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A Literary History of the Fourteenth Century
Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio A Study of Their Times and Works (Storia Letteraria del Trecento) Translated with a Foreword by Vincenzo Traversa
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Any one wishing to investigate the literary development of the golden century of early Italian literature, the Trecento, must read Natalino Sapegno’s extensive writings on the subject, in particular his Storia Letteraria del Trecento (A Literary History of the Fourteenth Century). The original Italian...
Revolution of the Ordinary
Literary Studies after Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
This radically original book argues for the power of ordinary language philosophy—a tradition inaugurated by Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, and extended by Stanley Cavell—to transform literary studies. In engaging and lucid prose, Toril Moi demonstrates this philosophy’s unique ability...
Alterity and Criticism
Tracing Time in Modern Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
How does the theme of the other–-as person, experience or alternative conceptual scheme—allow us to reassess the role of the self in literary texts? This book employs phenomenology and semiotics to argue that modern literature is strongly concerned with the role of time in the construction of...
by Alfred Austin
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Literary Thoughts edition presents Lamia's Winter-Quarters by Alfred Austin ------ "Lamia's Winter-Quarters" was written in 1898 by English poet Alfred Austin (1835–1913) as an account of a holiday in Italy, told in the form of a story. All books of the Literary Thoughts edition have been...
Renaissance Suppliants
Poetry, Antiquity, Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Renaissance Suppliants studies supplication as a social and literary event in the long European Renaissance. It argues that scenes of supplication are defining episodes in a literary tradition stretching back to Greco-Roman antiquity, taking us to the heart of fundamental questions of politics and...
Women, Medicine and Theatre 1500–1750
Literary Mountebanks and Performing Quacks
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Well illustrated, accessibly presented, and drawing on a comprehensive range of historical documents, including British, German and other European images, and literary as well as non-literary texts (many previously unconsidered in this context), this study offers the first interdisciplinary gendered...
by Thomas Dykes Beasley
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Travel in the American West, first published around 1900. Recollections of Bret Harte and the places that were the settings for his stories. According to Wikipedia: "Bret Harte (August 25, 1836[2] May 6, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California....
by Alex Hobbs
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
As each generation confronts aging and responds to its challenges, the literary community—ranging from Philip Roth to Jonathan Franzen—has provided nuanced and thoughtful depictions that transcend stereotypes of old men as feeble and broken individuals. Under the sage guidance of these authors—many...
An Introduction to Criticism
Literature - Film - Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
An accessible and thorough introduction to literary theory and contemporary critical practice, this book is an essential resource for beginning students of literary criticism.
Covers traditional approaches such as formalism and structuralism, as well as more recent developments in criticism such...
Quest West
American Intellectual and Cultural Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Few spaces remain as central to American consciousness as the western frontier. The vast territory, which for generations fueled the desires and conquests of artists, philosophers, and politicians alike, now offers new discoveries in Richard Lehan's Quest West. Through an intellectual and cultural...
Politics by Other Means
Selected Criticism from Review 31
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Launched in October 2011, the online literary journal Review 31 - www.review31.co.uk - enjoys a growing reputation as one of the most intelligent and thoughtful literary resources on the web. Publishing accessible and informed reviews of the most interesting new titles, Review 31 covers non-fiction books...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Time and Literature features twenty essays on topics from aesthetics and narratology to globalisation and queer temporalities, and showcases how time studies, often referred to as 'the temporal turn', cut across and illuminate research in every field of literature, as well as interdisciplinary approaches...
Contemporary Literary Landscapes
The Poetics of Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Writing landscapes inevitably occurs in dialogue with a long textual and pictorial tradition, but first-hand experience also provides key stimuli to many writers’ accounts. This monograph employs a comparative lens to offer an intervention in debates between literary scholars who focus on genre...
by Lucia Ruprecht
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Lucia Ruprecht's study is the first monograph in English to analyse the relationship between nineteenth-century German literature and theatrical dance. Combining cultural history with close readings of major texts by Heinrich von Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Heinrich Heine, the author brings to light...