Literary reference works

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.

"e;An exhilarating wine book.

This text presents a comprehensive dictionary of characters, places, objects and themes found in the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.

Game of Thrones is a phenomenon.

Now Read On brings together literatures in English from around the world, combining an excellent choice of texts with sound methodological guidance.

The second half of the two-volume history of the Union's and Confederacy's opening moves of the American Civil War's Gettysburg Campaign.

This collection, first published in 1963, includes 29 of George Eliot's essays written between 1846 and 1868.

This three-volume collection brings together the best of C.

The theme for Volume 74 is ''Shakespeare and Education''.

Most observers and historians rarely acknowledge the history of civil rights predating the twentieth-century.

Love at Its Best When Church Is a Mess is a collection of fifteen meditations, drawn from 1 Corinthians 13, perhaps the most well-known passage about love in Holy Scripture, and certainly one of the most beloved passages found anywhere in the English language.

Slow to rise in the literary world, Octavia Estelle Butler cultivated musings on earth's future, reaching massive critical acclaim in the process.

Redemption and Relationship is an edited collection of essays written by Wycliffe College faculty, originating as homilies within the morning prayer chapel service.

This book provides a fresh, revisionary account of American literature before, during, and after the Civil War.

Examine the history of the critique of edited collections, and explores the vital roles they play in collaborative scholarly communication.

Humans are created as dreaming creatures and have been interested in the meaning of their dreams for thousands of years.

Walt Whitman created, in various editions of Leaves of Grass, what is arguably the most influential book of poems anywhere in the past 200 years.

In this study of racial passing literature, Julia S.

This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's AComedy of Errors.

An account of the origins and development of literary criticism in the turbulent seventeenth- and eighteenth-century print marketplace.

Full of true stories more dramatic than any fiction, The Underground Railroad: A Reference Guide offers a fresh, revealing look at the efforts of hundreds of dedicated persons-white and black, men and women, from all walks of life-to help slave fugitives find freedom in the decades leading up to the Civil War.

From Plato to Freud to ecocriticism, the book illustrates dozens of stimulating-and sometimes notoriously complex-perspectives for approaching literature and film.

The Confederate army went to war to defend a nation of slaveholding states, and although men rushed to recruiting stations for many reasons, they understood that the fundamental political issue at stake in the conflict was the future of slavery.

The one-act play stands apart as a distinct art form with some well known writers providing specialist material, among them Bernard Shaw, Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill.

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

Tolkiens Welt in Tausend NamenDieses Standardwerk zur Erforschung Mittelerdes versammelt alle Stichworte von A wie Abendrotsee bis Z wie Zwerge.

Between the end of May and the beginning of August 1864, Lt.

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

Die isländische Literatur hat heute eine zentrale Funktion für die Identitätsstiftung, der Beginn dieses Identitätdiskurses ist bisher jedoch ungeklärt.

Provides an accessible overview of the achievement of Edward Gibbon (1737–94), one of the world''s greatest historians.

In this study, first published in 1983, Professor Smith makes the argument that although The Waste Land is analogous in form to a musical composition that it is actually made of its literary echoes.

"e;A graphic account of the horrors, the brutality and sometimes wanton destruction of warfare, particularly of civil war.

A Companion to Ancient Epic presents for the first time a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of ancient Near Eastern, Greek and Roman epic.

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

First published in 1983, Hugh MacDiarmid: The Terrible Crystal is a detailed introduction to the poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid.

What Persists contains eighteen of the nearly fifty essays on poetry that Judith Kitchen published in The Georgia Review over a twenty-five-year span.

This collection of essays examines the representationof subject cultures in the English novel from the 18thto the 21st century.

À travers l’analyse de près de 500 procédures d’interdiction engagées entre 1820 et 1895, Fous, prodigues et ivrognes examine les interactions entre les acteurs impliqués dans la régulation de la déviance : familles, système judiciaire, institutions asilaires et médecins.

In this book, Abby L.

First published in 1991, this book is the first annotated bibliography of feminist Shakespeare criticism from 1975 to 1988 - a period that saw a remarkable amount of ground-breaking work.

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.

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.

Der Band versammelt empirische Arbeiten aus der fremdsprachlichen Professions-, Ausbildungs- und Fortbildungsforschung und zeigt die derzeitigen Forschungsschwerpunkte in diesem Bereich auf.

The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation shows how antebellum African Americans used the newspaper as a means for translating their belief in black "e;chosenness"e; into plans and programs for black liberation.

Explores connections between the social and political upheavals of the interwar years and British literature in that period.