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The Algerian War in French/Algerian Writing
Literary Sites of Memory
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
This is the first book-length study to analyse and problematize the notion of literary texts as ‘sites of memory’ with regard to the representation of the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62), and memories of it, in the work of French authors of Algerian origin. The book considers a primary...
Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume III
The Late Period
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2006
First published in 1973 – and followed by Volume II in 1976 and Volume III in 1980 – this anthology has assumed classic status in the field of Egyptology and portrays the remarkable evolution of the literary forms of one of the world’s earliest civilizations.
Volume I outlines the early...
by Sarah E. L. Bowskill
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"The post-revolutionary Mexican literary canon was formed by cultural and political elites who sought to identify and reward those novels which would best represent the new nation. Reviewers found what they were looking for in Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes's El indio (1935) for example, but not in...
Penned In
A collection of Literary creations from both sides of the fence
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
"Penned In" is a literary jewel with poems and stories from voices on both sides of the fence. Creative writing teachers, volunteer teachers and inmates at a medium-security Fraser Valley correctional institute share their writing. Some are now on parole, some have been transferred and some...
Garden Plots
Canadian Women Writers and Their Literary Gardens
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Canadian literature has long been preoccupied with the wilderness and the landscape, but the garden has remained neglected terrain. In Garden Plots, Shelley Boyd focuses on private, domestic gardens tended by individual gardeners, to show how modest, everyday spaces provide fertile grounds for the imagination....
by R. Howard Bloch
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
In the tradition of The Swerve comes this thrilling, detective-like work of literary history that reveals how a poem created the world we live in today.
It was, improbably, the forerunner of our digital age: a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897 that, with its mind-bending possibilities...
Arabic Literary Salons in the Islamic Middle Ages
Poetry, Public Performance, and the Presentation of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Arabic literary salons emerged in ninth-century Iraq and, by the tenth, were flourishing in Baghdad and other urban centers. In an age before broadcast media and classroom education, salons were the primary source of entertainment and escape for middle- and upper-rank members of society, serving also...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Beyond his pivotal place in the history of scientific thought, Charles Darwin's writings and his theory of evolution by natural selection have also had a profound impact on art and culture and continue to do so to this day. The Literary and Cultural Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe is a comprehensive...
Undertones of Insurrection
Music and Cultural Politics in the Modern German Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
A basic tenet of literary studies is that aesthetic structures are politically significant because they represent an artist's response to the political implications of cultural codes with which the recipient of the modern work is also acquainted. This tenet provides the basis for the ideological associations...
Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France
Mastering Memory
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The first half of the book is a detailed study of how the salons influenced the development of literature. Beasley argues that many women were not only writers, they also served as critics for the literary sphere as a whole. In the second half of the book Beasley examines how historians and literary...
by R. Todd Felton
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
A great tide of literary invention swept through Ireland between the 1890s and the 1920s. This engrossing, illuminating, and beautifully illustrated guidebook explores the personal and professional histories of writers such as W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, John Millington Synge, and Sean O’Casey and examines...
by F. W. Bateson
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
At first glance A Guide to English Literature may seem to be no more than a short bibliography of English literature with perhaps rather more extensive--and certainly more outspoken--comments on the principal editions, commentaries, biographies, and critical works than bibliographies usually provide....
by Christine Kenyon-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Exploring the significance of animals in Romantic-period writing, this new study shows how in this period they were seen as both newly different from humankind (subjects in their own right, rather than simply humanity's tools or adjuncts) and also as newly similar, with the ability to feel and perhaps...
Recasting American and Persian Literatures
Local Histories and Formative Geographies from Moby-Dick to Missing Soluch
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Reading literary and cinematic events between and beyond American and Persian literatures, this book questions the dominant geography of the East-West divide, which charts the global circulation of texts as World Literature. Beyond the limits of national literary historiography, and neocolonial cartography...