Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

In inviting a rethinking of ideas of foreignness and selfhood, this book explores Sino-British encounters in eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

Depersonalization is a distressing symptom in which sufferers feel detached from their own selves and the world....  Read More >>

This book presents the first collection of studies of the senses and sensory experiences in China, filling a gap...  Read More >>

As the first volume of a two-volume set that presents a comprehensive syntactical picture of Singapore Mandarin,...  Read More >>

Brexit and the Migrant Voice provides a platform for the perspectives of European citizens and migrants living and...  Read More >>

The tone and texture of the language of media have changed considerably due to the rapid expansion of media in recent...  Read More >>

The volume examines the discourse-based critique of coloniality. It brings together an extensive interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

This book examines Latin narratives produced in the aftermath of the First Crusade and challenges the narrative...  Read More >>

This book examines the ways in which ghosts haunt and shape cultural identities and memory, considering the manner...  Read More >>

This book is the first volume of a four-volume set on modern Chinese complex sentences, with a focus on the overall...  Read More >>

This book is a necessary supplement to the theoretical exploration into semantic rhetoric, particularly a breakthrough...  Read More >>

This book explores previously unexamined overlaps between the poetic imagination and the medical mind. It shows...  Read More >>

This volume offers 18 new studies reflecting the latest scholarship on Latin verse, explored both in its original...  Read More >>

This book brings together critical essays on time, history and narrativity and the explorations of these concepts...  Read More >>

The Plague Years collects scholarly and essayistic reflections on literary, visual, and sonic representations of...  Read More >>

This book considers the question of spatial justice after apartheid, from several disciplinary perspectives – jurisprudence,...  Read More >>

This book interrogates anew the phenomenon of tradition in a dialogical debate with a host of Western thinkers and...  Read More >>

This book explores ways in which Western literature has engaged with themes found within the field of science and...  Read More >>

Through a close-reading of a corpus of novels featuring young protagonists in their path toward adulthood, the book...  Read More >>

Yu tackles the issues of the practice of online collaborative translation, the development of online translation...  Read More >>

This book explores the impact of major theorist, Donna Haraway, in such diverse areas as feminisms, Marxism, new...  Read More >>

This book studies the significance and representation of the ‘city’ in the writings of Indian poets, graphic novelists,...  Read More >>

This book is a significant new contribution to understanding both sports and the arts, not just in their separate...  Read More >>

"都说丽江是艳遇之都，很多人说一辈子总要去一次丽江。多年前当二十多岁的我踏上四方街，当我脚踩被岁月摩挲出坑洼的青砖，看着那些身穿纳西族传统服饰的东巴汉子坐在街边售卖他们本民族的东西时，不禁潸然泪下。多少年来，无数岁月的风尘穿过这条古朴的街道，不知多少东巴汉子在街边售卖和前行，他们来过，然后尘埃落地。而我正站在岁月的某个时光往街口张望，我看不见历史的尘烟深处，也看不见我身后的滚滚红尘。一切仿佛从未改变，一切却已经转变的翻天覆地。...  Read More >>

Focusing on the substitution and numeration of modern Chinese, this is the third volume of a classic on modern Chinese...  Read More >>