Literature: history and criticism

At the core of this book lies the relation between Power (as socio-political phenomenon) and the novel (as literary discourse).

Die Idylle steht im Spannungsfeld von Kitsch und Katastrophe, das Nils Jablonski durch medienkomparatistische close readings literarischer, filmischer und televisiver Texte untersucht.

Lange Zeit wurde Literatur von Roma gar nicht oder wenn nach stereotypen Bewertungsmustern betrachtet.

In Lost in the American City , Jeremy Tambling looks at European reactions to America and American cities in the nineteenth-century.

The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery explores how antiblack racism lived on through the figure of the Chinese worker in US literature after emancipation.

Leading critic John Leonard explores the writings of John Milton from his early poetry to his major prose.

Serpent symbolism plays an important role in Keats's rich animal imagery both on a quantitative level and on a qualitative one.

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The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature provides a broad-ranging introduction to some of the key critical fields, genres, and periods in Canadian literary studies.

A comprehensive guide to Austen''s works in the contexts of her contemporary world and present-day criticism.

Revisiting Shakespeare's Italian Resources is about the complex dynamics of transmission and transformation of the Italian sources of twelve Shakespearean plays, from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to Cymbeline.

La Seconda guerra mondiale costituisce una cesura nellastoria delle ricezioni del mito di Antigone: l'esperienza deltotalitarismo e della Resistenza condiziona in maniera determinantela lettura della tragedia di Sofocle.

This book covers the principles, underlying mechanisms, thermodynamic functions, kinetics and modeling aspects of sustainable technologies, particularly from the standpoint of applying physical, chemical and biological processes for the treatment of wastewater polluted with heavy metals.

Beyond Blaxploitationis a groundbreaking scholarly anthology devoted to examining canonical and lesser-known films of the blaxploitation movement to demonstrate the richness, depth, and complexity of this intriguing period in motion picture history.

This book reports findings of a qualitative study intended to disrupt notions of heteronormativity amongst preservice elementary teachers by engaging them in multimodal writing and text production around issues facing LGBTQIA+ youth.

In this innovative study, the author carves out a new field, a sociology of literature in which he offers insightful commentary about the nexus of literature and society.

A radical new interpretation of nineteenth-century sentimental literature in the United States.

Although 150 years have passed since Princess Victoria became Queen, the first twelve months of her reign remain relatively unexplored.

The exciting new book argues for a renewed emphasis on humanism--contrary to the trend of post-humanism, or what Neema Parvini calls "e;the anti-humanism"e; of the last several decades of literary and theoretical scholarship.

Offering a comprehensive view of the South's literary landscape, past and present, this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture celebrates the region's ever-flourishing literary culture and recognizes the ongoing evolution of the southern literary canon.

This volume investigates energy as a shaping force in Russian and Soviet literature, visual culture, and social practice.

In this innovative collection, an international group of scholars come together to discuss literary metaphors and cognitive metaphor theory.

Bringing the work of a highly influentialmedieval French writer to English-speaking audiences for the first timeThisbook explores the life and works of Jean Bodel, an influential author who livedin twelfth-century Arras, France.

An account of criticism as an urgent response to what moves us.

This edited collection from a distinguished group of contributors explores a range of topics including literature as imperialist propaganda, the representation of the colonies in British literature, the emergence of literary culture in the colonies and the creation of new gender roles such as 'girl Crusoes' in works of fiction.

Essential reading for all those interested in Irish literature and culture and its far-reaching effects on the world.

Novelist, culture critic, essayist, historian, comic satirist, image maker, actor, homosexual, bisexual, controversial, confrontational - finding words to describe Gore Vidal is never difficult.

A series of innovative studies in the textual and literary criticism of Latin literature and their mutually supportive relationship.

This book explains neoliberalism as a phenomenon of the capitalist world-system.

This book rediscovers a spiritual way of preparing the actor towards experiencing that ineffable artistic creativity defined by Konstantin Stanislavski as the creative state.

This book is an investigation of the foundation and evolution of romance in Iceland.

A new evaluation of one of the most significant Holocaust poets, Nelly Sachs (1891-1970), offering the first sustained critical analysis of Sachs's largely unanalyzed pre-war poetry and prose.

Initially described by Dickens as a 'savage stenographic mystery', shorthand was to become an essential and influential part of his toolkit as a writer.

This book addresses pertinent issues relating to microplastic pollution including its sources and sink of the microplastics and their environmental fate.

This collection of essays examines a wide range of topics relating to deconstruction, which emerged in France as a reaction to structuralism but has found its greatest response in America, where literary critics have built on its basic assumptions to create a new critical movement.

The message of Revelation speaks to Christians for all times, and historically has especially encouraged persecuted groups.

This book is a first attempt to map the broad context of performance studies from a multimodal perspective.

Global food security is a challenging issue.

Incorporating Science, Body, and Yoga in Nutrition-Based Eating Disorder Treatment and Recovery is a valuable, innovative guide that demonstrates how clients and clinicians can untangle, discern, and learn from the complex world of eating disorders.