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Edward Said was an exiled individual – the ”out of place” Palestinian in the USA. He saw the consequences of the 1948 dismantling of Palestine and the establishment of Israel through his parents” …

Reception studies have transformed the classics. Many more literary and cultural texts are now regarded as ”valid” for classical study. And within this process of widening, children”s literature …

Farid al-Din ”Attar (d. 1221) was the principal Muslim religious poet of the second half of the twelfth century. Best known for his masterpiece ‘Mantiq al-tayr’, or ‘The Conference of Birds’, his …

Winner of the 2018 International Standing Conference for the History of Education”s First Book Award Drawing on a rich array of archival sources and historical detail, The Politics of 1930s Bri …

Reader”s Guides provide a comprehensive starting point for any advanced student, giving an overview of the context, criticism and influence of key works. Each guide also offers students fresh crit …

This is the first study of the Anglo-Welsh border region in the period before the Norman arrival in England, from the fifth to the twelfth centuries. Its conclusions significantly alter our current …

Neil Cornwell’s study, while endeavouring to present an historical survey of absurdist literature and its forbears, does not aspire to being an exhaustive history of absurdism. Rather, it pauses on …

While large bodies of scholarship exist on the plays of Shakespeare and the philosophy of Heidegger, this book is the first to read these two influential figures alongside one another, and to reveal …

First published in 1930, this volume aimed to provide an overview of folk-lore which contrasted with the Anthropological school. Consciously working in the legacy of Savigny and the Brothers Grimm, t …

This interdisciplinary study examines the literary, artistic and biographical afterlives in England of the great sixteenth-century Italian poet Torquato Tasso, from before his death to the end of the …