Literary companions, book reviews and guides

In the early 1800s, American critics warned about the danger of literature as a distraction from reality.

The most up-to-date and detailed introduction to Proust''s life and work available today, including a volume-by-volume study of Proust''s novel.

First published in 1975.

In the early 1800s, American critics warned about the danger of literature as a distraction from reality.

A wide-ranging exploration of the influence of Keats'' world on his life and work, enhancing our engagement with his poems.

Diana Gabaldon has captivated millions of readers with her critically acclaimed Outlander novels.

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

In these changing times of global flows of media and technologies and reports of declining reading enjoyment, researchers, policymakers and educators need to engage anew with essential issues of what counts as reading, what kinds of reading matter and how to support teen reading engagement in school and out-of-school settings.

This essay collection offers a lengthy introduction describing trends in criticism and theatrical interpretation of As You Like It.

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

Valedictory addresses offer a way to conceptualize the relation of self to others, private to public, ephemeral to eternal.

Infamous for authoring two concepts since favored by government powers seeking license for ruthlessness-the utilitarian notion of privileging the greatest happiness for the most people and the panopticon-Jeremy Bentham is not commonly associated with political emancipation.

WHAT MAKES A CULT WRITER?

Für Theodor Fontanes Werk und Leben liegt derzeit keine umfassend angelegte Publikation vor, die den aktuellen Stand der Forschung für das Gesamtwerk (einschließlich der Texte aus dem Nachlass) auf Basis des aktuellen Stands der Editionen aufarbeiten würde.

LEARN NEW AND INSPIRING WAYS OF LIFTING YOUR CREATIVE WRITING.

Este libro es el primero en rendirle un homenaje al gran critico chileno, Jaime Concha.

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.

A fresh and comprehensive account of the literature of France, from medieval romances to twenty-first-century experimental poetry and novels.

India and the Traveller: Aspects of Travelling Identity, a collection of essays on travel writings related to India, focuses on the evolving persona of travelers to India as well as Indians journeying to other lands or within India.

Pericles: Critical Essays brings together the most essential critical essays and theatrical reviews of Shakespeare's play from the late 17th century to the present, providing a representative gathering of critical opinion of Pericles over the centuries.

First published in 1971.

In 1979, the Marxist-Leninist New Jewel Movement under Maurice Bishop overthrew the government of the Caribbean island country of Grenada, establishing the People's Revolutionary Government.

Providing an overview of the dynamic field of comics and graphic novels for students and researchers, this Essential Guide contextualises the major research trends, debates and ideas that have emerged in Comics Studies over the past decades.

From 1923, when he emigrated from Bucharest, to his deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944, Benjamin Fondane made a unique and independent-minded contribution to the literary and intellectual life of Paris.

During Shakespeare's lifetime, John Lyly was repeatedly described as the central figure in contemporary English literature.

This accessible text provides a roadmap for producing a high-quality literature review--an integral part of a successful thesis, dissertation, term paper, or grant proposal.

This book provides a new map of American literature in the global era, analyzing the multiple meanings of transnationalism.

Celebrated as a novelist and made famous by her novel Anne of Green Gables and its sequels, L.

This book, first published in 1991, supplies a neglected cultural context for T.

First published in 1998.

This unique collection of essays applies significant critical approaches to the mythological poetry of the Poetic Edda, a principal source for Old Norse cosmography and the legends of Odin, Loki, and Thor.

This Companion provides a chronological survey of Latin American poetry, analysis of modern trends and six succinct essays on the major figures.

Renaissance Woman: A Sourcebook is an invaluable collection of accounts of women and femininity in early modern England.

This book, first published in 1962, is a collection of twenty-four essays written by Frank Kermode between 1958 and early 1961, and are all concerned with criticism and fiction.

This is the first volume of a three volume collection of the correspondence of Caroline Norton, covering the period July 1828-Deember 1837.

A comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the interrelationship between law and literature in Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and Tudor England.

Anne Spencer's identity as an artist grew from her relationship to the natural world.

This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's AComedy of Errors.

This important study affirms that Latinx children and young adults are uniquely positioned to change the world.

Working across time periods and critical contexts, this volume provides the most comprehensive overview of literary representations of disability.

Rachel Bowlby's anthology of articles conjures up the enormous richness and variety of recent work that returns to Woolf not so much for final answers as for insights into questions about writing, literary traditions and the differences of the sexes.

Saul Steinberg's inimitable drawings, paintings, and assemblages enriched the New Yorker, gallery and museum shows, and his own books for more than half a century.

First published in 1989.

This book sheds light on how the text and physical design of James Joyce's two most challenging works, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, reflect changes that transformed Europe between World War I and II.

The Antilles remain a society preoccupied with gradations of skin color and with the social hierarchies that largely reflect, or are determined by, racial identity.

Occupy Pynchon examines power and resistance in the writer's post-Gravity's Rainbow novels.

What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously?

First published in 1969.