Literary studies: general

In this study intended for general readers, eminent critic Patricia Meyer Spacks provides a fresh, engaging account of the early history of the English novel.

This provocative and illuminating book provides a new perspective on the development of political thought from Homer to Machiavelli, Tocqueville, and Gertrude Stein (who is introduced here, for the first time, as a writer of political significance).

This is the first book to examine in full the interconnections between Giambattista Vico’s new science and James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.

Realist Vision explores the claim to represent the world “as it is.

In the wake of the monstrous projects of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and others in the twentieth century, the idea of utopia has been discredited.

In Imagined Cities, Robert Alter traces the arc of literary development triggered by the runaway growth of urban centers from the early nineteenth century through the first two decades of the twentieth.

Emerson and Thoreau are the most celebrated odd couple of nineteenth-century American literature.

George Sand was the most famous—and most scandalous—woman in nineteenth-century France.

This is the first book devoted to Horace’s Carmen Saeculare, a poem commissioned by Roman emperor Augustus in 17 B.

In this provocative challenge to prevailing views of New Testament sources, Dennis R.

Recognizing the dramatic changes in Old English studies over the past generation, this up-to-date anthology gathers twenty-one outstanding contemporary critical writings on the prose and poetry of Anglo-Saxon England, from approximately the seventh through eleventh centuries.

In this lucid book an eminent scholar, teacher, and author takes a critical look at the nature and direction of English studies in America.

“I believe that it is in our interest as individuals to become crafty readers, and in the interest of the nation to educate citizens in the craft of reading.

In this lively, personal book, Robert Scholes intervenes in ongoing discussions about modernism in the arts during the crucial half-century from 1895 to 1945.

One of the twentieth century’s most important poets, W.

Heroines of the Qing introduces an array of Chinese women from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who were powerful, active subjects of their own lives and who wrote themselves as the heroines of their exemplary stories.

Award-winning videomaker, performance artist, and pop-culture provocateur Kip Fulbeck has captivated audiences worldwide with his mixture of high comedy and personal narrative.

John Trevisa (ca.

In this companion to his previous book, The Bible in Early English Literature, David Fowler completes his stimulating and broad-ranging study of medieval English literature in the light of biblical tradition.

The story of Mulian rescuing his mothers soul from hell has evolved as a narrative over several centuries in China, especially in the baojuan (precious scrolls) genre.

Forming the Early Chinese Court builds on new directions in comparative studies of royal courts in the ancient world to present a pioneering study of early Chinese court culture.

Savant Singh (16941764), the Rajput prince of Kishangarh-Rupnagar, is famous for commissioning beautiful works of miniature painting and composing devotional (bhakti) poetry to Krishna under the nom de plume Nagaridas.

By the time she was twenty-four, Virginia Woolf had suffered a series of devastating losses that later she would describe as “sledge-hammer blows,” beginning with the death of her mother when she was thirteen years old and followed by those of her half-sister, father, and brother.

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This is the first ample collection of facetiae, or witty tales, from the Italian Renaissance to be published in English.

Von unterschiedlichen wissenschaftlichen Perspektiven ausgehend zeigen die Beiträge des Bandes, auf welche Weise in ausgewählten Texten der Gegenwartsliteratur Fragen nach der Konstruktion von Identität beantwortet werden.

The Gospel of Thomas, one of the most intriguing and enigmatic texts discovered in the Nag Hammadi Library, offers a unique and thought-provoking window into early Christian thought.

This study shows how George Eliot, a leader in the nineteenth-century intellectual world of Darwin and the Industrial Revolution, wrestled in her early novels with the esthetic problems of reconciling her art and her philosophy.

Challenging prevailing trends toward aesthetic neutrality, James S.

Writing with Research offers readers practical guidance for managing writing and research as combined tasks.

This first part of Album of Dated Latin Inscriptions: Rome and the Neighborhood, Augustus to Nerva by Arthur E.

California Studies in Classical Antiquity: Volume 12 offers an engaging and wide-ranging collection of essays that delve into the complexities of ancient Greek and Roman history, literature, and culture.

The extrafamilial significance of maternal practice as nurturance for a self-willed other is discussed controversially.

Gegenwartsliteratur reflektiert Fluchtbewegungen und -gründe.

Unsere Gesellschaft spaltet sich: am einen Ende stehen Rechtspopulisten, am anderen "woke" Moralisten.

Warum kämpfen so viele Menschen mit Übergewicht und seinen Folgeerkrankungen?

"Worin würde ein Konzept der Literalisierung bestehen?

Das 1793 von dem jüdischen Aufklärer Isaak Euchel in Berlin verfasste Lustspiel "Reb Henoch, oder: Woß tut me damit" ist eines der Schlüsselwerke deutsch-jüdischer Kultur.

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A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it.

Stuff I've Been Reading by Nick Hornby - the bestselling novelist's rich, witty and inspiring reading diary'Read what you enjoy, not what bores you,' Nick Hornby tells us.

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