Literature: history and criticism

Der Band lotet die Bedingungen des Erinnerns und Erzählens und damit einer Re-Inszenierung der Vergangenheit im Feld der Kinder- und Jugendmedien aus.

Examines four texts of the Imperial period in order to elucidate how each author formulates very different conceptions of Homer.

A comprehensive critical account of Margaret Atwood''s novels, short stories, poetry, and essays.

Cet ouvrage retrace les étapes de l'essor du livre au Québec, de son apparition vers 1840 jusqu'à 1940.

A collection of new essays on First World War literature and its contexts.

Since 1940, Captain America has battled his enemies in the name of American values, and as those values have changed over time, so has Captain America's character.

This book contains a set of papers which explore the links among climate change, health, and hazards and demonstrate how they interact.

This book expands the discourse as well as the nature of critical commentary on science fiction, speculative fiction and futurism - literary and cinematic by Black writers.

Originally published in 1984.

In this powerful and authoritative study Jody Allen Randolph providesthe fullest account yet of the work of a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature as well as in contemporary women's writing.

This is a study of the most fascinating and idiosyncratic of all seventeenth-century figures.

A convincing critique of the neglect of death in psychoanalytic theory, arguing that death has been a repressed subject in psychoanalysis.

What is Chekhov's method of ensuring audience participation?

Throughout history the poetic muse has tended to be (a passive) female and the poet male.

This edited book addresses the diversity across time and space of the sites, actors and practices of feminist translation from 1945-2000.

The story of the Holy Grail has gripped the imaginations of millions since it first appeared in medieval romances, among them Wolfram von Eschenbach's Middle High German Parzival (c.

Describing Spoken English provides a practical and descriptive introduction to the pronunciation of contemporary English.

Writings by early-modern English artisans are rare and thus precious.

Peter Widdowson's major new selection of Hardy's poetry offers the student a challenging assessment of his poetic achievement by juxtaposing Hardy's best known poems with some of his least known.

Xenolinguistics brings together biologists, anthropologists, linguists, and other experts specializing in language and communication to explore what non-human, non-Earthbound language might look like.

Declamation - the practice of training young men to speak in public by setting them to compose and deliver speeches on fictional legal cases - was central to the Greek and Roman educational systems over many centuries and has been the subject of a recent explosion of scholarly interest.

The regulation on European Health Technology Assessment (EU HTA) entered into force on 11 January 2022 and will apply from 12 January 2025.

This book, in two volumes, contains an annotated English translation of the Historia da Ethiopia by the Spanish Jesuit missionary priest Pedro Paez (Pero Pais in Portuguese), 1564-1622, who worked in the Portuguese padroado missions, first in India and then in Ethiopia, long thought to be the kingdom of the legendary Prester John.

This book provides a concise introduction to lists in literature from the early modern period to the twenty-first century.

A partir dels estudis consolidats i, sobretot, d'un meritori treball de camp amb enquestes dialectològiques a informants de més de 250 localitats de la geografia valenciana, "Els parlars valencians" descriu, amb rigor i profusió, la riquesa lingüística que presenta el català al País Valencià.

Modern Travel in World History uses three themes-technology, mass movements and travelers-to examine the history of the modern world from the fifteenth-century transatlantic explorations to the impact of the global COVID pandemic of the twenty-first century.

This book looks at the staging and performance of normality in early modern drama.

This book presents a nuanced narrative on Sir Syed Ahmad Khan's (1817-1898) life and his invaluable contribution to the democratic consciousness in India.

The award-winning illustrations of 57 Caldecott Books (1938-1994) have inspired a multitude of lessons that guide students in creating art with similar qualities.

The Anti-Hero in the American Novel rereads major texts of the 1960s to offer an innovative re-evaluation of a set of canonical novels that moves beyond entrenched post-modern and post-structural interpretations towards an appraisal which emphasizes the specifically humanist and idealist elements of these works.

Meat and dairy production and consumption are in crisis.

A Year of Real and Literary Birds is simultaneously an almanac of bird life, a work of interdisciplinary literary scholarship, and a chronicle of family life.

First appearing in 1981, this book was the first full-length study of the Songs of Innocence and Experience to be published in almost fifteen years.

Deanna Fernie analyzes the significance of sculpture in Hawthorne's fiction through the recurring motif of the fragment in its double guise as ruin and project.

This study explores the reinvention of the calendar during the French Revolution and its long-lasting cultural effects.

A Companion to Ancient Education presents a series of essays from leading specialists in the field that represent the most up-to-date scholarship relating to the rise and spread of educational practices and theories in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds.

This history of American sports fiction traces depictions of baseball, basketball and football in works for all age levels from early dime novels through the 1960s.