In this study of Madame Guyon and, her defender, Francois de Fenelon, the Archbishop of Cambray, Patricia Ward demonstrates how the ideas of these seventeenth-century Catholics were transmitted into an ongoing tradition of Protestant devotional literature--one that continues to influence American evangelicals and charismatic Christians today.
Literary Transvaluation: From Vergilian Epic to Shakespearean Tragicomedy is a meticulous exploration of literary influence, focusing on how Shakespeares works, especially Antony and Cleopatra, engage in a profound reimagining of Vergil's Aeneid.
In Borderland Brutalities, Laura Elena Belmonte analyzes how border violence is perpetuated and sanctioned by private corporations as well as the US and Mexican governments and how this violence is represented through border literature and cultural production.
Blake Nevius's close analysis and appraisal of Edith Wharton's novels and stories reveals the modernity of her fiction and shows why she should have a permanent claim on our attention.
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).
It is indispensable for every story writer, critic, or lover of narrative art, as it puts on the analysis morgue details of narrative structure, narrative language, characters, and heroes.
Ces histoires vous emporteront des bords de Loire en Afrique, à Madagascar, en Polynésie, en Guyane et ailleurs, quelques-unes jusqu’aux confins de l’Histoire.
Human civilization is a common global heritage, and every nation participates and participates in it with a share derived from its ability to interact, and when it participates, it learns, influences, and is affected.
En 1990-91, une jeune étudiante, venue de l’autre bout du monde, est invitée à partager l’appartement parisien du naturaliste et « saharien » Théodore Monod.
Just as the twenty novels varied in their worlds, so did the visions of critical treatment of these creative works, which I had the pleasure of reading, experiencing, and touring with their characters, events, times, places, intellectual and linguistic manifestations, and their fertile human worlds that soar high in the sky of the Egyptian personality, just as they penetrate into the depths of that personality that tries to bring us closer to its essence that lies behind the lines.
