Literature: history and criticism

Culinary Nutrition: The Science and Practice of Healthy Cooking is the first textbook specifically written to bridge the relationship between food science, nutrition and culinology as well as consumer choices for diet, health and enjoyment.

Esta guía práctica sobre la vitamina D3 (calciferol) ofrece información detallada sobre uno de los nutrientes más importantes para nuestra salud.

How 19th-century soldier, adventurer and scholar Henry Rawlinson deciphered cuneiform, the world's earliest writing, and rediscovered Iraq's ancient civilisations.

Bioactive Food as Dietary Interventions for the Aging Population presents scientific evidence of the impact bioactive foods can have in the prevention and mediation of age related diseases.

Tauchen Sie ein in die tiefgehende spirituelle Welt der Sioux und entdecken Sie die Weisheit, die in ihren Ritualen und Legenden verborgen liegt.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Birthmark (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

We all have past experiences we wish we could redo or undo altogether.

How we build our invisible libraries Erich Auerbach wrote his classic work Mimesis, a history of narrative from Homer to Proust, based largely on his memory of past reading.

"Die Autoren sprechen eine Sprache, wir eine andere", schreibt Ruth Klüger, "sie sind gesättigt von ihren, wir von unseren Erfahrungen, sie werfen uns mit ihren Büchern ein Seil zu und ziehen an dessen einem Ende, wir am anderen, zwischen uns ist die Spannung.

How do we find contentment in God when we feel so hidden?

How can we ignite faith in the next generation?

Bring greater satisfaction to your relationship in every way--emotionally, spiritually, and physically--whether you're preparing for your honeymoon or are empty nesters looking for a new spark.

How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracyMaximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory figure of the French Revolution, inspiring passionate debate like no other protagonist of those dramatic and violent events.

This is the acclaimed central volume of the definitive biography of Franz Kafka.

A timely defense of liberalism that draws vital lessons from its greatest midcentury proponentsToday, liberalism faces threats from across the political spectrum.

Sequel to History offers a comprehensive definition of postmodernism as a reformation of time.

A groundbreaking account of translation and identity in the Chinese literary tradition before 1850-with important ramifications for todayDebates on the canon, multiculturalism, and world literature often take Eurocentrism as the target of their critique.

The description for this book, Gogol From the Twentieth Century: Eleven Essays, will be forthcoming.

For centuries, southern Europe, and Italy in particular, has offered writers far more than an evocative setting for important works of literature.

Heredera de la riquísima tradición oral wayuu -pero también de una tradición literaria escrita prácticamente desconocida en Colombia- Vicenta María Siosi Pino a través de los nueve relatos que componen Jaipai joutaleulojotu-Cerezas en verano nos muestra la cotidianidad de la dimensión mística, las duras condiciones de vida y los conflictos internos en la sociedad wayuu.

From the recipient of the National Jewish Book Award for Lifetime Achievement, a "e;hugely entertaining and irreverent"e; (Adam Gopnik, New Yorker) account of the art of translating the Hebrew Bible into EnglishIn this brief book, award-winning biblical translator and acclaimed literary critic Robert Alter offers a personal and passionate account of what he learned about the art of Bible translation over the two decades he spent completing his own English version of the Hebrew Bible.

Taking seriously Guillaume Apollinaire's wager that twentieth-century poets would one day "e;mechanize"e; poetry as modern industry has mechanized the world, Carrie Noland explores poetic attempts to redefine the relationship between subjective expression and mechanical reproduction, high art and the world of things.

With the transformation and expansion of the nineteenth-century American literary canon in the past two decades, the work of the era's American women poets has come to be widely anthologized.

Northern Arts is a magnificent and provocative exploration of Scandinavian literature and art.

In Ruthless Democracy, Timothy Powell reimagines the canonical origins of "e;American"e; identity by juxtaposing authors such as Hawthorne, Melville, and Thoreau with Native American, African American, and women authors.

Brook Thomas explores the new historicism and the challenges posed to it by a postmodern world that questions the very possibility of newness.

A unique look at Thomas Mann's intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United StatesIn September 1938, Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning author of Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain, fled Nazi Germany for the United States.

This book investigates the entire spectrum of techniques for portraying the mental lives of fictional characters in both the stream-of-consciousness novel and other fiction.

An original contribution to political theory and cultural studies this work argues for a reinterpretation of how race is described in US society.

This book argues that the most interesting depictions of blindness in French fiction are those which call into question and ultimately undermine the prevailing myths and stereotypes of blindness which dominate Western thought.

Without Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803), we simply would not understand Shakespeare in the way we do.

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Vital Signs offers both a compelling reinterpretation of the nineteenth-century novel and a methodological challenge to literary historians.

Where other works of literary criticism are absorbed with the question--How to read a book?

Paul John Eakin's earlier work Fictions in Autobiography is a key text in autobiography studies.

In Thinking of Others, Ted Cohen argues that the ability to imagine oneself as another person is an indispensable human capacity--as essential to moral awareness as it is to literary appreciation--and that this talent for identification is the same as the talent for metaphor.

Nearly all of us have studied poetry and been taught to look for the symbolic as well as literal meaning of the text.

Accepting Dante's prophetic truth claims on their own terms, Teodolinda Barolini proposes a "e;detheologized"e; reading as a global new approach to the Divine Comedy.

The Satan of Paradise Lost has fascinated generations of readers.

Like the products of the "e;sea-change"e; described in Ariel's song in The Tempest, modernist writing is "e;rich and strange.

Has anyone ever worked harder and longer at being immature than Philip Roth?

Jesus and Darwin do battle on car bumpers across America.

A magnificent one-volume abridgement of one of the greatest literary biographies of our timeJoseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language-and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century.

The late eighteenth century witnessed an influx of black women to the slave-trading ports of the American Northeast.

Lyric poetry has long been regarded as the intensely private, emotional expression of individuals, powerful precisely because it draws readers into personal worlds.

Virgil's Aeneid invites its reader to identify with the Roman nation whose origins and destiny it celebrates.

The ancient Greek lyric poet Simonides of Keos was the first poet in the Western tradition to take money for poetic composition.

The entertaining story of four utopian writers-Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman-and their continuing influence todayFor readers reared on the dystopian visions of Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Handmaid's Tale, the idea of a perfect society may sound more sinister than enticing.

Why did the language of contract become the dominant metaphor for the relationship between subject and sovereign in mid-seventeenth-century England?

Comparable in importance to Mikhail Bakhtin, Lydia Ginzburg distinguished herself among Soviet literary critics through her investigation of the social and historical elements that relate verbal art to life in a particular culture.