This book explores the vibrant literary and cultural experimentation that flourished under Soviet censorship, revealing how underground writers and readers redefined creativity and authorship beyond state control.
What do you think you would miss the most, if you were to suddenly stop working? I Want M.O.R.E. tells the vital story of how we answer that question, revealing powerful new insights about the value of work – beyond the money – and why your job still matters.
A groundbreaking study that delves into the often overlooked and stigmatized area of homophobia within the prisoner society of... Læs mere
The Periodical Life of Modernity examines the rise of modern print culture in Italy through an analysis of Milan-based publishing firm Sonzogno.
Water Women explores the relationship that female agency and autonomy have with bodies of water in the cultural imaginary of the nineteenth century, from the consummation of love affairs, to surrender, death, and the transgressive freedom of monstrosity.
This book reveals how Romantic-era women writers transformed the emerging suburb into a site of health, creativity, and social reform long before modern urban planning.
Featuring original and intriguing insights as well as references to material hitherto inaccessible to English readers, this study presents a form of 'history from below' with emphasis on the individual reader and writer, and his or her experiences and perceptions.
Positing the classic Russian novel as an inheritor of the Enlightenment's key values - including humanity, self-perfection, and cross-cultural communication - For Humanity's Sake offers a unique view of Russian intellectual history and literature.
The Geopoetics of Catastrophe presents an alternative view of Russia’s Italy – one that unsettles its reputation as “another motherland” and as a site of art and culture, not nature.
This book is a fundamental exploration of the time-space theory of leadership and management, essential for leaders and organizations at every level.
The Origins of Ukrainian Gothic examines how Gothic literary aesthetics, over the first century of its incipience, from the 1820s until the late 1920s, became a platform in Ukraine to introduce politically dissenting views.
Stephenson explores the autobiographical form by analysing seven works by Canadian playwrights written and performed between 1999 and 2009, including Judith Thompson's Perfect Pie, Daniel MacIvor's In On It, and Timothy Findley's Shadows.