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The Aesthetics of Failure

Inexpressibility in Samuel Beckett’s Fiction

By: Marcin Tereszewski

£39.99

This book explores the ethical aspects of Samuel Beckett’s aesthetics of failure through his connection to Maurice Blanchot and Emmanuel Levinas. It traces Beckett's 'unwording' to analyze how inexpressibility is bound with ethical responsibility.

This book explores the ethical aspects of Samuel Beckett’s aesthetics of failure through his connection to Maurice Blanchot and Emmanuel Levinas. It traces Beckett’s ‘unwording’ to analyze how inexpressibility is bound with ethical responsibility.

Engaged Romanticism

Romanticism as Praxis

Edited By: Mark Lussier, Bruce Matsunaga

£34.99

Exploring “engaged romanticism” as a practice rather than a historical period, these essays examine how writers deployed their talents to transform the public sphere. This collection sounds the depths of what engaged practice can accomplish, both in its own age and ours.

Intertextuality, Intersubjectivity, and Narrative Identity

Edited By: Péter Gaál-Szabó

£45.99

This title presents recent findings and opens new vistas for research by mapping the potential interconnections of intertextuality and intersubjectivity across a range of fields. It incorporates various research foci and topoi across time and space.

Making Up

Research in Creative Writing

By: Graeme Harper

£39.99

Research in creative writing is not only about the works it produces, but the explorations a creative writer undertakes. Through creative writing, a writer can explore ideas, concepts, and states of mind. This collection shows what this growing field does and more.

Anna Banti and the (Im)possibility of Love

By: Wissia Fiorucci

£34.99

This book explores Banti’s Italian feminism, focusing on her interpretation of “equality” versus “sexual difference.” Through an analysis of her novels and short stories, it argues that Banti embraced a feminism of difference to preserve woman's identity.

The Shakespeare Project and Ensuing Essays

By: Ethan Lewis

£47.99

See Shakespeare with fresh eyes. Through a “triple vision” method—as reality, poem, and play—this guide transforms Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth into powerful tools for critical thinking in your everyday life.

New Perspectives on Tudor Cultures

Edited By: Zsolt Almási, Mike Pincombe

£44.99

This volume presents new explorations of Tudor literature. The papers cover the mid-Tudor period, from Skelton to the young Shakespeare, with topics ranging from philosophy and social commentary to lyric and tragedy.

Texts and Territories

Historicized Fiction and Fictionalised History in Medieval England and Beyond

Edited By: Hülya Taflı Düzgün

£58.99

History turns into literary narrative, and narrative turns into history. This volume explores how medieval texts straddle this borderland, engaging with an array of texts from 11th-15th century England to uncover under-explored concepts of the past and historiography.

English Studies

New Perspectives

Edited By: Mehmet Ali Çelikel, Baysar Taniyan

£52.99

This volume offers a wide range of research on English literature, including Shakespearean, Victorian, and postcolonial studies. With articles on comparative and translation studies, it serves as a fruitful reference and a guide for young academics in their studies.

Novelistic Inquiries into the Mind

Edited By: Grzegorz Maziarczyk, Joanna Klara Teske

£47.99

This collection demonstrates the novel's power to represent the mind. Contributors investigate representations of consciousness and the self, analyzing narrative techniques to show how the contemporary novel reflects the mind's urge to understand itself.

This collection demonstrates the novel’s power to represent the mind. Contributors investigate representations of consciousness and the self, analyzing narrative techniques to show how the contemporary novel reflects the mind’s urge to understand itself.

Studies in Philology

Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies in Modern Languages

Edited By: Maria del Mar Jiménez-Cervantes Arnao, Gema Alcaraz Mármol

£52.99

This volume offers a holistic view of Philology, showing the thin line that separates Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies. It is a miscellanea of studies on Modern Language research, focusing on Spanish, English and French.

The Subversive Storyteller

The Short Story Cycle and the Politics of Identity in America

By: Michelle Pacht

£34.99

The Subversive Storyteller examines how American authors adapted the short story cycle to convey subversive ideas. Authors from Hawthorne to Kingston exploited the genre's fragmented nature to reflect the changing realities of life and identity in America.

The Subversive Storyteller examines how American authors adapted the short story cycle to convey subversive ideas. Authors from Hawthorne to Kingston exploited the genre’s fragmented nature to reflect the changing realities of life and identity in America.

The Fantastic of the Fin de Siècle

Edited By: Zdeněk Beran, Irena Grubica

£52.99

This volume explores the fantastic and the fin de siècle’s relationship. It studies how this period reflects the fantastic’s relation to: aesthetic ideas, terror and horror, the sublime, and evil, Gothic and sensation fiction, the Aesthetic Movement and Decadence.

The Central and the Peripheral

Studies in Literature and Culture

Edited By: Jakub Lipski, Joanna Malicka, Paweł Schreiber

£44.99

The division between secure centres and unknown peripheries is obsolete. How can we find our way in a world where peripheries become centres and centres turn into peripheries? This book explores how this problem is dealt with in literature and culture.

National Identity and Cultural Representation in the Novels of Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai

By: Sonali Das

£61.99

Das examines the theories of nation and national identity in both the West (according to the theories of Benedict Anderson and Salman Rushdie) and in the East (in the light of the works of Jawaharlal Nehru) as they apply to the novels of Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai.

Insights into D.H. Lawrence’s Sardinia

Edited By: Nick Ceramella, Daniele Marzeddu

£67.99

This volume explores D. H. Lawrence’s search for an ideal primitive society. Combining literature and photography, it analyses Sicilian and Sardinian society, offering new perspectives on *Sea and Sardinia*, including its ecological approach, gender roles, and local identity.

Point, Dot, Period… The Dynamics of Punctuation in Text and Image

Edited By: Laurence Petit, Pascale Tollance

£47.99

These twelve essays explore the fundamental role played by punctuation in the two semiotic fields of text and image. By bringing together authors from various fields, they offer new insights into the possibility and nature of the encounter between visual and textual creation.

A Translation of Giambattista Basile’s The Tale of Tales

By: Christopher Stace

£67.99

Composed in the 1630s, Giambattista Basile’s The Tale of Tales (the Pentameron) is a wicked parody of the Decameron. Among its fifty stories are the earliest literary versions of famous fairy tales such as Cinderella, Rapunzel, and The Sleeping Beauty.

Postcolonial Representation of the African Woman in the Selected Works of Ngugi and Adichie

By: Eren Bolat

From £32.99

Postcolonial African women have often been represented as weak, subaltern, and speechless. This book shows how Ngugi and Adichie’s novels break from these clichés, depicting the African woman in a versatile and powerful way.

Themes of Polemical Theology Across Early Modern Literary Genres

Edited By: Lucy R Nicholas, Andrea Riedl, Svorad Zavarský

£52.99

This collection brings together twenty-three scholars from thirteen countries to explore the dynamic and profound ways in which polemical theology, its discourses and codes, interacted with non-theological literary genres in the early modern era.