Literary category: 117525 books
Ariel Dorfman
An Aesthetics of Hope
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2010
Ariel Dorfman: An Aesthetics of Hope is a critical introduction to the life and work of the internationally renowned writer, activist, and intellectual Ariel Dorfman. It is the first book about the author in English and the first in any language to address the full range of his writing to date. Consistently...
Approaching the Hunger Games Trilogy: A Literary and Cultural Analysis
A Literary and Cultural Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
This book addresses Suzanne Collins's work from a number of literary and cultural perspectives in an effort to better understand both its significance and its appeal. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to the Hunger Games trilogy, drawing from literary studies, psychology, gender studies, media...
The Novel
A Survival Skill
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly...
by Thomas Birkett
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry is the first book-length study to compare responses to runic heritage in the literature of Anglo-Saxon England and medieval Iceland. The Anglo-Saxon runic script had already become the preserve of antiquarians at the time the majority of Old English...
Making Men
Gender, Literary Authority, and Women’s Writing in Caribbean Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 1998
Colonialism left an indelible mark on writers from the Caribbean. Many of the mid-century male writers, on the eve of independence, looked to England for their models. The current generation of authors, many of whom are women, have increasingly looked—and relocated—to the United States. Incorporating...
Songbirds on the Literary Stage
The Woman Singer and her Song in French and German Prose Fiction, from Goethe to Berlioz
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
This interdisciplinary study, situated at the cross-section of music, literature and gender, examines the woman singer and her song as a literary motif in French and German prose fiction from the 1790s to the mid-nineteenth century. Through selected case studies, this diachronic history of motifs...
Literary Executions
Capital Punishment and American Culture, 1820–1925
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Drawing from legal and extralegal discourse but focusing on imaginative literature, Literary Executions examines representations of, responses to, and arguments for and against the death penalty in the United States over the long nineteenth century. John Cyril Barton creates a generative dialogue...
Literary History of Canada
Canadian Literature in English (Second Edition) Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
Hailed as a landmark in Canadian literary scholarship when it was originally published in 1965, the Literary History of Canada is now being reissued, revised and enlarged, in three volumes. This major effort of a large group of scholars working in the field of English-language Canadian literature...
by Daniel Heath Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of Indigenous peoples today. In considering the connections...
Roman Literary Cultures
Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods with traditional analysis across four hundred years of Latin literature, from mid-republican Rome in the second century BC to the Second Sophistic in the second century AD. The contributors...
by Ken Monteith
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
When H. P. Blavatsky, the controversial head of the turn of the century movement Theosophy, defined "a true Theosophist" in her book The Key to Theosophy, she could have just as easily have been describing W. B. Yeats. Blavatsky writes, "A true Theosophist must put in practice the loftiest...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
For two decades, the 'transnational turn' in literary studies has generated enormous comment and controversy. This Companion provides a comprehensive account of the scope, impact, and critical possibilities of the transnational turn in American literary studies. It situates the study of American literature...
Thinking Through Blake
Essays in Literary Contrariety
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2014
A seminal figure in Romantic poetry and visual arts, William Blake continues to influence modern literary criticism. In this book, Blake scholar Hazard Adams presents a selection of essays that span his long career exploring the work and thought of the groundbreaking artist. Topics range from the...
The Tragic Imagination
The Literary Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly...