"In this book analyzing English novels of the long eighteenth century, the author argues against the long-standing association between the novel genre and the concept of a progress narrative (i.e., a bildungsroman), in which the protagonist matures over the course of the plot in…
WOMEN AND INDIAN SHAKESPEARES
"This essay collection radically reimagines the field of Indian Shakespeares by putting women at the centre. It explores the multiple ways in which women are, and have been, engaged with Shakespeare in India from the 18th century to the present day. It interweaves history, genre…
The Hobbit: the desolation of Smaug
by Falconer, Daniel, Lee, Alan, Vincent, Ra, Weta Workshop
Profiles the characters and creatures, detailing how each were realized for the film. Features images of concept artwork, photographs, and development paintings. A companion to "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" offers insider information and visual imagery that will shed new…
Este estudio se centra en las estrategias textuales que determinan la relación entre personaje y lector en la novelística del escritor argentino Manuel Puig.
C is for Cthulhu is a gorgeously illustrated alphabet board book, featuring monsters and characters inspired by the mythos of H.P. Lovecraft.
C is for Cthulhu is a gorgeously illustrated alphabet board book, featuring monsters and characters inspired by the mythos of H.P. Lovecraft.
AHAB UNBOUND: melville and the materialist turn
"For years critics have viewed Herman Melville's Captain Ahab as the paradigm of a strong, controlling agent. Farmer and Schroeder's volume aims to rethink Ahab through a series of "materialist" frames, including posthumanism, disability studies, affect theory, animal studies, e…