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Antipodean Childhoods

Growing Up in Australia and New Zealand

Edited By: Helga Ramsey-Kurz, Ulla Ratheiser

£39.99

These essays explore childhood, otherness, and the postcolonial in Australia and New Zealand. They examine how adults configure children’s spaces through art, literature, and history, focusing on the cultural specificity of Antipodean childhoods.

Cherchez la femme

Women and Values in the Francophone World

Edited By: Erika Fülöp

£39.99

Challenging centuries of male-defined values, these essays explore how women of the Francophone world created new aesthetic, cultural, and social standards, from antiquity to today.

Bonds and Borders

Identity, Imagination and Transformation in Literature

Edited By: Rebecca DeWald, Dorette Sobolewski

£34.99

This collection of essays explores bonds and borders in literature, from colonial times to post-9/11 narratives. Trespassing boundaries to create new ideas, these essays dissect, subvert, and challenge our understandings of identity in an international society.

Irish Childhoods

Children’s Fiction and Irish History

By: Pádraic Whyte

£39.99

This book explores how contemporary Irish children’s fiction engages with the past. It reveals how constructions of childhood in novels and films are used to explore complex questions of Irish history, culture, and identity.

Latin Elegy and Hellenistic Epigram

A Tale of Two Genres at Rome

Edited By: Alison Keith

£34.99

This volume explores the impact of Hellenistic Greek epigram on Latin erotic elegy in light of new papyrus discoveries. Chapters examine the reception of epigrams in Propertius and Ovid and the appropriation of their thematic and structural motifs.

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.

Shakespeare on Love

The Sonnets and Plays in Relation to Plato’s Symposium, Alchemy, Christianity and Renaissance Neo-Platonism

By: Ronald Gray

£34.99

Plato’s vision of universal love, alchemy, and Christian ideas strongly influenced Shakespeare's Sonnets. He inserted these themes into his plays, creating a paradoxical combination of erotic mysticism with real lovers. The Dark Lady finds her supreme realisation in Cleopatra.

Plato’s vision of universal love, alchemy, and Christian ideas strongly influenced Shakespeare’s Sonnets. He inserted these themes into his plays, creating a paradoxical combination of erotic mysticism with real lovers. The Dark Lady finds her supreme realisation in Cleopatra.

Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Literature and Culture

Edited By: Dorsía Smith, Tatiana Tagirova

£39.99

This collection of essays by Caribbean scholars offers novel perspectives on the region's literature and culture. It cuts across disciplines to explore the diaspora, identity, gender, artistic expression, and the writer's role as a political activist.

This collection of essays by Caribbean scholars offers novel perspectives on the region’s literature and culture. It cuts across disciplines to explore the diaspora, identity, gender, artistic expression, and the writer’s role as a political activist.

Postcolonial Odysseys

Derek Walcott’s Voyages of Homecoming

By: Maeve Tynan

£39.99

This study charts Derek Walcott's postcolonial voyage through Homer's *Odyssey*. It explores the tension between the outward journey and the homecoming, revealing how a modern master can reclaim and transform an ancient epic.

This study charts Derek Walcott’s postcolonial voyage through Homer’s *Odyssey*. It explores the tension between the outward journey and the homecoming, revealing how a modern master can reclaim and transform an ancient epic.

Iris Murdoch, Philosopher Meets Novelist

Edited By: Sofia de Melo Araújo, Fátima Vieira

£34.99

This collection gathers international experts on Iris Murdoch to promote the dialogue between philosophy and literature. Scholars first explore her philosophical concerns and their influence, then retrieve the underlying philosophical thinking from her novels.

The Yields of Transition

Literature, Art and Philosophy in Early Medieval China

Edited By: Jana S. Rošker, Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik

£44.99

This volume on the Wei Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties (220–589 AD) opens new pathways in sinological studies. It reveals a new image of this period, undermining common historical interpretations and showing its decisive achievements.

The Willow’s Whisper

A Transatlantic Compilation of Poetry from Ireland and Native America

Edited By: Micheal Ó'hAodha

From £24.99

The Willow’s Whisper brings poets from Irish and Native American communities together. In this collection, mother-earth comes to life, reawakening our senses. Reconnect with the part of you linked to nature and hear a whisper of hope.

Cultural Migrations and Gendered Subjects

Colonial and Postcolonial Representations of the Female Body

Edited By: Silvia Castro-Borrego, Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz

£34.99

This collection explores women's identities as migrant subjects. The essays examine the female body as a site of violence, fighting stereotypes and analyzing contemporary issues of race and gender through the lens of the colonial past.

This collection explores women’s identities as migrant subjects. The essays examine the female body as a site of violence, fighting stereotypes and analyzing contemporary issues of race and gender through the lens of the colonial past.

Carver Across the Curriculum

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching the Fiction and Poetry of Raymond Carver

Edited By: Katherine Ashley, Paul Benedict Grant

£34.99

Carver Across the Curriculum presents innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to teaching Raymond Carver’s work. Drawing on international scholars, this collection is a guide and inspiration for instructors, offering new insights into his fiction and poetry.

L’épuisement du biographique?

Edited By: Vincent Broqua, Guillaume Marche

£49.99

Le biographique n'est pas épuisé : il déborde la biographie. Cet ouvrage propose un état de la réflexion sur le sujet, au croisement des sciences sociales et de la littérature, au point de rencontre entre science et fiction.

Le biographique n’est pas épuisé : il déborde la biographie. Cet ouvrage propose un état de la réflexion sur le sujet, au croisement des sciences sociales et de la littérature, au point de rencontre entre science et fiction.

Does It Really Mean That? Interpreting the Literary Ambiguous

Edited By: Janka Kaščáková, Janka Kaščăkovă

£39.99

The unifying factor of these essays is ambiguity. The volume explores this essential feature of the postmodern age—its definition, purpose, and historical use by writers—and its appearance not only in literature, but in wider social issues.

Byron’s Religions

Edited By: Peter Cochran

£44.99

This comprehensive study of Byron’s eclectic attitude to religion concludes he was never the atheist of cliché, but a man whose profound need for a faith always clashed with an equally profound scepticism.

New Conservative Explications

Reasoning with some Classic English Poems

By: Kenneth B. Newell

£34.99

As interest in explicating classic poems has declined, many still puzzle readers. This book provides new explications for twelve poems by Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Yeats, and others, arguing that this practice can reveal their sense and conserve them.

Refashioning Myth

Poetic Transformations and Metamorphoses

Edited By: David McInnis, Eric Parisot, Jessica Wilkinson

£44.99

Mythology has been a field richly mined by poets and artists from antiquity to the present day. This volume presents a diverse collection of analytical and creative works by scholars, poets and visual artists exploring the prolific dialogue between myth and poetry.

Crossing Textual Boundaries in International Children’s Literature

Edited By: Lance Weldy

£54.99

Believing ‘no text is an island,’ this book explores intertextuality and transformation. It examines texts—especially children's literature—that traverse boundaries of genre, medium, and geography, with essays from a wide range of international scholars.

Believing ‘no text is an island,’ this book explores intertextuality and transformation. It examines texts—especially children’s literature—that traverse boundaries of genre, medium, and geography, with essays from a wide range of international scholars.