Literary reference works

Originally published in 1975, E.

In the last twenty years, Orthodox Catholics have come to expect their art to be necessarily about beauty.

Would it surprise you to learn that there was a contemporary of Ernest Hemingway's who, in his romantic questing and hell-or-high-water pursuit of life and his art, was closer to the Hemingwayesque ideal than Hemingway himself?

First published in 1905, these two volumes together reproduced the text of Rawlinson MS.

The Great Famine radically transformed Ireland; nearly one million people of the rural countryside died, and the eviction of farmers led to massive emigration.

Suck-up.

Das Buch analysiert aus einer sprach- und kulturvergleichenden Perspektive Anmoderationen wissenschaftlicher Tagungsvorträge im Chinesischen und Deutschen.

Der Band bachelor-wissen Italienische Literaturwissenschaft richtet sich als leserfreundliche Einführung speziell an die Studierenden und Lehrenden in den literaturwissenschaftlichen Modulen der neuen italienzentrierten Bachelor-Studiengänge.

Frames a generically and culturally diverse literary portrait of the early USA, unsettling narratives of incipient national unity.

Praise for Arthur Krystal:"e;Arthur Krystal's essays shine like a searchlight through the fog of contemporary culture.

In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain, captivity emerged as a persistent metaphor as well as a material reality.

Drawing on the latest scholarship and criticism, this new Companion provides an authoritative, accessible introduction to Eliot''s complete oeuvre.

In these turbulent times we need a strong anchor.

Originally published in 1983, D.

Explores 1930s authors, genres, and contexts, giving fresh attention to well-known authors and bringing new writers and approaches to the fore.

Englisch ist die de facto Weltwissenschaftssprache.

Hedrick examines London's inner life, primarily as it is revealed in his art, to discover the man concealed beneath the public persona.

Winner2022 College Language Association Book Prize Finalist2024 African Literature Associations Best Scholarly Book Award Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebeauthor of Things Fall Apart, one of the towering works of twentieth-century fictionis considered the father of modern African literature.

This interpretive dictionary introduces the critical and theoretical world of distinguished literary and cultural critic Edward W.

Author John Raub's twenty-eight years as a monk changed him, sharpening his eye to see more deeply into situations with a perspective that welcomes debate, for controversy invites thought.

How did white Southerners in the nineteenth century reconcile a Christian faith that instructed them to turn the other cheek with a pervasive code of honor that instructed them to do just the opposite-to demand satisfaction for perceived insults?

Cristoforo Landinos Xandra-Elegien gehören zu den wichtigsten literarischen Schätzen der italienischen Renaissance.

The importance of the Civil War and Reconstruction in the history of the United States cannot be overstated.

This literary guide leads students with advanced knowledge of Russian as well as experienced scholars through the text of Nikolai Gogol's absurdist masterpiece "e;The Nose.

First published in 1988.

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

New fully annotated edition of Bickerstaff papers, ''Polite Conversation'', ''Directions to Servants'' and other works by Jonathan Swift.

The Civil War tends to be remembered as a vast sequence of battles, with a turning point at Gettysburg and a culmination at Appomattox.

This book examines newspapers, magazines, photographs, illustrations, and editorial cartoons to tell the important story of journalism, documenting its role during the Civil War as well as the impact of the war on the press.

We live in the era of dialogue, an era Leonard Swidler helped birth.

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.

WHAT MAKES A CULT WRITER?

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.

First published in 1907, the publication of these Middle-English texts aimed to make the dramatic Harrowing of Hell and Gospel of Nicodemus easily accessible to students of English literature.

First published in 1954, A Handbook of Latin Literature is an attempt to put together a cohesive account of classical and early post-classical writings in the Latin tongue, and is a companion to the Handbook of Greek Literature.

Although the United States prides itself as a nation of diversity, the country that boasts of its immigrant past also wrestles with much of its immigrant present.

The Beat Generation was a group of writers who rejected cultural standards, experimented with drugs, and celebrated sexual liberation.

With the publication of the 1619 Project by The New York Times in 2019, a growing number of Americans have become aware that Africans arrived in North America before the Pilgrims.

This volume offers exciting new approaches to the historical contexts, global coordinates, and present reverberations of antebellum American literature.

In this edition of his widely acclaimed study, Marion B.

Discusses how Orientalism, a key critical concept in literary studies, has evolved and assists our reading of literature.

The importance of the Civil War and Reconstruction in the history of the United States cannot be overstated.

First published in 1988, this reissue is an important work in the field of national literary exchange.

With the decline of formalism and its predilection for Old English poetry, Old English prose is leaving the periphery and moving into the center of literary and cultural discussion.

The Ave Treasury of Catholic Prayers is an indispensable keepsake of classic and contemporary prayers that every Catholic should know.

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.