Literary category: 117525 books
by Adelaide Books Publishers
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Adelaide Literary Magazine is an independent international quarterly publication, based in New York and Lisbon. Founded by Stevan V. Nikolic and Adelaide Franco Nikolic in 2015, the magazine’s aim is to publish quality poetry, fiction, nonfiction, artwork, and photography, as well as interviews,...
Persian Language, Literature and Culture
New Leaves, Fresh Looks
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Critical approaches to the study of topics related to Persian literature and Iranian culture have evolved in recent decades. The essays included in this volume collectively demonstrate the most recent creative approaches to the study of the Persian language, literature, and culture, and the way these...
What Is Zoopoetics?
Texts, Bodies, Entanglement
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This book brings together essays dealing with the question of zoopoetics both as an object of study—i.e. texts from various traditions and periods that reflect, explicitly or implicitly, on the relationship between animality, language and representation—and as a methodological problem for animal...
by Maggie Gee
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
• Revenge parable from top novelist, set in angry, anarchic times, where terrorism has become routine • Fans of Maggie Gee include: Zadie Smith, Hilary Mantel, Patrick Ness, Jane Gardam, Elaine Showalter, Julian Barnes • ‘Supremely artful’ Lionel Shriver; ‘Gripping, original, highly entertaining...
Strong Opinions
J.M. Coetzee and the Authority of Contemporary Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
This new collection of essays on Coetzee examines how his novels create and unsettle literary authority. Its unique contribution is to show how Coetzee provokes us into reconsidering certain basic formal and existential questions such as the nature of literary realism, the authority of the author...
HIV and AIDS in literary history
Influence in different media
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2007
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Cologne (Englisches Seminar), 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The following paper deals with AIDS in Literary History and the influence in different...
Parallel Worlds
Genre, Discourse, and Poetics in Contemporary, Colonial, and Classic Maya Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Despite recent developments in epigraphy, ethnopoetics, and the literary investigation of colonial and modern materials, few studies have compared glyphic texts and historic Maya literatures. Parallel Worlds examines Maya writing and literary traditions from the Classic period until today, revealing...
by Mary Klages
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Students of literature, film and cultural studies need to understand key theoretical terms and concepts but often find it hard to get to grips with exactly what they mean. This book provides precise definitions of terms and concepts in literary theory, along with explanations of the major movements...
Playing in the Dark
Whiteness in the American Literary Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination is a seminal piece of literary criticism, and a masterclass in the critical thinking skill of interpretation.
Interpretation plays a vital role in critical thinking: it focuses on interrogating accepted meanings and...
Countermodernism and Francophone Literary Culture
The Game of Slipknot
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Keith L. Walker traverses the traditionally imposed boundaries of geography and race as he examines the literary culture produced by French speakers and writers born outside France. Focusing on the commonalities revealed in their shared language and colonial history, Walker examines for the first...
Poets and the Peacock Dinner
The Literary History of a Meal
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
On January 18, 1914, seven male poets gathered to eat a peacock. W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound, the celebrities of the group, led four lesser-known poets to the Sussex manor house of the man they were honouring, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: the poet, horse-breeder, Arabist, and anti-imperialist married to Byron's...
by Michelle Nephew
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
ABSTRACT: Authorship has undergone drastic revision in the twentieth century. A fundamental transformation in literature, wherein the author has become a multiplicity of voices, is evinced by the development of roleplaying games as both literary and cultural texts.
The literary roots of roleplaying...
Thomas Hardy's Novel Universe
Astronomy, Cosmology, and Gender in the Post-Darwinian World
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In this, the first book-length study of astronomy in Hardy's writing, historian of science and literary scholar Pamela Gossin brings the analytical tools of both disciplines to bear as she offers unexpected and sophisticated readings of seven novels that enrich Darwinian and feminist perspectives...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
Over the past few decades, the writings of Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) have reclaimed a place of prominence in the American literary canon. Yet despite the explosion of teaching, research, and an ever-increasing number of doctoral dissertations, there remains no up-to-date overview of Brown's...