First published in 1986, The Coherence of Gothic Conventions makes the case that the Gothic in English literature has been marked by a distinctive and highly influential set of ambitions about relations of meaning.
Today more than ever, series finales have become cultural touchstones that feed watercooler fodder and Twitter storms among a committed community of viewers.
A novelist, poet, literary critic and anthropologist, Andrew Lang is best known for his publications on folklore, mythology and religion; many have grown up with the 'colour' Fairy Books which he compiled between 1889 and 1910.
This book addresses print-based modes of adaptation that have not conventionally been theorized as adaptations-such as novelization, illustration, literary maps, pop-up books, and ekphrasis.
Although the idea that graphic narratives represent an important literary form is still debated in academic circles, in recent years comics scholarship has emerged into wider contexts.
The `Attic Orators' have left us a hundred speeches for lawsuits, a body of work that reveals an important connection between evolving rhetoric and the jury trial.
Los Angeles is a city of borders and lines, from the freeways that transect its neighborhoods to streets like Pico Boulevard that slash across the city from the ocean to the heart of downtown, creating both ethnic enclaves and pathways for interracial connection.
Von Cordula Späth, der Superheldin vieler Romane Dietmar Daths, lässt sich behaupten, dass wegen ihr Dietmar Dath zum Schriftsteller und ein Verlag (der Verbrecher Verlag) gegründet wurde.
Modernist Fiction and Vagueness marries the artistic and philosophical versions of vagueness, linking the development of literary modernism to changes in philosophy.
For decades, Marvel Comics' superhero group the Avengers have captured the imagination of millions, whether in comics, multi-billion dollar grossing films or video games.
This fully updated Reader provides a comprehensive review of recent research and legislation relating to domestic violence and its consequences for children, and identifies the implications for practice.
From Jacquelyn Mitchard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean, the suspenseful, otherwordly, and nearly impossible to put down (People) story about an unlikely hero whose life is transformed when he rescues a boy with an extraordinary gift.
Before the 1969 Stonewall Riots, LGBTQ life was dominated by the negative image of "e;the closet"e;--the metaphorical space where that which was deemed "e;queer"e; was hidden from a hostile public view.
En un mundo, en el que fronteras se destruyen y construyen constantemente, no sorprende el interés internacional e interdisciplinar que despierta Jorge Semprún: homme-frontière que habita varios espacios y traduce los signos transfronterizos de su tiempo.
Xie analyzes three novels by the international award-winning Chinese writer Yan Lianke and investigates how his signature "e;mythorealist"e; form produces textual meanings that subvert the totalizing reality prescribed by literary realism.
The fifth and final volume of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield covers the almost thirteen months during which her attention at first was firmly set on a last chance medical cure, then finally on something very different - if death came to seem inevitable, how should one behave in the time that remained, so one could truly say one lived?
Charles Sorels Histoire comique de Francion (1623–1633) und Paul Scarrons Roman comique (1651/1657), die hier zusammen mit Antoine Furetières Roman bourgeois (1666) untersucht werden, waren veritable Bestseller im Frankreich des 17.
Livy's ninth book, one of his finest and most interesting, begins with his celebrated account of the Roman disaster in the Caudine Forks and its aftermath and contains also the famous digression on Alexander and our longest account of the censorship of Appius Claudius Caecus.
When Jane Austen represented the ideal subject for a novel as "e;three or four families in a country village"e;, rather than encouraging a narrow range of reference she may have meant that a tight focus was the best way of understanding the wider world.
While critics collect around the question of what comes "e;after postmodernism,"e; this book asks something different about recent American fiction: what if we are seeing not the end of postmodernism but its belated success?
Wilfrid Sellars tackled the difficult problems of reconciling Pittsburgh school-style analytic thought, Husserlian phenomenology, and the Myth of the Given.
