Georgien – ein Land, dessen einzigartige Schrift, tief verwurzelte religiöse Traditionen und reiches kulturelles Erbe eine literarische Geschichte von unvergleichlicher Tiefe und Schönheit hervorgebracht haben.
Originally published in 1970, this account of Tolstoy's achievement as a novelist concentrates on the best known of his works, in particular the two masterpieces Anna Karenina and War and Peace.
This selection of Bowen's non-fictional writings includes her wonderfully funny, precise recollections of schooldays and childhood experiences, her brilliant evocations of London in wartime and of the Irish 'big house', and penetrating accounts of some of her most famous contemporaries.
A vivid account of the literary culture of the Spanish-speaking Americas from the time of Columbus to Latin American Independence, this Very Short Introduction explores the origins of Latin American literature in Spanish and tells the story of how Spanish literary language developed and flourished in the New World.
This book explores the techniques, themes, and subtexts in the fictional works of one of America's best-known and most-loved storytellers, Stephen King.
This book explores the techniques, themes, and subtexts in the fictional works of one of America's best-known and most-loved storytellers, Stephen King.
A study of how Kazuo Ishiguro's novels respond to and represent the world through characters that are profoundly limited in their understanding of the systems that bind them.
The traditional narrative of the mid-century (1930s-60s) is that of a wave of expansion and constriction, with the swelling of economic and political freedoms for women in the 1930s, the cresting of women in the public sphere during the Second World War, and the resulting break as employment and political opportunities for women dwindled in the 1950s when men returned home from the front.
This book offers readers an annotated collection of the short prose fictions that were published by Peter Motteux in The Gentleman’s Journal ,1692-1694.
Si algo caracteriza a la obra de Haroldo Conti es la hondura de la concepción estilística y la diversidad de registros, puntos de vista y voces que utiliza para llegar a lo que siempre aparece como su núcleo central: el recuerdo, el pueblo, el ambiente rural y la injusticia.
This long overdue reevaluation of Jack Kerouac gives fresh perspectives on his unique literary output, his vexed relation to issues of race, class, and gender, as well as his continuing cultural afterlife.
Investigating the widespread but understudied presence of the Persephone myth within 21st-century young adult literature, Cristina Salcedo Gonz lez analyses six young adult novels which incorporate a reworking of this ancient Greek myth.
During the Great War, books and stories for young men were frequently used as unofficial propaganda for recruitment and to sell the war to British youth as a moral crusade.
This volume brings together academics from the USA and across Europe to examine the nature, representations and perceptions of the figure of the spy in Europe between 1815 and 1914.
The ethical approaches to literature have come into prominence in the twentieth century, calling for a 'turn to ethics' in the studies of humanities, in general, and literary studies, in particular.
Although Tolkien's letters call Samwise Gamgee the "e;chief hero"e; of The Lord of the Rings, Sam is easily underestimated by both readers and critics.
This book brings together essays written by a number of well-known writers of cozy mysteries, including Sherry Harris, Amanda Flower, Leslie Budewitz, and Edith Maxwell, among others, who provide insight into their approaches to writing.
