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Description: A Companion to Comparative Literature presents a collection of more than thirty original essays from established and emerging scholars, which explore the history, current state, and future of comparat...
Description: A Companion to Comparative Literature presents a collection of more than thirty original essays from established and emerging scholars, which explore the history, current state, and future of comparat...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to Crime Fiction presents the definitive guide to this popular genre from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present dayA collection of forty-seven newly commissioned essays from...
Author: Pacheco, Arturo Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This timely volume represents one of the first comprehensive, student-oriented guides to the under-published field of early modern women's writing.Brings together more than twenty leading internationa...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This broad-ranging Companion gives readers a thorough grounding in both the background and the substance of eighteenth-century poetry in all its rich variety. An up-to-date and wide-ranging guide to e...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume examines the tumultuous changes that have occurred and are still occurring in the aftermath of European colonization of the globe from 1492 to 1947. Ranges widely over the major themes, re...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This collection of twenty-nine original essays, surveys satire from its emergence in Western literature to the present.Tracks satire from its first appearances in the prophetic books of the Old Testam...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to Tragedy is an essential resource for anyone interested in exploring the role of tragedy in Western history and culture. Tells the story of the historical development of tragedy from cla...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Concise Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Drama investigates key issues in British and Irish theatre since 1979. Covering topics from globalisation, genocide and terrorism to the use of ne...
Author: Habib, M. A. R. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This comprehensive guide to the history of literary criticism from antiquity to the present day provides an authoritative overview of the major movements, figures, and texts of literary criticism, as ...
Author: Lemm, Vanessa Publisher: Fordham University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Harry Berger, Jr., has long been one of our most revered and respected literary and cultural critics. Since the late nineties, a stream of remarkable and innovative publications have shown how very br...
Author: King, Martha Publisher: Italica Press, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Martha King's introduction to the new generation of Italian women writers she has selected for the Italica press anthology: 'After the War: A Collection of Short Fiction by Postwar Italian Women."
Author: Huysmans, Joris-Karl Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Huysmans was a French novelist noted for his vast scope of language, his sensuous descriptions and satirical wit. His pessimistic outlook showed a deep disgust for modern life. Des Esseintes is the ma...
Author: Werner, James V. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Investigates the connections between Poe and the nineteenth-century flaneur - or strolling urban observer - and the centrality of the flaneur to Poe's literary aims and intimate yet ambivalent relatio...
Author: Ishikawa, Shinichiro Publisher: Dissertation.Com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This study attempts to re-evaluate Lawrence's poetry, which has often been read as a set of biographical documents or supplementary notes to his novels, as fully independent literary work in the light...
Author: Hogan, Walter Publisher: Scarecrow Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Of the many themes occurring in young adult literature, one that bears more extensive exploration is the adolescent-animal connection. Although substantial critical commentary has addressed children's...
Author: Miller, Alice Duer Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Alice Duer was born in New York into a wealthy family. In 1895 she began studying mathematics and astronomy at Barnard College. She paid for her education by selling novels and short stories. Are Wo...
Author: Stanley, Colin Publisher: O-Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In May 1956, aged just 24, Colin Wilson achieved success and overnight fame with his philosophical study of alienation and transcendence in modern literature and thought, The Outsider. Fifty-four year...
Author: Henty, George Alfred Publisher: IndoEuropeanPublishing.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Beric the Briton, A Story of the Roman Invasion (1893) is a historical novel by British author G.A. Henty. It tells of the Roman invasion of Britain through the eyes of a "half Romanized" Briton, Beri...
Author: Herbert, Marilyn Publisher: Bookclub-in-a-Box Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Ernest Hemingway was an iconic writer of the 20th century who gave modern literature a unique shape and form. Papa Hemingway was larger than life and created his own personal and professional mythical...
Author: Bryher, Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: ""Highly readable. . . . Offers rare insights into gay life in the first quarter of the twentieth century.""ââ¬âDiana Collecott, University of Durham, author of H.D. and Sapphic Modernism ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel presents the development of the modern Spanish novel from 1600 to the present. Drawing on the combined legacies of Don Quijote and the traditions of the pi...
Author: Smith,Emma Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This lively and innovative introduction to Shakespeare promotes active engagement with the plays, rather than recycling factual information. Covering a range of texts, it is divided into seven subject...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Many Russian novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have made a huge impact, not only inside the boundaries of their own country but across the western world. The Cambridge Companion to the ...
Author: Raffel, Burton Publisher: Yale University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this new translation of Voltaire's "Candide, "distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novel's irreverent spirit and offers a vivid, contemporary version of the 250-year-old text....
Author: Thomas, Keith Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The publication of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography in September 2004 was an event of great literary and scholarly importance. In his Leslie Stephen Lecture, commemorating the founder of t...
Author: Langton, Robert Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: "Charles Dickens and Rochester" offers a thorough research on Dickens' hometown. The essay illustrates how deeply attached he was to Rochester. Excerpts from his various books highlight how frequently...
Author: McParland, Robert Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From 1837 to 1912, Charles Dickens was by far the most popular writer for American readers. Through several sources including statistics, literary biography, newspapers, memoirs, diaries, letters, and...
Author: Vickers, Graham Publisher: Chicago Review Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the summer of 1958, a 12-year-old girl took the world by storm-Lolita was published in the United States-and since then, her name has been taken in vain to serve a wide range of dubious ventures, b...
Author: Devi, Mahasweta Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Written in 1980, this novel by prize-winning Indian writer Mahasweta Devi, translated and introduced by Gayatri Chakravorty Sprivak, is remarkable for the way in which it touches on vital issues that ...
Author: Gibson, Christine M. Publisher: Dissertation.Com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Has 20th century literary technique been influenced by the cinema? The obvious answer is yes. But with that answer few specific examples are ever provided, frustrating the reader and filmgoer alike. T...
Author: Manzanas, Ana M. / Benito Sanchez, Jess Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Thus book examines the spatial morphologies represented in a wide range of contemporary ethnic American literary and cinematic works. Drawing from Henri Lefebvre's theorization of space as a living or...
Author: Day, Gary Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This exciting new account traces the phenomenon of class from the medieval to the postmodern period, examining its relevance to literary and cultural analysis today. Drawing on historical, sociologica...
Author: Manassis, Katharina Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book aims to bridge the gap between child cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) as practiced in academic centers and its use in community settings by using a step-by-step, practical approach the boo...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Brings together 48 fresh and original contributions from practicing poets and leading scholars, who together offer critical and contextual coverage of the full range of English-language poetry in the ...
Author: Miles, Richard Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Through detailed discussions of particular Roman texts and images, "Constructing Identities in Late Antiquity" examines the formation of identity in the Roman Empire. The contributors show not only ho...
Author: Kowalewski, Michael Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Violent scenes in American fiction are not only brutal, bleak, and gratuitous," writes Michael Kowalewski. "They are also, by turns, comic, witty, poignant, and sometimes, strangely enough, even terr...
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