Our books Life, Re-Scaled: The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance What kind of character is a microbe? How can an ecosystem take to the stage? Do springtails make good protagonists for detective novels? Life, Re-Scaled explores how contemporary literature and performance engage with our century’s shifting views of life.
Our books A People’s Voice We all know the Romantic hero: solitary, brooding, out of the ordinary, Byronic. There is a disconnect between that hero and the society which they renounce, and that is well and good. There is a space, after all, for misfits in this world.
German Literature A View From under The Horse’s Tail. New Perspectives on Literature? Read now Roger Paulin's reflections on his latest title 'From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture'.
English Literature Allusion/Echo and Plagiarism: Walking the Fine Line In the three-volume second edition (1987) of Tennyson’s complete poems, editor Christopher Ricks cites more than twelve hundred instances where phrases and short passages are similar or identical to those occurring in
