Literature: history and criticism

Driven by such diverse advances as the Human Genome Project and the explosion of the World Wide Web, and also by the threat of human-inspired disasters such as global warming, the field of science and literature studies is currently undergoing an unprecedented expansion.

Investigations into the "e;realities"e; of staging dramatic performances, of a variety of kinds, in the middle ages.

First published in 1992, this volume of essays celebrates the revival of Edith Wharton's critical reputation.

From antiquity through the Enlightenment, disasters were attributed to the obscure power of the stars or the vengeance of angry gods.

This collection of original research highlights the legacy of Michael Toolan's pioneering contributions to the field of stylistics and in so doing provides a critical overview of the ways in which language, text, and context are analyzed in the field and its related disciplines.

Oxford Textual Perspectives is a series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures, and communities that produce, inform, and receive them.

How grace shaped the Renaissance in Italy"e;Grace"e; emerges as a keyword in the culture and society of sixteenth-century Italy.

An zwei großen Werken hat Goethe jahrzehntelang gearbeitet: am Faust II und an Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahren.

This new Companion introduces the most important medieval vernacular literary genre in Britain and continental Europe.

The early twenty-first century has seen a sharp rise in Black US poets employing the mask of persona, often including and interrogating archival materials as they do so.

In the early United States, a Black person committed an act of resistance simply by reading and writing.

Essays by leading scholars offer new insights into a remarkable poet and early advocate of environmental ethics and aesthetics.

The History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 and 1909, was the principal product of E.

This edited volume examines the multiple dimensions of sustainability in the Circumpolar North, a territory facing unprecedented environmental and social challenges at the start of the 21st century.

First Published in 1990.

On 19 April 1621, a woman named Elizabeth Sawyer was hanged at Tyburn.

Dieses Buch vermittelt die optimale Grundlage für die Ausbildung und Praxis in der ganzheitlichen und kausalen Diagnostik und Therapie nach F.

Cultures are shaped by many institutions and agencies, including governments, corporations, education and the media.

Paul Gordon proposes a new theory of art as synaesthetic and applies this idea to various media, including works--such as movies, illustrated books, and song lyrics--that explicitly cross over into media involving the different senses.

This work is a detailed study of how Americans in the 1920s and 1930s interpreted and remembered the First World War.

Using Key Passages to Understand Literature, Theory and Criticism is a completely fresh and innovative approach to teaching and learning literary theory: using short passages of theory to make sense of literary and cultural texts.

Übersetzungen haben die europäische Literaturgeschichte wesentlich geprägt: Sie eröffnen den Zugang zu fremden Kulturen und Literaturen, sie bestimmen die Wahrnehmung kanonischer Werke und Autoren zum Teil über Jahrhunderte und wenn sie gut sind, werden sie gar nicht wahrgenommen.

Patrick West's Architectures of Occupation in the Australian Short Story cultivates the potential for literary representations of architectural space to contribute to the development of a contemporary politics of Australian post-colonialism.

Consisting of sixteen original essays by experts in the field, including leading and lesser-known international scholars, Global Frankenstein considers the tremendous adaptability and rich afterlives of Mary Shelley's iconic novel, Frankenstein, at its bicentenary, in such fields and disciplines as digital technology, film, theatre, dance, medicine, book illustration, science fiction, comic books, science, and performance art.

English literary history has long incorporated the category of 'Cavalier' verse, and the critical presuppositions that have shaped such a category continue, even now, to determine the ways in which much civil war writing is read.

Starting from the fundamental epistemological shifts characterising the seventeenth century, this book explores the re-conceptualization of the notion of truth and asks how factuality, along with other truth-carrying discourses, was appropriated by a range of texts to generate credibility.

Key Concepts in Contemporary Literature offers a comprehensive overview of the literature and critical debates of the period since 1945.

This book presents a detailed overview and critical evaluation of recent advances and remaining challenges in improving nutritional quality and/or avoiding the accumulation of undesirable substances in plants using a variety of strategies based on modern biological tools and techniques.

First published in 1906, The Fool of Quality; a picaresque and sentimental novel by the Irish writer Henry Brooke, is the only one of his works which has enjoyed any great reputation.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die Fragmente des Grammatikers Dionysios Thrax.

Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel demonstrates that archives continually speak to the period's rising funeral and mourning culture, as well as the increasing commodification of death and mourning typically associated with nineteenth-century practices.

First published in 1995.

Originally published in 1924, this title is substantially a continuation of Baudouin's earlier work Studies in Psychoanalysis, being an application of psychoanalysis to the theory of aesthetics, as illustrated by a detailed study of the works of the Belgian poet Emile Verhaeren.

In Art and Memory in the Work of Elizabeth Bishop, Jonathan Ellis offers evidence for a redirection in Bishop studies toward a more thorough scrutiny of the links between Bishop's art and life.

Foot and mouth disease, CJD, GM, and fears about modern methods of food production have put food safety in the spotlight.

From robber barons to titanic CEOs, from the labor unrest of the 1880s to the mass layoffs of the 1990s, two American Gilded Agesone in the early 1900s, another in the final years of the twentieth centurymirror each other in their laissez-faire excess and rampant social crises.

Using nine recent theatrical and cinematic productions as case studies, it considers the productive contradictions and tensions that occur when contemporary actors perform the gender norms of previous cultures.

The career of Matthew Arnold as an eminent poet and the preeminent critic of his generation constitutes a remarkable historical spectacle orchestrated by a host of powerful Victorian cultural institutions.

This book explores the unique contributions of various forms of post-2000 life-writings such as the autobiography, epistles, and biographies, to discourses about the nature and socio-politics of what has become known as the Zimbabwean crisis (c.

For thousands of years, The Odyssey has resonated throughout the Western world.

This book reveals the unique contribution made by the three founding fathers of British fantasy-Lord Dunsany, E.

Where "e;Victorianism"e; once conjured up an image of smugness, hypocrisy, and mindlessness, it now suggests quite the reverse: an age of high intellectual, moral, and spiritual tension, in which the typical problems of modernity were posed in their most acute forms.