English Literature: A Very Short Introduction

Discusses why literature matters, how narrative works, and what is distinctly English about English literature. Bate looks at the three major kinds...

Translation is everywhere and matters to everybody. Translation doesn't only give us foreign news, dubbed films and instructions for using the micr...

Warfare is the most dangerous threat faced by modern humanity. It is also one of the key influences that has shaped the politics, economics, and so...

As well as being a remarkable statesman, Nelson Mandela has become a universal symbol of justice, a secular saint. Elleke Boehmer examines not only...

Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies. Its history is intimately linked to the political upheavals of modernit...

The words, phrases, and stories of the New Testament permeate the English language. Indeed, this relatively small group of twenty-seven works, writ...

In the 1960s, Latin American literature became known worldwide as never before. Writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Va...

This volume brings together six outstanding French tales, each by a different author, originally published between 1829 and 1886. Representing a va...

Reducere. I intended at first to write a short Prologue to this English translation of my Del Sentimiento Tr gico de la Vida, which has been undertaken by my...