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«Бельгия – маленькая страна с большой историей. История ее заключается в том, как эту маленькую страну, стиснутую с юга, запада и востока могущественн…

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE‘Gripping and at times ineffably sad, this book would be poetic even without the poetry. It will be the s…

Ancient Rome and Modern America explores the vital role the narratives and images of Rome have played in America’s understanding of itself and its his…

A quarter of a century on from its original publication, Literary Theory: An Introduction still conjures the subversion, excitement and exoticism that…

This astute guide to the literary achievements of American novelists in the twentieth century places their work in its historical context and offers d…

«На доклад мой, озаглавленный „Народ и интеллигенция“, было сделано очень много возражений, устных и печатных. То, о чем я буду говорить сегодня, пред…

Assembled here for the first time in book form are the very best occasional writings from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.A selection of …

The Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare's life and works focusing on oftern neglected literary an…

This book gives a radically new reading of Russia’s cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories and…

Offers a close reading of individual texts with attention to their cultural and canonical context Examines the history and evolution of the novel to 1…

В книге обсуждаются теоретические проблемы организации стратегической (семейной) игры. Перед участниками дискуссии стоят проблемы выбора общего объект…

AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEARA droll and dazzling compendium of observations, stories, lists, and brief essays about babies.‘Beguiling … A wunderkabine…

This book is the first to offer a cultural history of French literature from its very beginnings, analysing the relationship between French literature…

Dionysus Resurrected analyzes the global resurgence since the late 1960s of Euripides’ The Bacchae. By analyzing and contextualizing these modern day …

This engaging book introduces new readers of eighteenth-century texts to some of the major works, authors, and debates of a key period of literary his…

Журнал поэзии «Плавучий мост» является некоммерческим изданием, выпускается на личные средства его создателей, при содействии и участии издательств «Л…

Ничего Аллах не ниспосылает! Вы только в великом заблуждении! Неужели вы будете учить Аллаха вашей вере? Мы ввергнем в их сердца страх за то, что они …

The writings of Jean Baudrillard have dramatically altered the face of critical theory and promise to pose challenges well into the 21st century. His …

This accessible cultural history explores 400 years of British imperial adventure in India, developing a coherent narrative through a wide range of co…

Technology, Literature and Culture provides a detailed and accessible exploration of the ways in which literature across the twentieth century has rep…

WINNER OF THE HRF KEATING AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION CRIME BOOK 2018An entertaining history of British thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has L…

В очередную книгу новокузнецкого публициста и прозаика Н. Н. Ничика вошли очерково-публицистические материалы, посвященные событиям и встречам, остави…

The life story of the Victorian novelist George Eliot is as dramatic and complex as her best plots. This new assessment of her life and work combines …

Utilizing a great variety of previously unknown cuneiform tablets, Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice examines the way medicine was prac…

Performativity has emerged as a critical new idea across the humanities and social sciences, from literary and cultural studies to the study of gender…

The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense.’A genius book about a bookish genius’ Daniel Handler, author of A …

Американские обманщики не ограничились фальсификациями пилотируемых полетов на орбиту Земли и к Луне. Обманщики решили на этом не останавливаться и во…

Victorian Poets: A Critical Reader features a collection of critical essays focusing on various aspects of Victorian-era poetry from the 1830s to the …

English Translation and Classical Reception is the first genuine cross-disciplinary study bringing English literary history to bear on questions about…

This accessible and fresh account of German writing since 1750 is a case study of literature as a cultural and spiritual resource in modern societies.…

The first book to address everyone who relishes reading Proust and wants to know more about how his writing works.This is a matchless close reading of…

1611: Authority, Gender, and the Word in Early Modern England explores issues of authority, gender, and language within and across the variety of lite…

The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiogr…

An indispensable tool for teachers and students of American literature, Reading the American Novel 1865-1914 provides a comprehensive introduction to …

First ever critical study of Tolkien’s little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to Geo…

This introduction to studying comics and graphic novels is a structured guide to a popular topic. It deploys new cognitive methods of textual analysis…

A new study of Shakespeare’s life and times, which illuminates our understanding and appreciation of his works. Combines an accessible fully historici…

A History of Modernist Literature offers a critical overview of modernism in England between the late 1890s and the late 1930s, focusing on the writer…

Investigating the literary culture of the early interaction between European countries and East Africa, Edward Wilson-Lee uncovers an extraordinary se…

The Global Future of English Studiespresents a succinct, carefully documented assessment of the current state and future trajectory of English studies…

This new edition of the groundbreaking Romanticism: An Anthology is the only book of its kind to contain complete texts of a wide range of Romantic wo…

Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987–2007 is the authoritative guide to some of the most inventive and challenging fiction to emerge from Ireland…

Reading the American Novel 1780-1865 provides valuable insights into the evolution and diversity of fictional genres produced in the United States fro…