Since the 1960s, Donald Pizer has been writing about late-19th-century American literature, with an emphasis on the major fiction of Theodore Dreiser and Stephen Crane.
El Protocolo Malatesta es una trama irónica sobre las urdimbres y farsas que vivió el mundo occidental a finales del siglo XIX en medio de una ola de terrorismo anarquista que, entre otras cosas, costó la vida a un rey, una emperatriz, dos presidentes y un primer ministro.
Humboldts Begegnung mit der Antike, vor allem mit der griechischen Sprache und Dichtung, ist das erste prägende geistige Erlebnis, das Humboldts Leben von der Tegeler Jugend an durchzieht.
After repeated steps from structuralism to post-structuralism, modernism and beyond, stylistics, deconstruction, linguistics, textualism and cultural criticism, passing through approaches such as intertextuality, psychological criticism, theories of reading and reception, pragmatics, and what falls within (criticism) in its loose sense, the critic Dr.
How we build our invisible libraries Erich Auerbach wrote his classic work Mimesis, a history of narrative from Homer to Proust, based largely on his memory of past reading.
Once thought to have been lost to history, Reunited collects the letters written between writer Anais Nin and her musician father Joaquin Nin just before, during, and after their incestuous affair in 1930s France.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Memoirs, Letters and Autobiographical Works"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
As the winning practices and advantages of previous generations fade and we fail to address our problems, our challenges grow, incomes stagnate, debt explodes, and fitness wanes.
In Biker Chicz of North America, Edward Winterhalder and Wil De Clercq have compiled in-depth profiles of twenty-two fascinating women who ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
Irrläufe, wie sie Herta Müller vor Augen stehen, sind Wirbel: der Bilder und Begriffe, sind Drehung, sind Strömung im "Teufelskreis der Wörter" (wie sie ihre Nobelpreisrede überschrieben hat).
'This book is a love letter to the Mediterranean - full of flavours and the kind of wisdom that only a woman who travels with her own set of knives can impart.
From the popular legend of Pocahontas to the Civil War soap opera Gone with the Wind to countless sculpted heads of George Washington that adorn homes and museums, whole industries have emerged to feed Americas addiction to imaginary histories that cover up the often violent acts of building a homogeneous nation.
One of our most important contemporary critics, Marjorie Perloff has been a widely published and influential reviewer, especially of poetry and poetics, for over fifty years.
One of our most important contemporary critics, Marjorie Perloff has been a widely published and influential reviewer, especially of poetry and poetics, for over fifty years.
This work traces how Gothic imagination from the literature and culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and twentieth-century US and European film has impacted Latin American literature and film culture.
This work provides a compelling explanation of something that has bedeviled a number of feminist scholars: Why did popular authors like Edna Ferber continue to write conventional fiction while living lives that were far from conventional?
A Bloody and Barbarous God investigates the relationship between gnosticism, a system of thought that argues that the cosmos is evil and that the human spirit must strive for liberation from manifest existence, and the perennial philosophy, a study of the highest common factor in all esoteric religions, and how these traditions have influenced the later novels of Cormac McCarthy, namely, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain, No Country for Old Men, and The Road.
This long-awaited book is the most detailed and up-to-date account of the complex history of Pueblo Indian land in New Mexico, beginning in the late seventeenth century and continuing to the present day.