David Lurie & Haruo Shirane 
Cambridge History of Japanese Literature [EPUB ebook] 

Hillary M. Nunn here traces the connections between the London public”s interest in medical dissection and the changing cultural significance of bloodshed on the early Stuart playhouse stage. Consid …

Timely and politically pertinent, this collection of essays links the fields of women’s studies and cultural studies, examining women’s desires and women as objects of desire. Working in diverse disc …

John le Carré and the Cold War explores the historical contexts and political implications of le Carré”s major Cold-War novels. The first in-depth study of le Carré this century, this book analyses …

For women-identified writers of both eras, the fantastic offered double vision. Not only did the genre offer strategic cover for challenging the status quo, but also a heuristic mechanism for teasing …

This volume represents a rereading of modernism and the modernist canon from a double distance: geographical and temporal. It is a revision not only from the periphery (Spain and Latin America), but …

This book addresses the ways in which writers deploy the trope of contested criminality to expose Zimbabwe”s socially and politically oppressive cultures in a wide range of novels and short stories …

This book actively engages with current discussion of narratology, and unnatural narrative theory in particular. Unsatisfied with the hegemony of European and Anglo-American narrative theory, it call …

This title was first published in 2000: Care-givers in the early modern period included not only mothers and stepmothers, but also midwives and nurses, tutors and educators, wise women and witches. T …

Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing volumes offer a new type of study aid that combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the writing skills you need to develop in order to en …

This volume posits and explores an intermedial genre called theatre-fiction, understood in its broadest sense as referring to novels and stories that engage in concrete and sustained ways with theatr …