Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

This book examines the global/local intersections and tensions at play in the literary production from Aotearoa...  Read More >>

This book provides a fascinating and concise history of devised theatre practice. Replete with interviews from the...  Read More >>

This book proposes a linguistic-competence-based account of referential intuitions. Using a series of novel experiments...  Read More >>

This companion presents a critical collection of Sinhala resistance literature from Sri Lanka. It includes translated...  Read More >>

In this ground-breaking study, Hongwei Bao analyses queer theatre and performance in contemporary China. It will...  Read More >>

Courtly Pastimes analyzes the underlying rationales for such activities: to display power and prestige, to acquire...  Read More >>

This book equips preservice teachers, research postgraduate students, teacher educators, and language specialists...  Read More >>

This book maps out the pedagogical implications of the global spread and diversification of pluricentric languages...  Read More >>

This book views the Dutch Sinologist, Robert van Gulik’s Judge Dee mysteries as a hybrid East-West form of detective...  Read More >>

This companion offers a unique introductory study of linguistics in India. Well supplemented with sample problems...  Read More >>

Time and the Museum: Literature, Phenomenology, and the Production of Radical Temporality, is the first explicit...  Read More >>

This book re-reads the last sixty years of Anglophone African women’s writing from a transnational and trans-historical...  Read More >>

By tracing the process of the importation and appropriation of Irish drama in colonial Korea, this book investigates...  Read More >>

This collection of essays situates George Gascoigne in context as the pre-eminent writer of the early part of Queen...  Read More >>

The volume focuses on how ‘modernity’ has also been a struggle for access to public spaces, and non-institutional...  Read More >>

This book brings together academics, activists, social work practitioners, poets, and artists from different parts...  Read More >>

This book examines the best language fair trial practices of the courts in arguably the most multilingual region...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary investigation presents in-depth linguistic and legal analysis of ambiguity found in the text...  Read More >>

This book charts the impact of Shakespeare’s works on Harold Pinter’s career as a playwright.This study will be...  Read More >>

Part ethnography, part memoir, and part critical reflection on the Anthropocene, this book examines the ways that...  Read More >>

Hatoss explores multilingualism in diverse suburbs of Sydney through the oral and written narratives of student...  Read More >>

As the second volume of a multi-volume set on Chinese phonetics, this book examines the phonetical systems of Middle...  Read More >>

As the first volume of a multi-volume set on Chinese phonetics, this book gives a full picture of the historical...  Read More >>

As the concept of recognition shifts from philosophical theory to other fields of the humanities and social sciences,...  Read More >>

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