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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...
Thinking Through Poetry
Field Reports on Romantic Lyric
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Thinking through Poetry: Field Reports on Romantic Lyric pursues two goals. The title signals the contribution to debates about reading. Do we think 'through' - 'by means of', 'with'- poems, sympathetically elaborating their surfaces? Is this compatible with a second meaning: 'thinking through' poems...
Writers and Artists in Dialogue
Historical Fiction about Women Painters
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
This unique work of scholarship explores contemporary issues of male spectatorship and the importance of biography for art criticism in the work of Tracy Chevalier, Eunice Lipton, Anna Banti, Kate Braverman, and Susan Vreeland. Drawing upon feminist concepts on the male and female gaze, Dr. Cortney...
by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
The literature of every modern country is made up of many elements, contributed by various races; and has been modified at different times by foreign influences. Thus, among the ancient Celtic inhabitants of our islands, the peoples whom the Romans found here, the Welsh have given us the materials...
by Terry Eagleton
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black Sheep be full of concealed loathing, resentment, and aggression? In this accessible, delightfully entertaining book, Terry Eagleton addresses these intriguing questions and...
Practice Extended
Beyond Law and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Written by a renowned literary critic and legal historian, Practice Extended illuminates the intricacies of legal language and thought and the law's relationship to society, literature, and culture. Robert A. Ferguson details how judicial opinions are written, how legal thought and philosophy inform...
Disciplining Girls
Understanding the Origins of the Classic Orphan Girl Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
At the heart of some of the most beloved children’s novels is a passionate discussion about discipline, love, and the changing role of girls in the twentieth century. Joe Sutliff Sanders traces this debate as it began in the sentimental tales of the mid-nineteenth century and continued in the classic...
Love and Good Reasons
Postliberal Approaches to Christian Ethics and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Insisting on the vital, productive relationship between ethics and the study of literature, Love and Good Reasons demonstrates ways of reading novels and stories from a Christian perspective. Fritz Oehlschlaeger argues for the study of literature as a training ground for the kinds of thinking on which...
Race, Theft, and Ethics
Property Matters in African American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
In Race, Theft, and Ethics, Lovalerie King examines African American literature's critique of American law concerning matters of property, paying particular attention to the stereotypical image of the black thief. She draws on two centuries of African American writing that reflects the manner in which...
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....
Far Afield
French Anthropology between Science and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Anthropology has long had a vexed relationship with literature, and nowhere has this been more acutely felt than in France, where most ethnographers, upon returning from the field, write not one book, but two: a scientific monograph and a literary account. In Far Afield—brought to English-language...
Transnationalism and American Literature
Literary Translation 1773–1892
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
What is transnationalism and how does it affect American literature?
This book examines nineteenth century contexts of transnationalism, translation and American literature. The discussion of transnationalism largely revolves around the question of what role nationalism plays in the spaces...
by Thomas N. Corns
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
A History of Seventeenth-Century Literature outlines significant developments in the English literary tradition between the years 1603 and 1690.
An energetic and provocative history of English literature from 1603-1690.
Part of the major Blackwell History of English Literature series.
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by Thomas de Quincey
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
In his 1827 essay "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts," Thomas De Quincey proposed that murder should be examined from an aesthetic, rather than ethical or sociological perspective.
In one of his most brilliant essays he applauded murder as one of the finer “arts” of life: e.g....