English Literature

Contemporary Stylistics introduces the theoretical principles and practical frameworks of stylistics and cognitive poetics, supplying the practical...

Heralded as one of France's greatest poets, Yves Bonnefoy has been dazzling readers since the publication of his first book in 1953. He remains inf...

The international community of letters mourns the recent death of Yves Bonnefoy, universally acclaimed as one of France's greatest poets of the las...

Phobic And The Erotic: The Politics Of Sexualities In Contemporary India

Widely considered the foremost French poet of his generation, Yves Bonnefoy has wowed the literary world for decades with his diffuse volumes. Firs...

Friedrich dürrenmatt was one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century, a talent on par with Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Je...

bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b In 1816, when eighteen-year old Mary Godwin began writing Frankenstein, the idea that a...

A leading critic explains what makes American poetry--a vast genre covering diverse styles, techniques, and form--distinctive. In this short and e...

bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the 'best-loved' poet in English of the second h...

What defines a modern short story is much more than a question of length. Despite the efforts of early pioneers like Edgar Allan Poe, the genre was...

In contemporary Norwegian fiction Tomas Espedal’s work stands out as uniquely personal; it can be difficult to separate the fiction from Espedal’s ...

A few years after the deadly 2011 terror attack in Norway’s Utøya Island, Otto and Sofie are attempting to put the pieces of their life back togeth...

Now in paperback, the epic tale of a violinist who must navigate the fractious world of early twentieth-century Germany. “Ruven Preuk stands apart...

In the hands of such writers as Rebecca Solnit, Claudia Rankine, David Shields, Zadie Smith and many others, the essay has re-emerged as a powerful...

Language Unlimited explores the many mysteries about our capacity for language and reveals the source of its endless creativity. All humans, but n...

Placing contemporary spoken English at the centre of phonological research, this book tackles the issue of language variation and change through a ...

Sets out in a new and authoritative way the history of the essay; explains how the essay has come to mean what it does, surveys the widely various ...

This screenplay by Swiss playwright and novelist Max frisch was developed from an episode in his 1964 novel gantenbein, or a wilderness of mirrors....

In Sophia Naz's poems, one has the sense of being out in the open-of our beings fermenting as we read, of looking back from time to time, to check ...

A defence of the importance of poetry that studies one of the greatest poets of the English tradition: John Milton. The Literary Agenda is a serie...

“Of course I had to end up here.” over ten rainy nights, Thomas, an ex-bargeman who used to be skipper of his own boat, walks the muddy fields of t...

Klaus Merz is one of the most prominent, prolific, and versatile Swiss writers working today. Celebrated as a master of concise, condensed sentence...

Few would question that Albert Camus (1913-1960), novelist, playwright, philosopher and journalist, is a major cultural icon. His widely quoted wor...

“In 1968-69 I wanted to die, that is to say, stop living, being killed, but it was blocked on all sides,” wrote Helene Cixous, esteemed French femi...

This anthology of contemporary Palestinian plays, created during or after the second intifada (2000–2005), directly emerges from the physical and p...

‘I had but that one arrow,’ says chotti Munda, the hero of this epic tale. A ‘magic’ arrow that stood for the pride, the wisdom, the culture, of th...

There are many ways to travel between India and the UK in general and Calcutta and Norwich in particular. You could take a plane and then the bus o...

Quiet Flows The River Jhelum

The Awasthis of Aamnagri (P.B)

Elegy for the East: A Story of Blood and Broken Dreams (F.B)

A Plate of White Marble (F.B)

The year is 1565. Devastation reigns over the once-renowned Vijayanagara empire. Its powerful Army has buckled under the assault of four minor sult...

War and peace and anna karenina are widely recognised as two of the greatest novels ever written. Their author Leo Tolstoy has been honoured as the...

Baruch Spinoza (1632–77) is considered one of the great rationalist thinkers of the seventeenth century. His magnum opus, Ethics, in which he criti...

Today many people take reading for granted, but we remain some way off from attaining literacy for the global human population. And whilst we think...

The idea of a home is at the heart of pulayathara, which is not only the first Dalit novel on record (1963) but also one of the founding texts of t...

The fascinus, or phallus, was at the heart of classical Roman art and life. No God was more represented in ancient Rome than the Phallic deity Pria...

Basanti is a misfit in conservative, pre-independence rural Odisha. Not only does she read and write, all her choices—from marrying for love to dis...

This collection of four stories by the writer George Steiner called “one of the masters of European fiction” is, as long-time fans of Thomas Bernha...

Shakespeare and Text is built on the research and experience of a leading expert on Shakespeare editing and textual studies. The first edition has ...

The Gap-Toothed Banister, A Tale of Anglo-India is a close, compassionate look by Juliette Banerjee, an Anglo-Indian, at her community facing the c...

Originally writing over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer is today enjoying a global renaissance. Why do poets, translators, and audiences from so ma...

This unique book is a graphic novel and performance poem, a mixed-media musical cartoon, an animated feature film come to life. Lee breuer’s la div...