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Narratology
Introduction to the Theory of Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2009
Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become the international classic and comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts. Narratology is a systematic account of narrative techniques, methods, their transmission, and reception, in which Bal distills...
Rehumanizing Law
A Theory of Law and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
In a popular sense, 'law' connotes the rules of a society, as well as the institutions that make and enforce those rules. Although laws are created and interpreted in legislatures and courtrooms by individuals with very specialized knowledge, the practice and making of law is closely tied to other...
by Michael R. Marrus
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Although difficult to imagine, sixty years ago the Holocaust had practically no visibility in examinations of the Second World War. Yet today it is understood to be not only one of the defining moments of the twentieth century but also a touchstone in a quest for directions on how to avoid such catastrophes.
In...
Wilde Discoveries
Traditions, Histories, Archives
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
The most significant resource for any researcher wishing to understand the finer details of Oscar Wilde’s remarkable career, the “Oscar Wilde and His Circle” archive at the University of California, Los Angeles houses the world’s largest collection of materials relating to the life and work...
by Constantine Bida
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
The Ukrainian national poetess Lesya Ukrainka (1871–1913) has contributed greatly to the development of Ukrainian Modernism and its transition from Ukrainian ethnographic themes to subjects that were universal, historical and psychological. Breaking the thematic conventions of populist literature,...
The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine
Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi's Realist Prose
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
One of the most important realist novelists of nineteenth-century Ukraine, Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi was caricatured and then forgotten by a generation of literary modernists who rejected his aesthetic and ideological views. In The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine, Maxim Tarnawsky presents a thorough...
The Grasping Imagination
The American Writings of Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1970
There has been almost no study of the American writings of Henry James, that is, the fiction, essays, and travel literature with an American setting. The great bulk of Jamesian criticism deals with the international novels, particularly his late works.
This study places James’s career in...
Enchanted Objects
Visual Art in Contemporary Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2010
Enchanted Objects investigates the relationship between visual art and contemporary fiction, addressing the problems that arise when paintings, deluxe books, porcelains, or statues are represented in contemporary novels. The distinction between objects and art objects depends on aesthetics. While...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
In the eighteenth century sport as we know it emerged as a definable social activity. Hunting and other country sports became the source of significant innovations in visual art; racing and boxing generated important subcultures; and sport’s impact on good health permeated medical, historical, and...
Women Novelists Before Jane Austen
The Critics and Their Canons
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2009
By the time Ian Watt published The Rise of the Novel. in 1957, it was clear that many women novelists before Jane Austen had been overlooked in critical studies of literature and that some of them had been completely forgotten by the reading public. In this book, Brian Corman explores the question...
The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass
L.M. Montgomery's Heroines and the Pursuit of Romance
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
When it originally appeared, Elizabeth Rollins Epperly’s The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass was one of the first challenges to the idea that L.M. Montgomery’s books were unworthy of serious study. Examining all of Montgomery’s fiction, Epperly argues that Montgomery was much more than a master of...
The Celestial Cycle
The Theme of Paradise Lost in World Literature with Translations of the Major Analogues
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1952
An anthology of translated analogues, in whole or in part, on the theme of paradise lost. The collection is divided into two parts. Part one is the analogues and part two is a descriptive catalogue of all the analogues the author consulted. The book also includes a preface and lengthy introduction. It is an indispensable resource for any serious student or scholar of Milton's Paradise Lost.
The Primacy of Semiosis
An Ontology of Relations
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
How do things come to stand for something other than themselves? An understanding of the ontology of relations allows for a compelling account of the action of signs. The Primacy of Semiosis is concerned with the ontology of relations and semiosis, the action of signs. Drawing upon the work of Gilles...
Descartes's Legacy
Mind and Meaning in Early Modern Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
Debates current in the philosophy of mind regarding the gathering and processing of information, and the nature of perception and representation, also animated some of the most important figures in early modern philosophy, among them Descartes, Hume, and Berkeley. The authors of Descartes's Legacy:...