Literature: history and criticism

This book argues that Milton used innovative and cunning means to persuade readers in an age distrustful of traditional rhetoric.

Globally, cereal grains are a staple part of the diet providing primarily carbohydrates and other phytochemical components.

What became of Erasmus' books?

This book is an excellent introduction to the individuals, events and currents which shaped medieval English mystical texts.

The influences of William Wordsworth's writing and evolutionary theory-the nineteenth century's two defining visions of nature-conflicted in the Victorian period.

Contemporary children's literature in Bangla celebrates irreverent, defiant and deviant boys whose subversive doings critique the parenting and schooling they go through, while the girl child is neglected and marginalised.

GREEK DRAMA and the Invention of Rhetoric An impressively erudite, elegantly crafted argument for reversing what everybody knows about the relation of two literary genres that played before mass audiences in the Athenian city state.

Women's Manga in Asia and Beyond offers a variety of perspectives on women's manga and the nature, scope, and significance of the relationship between women and comics/manga, both globally as well as locally.

In this fascinating and revealing book, first published in 1968, Maxwell examines the life and work of Herman Melville.

This book explores the adaptation and appropriation of a range of canonical and lesser-known British and Irish novels of the eighteenth century.

This title was first published in 2003.

Much good criticism of Mrquez came in the wake of One Hundred Years of Solitude and the perception of his fiction has been dominated by that novel.

Benedict Anderson, professor at Cornell and specialist in Southeast Asian studies, is best known for his book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1991).

The potential duality of human character and its capacity for dissembling was a source of fascination to the Elizabethan dramatists.

Schiller ist ein Meister der theatralischen Performanz.

Exploiting a link between early modern concepts of the medical and the literary, David Houston Wood suggests that the recent critical attention to the gendered, classed, and raced elements of the embodied early modern subject has been hampered by its failure to acknowledge the role time and temporality play within the scope of these admittedly crucial concerns.

Strange Likeness provides the first full account of how Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) was rediscovered by twentieth-century poets, and the uses to which they put that discovery in their own writing.

This unique collection of extracts is taken from women's journals and magazines - both British and American - on the eve of the twentieth century.

Germanic mythology is currently experiencing a significant boom in audiovisual media, especially among younger audiences.

Phytochemicals: Mechanisms of Action is the latest volume in a highly regarded series that addresses the roles of phytochemicals in disease prevention and health promotion.

Narcoepics Unbound foregrounds the controversial yet mostly untheorized phenomenon of contemporary Latin American 'narcoepics.

The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies in global contexts, addressing issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with Shakespeare's work and his time.

This book contributes to various political debates about Central Europe in terms of its literary-symbolic geography.

This book provides extensive information on the chemicals that inhabit our environment, our food, our water and our air and the impact that they may be having on human health.

Jeremy Citrome employs the language of contemporary psychoanalysis to explain how surgical metaphors became an important tool of ecclesiastical power in the wake of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215.

This book breaks new ground by showing that the work of David Foster Wallace originates from and functions in the space between philosophy and literature.

Prison Writing and the Literary World tackles international prison writingand writing about imprisonment in relation to questions of literary representationand formal aesthetics, the "e;value"e; or "e;values"e; of literature,textual censorship and circulation, institutional networks and literary-criticalmethodologies.

Reference to or quotation from someone's speech, thoughts, or writing is a key component of narrative.

First published in 1984, this biography gives an account of Jonathan Swift's political ideas and provides a critical commentary on his major works.

An introduction to the work of Zadie Smith, placing her fiction in a clear historical and theoretical context, and exploring her work in relation to contemporaneity and postcolonialism.

In der Kinder- und Jugendbuchforschung gilt übereinstimmend, dass im Gegensatz zur allgemeinen Literaturgeschichtsschreibung eine verlässliche Materialbasis noch vollständig fehlt und die vorhandenen Lücken nur schrittweise geschlossen werden können.

This volume introduces students to the most important figures, movements and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry.

This book offers a clear and stimulating introduction to Homer's Iliad, the greatest poem of Western culture.

Wales may be small, but culturally it is richly varied.

Transcribing a text within a Medieval manuscript was often not a culturally and ideologically neutral act.

The first collection of letters in English by one of the great writers of the twentieth centuryThis is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century.

An overview of the life, work and continuing importance of the pre-eminent African American intellectual of the twentieth century.

Schwerpunkt des Jahrbuchs 2002/2003 sind - mit Tamara Ramsay, Astrid Lindgren und Enid Blyton - Klassiker der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur.