Arts, Literature, and Humanities

A Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism offers a comprehensive, nuanced, and chronological account of the evolution of Buddhist religion in Japan f...

Also known as An Apology for Poetry, The Defence of Poesy is a work of literary criticism by Elizabethan poet Philip Sidney. It was written around ...

A defence of poetry and other essays contains Shelley's famous claim that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world". Shelley's argume...

This dictionary provides those studying or working in archaeology with a complete reference to the field.

Now thoroughly updated and revised, this new edition of the highly acclaimed dictionary provides an authoritative and accessible guide to modern id...

A Dictionary of Modern English Usage is a guide to the rules of good written British English including British English usage, pronunciation, and wr...

Novel is arguably the most important genre of English literature. According to Jane Austen, the greatest powers of the mind are displayed in the no...

Hemingway's words strike you, each one, as if they were pebbles fetched fresh from a book.' In A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway's most celebrat...

First written by Marcel Mauss and Henri Humbert in 1902, A General Theory of Magic gained a wide new readership when republished by Mauss in 1950. ...

A Guide to English Literature embraces a wide spectrum of literary works in the field of the English novel, drama and poetry. It is meant to enhanc...

There is no dearth of books on literary and/or related terms. However, any new book of some worth is invariably expected to add something new to th...

Like criticism, translation is always a text about a text and hence it is a metatext. We translate by intuition. There is no and lsquo;science of t...

Preface, Walter Mignolo; INTRODUCTION, Prem Poddar, Rajeev Patke, Lars Jensen; Acknowledgements; General editors & section editors; List of map...

A History of English criticism, which was originally the English br>Chapter of saintsbury’s monumental three volume a history of criticism and l...

A History of Seventeenth-Century Literature outlines significant developments in the English literary tradition between the years 1603 and 1690. A...

It is a story written in the form of a letter from a son to his mother. It unravels the sufferings of the mother that the son recounts at a special...

“I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics.”A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett follows the heart warming story...

A Midsummer Night's Dream, comedy in five acts by Shakespeare, written about 1595-96 and published in 1600 in a quarto edition from the author's ma...

Heritage’s revival as a respected academic subject has, in part, resulted from an increased awareness and understanding of indigenous rights and no...

It is the result of cumulative endeavour of two erudite teachers with long experience of teaching literary theory. It has been painstakingly writte...

Written in an engaging style, this text introduces students not just to what Muslims believe and practise, but also to the history and development ...

The values are the principles of behavioural conduct, that help in distinguishing between right and wrong, or good and bad. They guide the human be...

James Joyce was and remains unique among novelists for whatever he published was a masterpiece. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a key wo...