Author: Van Wienen, Mark Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "A meticulously researched, highly informed, carefully argued, and very accessible account of American socialism, socialists, and socialistic thinking, from the late nineteenth century through the 196...
Author: Swirski, Peter Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The United States today is afflicted with political alienation, militarized violence, institutionalized poverty, and social agony. Worst of all, perhaps, it is afflicted with chronic and acute ahistor...
Author: Swirski, Peter Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The United States today is afflicted with political alienation, militarized violence, institutionalized poverty, and social agony. Worst of all, perhaps, it is afflicted with chronic and acute ahistor...
Author: Homestead,Melissa J. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Through an exploration of women authors' engagements with copyright and married women's property laws, American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869, revises nineteenth-century American lite...
Author: BALZAC, HONORÉ DE Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Bilingual E-book - Ebook bilingue Learning French? Let EbooksLib help you. Read the classics in the original. All of our bilingual e-books contain the original masterpiece and an expert translation....
Author: Parikh, Crystal Publisher: Fordham University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In An Ethics of Betrayal, Crystal Parikh investigates the theme and tropes of betrayal and treason in Asian American and Chicano/Latino literary and cultural narratives. In considering betrayal from a...
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: Allen, Roger Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Roger Allen provides a comprehensive introductory survey of literary texts in Arabic, from their unknown beginnings in the fifth century AD to the present day. The volume focuses on the major genres o...
Author: Robertson, Jamie Cox Publisher: Adams Media Format: Adobe PDF
Description: One is not born a woman, one becomes one. -Simone de Beauvoir. Literature has provided us with some of the most unforgettable women in history. From wives and mothers to daughters and lovers, these wo...
Author: Robertson, Jamie Cox Publisher: Adams Media Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: One is not born a woman, one becomes one. -Simone de BeauvoirLiterature has provided us with some of the most unforgettable women in history. From wives and mothers to daughters and lovers, these wom...
Author: King, Katherine Callen Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ancient Epic offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to six of the greatest ancient epics – Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Apollonius of Rhodes'...
Description: Ancient Epic offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to six of the greatest ancient epics – Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Apollonius of Rhodes'...
Author: Thompson, Anita Publisher: DaCapo Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Bristling with inspired observations and wild anecdotes, this first collection offers a unique insight into the voice and mind of the inimitable Hunter S. Thompson, as recorded in the pages of Playboy...
Author: Fain, Gordon L. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: After Sappho but before the great Latin poets, the most important short poems in the ancient world were Greek epigrams. Beginning with simple expressions engraved on stone, these poems eventually enco...
Author: Habinek, Thomas N. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book introduces readers to the ancient rhetorical tradition by investigating key questions about the origins, nature and importance of rhetoric. Explores the role of the orator, especially the tw...
Author: Malamud, Margaret Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ancient Rome and Modern America explores the vital role the narratives and images of Rome have played in America’s understanding of itself and its history.Places America’s response to Rome...
Author: Beerbohm, Max Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "I offer here some of the essays that I have written in the course of the past ten years. While I was collecting them and (quite patiently) reading them again, I found that a few of them were in direc...
Author: Stauffer, Andrew M. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Romantic age was one of anger and its consequences: revolution and reaction, terror and war. Andrew M. Stauffer explores the changing place of anger in the literature and culture of the period, as...
Author: Boehrer, Bruce Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Animal Characters follows five species through the literature of early modern Europe. The horse, the parrot, the cat, the turkey, and the sheep all undergo a dramatic change in character as European w...
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: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A century after Leo Tolstoy's death, the author of War and Peace is widely admired but too often thought of only with reference to his realism and moral sense. The many sides of Tolstoy revealed in th...
Description: Expanding the scholarly conversation about Renaissance anonymity and attribution studies, this collection explores the phenomenon of anonymous publication in all its variety of methods and genres. The...
Author: King, William Davies Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: An engrossing biography about the marital breakdown of a major literary figure, of particular interest for what it reveals about O'Neill's creative process, activities, and bohemian lifestyle at the t...
Description: The early modern period was an age of anatomical exploration and revelation, with new discoveries capturing the imagination not only of scientists but also of playwrights and poets. Approximate Bodies...
Author: Siddiq, Muhammad Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book explores the complex relationship between the novel and identity in modern Arab culture against a backdrop of contemporary Egypt. It uses the example of the Egyptian novel to interroga...
Author: Cachia, Pierre Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Assuming no previous knowledge of the subject, this book provides a balanced overview of Arab literature, from 'high' literature to popular folk literature, covering the classical and modern periods.
Author: Pratt, Lloyd Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In a bold revision of traditional historical narratives, Pratt analyzes nineteenth-century American literature to disclose the competing temporalities and racial identities that in fact defined the an...
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: Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Arion's Lyre examines how Hellenistic poetic culture adapted, reinterpreted, and transformed Archaic Greek lyric through a complex process of textual, cultural, and creative reception. Looking at the ...
Author: Aristotle Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Here's another one of the great Aristotle books. Recommended for the person who is interested in philosophy and human nature. Great reading for those rainy days! Please Note: This book is easy to r...
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: Bigsby, Christopher Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Christopher Bigsby explores the entirety of Arthur Miller's work, including plays, poetry, fiction and films, in this comprehensive and stimulating study. Drawing on interviews conducted over the last...
Author: Pearsall, Derek Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This witty and accessible book traces the history of Arthurian romance from medieval to modern times, explaining its enduring appeal.Traces the history of Arthurian romance from medieval to modern tim...
Author: Gay, Penny Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Looks at the way five of the comedies have been staged over the last 50 years, asking how gender politics affects the production of the comedies, and how gender is represented, both in the text and on...
Author: Salamon, Gayle Publisher: Columbia University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: We believe we know our bodies intimately& mdash;that their material reality is certain and that this certainty leads to an epistemological truth about sex, gender, and identity. By exploring and givin...
Author: Kilgore, De Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "This is an exceptionally innovative and potentially invaluable exploration of a major cultural phenomenon of our epoch."—H. Bruce Franklin, Rutgers University
Author: de Chateaubriand, François-René Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Chateaubriand was the giant of French literature in the early nineteenth century. Drawing on eighteenth-century English romanticists, on explorers in America, and on Goethe's Werther, he had a profoun...
Author: Love, Harold Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Recent literary scholarship has seen a shift of interest away from questions of attribution. Yet these questions remain urgent and important for any historical study of writing, and have been given a ...
Author: N/A Publisher: World Audience, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A superb, exciting, and humorous collection of short stories, poetry, plays, interviews, and more, from writers the world over. For more info and a review, see: www.worldaudience.org.
Description: This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human ...
Author: Wills, Garry Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions--what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it h...
Author: McLoughlin, Kate Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Kate McLoughlin's Authoring War is an ambitious and pioneering study of war writing across all literary genres from earliest times to the present day. Examining a range of cultures, she brings wide re...