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Reading the European Novel to 1900
Daniel Schwarz R.
Offers a close reading of individual texts with attention to their cultural and canonical context Examines the history and evolution of the novel to 1900 and defines each author’s aesthetic, cultural, political, and historical significance...
Reading the American Novel 1920-2010
James Phelan
This astute guide to the literary achievements of American novelists in the twentieth century places their work in its historical context and offers detailed analyses of landmark novels based on a clearly laid out set of tools for analyzing...
Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater
Eric Csapo
Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater examines actors and their popular reception from the origins of theater in Classical Greece to the Roman Empire Presents a highly original viewpoint into several new and contested fields of study Offers...
Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987-2007
Liam Harte
Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987–2007 is the authoritative guide to some of the most inventive and challenging fiction to emerge from Ireland in the last 25 years. Meticulously researched, it presents detailed interpretations of novels...
A Handbook of English Renaissance Literary Studies
John Lee
Provides a detailed map of contemporary critical theory in Renaissance and Early Modern English literary studies beyond Shakespeare A Handbook of English Renaissance Literary Studies is a groundbreaking guide to the contemporary engagement with...
Modern German Literature
Michael Minden
This accessible and fresh account of German writing since 1750 is a case study of literature as a cultural and spiritual resource in modern societies. Beginning with the emergence of German language literature on the international stage in the...
Performance and Power
Jeffrey C. Alexander
Performativity has emerged as a critical new idea across the humanities and social sciences, from literary and cultural studies to the study of gender and the philosophy of action. In this volume, Jeffrey Alexander demonstrates how performance...
Technology, Literature and Culture
Alex Goody
Technology, Literature and Culture provides a detailed and accessible exploration of the ways in which literature across the twentieth century has represented the inescapable presence and progress of technology. As this study argues, from the...
Eighteenth Century English Literature
Charlotte Sussman
This engaging book introduces new readers of eighteenth-century texts to some of the major works, authors, and debates of a key period of literary history. Rather than simply providing a chronological survey of the era, this book analyzes the...
The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature. Volume 1, 1746 - 1920
Gene Jarrett Andrew
The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essays authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the present....
English Translation and Classical Reception. Towards a New Literary History
Stuart Gillespie
English Translation and Classical Reception is the first genuine cross-disciplinary study bringing English literary history to bear on questions about the reception of classical literary texts, and vice versa. The text draws on the author’s...
The Land of Ionia. Society and Economy in the Archaic Period
Alan Greaves M.
Incorporating over a century of archaeological research, Greaves offers a reassessment of Archaic Ionia that attempts to understand the region within its larger Mediterranean context and provides a thematic overview of its cities and people....
Breaking the Book. Print Humanities in the Digital Age
Laura Mandell
Breaking the Book is a manifesto on the cognitive consequences and emotional effects of human interactions with physical books that reveals why the traditional humanities disciplines are resistant to 'digital' humanities. Explores the reasons...
Dionysus Resurrected. Performances of Euripides' The Bacchae in a Globalizing World
Erika Fischer-Lichte
Dionysus Resurrected analyzes the global resurgence since the late 1960s of Euripides’ The Bacchae. By analyzing and contextualizing these modern day performances, the author reveals striking parallels between transformational events taking...
Ancient Babylonian Medicine. Theory and Practice
Markham Geller J.
Utilizing a great variety of previously unknown cuneiform tablets, Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice examines the way medicine was practiced by various Babylonian professionals of the 2nd and 1st millennium B.C. Represents the...
Colonial Voices. The Discourses of Empire
Pramod Nayar K.
This accessible cultural history explores 400 years of British imperial adventure in India, developing a coherent narrative through a wide range of colonial documents, from exhibition catalogues to memoirs and travelogues. It shows how these...
Internal Colonization. Russia's Imperial Experience
Alexander Etkind
This book gives a radically new reading of Russia’s cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories and domesticated its own heartlands, thereby colonizing many peoples, Russians included. This...
Victorian Poetry Now. Poets, Poems and Poetics
Valentine Cunningham
This book is the definitive guide to Victorian poetry, which its author approaches in the light of modern critical concerns and contemporary contexts. Valentine Cunningham exhibits encyclopedic knowledge of the poetry produced in this period and...
Romanticism. An Anthology
Duncan Wu
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 Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,...
Literary Theory. An Introduction
Terry Eagleton
A quarter of a century on from its original publication, Literary Theory: An Introduction still conjures the subversion, excitement and exoticism that characterized theory through the 1960s and 70s, when it posed an unprecedented challenge to...
Novel Characters. A Genealogy
Maria DiBattista
Novel Characters offers a fascinating and in-depth history of the novelistic character from the “birth of the novel” in Don Quixote, through the great canonical works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the most influential...
An Introduction to Criticism. Literature - Film - Culture
Michael Ryan
An accessible and thorough introduction to literary theory and contemporary critical practice, this book is an essential resource for beginning students of literary criticism. Covers traditional approaches such as formalism and structuralism, as...
New England Beyond Criticism. In Defense of America's First Literature
Elisa New
Timely and beautifully written, New England Beyond Criticism provides a passionate defense of the importance of the literature of New England to the American literary canon, and its impact on the development of spirituality, community, and...
The Poetry Toolkit. For Readers and Writers
William Harmon
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...
Tales of the Barbarians. Ethnography and Empire in the Roman West
Greg Woolf
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 material. Investigates the connections between...
A Companion to the Global Renaissance. English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion
Jyotsna Singh G.
Featuring twenty one newly-commissioned essays, A Companion to the Global Renaissance: English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion demonstrates how today's globalization is the result of a complex and lengthy historical process that...
A Short History of Early Modern England. British Literature in Context
Peter Herman C.
A Short History of Early Modern England presents the historical and cultural information necessary for a richer understanding of English Renaissance literature. Written in a clear and accessible style for an undergraduate level audience Gives an...
Who Was William Shakespeare? An Introduction to the Life and Works
Dympna Callaghan
A new study of Shakespeare’s life and times, which illuminates our understanding and appreciation of his works. Combines an accessible fully historicised treatment of both the life and the plays, suited to both undergraduate and popular...
After the Fall. American Literature Since 9/11
Richard Gray
After the Fall presents a timely and provocative examination of the impact and implications of 9/11 and the war on terror on American culture and literature. Presents the first detailed interrogation of U.S. writing in a time of crisis Develops...
French Literature. A Cultural History
Alison Finch
This book is the first to offer a cultural history of French literature from its very beginnings, analysing the relationship between French literature and France’s evolving power structures from the Middle Ages through to the present day. It...
Victorian Poets. A Critical Reader
Valentine Cunningham
Victorian Poets: A Critical Reader features a collection of critical essays focusing on various aspects of Victorian-era poetry from the 1830s to the 1890s. Presents key criticism on Victorian poetry Features contributions from a variety of...
The Life of George Eliot. A Critical Biography
Nancy Henry
The life story of the Victorian novelist George Eliot is as dramatic and complex as her best plots. This new assessment of her life and work combines recent biographical research with penetrating literary criticism, resulting in revealing new...
The Life of William Shakespeare. A Critical Biography
Lois Potter
The Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare's life and works focusing on oftern neglected literary and historical contexts: what Shakespeare read, who he worked with as an author and an actor, and...
The Literary Theory Toolkit. A Compendium of Concepts and Methods
Herman Rapaport
The Literary Theory Toolkit offers readers a rich compendium of key terms, concepts, and arguments necessary for the study of literature in a critical-theoretical context. Includes varied examples drawn from readily available literary texts...
Baudrillard Now. Current Perspectives in Baudrillard Studies
Ryan Bishop
The writings of Jean Baudrillard have dramatically altered the face of critical theory and promise to pose challenges well into the 21st century. His work on simulation, media, the status of the image, the system of objects, hyperreality, and...
1611. Authority, Gender and the Word in Early Modern England
Helen Wilcox
1611: Authority, Gender, and the Word in Early Modern England explores issues of authority, gender, and language within and across the variety of literary works produced in one of most landmark years in literary and cultural history. Represents...
The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2. 1920 to the Present
Gene Jarrett Andrew
The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essays authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the present....
Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present. An Introduction
M. A. R. Habib
Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present provides a concise and authoritative overview of the development of Western literary criticism and theory from the Classical period to the present day An indispensable and intellectually stimulating...
Comic Relief. A Comprehensive Philosophy of Humor
John Morreall
Comic Relief: A Comprehensive Philosophy of Humor develops an inclusive theory that integrates psychological, aesthetic, and ethical issues relating to humor Offers an enlightening and accessible foray into the serious business of humor Reveals...
Прописи
Зинаида Гиппиус
«Есть странные вещи: их как будто все знают, до такой степени, что даже и говорить о них стыдно. И в то же время как будто никто не знает, и говорить, хоть стыдно, а нужно. Беседую с X, Y, Z. Разные индивидуальности, конечно; но меня интересует...
Предостережение
Зинаида Гиппиус
«Говорят, одержимость – болезнь древности. Я думаю – она вечная, и лишь в иные времена усиливается и распространяется. Наше время для нее благоприятно. Участились случаи, тяжелые и легкие, и всегда разнообразные, всегда в зависимости от...
Письмо в редакцию
Зинаида Гиппиус
«Позволяю себе сделать некоторые поправки и дополнения к статье Е. Шевченко о «Лит. псевдонимах». Действительно, «Тоска по смерти» (в журнале «Полярная Звезда») за подписью Н. Ропшин, принадлежит мне. Но Антон Крайний начал свою деятельность не...
О Н.В.Чайковском
Зинаида Гиппиус
«Моей речи, произнесенной 7 мая, в Париже, на собрании в память Н. В. Чайковского, я предпосылаю несколько слов. Они касаются и самого собрания, и статьи Д. Философова «Своеобразная богобоязнь». Статья эта, по существу очень справедливая, – в...
О «Верстах» и о прочем
Зинаида Гиппиус
«К журналу «Версты», – недавно вышедшему толстому зарубежнику, – я намереваюсь подойти весьма просто. Просто исследовать, что это такое. Для этого мне совершенно достаточно «ума холодных наблюдений»; а «заметы сердца», горестные или не...
Меч и крест
Зинаида Гиппиус
«Можно ли сейчас писать философически-отвлеченно о силе-насилии, убийстве, казни? И. А. Ильин думает, что можно, и пишет. Но нелегко следовать за ним, в беспросветные дебри рассуждений. Если у каждого пальцы бурые и липнут, чьей-нибудь кровью...
Мёртвый младенец в руках
Зинаида Гиппиус
«В небольшую изящную книжку Изд-ва „Христианской Молодежи“ вошел ряд статей Вл. Соловьева, напечатанных в III томе полного собрания его сочинений (посмертного) под общим заглавием „Духовные основы жизни“…»
Мёртвый дух
Зинаида Гиппиус
«Мы с удовольствием даем место открытому «обличению», принадлежащему перу Антона Крайнего. Не во всем редакция солидарна с талантливым автором, считая, например, излишними проникновения в мотивы литературной деятельности обличаемых писателей…»
Мальчики и девочки
Зинаида Гиппиус
«Господи! Какая мука, что от беллетриста непременно требуют беллетристики! Помешались на этой самой беллетристике, не знаю, чем и объяснить. Публика, что ли ее требует? Недавно какой-то критик грустно и банально сказал: „Жизнь убила творческую...
Лик человеческий и лик времен
Зинаида Гиппиус
«Не совсем в обычае – давать отзыв о книге в журнале, редактор которого и автор рассматриваемой книги – одно лицо. Но меня это не стесняет: когда я пишу, мое внимание занято исключительно произведением, о котором пишу, и ничем более. В данный...
Земля и свобода
Зинаида Гиппиус
«Русская культура в опасности… Впрочем, это все знают. Опасность не смертельная, но такая, однако, что относиться к ней беспечно – нельзя. Особенно страшна, непозволительна эта беспечность для русской эмиграции. Потому что на ней, на эмиграции,...
