Ovid’s Heroides, or Letters of Heroines, is a collection of fictional letters from heroines to their absent lovers. This volume offers an essential databank for the final six poems: the three pairs of letters. It is arranged as an enlarged critical apparatus for the text.
Phillis Wheatley and Thomas Jefferson, Then and Now
This study offers a vital new perspective on African American poet Phillis Wheatley, reassessing her work and historical significance. It investigates the relationship between Wheatley and her greatest adversary: Thomas Jefferson, analyzing his infamous critique of her poetry.
Are Game of Thrones and feminism compatible? This book shows how the series’ female characters use revenge to acquire autonomy. Drawing on Renaissance Revenge Tragedies and modern feminism, it interprets Game of Thrones as a contemporary, feminist version of a Revenge Tragedy.
P. Ovidius Naso, The Heroides
Ovid’s Heroides is a collection of fictional letters from heroines to their absent lovers. This volume presents a radically new text and translation of the collection, separating the original core from later accretions. The translation is designed to aid interpretation.
Ovid’s Heroides are fictional letters from heroines to their absent lovers. This unique volume presents a comprehensive collection of all medieval and renaissance manuscript readings for poems 9-15, vital for understanding how the established text was created.
Ovid’s Heroides gives voice to mythical heroines in letters to their absent lovers. This groundbreaking volume offers the first-ever databank of medieval readings and modern conjectures, an essential resource for understanding how the poems’ texts were established.
The most comprehensive review of deaf characters in literature available. Examining 300 years of examples in novels, comics, and film, this work identifies key trends through the lens of deaf education, the use of sign language, and the rise of deaf identity and communities.
This research collection focuses on language study trends following the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores topics from teacher motivation and technology to student speaking anxiety, perfectionism, cultural influences, and linguistic analysis in English Language Teaching.
Disasters are not always acts of nature. This book opens a new field in disaster research: those caused by mankind. From industrial accidents to political corruption, it explores our vulnerability, resilience, and introduces the new concept of disaster sustainability.
By reframing the cosmos through entropy and creativity, this book offers a solution to the Fermi paradox, a correction of the Drake equation, and a new definition of singularity, revealing a unique chain of being—from elementary information to all possible worlds.
Karen Blixen’s Existentialism
This book investigates the writings of Karen Blixen from an existentialist angle. Blixen subtly integrates the ideas of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Sartre, making them accessible while offering her own ideas on existentialism’s fundamental problem: how to become who you are.
Variation in Linguistics
Language is rule-based, yet constantly varies. Understanding this variation helps us understand the forces that shape language itself. This book presents interdisciplinary research that sheds empirical light on the variables behind systematic variation in language.
This book analyzes bias and conflicts of interest in papers exaggerating the dangers of low-dose radiation. It argues antinuclear sentiment has been exploited to strangle nuclear energy, boosting fossil fuel prices and serving the interests of fossil fuel vendors.
Chalcidoidea of Turkey (Insecta
This work presents a detailed account of Turkey’s Chalcidoidea fauna, an insect group of paramount agricultural significance. It uncovers 1,024 species, providing comprehensive information on their distribution, hosts, and associations. A valuable resource for researchers.
Islamic Republic of Iran’s Foreign Policy in the South Caucasus
This book delves into Iran’s political, economic, and strategic relations with the southern Caucasus after the 1979 revolution. It examines Iran’s foreign policy, the legal framework of the Caspian Sea, and the strategic implications of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Kyrgyzstan and the Legacies of Collectivisation
Soviet rule in Kyrgyzstan was enabled by collectivisation and forcible population displacement. These strategies of colonisation reconfigured the population but were met with resistance. The book explores these changes and how independent Kyrgyzstan struggles with their legacy.
A fresh perspective on Gerard Manley Hopkins. This book argues that his artistic vision, not his faith, was the foremost concern in his poetry. It explores how themes of anxiety and transience shaped his voice, revealing his belief that they enhance rather than hinder creativity.
This collection synthesizes recent scholarship on medieval lordship. Exploring seigneurial systems from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, it emphasizes both institutional and informal forms of power. It offers a framework for newcomers and an in-depth tool for long-term scholars.
This is the definitive biography in English of Horacio Quiroga, the Latin-American Poe. Based on twenty years of work and newly discovered documents, it humanizes the writer and spotlights the marginalized women in his life, revealing a complex, contradictory man.
Nils Astrup’s 1889 Trek Translated
In 1889, at a critical historical juncture, Nils Astrup journeyed through Zululand and Swaziland as empires vied for control. His diary, now in its first English translation, offers a unique eyewitness account of colonialism’s impact on a region in dramatic flux.
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