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The Edges of Trauma

Explorations in Visual Art and Literature

Edited By: Tamás Bényei, Alexandra Stara

£44.99

A collection of essays on visual art and literature that explores the cultural construction of trauma. Scholars offer new perspectives on historical traumas and canonical texts, examining how the non-experience of trauma finds its way into artistic representation.

Thinking through Children’s Literature in the Classroom

Edited By: Agustín Reyes-Torres, Luis S. Villacañas-de-Castro, Betlem Soler Pardo

£44.99

This book shows how literature is central to children’s education. Literary works open young minds and help them understand the world. This approach motivates students to improve literacy skills and develop literary competence for independent interpretations.

Between Illusionism and Anti-Illusionism

Self-Reflexivity in the Chosen Novels of J. M. Coetzee

By: Marek Pawlicki

£44.99

This critical study explores J. M. Coetzee’s distinction between “illusionism” (realism) and “anti-illusionism” (self-reflexivity). It demonstrates that these traditions are complementary, analyzing his novels in light of his critical essays.

Transgression, Stylistic Variation and Narrative Discourse in the Twentieth Century Novel

By: Marie-Anne Visoi

£39.99

This book explores transgression as a literary theme in twentieth-century novels. Analyzing fictional acts from murder to adultery, it reveals how narrative strategies like "unreliable narrators" challenge readers to question social norms and moral values.

This book explores transgression as a literary theme in twentieth-century novels. Analyzing fictional acts from murder to adultery, it reveals how narrative strategies like “unreliable narrators” challenge readers to question social norms and moral values.

Unity in Diversity, Volume 1

Cultural Paradigm and Personal Identity

Edited By: Julitta Rydlewska

£39.99

How is identity formed by culture and society? This collection of essays by multicultural scholars explores issues of difference, otherness, inclusion, and multiple ethnic, cultural, and gender identities from literary, social, and historical perspectives.

Francophone Cultures and Geographies of Identity

Edited By: Zsuzsanna Fagyal, H Adlai Murdoch

£54.99

This collection of essays challenges French-centered conceptions of francophonie. It proposes a pluricentric view, reading cultural forms from the Caribbean, Africa, and Quebec as products of their own contexts, revealing a Frenchness that is truly plural.

Belle Vue

Sigmund Freud, Minna Bernays, and the Meaning of Dreams

By: Barry G. Gale

£44.99

On the day he completes his first dream interpretation—a revolution in understanding the human mind—Sigmund Freud is a man torn. He is caught in a love affair with his sister-in-law, Minna, and must choose between his love for her and his quest for fame.

Quand la folie parle

The Dialectic Effect of Madness in French Literature since the Nineteenth Century

Edited By: Gillian Ni Cheallaigh, Laura Jackson, Siobhan McIlvanney

£44.99

This study of madness in literature demonstrates that the non-sense of madness achieves a force of expression more powerful than logic. It presents madness as a contestatory, creative stance, while refusing to play down its isolating difficulties.

Shakespeare Studies in Colonial Bengal

The Early Phase

By: Hema Dahiya

£44.99

This study explores Shakespeare in colonial Bengal, focusing on Hindu College. It highlights the pioneering teachers who accelerated the Bengal Renaissance and exposes distorted readings of Shakespeare, challenging reductive postcolonial theories.

De-stereotyping Indian Body and Desire

Edited By: Kaustav Chakraborty

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This book deconstructs the ‘otherizing’ of the marginalized by offering an alternative reading of the body and desire. It investigates bodies with ‘unnatural’ desires to expose and subvert the subtle political ideologies behind stereotypes.

Albert Camus’s The Stranger

Critical Essays

Edited By: Peter Francev

£49.99

This collection of critical essays by international experts examines Camus’s The Stranger from both philosophical and literary perspectives. Presenting the first known critical examination in English, this volume sheds new light on the classic novel.

Face to Face/Faccia a Faccia

Edited By: Maria Cristina Cignatta

£44.99

Twelve of Italy's best novelle by literary masters can be read in the original Italian with parallel English translations. This collection, centered on the theme of a woman as the central character, includes biographies and notes on each writer.

Twelve of Italy’s best novelle by literary masters can be read in the original Italian with parallel English translations. This collection, centered on the theme of a woman as the central character, includes biographies and notes on each writer.

Reviewing Imperial Conflicts

Edited By: Cristina Baptista, Ana Cristina Mendes

£44.99

This volume of essays investigates the “European civilizing mission” through conflict. Centered on a controversial debate, contributors review colonial and postcolonial imperial conflicts to offer new perspectives on the British Empire.

Greece and Britain since 1945 Second Edition

Edited By: David Wills

£29.99

This book explores the transformation of Anglo-Greek relations since 1945, focusing on the perceptions of writers and organisations. This updated edition includes new chapters discussing the recent "Greek Crisis" and its portrayal in British media.

Never Mind about the Bourgeoisie

The Correspondence between Iris Murdoch and Brian Medlin 1976-1995

Edited By: Gillian Dooley, Graham Nerlich

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This collection of correspondence, covering over twenty years, records the deeply affectionate friendship between novelist Iris Murdoch and philosopher Brian Medlin. They spar over Marxism and radical politics, while he regales her with tales of Australian life.

The Empty Too

Language and Philosophy in the Works of Samuel Beckett

By: Arthur Broomfield

£39.99

This controversial study argues that for Beckett, pure language is reality. While the world we perceive cannot be proved to exist, language survives to become the real. Beckett’s art is his philosophy, a thinking that surpasses the major philosophers.

The New Criticism

Formalist Literary Theory in America

Edited By: Alfred J. Drake

£34.99

This volume traces the history and theories of the New Criticism school. It assesses the New Critics' lasting influence, examining how their work has been contextualized, criticized, and valorized by subsequent theorists and educators.

This volume traces the history and theories of the New Criticism school. It assesses the New Critics’ lasting influence, examining how their work has been contextualized, criticized, and valorized by subsequent theorists and educators.

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.

Fabricating the Body

Effects of Obligation and Exchange in Contemporary Discourse

Edited By: Sarah Himsel Burcon

£39.99

Fabricating the Body draws on disability, gender, and psychoanalytic studies to situate the body as a site of identity, obligation, and exchange. It stimulates conversation on "indebted" bodies, marginalization, and the ethical costs of societal progress.

Fabricating the Body draws on disability, gender, and psychoanalytic studies to situate the body as a site of identity, obligation, and exchange. It stimulates conversation on “indebted” bodies, marginalization, and the ethical costs of societal progress.

Milestones on the Road to Dystopia

Interpreting George Orwell’s Self-Division in an Era of ‘Force and Fraud’

By: Firas Adnan Jabbar Al-Jubouri

£44.99

This book explores George Orwell’s journey to dystopia, examining the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four as a divided self. It presents a new understanding of his work by connecting his critiques of ‘force and fraud’ to the totalitarian tactics of Machiavelli.