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From her unique standpoint as singer-songwriter-scholar, Polly Paulusma examines the influences of Carter’s 1960s folk s......more

The mythological hero Orpheus occupied a central role in ancient Greek culture, but ’the son of Oeagrus’ and ’Thracian m......more

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A lively and accessible introduction to Machado de Assis and his work Machado de Assis (1839-1908) is a world-class writ......more

Mining the borderlands where history meets literature in Britain and Europe as well as America, this book shows how the ......more

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Aeschylus’ Persians is unique in being the only extant Greek tragedy on an historical subject: Greece’s victory in 480 B......more

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For most of the 20th century, Latin American literature and art have contested political and cultural projects of homoge......more

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This volume examines late medieval and early modern warfare in France, the Hispanic World, and the Dutch Republic throug......more

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Romeo and Juliet is the most produced, translated and re-mixed of all of Shakespeare’s plays. This volume takes up the i......more

Written by an international group of scholars, this edited collection provides an overview of the Spanish picaresque fro......more

A multi-disciplinary investigation of the links between people and animals, in reality and representation....more

Words Made Flesh demonstrates how Romantic-era writers affect, mediate, and ultimately alter our very sense of embodimen......more

First full analysis of the skaldic verse appearing in the family sagas of Icelanders, considering why and how it is depl......more

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World Literature and the Question of Genre in Colonial India describes the way Marathi literary culture, entrenched in p......more

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How does Cajun literature, emerging in the 1980s, represent the dynamic processes of remembering in Cajun culture? Known......more

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This book examines the discourse on ’primitive thinking’ in early twentieth century Germany. It explores texts from the ......more

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