Helen Van Noorden 
Playing Hesiod [PDF ebook] 
The ‘Myth of the Races’ in Classical Antiquity

This book deals with all aspects of the Merlin legend, from its origins to its expression in medieval and modern literature, film, and popular culture. Following an extended introduction and a full b …

‘The nineteenth century realist author was a contradictory figure. He was the focus of literary criticism, but obscured his creative role by insisting on presenting his works as »copies» of reality …

Édouard Glissant was a leading voice in debates centering on the postcolonial condition and on the present and future of globalisation. Prolific as both a theorist and a literary author, Glissant sta …

This book offers the first comprehensive evaluation of ethics in the ancient Greek novel, demonstrating how their representation of the cardinal virtue sophrosune positions these texts in their liter …

This volume reflects on the ghostly and its varied manifestations including the uncanny, the revenant, the echo, and other forms of artistic allusion. These unsettling presences of the spectral …

‘This book was crying out to be written.’ The Irish Times ‘Scandalously readable.’ Literary Review James Joyce»s relationship with his homeland was a complicated and often vexed one. The publication …

"The fatal glove" is a literary criticism and thrilling book written by Clara August. The book describes the story in a captivating way which follows the journey of Constance Danforth, a yo …

As a woman in an illegal marriage, publishing under a male pseudonym, George Eliot was one of the most successful yet controversial writers of the Victorian period. Today she is considered a key figu …

First published in 2000. This is Volume I of fourteen of a series on India- its language and literature. Collated in 1886, this is a collection of Indian and Oriental poems, songs and two books from …

Representations of masochism — both overt and oblique — permeate the work of James Joyce. While a number of critics have noted this, to date there has been no sustained and focused analysis of this t …