Literary Studies: General
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Edinburgh German Yearbook 4: Disability in German Literature, Film, and Theater
Boydell & Brewer LtdCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99Cutting-edge application of the insights of Disability Studies to the German cultural field. Established, commissioned, and edited by the Departme...
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Federico García Lorca: The Poetics of Self-Consciousness
Federico BonaddioCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99A study of Lorca's poetic trajectory. This volume is one of few surveys in English of the whole of Lorca's poetry and the first to concentrate ent...
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Robert Thornton and his Books: Essays on the Lincoln and London Thornton Manuscripts
York Medieval PressCurrent price €98.09Original price €108.99Essays examining the compiler and contents of two of the most important and significant extant late medieval manuscript collections. The Yorkshire...
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Middle English Texts in Transition: A Festschrift dedicated to Toshiyuki Takamiya on his 70th birthday
York Medieval PressCurrent price €62.09Original price €68.99Fresh contributions to the study of medieval manuscripts, texts, and their creators. This exciting collection of essays is centred on late medieva...
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Post-War Spanish Women Novelists and the Recuperation of Historical Memory
Patricia O'ByrneCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99Reconstructs through testimonial literature the repression of women during the Franco years and recovers the writings of some of the forgotten post...
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Chaucer and Array: Patterns of Costume and Fabric Rhetoric in The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde and Other Works
Laura F. HodgesCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99An analysis of the ways in which Chaucer uses details of costume, clothing and fabric, enhancing our understanding of and shedding fresh insights i...
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Rethinking Chaucer''s Legend of Good Women
Carolyn P ColletteCurrent price €71.09Original price €78.99A fresh reading of the Legend shows it to be one of Chaucer's most carefully crafted and significant works. Professor Collette's approach to this ...
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Dialogic Aspects in the Cuban Novel of the 1990s
Ángela Dorado-OteroCurrent price €98.09Original price €108.99The author analyses six novels of the boom in Cuban fiction of the 1990s that subvert homogenized views of Cuban identity. This book examines six ...
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Machaut and the Medieval Apprenticeship Tradition: Truth, Fiction and Poetic Craft
Douglas KellyCurrent price €98.09Original price €108.99A close examination of an important theme in Machaut's works. A milestone in Machaut studies and in late-medieval French literature in general. Ma...
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Born under Auschwitz: Melancholy Traditions in Postwar German Literature
Mary CosgroveCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99Uncovers the literary traditions of melancholy that inform major works of postwar and contemporary German literature dealing with the Holocaust and...
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A Companion to the Works of Friedrich Schiller
Boydell & Brewer LtdCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99New essays providing a in-depth view of the many facets of the great world poet's work. Friedrich Schiller is not merely one of Germany's foremost...
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Encountering Disgrace: Reading and Teaching Coetzee''s Novel
Boydell & Brewer LtdCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99First book of essays devoted to Coetzee's controversial novel, combining critical and pedagogical approaches. Ever since it was first published in...
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A Companion to the Literature of German Expressionism
Boydell & Brewer LtdCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99New essays examining the complex period of rich artistic ferment that was German literary Expressionism. More than any other avant-garde movement,...
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Isabel Allende''s House of the Spirits Trilogy: Narrative Geographies
Karen Wooley MartinCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99The source of the narrative energy that creates such absorbing stories. Allende's very popular novels have attracted both critical approval and op...
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A Companion to German Realism 1848-1900
Boydell & Brewer LtdCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99New, specially commissioned essays on representative works of 19th-century German realism. This volume of new essays by leading scholars treats a ...
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Reading Nuruddin Farah: The individual, the novel & the idea of home
F. Fiona MoollaCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99A close analysis of Farah's novels is used to track the contradictions implicit in the notion of the modern, disengaged self and how transformation...
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Unsettling Montaigne: Poetics, Ethics and Affect in the Essais and Other Writings
Elizabeth GuildCurrent price €98.09Original price €108.99Striking new readings of Montaigne's works, focussing on such concepts as scepticism and tolerance. Montaigne's Essais (1580-1592) are one of the ...
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Aging and Old-Age Style in Günter Grass, Ruth Klüger, Christa Wolf, and Martin Walser: The Mannerism of a Late Period
Stuart TabernerCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99Explores the performance of aging in the late style of Günter Grass, Ruth Klüger, Christa Wolf, and Martin Walser. Demographers say that by the ye...
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Modality and Its Learner Variety in Japanese
Razaul FaquireCurrent price €53.51Original price €61.50In this book modality and its learner variety in Japanese are investigated from the perspective of grammaticalization in the functional framework. ...
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Proverbs Are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age
Wolfgang MiederCurrent price €36.53Original price €41.99This book takes an engaging look at the significance of traditional proverbs and their variation in the modern world. From sales pitch to propagand...
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Translating Emotion: Studies in Transformation and Renewal Between Languages
Peter Lang AG Internationaler Verlag der WissenschaftenCurrent price €47.84Original price €54.99This collection of essays can be situated in a development that has been underway in translation studies since the early 1990s, namely the increasi...
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Speech Acts and Politeness across Languages and Cultures
Peter Lang AG Internationaler Verlag der WissenschaftenCurrent price €93.08Original price €106.99Speech Acts and Politeness are among the main areas of interest in pragmatics. These communicative phenomena can be considered universal and at the...
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Cultural and Linguistic Encounters: Arab EFL Learners Encoding and Decoding Idioms
Anissa DaoudiCurrent price €47.84Original price €54.99Idioms are universal to all languages, and figurative language is pervasive in everyday discourse. However, idiom studies rarely touch on the probl...
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Borges and Space
Bill RichardsonCurrent price €55.35Original price €61.50This book examines the relevance of the concepts of space and place to the work of Jorge Luis Borges. The core of the book is a series of readings ...
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