Comparative Literature

Using Germany as a national case study, this volume examines the historical genesis of precarity, its evolution from 19th-century industrial modernity to the present, and its reflections and reconfigurations in artistic production, in particular with...

A study of literature written by Jewish authors while interned in Nazi ghettos emphasizes how authors processed their horrific experiences through poetry and prose. Published in Association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum This is the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765131138Author Professor Peter L. RudnytskyFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Across Africa, Asia, and the Americas, colonial Britain's property laws are in the process of being transformed. Aesthetic Impropriety analyzes vanguard legal actions and literary innovations to reveal contemporary reforms to property law that are...

Across Africa, Asia, and the Americas, colonial Britain's property laws are in the process of being transformed. Aesthetic Impropriety analyzes vanguard legal actions and literary innovations to reveal contemporary reforms to property law that are...

Drawing on a global history of politicized writing, this book explores literature's utility as a mode of activism and aesthetic engagement with the political challenges of the current moment.The question of literature's 'uses' has recently become a key...

Who were the pioneers who first thought of radio as an art form, who debated how to write and perform for radio, who discussed radio's social and political dimensions? Spanning from 1924 to 1938, this anthology brings together long-forgotten texts on...

From Homer's epics to mainstream news, stories have lives of their own-and humans may not always control the narratives we create Combining ancient epic and myth with analogies from biology and the natural world, Joel P. Christensen explores the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765131145Author Professor Peter L. RudnytskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130963Author Peter SzendyFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books

A reintroduction to the myth of Amphion, recovering an overlooked sphere of lyric tradition. Amphion is the figure in Greek mythology who played so skillfully on a lyre that stones moved of their own accord to build walls for Thebes. While Amphion still...

A brief stay in France was, for many Chinese workers and Chinese Communist Party leaders, a vital stepping stone for their careers during the cultural and political push to modernize China after World War I. For the Chinese students who went abroad...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993995156Author Dragos MoraruFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Universitas PressPublisher Universitas Press

The English language is now a lingua franca spoken by about two billion people. This insightful study considers how a 'bridge language' affects world literature by analysing what it is, how it works, what are its themes, what it means for canons, and how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765113912Author Dr. David GramlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356407312Author Ashokan Nambiar C.Format HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Bloomsbury Academic IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury India

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765109151Author Dr. or Prof. James MartellFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474489690Author Hiyem CheurfaFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765102572Author Dr. Wayne BradshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

This text takes a wholly new look at a major early twentieth-century Dutch poet and novelist from the perspective of world literature, situating his work in both a national and a world literary context as measured against contemporaries and...

This book explores how Chicana literature often represents gender violence while simultaneously presenting strategies of survival in response. Adrianna M. Santos aims to contribute to a broader conversation concerning the intersections between Chicana...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765113929Author Dr. David GramlingFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Situated between Europe and Asia, and surrounded by three seas, Turkey comprises a diverse environmental and cultural tapestry. Ecocriticism and Turkey is the first in-depth study to explore Turkish literary and cultural engagements with the environment...

This carefully curated collection consists of 16 chapters by leading Polish and world literature scholars from the United States, Canada, Italy, and, of course, Poland. An historical approach gives readers a panoramic view of Polish authors and their...

This cross-cultural study analyses images and descriptions of breasts and breastfeeding in children's books and literature for adults, in both English and Swedish. It explores how the feeding of infants is depicted in literature in the two languages and...

This edited book breaks new ground by bringing together research on inner and territorial exile in the context of National Socialism in Germany and the Franco regime in Spain, and in proposing an integrated model of exilic cultural production. Original...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765123188Author Professor or Dr. K. Daniel ChoFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Pacific Literatures as World Literature is a conjuration of trans-Pacific poets and writers whose work enacts forces of “becoming oceanic” and suggests a different mode of understanding, viewing, and belonging to the world. The Pacific, past and present,...

Bryan Giemza challenges the myth of the solitary genius, both in scientific and humanistic endeavors, and demonstrates how Cormac McCarthy is the exceptional figure whose work allows and encourages us to interrogate the marriage of the sciences and...

Showing how museum practices shed new light on literary form How and why do books deploy objects in order to narrate the past? To answer this question, Emma Bond sifts through collections of objects stored in boxes, drawers, baskets, and displayed on...

Showing how museum practices shed new light on literary form How and why do books deploy objects in order to narrate the past? To answer this question, Emma Bond sifts through collections of objects stored in boxes, drawers, baskets, and displayed on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765112236Author Dr. Cathy McAteerFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Considering Butler's "tragic trilogy"-a set of interventions on Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Bacchae, and Aeschylus's Eumenides-this book seeks to understand not just how Butler uses and interprets Greek tragedy, but also how tragedy shapes Butler's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765123171Author Professor or Dr. K. Daniel ChoFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

How decolonization and the cold war influenced literature from Africa, Asia, and the CaribbeanHow did superpower competition and the cold war affect writers in the decolonizing world? In The Aesthetic Cold War, Peter Kalliney explores the various ways...

A study of how Kazuo Ishiguro's novels respond to and represent the world through characters that are profoundly limited in their understanding of the systems that bind them. How has a writer known principally for his contained domestic novels come to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765115862Author Prof Jeff JarvisFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765125014Author Professor or Dr. Michael EskinFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Translation is commonly understood as the rendering of a text from one language to another - a border-crossing activity, where the border is a linguistic one. But what if the text one is translating is not written in "one language;" indeed, what if no...

Can ignorance, mistake, failure shape ways of reading, or do they disrupt its proper practice? What happens when the authority of modern education and culture places canonical western texts in the way of readers who live in worlds remote from their...