grouped into sections on Politics, Poetics and Affect, exploring his rivalry with Neruda, the role of the human body in his work, and his lasting influence.