This book redefines the nature of textual difficulty in literature and shows the implications of the new definition for teachers at all levels of education. Con

This book redefines the nature of textual difficulty in literature and shows the implications of the new definition for teachers at all levels of education. Con

Is the point of philosophy to transmit beliefs about the world, or can it sometimes have higher ambitions? In this bold study, Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé makes a cr

This book theoretically defines and linguistically analyses the popular notion that poetry is ‘difficult’ - hard to read, hard to understand, hard to engage

The Fate of Difficulty in the Poetry of Our Time offers original readings of poems composed in this century—poems that are challenging to follow, challenging