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Peter Ackroyd: the ludic and labyrinthine text

Peter Ackroyd: the ludic and labyrinthine text


Julian Wolfreys, Jeremy Gibson



Review 'The Laughter of Peter Ackroyd - no, this is not a novel by Agatha Christie, it is just what this exhilarating and...
Tolkien's Ring

Tolkien's Ring


David Day



Tolkien's Ring...
Auden and Isherwood: The Berlin Years

Auden and Isherwood: The Berlin Years


Norman Page



Amazon.com Review For late-20th-century culture, Berlin in the 1930s has become a place of mythic enchantment and decade...
Beyond Dracula: Bram Stoker's Fiction and Its Cultural Context

Beyond Dracula: Bram Stoker's Fiction and Its Cultural Context


William Hughes



Review Beyond Dracula is a welcome addition to the critical literature on Stoker's fiction.-Victorian Studies --This te...
Neither Saints Nor Sinners: Writing the Lives of Women in Spanish America

Neither Saints Nor Sinners: Writing the Lives of Women in Spanish America


Kathleen Ann Myers



About the Author Kathleen Ann Myers is at Indiana University. ...
Identity, Memory, and Diaspora: Voices of Cuban-American Artists, Writers, and Philosophers (S U N Y Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture)

Identity, Memory, and Diaspora: Voices of Cuban-American Artists, Writers, and Philosophers (S U N Y Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture)


Jorge J. E. Gracia, Isabel Alvarez Borland, Lynette M. F. Bosch



From the Back Cover This fascinating volume contains interviews with nineteen prominent Cuban-American artists, writers, ...
El Libertador: Writings of Simon Bolivar

El Libertador: Writings of Simon Bolivar


Simon Bolivar



Review bull "With the Library of Latin America, Oxford has opened up a new frontier that may prove as exciting and enigma...
Adrift on the Nile

Adrift on the Nile


Naguib Mahfouz



From Publishers Weekly A keen sense of life's futility and meaninglessness gnaws at Anis Zani, a pot-smoking civil servan...
Times Gone By: Memoirs of a Man of Action (Library of Latin America)

Times Gone By: Memoirs of a Man of Action (Library of Latin America)


Vicente Perez Rosales



Language Notes Text: English (translation) Original Language: Spanish --This text refers to the edition. About ...
Dreams and Realities: Selected Fiction of Juana Manuela Gorriti (Library of Latin America)

Dreams and Realities: Selected Fiction of Juana Manuela Gorriti (Library of Latin America)


Juana Manuela Gorriti



From The latest installment of Oxford's Library of Latin America series presents the writings of Gorriti, who had a dist...
Rhetoric, Rhetoricians and Poets: Studies in Renaissance Poetry and Poetics

Rhetoric, Rhetoricians and Poets: Studies in Renaissance Poetry and Poetics


Marijke Spies



Rhetoric, Rhetoricians and Poets: Studies in Renaissance Poetry and Poetics...
A Family Occupation

A Family Occupation


Jolanda Vanderwal Taylor



About the Author Jolanda Vanderwal Taylor is associate professor in Dutch and German language, literature and culture at ...
Territories of History: Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America

Territories of History: Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America


Sarah H. Beckjord



About the Author Sarah H. Beckjord is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at Boston College. ...
Twentieth Century Caribbean Literature

Twentieth Century Caribbean Literature


Alison Donnell



Review 'This book will extend the archive of Caribbean texts in challenging and exciting ways, and is likely to initiate mo...
Cesar Vallejo: Autografos olvidados (Textos B)

Cesar Vallejo: Autografos olvidados (Textos B)


Stephen M. Hart, Juan Flo



About the Author STEPHEN M. HART is Professor of Hispanic Studies, University College, London. JUAN FLO is Professor of A...
El Libertador: Writings of Simon Bolivar (Library of Latin America)

El Libertador: Writings of Simon Bolivar (Library of Latin America)


Simon Bolivar



Review bull "With the Library of Latin America, Oxford has opened up a new frontier that may prove as exciting and enigma...
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (New Directions Paperbook)

Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (New Directions Paperbook)


Jorge Luis Borges



Amazon.com Review If Jorge Luis Borges had been a computer scientist, he probably would have invented hypertext and the W...
The Battle of Tomochic: Memoirs of a Second Lieutenant (Library of Latin America)

The Battle of Tomochic: Memoirs of a Second Lieutenant (Library of Latin America)


Heriberto Frias



Language Notes Text: English (translation) Original Language: Spanish About the Author Antonio Saborit is at Nati...
Post-Revolutionary Chicana Literature: Memoir, Folklore, and Ficiton of the Border, 1900-1950 (Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultura)

Post-Revolutionary Chicana Literature: Memoir, Folklore, and Ficiton of the Border, 1900-1950 (Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultura)


Sam Lopez



Post-Revolutionary Chicana Literature: Memoir, Folklore, and Ficiton of the Border, 1900-1950 (Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultura)...
The Reading of Russian Literature in China: A Moral Example and Manual of Practice (Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History)

The Reading of Russian Literature in China: A Moral Example and Manual of Practice (Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History)


Mark Gamsa



Review “This is a fascinating exploration of inter-cultural history and there is nothing like it in the English-langu...
Peter and the Wolf

Peter and the Wolf


J. Gukova, S. Prokofiev



Amazon.com Review European comics artist Miguelanxo Prado describes his two life passions as "listening to and inve...
The Dostoevsky encyclopedia

The Dostoevsky encyclopedia


K. A. Lantz



From In 248 entries, this "brief survey of existing knowledge and opinion" covers Fyodor Dostoevsky's fictional writings...
Dostoevsky's The Idiot: a critical companion

Dostoevsky's The Idiot: a critical companion


Liza Knapp



Dostoevsky's The Idiot: a critical companion...
Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871

Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871


Joseph Frank



From Publishers Weekly This fourth installment in Frank's acclaimed, projected five-volume biography presents an astonish...