Setelah kepergian Ibunya, Shaila merasa kehilangan setengah dari impiannya. Ayahnya yang egois, menghilang dan hanya menjadi beban. Cita-citanya pudar, dan Shaila hanya bisa bertahan untuk melanjutkan hidup. Dia terpaksa menjadi dewasa dan dibebankan oleh keputusan hidup yang berat. Mengambil cuti kuliah dan bekerja di kantin rumah sakit adalah keputusan yang dia ambil karena tidak ingin …
Right person, wrong time adalah ungkapan yang tepat untuk Nina dan Handi Prabu. Berawal dari sahabat jadi cinta, hingga kembali menjadi dua orang asing dengan masa lalu yang tak selesai. Uniknya, meski sudah putus, Handi tetap menjadi cowok yang selalu ada untuk Nina. Tempat curhat, teman pulang sekolah, dan tetap perhatian. Bagi Nina, Handi itu cowok greenflag spek komeng-asbun, kocak, dan pen…
Semua orang gak harus paham sama kita. Dan memang bukan kewajiban orang lain buat mengerti keadaan kita. Jadilah perawat untuk dirimu sendiri. Pahami betul, bagian mana yang luka? Lalu sembuhkan sendiri, Caranya sama kok, kayak waktu kamu nyembuhin orang lain. Kamu pandal kan nyembuhin orang lain? Masa untuk nyembuhin diri sendiri gak bisa.
"Nanti Juga Sembuh Sendiri' adalah buku yang sebenarnya jadi 'cermin' atau 'teman curhat' paling dalam untuk kalian bisa jujur dengan perasaan sendiri. Sebab, begitu banyak orang yang denial dan berpura-pura kuat dan gak punya teman cerita. Buku ini layaknya 'diary' yang mana kalian tidak perlu membaca dari awal. Cukup membuka bab atau tulisan yang sesuai dengan kondisi hati kalian saja. …
"Nanti Juga Sembuh Sendiri' adalah buku yang sebenarnya jadi 'cermin' atau 'teman curhat' paling dalam untuk kalian bisa jujur dengan perasaan sendiri. Sebab, begitu banyak orang yang denial dan berpura-pura kuat dan gak punya teman cerita. Buku ini layaknya 'diary' yang mana kalian tidak perlu membaca dari awal. Cukup membuka bab atau tulisan yang sesuai dengan kondisi hati kalian saja. …
Midnight Diaries by Malioboro Hartigan datang dari universe Malioboro at Midnight, menceritakan kisah Malioboro Hartigan dalam tiga periode waktu: sebelum ia bertemu Serana Nighita Sivera, ketika bertemu, dan ketika sudah menjadi kekasih Sera. Sebelum bertemu Sera, Malio menyayangi teman masa kecilnya, Zara. Namun, keadaan membuat mereka tidak bisa bersama. Hari-hari patah hati Malio sampai …
Awalnya kami hanya mengikuti karyawisata biasa seperti murid-murid sekolah lain. Hingga Ali, dengan kejeniusan dan keisengannya, memutuskan menyelidiki sebuah ruangan kuno. Kami tiba di bagian dunia paralel lainnya, menemui petarung kuat, mendapat kekuatan baru serta teknik-teknik menakjubkan. Dunia paralel ternyata sangat luas, dengan begitu banyak orang hebat di dalamnya. Kisah ini tentang…
Apakah kalian sudah mengenal Hana, penghuni Padang Perdu Klan Matahari? Ini adalah kisahnya. Tentang seorang pemilik kekuatan “membaca alam sekitar”. Tentang seorang ibu yang sangat menyayangi anaknya. Rasa sakit. Kehilangan. Pengorbanan. Kebencian. Memaafkan. Tumpah menjadi satu. Juga pertarungan mematikan, tempat-tempat berbahaya, hewan dan tumbuhan legendaris. Kalian mungkin telah …
MANA MEMBUAT GEGER ORANG SEKANTOR KARENA MUNCUL MENGENAKAN HIJAB! Mana … hijrah? Yang benar saja! Athfar dan Deandra juga terkejut karena tidak pernah membayangkan seorang Mana berpenampilan menutup aurat. Mereka sangat mengenal sahabatnya yang satu ini, yang menginjak lantai musala kantor pun sepertinya nggak pernah. Kali ini, penampilannya syari sehingga membuat keduanya bertanya-tanya, kej…
Setelah ayahnya meninggal dan mewariskan sebuah gitar tua, seorang akuntan berusia 40 tahun menemukan hasrat untuk kembali bermusik. Berdua saudaranya, seorang mahasiswi yang susah percaya dengan orang baru, mereka membuat sebuah grup. Timun Jelita, sebuah cerita panjang dan duo musik.
Suatu hari, Sophie menerima surat misterius berisi sebuah pertanyaan yang bikin penasaran: “Siapa kamu?” Surat kedua datang tak lama setelahnya: “Dari mana dunia berasal?” Surat-surat misterius itu adalah awal korespondensi tak biasa antara seorang gadis remaja yang penuh rasa ingin tahu dan sahabat pena rahasia. Ketika surat-surat penuh pertanyaan menarik itu semakin banyak, …
Beards and Texts explores the literary portrayal of beards in medieval German texts from the mid-twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. It argues that as the pre-eminent symbol for masculinity the beard played a distinctive role throughout the Middle Ages in literary discussions of such major themes as majesty and humanity. At the same time beards served as an important point of reference in…
This book introduces readers to modern Thai literature through the themes of modernity, nationalism, identity and gender. In the cultural, political and social transformations that occurred in Thailand during the first half of the twentieth century, Thai literature was one of the vehicles that moved the changes. Taking seriously ‘read till it shatters’, a Thai phrase that instructs readers …
This open access book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Using British Nobel laureate Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and his colleagues as access points to a wider professional culture, Empire Under the Microscope explores the cultural history of parasitology and its relationships with the literary and historical imagination between 1885 and 1935. Emilie Taylor…
Mary Pat Brady traces the figure of the captive and cast-off child over 150 years of Latinx/Chicanx literature as a critique of colonial modernity and the forms of confinement that underpin racialized citizenship.
This book explores the history of rhetorical thought and examines the gradual association of different aspects of rhetorical theory with two outstanding fourth-century BCE writers: Lysias and Isocrates. It highlights the parallel development of the rhetorical tradition that became understood, on the one hand, as a domain of style and persuasive speech, associated with the figure of Lysias, and,…
The chapter proceeds from the sense of mutual dependence that existed between rudimentary warrior-elites and specialized supp-liers of prestige in archaic Greek and Indo-Iranian societies. While this tension was fraught with the danger of bankruptcy and disloy-alty, it also fostered new modes of antinomian religiosity. The Greek and Vedic comparanda revolve around the notion of sacrif…
"Nandita Dinesh places Kipling’s ""six honest serving-men"" (who, what, when, where, why, how) in productive conversation with her own experiences in conflict zones across the world to offer a theoretical and practical reflection on making theatre in times of war. This timely and important book weaves together Dinesh’s personal narrative with the public story of modern conflict, illustratin…
All books have long histories. The ideas and early versions of this book stretch back to my doctoral work at the University of Texas at Austin, to Kurt Heinzelman’s scholarship on William and Dorothy Wordsworth, and to Richard Sha’s unfailing friendship and encouragement through the years since we were students together. Librarians at t…
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms & Practices is a volume of essays that provides a detailed account of born-digital literature by artists and scholars who have contributed to its birth and evolution. Rather than offering a prescriptive defini…
In this rigorous and necessary book, Kristien Hens brings together bioethics and the philosophy of biology to argue that it is ethically necessary for scientific research to include a place for the philosopher. As well as ethical, their role is conceptual: they can improve the quality and coherence of scientific research by ensuring that particular concepts are used consistently and thoughtfull…
This open access collection of essays examines the literary advice industry since its emergence in Anglo-American literary culture in the mid-nineteenth century within the context of the professionalization of the literary field and the continued debate on creative writing as art and craft. Often dismissed as commercial and stereotypical by authors and specialists alike, literary advice has non…
Buku ini mengungkapkan kekayaan dan heterogenitas sastra di Bali, dengan membahas secara sosial-historis tiga jenis sastra: sastra Indonesia, sastra Bali tradisional, dan sastra Bali modern. Selain sejarah perkembangan masing-masing genre, buku ini juga membahas saling-pengaruh antara ketiga genre sastra tersebut dalam keniscayaan intertekstualitas. Topik-topik yang dikaji lewat 15 bab, antara …
Physics and Literature is a unique collaboration between physicists and literary scholars, the first book to explore together the relations between both fields in depth. Contributors analyze central aspects of literary and scientific thought and representation, and the forms of exchange between them. They clarify how narrative, fiction, metaphor and language interact with models, experiment, me…
The Afterlife of the Shoah in Central and Eastern European Cultures is a collection of essays by literary scholars from Germany, the US, and Central Eastern Europe offering insight into the specific ways of representing the Shoah and its aftereffects as well as its entanglement with other catastrophic events in the region. Introducing the conceptual frame of postcatastrophe, the collected es…
This book introduces readers to modern Thai literature through the themes of modernity, nationalism, identity and gender. In the cultural, political and social transformations that occurred in Thailand during the first half of the twentieth century, Thai literature was one of the vehicles that moved the changes. Taking seriously ‘read till it shatters’, a Thai phrase that instructs readers …
Victorian literature is rife with scenes of madness, with mental disorder functioning as everything from a simple plot device to a commentary on the foundations of Victorian society. But while madness in Victorian fiction has been much studied, most scholarship has focused on the portrayal of madness in women; male mental disorder in the period has suffered comparative neglect. In ‘The Most D…
Kurihara Sadako was born in Hiroshima in 1913, and she was there on August 6, 1945. Already a poet before she experienced the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, she used her poetic talents to describe the blast and its aftermath. In 1946, despite the censorship of the American Occupation, she published Kuroi tamago (Black Eggs), poems from before, during, and immediately after the war. This volume in…
The writings of Thomas Pynchon have spawned more critical commentary than almost any other American author of the last fifty years. Pynchon’s texts are perhaps most famed for their ‘difficulty and apparent unfriendliness’, as works that require, as Inger H. Dalsgaard, Luc Herman and Brian McHale put it, ‘a collective enterprise of reading wherein none of us could succeed without the hel…
These seven essays by the most recent English translator of The Tale of Genji emphasize three major interpretive issues. What is the place of the hero (Hikaru Genji) in the work? What story gives the narrative underlying continuity and form? And how does the closing section of the tale (especially the ten “Uji chapters”) relate to what precedes it? Written over a period of nine years, the e…
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. A State of Play explores how the British have imagined their politics, from the parliament worship of Anthony Trollope to the cynicism of The Thick of It. In an account that mixes historical with political analysis, Steven Fielding argues that fictional depiction…
Football in Fiction represents the most comprehensive historical mapping and analysis of novels related to association football (soccer). It offers a theoretically informed field guide, a scholarly cartography of football fiction’s uncertain – and until now – only partially explored terrain. Combining an extensive search for texts with up-to-date academic research, journals, surveys, c…
Literature and the World presents a broad and multifaceted introduction to world literature and globalization. The book provides a brief background and history of the field followed by a wide spectrum of exemplary readings and case studies from around the world. Amongst other aspects of World Literature, the authors look at: New approaches to digital humanities and world literature Ecologies of…
This book introduces the idea and experience of wandering, as re-fected in cultural texts from popular songs to philosophical anal-ysis, providing both a fascinating informal history and a necessary vantage point for understanding—in our era—the emergence of new wanderers. Wanderers offers a fast-paced, wide-ranging, and compelling in-troduction to this s…
Germany has had a profound influence on English stories for children. The Brothers Grimm, The Swiss Family Robinson and Johanna Spyri’s Heidi quickly became classics but, as David Blamires clearly articulates in this volume, many other works have been fundamental in the development of English children’s stories during the 19th century and beyond. Telling Tales is the first comprehensive stu…
«As Italy tends to be studied increasingly in transnational and transcultural perspective, there is an ever-greater need for studies that explore the country's relationship with other geographical areas and cultural configurations. Linetto Basilone's work is an important contribution to research of this kind. The work provides a panoramic view of how journalists and travel writers from the lat…
«As Italy tends to be studied increasingly in transnational and transcultural perspective, there is an ever-greater need for studies that explore the country's relationship with other geographical areas and cultural configurations. Linetto Basilone's work is an important contribution to research of this kind. The work provides a panoramic view of how journalists and travel writers from the lat…
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. What is the relationship between theory and practice in the creative arts today? In Critical Practice, Martin McQuillan offers a critical interrogation of the idea of practice-led research. He goes beyond the recent vocabulary of research management to consider t…
In this fascinating collection of essays Harvard Emeritus Professor Karl S. Guthke examines the ways in which, for European scholars and writers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, world-wide geographical exploration led to an exploration of the self. Guthke explains how in the age of Enlightenment and beyond intellectual developments were fuelled by excitement about what Ulrich Im …
Belonging Beyond Borders maps the evolution of cosmopolitanism in Spanish American narrative literature through a generational lens. Drawing on a new theoretical framework that blends intellectual studies and literary history with integrated approaches to Spanish American narrative, this book traces the evolution from aesthetic cosmopolitanism through anti-colonial nationalism to modern politic…
COVID-19’s impacts revealed that teaching writing online was no longer merely an issue of convenience or economic necessity—it was critical to public health and equity concerns as well. Now higher education faces one of its greatest historical challenges, expanding online offerings to fully engage and support students around the world. Gathering together educators who teach writing at colle…
Kisah Novel Sejarah Tusalama' ini menguak kisah inspiratif Syekh Yusuf Al Makassari yang Penuh Makna bagi Generasi Zaman Now. Menyibak tabir sejarah dan kearifan nilai-nilai budaya lokal, sisi spiritualitas dari sosok ulama pejuang, yang dinobatkan sebagai pahlawan nasional di dua negara yakni Indonesia dan dan Afrika Selatan. Novel ini berisi 25 kisah kumpulan mozaik kehidupan Syekh Yusuf Al …
This open access book investigates imaginaries of artificial limbs, eyes, hair, and teeth in British and American literary and cultural sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture shows how depictions of prostheses complicated the contemporary bodily status quo, which increasingly demanded an appearance of physical …
Tentang bagaimana seorang Sabita Anasta memecahkan sebuah teka-teki yang ada pada diri lelaki yang dikaguminya selama hampir tiga tahun, Shaka Aditya Mahendra. Banyak hal yang ingin Sabita pahami perihal perasaan apa yang sebenarnya lelaki itu rasakan. Luka seperti apa yang membuat lelaki itu bersikap seolah-olah membenci dan menerimanya pada satu waktu? "Tolong jangan cari tahu apapun tenta…
Rumah Kakek tak lagi menyenangkan tanpa kehadiran adik dan sepupu-sepupuku yang lain. Peter, Hendrick, Janshen, William, dan Hans pun tak lagi mengisi hari-hariku hingga rasanya tak ada lagi penyemangat hidup. Setiap hari hanya menjalani keseharian di sekolah yang membosankan sambil menunggu waktu liburan kembali datang. Namun, tiba-tiba aku dan para sepupuku kembali berkumpul karena seb…
MIKAL ingin memahami kenapa ayahnya harus diambil secepat itu secara tragis. Pikiran itu kerap memberatkan hati, membuatnya menjalani hari dengan muram. Namun ketika terperangkap di Son Nokta, dunia tanpa titik akhir, Mikal bertemu Princess, yang sekalipun matanya bolong sebelah, selalu ceria dan optimistis. AGUNG ingin memahami apa maksud hadirnya di dunia ketika kekurangan fisik, kemalanga…
Tidak pernah terbayangkan oleh Ethaniel Vanjiro, jika suatu hari nanti, dia akan menyukai sosok perempuan manis yang baru saja menginjak tahun pertamanya di masa-masa putih abu-abu, Kalila Gemini Jemima. Ethan selalu berdalih dan menganggap kalau Kalila hanyalah sebatas adik kecil, tidak mungkin ada perasaan yang lebih. Tapi, kalau hati sudah berbicara… siapa yang mampu menolaknya? *******…
Bagaimana jadinya jika siswi berprestasi seperti Naya mengejar cinta seorang siswa dengan segudang masalah di sekolah? Elion selalu melarang Naya untuk tidak menjatuhkan hati kepadanya, karena ia sadar dirinya dengan Naya jauh berbeda. Elion merasa rendah jika disandingkan dengan gadis serba bisa seperti Naya. Meskipun sudah kesekian kali Elion menolaknya. Tetapi dengan kegigihan yang Naya mili…
"Sel, kamu nggak capek kuliah, tapi nggak lulus-lulus?” "Mang Asep, nih, ceritanya mau ngeledek, ya?" "Iya! Emang. Biar kamu mikir! Makanya, sana! Buruan berangkat kuliah!” Hansel, seorang mahasiswa dan juga juragan lele yang mewarisi empang lele dari ayahnya, tengah kesulitan membagi waktu antara kuliah dan mengurus empang lele. Karena itu, Hansel pun dijuluki 'mahasiswa abadi'. …