Literary studies: general

Germanic mythology is currently experiencing a significant boom in audiovisual media, especially among younger audiences.

Phytochemicals: Mechanisms of Action is the latest volume in a highly regarded series that addresses the roles of phytochemicals in disease prevention and health promotion.

Narcoepics Unbound foregrounds the controversial yet mostly untheorized phenomenon of contemporary Latin American 'narcoepics.

The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies in global contexts, addressing issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with Shakespeare's work and his time.

This book contributes to various political debates about Central Europe in terms of its literary-symbolic geography.

This book provides extensive information on the chemicals that inhabit our environment, our food, our water and our air and the impact that they may be having on human health.

Jeremy Citrome employs the language of contemporary psychoanalysis to explain how surgical metaphors became an important tool of ecclesiastical power in the wake of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215.

This book breaks new ground by showing that the work of David Foster Wallace originates from and functions in the space between philosophy and literature.

Prison Writing and the Literary World tackles international prison writingand writing about imprisonment in relation to questions of literary representationand formal aesthetics, the "e;value"e; or "e;values"e; of literature,textual censorship and circulation, institutional networks and literary-criticalmethodologies.

Reference to or quotation from someone's speech, thoughts, or writing is a key component of narrative.

First published in 1984, this biography gives an account of Jonathan Swift's political ideas and provides a critical commentary on his major works.

An introduction to the work of Zadie Smith, placing her fiction in a clear historical and theoretical context, and exploring her work in relation to contemporaneity and postcolonialism.

In der Kinder- und Jugendbuchforschung gilt übereinstimmend, dass im Gegensatz zur allgemeinen Literaturgeschichtsschreibung eine verlässliche Materialbasis noch vollständig fehlt und die vorhandenen Lücken nur schrittweise geschlossen werden können.

This volume introduces students to the most important figures, movements and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry.

Transcribing a text within a Medieval manuscript was often not a culturally and ideologically neutral act.

An overview of the life, work and continuing importance of the pre-eminent African American intellectual of the twentieth century.

At the core of this book lies the relation between Power (as socio-political phenomenon) and the novel (as literary discourse).

Die Idylle steht im Spannungsfeld von Kitsch und Katastrophe, das Nils Jablonski durch medienkomparatistische close readings literarischer, filmischer und televisiver Texte untersucht.

Lange Zeit wurde Literatur von Roma gar nicht oder wenn nach stereotypen Bewertungsmustern betrachtet.

In Lost in the American City , Jeremy Tambling looks at European reactions to America and American cities in the nineteenth-century.

The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery explores how antiblack racism lived on through the figure of the Chinese worker in US literature after emancipation.

Leading critic John Leonard explores the writings of John Milton from his early poetry to his major prose.

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The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature provides a broad-ranging introduction to some of the key critical fields, genres, and periods in Canadian literary studies.

A comprehensive guide to Austen''s works in the contexts of her contemporary world and present-day criticism.

La Seconda guerra mondiale costituisce una cesura nellastoria delle ricezioni del mito di Antigone: l'esperienza deltotalitarismo e della Resistenza condiziona in maniera determinantela lettura della tragedia di Sofocle.

This book covers the principles, underlying mechanisms, thermodynamic functions, kinetics and modeling aspects of sustainable technologies, particularly from the standpoint of applying physical, chemical and biological processes for the treatment of wastewater polluted with heavy metals.

In this innovative study, the author carves out a new field, a sociology of literature in which he offers insightful commentary about the nexus of literature and society.

A radical new interpretation of nineteenth-century sentimental literature in the United States.

Although 150 years have passed since Princess Victoria became Queen, the first twelve months of her reign remain relatively unexplored.

The exciting new book argues for a renewed emphasis on humanism--contrary to the trend of post-humanism, or what Neema Parvini calls "e;the anti-humanism"e; of the last several decades of literary and theoretical scholarship.

This volume investigates energy as a shaping force in Russian and Soviet literature, visual culture, and social practice.

In this innovative collection, an international group of scholars come together to discuss literary metaphors and cognitive metaphor theory.

Bringing the work of a highly influentialmedieval French writer to English-speaking audiences for the first timeThisbook explores the life and works of Jean Bodel, an influential author who livedin twelfth-century Arras, France.

This edited collection from a distinguished group of contributors explores a range of topics including literature as imperialist propaganda, the representation of the colonies in British literature, the emergence of literary culture in the colonies and the creation of new gender roles such as 'girl Crusoes' in works of fiction.

Novelist, culture critic, essayist, historian, comic satirist, image maker, actor, homosexual, bisexual, controversial, confrontational - finding words to describe Gore Vidal is never difficult.

A series of innovative studies in the textual and literary criticism of Latin literature and their mutually supportive relationship.

This book explains neoliberalism as a phenomenon of the capitalist world-system.

This book is an investigation of the foundation and evolution of romance in Iceland.

Initially described by Dickens as a 'savage stenographic mystery', shorthand was to become an essential and influential part of his toolkit as a writer.

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