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by Barbara A. Suess
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This new essay collection brings together some of the top Brontë scholars working today, as well as new critical voices, to examine the many layers of Anne Brontë's fiction and other writings and to restore Brontë to her rightful place in literary history. Until very recently, Brontë's...
Anthologizing Canadian Literature
Theoretical and Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
The first collection of critical essays devoted to the study of English-Canadian literary anthologies brings together the work of thirteen prominent critics to investigate anthology formation in Canada and answer these key questions: Why are there so many literary anthologies in Canada, and how can...
Literature, Analytically Speaking
Explorations in the Theory of Interpretation, Analytic Aesthetics, and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
In a new approach to interdisciplinary literary theory, Literature, Analytically Speaking integrates literary studies with analytic aesthetics, girded by neo-Darwinian evolution. Scrutinizing narrative fiction through a lens provided by analytic philosophy, revered literary theorist Peter Swirski...
Studying and Teaching W.C. Falkner, William Faulkner, and Digital Literacy
Personal Democracy in Social Combination
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This book explores the ways to teach the literary works of William Clark Falkner and William Faulkner to ESL (English as a Second Language) students in today’s digital environment. William Faulkner’s great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner, wrote romantic literary works, and William Faulkner...
by Harry White
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2008
Harry White examines the influence of music in the development of the Irish literary imagination from 1800 to the present day. He identifies music as a preoccupation which originated in the poetry of Thomas Moore early in the nineteenth century. He argues that this preoccupation decisively influenced...
The Runner's Literary Companion
Great Stories and Poems About Running
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
A collection of all the best fiction and poetry about runners and running.
An inspiring book, brimming with courage, exaltation, fear, pain, sweat, hope, and elation.
"Animates the spirit of running better than any other book." —Runner's World "Battista has gathered...
by Marlé Hammond
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
The Dictionary of Arabic Literary Terms covers the most important literary terms relevant to classical and modern Arabic literature. Its 300+ entries include technical terms and rhetorical devices, themes and motifs, concepts, historical eras, literary schools and movements, forms and genres, figures...
Filmspeak
How to Understand Literary Theory by Watching Movies
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Filmspeak is an accessible, innovative book which uses specific examples to show how once arcane literary and cultural theory has infiltrated popular culture.
Theory reaches us in ways we do not even realize. Issues such as the nature of knowledge or truth, the function of personal response...
by Irene Morra
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
This book is the first to examine in depth the contributions of major British authors such as W. H. Auden and E. M. Forster, as critics and librettists, to the rise of British opera in the twentieth century. The perceived literary values of British authors, as much as the musical innovations of British...
Socialist Cosmopolitanism
The Chinese Literary Universe, 1945-1965
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Socialist Cosmopolitanism offers an innovative interpretation of literary works from the Mao era that reads Chinese socialist literature as world literature. As Nicolai Volland demonstrates, after 1949 China engaged with the world beyond its borders in a variety of ways and on many levels—politically,...
by Neil Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
This volume explores the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century England as a whole and seeks to explain the relationship between the Reformation and the literary renaissance of the Elizabethan period. Its central theme is the 'common' in its double sense of something shared and something...
Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century
The Transatlantic Production of Fame and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Focusing on representations of women's literary celebrity in nineteenth-century biographies, autobiographical accounts, periodicals, and fiction, Brenda R. Weber examines the transatlantic cultural politics of visibility in relation to gender, sex, and the body. Looking both at discursive patterns...
Narrating the News
New Journalism and Literary Genre in Late Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers and Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2001
A scholarly examination of “new journalism”
Due to a burgeoning print marketplace during the late nineteenth century, urban newspapers felt pressure to create entertaining prose that appealed to readers, drawing on popular literary genres such as travel adventures, detective tales, and...
Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian
Literary Interactions, AD 96–138
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
This volume is the first holistic investigation of Roman literature and literary culture under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96–138). With case studies from Frontinus, Juvenal, Martial, Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, Quintilian, Suetonius and Tacitus among others, the eighteen chapters offer not just...