Spenser and Shakespeare both wrote with epic scope, a comprehensive view of human nature, but their characters and plots sprung from radically distinct... Læs mere
This edition contains explanatory notes, drawing on archaeological sources, which expand on the poet's more esoteric allusions and offer background information on manners and... Læs mere
This book is about reading and studying poetry. Using fully-worked examples and complete poems wherever possible, it shows all the key elements of poetry ‘at work’ in poems|This book is... Læs mere
The absurdity of bureaucracy is a contemporary implementation study that unveil how organisational complexity and inefficacy is fed and sustained by... Læs mere
A interlocution containing a stimulating lead essay on the relationship between law and violence by one of the key third-generation Frankfurt School philosophers, Christoph Menke, and engaged responses by a variety of influential critics. -- .
Bodas de sangre is arguably the best-known work by the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish writers. A passionate story of family feud and tragic elopement is played out in... Læs mere
A new English translation. Looks at the most notorious massacre in early modern European history and rejects most of the... Læs mere
Confabulationes tironum litterariorum is one of the liveliest pedagogical works of the sixteenth century and a vivid and valuable cultural document of life in the early modern metropolis of Cologne. -- .
This book situates and critically assesses the substantial body of work created by Gee Vaucher within a lineage of twentieth- and... Læs mere
In this memoir, Gabriel Weisz Carrington, son of the renowned Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, draws on remembered conversations and events to demythologise his mother and declare her not an icon or a goddess but, first and foremost, an artist. -- .
A ground-breaking study on the concept of precision warfare and how it has shaped our view of armed conflict -- .
This volume on Norman Italy (southern Italy and Sicily, c. 1000–1200) honours the pioneering scholarship of Graham A. Loud. An international... Læs mere