Garrett Stewart 
Value of Style in Fiction [PDF ebook] 

‘Free will: mental energy that poofs into existence from scratch?’ In pairing key ideas from the history of philosophy with examples from everyday life and culture, David Cunning produces a clear, in …

This book provides the first detailed account of Gramsci”s work in the context of current critical and socio-cultural debates. Renate Holub argues that Gramsci was ahead of his time in offering a th …

Jataka stories (stories about the previous births of the Buddha) are very popular in Theravada Buddhist countries, where they are found in both canonical texts and later compositions and collections, …

The print culture of the early twentieth century has become a major area of interest in contemporary Modernist Studies. Modernism”s Print Cultures surveys the explosion of scholarship in this field …

From quantum physics and genetics to psychology and the social sciences, from the development of atomic weapons to the growing mass media of film and radio, the early 20th century was a period of int …

Focusing on individual authors from Heinrich Boll to Gunther Grass, Hermann Lenz to Peter Schneider, The Language of Silence offers an analysis of West German literature as it tries to come to terms …

The Bhagavad Gita is a unique literary creation but deciphering its meaning and philosophy is not easy or simple. This careful study of the Bhagavad Gita approaches the ancient text with a modern min …

Focusing on the significance of place, connection and relationship in three poets who are seldom considered in conjunction, Rory Waterman argues that Philip Larkin, R.S. Thomas and Charles Causley ep …

First published in 2009, this book investigates the cultural significance of nineteenth-century women’s writing and reading practices. Beginning with an examination of non-fictional diaries and the p …

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) needs little introduction as the central figure in Romantic poetry and a crucial influence in the development of poetry generally. This broad-ranging survey redefines t …