Mark Twain explores the darker side of life in these lesser-known later writings dealing with personal tragedies, nightmarish world events, and a doubtful cosmic order.
A Literary History of Southern California offers a deep exploration into the evolving cultural and literary identity of a region that has long captured the American imagination.
The Custom of the Castle: From Malory to Macbeth explores the enduring narrative motif of the "e;custom of the castle,"e; from its early conception by Chretien de Troyes in twelfth-century romances to its reimagining in Renaissance literature.
In February 1978, the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E newsletter, founded and edited by Charles Bernstein and Bruce Andrews, established the first public venue for the thriving correspondence of an emerging set of ambitious young poets.
Reading Geoffrey Chaucer: An Introduction offers students, general readers, and teachers an accessible series of essays on select works by Chaucer that emphasizes how those works' deepest concerns and most fraught complexities remain urgently relevant in our present day.
Literary Criticism: Idea and Act: The English Institute, 19391972: Selected Essays delves into the rich intellectual legacy of the English Institute, tracing its evolution from its inception in 1939 through its significant influence on American literary criticism over three decades.
The Intervals of Robert Frost: A Critical Bibliography by Louis and Esther Mertins is an illuminating exploration of the enduring friendship between the celebrated poet Robert Frost and collector Louis Mertins.
American literature offers exceptional resources for understanding the complex role religion has played in the life of the culture and in the experience of its people.
The Shakespeare Sonnet Order, Poems and Groups, by Brents Stirling, confronts one of the most persistent puzzles in Shakespeare studies: the sequence of the 1609 Quarto.
The Custom of the Castle: From Malory to Macbeth explores the enduring narrative motif of the "e;custom of the castle,"e; from its early conception by Chretien de Troyes in twelfth-century romances to its reimagining in Renaissance literature.
The Shakespeare Sonnet Order, Poems and Groups, by Brents Stirling, confronts one of the most persistent puzzles in Shakespeare studies: the sequence of the 1609 Quarto.
Literary Criticism: Idea and Act: The English Institute, 19391972: Selected Essays delves into the rich intellectual legacy of the English Institute, tracing its evolution from its inception in 1939 through its significant influence on American literary criticism over three decades.
The Intervals of Robert Frost: A Critical Bibliography by Louis and Esther Mertins is an illuminating exploration of the enduring friendship between the celebrated poet Robert Frost and collector Louis Mertins.
Combining the resources of new historicism, feminism, and postmodern textual analysis, Eric Mallin reveals how contemporary pressures left their marks on three Shakespeare plays written at the end of Elizabeths reign.
Ovid: A Poet Between Two Worlds is Hermann Frnkel's masterful reappraisal of Rome's most mercurial poet, presented as part of the Sather Classical Lectures.
The Italian Ars Nova Music: A Bibliographic Guide to Modern Editions and Related Literature is an essential resource for scholars, students, and enthusiasts of Italian Trecento music.
Les Brumes du destin retrace le parcours de Said, Ali et d’autres personnages que le destin malmène au gré des mutations sociologiques et historiques et dont l’histoire personnelle se confond avec celle du pays durant la colonisation.
Par ces temps de bouleversements socio-économiques accouplés à un avenir incertain, et compte tenu des menaces climatiques et environnementales qu’il n’est plus possible d’ignorer, une relecture du monde et de la planète semblent s’imposer.
Theology After Reading explores how recent novelists, alongside certain post-War Christian theologians, appear to be challenging, inverting, reinterpreting, and sometimes even affirming, the basic questions and answers of more traditional theologians.
The Year of My Life: A Translation of Issa's Oraga Haru by Nobuyuki Yuasa brings one of Japan's most beloved haiku poets into vivid English, capturing both the poignancy of his life and the deceptive simplicity of his art.
The Year of My Life: A Translation of Issa's Oraga Haru by Nobuyuki Yuasa brings one of Japan's most beloved haiku poets into vivid English, capturing both the poignancy of his life and the deceptive simplicity of his art.
A New Approach to Joyce: The Portrait of the Artist as a Guidebook offers a fresh perspective for readers seeking to understand James Joyce's complex works without the barriers of esoteric academic jargon or oversimplification.
A New Approach to Joyce: The Portrait of the Artist as a Guidebook offers a fresh perspective for readers seeking to understand James Joyce's complex works without the barriers of esoteric academic jargon or oversimplification.
The Italian Ars Nova Music: A Bibliographic Guide to Modern Editions and Related Literature is an essential resource for scholars, students, and enthusiasts of Italian Trecento music.
Medieval French Literature and Law explores the intricate relationship between medieval French literature and the profound judicial transformations of the 12th and 13th centuries.
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.
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 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.
