A. F. L. Beeston & T. M. Johnstone 
Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period [EPUB ebook] 

James Joyce and Classical Modernism contends that the classical world animated Joyce“s defiant, innovative creativity and cannot be separated from what is now recognized as his modernist aesthetic. …

150 years after Alice“s Adventures in Wonderland was first published, Lewis Carroll“s eponymous heroine has become one of the most familiar figures in the cultural landscape. The enduringly iconic …

Birgitta of Sweden (Birgitta Birgersdotter, 1302/03-1373) and her younger contemporary Catherine of Siena (Caterina Benincasa, 1347-1380) form the most powerful and influential female duo in European …

Biblical Limits is a new series which brings to the traditional field of Biblical Studies literary criticism, anthropology and gender-based approaches, thus reaching new ways of understanding Biblica …

Beginning with the premise that men and women of the Romantic period were lively interlocutors who participated in many of the same literary traditions and experiments, Fellow Romantics offers an …

Thomas Hardy“s ‚The Dynasts‘ and Leo Tolstoy“s ‚War & Peace‘ are both works which defy attempts to assign them to a particular genre but might seem to have little else in common apart from being …

An excellent account of, and reflection on, each diverse stage of American literary giant Philip Roth“s fifty-year career, this book also looks outwards, touching on other aspects of intellectual …

This ground-breaking volume connects the situatedness of genre in English poetry with developments in classical scholarship, exploring how an emphasis on the interaction between English literary …

The Spanish mystic Teresa of Avila (1515-82), author of one of the most acclaimed early modern autobiographies (Vida, 1565), has generated a wealth of literary, historical and theological studies, …

– How do actors prepare a script of a Shakespeare play for performance? – Where do directors begin? – What do Shakespeare“s plays offer a designer or choreographer? – How do the cast and …