Literature

How might Shakespeare’s audiences have responded to this enduringly popular comedy? This guide to the various contexts that situate 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream' in its time, explains the Christian ethics, the contemporary socio-political scene, the literary atmosphere and requirements of comedy that inform the background of this mad play.

Frankenstein in Turkey: Transnational Adaptations, Vernacular Gothic, and Visual Culture analyzes Turkish transnational adaptations of Shelley’s Frankenstein by including the “Other” side in the Western oriented scholarship of the afterlife of the story to show how the Western canon is recontextualized and Turkified to interrogate the social, cultural, and political anxieties of the nation.

What would a Jacobean audience have made of this grim exposure of human greed? This guide to the various contexts that situate 'Volpone' in its time, explains the Christian ethics, the contemporary socio-political scene, the literary atmosphere and requirements of comedy that inform the background of this dark play.

In this Beginner’s Guide, Peter Hacker introduces the later philosophy of Wittgenstein in a lively and engaging combination of lectures and dialogues that presupposes no philosophical knowledge. He examines such topics as the nature of language and linguistic meaning, the analysis of necessity and its roots in convention, the relation of thought and language, the nature of the mind and its relation to behaviour, self-consciousness, and knowledge of other minds. This unique form of introduction will capture the interest of all readers with an enquiring mind.

A late-1820s unpublished fashionable novel describing the romantic adventures of teenage Alixe St Clair during her first two seasons in London Regency society.

Thomas Tod Stoddart’s innovative gothic epic poem The Death-Wake (1831), now little known, may have been lost to history if not for the interventions of Edgar Allan Poe in 1842 and Andrew Lang in 1895. This critical edition reprints and contextualises Stoddart’s morbid and distinctive masterpiece, bringing to light an important but overlooked expression of the Scottish Gothic with transatlantic cultural implications.

A psychological explanation of goosebumps and tears, of the epiphanic experience of seeing something ordinary in a profoundly new way, and of the overwhelming perception of the sublime. These experiences found in life and literature involve a feeling of coming to know something deeply important but impossible to describe.

A re-evaluation of the notion of “positive” (versus merely “negative”) freedom.

The book analyzes the practices and politics of reading the experimental addiction novel, and outlines both a practice and an ethics of reading that advocates for a more compassionate response to addicts than the Western realistic novel traditionally has offered.

This book is about contemporary Brazilian fiction from the past two decades and concerned with the possibilities of literary intervention in the reality of the historical moment.

This volume first explores the potential of machine translation of literature; goes on to explore possibilities for artificial literary creation; and finishes by assessing recent spectacular progress in generative artificial intelligence (AI) – throughout, with reference to Vladimir Nabokov’s hyperconscious literary art.