Literary reference works

In this delightful collection, forty acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read, and what makes them continue to do so.

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.

Nearly eighty years have passed since the Holocaust.

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.

Enrich each day with wisdom from our greatest spiritual thinkers.

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.

This History explores the genealogy of autobiographical writing in England from the medieval period to the digital era.

This collection brings together the best of C.

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.

Wie aus Feinden Freunde wurdenDie Annäherung von Deutschen und Franzosen nach 1945, die Zeitgenossen gerne als ein "Wunder" bezeichnet haben, war nicht nur das Werk großer Staatsmänner und auch nicht nur eine Art Nebenprodukt des "Kalten Krieges".

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

The 72nd in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

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.

There has never been an accurate, comprehensive account of the origin, development, and significance of Balzac's use of recurring characters in the many volumes of the Comedie humaine, although the device is well recognized and such a study has long been deemed essential by Balzac scholars.

Once described as "e;the best crime writer you've never heard of,"e; James Sallis is a largely underexplored figure in contemporary American literature.

Law and Literature presents a comprehensive overview of literature''s critical interest in and historical interactions with ideas of law and justice.

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.

A historian examines how everyday people reacted to the president’s assassination in this “highly original, lucidly written book” (James M.

What is the meaning of a "bestseller" for the history of literature?

Scaffolding fördert die Interaktion von Lerngruppen in besonderem Maße und unterstützt "sichtbares" Lernen von Fremdsprachen.

This Companion examines literary representations of lesbian sexuality, identities, and communities, from the medieval period to the present.

The prophet Jeremiah, mourning his people in the city of Zion, spoke of the balm that could heal them.

Incredibly, until the cusp of the nineteenth century, the word rhythm was not widely used.

Nero und Domitian, die bis heute nicht nur in der Populärkultur als mali principes gelten, sind bislang zumeist einzeln oder im Kontext ihrer eigenen Dynastien untersucht worden.

First published in 1959, Outlines of Classical Literature is a guide for students of English literature who too often come to this difficult and complex subject with little or no knowledge of one of its principal sources.

The Storied South features the voices - by turn searching and honest, coy and scathing - of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thinkers in the American cultural firmament, from Eudora Welty, Pete Seeger, and Alice Walker to William Eggleston, Bobby Rush, and C.

Recommended for viewing on a colour tablet.

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War is a joyful, myth-busting, rebel yell that shatters today's Leftist and demeaning stereotypes about the South and the Civil War.