Product Description: In recent decades, globalization has led to increased mobility and interconnectedness. For a growing number of people, contemporary life entails new local and transnational interdependencies which transform individual and collective allegiances...read more

Product Description: This collection of essays examines the discursive topography of world literature, challenging the current West-centered monochronic vision of world literature. The book's contributors join their efforts in marking a literary space in which the polychronic literatures of 'minor' countries and peoples can be heard, uncaged from the epistemological frame of the West's 'other...read more

Product Description: Literary texts are more or less obliged to make reference to entities beyond themselves. Drawing on other texts, ideas previously written, on the resources of language, they make their attempts to communicate, entertain, enlist sympathy or even to offer counsel...read more

Product Description: Management theory is vague about the experience of leading. Success, power, achievement are discussed but less focus is given to negative experiences leaders faced such as loneliness or disappointment. This book addresses difficult-to-explore aspects of leadership through well-known works of literature drawing lessons from fictional leaders...read more

Product Description: From a short lyric to a complex novel, follow Reuben Brower's lead through the attentive reader's fields of light.In this classic study, Harvard professor Reuben Brower guides the reader from noticing the alluring details of a well-made poem, novel, or play to attending to the encompassing ways in which the writing achieves its greatness...read more

Product Description: Richard Dadd is a trickster, a pre-post-modern enigma wrapped in a Shakespearean Midsummer Night's Dream, an Elizabethan Puck living in a smothering Victorian insane asylum, foreshadowing and, in brilliant, Mad Hatter conundrums, entering the fragmented shards of today's nightmarish oxymorons long before the artists currently trying to give them the joker's ephemeral maps of discourse...read more

Product Description: A Journey through Knowledge: Festschrift in Honour of Hortensia Pârlog is a collection of articles dedicated to one of the best known Romanian university teachers and linguists, both in her home country and well beyond its borders...read more

Product Description: Although Wolfgang Iser is one of the most influential literary theorists of the twentieth century, there is no authoritative study about his oeuvre. The present work remedies that problem by analysing Iser´s German and English writings in detail...read more

A collection of semi-autobiographical essays on the literary world illuminates the challenges faced by modern Iraqis in acquiring books, and covers such topics as the persecution endured by historical literary masters and the impact of globalization.

Product Description: Along with her work as a foreign correspondent, Lara Marlowe is next known for her writings on French art in the Irish Times. Following on from the great success of The Things I've Seen: Nine Lives of a Foreign Correspondent, this book gathers together the best of Lara Marlowe's writings on visual artists and authors...read more

Product Description: Author Representations in Literary Reading investigates the role of the author in the mind of the reader. It is the first book-length empirical study on generated author inferences by readers of literature. It bridges the gap between theories which hold that the author is irrelevant and those that give him prominence...read more

The study of religion and literature continues to go from strength to strength - this collection of essays offers a dynamic, lively and provocative contribution to the field and aims to map out new directions it might take. By returning to foundational questions regarding the relation between words and worlds and the parameters of the sacred, the essays explore different ways of using interdisciplinary resources to open up our understanding of religion and literature. Contributions from some of the leading voices in the field unite to offer an important exploration of the possible worlds that the study of religion and literature imagines.

This remarkably broad and informative book offers an introduction to and overview of World Literature. Tracing the term from its earliest roots and situating it within a number of relevant contexts from postcolonialism to postmodernism, Theo D’haen examines: the return of the term "world literature" and its changing meaning Goethe’s concept of Weltliteratur and how this relates to current debates theories and theorists who have had an impact on world literature non-canonical and less-known literatures from around the globe the possibility and implications of a definition of world literature. This book is the ideal guide to an increasingly popular and important term in literary studies. It is accessible and engaging and will be invaluable to students of world literature, comparative literature, translation and postcolonial studies and anyone with an interest in these or related topics.

Product Description: ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable...read more

In this comprehensive study of factor market concentrations, a beginning has been made in the direction of filling the gap in the knowledge of factors of production for markets in the area of labor. The author examines theories of concentration and monopsony in this study. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.