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Filming Literature
The Art of Screen Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
This is a comprehensive survey of the relationship between film and literature. It looks at the cinematic adaptations of such literary masters as Shakespeare, Henry James, Joseph Conrad and D.H. Lawrence, and considers the contribution to the cinema made by important literary figures as Harold Pinter,...
by Jay A. Gertzman
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Samuel Roth is known to most literary scholars as a bold literary "pirate" for issuing unauthorized editions of modernist sensations, including Ulysses and Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
In the absence of an international copyright agreement and because works deemed obscene could not...
by Marius Hentea
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Providing a theoretically sophisticated and historically nuanced reading of Henry Green’s novels, this work makes the case for his importance in reconsiderations of modernism, late modernism, and postwar realism. An ambitious reassessment of Green’s oeuvre to date, this book argues against the...
Literary Legacies of the Federal Writers’ Project
Voices of the Depression in the American Postwar Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
The first book-length literary analysis of the WPA’s Federal Writers’ Project (FWP)—a massive New Deal program that put thousands to work documenting the country during the Depression. Drawing on critical histories, archival documents, and select works of fiction, the book examines the nature...
Editing Modernity
Women and Little-Magazine Cultures in Canada, 1916-1956
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
The period between 1916 and 1956 was a unique interval in the history of Canadian publishing. During this period not only were a significant number of non-commercial literary, arts, and cultural magazines established, but it also happened that an unprecedented number of those involved in the creation...
by Geoff Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
In The Life and Undeath of Autonomy in American Literature, Geoff Hamilton charts the evolution of the fundamental concept of autonomy in the American imaginary across the span of the nation’s literary history. Whereas America’s ideological roots are typically examined in relation to Enlightenment...
by Olabode Ibironke
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
This book is an exploration of the material conditions of the production of African literature. Drawing on the archives of Heinemann’s African Writers Series, it highlights the procedures, relationships, demands, ideologies, and counterpressures engendered by the publication of three major authors:...
Critical Theory Today
A User-Friendly Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
This thoroughly updated third edition of Critical Theory Today offers an accessible introduction to contemporary critical theory, providing in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today, including: feminism; psychoanalysis; Marxism; reader-response theory; New Criticism;...
by John Lang, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
In this first book-length analysis of Ron Rash's fiction and poetry, John Lang covers all of Rash’s books published through 2013 and offers key insights about his aims, themes, literary techniques and allusions, and major literary influences. Understanding Ron Rash introduces readers to the major...
The Intimate Critique
Autobiographical Literary Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 1993
For a long time now, readers and scholars have strained against the limits of traditional literary criticism, whose precepts—above all, "objectivity"—seem to have so little to do with the highly personal and deeply felt experience of literature. The Intimate Critique marks a movement...
The Rhetoric of the Roman Fake
Latin Pseudepigrapha in Context
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Previous scholarship on classical pseudepigrapha has generally aimed at proving issues of attribution and dating of individual works, with little or no attention paid to the texts as literary artefacts. Instead, this book looks at Latin fakes as sophisticated products of a literary culture in which...
Mimetic Contagion
Art and Artifice in Terence's Eunuch
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
When we are confronted with a work of art, what is its effect on us? In contrast to post-Enlightenment conceptions, which tend to restrict themselves to aesthetic or discursive responses, the ancient Greeks and Romans often conceived works of art as having a more dynamic effect on their viewers, inspiring...
Representing Place in British Literature and Culture, 1660-1830
From Local to Global
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Revising traditional 'rise of the nation-state' narratives, this collection explores the development of and interactions among various forms of local, national, and transnational identities and affiliations during the long eighteenth century. By treating place as historically contingent and socially...
Consuming Literature
Best Sellers and the Commercialization of Literary Production in Contemporary China
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2004
This book examines the changes taking place in literary writing and publishing in contemporary China under the influence of the emerging market economy. It focuses on the revival of literary best sellers in the Chinese book market and the establishment of a best-seller production machine. The author...