Author: Ashcroft, Bill / Ahluwalia, Pal Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Edward Said is perhaps best known as the author of Orientalism, this volume explains Said's key ideas, their contexts and impact, with reference to both his scholarship and journalism.
Author: Farrell, Joseph Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Latin language is popularly imagined in a number of specific ways: as a masculine language, an imperial language, a classical language, a dead language. This book considers the sources of these me...
Author: N/A Publisher: Hippocampus Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As poet, fiction writer, and artist, Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) has left an indelible mark on the fields of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. But criticism of his bountiful and varied work has...
Author: Stephens, Dorothy Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Although theories of exploitation and subversion have radically changed our understanding of gender in Renaissance literature, to favor only those theories is to risk ignoring productive exchanges bet...
Author: Posner, David M. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This valuable study illuminates the idea of nobility as display, as public performance, in Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature and society. Ranging widely from Castiglione and French courte...
