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Rachel Falconer
This is the first monograph-length study of the importance of Orpheus in Milton’s conception of himself as an agonistic poet. It is one of the first monographs on Milton to…
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Beginning with a broad overview of crossover fiction in Britain, this book offers readings of leading British crossover authors, including J.K. Rowling, Philip Pullman, and Mark Haddon. This book discusses…
The first book-length study of Heaney’s dialogue with Virgil, one of Seamus Heaney’s major literary exemplars.
These 16 newly commissioned critical essays and 7 previously unpublished poems by leading poets make up the first full-length study of Kathleen Jamie’s writing.
This book explores the idea that modern, Western secular cultures have retained a belief in the concept of Hell as an event or experience of endless or unjust suffering.The wide…
This book explores the idea that modern, Western secular cultures have retained a belief in the concept of Hell as an event or experience of endless or unjust suffering.
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A collection of critical essays on the writing of Kathleen Jamie. Whether engaging with national politics, with gender, with landscape and place, or with humanity’s relation to the natural environment…
The first book-length study of Heaney's dialogue with Virgil, one of Seamus Heaney's major literary exemplars.
What happens when we re-read a familiar book? Does the second encounter turn us into experts, more knowing and confident in our relation to the text? Or conversely, does it…
A Quest for Remembrance brings together a range of arguments exploring connections between the descent into the underworld, also known as katabasis, and various forms of memory.
Clarissa Wong
Based on the Marvel comic book series The Avengers.
So far, in the West, the dissemination of Bakhtinian thought has proceeded with little or no awareness of contemporary approaches to Bakhtin in his homeland. This collection offers unprecedented access…
Essays considering the representation and perception of hell in a variety of texts.
