Paul Crosthwaite 
Market Logics of Contemporary Fiction [PDF ebook] 

A comprehensive analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on Shakespeare“s reception by major American writers and poets. …

The revival of translation as a means of learning and teaching a foreign language and as a skill in its own right is occurring at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in universities. In this b …

Focusing on four aspects of Chaucer“s poetics-use of narrative, speech, rhetoric, and figurative language-this is the first book-length study to identify Chaucer“s distinctive poetic strategies by …

‚Three essays on the nature of the bonds between Vita Nuova and Convivio; the nature and significance of the Donna Gentile, Dante“s “second love“; and the imaginative and intellectual coherence of …

For John Henry Newman, religion is animated by an imaginative “master vision“ which “supplies the mind with spiritual life and peace“. All his life, Newman reflected on this “master vision“. Hi …

Chicago and the Making of American Modernism is the first full-length study of the vexed relationship between America“s great modernist writers and the nation“s “second city.” Michelle E. Moore exp …

The corporation – an immortal collective bound to act for the common good – was developed in the seventeenth century, but comparatively little attention has been paid to its literary ramifications. T …

Reinterpreting Badiou“s philosophy in light of both his persistent, reverent invocations of the German-Jewish poet Paul Celan, and his long-term engagement with Samuel Beckett, Badiou, Poem and Subj …

How is the medieval world depicted today? Two German museums serve as case studies for a vibrant, imaginative, and provocative enactment of twenty-first century medievalism: the Museum Wolfram von Es …

Enid Porter spent many years collecting and recording from Cambridgeshire people the folk beliefs and customs held and observed in the country, both past and present. The subjects covered in the book …