Literary category: 117525 books
Colonizing Language
Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
With the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1894, Japan embarked on a policy of territorial expansion that would claim Taiwan and Korea, among others. Assimilation policies led to a significant body of literature written in Japanese by colonial writers by the 1930s. After its unconditional surrender...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Childhood & Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture counters the generally received wisdom that early medieval childhood and adolescence were an unremittingly bleak experience. The contributors analyse representations of children and their education in Old English, Old Norse and Anglo-Latin...
The Fairy Way of Writing
Shakespeare to Tolkien
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
In The Fairy Way of Writing, Kevin Pask seeks to explain the origins and popularity of enchantment in Shakespeare’s plays. Writers John Dryden and Joseph Addison originated the phrase "fairy way of writing" to define the concept of an English creative imagination founded on a synthesis...
Style and the Single Girl
How Modern Women Re-Dressed the Novel, 1922–1977
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Style and the Single Girl by Hope Howell Hodgkins reveals how four very different single-girl novelists employed modern modes to re-dress the traditional English marriage plot. In the first monograph to use fashion theory and history to trace the literary progress of British women in later modernity,...
by Peter Brooker
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
The Glossary of Literary and Cultural Theory provides researchers and students with an up-to-date guide through the vibrant and changing debates in Literary and Cultural Studies. In a field where meanings are frequently complex and ambiguous, this text is remarkable for its clarity and usefulness....
Modernism and the Nativist Resistance
Contemporary Chinese Fiction from Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 1993
The first comprehensive English-language study of literary trends in the fiction of Taiwan over the last forty years, this pioneering work explores a rich tradition of literary Modernism in its shifting relationship with Chinese politics and culture.
Situating her subject in its historical context,...
Literary Politics
The Politics of Literature and the Literature of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Literary Politics identifies and debates competing definitions of 'English Studies' as an academic subject, celebrates the diversity of contemporary literary studies, and demonstrates the ways in which a range of literary texts can be understood as politically engaged, sometimes in unexpected ways.
Literary Biography
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Literary Biography: An Introduction illustrates and accounts for the literary genre that merges historical facts with the conventions of narrative while revealing how the biographical context can enrich the study of canonical authors.
Provides up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of issues and...
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by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
"THE IDIOT - Top Classic Novels" This edition included NEW illustrations + Free AudioBook Links + Clickable Table of Contents for both the list of included books and their respective chapters. Navigation couldn't be easier.
The text and chapters are perfectly set up to match the...
by Robert Flaceliere
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
There are several good histories of Greek literature of various shapes and sizes, but the purpose of this book is not simply to consider the literature of ancient Greece as an isolated subject, treating each of the literary modes - epic, lyric, drama, history, philosophy, and rhetoric - in terms of...
Far Country
Scenes from American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
The influential and controversial critic takes literary history out of the classroom and into the public
In the field of literary history and theory, Franco Moretti is synonymous with innovation. The cofounder of the Stanford Literary Lab, he brought quantitative methods into the study of the...
by Suzy Anger
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Suzy Anger investigates the relationship of Victorian interpretation to the ways in which literary criticism is practiced today. Her primary focus is literary interpretation, but she also considers fields such as legal theory, psychology, history, and the natural sciences in order to establish the...
Marmaduke Pickthall Reinstated
What Canon?
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Marmaduke Pickthall was a prolific British novelist, essayist, journalist, and short story writer who was positively received by his contemporaries for his fictional oeuvre, but is hardly known in the current literary world. Despite his obvious talents, Pickthall was unfortunately ignored when the...
Alliterative Proverbs in Medieval England
Language Choice and Literary Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Medieval England’s specific political and linguistic history encompasses a great number of significant changes, some of the most disruptive of which were occasioned by the Norman Conquest. The alliterative proverb, with roots in Old English and continued vitality in Middle English, serves as a unique...