Filter by
The classic short story, 1870-1925: theory of a genre
The ability to construct a nuanced narrative or complex character in the constrained form of the short story has sometimes been seen as the ultimate test of an author's creativity. Yet during the time when the short story was at its most popular—the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—even the greatest writers followed strict generic conventions that were far from subtle. This ex…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781909254770
- Collation
- 222 p. ; ill
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 801.95 GOY t
The Great Reset: 2021 European Public Investment Outlook
This timely and insightful collection of essays written by economists from a range of academic and policy institutes explores the subject of public investment through two avenues. The first examines public investment trends and needs in Europe, addressing the initiatives taken by European governments to tackle the COVID-19 recession and to rebuild their economies. The second identifies key doma…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781800643529
- Collation
- xxvii, 222 p. : ill. ; 17.8 cm.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 332.64 CER t
Cultural perspectives on aging : a different approach to old age and aging
The societal significance of old age and ageing are increasing due to demographic developments. Age(ing) is not only a biological and social fact, but also a cultural one. This book reveals the importance of cultural factors in order to build a framework for analyzing and understanding cultural constructions of ageing, bringing together scholarly discourses from the arts and humanities as well …
- Edition
- 3
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783110683042
- Collation
- 172 p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 900 HUL c
Middlemarch: epigraphs and mirrors
In Middlemarch, George Eliot draws a character passionately absorbed by abstruse allusion and obscure epigraphs. Casaubon’s obsession is a cautionary tale, but Adam Roberts nonetheless sees in him an invitation to take Eliot’s use of epigraphy and allusion seriously, and this book is an attempt to do just that. Roberts considers the epigraph as a mirror that refracts the meaning of a tex…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781800641600
- Collation
- 149 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 823.8 ROB m
Romanticism and time: literary temporalities
‘Eternity is in love with the productions of time’. This original edited volume takes William Blake’s aphorism as a basis to explore how British Romantic literature creates its own sense of time. It considers Romantic poetry as embedded in and reflecting on the march of time, regarding it not merely as a reaction to the course of events between the late-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centu…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781800640733
- Collation
- xxii, 286 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 809.9145 ROM r
Context in literary and cultural studies
Context in Literary and Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary volume that deals with the challenges of studying works of art and literature in their historical context today. The relationship between artworks and context has long been a central concern for aesthetic and cultural disciplines, and the question of context has been asked anew in all eras. Developments in contemporary culture and…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781787356245
- Collation
- XV, 241 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 809 CON c
Vertical readings in dante's comedy : volume 3
Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although scholars have suggested before that there are correspondences between same-numbered cantos that beg…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783743605
- Collation
- xi, 266 p. ; ill
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 851.1 COR v
Touch in the time of corona : Reflections on love, care, and vulnerability in…
The COVID-19 pandemic has hooked us all into digital networks as our access to cities, work and social gatherings is restricted and reconfigured. Weaving together cultural history, aesthetics, and urban and digital studies, this short volume reflects on how the possibilities for touch, touching and being touched, both physically and affectively, are reconfigured by the pandemic.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783110744767
- Collation
- 131 p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 362.1962414 STE t
Reading backwards: an advance retrospective on Russian literature
"This edited volume employs the paradoxical notion of ‘anticipatory plagiarism’—developed in the 1960s by the ‘Oulipo’ group of French writers and thinkers—as a mode for reading Russian literature. Reversing established critical approaches to the canon and literary influence, its contributors ask us to consider how reading against linear chronologies can elicit fascinating new patte…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781800641211
- Collation
- 302 p.: colour, ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 891.709 MAG r
Chivalry, reading, and women's culture in early modern Spain: from Amadís de…
The Iberian chivalric romance has long been thought of as an archaic, masculine genre and its popularity as an aberration in European literary history. Chivalry, Reading, and Women’s Culture in Early Modern Spain contests this view, arguing that the surprisingly egalitarian gender politics of Spain’s most famous romance of chivalry has guaranteed it a long afterlife. Amadís de Gaula had a …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789048536641
- Collation
- 281 p.
- Series Title
- Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World, 3
- Call Number
- 860.93522 TRI c
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography