Author: Abate, Prof. Michelle Ann Publisher: Rutgers University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Highlighting the works of William Bennett, Lynne Cheney, Bill O’Reilly, and others on the American political right, Michelle Ann Abate brings together such diverse fields as cultural studies, li...
Author: Mack, Peter Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Shakespare and Montaigne are the English and French writers of the sixteenth century who have the most to say to modern readers. Shakespeare certainly drew on Montaigne’s essay ’On Cannibals...
Author: Wong, Sau-Ling Cynthia Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A recent explosion of publishing activity by a wide range of talented writers has placed Asian American literature in the limelight. As the field of Asian American literary studies gains increasing re...
Author: Urgo, Joseph R. / Polk, Noel Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Absalom, Absalom! has long been regarded as one of William Faulkner's most difficult, dense, and multilayered novels. It is, on one level, the story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to...
Author: Coulombe, Joseph L Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In this volume, Joseph Coulombe argues that Native American writers use diverse narrative strategies to engage with readers and are 'writing for connection' with both Native and non-Native audiences.
Author: Sielke, Sabine Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Reading Rape examines how American culture talks about sexual violence and explains why, in the latter twentieth century, rape achieved such significance as a trope of power relations.Through attentiv...
Author: Cheney, Patrick Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry combines close readings of individual poems with a critical consideration of the historical context in which they were written. Informative and original, this book has...
Author: Cronin, Richard Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Reading Victorian Poetry offers close readings of poems from the Victorian era by a renowned scholar. The selection includes a range of canonical and lesser known writers Skilfully conveys the b...
Author: Cronin, Richard Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Reading Victorian Poetry offers close readings of poems from the Victorian era by a renowned scholar. The selection includes a range of canonical and lesser known writers Skilfully conveys the b...
Author: Reckford, Kenneth J. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Recognizing Persius is a passionate and in-depth exploration of the libellus--or little book--of six Latin satires left by the Roman satirical writer Persius when he died in AD 62 at the age of twenty...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of Hertfordshire Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Focusing squarely on the strength of mimesis as a philosophical idea, this collection of essays considers aspects of mimesis ranging from Shakespeare to colonialism. As the philosophical agenda of maj...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Recent criticism is now fully appreciating the nuanced and complex contribution made by Dissenters to the culture and ideas of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Britain. This is the first sus...
Description: Remember Me brings together contributors from around the world with unique insight on the ways in which one's relationship with loved ones continues, endures, and perhaps even grows after death. Muc...
Author: Sierz, Aleks Publisher: Methuen Drama Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In recent years British theatre has seen a renaissance in playwriting that has been accompanied by a proliferation of writing awards, new writing groups and a ceaseless quest for fresh, authentic voic...
Author: Sierz, Aleks Publisher: Methuen Drama Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In recent years British theatre has seen a renaissance in playwriting that has been accompanied by a proliferation of writing awards, new writing groups and a ceaseless quest for fresh, authentic voic...
Author: Nakabayashi, Masami Publisher: University Press of America Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In this study of the Lady Chatterley novels, Masami Nakabayashi pays particular attention to D.H. Lawrence's language for the feelings and for the life of the unselfconscious, sexual body. The novels ...
Author: N/A Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Attracted to remote lands by his interest in the postcolonial struggle, Richard Wright (1908-1960) became one of the few African Americans of his time to engage in travel writing. He went to emerging ...
Author: Clarke, Deborah Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: William Faulkner claimed that it may be necessary for a writer to "rob his mother," should the need arise. "If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This new edition of the groundbreaking Romanticism: An Anthology is the only book of its kind to contain complete texts of a wide range of Romantic works, including Blake's Songs of Innocence and of E...
Author: Twain, Mark Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Mark Twain's humorous account of his six years in Nevada, San Francisco, and the Sandwich Islands is a patchwork of personal anecdotes and tall tales, many of them told in the "vigorous new vernacular...
Author: Parthe, Kathleen F. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Kathleen Parth offers the first comprehensive examination of the controversial literary movement Russian Village Prose. From the 1950s to the decline of the movement in the 1970s, Valentin Rasputin, F...
Author: Dierkes-Thrun, Petra Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Salome's Modernity is a first-class piece of scholarship---at once learned, sharply focused, and beautifully, indeed, entertainingly written. Above all, it is a significant contribution to modernist ...
Author: Burgett, Bruce Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Sentimentalism, sex, the construction of the modern body, and the origins of American liberalism all come under scrutiny in this rich discussion of political life in the early republic. Here Bruce Bur...
Author: Leick, Gwendolyn Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature" is a substantial contribution to current debates about sex and eroticism. It gives an insight into Mesopotamian attitudes to sexuality by examining the o...
Author: Herder, Johann Gottfried Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Without Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803), we simply would not understand Shakespeare in the way we do. In fact, much literature and art besides Shakespeare would neither look the same nor be the sa...
Author: Anderson, Mark Publisher: Untreed Reads Publishing Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The debate over the true author of the Shakespeare canon has raged for centuries. Astonishingly little evidence supports the traditional belief that Will Shakespeare, the actor and businessman from St...
Author: Rhys Wiliams, David Publisher: Kensington Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Who was William Shakespeare? Many scholars have speculated over the mystery of Shakespeare's identity. Was he really just a man-a poet, playwright, and favorite of the Queen? Was he a collective of wr...
Author: McEvoy, Sean Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Shakespeare: The Basics" aims to demystify Shakespeare's plays for the beginning reader by providing a thorough general introduction to this sometimes intimidating playwright. Concentrating on langua...
Description: An original and provocative study of the evolution of Shakespeare’s image, building on the success of Duncan-Jones’ acclaimed biography of Shakespeare. Taking a broadly chronological approac...
Author: Korda, Natasha Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A significant contribution to Shakespeare criticism that integrates feminism, materialist criticism, and legal history to offer an original look at how women's management of household goods became an ...
Author: Barber, Cesar Lombardi Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this classic work, acclaimed Shakespeare critic C. L. Barber argues that Elizabethan seasonal festivals such as May Day and Twelfth Night are the key to understanding Shakespeare's comedies. Brilli...
Author: Leggatt, Alexander Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In "Shakespeare's Politcal Drama, "Alexander Leggatt concentrates on the ordering and enforcing, the gaining and losing, of public power in the state, in the English and Roman histories. He sees Shake...
Author: Jr., Robert L. Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Called the greatest Civil War historian, Shelby Foote began his career as a novelist whose powerful works of fiction rose out of his closeness to life and culture in his native region, the Mississippi...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This unique collection of essays, accompanied by a pioneering DVD, at last brings a dazzling view of the literary, social, and performative aspects of American Sign Language to a wide audience. The bo...
Author: Montiglio, Silvia Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In ancient Greece, the spoken word connoted power, whether in the free speech accorded to citizens or in the voice of the poet, whose song was thought to know no earthly bounds. But how did silence fi...
Author: Tidd, Ursula Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Simone de Beauvoir's groundbreaking work has transformed the way we think about gender and identity. Without her 1949 text "The Second Sex," gender theory as we know it today would be unthinkable. A l...
Author: Gikandi, Simon Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste--the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics--existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in th...
Author: Mao, Douglas Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this provocative and wide-ranging study, Douglas Mao argues that a profound tension between veneration of human production and anxiety about production's dangers lay at the heart of literary modern...
Author: Bassard, Katherine Clay Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The late eighteenth century witnessed an influx of black women to the slave-trading ports of the American Northeast. The formation of an early African American community, bound together by shared expe...
Author: Wheeler, Michael Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Gospel according to St John, often regarded as the most important of the gospels in the account it gives of Jesus' life and divinity, received close attention from nineteenth-century biblical scho...
Author: Miller, Paul Allen Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The elegy flared into existence, commanded the cultural stage for several decades, then went extinct. This book accounts for the swift rise and sudden decline of a genre whose life span was incredibly...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Widely regarded as one of the most important and influential poets of the twentieth century, T. S. Eliot was also extremely prolific. T. S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews is a testament to both these...
Author: Neasman, Everett G. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: With the early growth of monarchal absolutism in England, professional acting troupes established themselves. These dramatists of a 'new secular seriousness' act in the shadow of waning Catholic cycle...
Author: Woolf, Greg Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Tales of the Barbarians traces the creation of new mythologies in the wake of Roman expansion westward to the Atlantic, and offers the first application of modern ethnographic theory to ancient materi...
Author: Nunokawa, Jeff Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: What if our strongest urges could be divested of their power to compel yet retain their power to fascinate us? What if our most basic appetites could be translated from the realm of bodily necessity t...
