Using a range of methodological approaches including history, folklore and literature, this volume offers new perspectives on the material culture of home,... Læs mere
In this book, Davies traces a fascinating life story that has been largely lost from view... Læs mere
Through close readings of texts by authors such as Mia Couto, Suleiman Cassamo, Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa, Pepetela, and Ondjaki, this book asks: What factors drove literary production towards the figure of the spectre in Mozambique and towards dystopia in Angola?
Michaël Ferrier is a prize-winning novelist, essayist and academic whose cosmopolitan life – he grew up in Chad and France, has Mauritian roots and lives in Japan – has inspired him to write some fascinating novels that cross generic and geographical boundaries.
Winner, NUI Publication Prize in Irish History 2025 Winner, Irish Historical Studies First Book Prize 2024 When Henry II accepted the Leinster king Diarmait Mac Murchada as his liegeman in 1166, he forged a bond between the English crown and Ireland that has never been undone.
it accumulates. Reading the film alongside Whitley Strieber’s novel, contemporary medical discourse, queer cultural history, and older mythic narratives of immortality, punishment, and decay,... Læs mere
Maldon is the only substantial late Old English heroic poem to survive and provides unique testimony to the poetics of its period: close re-analysis of it... Læs mere
This new edition of De re publica provides a revised Latin text and a new English translation of all the surviving text of Cicero’s famous work on Roman constitutional theory, as well as the testimonia relating to the production and reception of the work.
This volume explores Italian science fiction from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, covering literary texts, films, music and visual works by figures as diverse as Maria Rosa Cutrufelli, Peter Kolosimo, Primo Levi, Antonio Margheriti, Gilda Musa and Roberto Vacca.