Literary reference works

Infamous for authoring two concepts since favored by government powers seeking license for ruthlessness-the utilitarian notion of privileging the greatest happiness for the most people and the panopticon-Jeremy Bentham is not commonly associated with political emancipation.

Dieser Band befasst sich mit sprachtheoretischen Texten Walter Benjamins und widmet sich der Fragestellung, welche Bedeutung und Funktion in diesem Rahmen dem Bildlichen zukommt.

The most up-to-date and detailed introduction to Proust''s life and work available today, including a volume-by-volume study of Proust''s novel.

This Companion offers a thorough overview of the diversity of the American Gothic tradition from its origins to the present.

When in 1902 Owen Wister, a member of the Eastern blueblood aristocracy and friend of novelist Henry James, became a best-selling novelist with the publication of The Virginian, few readers would have guessed that a new kind of American literature was being born.

This work provides a compelling explanation of something that has bedeviled a number of feminist scholars: Why did popular authors like Edna Ferber continue to write conventional fiction while living lives that were far from conventional?

How many layers of artifice can one artwork contain?

This is the second volume of a three volume collection of the correspondence of Caroline Norton, covering the period January 1838-November 1857.

This book explores the dynamics of literary change in the 1990s for American literature.

In the Renaissance period the body emerges as the repository of social and cultural forces and a privileged metaphor for political practices and legal codification.

Der neue KILLY - das ganze Spektrum der deutschsprachigen Literatur
in Geschichte und Gegenwart

Nach umfassender Überarbeitung und Aktualisierung erscheint das Killy Literaturlexikon - Autoren und Werke des deutschsprachigen Kulturraums bei Walter de Gruyter neu.

'Your whole life depends on the next beat of Henry's heart'Ahead of the release of The Mirror & the Light, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall Trilogy, revisit two of the most celebrated novels of our time.

The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century, the Penn Commentary places the allegorical dream-vision of Piers Plowman within the literary, historical, social, and intellectual contexts of late medieval England, and within the long history of critical interpretation of the poem, assessing past scholarship while offering original materials and insights throughout.

Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama is the most complete sourcebook for the study of this growing area of inquiry.

In this fascinating and revealing book, first published in 1952, Maxwell shows the development of Eliot's poetry and poetic thought in the light of his political and religious attachments.

Drawing on anthropology, philology, linguistics, history, archaeology, cultural and literary studies, this book presents and synthesizes the best Homeric research available.

This book traces how trauma theory has come to constitute a discrete but influential approach within literary criticism.

Shortlisted for the Kenshur Prize for Best Book in Eighteenth-Century Studies from the Indiana University Center for Eighteenth-Century StudiesFrom Jonathan Swift to Washington Irving, those looking to propose and justify exceptions to social and political norms turned to Cervantes's notoriously mad comic hero as a model.

Essential reading on the writing and development of American poetry from its beginnings to the end of the twentieth century.

In this generous collection of book reviews and literary essays, legendary Village Voice rock critic Robert Christgau showcases the passion that made him a critic-his love for the written word.

Bergsonian "e;vitalism"e; challenged the dominance of Spencerian determinism in the early twentieth century and seemed to offer a new foundation for belief in human freedom and individual possibility.

First published in French in 1988, and in English in 1992, this companion explores the nature of the literary myth in a collection of over 100 essays, from Abraham to Zoroaster.

An essential handbook for literary studiesThe Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms-drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics-provides an authoritative guide to the most important terms in the study of poetry and literature.

Este es un libro erudito y novedoso, en tanto es sustancialmente transdisciplinario y juega en los límites de las formas de escritura: usa formas discursivas del canon científico, y también echa mano de las estrategias textuales de la literatura.

The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century is inaugurated with the publication of the first two of its five projected volumes.

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.

Places Mark Twain in the literary, historical, and cultural contexts of his time.

This volume is an essential supplement to Pastoral poetry of the English Renaissance: An anthology (2016).

Offers a radically new picture of the ''long 1930s'', describing it as a pivot of twentieth-century literary and cultural production.

The Storied South features the voices--by turn searching and honest, coy and scathing--of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thinkers in the American cultural firmament, from Eudora Welty, Pete Seeger, and Alice Walker to William Eggleston, Bobby Rush, and C.

How does Victorian fiction represent personality?

The Routledge Anthology of Poets on Poets collects together writings by all the major poetic figures from Chaucer to Yeats demonstrating their vivid responses to each other, ranging from elegiac eulogy to burlesque and satire.

First published in 1916, The Textual Tradition of Chaucer's Troilus compares the best unprinted manuscripts of Chaucer's Troilus with the printed texts.

Choice Outstanding Academic TitleA Curious Peril examines the prose penned by modernist writer H.

The dandy, a nineteenth-century character and concept exemplified in such works as Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, reverberates in surprising corners of twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture.

First published in 1952.

Garden writing is not just a place to find advice about roses and rutabagas; it also contains hidden histories of desire, hope, and frustration and tells a story about how Americans have invested grand fantasies in the common soil of everyday life.

Critics agree in the abstract that "e;metafiction"e; refers to any novel that draws attention to its own fictional construction, but metafiction has been largely associated with the postmodern era.

Featuring three original and 14 classic essays, this volume examines literary representations of women in Arthuriana and how women artists have viewed them.

A broad survey of Irish literature''s environmental focus, this book shows the significance of narratives in addressing the climate crisis.

Sie sind Eltern oder Angehörige eines kleinen Kindes, Omi oder Opa einer Rasselbande?

This book is about what does not happen in the Victorian novel.

The letters in this book, first published in 1953, throw light on the literary scene at a time in which William Butler Yeats and Thomas Sturge Moore regularly corresponded.

The undisputed "e;Queen of Crime,"e; Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is the bestselling novelist of all time.

This book presents original essays that explore the eclecticism of Harlem Renaissance literature and culture.

Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie Kinder mit unterschiedlichen Herkunftssprachen (Russisch, Niederländisch) im Vergleich zu einsprachig aufwachsenden deutschsprachigen Kindern semantische Rollenrelationen im Satz bestimmen.