Literary reference works

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

The city''s literature is explored in this volume, which reveals a metropolis in a constant state of movement.

This collection of essays offers a dynamic reconsideration of the places, times, and influences that made Seamus Heaney a poet.

With the decline of formalism and its predilection for Old English poetry, Old English prose is leaving the periphery and moving into the center of literary and cultural discussion.

It showcases how posthumanism has transformed the humanities and what new work is now possible in light of this unsettling.

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

Die mythische Figur Athamas ist in die Literaturgeschichte als Prototyp des durch die Götter mit Wahnsinn gestraen Menschen eingegangen: Er tötet seinen Sohn Learchos, verfolgt seine Frau Ino und seinen anderen Sohn Melikertes und zwingt sie dazu, sich ins Meer zu stürzen.

This History explores the genealogy of modern American verse by women from the early twentieth century to the millennium.

Study of the sea--both in terms of human interaction with it and its literary representation--has been largely ignored by ecocritics.

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.

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.

This companion to Victorian popular fiction includes more than 300 cross-referenced entries on works written for the British mass market.

Shakespeare's Books contains nearly 200 entries covering the full range of literature Shakespeare was acquainted with, including classical, historical, religious and contemporary works.

The Victorian Era saw a revolution in communication technology.

This volume in the Arthurian Characters and Themes series treats the fascinating character of Perceval, the naive and flawed but gifted youth who becomes the Grail hero in some texts and yet is eclipsed in others by Galahad.

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.

"e;A book club gives the opportunity to meet up with friends andwake the brain up a bit with lively and often quite aggressivediscussion"e; Dawn FrenchHow do you keep your reading groups discussions lively andfocussed?

Examining the novels of Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, and other writers, June Howard presents a study of American literary naturalism as a genre.

First published in 1995, this title provides the reader with a compendium of useful information for any reader of George Herbert to have at hand.

Writers in Brazil and Mexico discovered early on that speculative fiction provides an ideal platform for addressing the complex issues of modernity, yet the study of speculative fictions rarely strays from the United States and England.

Explores a major eighteenth-century narrative and the power of the Crusoe figure beyond the pages of the original book.

For nearly half a century, James D.

This History presents a comprehensive history of Jewish American literature from its origins to the present day.

This book provides a fresh, revisionary account of American literature before, during, and after the Civil War.

Cormac McCarthy in Context places the author''s work within a host of influences that serve to illuminate his dense work.

In this intellectual history of American liberalism during the second half of the nineteenth century, Leslie Butler examines a group of nationally prominent and internationally oriented writers who sustained an American tradition of self-consciously progressive and cosmopolitan reform.

Saul Bellow is one of the twentieth century's most influential, respected, and honored writers.

Offers the first comprehensive survey of literature by women in Ireland from the seventeenth century to the present day.

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

The city''s literature is explored in this volume, which reveals a metropolis in a constant state of movement.

Poetry, Politics, and the Law in Modern Ireland is a richly detailed exploration of how modern Irish poetry has been shaped by, and responded to, the laws, judgments, and constitutions of both of the island's jurisdictions.

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.

Anthony Trollope's novels and stories entertain while vividly bringing the Victorian era to life.

Showcases the diversity and rich complexity of literature in Ireland in the eighteenth century.

Latin America's Indigenous writers have long labored under the limits of colonialism, but in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, they have constructed a literary corpus that moves them beyond those parameters.

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.

This book explores traditional approaches to the play, which includes an examination of the play in light of current history, in the context of Renaissance England, and in relation to Shakespeare's other Roman plays as well as structural examination of plot, language, character, and source material.

Full edition of the only complete poetic text from the fourth century BC, emphasising its intertextual engagement with its models.

Leading scholars provide illuminating and engaging perspectives on a long neglected, yet incredibly eventful, period (1930-1965) of Asian American literature.

American literary nationalism is traditionally understood as a cohesive literary tradition developed in the newly independent United States that emphasized the unique features of America and consciously differentiated American literature from British literature.

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

A new collection of essays that offers exciting new critical approaches to the most famous vampire in literature and film.

Le recueil à paraitre compte une vingtaine de contributionsprésentées lors du colloque du CIR 17 tenu à Toronto en mai 2014 sur le thème de l'allégorie.

First published in 1988, this reissue is an important work in the field of national literary exchange.

Offers penetrating, original analyses of the literature of 1660–1714 in relation to generic, ideological, cultural, and local transitions.

Historians have long understood that books were important to the British army in defining the duties of its officers, regulating tactics, developing the art of war, and recording the history of campaigns and commanders.

This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions.