A Companion to the Eighteenth-century Novel furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts.
This broad-ranging companion brings together respected American and European critics and a number of up-and-coming scholars to provide an overview of Twain, his background, his writings, and his place in American literary history.
A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction offers an authoritative overview of contemporary British fiction in its social, political, and economic contexts.
The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900 2000 is a collection of the most influential writings on the theory of the novel from the twentieth century.
This concise Companion offers an innovative approach to understanding the Modernist literary mind in Britain, focusing on the intellectual and cultural contexts, which shaped it.
A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000 serves as an extended introduction and reference guide to the British and Irish novel between the close of World War II and the turn of the millennium.
A Companion to Science Fiction assembles essays by an international range of scholars which discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers.
How the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite, and how their consumer habits affect us allIn today's world, the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite.
Scott's Shadow is the first comprehensive account of the flowering of Scottish fiction between 1802 and 1832, when post-Enlightenment Edinburgh rivaled London as a center for literary and cultural innovation.
A classic of British cultural studies, Profane Culture takes the reader into the worlds of two important 1960s youth cultures-the motor-bike boys and the hippies.
From Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda, a delightful introduction to the creator of Sherlock HolmesA passionate lifelong fan of the Sherlock Holmes adventures, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda is a member of The Baker Street Irregulars-the most famous and romantic of all Sherlockian groups.
A magnificent one-volume abridgement of one of the greatest literary biographies of our timeJoseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language-and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century.
The emphasis on practical experience over ideology is viewed by many historians as a profoundly American characteristic, one that provides a model for exploring the colonial challenge to European belief systems and the creation of a unique culture.
In this book, the first in English devoted exclusively to Maurice Blanchot, John Gregg examines the problematic interaction between the two forms of discourse, critical and fictional, that comprise this writer's hybrid oeuvre.
Esta recopilación reúne nueve ensayos que recogen sus ideas sobre la ficción, entre ellos "Sobre cuentos", "The Death of Words" y "On Three Ways of Writing for Children", así como once piezas que no fueron publicadas en vida.
Heinrich Heine ist in den 1830er und 40er Jahren der erste und einzige deutsche Schriftsteller, der als Zeit- und Augenzeuge der politischen und industriell-technischen Doppelrevolution sein poetisch-essayistisch-kritisches Werk ganz der Erkundung der Signatur dieses Zeitalters widmet.
Still Writing offers up a cornucopia of wisdom, insights, and practical lessons gleaned from Dani Shapiro s long experience as a celebrated writer and teacher of writing.
Heinrich Hauser ist ein Zeitgenosse Ernst Jüngers und Oswald Spenglers und veröffentlicht zwischen 1925 und 1934 ein Dutzend Bücher: In Romanen und Reportagen behandelt Hauser Zeitgeschichte, Politik und Poetik.
The focus of this book is on speech production and speech processing associated with cleft palate, covering phonetic (perceptual and instrumental), phonological and psycholinguistic perspectives, and including coverage of implications for literacy and education, as well as cross-linguistic differences.
The focus of this book is on speech production and speech processing associated with cleft palate, covering phonetic (perceptual and instrumental), phonological and psycholinguistic perspectives, and including coverage of implications for literacy and education, as well as cross-linguistic differences.
A collection of original essays and innovative reading strategies provides examples of reading Dickens in creative and challenging ways Reading Dickens Differently features contributions from many of the field s leading scholars, offering creative ways of reading Dickens and enriching understanding of the most celebrated author of his time.
A collection of original essays and innovative reading strategies provides examples of reading Dickens in creative and challenging ways Reading Dickens Differently features contributions from many of the field s leading scholars, offering creative ways of reading Dickens and enriching understanding of the most celebrated author of his time.
This broad-ranging companion brings together respected American and European critics and a number of up-and-coming scholars to provide an overview of Twain, his background, his writings, and his place in American literary history.
