Literary reference works

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The work of considering, imagining, and theorizing the U.

There is growing popular and scholarly interest in autobiography, along with increasing regard for the achievements of African American writers.

This book uncovers the 1960s as they were experienced by America''s greatest authors.

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

This bibliography will give comprehensive coverage to published commentary in English on Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition during the period from 1961-1985.

The only book that shows readers how to ask the questions which will make poems to speak to them.

The Sultana was a sidewheel Mississippi steamboat carrying almost two thousand recently-released Union prisoners-of-war back north at the end of the Civil War.

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years.

Robert Browning, the great Victorian poet, is often claimed to be hard to understand, largely on account of the obscurity of his language, the complexity of his thought, and his poetic style.

At the close of the Civil War, it was clear that the military conflict that began in South Carolina and was fought largely east of the Mississippi River had changed the politics, policy, and daily life of the entire nation.

This book debunks popular myths and misconceptions about the American Civil War through primary source documents and shows how misinformation can become so widespread.

These volumes are the first in a series containing works by Erasmus 'that concern literature and education': interests which to him were scarcely separable.

Erich Auerbach (1892-1957) war bis 1935 Professor für Romanische Philologie an der Universität Marburg.

The importance of Chicago in American culture has made the city's place in the American imagination a crucial topic for literary scholars and cultural historians.

Although 2002 MacArthur Fellowship recipient Colson Whitehead ardently resists overarching categorizations of his work, Derek C.

Eminent Japanese and Western scholars provide a concise and accessible overview of Japanese theatre, and its continuing global influence.

James Lee Burke is an acclaimed writer of crime novels in which protagonists battle low-life thugs who commit violent crimes and corporate executives who exploit the powerless.

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

How does Victorian fiction represent personality?

A History of Mexican Literature examines the literary culture of Mexico from its indigenous beginnings to the twenty-first century.

Provides readings, interpretations, and explorations of Whitman in the many contexts through which he charted his life and wrote his texts.

Difficult Reading offers a new approach to formal experimentation in Caribbean literature.

This volume considers texts produced between 1800 and 1830, exploring themes such as print culture, Illustration and the narrative form.

First published in 1909, with a second edition in 1923, this concise and easily accessible overview of Shelley's life and work presents the poet not as popular legend would have it, but in a more objective light.

This Companion offers an introduction to key topics in the study of erotic literature from antiquity to the present.

The Christian faith is difficult--intellectually, morally, and spiritually.

Howcontemporary Cuban writers build transnational communitiesIn Writing Islands, ElenaLahr-Vivaz employs methods from archipelagic studies to analyze works ofcontemporary Cuban writers on the island alongside those in exile.

Understanding an epic story's key belief patterns can reveal community-level values, the nature of familial bonds, and how divine and human concerns jockey for power and influence.

Civil War buffs, be warned: Webb Garrison's Curiosities of the Civil War may catch you off guard.

The American idea,"e; a blend of the Idea of Progress and a belief in the essential goodness of man, has determined the form of much of our significant literature.

Artificial Intelligence meets Gettysburg.

This new edition of the British epistolary novel The History of Lady Louisa Stroud, and the Honourable Miss Caroline Stretton examines the theme of female agency, and is an excellent example of women's writing in the eighteenth-century.

Short narrative texts are good for the language classroom because they are short and narrative.

Jane M.

During the past thirty years, the editors of the Hudson Review have observed a trend among some of the best literary essayists and reviewers to situate their criticism in a deeply personal manner as opposed to the theoretical, technocratic work being produced in many literary and academic publications.

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

This book is a comprehensive survey of the field of Irish women''s poetry across all periods by leading scholars.

Ces vingt dernières années, une nouvelle sémantique de la pauvreté a émergé, qui recouvre de nouvelles réalités.

The first book to analyse cultural dynamics of Chinese migration to Italy, Migration and the Media compares Italian, Chinese migrant, and international media interpretations between 1992 and 2012.

Who has the right to decide how nature is used, and in what ways?

The God Who Comforts is a spiritual reading of Jesus' upper room discipleship sermon.

Examines the varied, enormously sophisticated contents of the Bible and sees how certain Western authors were inspired by them.

This appealing narrative history of one of the Civil War's most pivotal campaigns analyzes how the western Confederate army under John B.

Analyzes Black expressive culture in the 1980s as authors grappled with the contradictory legacies of the civil rights era.

In Literary Writing in the 21st Century an incredible array of today's leading fiction writers, poets, critics, editors, publishers, and booksellers engage in no-holds-barred dialogue about the challenging issues facing writing and publishing today.

Leading historians introduce the most influential trends in thought which originated or developed in the nineteenth century.