Alan Swingewood 
Sociological Poetics And Aesthetic Theory [PDF ebook] 

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 …

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. …

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 …

Rulers of Literary Playgrounds: Politics of Intergenerational Play in Children’s Literature offers multifaceted reflection on interdependences between children and adults as they engage in play in li …

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 …

Written by the great medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides, The Guide of the Perplexed attempts to explain the perplexities of biblical language—and apparent inconsistencies in the text—in the light …

The Anatomy of Insults in Shakespeare”s World explores Shakespeare”s complex art of insults and shows how the playwright set abusive words at the heart of many of his plays. It provides valuable …

In Victorian England, Amelia B. Edwards was an iconic cultural figure, admired by Trollope and Browning for her best-selling fiction and by the wider public for her witty, thought-provoking travel …

Forged at the intersection of intense interest in the pertinence and uses of biopolitics and biopower, this volume analyzes theoretical and practical paradigms for understanding and challenging the s …

First published in 1988, Lady Chatterley explores the events and experiences which surrounded D. H. Lawrence’s writing of his infamous last novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover. The account begins with Law …