Literary reference works

This title, first published in 1960, is intended primarily to increase the understanding of drama among those who do not have easy access to the live theatre and who, therefore, study plays mainly in print.

At the heart of all Ben Jonson's nondramatic poetry, argues Michael McCanles, lies the concept of true nobility.

Walt Whitman has long been regarded as the quintessential American bard, the poet who best represents all that is distinctive about life in the United States.

Provide your mystery fans with background information on their favorite writers and series characters, and use this as a guide for adding contemporary titles to your collections.

This comprehensive reference begins with an introductory chapter that overviews Flaubert's life and career.

In this book, Glenn Hendler explores what he calls the "e;logic of sympathy"e; in novels by Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, T.

A unique reference book for all fans of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel, A Dance to the Music of Time, which has become a literary landmark of twentieth-century writing.

Describes how interwar modernism responded to the global crisis in the liberal world order after 1919.

Literary fashions come and go, but some hang around longer than others, like Gothic literature which has existed ever since The Castle of Otranto in 1764.

2021 war das Jahr der privaten Raumfahrt: Jeff Bezos und Richard Branson haben bereits ihren ersten Flug hinter sich, ebenso William Shatner alias Captain Kirk.

An examination of an important campaign between these two generals that set the scene for the pending war.

George Washington Gayle is not a name known to history.

Presents the final volume of the seven-volume Cambridge History of the Book in Britain series, focusing on the twentieth century and beyond.

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

With a Preface and biographies from Jack Zipes, as well as the original illustrations by Violet Brunton, this collection of fairy tales originally published by the award-winning Romer Wilson - Green Magic (1928), Silver Magic (1929), and Red Magic (1930) - offers a combination of classic fairy tales, alongside lesser-known, global and diverse tales.

Investigates selected Beckett works presenting worlds where the human does not occupy a privileged place in the order of creation.

Published to great acclaim in 2006, the hardcover edition of Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape met with outstanding reviews and strong sales, going into three printings.

First published in 1925, Primitive Culture in Greece dispassionately reviews the claim that the Greeks were 'heathen' and asks how much of the savage ancestry was left in the classical Greek.

"e;Presents Custer's Civil War accomplishments in clear and engaging prose, while its ample images and battle maps place unfamiliar readers in the action.

Starting with Salman Rushdie's assertion that even though something is always lost in translation, something can always be gained, Martha Cutter examines the trope of translation in twenty English-language novels and autobiographies by contemporary ethnic American writers.

Der Band beschäftigt sich mit Manifestationen der Mehrsprachigkeit und Ausdrucksformen des 'Fremden' in deutschsprachigen literarischen Texten - am Beispiel von Terézia Moras Werken.

“This study goes beyond the military aspects to examine the psychological and emotional impacts on the participants, both military and civilian.

First published in 1902, this volume was edited from the unique manuscript, Laud Misc.

The theme for Shakespeare Survey 66 is ''Working with Shakespeare''.

This second edition, including some new chapters, provides a revised introduction to all aspects of George Eliot''s writing.

A survey of 200 years of Irish writing, this book offers analytic accounts of key Irish works and authors.

Originalia- Viviana Ballaera: Klasse(n) Geschmack!

Offers a timely introduction to the intersection of radical politics and American literature in the period of the Great Depression.

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

Rising up from the heart of the Mediterranean, Sicily has a rich and ancient history spanning over 2,000 years.

This study explores Hemingway's newspaper and magazine journalism, his introductions and prefaces to books by others, his program notes on painting and sculpture exhibitions, and his statements in self-edited interviews.

Imagine a world without Principia Mathematica, Rights of Man, the Bible, Shakespeare, or the Mahabharata.

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.

Renaissance Woman: A Sourcebook is an invaluable collection of accounts of women and femininity in early modern England.

Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare's play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company production in 1991.

This Companion provides an accessible overview of the contexts, periods, and subgenres of English-language short fiction outside of North America.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE A major new history of Britain that transforms our understanding of this country's past'I've waited so long so read a comprehensively researched book about Black history on this island.

Once you recall that Miss Thistlebottom was your elementary-school teacher who laid down all manner of taboos concerning the use of language, you will have an idea of what this book is about.

Provides a rich and varied reference resource, illuminating the different contexts for Chaucer and his work.

"e;A reliable guide to what science fiction is"e; Christopher Priest, award-winning science fiction author"e;A really good introduction to the genre"e; SFX Magazine"e;Perceptive and glorious"e; Ian Watson, author of the screenplay for Steve Spielberg's A.

These diaries and family letters reveals the experiences of Senator Benjamin Tillman's brother as a Confederate captain during and after the Civil War.

How do twenty-first century theatre practitioners negotiate the dynamics of tradition and innovation across the works of Samuel Beckett?

You are holding a collection of short stories that reveal how every aspect of life takes a particular dimension when considered from the perspective of faith in relationship with everyday experiences.

First published in 1998.

The first anthology to provide a synthesis of recent scholarship on how time shapes our thinking about literature.

Ann Blainey's work, first published in 1985, provides a sensitive study of Leigh Hunt and the literary climate that influenced his life, and fills a large gap in literary biography.