Liverpool University Press imprint: 64 books

Caribbean Critique

Antillean Critical Theory from Toussaint to Glissant

by Nick Nesbitt
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013

Caribbean Critique seeks to define and analyze the distinctive contribution of francophone Caribbean thinkers to perimetric Critical Theory. The book argues that their singular project has been to forge a brand of critique that, while borrowing from North Atlantic predecessors such as Rousseau, Hegel,...
by Louise Hardwick
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013

This book examines a major modern turn in Francophone Caribbean literature towards the récit d'enfance, or childhood memoir, and asks why this occurred post-1990, connecting texts to recent changes in public policy and education policy concerning the commemoration of slavery and colonialism both...
by Sarah Westcott
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016

In her first full-length collection, Sarah Westcott immerses the human self in the natural world, giving voice to a remarkable range of flora and fauna so often silenced or unheard. Here, the voiceless speaks, laments and sings - from the fresh voice of a spring wood to a colony of bats or a grove...
by Ruby Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016

Drawing from neuroscience on the idea of 'internal gain', an internal volume control which helps us amplify and focus on quiet sounds in times of threat, danger or intense concentration, Ruby Robinson's brilliant debut introduces a poet whose work is governed by a scrupulous attention to the detail...

And She Was

A Verse-Novel

by Sarah Corbett
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

A soul's journey through the night, a missing woman: time and narrative bend and interlock across a play of poetic forms and voices to make one story of love and loss. In And She Was Corbett combines the fictional spell-making of Haruki Murakami, with the filmic neo-noir of Atom Egoyan (Exotica) and...

Poetry & Geography

Space & Place in Post-war Poetry

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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013

Poetry & Geography examines the rich diversity of geographical imaginations informing post-war and contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland. Drawing impetus from the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences, the fourteen essays collected here appraise the significance of ideas of space,...

Memory, Narrative and the Great War

Rifleman Patrick MacGill and the Construction of Wartime Experience

by David Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013

Memory, Narrative and the Great War provides a detailed examination of the varied and complex war writings of a relatively marginal figure, Patrick MacGill, within a general framework of our current pre-occupation with blood, mud and suffering. In particular, it seeks to explain how his interpretation...

Bosnia-Herzegovina

The Vance/Owen Peace Plan

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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013

In 1992 David Owen was appointed the EU Co-Chairman of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia, working alongside the UN's Co-Chairman, Cyrus Vance. The papers collected here provide fascinating primary source material and an insider's account of the intense international political activity...

Surveying the American Tropics

A Literary Geography from New York to Rio

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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013

American Tropics' refers to a kind of extended Caribbean, an area that includes the southern USA, the Atlantic littoral of Central America, the Caribbean islands, and northern South America. European colonial powers fought intensively here against indigenous populations and against each other for...

London Underground

A Cultural Geography

by David Ashford
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013

In London Underground: A Cultural Geography, David Ashford sets out to chart one of the strangest, as well as the most familiar, spaces in London. This book provides a theoretical account of the evolution of an archetypal modern environment. The first to complete that slow process of estrangement...

The Poetry of Dylan Thomas

Under the Spelling Wall

by John Goodby
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013

Published in anticipation of the centenary of the poet's birth, The Poetry of Dylan Thomas is the first study of poet to show how his work may be read in terms of contemporary critical concerns, using theories of modernism, the body, gender, the carnivalesque, language, hybridity and the pastoral...

Postcolonial Poetics

Genre and Form

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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011

Postcolonial literature has often tended to invite readings that focus on the relation between texts and political contexts, not surprisingly perhaps, given the fraught historical moments of colonialism and decolonisation with which it frequently engages. Nevertheless, critics such as Nicholas Harrison...
by Andrew Fekete
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017

The Quest for Gold is an edited version of writings by visionary Andrew Fekete - a painter, architect, poet and writer, who died in 1986 from an Aids-related illness. Andrew, flâneur, walked the city; he was a man whose writings, to adapt the words of Baudelaire, serve as a mirror as vast as the...
by Philippe Lane
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013

France has long been engaged in a very active cultural and scientific diplomacy. It aims both at ensuring and valorising the international presence of France in the domains of language, culture, communication, or higher education and research. This diplomacy is backed by a network of cooperation services...
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