This volume provides a new way of reading that helps us discern some previously unnoticed features of Asian diaspora poetry and highlights how poetry plays a significant role in mediating and defining cross-cultural and transnational positions.

A debut collection of short fiction from this National Magazine Award in Fiction finalist.Set in a variety of Southern and Midwestern landscapes-from Missouri's Ha Ha Tonka State Park to a crop circle at a Minnesotan farm-the stories in Between Here...

The second volume of this accurate translation of the wonderful and enchanting tales of the Arabian nights.

Volume four of this translation of the wonderful tales of the Arabian nights.

This sourcebook presents more than fifty new translations of key Islamic texts. Edited and translated by three leading specialists it illustrates the growth of Islamic thought from its seventh-century origins to the end of the medieval period.

This book consists of a thorough study of Lucretius poetic and philosophical debt to Empedocles, focusing on their respective uses of analogy and examining how both poets turn these poetic techniques to use in their epistemological approaches to...

A chronological guide to influential Greek and Roman writers, Fifty Key Classical Authors is an invaluable introduction to the literature, philosophy and history of the ancient world.

Vollmer writes with great wisdom and insight about love, sex, and loss. He is particularly adept at depicting the thrilling experience of young love. Vollmer's narrative voice, reminiscent of T.C. Boyle, is also fully realized and very...

In this volume, Mario Klarer provides the essential beginners guide to literary studies. Offering a concise, easy-to-understand discussion of central issues in the study of literary texts.

This highly accessible, user-friendly work provides a fresh and illuminating introduction to the most important aspects of Latin prose and poetry and the fundamental connections between Latin literature and issues of elite Roman culture