Bucknell University Press: 205 books
by Neil Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
John Banville offers a close analysis of most of Banville’s major novels, as well as the ‘Quirke’ crime novels he has written under the pseudonym, Benjamin Black and his dramatic adaptations of Heinrich von Kleist’s plays. From the beginning, Banville’s work has been marked both by the presence...
Ridiculous Critics
Augustan Mockery of Critical Judgment
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Ridiculous Critics offers an outline of eighteenth-century literary criticism that questions its image as a civilized practice of cultural refinement and esteem. No longer the equable narrative of texts having consistently serious content and purpose, this history highlights the contempt, jocularity,...
Fixing Babel
An Historical Anthology of Applied English Lexicography
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
We all think we know what a dictionary is for and how to use one, so most of us skip the first pages—the front matter—and go right to the words we wish to look up. Yet dictionary users have not always known how English “works” and my book reproduces and examines for the first time important...
The Language of Robert Burns
Style, Ideology, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
This monograph offers a radical reconceptualization of the relationship between the poetics and practice of Robert Burns and reevaluates the nature of his role in the history of Scots. By drawing on ideas from twenty-first-century sociolinguistic theory, it seeks to transform the debate surrounding...
A Pedagogy of Observation
Nineteenth-Century Panoramas, German Literature, and Reading Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
A Pedagogy of Observation argues that the fascination with learning about the past and new locations in panoramic form spread far from the traditional sites of popular entertainment and amusement. Although painted panoramas captivated audiences from Hamburg to Leipzig and Berlin to Vienna, relatively...
The Fruits of the Struggle in Diplomacy and War
Moroccan Ambassador al-Ghazzal and His Diplomatic Retinue in Eighteenth-Century Andalusia
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
In 1766, the Moroccan ambassador Aḥmad ibn al-Mahdī al-Ghazzāl embarked on an unprecedented visit to Spain during a time of eased tensions between the two countries. The sultan Sidi Muḥammad ibn ‘Abdallah wanted the return of Muslim prisoners and sacred Islamic texts, while the Spanish king...
by Emily C. Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Scent is both an essential and seemingly impossible-to-recover aspect of material culture. Scent is one of our strongest ties to memory, yet to remember a smell without external stimuli is almost impossible for most people. Moreover, human beings’ (specifically Western humans) ability to smell has...
García Lorca at the Edge of Surrealism
The Aesthetics of Anguish
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
This volume examines the variations of surrealism and surrealist theories in the Spanish context, studied through the poetry, drama, and drawings of Federico García Lorca. In contrast to the idealist and subconscious tenets espoused by surrealist leader André Breton, Lorca’s surrealist impulse...
Minds in Motion
Imagining Empiricism in Eighteenth-Century British Travel Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
The central claim of Minds in Motion is that British travel writing of the long eighteenth century functions as an epistemological playing field where authors test empiricist models of engagement with the world while simultaneously seeking out the role of the self and the imagination in producing...