Literary reference works

Conspiracy Theories in the United States and the Middle East is the first book to approach conspiracy theorizing from a decidedly comparative and interdisciplinary perspective.

This book outlines the cultural and historical contexts in which crime fiction participates, surveying the ideas animating its study today.

In this book, Fran O’Rourke examines the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James Joyce, arguing that both thinkers fundamentally shaped the philosophical outlook which pervades the author’s oeuvre.

This Dictionary is part of the Oxford Reference Collection: using sustainable print-on-demand technology to make the acclaimed backlist of the Oxford Reference programme perennially available in hardback format.

Winner of the 2013 Eudora Welty PrizeEudora Welty and Surrealism surveys Welty's fiction during the most productive period of her long writing life.

Zusammen liest man weniger allein.

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

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.

During histhirty-eight-year career as a military officer, Henry Clay Merriam received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Civil War, rose to prominence in the Western army, and exerted significant influence on the American West by establishing military posts, protecting rail lines, and maintaining an uneasy peace between settlers and Indians.

From the 1950s to the 1970s, the idea of independence inspired radical changes across the French-speaking world.

Zola has begun to receive the serious critical study he deserves, but which, chiefly for religious and political resons, has until recent years been denied.

Accessible essays place Kafka in historical, political and cultural context, providing new and often unexpected perspectives on his works.

A collection of approaches to the work of an essential black American author who is just as relevant now as he was during his turbulent heyday.

Die vorliegende Studie ist die erste Monographie über das gesamte Erzählwerk Cécile Wajsbrots.

Presents lucid and exemplary critical essays, introducing readers to J.

The written word is one of the defining elements of Christian experience.

In these changing times of global flows of media and technologies and reports of declining reading enjoyment, researchers, policymakers and educators need to engage anew with essential issues of what counts as reading, what kinds of reading matter and how to support teen reading engagement in school and out-of-school settings.

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

This biography of George Brinton McClellan Jr.

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

Autonomes Lernen im Fremdsprachenunterricht wird in dieser Studie aus einer interaktionalen Sicht betrachtet.

Although often overlooked today, James Fenimore Cooper's novels represent the very beginnings of American literature.

This title was originally published in 1951.

Featuring essays written by an international team of experts, this Companion maps the dynamic literary landscape of the American South.

This book provides an indispensable map to explore the pivotal contexts, shaping events, and enduring concerns of Roberto Bolaño.

Brings together experts who inform new readings of Ted Hughes''s work, with a new awareness of his posthumous importance.

An authoritative and lively account of the development of the genre, by leading experts in the field.

The first complete scholarly edition of Hardy''s novel, with authoritative text, full apparatus, and rich explanatory materials.

In twenty-one interviews spanning nearly half a century, Conversations with Ted Kooser chronicles the Nebraska writer's rise from a regional poet of the Great Plains to a Pulitzer Prize-winning artistic luminary.

First published in 1975, this book places Elizabeth Gaskell amongst the major novelists of the nineteenth-century.

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

An indispensable guide for anyone who runs or participates in a book group, this title provides the structure and fun facts needed to examine the genre of women's fiction.

Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods with traditional analysis across four hundred years of Latin literature, from mid-republican Rome in the second century BC to the Second Sophistic in the second century AD.

This book is the first and only systematic, broad study of the history and character of American working-class literature.

First published in 1977, this book looks at the versatile literary form of dramatic monologue.

In April 1865, as the Civil War came to a close, Abraham Lincoln announced his support for voting rights for at least some of the newly freed enslaved people.

Mistakes, disappointments, suffering, and heartbreak can prevent us from growing physically, emotionally, even spiritually, or they can propel us to a new way of life.

This book illustrates African American writers'' cultural production and political engagement despite the economic precarity of the 1930s.

Seeking to live a Christian life in this American society can often evoke a wide range of emotions, and the precipitation sometimes looks like poetry.

Literary criticism today is dominated by the debate about whether texts have a fixed identity with established meaning or a variable identity with changing meaning.

This volume traces transitions in British literature from 1960 to 1980, illuminating a range of authors, texts, genres and movements.