The definitive scholarly edition and new translation of all three versions of Hölderlin’s poem, The Death of Empedocles, and his related theoretical essays.

The oldest surviving anthology of lyric poems from India, the Sattasai presents the many aspects of love and provides a realistic counterpart to the Kāmasūtra.

The story of a 17th century Mohawk woman's interaction with her land, the Jesuits, and the religion they brought.

Poetry that responds to the Qur’an and to the tradition it created.

Delivers uncomplicated and useful techniques for better teaching to nonmajors in liberal arts courses.

Intertwines identity and culture to demonstrate how identity is negotiated over a given history.

The first English translation of work by Wang Xiaobo, one of the most important writers of twentieth-century China.

Looks at the relationship between religion and literature and how both have appealed to the Western spiritual sensibility.

A new translation of one of Maeterlinck’s four great nature essays.

An in-depth companion guide to Dante’s Divine Comedy.

Offers the most comprehensive collection of Basho's prose available, beautifully translated into English.

An analysis of how Oprah's Book Club has changed America's reading habits.

An early British novel, attributed to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, which explores the problems of first impressions and arranged marriages from the perspective of a woman who would suffer the long-term consequences of both.

A new translation of Sand's most popular novella, known for its brevity, liveliness, and exemplary storytelling, together with two of Sand's most admired short stories.

A new edition of the Latin text of Petrarch’s Itinerarium.

Provocative essays and short tales that explore the effect of technology and new media on our everyday lives.

A collection of essays on the novelist María de Zayas and other seventeenth century Spanish women writers.

English translation and introductory study of a previously unedited Hispano-Arabic legend of Alexander the Great.

Ten short stories and a dramatic monologue by one of contemporary Austria's most important and provocative writers.

Explores how modern folklore, through its preservation of ballads and folktales, supplements our understanding of the oral tradition and enhances our knowledge of early literature.

The fate of the hero-gambler, as described by Dostoevsky, Balzac, Poe, and others, is the focus of this unprecedented exploration of gambling and the human psyche.

Explicates the worldviews of comedy and tragedy, and analyzes world religions, finding some to be more comic, others more tragic.

Explores the mythology of memory, involuntary memory, and the relation between time and memory in the context of questions prominent in contemporary thought.

Examines works of Québécois narrative fiction from a variety of perspectives.

Examines the role of language in Nietzsche's thought, including the relationship between style and subjectivity, the semiological underpinnings of his theory of tragedy, his naturalism, and his theory of language and rhetoric.