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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375398763Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 54gDimensions(mm)...

For over forty years Saul Bellow has been writing fiction that denounces the destructive forces that have dominated the literature of this century--existential nihilism and historicist pessimism. In novel after novel--The Adventures of Augie March,...

Disciplines from literary studies to environmentalism have recently undergone a spectacular reorientation that has refocused entire fields, methodologies, and vocabularies on the world and its sister terms such as globe, planet, and earth. The Bloomsbury...

These two works belong to that group of books written by one of this century's fiercest and most devoted child advocates. In the first, Korczak uses fiction to reveal the joys and sorrows of a child, a ten-year-old, juxtaposing them against the feelings...

The subject of this book-an Italian-born exiled Prince-has become an icon of misjudged romanticism and Scottish nationalism; much of this is due to the way he has been portrayed over the years. This study traces how the enduring visual image of Prince...

Although often overlooked today, James Fenimore Cooper's novels represent the very beginnings of American literature. Singlehandedly, the gentleman farmer from upstate New York created the American historical, spy, sea, frontier, science fiction, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906964245Author Gary DexterFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375385923Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 54gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945427008Author Sean Lee LevinFormat PaperbackPage Count 446Imprint Meteor HousePublisher Meteor HouseWeight(grams) 649gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

This Element throws new light on James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson by investigating its early publication history. Despite precarious psychological and financial circumstances and other limitations, Boswell was both author and publisher of the...

With forty-four newly commissioned articles from an international cast of leading scholars, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science traces the network of connections among literature, science, technology, mathematics, and medicine. Divided into...

"A work of enormous importance. Of all the poems of the English Middle Ages, Piers Plowman is the one that most deserves and needs annotation of the fullest and best possible kind, both because it is a text of unrivaled literary quality and interest, and...

Plots, Designs, and Schemes is the first study that investigates the long history of American conspiracy theories from the perspective of literary and cultural studies. Since research in these fields has so far almost exclusively focused on the...

Stemmatology studies aspects of textual criticism that use genealogical methods to analyse a set of copies of a text whose autograph has been lost. This handbook is the first to cover the entire field, encompassing both theoretical and practical aspects...

From Achebe and Austen to Zola and Zweig, and from the Epic of Gilgamesh to twenty-first century dystopias and autofiction, here is the complete list of every Penguin Classic in print. The list is arranged alphabetically by author and also includes key...

"Clarissa" on the Continent defines and explores two strategies of literary translation-creative vs. preservative and strong vs. weak-as they transform one of the most influential English novels. Thomas Beebee compares the two opposing strategies as they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781918125078Author Sander PleijFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Ra & Olly LtdPublisher Ra & Olly Ltd

Threshold Poetics: Milton and Intersubjectivity is a study of the challenge intersubjective experience poses to doctrinal formulations of difference. Focusing on Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes and using feminist and relational psychoanalytic theory,...

This first full-length study of William Bronk, one of our most important contemporary poets and essayists, locates his work in relation to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century New England literary tradition, to later twentieth-century modernism, and to...

Edith Wharton enjoyed a complex relationship with earlymodernism. On the one hand, as a writer committed to the seriousness of novel writing as an art, her love of French literature and her close relationship with Henry James made her open to experiment...

The revisions of the French Revolution by three prominent eighteenth- century writers are focused on in this book. The implication in the OtraditionO these writers rebelled against raises fundamental questions about the representations of rebels and...

This book is the first work in the English language to discuss the participation of women writers in the narrative construction of Mozambican nationhood over the past half-century. Covering the rise of anti-colonial nationalism in the 1950s, the advent...

The subjects of the essays in Latin American Shakespeares range from the nineteenth century through the present; from high- to middle- to low-brow stories, plays, films, and poems; from Mexico to Argentina, Chile, Cuba, the U.S. barrio, and diverse...

This Companion presents an authoritative study of British utopian literature and culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Written by leading scholars, it offers a wide-ranging account of utopian thinking in novels, plays, films, TV, fanzines,...

This Companion presents an authoritative study of British utopian literature and culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Written by leading scholars, it offers a wide-ranging account of utopian thinking in novels, plays, films, TV, fanzines,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916074385Author Rosamund ConnellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 2Imprint The Literary Map CompanyPublisher The Literary Map Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781918125023Author Sander PleijFormat PaperbackImprint Ra & Olly LtdPublisher Ra & Olly Ltd

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a...

This book by a major scholar of William Faulkner's writings collects choice selections of his Faulkner criticism from the past fifteen years. Its publication underscores the significance of his indispensable work in Faulkner studies, both in criticism...

This encyclopedia introduces readers to American poetry, fiction and nonfiction with a focus on the environment (broadly defined as humanity's natural surroundings), from the discovery of America through the present. The work includes biographical and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529923261Author Orlando ReadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint VintagePublisher Vintage PublishingWeight(grams) 200g

Read an interview with Norbert Bachleitner. In this 200th volume of Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft the editors Norbert Bachleitner, Achim H. Hölter and John A. McCarthy ‘take stock’ of the discipline...

For Mark Twain, it was love at first landfall. Samuel Clemens first encountered the Bermuda Islands in 1867 on a return voyage from the Holy Land and found them much to his liking. One of the most isolated spots in the world, Bermuda offered the writer a...

This is an assessment of the Central and East European Publishing Project, an initiative designed to support embattled Central and East European publishers and journals, and to punch holes through the cultural Iron Curtain by encouraging translations...

This volume illuminates and gives voice to actors, objects, events, and processes from the early 1400s to the late 1800s and thinks about how they may relate to Latinx expressive literatures and cultures, challenging common paradigms that think of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362999009Author Marcus Tullius CiceroPage Count 208Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781662426339Author Roy D PerkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Page Publishing, IncPublisher Page Publishing, IncWeight(grams) 152g

Gleaning Modernity shows how earlier eighteenth-century literary texts might have eased the way for Britain's increasing modernity. They allowed Modern scenarios to be played out imaginatively, as simulations for experimental, predictive ends. The...

This book builds upon critical reevaluations of modernism and British literature of the 1930s with a simultaneous focus on discourses of race, gender, and empire. The essays direct attention to the complications and ambivalence accumulating around the...