Literary companions, book reviews and guides

It is impossible to appreciate poetry fully without some knowledge of the various aspects of poetic technique.

First published in 1991.

Wilson Harris is one of the outstanding literary innovators of the century.

Die Zeitschrift erscheint seit 1987 halbjährlich und ist im Aufsatzteil im Wechsel aktuellen Themen gewidmet oder frei konzipiert.

Winner, 2018, Unit History, Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book AwardWith the publication of Under the Crescent Moon with the XI Corps in the Civil War: Volume.

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.

Medieval America analyzes literary, legal, and historical archives that help tell a new story about the formation of American culture.

These letters chronicle the wartime courtship of a Confederate soldier and the woman he loved-a sister-in-law of Abraham Lincoln.

A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.

Mit diesem Literaturführer eröffnet uns die Autorin einen neuen, zeitgemäßen Zugang zu "vergessenen" Klassikern à la Arthur Schnitzler, Novalis und Joseph von Eichendorff.

In eighteenth-century England, the institution of marriage became the subject of heated debates, as clerics, jurists, legislators, philosophers, and social observers began rethinking its contractual foundation.

This collection, first published in 1963, includes 29 of George Eliot's essays written between 1846 and 1868.

In Intimate Reconstructions, Catherine Jones considers how children shaped, and were shaped by, Virginia's Reconstruction.

This Companion shows in new ways how Orwell''s most famous work continues to be a novel for our times.

With close readings of more than twenty novels by writers including Ernest Gaines, Toni Morrison, Charles Johnson, Gloria Naylor, and John Edgar Wideman, Keith Byerman examines the trend among African American novelists of the late twentieth century to write about black history rather than about their own present.

A fascinating and innovative introduction to the best works of fiction from the last 500 years.

This set reissues 4 books on Victorian poetry originally published between 1966 and 2003.

A fully illustrated account of the Vicksburg Campaign, including modern color photography and covering the river war, inland battles, seige operations, and more.

This Companion considers what theoretical and practical possibilities emerge at the crossroads of human rights and literature.

The Cynewulf Reader is a collection of classic and original essays presenting a comprehensive view of the elusive Anglo-Saxon poet Cynewulf, his language, and his work.

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain earned the sobriquet “Lion of the Round Top” for his tactical brilliance leading his 20th Maine Infantry on the rocky wooded slopes of Little Round Top at on the evening of July 2, 1863.

First published in 1954, this title is a companion to The Anatomy of Poetry as a literary guide for the student reader.

A history of the series of American Civil War battles fought at a town outside of Richmond, Virginia.

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

The life and works of Samuel Richardson (1689–1761) are explored through essays on their historical, literary, intellectual and cultural contexts.

James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) exemplified the ideal of the American public intellectual as a writer, educator, songwriter, diplomat, key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and first African American executive of the NAACP.

The Civil War—like all civil wars—was divisive, costly, and savage.

Addressing texts produced by writers who lived through the Civil War and wrote about it before the end of Reconstruction, this collection explores the literary cultures of that unsettled moment when memory of the war had yet to be overwritten by later impulses of reunion, reconciliation, or Lost Cause revisionism.

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

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

Driven to the Field traces the culture of sharecropping-crucial to understanding life in the southern United States-from Emancipation to the twenty-first century.

A “fascinating illumination of little-known accounts and personalities” by two experts on the Battle of Gettysburg (Civil War News).

In this book, the first to explore the role of disability in the writings of James Joyce, contributors approach the subject both on a figurative level, as a symbol or metaphor in Joyces work, and also as a physical reality for many of Joyces characters.

First published in 1987.

This study is devoted to the tracing of the Hebrew literary influence of the Greek text of the New Testament.

The Civil War on Film informs high-school and college readers interested in Civil War film history on issues that arise when film viewers confuse entertainment with historical accuracy.

Caribbean Philosophical Association Nicols Cristbal GuillnBatista Outstanding Book AwardCaribbean Studies Association Barbara T.

Shortlisted for the Kenshur Prize for Best Book in Eighteenth-Century Studies from the Indiana University Center for Eighteenth-Century StudiesFrom Jonathan Swift to Washington Irving, those looking to propose and justify exceptions to social and political norms turned to Cervantes's notoriously mad comic hero as a model.

Racial hatred is one of the ugliest of human emotions.

This history of the Union XII Corps “skillfully weaves firsthand accounts into a compelling story about the triumphs and defeats of this venerable unit” (Bradley M.

First published in 1940.

In this book, Abby L.

Some of the most iconic, hard-boiled Irish detectives in fiction insist that they are not detectives at all.

First published in 1980, The Anatomy of Literary Studies provides students of English Literature with a clearer understanding of the significance and scope of the subject and a comprehensive background to its study.

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.

Formerly a site of study reserved for intellectual historians and political philosophers, scholarship on religious toleration, from the perspective of literary scholars, is fairly limited.

Everything you ever wanted to know about King Arthur and his knights is covered in this fascinating volume: the origins of the Grail legend, the Tristan and Isolde love story in opera and literature, Spielberg's use of Arthurian motifs in Star Wars , the depiction of Arthur in paintings, the presentation of Camelot on the Broadway stage, the twitting of the legend in Monty Python and theHoly Grail and much more.

The Tempest: Critical Essays traces the history of Shakespeare's controversial late romance from its early reception (and adaptation) in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the present.