Inger H. Dalsgaard & Luc Herman 
Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon [PDF ebook] 

This book visits the fact that, in the pre-modern world, saints and lords served structurally similar roles, acting as patrons to those beneath them on the spiritual or social ladder with the word ‘p …

Taking as its premise the belief that communalism is not a resurgence of tradition but is instead an inherently modern phenomenon, as well as a product of the fundamental agencies and ideas of modern …

First published in 1996. The need to write, particularly in pre-technological recording days, in order to preserve and to analyze, lies at the heart of folklore and yet to write means to change the m …

”No words can express the secret agony of my soul”. Dickens”s tantalising hint alluding to his time at Warren”s Blacking Factory remains a gnomic statement until Forster”s biography after Dicken …

Beginning with the premise that women”s perceptions of manliness are crucial to its construction, The author focuses on the life and writings of Charlotte Yonge as a prism for understanding the form …

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 …

Tracing the development of narrative verse in London”s literary circles during the 1590s, this volume puts Shakespeare”s Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece into conversation with poems by a w …

First published in 2000. The Other Reconstruction examines groundbreaking works by three African American women whose writings expose the economic, political, and social factors that sustained race v …

Arguing that contemporary celebrity authors like Zadie Smith, Ian Mc Ewan, Martin Amis, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Eimear Mc Bride and Anna Burns position their work and public personae within a …

"Tales from the Kingdom" is a captivating collection of fairy tales and fantasy stories set in an enchanting kingdom. The book transports readers to a world filled with magic, mythical crea …