Literary category: 117525 books
Man and Animal in Severan Rome
The Literary Imagination of Claudius Aelianus
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
The Roman sophist Claudius Aelianus, born in Praeneste in the late second century CE, spent his career cultivating a Greek literary persona. Aelian was a highly regarded writer during his own lifetime, and his literary compilations would be influential for a thousand years and more in the Roman world....
Literary Theory
A Practical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction, Third Edition, presents a comprehensive introduction to the
full range of contemporary approaches to the study of literature and culture, from formalism, structuralism, and historicism to ethnic, gender, and science studies.
Introduces students to...
Poetry Wars
Verse and Politics in the American Revolution and Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
During America's founding period, poets and balladeers engaged in a series of literary "wars" against political leaders, journalists, and each other, all in the name of determining the political course of the new nation. Political poems and songs appeared regularly in newspapers (and as...
Contemporary Pakistani Fiction in English
Idea, Nation, State
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Looking at a wide selection of Pakistani novels in English, this book explores how literary texts imaginatively probe the past, convey the present, and project a future in terms that facilitate a sense of collective belonging. The novels discussed cover a range of historical movements and developments,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
At a time increasingly dominated by globalization, migration, and the clash between supranational and ultranational ideologies, the relationship between language and borders has become more complicated and, in many ways, more consequential than ever. This book shows how concepts of ‘language’...
Matisse’s Poets
Critical Performance in the Artist’s Book
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Throughout his career, Henri Matisse used imagery as a means of engaging critically with poetry and prose by a diverse range of authors. Kathryn Brown offers a groundbreaking account of Matisse's position in the literary cross-currents of 20th-century France and explores ways in which reading influenced...
Michigan Literary Luminaries
From Elmore Leonard to Robert Hayden
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Discover the novelists, poets, and others who are part of this Midwestern state’s rich literary tradition.
From Ernest Hemingway’s rural adventures to the gritty fiction of Joyce Carol Oates, the landscape of the “Third Coast” has inspired generations of the nation’s greatest storytellers.
Michigan...
Another Part of a Long Story
Literary Traces of Eugene O'Neill and Agnes Boulton
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
"An engrossing biography about the marital breakdown of a major literary figure, of particular interest for what it reveals about O'Neill's creative process, activities, and bohemian lifestyle at the time of his early successes and some of his most interesting experimental work. In addition,...
by Lena Hill
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Negative stereotypes of African Americans have long been disseminated through the visual arts. This original and incisive study examines how black writers use visual tropes as literary devices to challenge readers' conceptions of black identity. Lena Hill charts two hundred years of African American...
James Joyce
A Literary Companion
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Though he published just a handful of major works in his lifetime, James Joyce (1882–1941) continues to fascinate readers around the world and remains one of the most important literary figures of the 20th century. The complexity of Joyce’s style has attracted—and occasionally puzzled—generations...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2009
What was the written culture behind visual artists like Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Rubens? What made the historical novel in nineteenth-century Flanders so different from its counterpart in Holland? What was the literary impact of the huge colonial empires run by the Netherlands and Belgium? What role...
Shakespeare and Renaissance Literary Theories
Anglo-Italian Transactions
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Throwing fresh light on a much discussed but still controversial field, this collection of essays places the presence of Italian literary theories against and alongside the background of English dramatic traditions, to assess this influence in the emergence of Elizabethan theatrical convention and...
And the View from the Shore
Literary Traditions of Hawai'i
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
This groundbreaking study of a little-explored branch of American literature both chronicles and reinterprets the variety of patterns found within Hawaii�s pastoral and heroic literary traditions, and is unprecedented in its scope and theme. As a literary history, it covers two centuries of Hawaii�s...
The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature
Volume 2: 1558-1660
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
The Oxford History of Classical Reception (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers. Covering the full range of English literature from the...