Literary companions, book reviews and guides

The Arthurian legend closes with a promise: On a distant day, when his country calls, the king will return.

Between 1948 and the end of the 1950s, Italian and American government agencies and corporations commissioned hundreds of short films for domestic and foreign consumption on topics such as the fight against unemployment, the transformation of rural and urban spaces, and the re-establishment of democratic regimes in Italy and throughout Europe.

Historians have long treated Reconstruction primarily as a southern concern isolated from broader national political developments.

The Caribbean Novel Since 1945 offers a comparative analysis of fiction from across the pan-Caribbean, exploring the relationship between literary form, cultural practice, and the nation-state.

Between the end of May and the beginning of August 1864, Lt.

Shakespeare's history plays are central to his dramatic achievement.

Patrick Chamoiseau: A Critical Introduction examines the career, oeuvre, and literary theories of one of the most important Caribbean writers living today.

This volume is a comprehensive overview of scholarship on this play.

First published in 1968.

A foundational text in the emerging field of Latin American and Iberian food studies

This title, first published in 1990, offers a feminist and psychoanalytic reassessment of the Joycean canon in the wake of Freud, Lacan, and Kristeva.

Between the late 1890s and the early 1900s, the young Irish writer John Millington Synge journeyed across his home country, documenting his travels intermittently for ten years.

First published in 1989.

The object of this study, first published in 1980, is to dispel the view that James Joyce had no political views.

Today, the "e;fight to write"e;-the struggle to become the legitimate chronicler of one's own story-is being waged and won by women across mediums and borders.

Billy Collins "e;puts the 'fun' back in profundity,"e; says poet Alice Fulton.

This book is about what does not happen in the Victorian novel.

"e;A reliable guide to what science fiction is"e; Christopher Priest, award-winning science fiction author"e;A really good introduction to the genre"e; SFX Magazine"e;Perceptive and glorious"e; Ian Watson, author of the screenplay for Steve Spielberg's A.

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Acclaimed author and Catholic thinker Flannery O'Connor (1925--1964) penned two novels, two collections of short stories, various essays, and numerous book reviews over the course of her life.

The literary study of emotion is part of an important revisionary movement among scholars eager to recast emotional politics for the twenty-first century.

Bringing together over sixty pre-modern Chinese primary sources on same-sex desire in English translation, Homoeroticism in Imperial China is an important addition to the growing field of the comparative history of sexuality and provides a window onto the continuous cultural relevance of same-sex desire in Chinese history.

Una colección de ensayos escogidos del crítico John Beverley en el campo del Latinoamericanismo literario, atento a los conexiones entre literatura, hegemonía, y conflicto social.

In this book, first published in 1943, Janko Lavrin provides an overview of the development of the Russian novel by placing the great Russian novelists - Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Gorky, Gogol - in relation to their native literature and their social, political and cultural backgrounds.

The Post-Romantics, first published in 1990, provides a clear, introductory guide to the literary careers and reputations of five major Victorian poets: Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Swinburne and Clough.

Best Nineteenth-Century Book Award Winner, 2018, Latin American Studies Association Nineteenth-Century Section Moral electricitya term coined by American transcendentalists in the 1850s to describe the force of nature that was literacy and education in shaping a greater society.

A lively and accessible introduction to the variety, depth, and wonder of Chaucer''s best-known poem.

'A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature.

Vividly written and well researched by a noted historian of the period, this succinct history credits the Union Navy as an essential element in the northern victory.

The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation shows how antebellum African Americans used the newspaper as a means for translating their belief in black "e;chosenness"e; into plans and programs for black liberation.

Providing the most complete record possible of texts by Italian writers active after 1900, this annotated bibliography covers over 4,800 distinct editions of writings by some 1,700 Italian authors.

First published in 1900, this volume was edited from a unique 1440 A.

With a Preface and biographies from Jack Zipes, as well as the original illustrations by Violet Brunton, this collection of fairy tales originally published by the award-winning Romer Wilson - Green Magic (1928), Silver Magic (1929), and Red Magic (1930) - offers a combination of classic fairy tales, alongside lesser known, global and diverse tales.

How have African American writers drawn on "e;bad"e; black men and black boys as creative touchstones for their evocative and vibrant art?

In addition to being a poet, fiction writer, playwright, and essayist, Langston Hughes was also a globe-trotting cosmopolitan, travel writer, translator, avid international networker, and-perhaps above all-pan-Africanist.

The confidence man held a fascination for Melville, Hawthorne, Howells, Johnson J.

Offering comprehensive coverage for those examining Civil War propaganda, this volume provides a broad analysis of efforts by both Union and Confederate sides to influence public opinion of America's deadliest conflict.

First published in 1900, this volume was edited from a unique 1440 A.

The Battle of Gettysburg's first day featured pivotal decisions amidst fierce fighting and high stakes.

Challenging the assumption that modernist writer Gertrude Stein seldom integrated her Jewish identity and heritage into her work, this book uncovers Stein's constant and varied writing about Jewish topics throughout her career.

Nobel laureate Elias Canetti wrote his novel Auto-da-Fe (Die Blendung) when he and the twentieth century were still quite young.

By providing detailed analyses of Civil War primary sources, this book will help readers to understand the history of the bloodiest of all American conflicts.

French Ecocritique is the first book-length study of the culturally specific ways in whicha contemporary French literature and theory raise questions about nature and environment.

What does it mean to be Ukrainian in contemporary Canada?

Psychoanalysis and Narrative analyzes narrative in literary fiction, film, and autobiography through different psychoanalytic lenses including gender and socio-cultural perspectives.

Despite the vigorous study of modern American fiction, today's readers are only familiar with a partial shelf of a vast library.

Why are Emily Dickinson and Henry James drawn habitually to dashes?

To Virginia Woolf, London was a source of creative inspiration, a setting for many of her works, and a symbol of the culture in which she lived and wrote.

The Cacophony of Politics charts the trajectory of the Democratic Party as the party of opposition in the North during the Civil War.

With expert analysis, All That Can Be Expected sheds light on the fateful events of August 16, 1780 that marked the turning point of Great Britain's prospects for victory in the American Revolutionary War.