Comparative literature

Sarah Palin's 2008 vice presidential candidacy garnered tremendous levels of interest, polarizing the American public-both Democrats and Republicans alike.

Contemporary members of Congress routinely use the media to advance their professional goals.

Contemporary members of Congress routinely use the media to advance their professional goals.

Paul de Man is often associated with an era of 'high theory', an era it is argued may now be coming to a close.

Paul de Man is often associated with an era of 'high theory', an era it is argued may now be coming to a close.

This book brings together a complete set of approaches to works by female authors that articulate the black Atlantic in relation to the interplay of race, class, and gender.

This book brings together a complete set of approaches to works by female authors that articulate the black Atlantic in relation to the interplay of race, class, and gender.

What can literary theory reveal about discourses and practices of human rights, and how can human rights frameworks help to make sense of literature?

What can literary theory reveal about discourses and practices of human rights, and how can human rights frameworks help to make sense of literature?

Virgil's Homeric Lens reevaluates the traditional view of the Aeneid's relationship to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

Virgil's Homeric Lens reevaluates the traditional view of the Aeneid's relationship to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

This book presents the lives and works of eleven Jewish women authors who lived in the Soviet Union, and who wrote and published their works in Russian.

This book presents the lives and works of eleven Jewish women authors who lived in the Soviet Union, and who wrote and published their works in Russian.

In this book, Blackford historicizes the appeal of the Persephone myth in the nineteenth century and traces figurations of Persephone, Demeter, and Hades throughout girls' literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

In this book, Blackford historicizes the appeal of the Persephone myth in the nineteenth century and traces figurations of Persephone, Demeter, and Hades throughout girls' literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

First Published in 1992.

First Published in 1992.

First published in 1990, this work offers an analysis of the phenomenon of encyclopaedism in literature.

Transnationalism and American Serial Fiction explores the vibrant tradition of serial fiction published in U.

Transnationalism and American Serial Fiction explores the vibrant tradition of serial fiction published in U.

In this timely book, leading researchers consider how media inform democracy in six countries - the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.

In this timely book, leading researchers consider how media inform democracy in six countries - the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.

This collection offers a fresh approach to the work of Cormac McCarthy, one of the most important contemporary American authors.

This collection offers a fresh approach to the work of Cormac McCarthy, one of the most important contemporary American authors.

This remarkably broad and informative book offers an introduction to and overview of World Literature.

This remarkably broad and informative book offers an introduction to and overview of World Literature.

First published in 1990, this work offers an analysis of the phenomenon of encyclopaedism in literature.

This book offers a critical study and analysis of American fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

This book offers a critical study and analysis of American fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

This study assesses the significance of Pinocchio in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in addition to his status as the creature of a nineteenth century traversed by a cultural enthusiasm for dummies, puppets, and marionettes.

This study assesses the significance of Pinocchio in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in addition to his status as the creature of a nineteenth century traversed by a cultural enthusiasm for dummies, puppets, and marionettes.

The essays in this volume discuss narrative strategies employed by international writers when dealing with rape and sexual violence, whether in fiction, poetry, memoir, or drama.

The essays in this volume discuss narrative strategies employed by international writers when dealing with rape and sexual violence, whether in fiction, poetry, memoir, or drama.

This studyconsiders the work of two experimental British women modernists writing in the tumultuous interwar period--Virginia Woolf and Olive Moore--by examining four crucial incarnations of female embodiment and subjectivity: female bodies, geographical imagery, national ideology and textual experimentation.

This studyconsiders the work of two experimental British women modernists writing in the tumultuous interwar period--Virginia Woolf and Olive Moore--by examining four crucial incarnations of female embodiment and subjectivity: female bodies, geographical imagery, national ideology and textual experimentation.

What happens to traditional stories when they are retold in another time and cultural context and for a different audience?

What happens to traditional stories when they are retold in another time and cultural context and for a different audience?

This book offers a variety of approaches to children's literature from a postcolonial perspective that includes discussions of cultural appropriation, race theory, pedagogy as a colonialist activity, and multiculturalism.

This book offers a variety of approaches to children's literature from a postcolonial perspective that includes discussions of cultural appropriation, race theory, pedagogy as a colonialist activity, and multiculturalism.

The last ten years have witnessed an enormous growth in American interest in Asia and Asian/American history.

The last ten years have witnessed an enormous growth in American interest in Asia and Asian/American history.

This book examines the intricate and unusual relationship between the sacred and secular spheres of English medieval culture, positing that the assimilation of sacred and secular motifs could be in either direction, or even in both directions.

This book examines the intricate and unusual relationship between the sacred and secular spheres of English medieval culture, positing that the assimilation of sacred and secular motifs could be in either direction, or even in both directions.

First published in 1968, this reissue of Dr.

First published in 1968, this reissue of Dr.

This reference book surveys the richness of postcolonial African literature.

This reference book surveys the richness of postcolonial African literature.

This book examines the ways in which contemporary British and British postcolonial writers in the after-empire era draw connections between magic (defined here as Renaissance Hermetic philosophy) and science.

This book examines the ways in which contemporary British and British postcolonial writers in the after-empire era draw connections between magic (defined here as Renaissance Hermetic philosophy) and science.

In this book, Steven F.