Medieval French Literature and Law explores the intricate relationship between medieval French literature and the profound judicial transformations of the 12th and 13th centuries.
Abjection and Representation is a theoretical investigation of the concept of abjection as expounded by Julia Kristeva in Powers of Horror (1982) and its application in various fields including the visual arts, film and literature.
Blake Nevius's Robert Herrick: The Development of a Novelistoffers a rigorously contextualized reassessment of an American realist whose reputation straddles the interregnum between Howells and the moderns.
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.
Blake Nevius's Robert Herrick: The Development of a Novelistoffers a rigorously contextualized reassessment of an American realist whose reputation straddles the interregnum between Howells and the moderns.
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 rapprochement of anthropology and literary studies, begun nearly fifteen years ago by such pioneering scholars as Clifford Geertz, Edward Said, and James Clifford, has led not only to the creation of the new scholarly domain of cultural studies but to the deepening and widening of both original fields.
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.
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.
Dickens, Money, and Society explores how Charles Dickens' fiction wrestles with one of the central realities of Victorian England: the pervasive power of money.
Dickens, Money, and Society explores how Charles Dickens' fiction wrestles with one of the central realities of Victorian England: the pervasive power of money.
Tristram Shandy's World: Sterne's Philosophical Rhetoric by John Traugott offers a major reappraisal of Laurence Sterne's most provocative work, arguing that Tristram Shandy is less a ';novel' than a sustained rhetorical performance.
An Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetics: Art, Community, and Experience gives students and other readers a comprehensive sense of the dynamic issues and problems in aesthetics and philosophy of art today.
Tristram Shandy's World: Sterne's Philosophical Rhetoric by John Traugott offers a major reappraisal of Laurence Sterne's most provocative work, arguing that Tristram Shandy is less a ';novel' than a sustained rhetorical performance.
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.
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'UniversalisLes Memoires de Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (1675-1755), ou Memoires du duc de Saint-Simon couvrant les annees 1691-1723 et comportant, notamment, la chronique des annees 1701 a 1723, c'est-a-dire la fin du regne de Louis XIV et les debuts de la Regence, ne parurent que fort tard : projetes en 1694, ecrits dans les annees 1739-1749, ils furent saisis - parmi un tres grand nombre de manuscrits - sur ordre du duc de Choiseul en 1760, transportes au depot des archives des Affaires etrangeres, et circulerent sous le manteau durant le XVIIIe siecle.
This collection examines representations of Spanish queer aging through investigations of literary and cinematic representations of this demographic, offering a showcase for research on communities often made invisible due to age and sexual identity in Spanish culture with wider implications for queer aging studies research.
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).
Columbus is the first blazing star in a constellation of European adventurers whose right to claim and conquer each land mass they encountered was absolutely unquestioned by their countrymen.
