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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...
Russian: A Self-Teaching Guide (Wiley Self-Teaching Guides)

Russian: A Self-Teaching Guide (Wiley Self-Teaching Guides)


Kathryn Szczepanska



From the Back Cover Russian a self-teaching guide Learn Russian at your own pace How do Russian letters differ from Engli...
Russian Punctuation & Related Symbols: A Guide for English Speakers

Russian Punctuation & Related Symbols: A Guide for English Speakers


Edward J. Vajda, Valentina Umanets



Russian Punctuation & Related Symbols: A Guide for English Speakers...
Virginia Woolf and the Russian Point of View

Virginia Woolf and the Russian Point of View


Roberta Rubenstein



Review “Rubenstein’s readings and the discussions are never other than subtle, perceptive, and persuasive.&#x...
Notes from Underground (Everyman's Library)

Notes from Underground (Everyman's Library)


Fyodor Dostoevsky, Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear



Review Praise for previous translations by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, winners of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month C...
Dostoevsky's Democracy

Dostoevsky's Democracy


Nancy Ruttenburg



Review Dostoevsky's Democracy will be read both by literary scholars, and those interested in the history of ideas. -- Le...
Colloquial Ukrainian: The Complete Course for Beginners

Colloquial Ukrainian: The Complete Course for Beginners


Ian Press, Stefan Pugh



Language Notes Text: English --This text refers to the edition. About the Author Ian Press is Established Pro...
Automaton theory and modeling of biological systems

Automaton theory and modeling of biological systems


Tsetlin M.L.



Automaton theory and modeling of biological systems...
Oscillation theory of delay differential equations

Oscillation theory of delay differential equations


Ladas G., Gyori I.



Oscillation theory of delay differential equations...
Infinite Series: Ramifications

Infinite Series: Ramifications


Fichtenholz G.



Language Notes Text: English, Russian (translation) ...
Iurii Trifonov: Unity through Time (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature)

Iurii Trifonov: Unity through Time (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature)


David Gillespie



Review "David Gillespie's recent book Iurii Trifonov: Unity through Time is an ambitious and illuminating work....I think...
Gender in Russian History and Culture (Studies in Russian & Eastern European History)

Gender in Russian History and Culture (Studies in Russian & Eastern European History)


Linda Edmondson



Review "...this work will be useful for seminar discussions and additional reading in lecture courses."--Martha Bohachevs...
Remembering the End: Dostoevsky as Prophet to Modernity

Remembering the End: Dostoevsky as Prophet to Modernity


Bruce Ward, P. Travis Kroeker, Travis Kroeker



About the Author P. Travis Kroeker is associate professor of religious studies at McMaster University in Ontario. He is t...
International Dictionary of Obscenities: A Guide to Dirty Words and Indecent Expressions in Spanish, Italian, French, German and Russian

International Dictionary of Obscenities: A Guide to Dirty Words and Indecent Expressions in Spanish, Italian, French, German and Russian


Christina Kunitskayaterson



International Dictionary of Obscenities: A Guide to Dirty Words and Indecent Expressions in Spanish, Italian, French, German and Russian...
Historical Dictionary of Russian Theater (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts)

Historical Dictionary of Russian Theater (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts)


Laurence Senelick



Review ...a most welcome addition to the small number of English references work on Russian theater. (Arba ) Senelick's w...
The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov (Cambridge Companions to Literature)


Julian W. Connolly



Review "The breadth of these essays--some have titles as expansive as 'Nabokov's Worldview'--does not negatively impact t...
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture (Cambridge Companions to Culture)

The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture (Cambridge Companions to Culture)


Nicholas Rzhevsky



Review "The Companion is a useful tool... It provides neat introductions to the familiar faces and movements in Russian a...
Epic Revisionism: Russian History and Literature as Stalinist Propaganda

Epic Revisionism: Russian History and Literature as Stalinist Propaganda


David Brandenberger, Kevin M. F. Platt



Review “Two excellent scholars, with original, conceptual minds, have undertaken the investigation of historical rev...
The Imperial Sublime: A Russian Poetics of Empire (Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies)

The Imperial Sublime: A Russian Poetics of Empire (Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies)


Harsha Ram



Review “Given its broad perspective and eloquent argument, Ram’s study of the confluent rise of the imperial su...
One Less Hope: Essays on Twentieth-Century Russian Poets (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 101) (Internationale ... & Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft)

One Less Hope: Essays on Twentieth-Century Russian Poets (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 101) (Internationale ... & Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft)


Constantin V. Ponomareff



One Less Hope: Essays on Twentieth-Century Russian Poets (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 101) (Internationale ... & Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft)...
Ocean Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Modeling (Cambridge Atmospheric and Space Science Series)

Ocean Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Modeling (Cambridge Atmospheric and Space Science Series)


Boris A. Kagan



Review "...this book will be a valuable asset to climate modelers and to serious graduate students of this controversial ...
Russia's Dangerous Texts: Politics Between the Lines

Russia's Dangerous Texts: Politics Between the Lines


Kathleen F. Parthe



Review "Russia's Dangerous Texts will be the first in-depth re-evaluation of Russian literary history up to the present t...
The Cambridge Companion to Chekhov (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

The Cambridge Companion to Chekhov (Cambridge Companions to Literature)


Paul Allain, Vera Gottlieb



Review "...there is a great deal of information here to use to those seeking a deeper appreciation of Chekhov, especially...
The Complete Short Novels (Everyman's Library, #277)

The Complete Short Novels (Everyman's Library, #277)


Anton Chekhov, Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear



Review Praise for previous translations by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky:   “The reinventors of the c...
Between Religion and Rationality: Essays in Russian Literature and Culture

Between Religion and Rationality: Essays in Russian Literature and Culture


Joseph Frank



Review While the work will undoubtedly appeal to general readers, specialists will also find it valuable, particularly in...