Gulema Shimelis Gulema & Brioni Simone Brioni 
Horn of Africa and Italy [PDF ebook] 
Colonial, Postcolonial and Transnational Cultural Encounters

This book studies Native American and Chicano/a writers of the American Southwest as a coherent cultural group with common features and distinct efforts to deal with and to resist the dominant …

This book shows how pirates were portrayed in their own time, in trial reports, popular prints, novels, legal documents, sermons, ballads and newspaper accounts. It examines how attitudes towards …

For many centuries, the history of the crusades, as written by Western historians, was based solidly on Western sources. Evidence from the Islamic societies that the crusaders attacked was used only …

Exploring the ways in which women have formed and defined expressions of culture in a range of geographical, political, and historical settings, this collection of essays examines women”s figurative …

Demonstrating and defending a method of close reading and historical contextualisation of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, this collection of essays by Tom Mc Alindon combines a number of …

Dublin: Renaissance city of literature interrogates the notion of a literary ‘renaissance’ in Dublin. Through detailed case studies of print and literature in Renaissance Dublin, the volume covers …

What is the point of living? If we are all going to die anyway, if nothing will remain of whatever we achieve in this life, why should we bother trying to achieve anything in the first place? Can we …

Applying the latest narratological theory and focusing on the use of anachrony (or ”chronological deviation”), this book explores how Statius competes – successfully – for a place within an …

For Virginia Woolf, H.D., Mary Butts and Gwendolyn Brooks, things mobilise creativity, traverse domestic, public and rural spaces and stage the interaction between the sublime and the mundane. …

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 …