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A tour-de-force survey of personal identity and national culture in exile

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Looking beyond the closet at the lives and works of renowned queer public figures

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Ugaldes fascinating and well-documented study demonstrates how Spanish authors, dramatists and visual artists bring Shakespeares desperate and suicidal heroine to life in new guises.

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Aims to provide an analytical study of the sources, the art and the presentation of oral poetry. The author discusses its development from antiquity to the present in all its aspects, including forms of oral poetry, the epic in the West and other parts of the globe and styles of performance.

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Develops a sustained meditation on late-Enlightenment debates concerning political liberty, women's rights, conventions of sex-gender, and their relation to the reshaping of an Atlantic world in the throes of transformation. This edition includes "Alcuin (1798)", a dialogue on women's rights and marriage.

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Features explanations of key themes, motifs and symbols and detailed analysis of important characters.

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"The first scholarly study of Adrienne Rich's full career examines the poet through her developing approach to the transformative potential of relationships"--

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"The first scholarly study of Adrienne Rich's full career examines the poet through her developing approach to the transformative potential of relationships"--

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As Lee shows in Overwhelmed, the rapid expansion of print created new relationships between literature and information. He presents a new argument: rather than being at odds, as generations of critics have viewed them, literature and information in the 19th century were entangled in surprisingly collaborative ways.

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Billy Collins, Gerald Stern, Dorianne Laux, and 17 other prominent poets candidly discuss inspiration, craft, and living as a poet.

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This collection aims to resurrect the long-forgotten penny dreadfuls and revivify their significance in Gothic studies.

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Collection of essays and interviews by the editor of PAJ

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This study investigates the 'exceptional' staging of the life of Catherine of Siena by a female actor and a female patron in 1468 Metz. Integrating new approaches to drama, gender and patronage, it offers an original paradigm of female performance that positions women at the core of public culture. -- .

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New Kittredge Shakespeare editions combine performance issues in feature films with the clarity of Kittredge's notes to provide an entry for students to Shakespeare's plays. Included: performance notes, essays on reading that play as a performance.

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Throughout contemporary British writing, the question of national identity recurs. This book investigates the ways in which contemporary British fiction disseminates a consciousness of local and national identity, and the ways in which the writers negotiate a space for their locality.

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This collection of essays devoted to the Swiss German writer, Peter Bichsel is intended both as an introduction for the general reader and as a resource for the specialist.

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A marvellous resource for scholars interested in the Latin literature of medieval dreams, visionary experience and the eschatological concerns of sin, penance, death, the afterlife, and the judgement of the soul.

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This collection of essays on Peter Schneider include a biography by Colin Riordan and an interview with Schneider conducted by Colin Riordan and Rhys W. Williams.

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Science-fiction writer Philip K Dick (1928-1982) is the giant imagination behind popular culture - hit movies based directly on his writings, such as "Blade Runner", "Total Recall", "Minority Report", and cult favorites such as "A Scanner Darkly" and "Paycheck". This title confronts the fascinating and frightening ideas raised by his fantasies.

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This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading alongside a number of his contemporaries and focusing particularly on his later fiction, this book offers a highly accessible, informative and persuasive view of Roth as an intellectually adventurous and stylistically brilliant writer.

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"Picaresque Tales" - parodic narratives relating the adventures of a rogue - have been central to the development of Spanish literature. This text addresses the connection between literary representation and everyday life, examining the context in which the Picaresque mode developed.