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Garden and landscape is written for students and serious gardeners in a personal, characteristically forthright style. It contains the distilled experience of a lifetime working in landscape, and particularly in gardens. The book emphasizes the need of clients and the solution for many problems faced by garden-owners and by the designers contracted to find the remedies. Principles and comments are amplified with the author's own line drawings ...

A volume in the Writers and Their Work series, which draws upon recent thinking in English studies to introduce writers and their contexts. Each volume includes biographical material, an examination of recent criticism, a bibliography and a reappraisal of a major work by the writer.

A lyrical biography of a bird and a fragmented study of a flawed and mutable creature bearing its name, Hannah Copley's Lapwing migrates across voices and blurs the divide between bird and human, self and other to explore restlessness, addiction, and ecological and personal grief.

This book plays with love and longing, showing us what fire can destroy, and what fire can illuminate, as love, like fire, is an energy that can never really be extinguished only transformed allowing our hearts to ignite on repeat with more chances to burn wherever we chose to land.

Feeling all the kills is a dazzling and ruthless series of poems where the physicality and rawness of the moment lives and breathes. Here is a collection of burning defiance - self-enquiring and brilliant, Calcutt reveals herself as a unique and critical voice on issues of sexual identity and womanhood.

These comic interludes highlight the politics, social commentary, and brilliant comedy of Spain's classical theater period. With many appearing for the first time in English, the anthology includes discussions of the performance and historical, cultural, and social context for the plays, making the collection valuable for both classroom and stage.

This volume focuses on the migration and acculturation of images in Jewish culture and how that reflects intercultural exchange. Gender aspects of Jewish art are also highlighted, as is the role of images in interreligious encounters. Other topics covered include the history, codicology, and iconography of a Haggadah produced in the late fifteenth century.

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Here is an unexpected Gérard Genette, looking back at his life and time with humour, tenderness and lucidity. 'Bardadrac' is the neologism a friend of his once invented to name the jumbled contents of her handbag. A way of saying that one finds a little bit of everything in this book: memories of a suburban childhood, a provincial adolescence and early years in Paris marked by a few political commitments, the evocation of great intellectual fi...

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Fables of Development: Capitalism and Social Imaginaries in Spain (1950-1967) focuses on a basic paradox: why is it that the so-called "Spanish economic miracle" - a purportedly secular, rational, and technocratic process - was fictionally portrayed through providential narratives in which supernatural and extraordinary elements were often involved? In order to answer this question, this book examines cultural fictions and social life at the t...

Published here for the first time, Maura Laverty's plays Liffey Lane, Tolka Row and A Tree in the Crescent are rooted in 1950s Dublin, its territories and enclaves. Teeming with the lives of the poor, the ambitious, the trapped and the struggling, the plays are moving, funny and vividly alive. They capture the capital in a state of transformation - reaching for modernisation while still enmired in stagnant class divisions, poor housing and nar...

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Published here for the first time, Maura Laverty's plays Liffey Lane, Tolka Row and A Tree in the Crescent form a lively and moving trilogy about Dublin in the 1950s- its housing crises, its class divisions, and its family struggles for a secure future.

Among the intellectual luminaries dotting the millennia of Jewish history, none shines brighter than Maimonides (1138-1204). Combining intellectual, reception, and book historical research, the heavily illustrated volume explores his effects in assorted social and political circumstances, across diverse intellectual and cultural environments.

An illustrated dictionary providing comprehensive biographical and artistic information about all the ship portraitists and marine artists who worked in and around the port of Liverpool from the late eighteenth century until the present day.

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This book, by the eminent poetry critic Neil Corcoran, examines the ways in which the work of significant modern Irish, British and American poets interacts with or 'negotiates' different contexts - historical, social, political, artistic and aesthetic. In Part 1 important work by David Jones, Robert Graves, Seamus Heaney and Bob Dylan is shown to negotiate poetic methods - both traditional and modernist - and also the work of major earlier wr...