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by J. A. Cuddon, M. A. R. Habib, Matthew Birchwood
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
With new entries and sensitive edits, this fifth edition places J.A. Cuddon’s indispensable dictionary firmly in the 21st Century.
Written in a clear and highly readable style
Comprehensive historical coverage extending from ancient times to the present day
Broad intellectual and cultural range
Expands...
by Dr. Karen Emmerich
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Literary Translation and the Making of Originals engages such issues as the politics and ethics of translation; how aesthetic categories and market forces contribute to the establishment and promotion of particular "originals†?; and the role translation plays in the formation, re-formation,...
Labor and Desire
Women's Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
This critical, historical, and theoretical study looks at a little-known group of novels written during the 1930s by women who were literary radicals. Arguing that class consciousness was figured through metaphors of gender, Paula Rabinowitz challenges the conventional wisdom that feminism as a discourse...
Literary Transcendentalism
Style and Vision in the American Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Broader in scope than any previous literary study of the transcendentalists, this rewarding book analyzes the theories and forms characteristic of a vital group of American writers, as well as the principles and vision underlying transcendentalism. All the movement's major literary figures and forms...
by Meike Kohl
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2007
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Münster, 17 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: As representatives of Early Black Literature, two texts have entered the canon of university courses...
Introducing Children's Literature
From Romanticism to Postmodernism
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
Introducing Children's Literature is an ideal guide to reading children's literature through the perspective of literary history. Focusing on the major literary movements from Romanticism to Postmodernism, Thacker and Webb examine the concerns of each period and the ways in which these concerns influence...
Dawnland Voices
An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Dawnland Voices calls attention to the little-known but extraordinarily rich literary traditions of New England’s Native Americans. This pathbreaking anthology includes both classic and contemporary literary works from ten New England indigenous nations: the Abenaki, Maliseet, Mi’kmaq, Mohegan,...
Theoretical Inquiry
Language, Linguistics, and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In the aftermath of debate about the death of literary theory, Austin E. Quigley asks whether theory has failed us or we have failed literary theory. Theory can thrive, he argues, only if we understand how it can be strategically deployed to reveal what it does not presuppose. This involves the repositioning...
James Hogg and the Literary Marketplace
Scottish Romanticism and the Working-Class Author
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Responding to the resurgence of interest in the Scottish working-class writer James Hogg, Sharon Alker and Holly Faith Nelson offer the first edited collection devoted to an examination of the critical implications of his writings and their position in the Edinburgh and London literary marketplaces....
Living in the Future
Sovereignty and Internationalism in the Canterbury Tales
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Nationalism, like medieval romance literature, recasts history as a mythologized and seamless image of reality. Living in the Future analyzes how the anachronistic nationalist fantasies in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales create a false sense of England’s historical continuity that in turn...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
The third edition of The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature is the complete and authoritative reference guide to the classical world and its literary heritage. It not only presents the reader with all the essential facts about the authors, tales, and characters from ancient myths and literature,...
by Annette Federico
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
What should we do with a literary work? Is it best to become immersed in a novel or poem, or is our job to objectively dissect it? Should we consult literature as a source of knowledge or wisdom, or keenly interrogate its designs upon us? Do we excavate the text as an historical artifact, or surrender...
Wider Boundaries of Daring
The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry announces a bold revision of the genealogy of Canadian literary modernism by foregrounding the originary and exemplary contribution of women poets, critics, cultural activists, and experimental prose writers Dorothy Livesay,...
Stories in a New Skin
Approaches to Inuit Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
In an age where southern power-holders look north and see only vacant polar landscapes, isolated communities, and exploitable resources, it is important to note that the Inuit homeland encompasses extensive philosophical, political, and literary traditions. Stories in a New Skin is a seminal text...