BEARDS AND TEXTS :IMAGES OF MASCULINITY IN MEDIEVAL GERMAN LITERATURE

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…

READ TILL IT SHATTERS :NATIONALISM AND IDENTITY IN MODERN THAI LITERATURE

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 …

EMPIRE UNDER THE MICROSCOPE :PARASITOLOGY AND THE BRITISH LITERARY IMAGINATIO…

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…

SCALES OF CAPTIVITY :RACIAL CAPITALISM AND THE LATINX CHILD

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.

CREATING THE ANCIENT RHETORICAL TRADITION

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,…

SONGS ON THE ROAD :WANDERING RELIGIOUS POETS IN INDIA, TIBET, AND JAPAN

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…

THEATRE AND WAR :NOTES FROM THE FIELD

"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…

SISTERS AND THE ENGLISH HOUSEHOLD :DOMESTICITY AND WOMEN'S AUTONOMY IN NINETE…

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…

ELECTRONIC LITERATURE AS DIGITAL HUMANITIES :CONTEXTS, FORMS, AND PRACTICES

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…

CHANCE ENCOUNTERS

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…

WRITING MANUALS FOR THE MASSES

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…

HETEROGENITAS SASTRA DI BALI

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 :CONCEPTS - TRANSFER - AESTHETICIZATION

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 :CONCEPTS…

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…

READ TILL IT SHATTERS :NATIONALISM AND IDENTITY IN MODERN THAI LITERATURE

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 …

THE MOST DREADFUL VISITATION :MALE MADNESS IN VICTORIAN FICTION

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…

BLACK EGGS :POEMS

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…

PYNCHON AND PHILOSOPHY:WITTGENSTEIN, FOUCAULT AND ADORNO

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…

THE DISASTER OF THE THIRD PRINCESS:ESSAYS ON THE TALE OF GENJI

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…

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STATE OF PLAY

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:A HISTORY

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

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…

WANDERERS :LITERATURE, CULTURE AND THE OPEN ROAD

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…

Telling tales :the impact of Germany on English children's books 1780-1918

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…

The Distance to China:Twentieth-Century Italian Travel Narratives of Patrioti…

«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…

The Distance to China:Twentieth-Century Italian Travel Narratives of Patrioti…

«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…

CRITICAL PRACTICE :PHILOSOPHY AND CREATIVITY

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…

EXPLORING THE INTERIOR ESSAYS ON LITERARY AND CULTURAL HISTORY

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 :COSMOPOLITAN AFFILIATIONS IN CONTEMPORARY SPANISH A…

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…

GO ONLINE! :RECONFIGURING WRITING COURSES FOR THE NEW, VIRTUAL WORLD

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…

TUSALAMA':MENGUAK KISAH INSPIRATIF SYEKH YUSUF AL MAKASSARI YANG PENUH MAKNA …

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 …

Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

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 …

TEKA TEKI SHAKA

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…

JURNAL RISA : DETEKTIF HANTU

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…

PRINCESS, BAJAK LAUT & ALIEN

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…

MAY I HAVE A PERFECT YELLOW LIKE YOU ?

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? *******…

YOU ARE THE REASON

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…

HANSEL MILSYA

"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'. …

HARRY POTTER DAN KAMAR RAHASIA

Buku Harry Potter dan Kamar Rahasia merupakan terjemahan Bahasa Indonesia dari buku Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, buku kedua seri Harry Potter yang ditulis oleh J.K. Rowling. Buku ini mengisahkan tentang kepulangan Harry pada liburan musim panas. Harry bertemu Dobby, makhluk aneh setengah manusia yang memberitahu Harry untuk tidak kembali ke Hogwarts dengan alasan keselamatan. Nam…

JURNAL RISA : TEROR LIBURAN SEKOLAH

“Teruntuk saudara-saudaraku di Jurnal Risa, Saat ini akhirnya datang, kesempatan untuk menceritakan kisah kita bersama. Hal ini harus kulakukan karena aku memang tak sanggup bila sendirian menghadapi segalanya seolah aku ini sang pemberani. Tanpa kalian, Jurnal Risa hanya akan jadi sebuah nama dan tak mungkin bisa berdiri sekuat ini. Dalam buku ini, aku ingin mengajak kita semua bernostalgia,…

HARRY POTTER DAN BATU BERTUAH

Seumur hidup, Harry Potter tidak pernah berurusan dengan sihir. Dia tinggal bersama keluarga Dursley yang kejam dan Dudley, putra mereka yang menyebalkan. Kamar Harry cuma lemari sempit di kolong tangga, dan selama sebelas tahun, ulang tahunnya tak pernah dirayakan. Namun, tiba-tiba datang burung hantu membawa surat misterius: surat berisi undangan ke tempat menakjubkan bernama Sekolah Sihir Ho…

HIDUP

“Menjadi terlalu khawatir hanya akan membuat kita melewatkan banyak momen. Menghabiskan hidup tanpa menikmatinya membuat kita tidak mengerti kehidupan yang sebenarnya.”

STAND AND DELIVER : TRIK-TRIK PUBLIC SPEAKING UNTUK MEMENANGKAN HATI AUDIENS,…

Kita dapat langsung mengenali seorang pembicara hebat ketika melihatnya. Ia terlihat memiliki kualitas: kepercayaan diri, karisma, kefasihan berbicara, dan pengetahuan. Kabar baiknya, kemampuan berbicara yang baik di hadapan orang lain adalah keahlian, bukan bakat bawaan. Itu artinya, dengan panduan yang tepat, setiap orang bisa menjadi pembicara yang andal. Stand and Deliver memberi pembaca…

GURUKU SAHABATKU : BASED ON TRUE STORY

Iyas seorang siswa yang terlihat pendiam dan agak tertutup. Namun sebenarnya ia sangatlah ramah dan suka menolong. Terutama pada teman-temannya dalam mengatasi kesulitan belajar Matematika, mata pelajaran kesukaannya sejak SMP. Karena itu, setelah lulus SMA, ia pun berkuliah di FKIP Matematika, dan dari sinilah petualangannya di dunia pendidikan dimulai. Selain menjadi mahasiswa yang aktif di o…

ECCEDENTESIAST

Kalau banyak remaja ingin menjadi kaya dan hura-hura, tapi tidak dengan Canva Narendra. Cita-citanya hanya satu, “Mau peluk Mama sama Papa. Anva sayang dan rindu banget sama mereka.” Sejak itulah, ia melakukan apapun, termasuk belajar yang luar biasa dan mendapatkan penghargaan agar diperhatikan oleh orangtuanya. Untuk mewujudkan mimpinya tersebut, Canva ditemani oleh sahabat-sahabat dek…

BE THE ALPHA MUSLIMAH

Perempuan kerap dinomorduakan dalam banyak aspek kehidupan, padahal pada banyak hal perempuan memiliki kontribusi besar yang tidak bisa diabaikan. Para perempuan inilah yang disebut dengan Alpha Female. Sosok Alpha Muslimah hadir sebagai gambaran seorang Alpha Female yang shalihah, mandiri, memiliki value tinggi, fasih berkomunikasi, mampu memimpin dan bisa menjadi teladan kebaikan. Pertanya…

RASA

Apakah memaafkan itu mudah diberikan? Apakah melupakan itu ringan dilakukan? Sayangnya, itu sering kali lebih enteng diucapkan, tapi di hati terdalam tetap begitulah. Bagaimana caranya kita memeluk erat semua rasa marah, benci, sakit hati, ketika itu bahkan baru mulai dibicarakan saja sudah menyakitkan? Bagaimana berdamai dengan situasi tersebut? Inilah novel tentang ’rasa’. Berbag…

PERGI

Buku novel yang berjudul Pergi karya Tere Liye ini merupakan sekuel dari novel Pulang. Buku ini dapat dinikmati oleh pembaca remaja maupun dewasa. Sekuel dari Novel “Pulang” ini menceritakan tentang tokoh Bujang yang menjadi penerus Tauke Besar di Keluarga Tong, salah satu keluarga Shadow Economy di dunia. Semenjak dibawa dari Talang, Bujang dibesarkan menjadi laki-laki yang berpendidikan t…

GITASMARA SEMESTA DILARANG BERCANDA DENGAN KENANGAN 2

Saat kamu kira bahwa Jo--panggilan akrab untuk tokoh utama dalam dwilogi "Dilarang Bercanda dengan Kenangan"--sudah cukup menderita karena pernikahannya kandas dua kali dan akan ditinggal menikah oleh cintanya yang hilang, kamu salah. Di buku kedua yang berjudul "Gitasmara Semesta" ini, Jo kembali menaiki roller coaster kehidupan bersama sosok-sosok yang pernah hadir di hidupnya sebelumnya. …