Arts, Literature and Humanities

About the Book Highly regarded today as one of the greatest novels in English literature, Little Dorrit presents both a scathing indictment of mid-...

About the Book Jacques Derrida has argued about the difference between literature and theory that despite its institutional status, part of its 'in...

About the Book From Uncle Tom's Cabin to East of Eden, and from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest to I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and more.

About the Book Critics hailed the first edition of The Literature of Scotland as one of the most comprehensive and fascinatingly readable accounts ...

About the Book Critics hailed The Literature of Scotland as one of the most comprehensive and fascinatingly readable accounts of Scottish life and ...

These are times of upheaval when one is assaulted physically, emotionally and psychologically from all quarters. Despite the trauma, however, one s...

About the Book This timely volume presents a rich and absorbing selection of extracts from over two hundred leading literary critics of the last se...

About the Book The intersection between law and literature is a developing area in literary studies. Recent work argues that literature provides an...

The book brings together a set of essays on literature, culture and literary conversations that have appeared in some of the leading forums in the ...

About the Book Selected from the pages of Le monde, the interviews conducted by Florence Noiville are unequalled in literary journalism. In literar...

About the Book Donald Davidson is probably the most eminent living analytic philosopher, and his writings in philosophy of language and philosophy ...

About the Book Why do authors use pseudonyms and pen-names, or ingeniously hide names in their work with acrostics and anagrams? How has the range ...

About the Book This four volume collection of primary sources examines literary and cultural criticism over the long nineteenth century. The volume...

Literary Activism revisits and interrogates, and looks to renew, the force of the literary. It's a movement that emerges from a radically altered l...

About the Book This textbook proposes a theoretical approach to linguistics in relation to teaching English. Combining research with practical clas...

Lines from an Artistic Life explores the drawings of eminent Indian artist K M Adimoolam, well-known in India and internationally for his meticulou...

About the Book In most developed countries there is a palpable sense of confusion about the contemporary state of the world. Much that was taken fo...

About the Book -The first volume to offer such a perspective on Lightning, one of Husain's most controversial works -Features many essays by renown...

About the Book Emotionally compelling and formally innovative, Life-Like is Toby Litt's most ambitious collection of short stories to date, bringin...

About the Book Letters to Madeleine collects for the first time in English the remarkable letters and poems sent by French poet Guillaume Apollinai...

About the Book This work is in the form of letters written by an old philosopher, at the end of his career and life, to a young student. The letter...

The violence that explodes in Aditi’s life one sultry afternoon in a town where nothing ever happens, has unexpected and spiralling consequences. L...

About the Book Offers a refreshing and unique approach to the techniques of teaching 'listening and speaking English' to non-native speakers of the...

About the Book -Unrivalled showcase of sixteenth-century Vijayanagara architecture and art -More than 200 images, specially commissioned from an ou...

American architect Lebbeus Woods (1940–2012) remains a quiet hero not only among his colleagues, but also for architectural students intrigued by t...

In this important new book, Sudha Rajagopalan explores the consumption of Indian popular cinema in post-Stalinist Soviet society. In doing so, she ...

We live as social beings. But our being social includes power structures of various kinds – from the language that we speak and write in to the sta...

A bridge to the world of mathematics for readers who want to gain a good foundation in basic mathematical skills for research and other activities...

About the Book This is the fullest account ever published of Latin suffixes in English. It explores the rich variety of English words formed by the...

About the Book We use language everyday in every aspect of our lives, whether at school, work, or home, with friends, colleagues or family. The abi...

About the Book Ludwig Wittgenstein's interest in the writings of Rabindranath Tagore, is recognized among scholars worldwide though little has been...

About the Book Language Turned on Itself examines what happens when language becomes self-reflexive; when language is used to talk about language. ...

Language History of the Kamta and Cooch Behar Region

About the Book Language and National Identity in Asia is a comprehensive introduction to the role of language in the construction and development o...

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Osnabrück, language...

About the Book Landscapes of Desire in the Poetry of Vittorio Sereni is the first book-length study in English on Vittorio Sereni (1913-83), one of...

This book introduces students, practitioners, and laypeople to a comfortable approach to learning landscape architectural design free of design jar...

About the Book Landscape architecture plays an important role in shaping the places in which we live and work. But what is it? Landscape architects...

Evaluating how land ownership relates to workings of global capital and the lives of both women and men, this analysis draws from field research in...

This book studies the various narrative shades of love in twentieth-century Latin American fiction. It examines writings by Isabel Allende, Roberto...

When Dr Alice Tanner discovers two skeletons during an archaeological dig in southern France, she unearths a link with a horrific and brutal past. ...

About the Book La Reine Margot is a modern film, and a big scale costume drama. Examining this film as a part of an influential cycle of French his...

The first major book on Kutiyattam—the vibrant theatre tradition that existed in India from the times of the Natya Sastra. It traces the history an...

Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Megacity

The first full-length narration of the extraordinary life, immense literary output and manifold philosophical perspectives of Kumarajiva, the great...