O Mito de Viriato na Literatura Portuguesa - Prijzen

Seeing Things

A technological revolution has changed the way we see things. The storytelling media employed by Pixar Animation Studios, Samuel Beckett, and William Shakespeare differ greatly, yet these creators sha...

Reading Today

Today we're just as, if not more, likely to scroll, click, and tap the cold, shiny screen of a laptop, tablet, or smartphone as we are to turn the pages of a book. How has the advent of new technologi...

Afternoon Raag

Described as a 'felicitous prose poem', Afternoon Raag is the account of a young Bengali man who is studying at Oxford University and caught in complicated love triangle. His loneliness and melancholy...

Love Letters from Paris

'Enchanting. Reading Barreau is like having me-time with your best friend' NINA GEORGE, author of The Little Paris Bookshop 'Heart-breaking . . . touching and magical until the very last page' ELLE...

I Am a Cat II

The shortcomings and pretensions of individuals in Japanese society during the Meiji era are viewed through feline eyes

It's A Kenny Thing You Won't Understand

Politische Rede

Politische Rede is een boek van Wallstein Verlag Gmbh

Georges Bataille. Eine Thanatographie 1. Chronik 1897 - 1939

Chronicles of the Investiture Contest

This book is the first English translation of one of the most significant chronicles of the middle ages. Written in Bamberg at the end of the eleventh century, Frutolf of Michelsberg's Chronicle offer...

Television, History, and American Culture

In less than a century, the flickering blue-gray light of the television screen has become a cultural icon. What do the images transmitted by that screen tell us about power, authority, gender stereot...

On Anthologies

Over the course of the past twenty-five years, anthologies have shifted from playing a relatively minor role in academic culture to a position of dominance. The essays in this collection explore the s...

Shakespeare on the Arabian Peninsula

Since the turn of the millennium, the Arabian Peninsula has produced a remarkable series of adaptations of Shakespeare. These include a 2007 production of Much Ado About Nothing, set in Kuwait in 1898...