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The Shakespearean World (Routledge Worlds)
by Robert Ormsby Jill L. LevensonThe Shakespearean World takes a global view of Shakespeare and his works, especially their afterlives. Constantly changing, the Shakespeare central to this volume has acquired an array of meanings over the past four centuries. "Shakespeare" signifies the historical person, as well as the plays and verse attributed to him. It also signifies the attitudes towards both author and works determined by their receptions. Throughout the book, specialists aim to situate Shakespeare’s world and what the world is because of him. In adopting a global perspective, the volume arranges thirty-six chapters in five parts: Shakespeare on stage internationally since the late seventeenth century; Shakespeare on film throughout the world; Shakespeare in the arts beyond drama and performance; Shakespeare in everyday life; Shakespeare and critical practice. Through its coverage, The Shakespearean World offers a comprehensive transhistorical and international view of the ways this Shakespeare has not only influenced but has also been influenced by diverse cultures during 400 years of performance, adaptation, criticism, and citation. While each chapter is a freshly conceived introduction to a significant topic, all of the chapters move beyond the level of survey, suggesting new directions in Shakespeare studies – such as ecology, tourism, and new media – and making substantial contributions to the field. This volume is an essential resource for all those studying Shakespeare, from beginners to advanced specialists.
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights (Routledge Literature Companions)
by Sophia A. McClennen Alexandra Schultheis MooreThe Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights provides a comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to this emerging field, offering a broad overview of human rights and literature while providing innovative readings on key topics. The first of its kind, this volume covers essential issues and themes, necessarily crossing disciplines between the social sciences and humanities. Sections cover: subjects, with pieces on subjectivity, humanity, identity, gender, universality, the particular, the body forms, visiting the different ways human rights stories are crafted and formed via the literary, the visual, the performative, and the oral contexts, tracing the development of the literature over time and in relation to specific regions and historical events impacts, considering the power and limits of human rights literature, rhetoric, and visual culture Drawn from many different global contexts, the essays offer an ideal introduction for those approaching the study of literature and human rights for the first time, looking for new insights and interdisciplinary perspectives, or interested in new directions for future scholarship. Contributors: Chris Abani, Jonathan E. Abel, Elizabeth S. Anker, Arturo Arias, Ariella Azoulay, Ralph Bauer, Anna Bernard, Brenda Carr Vellino, Eleni Coundouriotis, James Dawes, Erik Doxtader, Marc D. Falkoff, Keith P. Feldman, Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg, Audrey J. Golden, Mark Goodale, Barbara Harlow, Wendy S. Hesford, Peter Hitchcock, David Holloway, Christine Hong, Madelaine Hron, Meg Jensen, Luz Angélica Kirschner, Susan Maslan, Julie Avril Minich, Alexandra Schultheis Moore, Greg Mullins, Laura T. Murphy, Hanna Musiol, Makau Mutua, Zoe Norridge, David Palumbo-Liu, Crystal Parikh, Katrina M. Powell, Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Mark Sanders, Karen-Magrethe Simonsen, Joseph R. Slaughter, Sharon Sliwinski, Sidonie Smith, Domna Stanton, Sarah G. Waisvisz, Belinda Walzer, Ban Wang, Julia Watson, Gillian Whitlock and Sarah Winter.
The Journey: Guardians Of Ga'hoole, Book Two (Guardians of Ga’Hoole #2)
by Kathryn LaskyThe brave owls of Ga'Hoole are back in their second mythic adventure as they strive to preserve owldom from the evil that lurks around them. Join the owls in their quest for the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, the legendary place where ordinary owls are transformed into the heroes that guard the owl kingdom.
Exemplarity and Singularity: Thinking through Particulars in Philosophy, Literature, and Law
by Susanne Lüdemann Michele LowrieThis book pursues a strand in the history of thought – ranging from codified statutes to looser social expectations – that uses particulars, more specifically examples, to produce norms. Much intellectual history takes ancient Greece as a point of departure. But the practice of exemplarity is historically rooted firmly in ancient Roman rhetoric, oratory, literature, and law – genres that also secured its transmission. Their pragmatic approach results in a conceptualization of politics, social organization, philosophy, and law that is derived from the concrete. It is commonly supposed that, with the shift from pre-modern to modern ways of thinking – as modern knowledge came to privilege abstraction over exempla, the general over the particular – exemplarity lost its way. This book reveals the limits of this understanding. Tracing the role of exemplarity from Rome through to its influence on the fields of literature, politics, philosophy, psychoanalysis and law, it shows how Roman exemplarity has subsisted, not only as a figure of thought, but also as an alternative way to organize and to transmit knowledge.
The Rescue: The Rescue (Guardians of Ga’Hoole #3)
by Kathryn LaskyThe owls of Ga'Hoole return in the third book of the series ready to battle new and far more dangerous threats. Based on Katherine Lasky's work with owls, this adventures series is bound to be a hit with kids. Join the owls in their quest to safeguard the owl kingdom from the encroaching evil!
The Siege: The Siege (Guardians of Ga’Hoole #4)
by Kathryn LaskyFourth title in a mythic adventure series in which the heroes are owls!
The Shattering (Guardians of Ga’Hoole #5)
by Kathryn LaskyFifth title in a mythic adventure series in which the heroes are owls!
LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: The Owls Of Ga'hoole
by Kathryn LaskyNow a major motion picture!Enter the world of the owls and meet the heroes who keep it safe…
Night Sisters
by John PritchardCLINICIANS A word that will come to haunt Casualty Sister Rachel Young through the dark nights ahead.
Shambles Corner (Flamingo Original Ser.)
by Edward TomanFirst published in 1993 and now available as an ebook. Hilarious and poignant, Shambles Corner is a novel that takes an uncompromising look at the elaborate ideologies and rituals of religious bigotry in Ulster.
The Memory Palace
by Gill AldermanTo reach the Palace, walk a path between two gardens, one box-hedged and orderly, the other wild. Climb porphyry stairs to double doors of brass. There an old man waits, like an archangel at the Gates of Paradise. But this is the Archmage, Koschei Corbillion. He looks old … then he grows younger as he opens the doors into the Memory Palace.
37 Hours (Nadia Laksheva Spy Thriller Series #2)
by J.F. Kirwan‘Nadia is a heroine readers are bound to fall hard for!’ – BestThrillers.com The only way to hunt down a killer is to become one…
88° North (Nadia Laksheva Spy Thriller Series #3)
by J.F. Kirwan‘Nadia is a heroine readers are bound to fall hard for!’ – BestThrillers.com The deadliest kind of assassin is one who is already dying…
No Place to Hide (DS Peter Gayle thriller series #2)
by Jack SlaterA house fire. A suspicious death. A serial killer to catch.
No Way Home (DS Peter Gayle thriller series #3)
by Jack SlaterLooking for more from DS Peter Gayle? Then don’t miss this chilling new police procedural! A dead body. A mysterious murder. A serial killer on the loose.
Why I Love Ontario
by Daniel HowarthFeaturing children’s own words and heart-warming pictures, this is the perfect book for children living in or visiting Ontario!
Why I Love School
by Daniel HowarthFeaturing children’s own words and heart-warming pictures, this book is a perfect celebration of all that’s fun about school!
Happy Birthday to you, Pirate
by Michelle RobinsonA magical sing-along birthday adventure for little pirates everywhere, based on the lyrics of the Happy Birthday song!
Happy Birthday to you, Princess
by Michelle RobinsonA magical sing-along birthday adventure for the little princess in your life, based on the lyrics of the Happy Birthday song!
How to Win Back Your Husband
by Vivien HampshireThe uplifting, feel-good romantic comedy you don’t want to miss! It’s not over until he says, ‘I do’… Nicci is throwing a party: she’s getting divorced! The only issue? She isn’t ready to give up on her soon-to-be ex-husband, Mark – and she has thirty days to win him back!
The Case of the Gilded Fly (The\detective Club Ser.)
by Edmund CrispinThe very first case for Oxford-based sleuth Gervase Fen, one of the last of the great Golden Age detectives. As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse, this is the perfect entry point to discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin - crime fiction at its quirkiest and best.
Swan Song (A Gervase Fen Mystery #04)
by Edmund CrispinAs inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse - discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime fiction at its quirkiest and best.
Buried for Pleasure: Police At The Funeral; Murder Makes Mistakes; Buried For Pleasure (A Gervase Fen Mystery #06)
by Edmund CrispinAs inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse - discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime fiction at its quirkiest and best.
Witchsign (Ashen Torment #1)
by Den PatrickFrom celebrated fantasy author Den Patrick comes WITCHSIGN, the first novel in a fresh and exciting new fantasy trilogy
Zenith (The Androma Saga #1)
by Sasha Alsberg Lindsay Cummings‘A whirlwind out-of-this-galaxy adventure!’ Sarah J. Maas, bestselling author of A Court of Thorns and Roses and Throne of Glass. There is darkness sweeping across the stars.