Founded by Charles Colson and Richard John Neuhaus in 1994, Evangelicals and Catholics Together (ECT) has fostered a fruitful conversation on the meaning of the gospel in today's world.
Arguing that contemporary celebrity authors like Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Eimear McBride and Anna Burns position their work and public personae within a received modernist canon to claim and monetize its cultural capital in the lucrative market for literary fiction, this book also shows how the corporate conditions of marketing and branding have redefined older models of literary influence and innovation.
Peter Slade examines Mission Mississippi's model of racial reconciliation (which stresses one-on-one, individual friendships among religious people of different races) and considers whether it can effectively address the issue of social justice.
American author, editor, and critic William Parker White, better known to most as Anthony Boucher, made countless contributions to the fields of mystery and science fiction.
Peril and Protection in British Courtship Novels: A Study in Continuity and Change explores the use and context of danger/safety language in British courtship novels published between 1719 and 1920.
The Bookmarked series focuses on a famous work of literature that left a powerful impression on an author (hence the name, Bookmarkeda book that left its mark).
This book examines the unresolved tensions in Milton''s writings, as he grapples with the paradox of freedom in a universe ruled by an all-powerful God.
Secrecy and Community in 21st-Century Fiction examines the relation between secrecy and community in a diverse and international range of contemporary fictional works in English.
This landmark anniversary edition contains a selection of Twain's hard-to-find letters and notes expressing his always-engaging opinions on the publication of Tom Sawyer.
When Kenneth Johnson's science fiction miniseries V premiered in 1983, it netted more than 40 percent of the television viewing audience and went on to spawn a sequel, a weekly series, novelizations, comic books and a remake.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREMario Vargas Llosa's A Fish in the Water is a twofold book: a memoir by one of Latin America's most celebrated writers, beginning with his birth in 1936 in Arequipa, Peru; and the story of his organization of the reform movement which culminated in his bid for the Peruvian presidency in 1990.
Inventing Comics recovers and translates two of Rudolphe Topffer's nineteenth-century essays on the rhetorical invention of comics, an amateur aesthetic practice of the popular image.
Der Literaturwissenschaftler und -kritiker Niklas Bender untersucht an ausgewählten Beispielen der modernen und der Gegenwartsliteratur, wie das Lesen von Literatur heute dazu beitragen kann, das Leben sinnvoll zu gestalten.
In Why Iris Murdoch Matters Gary Browning draws on as yet unpublished archival material to present an unrivalled overview of Murdoch's work and thought.
In the shadow of the Holocaust, Samuel Beckett captures humanity in ruins through his debased beings and a decomposing mode of writing that strives to 'fail better'.
Mid-twentieth-century developments in science and technology produced new understandings and images of the planet that circulated the globe, giving rise to a modern ecological consciousness; but they also contributed to accelerating crises in the global environment, including climate change, pollution, and waste.
John Brinckerhoff Jackson theorized the vernacular landscape as one that reflects a way of life guided by tradition and custom, distanced from the larger world of politics and law.
The book provides an original investigation of the double trope as a central area of Dicken's writings in their relation to Victorian culture, using this examination of the double to shed light on such issues as urban space and imperialism in the Victorian era.
Diese Studie würdigt den zu Unrecht in Vergessenheit geratenen Weimarer Dramaturgen, Bibliothekar, Schriftsteller und Publizisten Christian August Vulpius (1762–1827) als entscheidenden Wissens- und Kulturvermittler um 1800.
Originally published in 1985, this book traces the development of an ideal of work in English writing which runs parallel to that of the Protestant work ethic.
Gertrude Stein called it "e;the only really modern novel form that has come into existence,"e; yet the mystery genre was a century old before it featured its first gay main character in a novel.
Dem klassischen Detektivroman als Genre der Unterhaltungsliteratur und rationalistischem Kind moderner Fortschrittsgläubigkeit steht seit einigen Jahrzehnten mit dem Anti-Detektivroman ein radikaler Gegenentwurf gegenüber, der sich Konventionen und Erzählschemata der Prätexte zu Nutze macht, um diese zu unterminieren und den naiven Erkenntnisoptimismus, die unbedingte Aufklärungsforderung und das teleologische Handlungsmodell ad absurdum zu führen oder zu parodieren.
Regine May discusses the use of drama as an intertext in the work of the 2nd century Latin author Apuleius, who wrote the only complete extant Latin novel, the Metamorphoses, in which a young man is turned into a donkey by magic.
