Thomas Rimer's book seeks to explain the background, structural principles, and development of pre-modem and modern Japanese fiction in a way that is comprehensive, methodical, and accessible to the general reader.
This major interpretation of the life and art of Robert Lowell exposes the full relationship between the poetry and the personal and national experience to which it is so remarkably connected.
As an especially beautiful and pure example of the archaic epic styles that were once current among the hunting and fishing peoples of northern Asia, the Ainu epic folklore is of immense literary value.
This collection of essays has been compiled in the hope of making scholars in the rest of the world more familiar with Japanese studies in English literature.
The journey of the divine counterparts is a based on a true story of the lives lived by Edmund and Natasha, the amazing relationship they shared and the meaningful relationships they had as individuals.
Ranging over the tradition of verse satire from the Roman poets to their seventeenth- and eighteenth-century imitators in England and France, Howard D.
A thrilling illustrated history of Formula 1 racing, from its origins to its top drivers, by a celebrated motorsports broadcaster and star of Netflix s Formula 1: Drive to Survive.
Maxima Dalee is a deeply personal and emotionally charged collection of poetry that journeys through heartbreak, longing, loss, mental illness, resilience, and the enduring search for hope.
Encouraged by the response of the avid novel-reading public in early nineteenth-century England, minor novelists produced a staggering number of volumes that shaped styles, formed attitudes, and gave to the novel a new status and respectability.
Presented here in a new and complete translation is the Japanese classic Okagami, an historical talc that mirrors a man's life and the times in which he lived.
This bibliography of Hemingway's writings and related materials includes, for the first time, all of his books, pamphlets, stories, articles, newspaper contributions, juvenilia, library holdings of his letters and manuscripts, items written about Hemingway between 1918 and 1965, and short excerpts from reviews of each of Hemingway's novels.
"e; Real Lived Horror, My Supernatural Childhood "e; is the true testimony of Kevik Mohhe KOUAKOU, who grew up in a haunted house in Abidjan, built on an ancient African cemetery.
Making contact this way with the late Christopher Hitchens a prominent atheist, may appear a contradiction to his life's work, however once you hear his words about how this is possible, you may reconsider, or should I say, please consider.
A "e;symbolist"e; approach has dominated Shakespearean criticism for many years, but Ruth Nevo believes that the emphasis on static and pictorial aspects has obscured the essentially dynamic nature of dramatic expression and this study of the development of Shakespeare's tragic form is offered to correct the imbalance.
Puzzle Reading – The Reverse Reading Method That Turns Stories into Puzzles introduces a completely new way of reading: a structural method that reverses the order of sentences while keeping every word intact.
The Philological Quarterly's annual bibliographies of modern studies in English neoclassical literature, published originally from 1961 to 1970, are reproduced in two volumes.
Distinguishing between the incomplete poem and the unfinished poem, Professor Rajan sees the unfinished poem as remaining in dialogue with its own dissensions.
Joseph Wittreich reveals Samson to be an intensely political work that reflects the heroic ambitions and failings of the Puritan Revolution and the tragic ambiguities of the era.
In 1989, the centenary of his death, Gerard Manley Hopkins continues to provoke fundamental questions among scholars: what major poetic strategy informs his work and how did his reflections on the nature of poetry affect his writing?
Professor Alpers argues that Spenser's purpose in The Faerie Queene was not to create a fictional world or to imitate action, but to create and manipulate the reader's response.
In their lectures on King Lear, the eight contributors to this volume fulfill Shakespeare's rigorous injunction to Speak what we feel"e; about the playwright's amplest tragedy.
Michelle Zerba engages current debates about the relationship between literature and theory by analyzing responses of theorists in the Western tradition to tragic conflict.
The Advent Lyrics, a group of Old English religious antiphons (formerly called Christ I) dating from about the 9th century, are presented in this edition as an independent group of poems disengaged, for the first time, from Cynewulf's Christ.
"e;If salvaging truth becomes difficult in cultures which keep rebuilding and changing their pasts or accept annually the repetitions of natural renewal, Debora Greger's Movable Islands demonstrates that it can still be done successfully.
This book is a study of Ben Jonson's relationship with his audience in the public theater, as the relationship changed in the course of his career from the comical satires to Bartholomew Fair.
"e;Well translated by Lacy Lockert, who provided an excellent critical introduction, this is a valuable selection of the plays of the great French Neo-Classicist.
Since the Roman de la Rose had tremendous influence on the poetry of the fourteenth century, particularly on the works of Deschamps, Machaut, Froissart, and Chaucer, Professor Fleming maintains that it is important for the modern reader to understand what this influential moral satire meant to readers of the medieval period.
Translators Leonard Nathan and James Larson present seventy-five poems from Gunnar Ekelof's middle phase (1938-1959), a period that saw the production of his richest and most enduring poetry.
One of the most racy, entertaining, and valuable contemporary accounts of Byron, Medwin's Conversations created a furor among Byron's many friends and enemies, especially those who appear in it.
