'South Africa is my best world.' - 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...

Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory

The past several decades have seen an explosion of interest in narrative, with this multifaceted object of inquiry becoming a central concern in a wide range of disciplinary fields and research contex...

Literature Made Easy Animal Farm

If you're looking for an explanation of Animal Farm's themes, plot points, character actions and motivations, plus discussions of George Orwell's unique literary style and point of view, reach for the...

Come, I'll show you how beautiful Engadin St.Moritz is ... Part 01

Literaturtheorie - Ansatze Und Anwendungen

Dieses Studienbuch präsentiert den Kernbestand des gegenwärtigen literaturtheoretischen Wissens in Theorie und Praxis. Die maßgeblichen Methoden der Literaturtheorie werden strukturiert vorgestellt un...

Conciliarism and Heresy in Fifteenth-Century England

The general councils of the fifteenth century constituted a remarkable political experiment, which used collective decision-making to tackle important problems facing the church. Such problems had hit...

Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory

The past several decades have seen an explosion of interest in narrative, with this multifaceted object of inquiry becoming a central concern in a wide range of disciplinary fields and research contex...

Contemporary Topics 3

Could we colonize Mars if we wanted to? Has surveillance reached Big Brother proportions? What are some of the latest theories for slowing aging? You'll find the answers to these and other questions i...

The Mental World of the Jacobean Court

The reign of James I (1603-25) has long been overshadowed by the prior glory of Elizabeth and the later outbreak of the Civil War. Yet how, without understanding the Jacobean court, are we to understa...