Literary reference works

La première pièce d´Antoine Houdar de la Motte (1672 - 1731), Les Originaux ou l´Italien, fut représentée le 13 aout 1693, à l´Hotel de Bourgogne.

'Bluebeard,' the tale of a sadistic husband who murders his wives and locks away their bodies, has inspired hundreds of adaptations since it first appeared in 1697.

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.

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

An expert survey of historical writing in medieval Britain and Ireland, introducing readers to a rich subfield of medieval literature.

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

First published in 1991.

In this book, Stephanie J.

Everyone who provides services to older adults believes in the biomedical model that addresses the body, mind, and spirit of their clients.

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

The Book of Sirach raises many questions: philological, exegetical, literary, historical, theological.

The first major collection of essays to provide a comprehensive examination of the British literature of the French Revolution.

This volume offers new insight into the contextual background and literary-historical impact of Norman Mailer''s body of work.

The theme for Volume 75 is ''Othello''.

Once upon a time all literature was fantasy, set in a mythical past when magic existed, animals talked, and the gods took an active hand in earthly affairs.

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

Beispielloser Überblick über die gesamte deutschschweizer LiteraturentwicklungDie bisher einzige zusammenfassende Darstellung der gesamten Literaturentwicklung in der Deutschschweiz nach dem Tod Gottfried Kellers 1890 verbindet die Beschreibung des literarischen Lebens mit der Vorstellung einzelner Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller wie Robert Walser, Adolf Muschg, Urs Widmer oder Peter Bichsel und der wichtigsten Werke in den verschiedenen literarischen Gattungen.

Analyzes Black expressive culture in the 1980s as authors grappled with the contradictory legacies of the civil rights era.

The widespread opinion is that Northrop Frye's influence reached its zenith in the 1960s and 1970s, after which point he became obsolete, his work buried in obscurity.

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.

Examines how seventeenth-century literature engaged with - expressed, shaped, and was influenced by - the tumultuous period in which it was composed.

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

The detailed and wide-ranging Penn Commentary on "e;Piers Plowman"e; places the allegorical dream-vision of the poem within the literary, historical, social, and intellectual contexts of late medieval England, and within the long history of critical interpretation of the work, assessing past scholarship while offering original materials and insights throughout.

This volume examines the concerns – political, literary, and identity-based – of contemporary Asian American literatures in neoliberal times.

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.

Wie lässt sich über Geschichte schreiben, wenn diese zuverlässig nicht mehr zur Verfügung steht?

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.

Baltimore native Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) was an essayist, literary critic, magazine editor, novelist, and journalist.

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.

Der für den heutigen Wertekanon zentrale Begriff der Menschenwürde wird zwar kontrovers diskutiert, bleibt aber unscharf.

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.

Drawing on anthropology, philology, linguistics, history, archaeology, cultural and literary studies, this book presents and synthesizes the best Homeric research available.

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.