Literary reference works

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.

The Civil War transformed American life.

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.

Following the death of her best friend since high school, a religion professor re-examines her own personal beliefs about god.

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.

Psalms for the Poor talk back to the blunt and beautiful phrases of the King James Bible.

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.

The Civil War was primarily a land conflict, but it was not only that.

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.

Nationalism in nineteenth-century America operated through a collection of symbols, signifiers citizens could invest with meaning and understanding.

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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.

First published in 1980.

Borrowing its title from Oscar Wilde's essay "e;The Decay of Lying,"e; this study engages questions of fraudulent authorship in the literary afterlife of Oscar Wilde.

In this study, first published in 1951, the author examines the poetry of Yeats's last years, that poetry which reached and held to the 'intensity' which he had striven for all his life.

Samuel Beckett''s Geological Imagination addresses the ubiquity of earthy objects in Beckett''s prose, drama and poetry.

A volume of early critical intervention into the features of contemporary Irish and Northern Irish authors, writing, and cultural practice.

First published in 1954, this title is a companion to The Anatomy of Poetry as a literary guide for the student reader.

"e;I remember more hymns than I do sermons.

Challenging the widely-held assumption that Slavoj Zizek's work is far more germane to film and cultural studies than to literary studies, this volume demonstrates the importance of Zizek to literary criticism and theory.

The basis of this critical examination of Eliot's work, first published in 1973, is the investigation of his transmutation of this and other philosophical, mythological and religious motives into the textures of his verse.

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare is the most comprehensive reference work available on Shakespeare's life, times, works, and his 400-year global legacy.

This book is a comprehensive single-volume history of literature in the two major languages of Wales from post-Roman to post-devolution Britain.

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.

All autobiographers are unreliable narrators.

First published in 1991.

These diaries and family letters reveals the experiences of Senator Benjamin Tillman's brother as a Confederate captain during and after the Civil War.

A detailed account of the pivotal decision made by a young army commander to march to Decatur, and the consequential combat that ensued.

This book illustrates how rigid ideas about gender have perpetuated a legacy of violence and exclusion in the United States.

Comparing second generation children of immigrants in black Canadian and black British women's writing, Settling Down and Settling Up extends discourses of diaspora and postcolonialism by expanding recent theory on movement and border crossing.

This book attests to the unique development of modernism in Ireland - driven by political as well as artistic concerns.

Most academic and therapeutic programs do not include spirituality and God as essential components of health and treatment.

Das gehäufte Zusammentreffen von Kulturen hat den Forschungsraum verändert.