Literature: history and criticism

The culture of nineteenth-century Russia is often seen as dominated by realism in the arts, as exemplified by the novels of Leo Tolstoy and Ivan Turgenev, the paintings of 'the Wanderers,' and the historical operas of Modest Mussorgsky.

Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality draws together 13 essays, which offer a major reassessment of the criticism of desire, body and sexuality in Shakespeare's drama and poetry.

Culture, 1922 traces the intellectual and institutional deployment of the culture concept in England and America in the first half of the twentieth century.

In ancient Greece, the spoken word connoted power, whether in the free speech accorded to citizens or in the voice of the poet, whose song was thought to know no earthly bounds.

Latin epics such as Virgil's Aeneid, Lucan's Civil War, and Statius's Thebaid addressed Roman aristocrats whose dealings in gifts, favors, and payments defined their conceptions of social order.

The tensions between utopian dreams and dystopian anxieties permeate science fiction as a genre, and nowhere is this tension more evident than in Star Trek.

Although many depictions of the city in prose, poetry, and visual art can be found dating from earlier periods in human history, Obsession, Aesthetics, and the Iberian City emphasizes a particular phase in urban development.

First published in 1972.

Sometimes image, sometimes word, and often both or neither, concrete poetry emerged out of an era of groundbreaking social and technological developments.

Spanning the period from Elizabeth I's reign to Charles II's restoration, this study argues the garden is a primary site evincing a progressive narrative of change, a narrative that looks to the Edenic as obtainable ideal in court politics, economic prosperity, and national identity in early modern England.

While most work on Dionysus is based on Greek sources, this collection of essays examines the god's Roman and Italian manifestations.

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In this classic work, acclaimed Shakespeare critic C.

Adults living in certain olive-growing areas of the Mediterranean Basin display high life expectancies and rates of chronic disease that are among the lowest in the world.

This book discusses Lucretius' refutation of Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras and other, unnamed thinkers in De Rerum Natura 1, 635-920.

Ovid's Homer examines the Latin poet's engagement with the Homeric poems throughout his career.

Passion's Fictions traces the intimate links between literature and the sciences of mind and soul from the age of Shakespeare to the rise of the novel.

Horror fiction stormed the bestseller lists with classics like Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist, setting the stage for Stephen King's worldwide popularity, but the genre has literary roots going back centuries.

Discussions about the nature of the emotions in Hellenistic philosophy have aroused intense scholarly interest over the last few years.

Includes ten volumes, which are suitable for Defoe scholars and academics of eighteenth-century history, religion and literature.

This Companion offers fresh critical perspectives on T.

An engaging overview for students and readers of Atwood''s life, works, contexts and reception.

Medieval America analyzes literary, legal, and historical archives that help tell a new story about the formation of American culture.

Through readings of Ishiguro's repurposing of key elements of realism and modernism; his interest in childhood imagination and sketching; interrogation of aesthetics and ethics; his fascination with architecture and the absent home; and his expressionist use of 'imaginary' space and place, Kazuo Ishiguro's Gestural Poetics examines the manner in which Ishiguro's fictions approach, but never quite reveal, the ineffable, inexpressible essence of his narrators' emotionally fraught worlds.

How communities can collaborate across systems and sectors to address environmental health disparities; with case studies from Rochester, New York; Duluth, Minnesota; and Southern California.

China's most important love comedy, Wang Shifu's Xixiangji, or The Story of the Western Wing, is a rollicking play that chronicles the adventures of the star-crossed lovers Oriole and Student Zhang.

This is the first hands-on methods guide for second-language (L2) reading research.

Forty years after Roe v.

The concept of food and nutrition security has evolved and risen to the top of the international policy agenda over the last decade.

This is Volume seven in a collection of ten of the Selected Works of I.

In diesem grundlegenden Werk geht es um die Darstellung und Interpretation einer Kulturgeschichte der Literatur im Spannungsfeld von buchstäblichem Verstehen und symbolischer Deutung.

Originally published in 1926.

A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) are major plays by Tennessee Williams, one of America's most significant dramatists.

The Christian faith is difficult--intellectually, morally, and spiritually.

Signs and Cities is the first book to consider what it means to speak of a postmodern moment in African-American literature.

This novel and informative book discusses the various aspects of seafood quality.

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for George Meredith's The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, published in 1859 and regarded as his best work.

Celebrations of literary fictions as autonomous worlds appeared first in the Renaissance and were occasioned, paradoxically, by their power to remedy the ills of history.

Die zu der Sammlung der hippokratischen Schriften gehörende Abhandlung nimmt im Corpus eine Sonderstellung ein, da sie mit ziemlicher Sicherheit einem bestimmten Autor zugewiesen werden kann: Polybos, dem Schüler und Schwiegersohn des Hippokrates.

What's in a shadow?

Diet Evaluation: A Guide to Planning a Healthy Diet provides knowledge about diet and health along with an accurate and convenient way to assess the nutritional adequacy of individual and family diets.

This book rethinks Victorian biography and some of its major practitioners from the perspectives of Bakhtinian and Foucauldian discourse theory.

August 1781 saw the publication of a manual on fox hunting that would become a classic of its genre.