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by Professor Michael Lackey
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
In this new collection of interviews, some of America's most prominent novelists identify the key intellectual developments that led to the rise of the contemporary biographical novel, discuss the kind of historical 'truth' this novel communicates, indicate why this narrative form is superior to the...
by Professor Chad V. Meister
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Evil: A Guide for the Perplexed is a lively examination of the philosophical and theological problems raised by the existence of widespread evil. It explores classic debates around this problem and also engages with more recent ones, from new challenges posed by scientific advances in evolutionary...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Material religion is a rapidly growing field, and this volume offers an accessible, critical entry into these new areas of research. Each "key term" uses case studies and is accompanied by a color image – an object, practice, space, or site. The entries cut across geographies, histories,...
Metamorphoses III
An Extract 511-733
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Metamorphoses is an epic poem but is very different from what we expect in an epic. Original, inventive and charming, the poem tells the stories of myths featuring transformations, from the creation of the universe to the death and deification of Julius Caesar. Book III concentrates on the House of...
Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War
Dialogues on Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
In this new volume, Jan Haywood and Naoíse Mac Sweeney investigate the position of Homer's Iliad within the wider Trojan War tradition through a series of detailed case studies. From ancient Mesopotamia to twenty-first century America, these examples are drawn from a range of historical and cultural...
Writing for TV and Radio
A Writers' and Artists' Companion
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This essential companion offers invaluable insights and solid, practical guidance to those keen to write for TV and radio.
PART 1 explores the nature of the media. It looks at the history of writing drama and comedy for radio and TV through a consideration of its key elements and some of the...
by Gary Cox
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Jean-Paul Sartre is an undisputed giant of twentieth-century philosophy. His intellectual writings popularizing existentialism combined with his creative and artistic flair have made him a legend of French thought. His tumultuous personal life - so inextricably bound up with his philosophical thinking...
Conceived in Modernism
The Aesthetics and Politics of Birth Control
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Current debates about birth control can be surprisingly volatile, especially given the near-universal use of contraception among American and British women. Conceived in Modernism: The Aesthetics and Politics of Birth Control offers a new perspective on these debates by demonstrating that the political...
Deep Classics
Rethinking Classical Reception
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Fragmented, buried, and largely lost, the classical past presents formidable obstacles to anyone who would seek to know it. 'Deep Classics' is the study of these obstacles and, in particular, of the way in which the contemplation of the classical past resembles – and has even provided a model for...
Leisured Resistance
Villas, Literature and Politics in the Roman World
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Leisured Resistance examines the varied ways in which cultured Roman aristocrats, of very different periods, used their country estates as a political and literary tool. While for some the villas were retreats in which to compose literature and to escape from politics, others adapted this same tradition...
by Ashley Carter
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
This collection of Latin unseen passages forms a companion volume to Latin Momentum Tests for GCSE, and is intended to be used similarly by students preparing for examinations at AS, A2 and AEA levels. The largest section is set at AS level and comprises prose passages forming a coherent story based...
Global Wallace
David Foster Wallace and World Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
David Foster Wallace is invariably seen as an emphatically American figure. Lucas Thompson challenges this consensus, arguing that Wallace's investments in various international literary traditions are central to both his artistic practice and his critique of US culture. Thompson shows how, time and...
Modernist Lives
Biography and Autobiography at Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Focusing on the biographies and autobiographies published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press from 1917-1946, Claire Battershill shows the importance of publishing history in understanding modernist literary work and culture. Modernist Lives draws on archival material from the Hogarth Press...
Beyond the Willing Suspension of Disbelief
Poetic Faith from Coleridge to Tolkien
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's conception of "the willing suspension of disbelief" marks a pivotal moment in the history of literary theory. Returning to Coleridge's thought and Shakespeare criticism to reconstruct this idea as a form of "poetic faith", Michael Tomko here lays the foundations...