Literary studies: general

However much students enjoy their reading of a Jane Austen novel, many find it difficult to know how to organise their critical responses.

Discrete inquiries into 15 forms of the Arthurian legends produced over the last century explore how they have altered the tradition.

This study analyses four new genres of literature and film that have evolved to accommodate and negotiate the changing face of postcolonial Britain since 1990: British Muslim Bildungsromane, gothic tales of postcolonial England, the subcultural urban novel and multicultural British comedy.

This timely introduction to Old English literature focuses on the production and reception of Old English texts, and on their relation to Anglo-Saxon history and culture.

This book addresses the consequences of high agricultural pesticide use over the last few decades in the form of organophosphate poisoning.

This volume boldly proposes that the core of the Arthurian and Holy Grail traditions derived not from Celtic mythology, but rather from the folklore of the peoples of ancient Scythia (what are now the South Russian and Ukrainian steppes).

Die Frage nach der Vollkommenheit ist seit der Antike grundlegend für Kunst und Literatur.

Ces pages écrites avant, pendant et après le confinement… Comment les nommer ?

Highlighting the wide variety of ethical concerns considered by writers such as Timothy Findley, Thomas King, Carol Shields, Julian Barnes, A.

Why did Greek tragedy and "e;the tragic"e; come to be seen as essential to conceptions of modernity?

Michael Ende (1929–1995) wird fälschlicherweise oft als »Kinderbuchautor« abgestempelt, dabei richten sich seine Werke nicht (allein) an Kinder und Jugendliche, sondern sind durchdrungen von einer Vielzahl philosophischer Fragestellungen und Reflexionen.

A history and examination of dystopia and angst in popular culture that speaks to our current climate of dread.

A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West presents a series of essays that explore the historic and contemporary cultural expressions rooted in America's western states.

In einem Zeitalter zahlreicher globaler Umbrüche destabilisieren klimatische, politische und finanzielle Krisen und die daraus resultierenden Kriege und Konflikte gesellschaftliche Strukturen und kulturelle Wertemuster weltweit.

From a corpus of Greek epics known in antiquity as the "e;Epic Cycle,"e; six poems dealt with the same Trojan War mythology as the Homeric poems.

Childhood Obesity Prevention in Texas summarizes the information gathered at a workshop held February 5-6, 2009, in Austin, Texas.

Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock knew too much.

This book follows the figure of 'the clever girl' from the post-war to the present and focuses on the fiction, plays and memoirs of contemporary British women writers.

Wassily Kandinsky was a great modernist painter, and is considered by many to be the father of abstract art and a leader in the movement.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Der Kampf um den Heiligen Geist - Luther und die Schwärmer" verfügbar.

Latin American Digital Poetics seeks to take the pulse of emergent poetic forms whose history is entangled with the computational and its AI dreams and achievements.

This fourth edition brings together a diverse range of experts in nutrition-related areas to discuss recent thinking and discoveries in nutrition, especially in relation to topics that have the greatest capacity to improve human health and nutritional implementation.

Diane di Prima (1934-2020) was one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century, and her career is distinguished by strong contributions to both literature and social justice.

A consideration of the metaphor of water in religious literature, especially in relation to women.

This is a comprehensive study of one of the most influential literary groups in post-independence Ireland: the writers and editors of the literary magazine The Bell.

This book is the first literary study of postcolonial tourism.

EcoGothic gardens in the long nineteenth century provides fresh approaches to contemporary ecocritical and environmental debates, providing new, compelling insights into material relationships between vegetal and human beings.

Unter dem Rahmenthema "Transformationen – Wandel, Bewegung, Geschwindigkeit" in den Sprach- und Kulturräumen der Romania vereint dieser Band insgesamt 16 Beiträge junger Forscher*innen, die aktuelle wie historische Wandelprozesse aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven der Romanistik analysieren.

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The Oxford Handbook of Children's Literature is at once a literary history, an introduction to various theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches, a review of genres, and a selection of original and interdisciplinary essays on canonical and popular works for children in the Anglo-American tradition.

Presents a selection of the best poems of Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), including many uncollected and previously unpublished poems.

Souvent condamnés avant tout procès par les effets conjugués de l’émotion collective et de l’extrême médiatisation, les suspects de terrorisme incarnent aujourd’hui la figure du mal.

This book explores how three contemporary American artists through the mediums of film, literature and popular music have contributed to the tradition of American progressivism, and provides an invaluable companion to the understanding of complex issues such as inequality and social and economic decline that are apparent in America today.

**Selected for Doody's Core Titles(R) 2024 in Nutrition**Ketogenic: The Science of Therapeutic Carbohydrate Restriction in Human Health presents the most up-to-date and evidence-based science and research available in the field of TCR, with the purpose of training medical and allied healthcare professionals on the effective therapeutic use of low-carbohydrate and ketogenic nutrition in clinical practice.

A thorough and scholarly study of Spenser and Shakespeare and their contrary artistry, covering themes of theology, psychology, the depictions of passion and intellect, moral counsel, family hierarchy, self-love, temptation, folly, allegory, female heroism, the supernatural and much more.

Any effective response to an uncertain future will require independently thinking individuals working together.

This book is a ground-breaking transnational study of representations of the environment in Asian American literature.

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are chronic diseases of long duration and generally slow progression, including cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases, and diabetes.