Literary category: 117525 books
by David Carter
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. It sounds daunting: all those...
by Peter Widdowson
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
This introductory volume provides an overview of the history of Literature as a cultural concept, and reflects on the contemporary nature, place and function of what the literary might mean for us today. Literature:
* offers a concise history of the canonic concept of 'literature' from its earliest...
Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination
Innocence by Association
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
The statement, "The Civil Rights Movement changed America," though true, has become something of a cliché. Civil rights in the White Literary Imagination seeks to determine how, exactly, the Civil Rights Movement changed the literary possibilities of four iconic American writers: Robert Penn Warren,...
by Cynthia Ozick
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
In a collection that includes new essays written explicitly for this volume, one of our sharpest and most influential critics confronts the past, present, and future of literary culture.
If every outlet for book criticism suddenly disappeared — if all we had were reviews that treated books...
by Sandra A. Zagarell, Margaret A. Amstutz, Paul Crumbley
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Elizabeth Stoddard was a gifted writer of fiction, poetry, and journalism; successfully published within her own lifetime; esteemed by such writers as William Dean Howells and Nathaniel Hawthorne; and situated at the epicenter of New York's literary world. Nonetheless, she has been almost excluded...
Biological Discourses
The Language of Science and Literature Around 1900
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
The relationship between biological thought and literature, and between science and culture, has long been an area of interest by no means confined to literary studies. The Darwin Anniversary celebrations of 2009 added to this tradition, inspiring a variety of new publications on the cultural reception...
Reading Voices
Five Studies in Theocritus Narrating Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
This book is a study of Theocritus’ narrating techniques, intertextual practices, and the relationship between them. By a close, careful description and analysis of these features as particularly deployed in Idylls 6, 11, 13, 24, and 15, J. Andrew Foster provides detailed readings of these specific...
Literary Tourism
The Case of Norman Mailer Mailers Life and Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Most of Norman Mailer’s works depict the reality of the United States of America and the complexities of the contemporary American social, political and economic scenes. They also contributed to the development of literary tourism. This monograph reveals Mailer’s literary places and points out...
Literary Witches
A Celebration of Magical Women Writers
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Celebrate the witchiest women writers with beautiful illustrations and imaginative vignettes.
Literary Witches draws a connection between witches and visionary writers: both are figures of formidable creativity, empowerment, and general badassery. Through poetic portraits, Taisia Kitaiskaia...
The Fiction of Junot Díaz
Reframing the Lens
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
The influence of Latin American writers—as well as other immigrant writers and their first-generation peers—has reframed the literary lens to include multiple views and codify the shift away from the tradition of white male writers who formed the core of the American literary canon for generations....
Literary Hasidism
The Life and Works of Michael Levi Rodkinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Michael Levi Rodkinson (1845–1904) was a journalist, author, and publisher whose literary projects spanned numerous countries and continents. Hero to some and scoundrel to others, Rodkinson was a polemical figure whose beliefs underwent many transformations over the course of his life, most significantly...
Prizing Children's Literature
The Cultural Politics of Children’s Book Awards
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Children's book awards have mushroomed since the early twentieth-century and especially since the 1960s, when literary prizing became a favored strategy for both commercial promotion and canon-making. There are over 300 awards for English-language titles alone, but despite the profound impact of children’s...
Mikhail Bakhtin
The Word in the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2007
Mikhail Bakhtin is one of the most influential theorists of philosophy as well as literary studies. His work on dialogue and discourse has changed the way in which we read texts – both literary and cultural – and his practice of philosophy in literary refraction and philological exploration has...
Subjects and Citizens
Nation, Race, and Gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1995
Focusing on intersecting issues of nation, race, and gender, this volume inaugurates new models for American literary and cultural history. Subjects and Citizens reveals the many ways in which a wide range of canonical and non-canonical writing contends with the most crucial social, political, and...