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Reflexive Poetics

A Critical Anthology

By: Ethan Lewis

£44.99

This anthology presents fifteen exemplary poets from Springfield, Illinois, and advances a critical method. We garner much from reading the justly famed alongside the lesser known in our midst, learning to appreciate great poetry relationally.

Dennis Brutus’ Poetics of Revolt

By: Eunice Ngongkum

£58.99

Ngongkum’s innovative reading of Dennis Brutus’ poetry underlines its concern for suffering humanity in the apartheid context and beyond. She brings to the fore the different motifs, strategies and artistry with which Brutus succeeds in initiating revolt through art.

The Aphorisms of Yi Deok-mu

Musings of a Grateful Reader

Edited By: Yi Deok-mu

£58.99

This volume brings together excerpts from Seongyuldang nongso and Imokgusimseo by the 18th-century scholar Yi Deok-mu. The thoughtful discourse presented here offers considerable comfort and joy to contemporary readers, in an age sadly dominated by a dog-eat-dog mentality.

Sufism as Lorna Goodison’s Alternative Poetic Path to Hope and Healing

By: Brenda Domínguez-Rosado

£58.99

Jamaican Poet Laureate Lorna Goodison's poetry uses Sufism to heal the trauma of the Middle Passage. This book examines how she applies Sufi ideals to a Caribbean context, showing how its message resonates with Jamaican-based religions and creates a new literary canon.

Jamaican Poet Laureate Lorna Goodison’s poetry uses Sufism to heal the trauma of the Middle Passage. This book examines how she applies Sufi ideals to a Caribbean context, showing how its message resonates with Jamaican-based religions and creates a new literary canon.

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.

Region, Nature, Frontiers

Proceedings from the 11th International Region and Nation Literature Association Conference

Edited By: Donna L. Potts, Amy D. Unsworth

£34.99

This collection of essays explores regional and national identities in literature from South Africa to the United States. Discussions include the American frontier, the relationship between non-fiction and place, and linguistic and postcolonial boundaries.

Patois and Linguistic Pastiche in Modern Literature

Edited By: Giovanna Summerfield

£29.99

In an era of standardization, dialect and patois are marks of identity. No in-depth treatment has been offered as to the causes and consequences of language mixing from both linguistic and literary views. This book aims to fill this lack of analysis.

Halma by Benito Pérez Galdós

By: Robert S. Rudder

£41.99

An aristocratic lady, Halma, uses her inheritance to found a Christian society for the needy. Her family, believing she is as mad as the disgraced priest Nazarín whom she harbors, works to defeat her. A fortunate denouement comes from the priest himself.

Power in Politics and Academia in Jonathan Coe’s Novels

By: Denisa Dumitrascu

£64.99

Dumitrașcu explores the intricate manifestations of contemporary power and the “resistance” and reaction to the dominant discourse in Jonathan Coe’s political fiction, covering the dismantling of the British social-democratic consensus, up to the new ideology of “Globalism.”

That Elusive Fountain of Wisdom

A Tale of the Human Thirst for Knowledge

By: Santiago Sia

From £32.99

In the university town of Leuven, Belgium, visiting scholars pursue their personal and academic objectives. What starts out as an academic sojourn becomes a life-changing experience as their paths cross and they learn about each other, themselves, and life itself.

The Politics of Poetics

Poetry and Social Activism in Early-Modern through Contemporary Italy

Edited By: Federica Santini

£44.99

This book analyzes Italian poetry that aims not to represent the world, but to enact a change upon it. Using the metaphor of the rhizome—a subversive, unpredictable growth—it explores poetics as an agent of social transformation, a revolt from within.

Postcolonial Borderlands

Orality and Irish Traveller Writing

By: Christine Walsh

£29.99

This volume explores the marginalization of Irish Travellers. Focusing on two autobiographies, it reveals the seminal role of storytelling in creating a sense of nationhood and a legitimate sense of belonging for a people excluded to society’s margins.

The Selected Letters of Charles Whibley

Scholar and Critic

Edited By: Damian Atkinson

£67.99

Scholar Charles Whibley straddled the Victorian age and the modern world. After his journalistic grounding with W.E. Henley, he moved in Parisian circles with Mallarmé and later befriended T.S. Eliot, who called his column “Musings without Method” a masterpiece of journalism.

On the Red Horse, Peter and Paul—A Small Book about a Big War (Diary Entries, Articles, Letters, 1991–1998)

By: Helena Peričić

£24.99

Helena Peričić's brave, open-hearted testimony of surviving the Homeland War in Croatia during the ’90s. This bilingual edition includes the English translation and the original Croatian text.

Helena Peričić’s brave, open-hearted testimony of surviving the Homeland War in Croatia during the ’90s.

This bilingual edition includes the English translation and the original Croatian text.

The House, the World, and the Theatre

Self-Fashioning and Authorial Spaces in the Prefaces of Hawthorne, Dickens, and James

By: Geraldo Magela Cáffaro

£41.99

Cáffaro departs from three ideologically resonant spatial metaphors to discuss key aspects of nineteenth-century literature and culture, namely the way authors used their prefaces to fashion themselves to cater to ever-expanding audiences and to the new conditions of publishing.

Beyond Words

The Othering Excursion in Contemporary American Literature

By: Wendy Harding, Jacky Martin

£34.99

When interpretation no longer applies, the Othering Excursion begins. This book elaborates a new method for reading texts that use disruptive rhetoric and distortion to point beyond cultural norms, finding meaning in zones of literary obscurity.

Space, Gender, and the Gaze in Literature and Art

Edited By: Ágnes Zsófia Kovács, László B. Sári

£52.99

This volume probes how space and gaze are tied in with social constructions of gender relations. It considers the gendered body, the queer gaze, the relationship between body and memory, the memory of war, monstrosity, and also domestic and hybrid spaces as key concepts.

Edward Thomas’s Roads from Arras

Edited By: Adrian Grafe, Andrew McKeown

£58.99

This celebratory centenary volume edited by two of the leading poetry specialists in Europe, sheds new light on Edward Thomas and the roads his poems have travelled, a century after his death at the Battle of Arras on 9th April 1917.

The Politics and New Humanism of André Brink

By: Isidore Diala

£61.99

This book appraises André Brink, one of South Africa’s foremost novelists and an acclaimed commentator on apartheid. It highlights the writer’s responsibility to a society in siege, drawing on postcolonial theory to examine the ideological implications of his early novels.

Florida Studies

Proceedings of the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association

Edited By: April van Camp, Claudia Slate

£39.99

This eclectic mix of Florida literature and history features essays by scholars on topics as diverse as Florida's first black general, poet Wallace Stevens, EPCOT theme park, the rhetoric of Carl Haissen, and Jim Morrison’s use of Floridian imagery.

This eclectic mix of Florida literature and history features essays by scholars on topics as diverse as Florida’s first black general, poet Wallace Stevens, EPCOT theme park, the rhetoric of Carl Haissen, and Jim Morrison’s use of Floridian imagery.