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Conjuring the Real : The Role ...In the Western world the period from the mid-eighteenth through the nineteenth... In the Western world the period from the mid-eighteenth through the nineteenth century was a time of expanding historical consciousness a period that saw the birth of modern historiography a profusion of historical novels and paintings and the... more
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The Poetry Toolkit (Paperback)The Poetry Toolkit: For Readers and Writers provides students with the essenti... The Poetry Toolkit: For Readers and Writers provides students with the essential intellectual and practical tools necessary to read understand and write poetry. Explains the most important elements of poetry in clear language and an easily accessible... more
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Publications of the Wisconsin ...Alexander Pushkin s lyric poetry--much of it known to Russians by heart--is th... Alexander Pushkin s lyric poetry--much of it known to Russians by heart--is the cornerstone of the Russian literary tradition yet until now there has been no detailed commentary of it in any language. Michael Wachtel s book designed for those who can... more
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Routledge Concise Histories of...In The Routledge Concise History of Twentieth-Century British Literature Ashle... In The Routledge Concise History of Twentieth-Century British Literature Ashley Dawson identifies the key British writers and texts shaped by era-defining cultural and historical events and movements from the period. He provides: Analysis of works by a... more
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Continuum Literary Studies: Fi...Interpreting recent American fiction in terms linked to the growing appreciati... Interpreting recent American fiction in terms linked to the growing appreciation of culture s place in the globalization debate this book offers an innovative critical approach to the study of contemporary literature. Prompted by the contemporary... more
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Translation/Transnation: The P...Key essays on comparative literature from the eighteenth century to today As c... Key essays on comparative literature from the eighteenth century to today As comparative literature reshapes itself in today s globalizing age it is essential for students and teachers to look deeply into the discipline s history and its present... more
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Rethinking Uncle Tom : The Pol...Rethinking Uncle Tom thoroughly explains Uncle Tom s Cabin as an articulation ... Rethinking Uncle Tom thoroughly explains Uncle Tom s Cabin as an articulation of the conditions of democratic life and the nature of modern humanism. The most mature elements of Stowe s political thought emerge from a close reading of Sunny Memories... more
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Pre-Owned Film Adaptation and ...Most books on film adaptation--the relation between films and their literary s... Most books on film adaptation--the relation between films and their literary sources--focus on a series of close one-to-one comparisons between specific films and canonical novels. This volume identifies and investigates a far wider array of problems... more
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Harvard Dissertations in Philo...For the first time available in paperback this classic anthology provides read... For the first time available in paperback this classic anthology provides readers with important literary works composed during the Middle English period (1100-1500) in England Scotland and Ireland. The editors provide glosses for all unfamiliar words... more
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I Think I Am : Philip K. Dick ...For years noted writer Laurence A. Rickels often found himself compared to nov... For years noted writer Laurence A. Rickels often found himself compared to novelist Philip K. Dick--though in fact Rickels had never read any of the science fiction writer s work. When he finally read his first Philip K. Dick novel while researching... more
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Routledge Research in Travel W...In this study Marinova examines the diverse practices of crossing boundaries t... In this study Marinova examines the diverse practices of crossing boundaries tactics of translation and experiences of double and multiple political and national attachments evident in texts about Russo-American encounters from the end of the American... more
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Concepts for the Study of Cult...Bringing together innovative and internationally renowned experts this volume ... Bringing together innovative and internationally renowned experts this volume provides concise presentations of the main concepts and cutting-edge research fields in the study of culture (rather than the infinite multitude of possible themes). More... more
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Critical Enthusiasm: Capital A...The Atlantic world of the long eighteenth century was characterized by two maj... The Atlantic world of the long eighteenth century was characterized by two major interrelated phenomena: the onset of capital accumulation and the infusion of traditions of radical religious rapture into Enlightenment discourses. In exploring these... more
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American Critical Archives: He...Henry James: The Contemporary Reviews presents the most thorough gathering of ... Henry James: The Contemporary Reviews presents the most thorough gathering of newspaper and magazine reviews of James work ever assembled. This collection also reprints many rarely seen notices written by the most important women reviewers of the late... more
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Romantic Fiat: Demystification...In the Romantic period s economics of fiat money the legacy of romanticism inv... In the Romantic period s economics of fiat money the legacy of romanticism involves absolutist gestures of verbal fiat. Focused on William Wordsworth but in constant range of his poet-successors and modern critics Romantic Fiat presents an argument for... more
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Cambridge Greek and Latin Clas...The Carmen Saeculare was composed and published in 17 BCE as Horace was return... The Carmen Saeculare was composed and published in 17 BCE as Horace was returning to the genre of lyric which he had abandoned six years earlier; the fourth book of Odes is in part a response to this poem the only commissioned poem we know from the... more
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Southern Literary Studies: Art...In Art Matters Robert Paul Lamb provides the definitive study of Ernest Heming... In Art Matters Robert Paul Lamb provides the definitive study of Ernest Hemingway s short story aesthetics. Lamb locates Hemingway s art in literary historical contexts and explains what he learned from earlier artists including Edgar Allan Poe Paul... more
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Gender Race and Mourning in Am...American modernist writers engagement with changing ideas of gender and race o... American modernist writers engagement with changing ideas of gender and race often took the form of a struggle against increasingly inflexible categories. Greg Forter interprets modernism as an effort to mourn a form of white manhood that fused the... more
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Wisconsin Studies in Classics ...Oedipus Rex is the greatest of the Greek tragedies a profound meditation on th... Oedipus Rex is the greatest of the Greek tragedies a profound meditation on the human condition. The story of the mythological king who is doomed to kill his father and marry his mother has resonated in world culture for almost 2 500 years. But... more
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The Souls of Mixed Folk : Race...The Souls of Mixed Folk examines representations of mixed race in literature a... The Souls of Mixed Folk examines representations of mixed race in literature and the arts that redefine post-race aesthetics and politics. more
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