Postwar British Fiction: New Accents and Attitudes by James Gindin offers the first comprehensive account of the striking changes in British literature after 1945.
Immerse yourself in the groundbreaking artistic vision of Sameh AL Tawil, the renowned Egyptian-German multimedia artist whose work transcends conventional boundaries of medium and expression.
Spencers World of Glass: A Reading of *The Faerie Queenepresents Kathleen Williams's luminous reappraisal of Spenser as not merely a painter of sumptuous scenes but a rigorous maker of worlds.
First published in 1923, the original blurb reads: "e;This series of studies by a distinguished neurologist and psychiatrist, who is also an accomplished writer, will stir clamorous approval and dissent.
Larry Eigner (1927-1996), born with cerebral palsy, was an active and significant figure for the New American Poets of the 1950s and 1960s, particularly with the Black Mountain School.
In Mans Estate, the exploration of masculine identity takes center stage as Shakespeare's works are examined through the lens of psychoanalytic theory and historical context.
Mastro-don Gesualdo by Giovanni Verga is a masterpiece of Italian verismo, offering a poignant exploration of ambition, social mobility, and personal tragedy in 19th-century Sicily.
Luigi Pirandello: A Study of Genius and Isolation offers a comprehensive exploration of the life, work, and legacy of one of Italys most enigmatic literary figures.
The Ill-Framed Knight: A Skeptical Inquiry into the Identity of Sir Thomas Malory embarks on a meticulous and spirited investigation into the enigmatic figure behind the Le Morte dArthur.
Mastro-don Gesualdo by Giovanni Verga is a masterpiece of Italian verismo, offering a poignant exploration of ambition, social mobility, and personal tragedy in 19th-century Sicily.
Prophetic Woman: Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England offers an incisive exploration of how the story of Anne Hutchinson has been repeatedly reshaped in American cultural narratives to address anxieties about female autonomy, dissent, and individualism.
Clement Marot and the Inflections of Poetic Voice delves into the dynamic intersections of persona, form, and voice in the poetry of Clement Marot, the foremost French poet of his time and a pioneer at the crossroads of medieval and Renaissance poetics.
Luigi Pirandello: A Study of Genius and Isolation offers a comprehensive exploration of the life, work, and legacy of one of Italys most enigmatic literary figures.
Two Novels of Mexico: The Flies / The Bosses by Mariano Azuela translated by Lesley Byrd Simpson brings the founding novelist of the Mexican Revolution back to the scenes that forged his art: panic, opportunism, and moral reckoning in a society unmade by war.
Originally published posthumously in 1980, this book centres on 5 British poets - Geoffrey Hill, Philip Larkin, Jon Silkin, Thom Gunn and Charles Tomlinson - and on the emergence in postwar British poetry of 'double-lyrics', poems which have, according to the author 'become two persons, two ways of expressing and attending critically in dramatic divisive conflict.
The Faerie Queene anticipates postmodernist concerns with destabilizing language, and Lauren Silbermans stimulating study of Books III and IV of the poem proceeds from the assumption that Spenser has something important to say to us in the late twentieth century.
This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.
Es incuestionable la importancia que tuvo el estudio del artista en la literatura decimonónica como lugar en el que los autores podían disentir y articular opiniones diferentes de aquellas marcadas como "normales" por las reglas socioculturales de su época.
The World of Jean Anouilh by Leonard Cabell Pronko presents the French dramatist as one of the twentieth century's most incisive playwrights, a writer whose enduring reputation rests on his exploration of moral compromise, political expediency, and the tension between purity and complicity.
À l’image de Stendhal décrivant le roman comme un miroir que l’on promène le long du chemin, Alain Rouet nous convie, dans Question d’éthique, à une promenade sur le thème du bonheur moral.
The World of Jean Anouilh by Leonard Cabell Pronko presents the French dramatist as one of the twentieth century's most incisive playwrights, a writer whose enduring reputation rests on his exploration of moral compromise, political expediency, and the tension between purity and complicity.
A new genre of writing demonstrating that translation is neither a transparent medium nor a secondary form of literatureIn Translation Multiples, Kasia Szymanska examines what happens when translators, poets, and artists expose the act of translation by placing parallel translation variants next to one another in a standalone work of art, presenting each as a legitimate version of the original.
Ce livre explore les marges de la littérature du moi, les " vies secrètes " d'écrivains du XIXe et du XXe siècles, au gré de vingt-deux communications.
Encoding Bioethics addresses important ethical concerns from the perspective of each of the stakeholders who will develop, deploy, and use artificial intelligence systems to support clinical decisions.
