Literary reference works

Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays is the essential Sonnets anthology for our time.

Gale considers the imagery in all of the 135 novels and short stories of Henry James and presents what may well be the first extensive treatment of figurative language in the complete works of any novelist.

First published in 1988, this annotated selection of Wilfred Owen's poetry and prose provides a comprehensive one-volume text of his best work.

Ulysses is one of the foundational texts of modern literature, yet has a reputation for complexity and controversy.

Following the death of her best friend since high school, a religion professor re-examines her own personal beliefs about god.

Recounts the often-overlooked fight that secured the Union position and set the stage for the Gettysburg battle's fateful final day.

Das vorliegende Buch steckt die Möglichkeiten der Theoriebildung in der Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ab.

Crucible of the Civil War offers an illuminating portrait of the state's wartime economic, political, and social institutions.

The second volume in the new academic series SELT (Studies in English Language Teaching) is also divided into three parts: A.

Explores a wide range of affects, affect theory, and literature to consolidate a fresh understanding of literary affect.

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War is a joyful, myth-busting, rebel yell that shatters today's Leftist and demeaning stereotypes about the South and the Civil War.

This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies.

Different international relations theorists have studied political change, but all fall short of sufficiently integrating human reactions, feelings, and responses to change in their theories.

The product of over thirty years of research on the American Civil War by Italy's most renowned authority on the subject, this study synthetically analyzes the great drama that from 1861 to 1865 devastated the United States and gave life to the modern American nation.

A fresh, accessible and authoritative study that conveys the richness and diversity of Irish poets, their lives and times.

Für Theodor Fontanes Werk und Leben liegt derzeit keine umfassend angelegte Publikation vor, die den aktuellen Stand der Forschung für das Gesamtwerk (einschließlich der Texte aus dem Nachlass) auf Basis des aktuellen Stands der Editionen aufarbeiten würde.

This book surveys the textual representation of Cuthbert, the premier northern English saint, from the seventh to fifteenth centuries.

Examining the novels of Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, and other writers, June Howard presents a study of American literary naturalism as a genre.

To Virginia Woolf, London was a source of creative inspiration, a setting for many of her works, and a symbol of the culture in which she lived and wrote.

Surveys historical, systematic and practical perspectives on literary authorship, offering a multi-layered account of authorship as a cultural phenomenon.

The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on Shakespeare and performance studies by an international team of leading scholars.

This book revaluates American literary culture through the lens of historical climate representations, as well as recent climate science.

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

In Vintage Living Texts teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Margaret Atwood.

Keine andere Revolution hat so viel Hoffnungen geweckt und enttäuscht wie die kubanische.

This collection presents-through the medium of translated sources-a comprehensive guide to the development of hagiography and the cult of the saints in western Christendom during the middle ages.

Four score and seven years ago .

In a compelling approach structured as theme and variations, Barbara Sicherman offers insightful profiles of a number of accomplished women born in America's Gilded Age who lost--and found--themselves in books, and worked out a new life purpose around them.

Theodora, A Novel by Dorothea Du Bois, published in 1770, is an entertaining and frequently shocking tale of a young woman's efforts to regain her position in high society after her aristocratic father's abandonment of and denial of marriage to her mother.

It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring.

Die Komplexe Dynamische Evaluation (KDE) generiert Daten zur Verbesserung des universitären Fremdsprachenunterrichts und fördert die selbstreflexiven Kompetenzen der Lehrenden und Studierenden.

Explores Batman's entire career, with full details of his breathtaking adventures and battles, resolute allies, chequered love life, and formidable Rogues Gallery.

“Focuses on the extensive contributions to the pyrrhic Confederate victory at Chickamauga made by the brave Lone Star State soldiers.

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

This biography of George Brinton McClellan Jr.

Founded by Vladimir Lenin in 1919 to instigate a world revolution, the Comintern sought to advance not only the proletarian struggle but also a wide variety of radical causes, including fighting against imperialism and racism in settings as varied as Ireland, India, the United States, and China.

Melville's Other Lives is the first book-length study on The Piazza Tales-Herman Melville's only authorized collection of short fiction published in his lifetime-and the first book to explore the rich and varied subject of embodiment in any published collection of Melville's stories.

This book introduces readers to early American literary studies through original readings of key literary texts.

Dieser Band setzt die Reihe von Interpretationen großer Werke der Literatur fort, die aus einer Ringvorlesung an der Universität Augsburg entstanden ist.

Farley's Transcendence and Fulfillment captures one's immediate attention, especially with his designation of Paul's "e;Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

Alle Literatur arbeitet mit begrifflich vermitteltem Schein, der Sachverhalte bildhaft vor Augen stellt.

A selectively comprehensive bibliography of the vast literature about Samuel Beckett's dramatic works, arranged for the efficient and convenient use of scholars on all levels.

With a Preface and biographies from Jack Zipes, as well as the original illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 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.

The first work devoted specifically to the enormous wealth and variety of neo-Latin literature.

Canada's rich literary heritage, dominated by a multicultural and multilingual presence, reflects the country's unique history and experience.

No period of United States history is more important and still less understood than Reconstruction.