Literary reference works

Rather than reading small-town representations in Canadian literature as portraits of a parochial past or a lost golden age, this book claims that they are best understood as sophisticated statements on the effects of modernity in an ever-more cosmopolitan world.

Enrich each day with wisdom from our greatest spiritual thinkers.

The one-act play stands apart as a distinct art form with some well known writers providing specialist material, among them Bernard Shaw, Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill.

Shows how print culture responded to and provided an impulse for social change during tumultuous years of Latin American independence.

John Crace's 'Digested Read' column in the Guardian has rightly acquired a cult following.

Yeats and his shadow are one of the most closely scrutinised pairs in contemporary literary history.

First published in 1989.

Why the university should focus on community: "e;An enlightening interpretation of Wendell Berry's philosophy for the pursuit of a holistic higher education.

This expansive, multivolume reference work provides a broad, multidisciplinary examination of the Civil War period ranging from pre-Civil War developments and catalysts such as the Mexican-American War to the rebuilding of the war-torn nation during Reconstruction.

In the last twenty years, Orthodox Catholics have come to expect their art to be necessarily about beauty.

First published in 1977, this book focuses on Modernism, one of the most frequently used terms in the discussion of twentieth-century literature and culture.

Comparative Literature explores an 'area of interest' rather than a special discipline.

First published in 1909, with a second edition in 1923, this concise and easily accessible overview of Shelley's life and work presents the poet not as popular legend would have it, but in a more objective light.

This book is the first omnibus history of the literature of the American Civil War, the deadliest conflict in US history.

The site of a thriving literary tradition, Washington, DC, has been the home to many of our nation's most acclaimed writers.

Mit seinen Ballettkomödien gelingt es Molière, ein Theater der Superlative zu schaffen, das aufgrund seiner künstlerischen Vollkommenheit wie auch seiner machtpolitischen Wirksamkeit die absolutistische Kulturpolitik Ludwigs XIV.

A compelling, comprehensive, and substantive introduction to the work of David Foster Wallace.

First published in 1980.

Finalist, 2021 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Awards As historian David W.

While fighting on land continues to hold center stage, recently much more attention has been focused on the Civil War at sea.

A History of New Zealand Literature explores the genealogy of New Zealand writing from the colonial period to the present day.

An essential handbook for literary studiesThe Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms-drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics-provides an authoritative guide to the most important terms in the study of poetry and literature.

This comprehensive history of US Latina/o literature from the colonial period through the present elucidates the complex roots of Latina/o writing within the Americas.

Shakespeare / Sex interrogates the relationship between Shakespeare and sex by challenging readers to consider Shakespeare's texts in light of the most recent theoretical approaches to gender and sexuality studies.

Explores 1930s authors, genres, and contexts, giving fresh attention to well-known authors and bringing new writers and approaches to the fore.

If you're religious about your coffee, you're in holy company.

Learn to paint, learn to see--it will change your life.

Challenges the widespread misconception that the American 1950s was a placid decade with a literature to match.

Every bookshop has a storyWe're not talking about rooms that are just full of books.

The first volume of Lewis' masterful biography of David Glasgow Farragut's long career in the U.

First published in 1972, this is the first detailed study of the milieu of the eighteenth-century literary hack and its significance in Augustan literature.

The first English-language history of Japanese literature in one volume, from pre-medieval times to the present.

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This Companion provides an accessible overview of the contexts, periods, and subgenres of English-language short fiction outside of North America.

An ebook compilation of inspirational writings, featuring seven classic works in one high quality, fully searchable edition:The compilation includes:'Mere Christianity'The Screwtape Letters'Surprised by Joy'The Four Loves'The Problem of Pain'The Great Divorce'Miracles'C.

This collection historicises the life and works of George Bernard Shaw through the lens of forty-two popular subjects of study.

Russian literature is most celebrated for its Romantic and modernist poetry and 19th-century novels.

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

Timeless Wisdom is a collection of universal texts for study, meditation, and inspiration, selected by Eknath Easwaran, the originator of passage meditation.

Each Other's Angels: Practicing Personalism in the Catholic Worker Tradition introduces readers to author Toni Flynn's vision of justice and compassion, informed by the Scriptures and inspired by the Catholic Worker Movement of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin.

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally.

First published in 1987.

Ian Rankin is considered by many to be Scotland's greatest living crime fiction author.

First published in 1983, this book focuses on the twentieth-century writer as both a product, and an interpreter, of his or her society.

Thomas Pynchon's fiction has been considered masculinist, misogynist, phallocentric, and pornographic: its formal experimentation, irony, and ambiguity have been taken both to complicate such judgments and to be parts of the problem.

Paradise Lost, possibly the 'most read, most criticized, and most exalted' poem in the English language, has been published more often perhaps in the three hundred years of its existence than any other work of English literature.