Literary reference works

Postmodernist literature embraces a wide range of forms and perspectives, including texts that are primarily self-reflexive; texts that use pastiche, burlesque, parody, intertextuality and hybrid forms to create textual realities that either run in opposition to or in parallel with an external reality; fabulations that develop both of these strategies; texts that ironize their relationship to reality; works that use the aspects already noted to more fully engage with political or cultural realities; texts that deal with history as a fiction; and texts that elude categorization even within the variety already explored.

A look into the Beat movement and its art beyond the scope of the lives of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs.

The untold story of South America's most interesting beverageBrewed from the dried leaves and tender shoots of an evergreen tree native to South America, yerba mate gives its drinkers the jolt of liquid effervescence many of us get from coffee or tea.

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Walt Whitman "e;is America,"e; according to Ezra Pound.

First published in 1969.

Illuminates the pleasures and challenges of Shakespeare''s complex language for today''s students, teachers, actors and theatre-goers.

The blending of people and living machines is a central element in the futurist "e;reconstruction of the universe.

Resuscitate your relationship with the BibleA lot of us have tried to read the Bible.

A scholarly edition of the short fiction of Henry James, comprising nine tales including ''The Aspern Papers'' and ''The Liar''.

Scholarship on Italian emigration has generally omitted the Julian-Dalmatians, a group of Italians from Istria and Dalmatia, two regions that, in the wake of World War Two, were ceded by Italy to Yugoslavia as part of its war reparations to that country.

A substantial introduction traces the Tristan and Isolde legend from the twelfth century to the present, emphasizing literary versions, but also surveying the legend's sources and its appearance in the visual arts, music and film.

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

What is (a) play?

This volume offers new insight into the breadth of contexts that inform Philip Roth''s body of work.

Shows how print culture responded to and provided an impulse for social change during tumultuous years of Latin American independence.

Der Band legt ausgewählte Beiträge vor, die auf dem IV.

First published in 1906, this edition of Magnyfycence aimed to highlight the true significance of the play within both the canon of John Skelton's work and English drama.

First published in 1984.

The Poetry Handbook is a lucid and entertaining guide to the poet's craft, and an invaluable introduction to practical criticism for students.

This chief aim of this title, first published in 1965, is to present a comprehensive picture of Yeats's achievement and some of the means for an evaluation of that achievement.

That the works of the ancient tragedians still have an immediate and profound appeal surely needs no demonstration, yet the modern reader continually stumbles across concepts which are difficult to interpret or relate to - moral pollution, the authority of oracles, classical ideas of geography - as well as the names of unfamiliar legendary and mythological figures.

This book, together with A Second Book of Broadsheets makes up an anthology of the 1915 broadsheets distributed by The Times to members of H.

This book, first published in 1988, reveals the great care Dickens took with the planning and preparation of A Tale of Two Cities and its roots.

Leading specialists shed new light on key narrative and thematic features of the writings of Honoré de Balzac.

The Food Almanac II is an annual, seasonal collection of recipes and stories celebrating the joy of food - a dazzling, diverse mix of memoir, history, short stories and poems alongside recipes, cooking tips, menus and reading lists.

This book provides a new map of American literature in the global era, analyzing the multiple meanings of transnationalism.

Containing a wealth of new scholarship and rare primary documents, The Black Jacobins Reader provides a comprehensive analysis of C.

Networks are a category of study that cuts across traditional academic barriers, uniting diverse disciplines.

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

The pocket guide is an adventurer's passport to the land of Narnia.

Arranged in a handy A-Z format, A Dictionary of Tolkien explores and explains the creatures, plants, events and places that make up these strange and wonderful lands.

The desire to engage and confront traumatic subjects was a facet of Irish literature for much of the twentieth century.

Billy Collins "e;puts the 'fun' back in profundity,"e; says poet Alice Fulton.

This book, first published in 1986, explores the allusions in Dickens's work, such as current events and religious and intellectual issues, social customs, topography, costume, furniture and transportation.

The fourteen essays in Food, Texts, and Cultures in Latin America and Spain showcase the eye-opening potential of a food lens within colonial studies, ethnic and racial studies, gender and sexuality studies, and studies of power dynamics, nationalisms and nation building, theories of embodiment, and identity.

This History explores Latin American women''s literature from ancient indigenous cultures to the beginning of the twenty-first century.

This book examines how transition – from forced migration to revolutionary wars – shaped the development of early African American literature.

In his 1837 speech "e;The American Scholar,"e; Ralph Waldo Emerson noted, "e;life is our dictionary,"e; encapsulating a body of work that reached well beyond the American 19th century.

"English Linguistics" is a compact and easy-to-use introductionto English linguistics which- is tailored to the needs of students of English at German,Austrian and Swiss universities,- contains graded exercises to motivate students tocarry out independent research, and- bridges the gap between linguistics and the literaryand cultural-studies components of the typical BA inEnglish Studies.

This book, together with A Book of Broadsheets makes up an anthology of the 1915 broadsheets distributed by The Times to members of H.

In this study of racial passing literature, Julia S.

The Civil War on Film informs high-school and college readers interested in Civil War film history on issues that arise when film viewers confuse entertainment with historical accuracy.

Life-affirming and lyrical writings for inspiration and meditation, from saints and sages of the Christian, Hindu, Sufi, Jewish, Native American, Buddhist, and Taoist traditions.

Abundance from the Desert provides a comprehensive introduction to classical Arabic poetry, one of the richest of poetic traditions.

Super Hero.

Originally published in 1983, D.