Literary studies: general

Julius Caesar presents a performance history of a controversial play, moving from its 1599 opening all the way into the new millennium with particular emphasis on its twentieth- and twenty-first-century incarnations on stage and screen.

This book examines fictional works by women authors who have left their homes in West Africa and now live as members of the diaspora.

This collection of lectures, broadcasts, reviews, and articles (several of which have not previously been published) embraces many aspects of the English literary scene in the middle of the nineteenth century.

Taken for Wonder focuses on nineteenth-century travelogues authored by Iranians in Europe and argues for a methodological shift in the way scholars interpret travel writing.

Welsh Gothic, the first study of its kind, introduces readers to the array of Welsh Gothic literature published from 1780 to the present day.

Elaborate analogies between Irish and Jewish history, between Irish and Jewish subjectivities, occur with surprising frequency throughout American literature.

This book argues that there are recurrent spatiotemporal patterns and structures in six Jane Austen novels which constitute a source of enduring, if unconscious, pleasure.

The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the twentieth century's most famous poet and its most influential literary arbiter, T.

Through satire, modernist literature cultivated sophisticated, ironic and cruel attitudes towards suffering which dramatically changed our understanding of emotion.

In Pediatric Behavioral Nutrition Factors: Environment, Education, and Self-Regulation, the editor carefully selected each chapter individually to provide a nuanced look at how environment, education, and self-regulation impact pediatric nutrition.

This volume explores the extraordinary life and work of Hildegard of Bingen, the 12th century abbess and prophet whose interests ranged from music to theology to zoology to medicine.

A reinterpretation of some of the great works of Chinese fiction of the late Ming dynastyIn this book, Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the ';Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel' (ssu ta ch'i-shu).

David Foster Wallace is invariably seen as an emphatically American figure.

The most numerous of the world's invasive species, rodent pests have a devastating impact on agriculture, food, health and the environment.

Northrop Frye's long career made him Canada's most creative public intellectual.

Five centuries after the forced conversion of Spanish and Portuguese Jews to Catholicism, stories of these conversos' descendants uncovering long-hidden Jewish roots have come to light and taken hold of the literary and popular imagination.

Steinberg''s field-defining work shows how Boccaccio''s Decameron reveals unexpected connections between the contemporary emergence of literary realism and legal inquisition in early modern Europe.

This study examines how Milton''s polemical and imaginative literature intersects with representations of English Protestant nationhood.

Obesity has become the most common chronic disease of the present day, with significant increases in prevalence in populations across the world and all age groups.

A collection of interviews with leading writers such as Julian Barnes, Jonathan Coe, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hanif Kureishi, Arundhati Roy and Will Self.

Der Sprecherwechsel auf der attischen Bühne.

This study re-examines the twentieth-century novel as a form shaped by its problematic, often scandalous relation to the public sphere.

Nutrition and Diet in Menopause is a single comprehensive source that will provide readers with an understanding of menopause.

This book traces the shared culture of the Chinese elite from the seventh to the twelfth centuries.

This first volume of the Trilogy of Traditional Foods, part of the ISEKI Food Series, covers general and consumer aspects of traditional foods.

An exploration of how the image and idea of the dragon has evolved through history How did the dragon get its wings?

This volume captures the rich diversity of European performance practice evident in the twentieth and early part of the twenty-first century.

Este libro contiene la primera edición crítica de un certamen poético mercedario del siglo XVII novohispano, así como un extenso estudio preliminar que esclarece la trascendencia literaria, histórica y cultural de la obra.

Slavoj Zizek is one of today's leading theorists, whose polemical works span topics from German idealism to Lacanian psychoanalysis, from Shakespeare to Beckett, and from Hitchcock to Lynch.

From the author of "e;Celestial Sleuth"e; (2014), yet more mysteries in art, history, and literature are solved by calculating phases of the Moon, determining the positions of the planets and stars, and identifying celestial objects in paintings.

Scholars of the patristic era have paid more attention to the dogmatic tradition in their period than to the development of Christian mystical theology.

Poetry moves us.

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This book explores male friendship in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through Mark Twain and the relationships he had with William Dean Howells, Joseph Twichell, and Henry H.

Tolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings.

Companion to the work of one of the most admired of English writers and artists.

This volume focuses on how travel writing contributed to cultural and intellectual exchange in and between the Dutch- and German-speaking regions from the 1790s to the twentieth-century interwar period.

John Milton's Paradise Lost has long been celebrated for its epic subject matter and the poet's rhetorical fireworks.

Representing Africa in Children's Literature explores how African and Western authors portray youth in contemporary African societies, critically examining the dominant images of Africa and Africans in books published between 1960 and 2005.