Alma Poetry in Translation

All poetry books in translation are presented in duallanguage editions

Translated by acclaimed translators

The Flowers of Evil

Translated by Professor Anthony Mortimer

ISBN: 9781847495747 £9.99

Paris Spleen

Translated by Martin Sorrell, University of Oxford

ISBN: 9781847499035 £9.99

The Testament and Other Poems

Translated by Professor Anthony Mortimer

ISBN: 9781847498991 £9.99

Song of Roland

Translated by Professor Anthony Mortimer

ISBN: 9781847498205 £8.99

DUAL-LANGUAGE EDITIONS

Enriched with extensive notes, a critical apparatus, bibliography and an appendix

Translated by J.G. Nichols

ISBN: 9781847497949 £7.99

Translated by M. Pursglove

ISBN: 9781847498915 £8.99

Inferno: Verse Translation

Translated by J.G. Nichols

ISBN: 9781847493408 £7.99

With illustrations by Gustave Doré

Purgatory: Verse Translation

Translated by J.G. Nichols

ISBN: 9781847496119 £7.99

With illustrations by Gustave Doré

Paradise: Verse Translation

Translated by J.G. Nichols

ISBN: 9781847496478 £7.99

With illustrations by Gustave Doré

Rime: Verse Translation

Translated by J.G. Nichols and Prof. Anthony Mortimer

ISBN: 9781847494627 £10.99

The Complete Poetic Works By Alexander Pushkin

TRANSLATED BY A BOARD OF ACCLAIMED TRANSLATORS

Verse Translation by C.H. Scott and A. Mortimer

ISBN: 9781847494634 £10.99

Verse Translation by Anthony Mortimer

ISBN: 9781847492944 £10.99

Lyrics Vol I (1813–17)

ISBN: 9781847497314

£9.99 • PB • 448 pp

Lyrics Vol II (1817–24)

ISBN: 9781847497321 £9.99 • PB • 448 pp

Lyrics Vol III (1824–30)

ISBN: 9781847497338 £9.99 • PB • 448 pp

Lyrics Vol IV ((1829-37))

ISBN: 9781847497345 £9.99 • PB • 448 pp

Translated by Roger Clarke

ISBN: 9781847494177 £7.99

Translated by Roger Clarke

ISBN: 9781847492968 £9.99

Translated by J.M. Ridland and P.V. Czipott

ISBN: 9781847493316 £14.99

Translated by Stuart Hood

ISBN: 9781847492951 £10.99

Air Conditioning

Hsuan L. Hsu, University of California, Davis

Air conditioning aspires to be unnoticed Yet, by manipulating the air around us, it quietly conditions the baseline conditions of our physical, mental, and emotional experience. From offices and libraries to contemporary art museums and shopping malls, climate control systems shore up the fantasy of a comfortable, self-contained body that does not have to reckon with temperature Yet air conditioning isn’t for everybody: its reliance on carbon fuels divides the world into habitable, climate-controlled bubbles and increasingly uninhabitable environments where AC is unavailable Hsuan Hsu's Air Conditioning explores questions about culture, ethics, ecology, and social justice raised by the history and uneven distribution of climate controlling technologies

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 160 pages

PB 9781501377822 • £9 99 / $14 95 ePub 9781501377839 £11 57 / $13 45 ePdf 9781501377846 £11 57 / $13 45

Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic

Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory

An Overview

Jeffrey R. Di Leo, University of Houston-Victoria, USA

The most exhaustive mapping of contemporary literary theory to date, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of the field of contemporary literary theory Examining 75 key topics across 15 chapters, it provides an approachable and encyclopedic introduction to the most important areas of contemporary theory today

UK July 2023

• US July 2023 • 464 pages • 7 bw illus

HB 9781350366169 • £130 00 / $175 00 ePub 9781350366145 • £117 00 / $159 29 ePdf 9781350366138 • £117 00 / $159 29

Bloomsbury Academic

Ten Lessons in Theory A New Introduction to Theoretical Writing

Calvin Thomas, Georgia State University, USA

A literary introduction to progressive critical theory, the new edition of Ten Lessons in Theory still engages readers with the premise that 'literary theory' isn't simply academic speculation 'about' literature but fundamentally is literature, after all The book’s ten lessons still unpack key theoretical axioms, exploring their conditions of possibility and most radical implications The lessons still elaborate on Lacanian psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, poststructuralism, cultural studies, feminism, gender studies and queer theory but, with a more urgent emphasis on Afropessimism and other developments in postcolonial Black cultural production, the second edition of Ten Lessons is an anti-racist overhaul of the first.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 368 pages

PB 9781501383946

• £24 99 / $34 95 • HB 9781501383953 • £90 00 / $120 00 ePub 9781501383960 £26 46 / $31 45 ePdf 9781501383977 £26 46 / $31 45

Bloomsbury Academic

Science Fiction and Narrative Form

David Roberts & Andrew Milner, both Monash University, Australia & Peter Murphy, La Trobe University and James Cook University, Australia

Establishing science fiction as its own distinct narrative form, this book calls on the works of Isaac Asimov, Aldous Huxley, Margaret Atwood, Ursula K LeGuin, Philip K Dick and more to demonstrate how it challenges pervasive perceptions of society presented in the conventional modern novel Building on Georg Lukács’s criticism of the orthodox novel, this book explores theological/ontological science fiction, future history and epic science to demonstrate the genre's unique capacity to encapsulate the whole world, persons and events, things and objects in a glance, and address the motive behind the wish for a meaningful totality

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 240 pages

HB 9781350350748 • £85 00 / $115 00 ePub 9781350350762 • £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9781350350755 • £76 50 / $103 94

Bloomsbury Academic

Negotiating Culture

Writings from Mizoram

Margaret L. Pachuau, Mizoram University, India

Offers a multidisciplinary perspective, with insights from history, memory studies, cultural studies and attempts to locate and situate dynamics that are related to orality, history and narrative in Mizoram From orality, colonial, and postcolonial parameters, the book analyzes the ways in which colonial struggles have continued to contribute to postcolonial discourse in the Mizo, by producing fundamental ideas about the relationship between nonwestern and western cultures

UK February 2023

HB 9789356400184

• US February 2023

• £85 00 / $115 00 ePub 9789356400191 ePdf 9789356400214

• 300 pages

• £76 50 / $103 94

• £76 50 / $103 94

Bloomsbury Academic India

World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)

Literature and Religious Experience

Beyond Belief and Unbelief

Edited by Matthew J. Smith & Caleb D. Spencer

This book challenges the status quo of studies in literature and religion by turning to ‘experience’ as a bridge between theory and practice Intuitively structured, each chapter is centred on a keyword which is explored across historical periods and genres, and related to broad literary contexts

Contributors including Terry Eagleton and Julia Reinhard Lupton examine the distinct deliverances of experience through writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Conrad, Beecher Stowe and Melville

UK August 2023 US August 2023 312 pages

PB 9781350194021 £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350193918 ePub 9781350193932 • £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9781350193925 • £76 50 / $103 94

Bloomsbury Academic

Advanced Fiction

A Writer's Guide and Anthology

Amy E. Weldon, Luther College, USA

A friendly and down-to-earth guide for writers with a basic handle of their craft who are looking to take their skills to the next level, with interactive prompts, exercises and suggestions for further reading Encouraging writers to think more deeply and systematically about deploying techniques in their work, it offers them a more challenging and enriched experience of writing Topics covered range from the psychology of writing to practical drafting and notebook-keeping methods, complex craft concepts such as world-building, and moving into the wider literary world

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

• 336 pages • 7 bw illus

PB 9781350180093 £22 99 / $30 95 HB 9781350180109 £70 00 / $95 00 ePub 9781350180123 £20 69 / $28 34 ePdf 9781350180116 £20 69 / $28 34

Series: Bloomsbury Writer's Guides and Anthologies • Bloomsbury Academic

The Invisible Art of Literary Editing

Bryan Furuness, Butler University, USA & Sarah Layden, Indiana University-Purdue University, USA

A guide to the trade and art of editing, this demystifies the responsibilities of a literary magazine editor in their role, and to the skills necessary to read and transform submissions Combining a exploration of an editor’s tasks with a behind-the-scenes look at manuscripts in progress, the book rounds up with a test editing section that teaches through exercises strategies and techniques for working on texts Generous in its insight and access to practicing editors’ annotations and thoughts, the book offers an exclusive look at nonfiction, fiction and poetry pieces as they were submitted, marked-up and then published

UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 152 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350296480 • £14 99 / $19 95 • HB 9781350296473 • £45 00 / $61 00 ePub 9781350296503 • £13 49 / $18 89 ePdf 9781350296497 • £13 49 / $18 89

Bloomsbury Academic

Creative Writing and Stylistics, Revised and Expanded Edition Critical and Creative Approaches

Jeremy Scott, University of Kent, UK

In this innovative fusion of practice and criticism, Jeremy Scott shows how insights from stylistics and linguistics can enrich the craft of creative writing Focusing on crucial methodological issues that confront the practicing writer, this book introduces writers to key topics from stylistics, provides in-depth analysis of a wide range of writing examples and includes practical exercises to help develop creative writing skills Thoroughly revised, this second edition more clearly lays out specialist ideas and technical terms within stylistics, and features greater focus on the creative process and more practical exercises to help writers engage with ideas in their work

UK September 2023 US September 2023 256 pages 23 bw illus

PB 9781350372955 • £23 99 / $32 95 • HB 9781350372962 • £75 00 / $100 00 ePub 9781350372986 • £21 59 / $29 69 ePdf 9781350372979 • £21 59 / $29 69

Series: Approaches to Writing • Bloomsbury Academic

The Fiction Writer's Guide to Alternate History

A Handbook on Craft, Art, and History Jack Dann, University of Queensland, Australia

A comprehensive guide to the speculative subgenre of alternate counterfactual fiction, this book maps the unique terrain of this vibrant mode of storytelling and then explains how to write it It includes: a concise conceptual overview of the field; writing advice on such points as ‘Heinleining’, creating ‘divergent points’, employing paratextual elements and ‘layering’; a line-by-line exploration of an alternative history short story; and a Q&A with the most esteemed counterfactual fiction writers working today such as Kim Stanley Robinson, John Birmingham and Lisa Goldstein, who detail their own particular hacks, theories, processes, methods and strategies

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781350351363

Intersecting Genre A Skills-based Approach to Creative Writing

Jason Olsen, Utah State University, USA

All genres and modes of writing overlap and features in one mode can inform your practice in others Intersecting Genre holds this idea at its heart, exploring genre relationships with each chapter and focusing on the intersection between forms and what you can learn and the skills you can transfer by combining the wisdom gained from the study of them alongside. Covering fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and dramatic writing, as well as forms that don't neatly fit into any genre silos, this book uses models, critical questions, and writing practice exercises to offer a uniquely holistic method for developing writing skills

UK September 2023 US September 2023 256 pages

PB 9781350288652 £21 99 / $29 95 HB 9781350288645 £65 00 / $90 00 ePub 9781350288676 £19 79 / $26 99 ePdf 9781350288669 • £19 79 / $26 99

Bloomsbury Academic

Craft Consciousness and Artistic Practice in Creative Writing

Ben Ristow, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA

Craft Consciousness and Artistic Practice in Creative Writing follows Richard Sennett’s notion of "making is thinking" Reframing craft as a "material consciousness" rather than formalistic logics and techniques taught by makers that teach, this book restores the virtue of craft for artist-teachers With research drawn from 25 interviews with artists across material and intellectual boundaries including architecture, painting, dance, music, writing, pottery, textiles, and woodworking, Ben Ristow puts these practitioners in conversation with each other to suggest that craft consciousness is foundational to developing an artistic identity and practice

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

• 232 pages

• 184 pages

• £16 99 / $22 95 ePub 9781350351387 ePdf 9781350351370

Bloomsbury Academic

• 4 bw illus

• HB 9781350351356

• £15 29 / $21 59

• £15 29 / $21 59

• £50 00 / $68 00

PB 9781350290747

• £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350120686 ePub 9781350120709 £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9781350120693

• £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Research in Creative Writing

• Bloomsbury Academic

Literature and the Telephone

Conversations on Poetics, Politics and Place

Sarah Jackson

Taking the ‘question of literature’ as its starting point, this open access book addresses the telephone’s propensity to mediate but also to interrupt communication, as well as the ways in which it taps into some of the most urgent concerns of the modern and contemporary age, including surveillance, mobility, globalization and the ethics of answerability In so doing, it provides a fascinating look at how the telephone has been shaping literature and culture from the early twentieth century to the present The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Nottingham Trent University.

UK September 2023 US September 2023 256 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350259607 £85 00 / $115 00 ePub 9781350259621 • £0 00 / $0 00 ePdf 9781350259614 • £0 00 / $0 00

Bloomsbury Academic

Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life

Kate de Medeiros, Miami University, USA

A Poetic Language of Ageing

Edited by Olga V. Lehmann & Oddgeir Synnes

Bringing together international scholars from disciplinary backgrounds as diverse as cultural psychology, literary studies, theology, sociology, narrative medicine, cultural gerontology and narrative gerontology, this book explores the potential of poetry and poetic language as a means of examining questions such as 'how can we understand ageing and later life?' and 'how can we capture the ambiguities and complexities that the experiences of growing old in time and place entail?'

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 232 pages • 5 bw illus

HB 9781350256804 • £85 00 / $115 00 ePub 9781350256828 • £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9781350256811 • £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life Bloomsbury Academic

Ageing Masculinities, Alzheimer's and Dementia Narratives

Edited by Heike Hartung, University of Graz, Austria, Rüdiger Kunow, Potsdam University, Germany & Matthew Sweney, Palacký University

Olomouc, Czech Republic

This open access book focuses on the gendered and relational perspectives in cultural representations of Alzheimer’s disease Taking a comparative, interdisciplinary and gendered approach, it explores representations of Alzheimer’s across a wide range of cultural contexts and examines memoir, film, poetry and prose fiction.

The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the ERA Gender-Net+ Project MASCAGE, the University of Graz (Center for Inter-American Studies) and the Government of Styria, Austria.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781350237483

The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee

Edited by Lucy Graham, University of the Western Cape, South Africa & Andrew van der Vlies, Queen Mary, University of London, UK With chapters written by leading and emerging scholars from across the world, The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee is the most comprehensive available exploration of the depth and range of the Nobel Prize-winning writer’s work

The book covers a range of topics, including: poetry and essays to major fictional works such as Waiting for the Barbarians, Disgrace and the Jesus novels; Coetzee’s sources and influences interdisciplinary perspectives, including gender, race, posthuman and digital humanities perspectives; biographical and archival approaches

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 464 pages

HB 9781350152045 • £140 00 / $190 00 ePub 9781350152069 • £126 00 / $171 44 ePdf 9781350152052 • £126 00 / $171 44

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film

Edited by Sarah Falcus, University of Huddersfield, UK, Heike Hartung, University of Graz, Austria & Raquel Medina

This handbook captures how the interdisciplinary and intersectional endeavor of Age(ing) studies has shaped contemporary literary and film studies. It examines literary and film genres and how they have been shaped by knowledge about age and ageing, as well as poetry and drama

It also includes chapters on key themes and concepts in Ageing Studies with examples from film and literature and brings together case studies focussing on individual artists, national traditions and global ageing

UK July 2023 US July 2023 480 pages 40 b/w images

HB 9781350204331 £130 00 / $175 00 ePub 9781350204355 • £117 00 / $159 29 ePdf 9781350204348 • £117 00 / $159 29

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler

Edited by Gregory J. Hampton, Howard University, USA & Kendra R. Parker, Georgia Southern University, USA

Bringing together leading and emerging scholars and covering her complete works from the bestselling novel Kindred, to her short stories and major novel sequences, this is the most comprehensive available reference Companion to the work of the science fiction writer Octavia

E Butler

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler covers a wide range of themes and topics, including: Afrofuturism; Cyborgs and the posthuman; Race and African American history; Gender and sexuality; Religious, Environmental and Disability Studies perspectives; New discoveries from the Butler archives.

• 224 pages

• £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350230613 ePub 9781350230620 £0 00 / $0 00 ePdf 9781350230606 £0 00 / $0 00

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life

• Bloomsbury Academic

UK July 2023 • US July 2023

• 312 pages • 7 bw illus

PB 9781350375192 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350079632 ePub 9781350079656 £135 00 / $183 59 ePdf 9781350079649 £135 00 / $183 59

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic