English Literature

This innovative, interdisciplinary course textbook is designed to provide the who, what, where, when, why, and how of the intersections of language...

Discourse analysis considers how language, both spoken and written, enacts social and cultural perspectives and identities. Assuming no prior knowl...

About the Book The first woman to practice law in India and Britain, Cornelia Sorabji founded the League for Infant Welfare, Maternity and District...

About the Book This is the first systematic historical anthology of Russian women's writing to appear in any language. It provides a radically new ...

About the Book This novel by esteemed Swiss writer Max Frisch is an exploration of the question: 'Why don't we live when we know we're here just th...

About the Book Why don’t we live when we know we're here just this one time, just one single, unrepeatable time in this unutterably magnificent w...

About the Book Delivering facts and findings from a variety of multilingual settings, this textbook systematically covers the diverse dimensions of...

About the Book One of the greatest and most versatile writers in the Bengali literary sphere succeeding Tagore, Buddhadeva Bose (1908–1974) was a...

About the Book A scholarly review of American world literature from early times to the postmodernist era American World Literature: An Introduction...

Describes the background of All's Well That Ends Well, discusses its major themes, and looks at its critical reception

A true hallmark of American fiction, All the King's Men tells the timeless story of the rise and fall of a southern politician, Willie Stark, and t...

Alice’s adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll is an Evergreen children’s classic that takes the reader into a fantastic world of unforgettable ...

About the Book This set comprises forty volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be avai...

About the Book On April 8, 1945, several American bomber squadrons were informed that their German targets were temporarily unavailable due to clou...

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

Against Creative Writing explores the difference between 'writing', which is what writers do, and Creative Writing, which is the instrumentalisatio...

African Poetry and Drama

About the Book Although Herman Melville's masterworks Moby-Dick and Benito Cereno have long been the subject of vigorous scholarly examination, th...

It documents and recreats an event, provides insight into an India community's negotiation with religious lore, explores a unique theatrical tradit...

About the Book Academic Discourse and Global Publishing offers a coherent argument for changes in published academic writing over the past 50 years...

This book examines the practice of poetry in the devotional Vaiṣṇava tradition inspired by Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya (1486-1533), through a detailed study...

About the Book No other country in the world evokes such contrasting sentiments as the United States of America. This is not new, but it has become...

About the Book In Japan there is a legend that anyone who folds one thousand paper cranes will have their wishes realized. But folding cranes, and ...

About the Book The fourth novel in Tariq Ali's 'Islam Quintet' charts the life and loves of the medieval cartographer Muhammed al-Idrisi. Torn betw...

A Random Walk in Sanitiniketan Ashram is a spontaneous foray through one of India’s premier universities—Rabindranath Tagore’s Visva-Bharati. It is...

About the Book Exploring the complicated landscape of human interaction within the walls of the offices of Essential Products Ltd., this serious ye...

Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysander both want Hermia but she only has eyes for ...

About the Book “Everyone is free here. . . . The cities are open. They are open to the world and to the future. That is what gives them all an ai...

About the Book In these 99 meditations, poet and novelist Hans Magnus Enzensberger celebrates the tenacity of the normal and routine in everyday li...

Aimed at advanced students, this book discusses a number of approaches to charting the major developments in the syntax of English. It discusses in...

About the Book This textbook will help you unlock and access the great potential of corpus linguistics for language learning. While other books dis...

These 12 stories, originally written and published in Malayalam over a period of almost two decades, represent different phases in e. Santhosh Kuma...

A Day in the Life of Mangal Taram

About the Book Stella vinitchi radulescu’s poetry dwells in spaces of paradox, seeking out the words, metaphors and images that capture both the ...

About the Book A Companion to Virginia Woolf is a thorough examination of her life, work, and multiple contexts in 33 essays written by leading sch...

About the Book Among the elementary human stories, parenthood has tended to go without saying. Compared to the spectacular attachments of romantic ...

About the Book The extraordinary career of Franz Liszt (1811-86) as a composer, conductor, and virtuoso pianist--whose incomparable skill and perso...

A Bonsai Tree is not a memoir; it is an autobiography. Memoir is a selective slice of life focused to advantage; autobiography is the whole messy l...

About the Book Brimming with the fascinating eccentricities of a complex and confusing movement whose influences continue to resonate deeply, 30 Gr...

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

A Christmas Carol (H.B)

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...

Soumitra Chatterjee: A Life in Cinema, Theatre, Poetry & Painting (H.B)

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

I enjoyed success too early, married the wrong man, and hung out with the wrong people; too many men have likewise and I’ve liked too many men. Fra...