Literary reference works

How have African American writers drawn on "e;bad"e; black men and black boys as creative touchstones for their evocative and vibrant art?

Der Band enthält teilweise grundlegend überarbeitete und aktualisierte Aufsätze von Otto Kaiser, dem Herausgeber der Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, aus den Jahren 1992-2002.

In addition to being a poet, fiction writer, playwright, and essayist, Langston Hughes was also a globe-trotting cosmopolitan, travel writer, translator, avid international networker, and-perhaps above all-pan-Africanist.

When your faith no longer works, and the catch phrases and Christianese that got you to where you are cannot take you past your current crisis, what do you do?

The confidence man held a fascination for Melville, Hawthorne, Howells, Johnson J.

The first one-volume history of Canadian fiction covering its growth and development from earliest times to the present day.

Offering comprehensive coverage for those examining Civil War propaganda, this volume provides a broad analysis of efforts by both Union and Confederate sides to influence public opinion of America's deadliest conflict.

This is a guide for spiritual mountain climbers.

For years May I Have This Dance?

First published in 1900, this volume was edited from a unique 1440 A.

With the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Japan opened its doors to the West and underwent remarkable changes as it sought to become a modern nation.

Oz Clarke is recognized the world over as one of the leading experts on wine and this new book, Oz Clarke's World of Wine, is an entertaining yet authoritative guide to the world of wine that has grown out of all recognition in the last 20 years.

The Battle of Gettysburg's first day featured pivotal decisions amidst fierce fighting and high stakes.

Challenging the assumption that modernist writer Gertrude Stein seldom integrated her Jewish identity and heritage into her work, this book uncovers Stein's constant and varied writing about Jewish topics throughout her career.

A wide-ranging and beautiful collection of essays from one of world literatures most important writers.

Nobel laureate Elias Canetti wrote his novel Auto-da-Fe (Die Blendung) when he and the twentieth century were still quite young.

By providing detailed analyses of Civil War primary sources, this book will help readers to understand the history of the bloodiest of all American conflicts.

French Ecocritique is the first book-length study of the culturally specific ways in whicha contemporary French literature and theory raise questions about nature and environment.

Challenges canonical accounts with writings and critical perspectives that emphasize the social complexity and cultural multiplicity of Caribbean writings.

What does it mean to be Ukrainian in contemporary Canada?

The first book to examine terrorism in global literature since the Renaissance, in new essays by historians and literary critics.

Psychoanalysis and Narrative analyzes narrative in literary fiction, film, and autobiography through different psychoanalytic lenses including gender and socio-cultural perspectives.

Despite the vigorous study of modern American fiction, today's readers are only familiar with a partial shelf of a vast library.

Why are Emily Dickinson and Henry James drawn habitually to dashes?

Is there an answer for suffering?

To Virginia Woolf, London was a source of creative inspiration, a setting for many of her works, and a symbol of the culture in which she lived and wrote.

The book explores transitions in Latin American literature to demonstrate the dynamism of literature and politics in the mid-twentieth century.

More than just a book of definitions, the dictionary provides a comprehensive account of Shakespeare's portrayal of military life, tactics, and technology.

The Cacophony of Politics charts the trajectory of the Democratic Party as the party of opposition in the North during the Civil War.

Explores the place of the concept of climate in literature from the classical age to the contemporary.

The canon of modern fantasy is in flux: this Element examines key questions raised by the fantasy canon.

A survey of 200 years of Irish writing, this book offers analytic accounts of key Irish works and authors.

With expert analysis, All That Can Be Expected sheds light on the fateful events of August 16, 1780 that marked the turning point of Great Britain's prospects for victory in the American Revolutionary War.

Best Nineteenth-Century Book Award Winner, 2018, Latin American Studies Association Nineteenth-Century Section Moral electricitya term coined by American transcendentalists in the 1850s to describe the force of nature that was literacy and education in shaping a greater society.

The Dooleys of Richmond is the biography of two generations of a dynamic and philanthropic immigrant family in the urban South.

First published in 1971.

This is an accessible, path-breaking, and carefully-curated Companion written by leading scholars of the American Civil War and Reconstruction.

Scarlett O'Hara munched on a radish and vowed never to go hungry again.

Is your creative writing in need of inspiration?

American women novelists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries registered a call for a new sexual freedom, Dale Bauer contends.

Learning is the soul of our species.

This Companion features thirteen essays from leading international experts on William Carlos Williams, covering his major poetry and prose works.

Deciding what to read next when you've just finished an unputdownable novel can be a daunting task.

Based on comparative readings of contemporary books from Latin America, Spain, and the United States, the essays in this book present a radical critique against strategies of literary appropriation that were once thought of as neutral, and even concomitant, components of the writing process.