Overview :"The Dead" is the final and longest story in the "Dubliners", a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce. First published in 1904,... Read More
Overview :From the author of HOW TO THINK and THE PLEASURES OF READING IN AN AGE OF DISTRACTION, a literary guide to engaging with the voices of the p... Read More
Overview :Offering a profound re-assessment of the conceptual, rhetorical, and cultural intersections among sexuality, race and religion in English Re... Read More
Overview :Sadegh Hedayat's novel The Blind Owl is considered by many to be the greatest work of modern Persian literature. Often compared to the class... Read More
Overview :Larry Allums, editor Louise Cowan, general editor The community of scholar-critics that brought out The Terrain of Comedy has produced the s... Read More
Overview :By virtue of its casual, off-handedly brilliant wisdom and the easy splendor of its nature writing, Thoreau's account of his two year advent... Read More
Overview :Swimsuit: check. Flip-flops: check. scuba gear: check. leaving behind a longtime boyfriend: not so easy. Marina has been waiting her whole l... Read More
Overview :How Japan captured the Victorian imagination and transformed Western aesthetics From the opening of trade with Britain in the 1850s, Japan ... Read More
Overview :Texas Ranger Ray Andrews was tired of hearing about the California gold rush. His best friend and fellow Ranger, Tom Jenkins, constantly bad... Read More
Overview :For students and readers new to the work of Ford Madox Ford, this volume provides a comprehensive introduction to one of the most complex, i... Read More
Overview :This is the first ever English translation of Sir David Lindsay's masterpiece of 16th-century Scottish political theatre, Ane Pleasant Satyr... Read More
Overview :SLAP IN THE FACE: FOUR RUSSIAN FUTURIST MANIFESTOSTranslated from the Russian by Boris DralyukA SLAP IN THE FACE OF PUBLIC TASTE (1912) the... Read More
Overview :This book addresses W.B. Yeats's and Rabindranath Tagore's engagements with identity, nationalism, and the literary and cultural traditions ... Read More
Overview :Authors do not only create artworks. In the process of creating, they simultaneously bring to life their authorial persona. Approaching this... Read More
Overview :For centuries, Spain and the South have stood out as the exceptional "other" within U.S. and European nationalisms. During Franco's regime a... Read More
Overview :In this new study, Elizabeth Goldsmith continues her pursuit of issues treated in her earlier books on conversation, epistolary writing, and... Read More
Overview :The future of fiction is neither global nor national. Instead, Matthew Hart argues, it is trending extraterritorial. Extraterritorial spaces... Read More
Overview :A first translation of William Shaspeare's famous work in Haitian maternal language. The author, Nicole Titus, has also translated and publi... Read More
Overview :Challenging the idea that a writer's work reflects his experiences in time and place, Andrew M. Cooper locates the action of William Blake's... Read More
Overview :Nancy Gutierrez's exploration of female food refusal during the early modern period contributes to the ongoing conversation about female sub... Read More