ELT & Literary Studies Books
MB - Cornell University Press The Domostroi
Book SynopsisA manual on household management, the "Domostroi" is one of the few sources on the social history and secular life of Russia in the time of Ivan the Terrible.Trade ReviewThe Domostroi is a wonderful resource for the social history of the Muscovite period that is, sadly, little seen by any but the most serious specialist.... This translation goes a long way toward opening the Domostroi to a wider audience.... The translation itself reads well—a difficult feat, considering the abstruse style of the original. Throughout, Pouncy uses footnotes to educate readers with fuller information about the history and society of Muscovy, controversies among modern historians, choices she made for the translation and bibliographic citations for her work. * Russian Review *The Domostroi, which literally means 'household order,' is a 16th-century Russian guide to life for noblemen, an exhaustive inventory of homilies, rules and recipes ranging from how to instill obedience in a wife to instructions for making mead and storing cabbage. Students of Russian history have long valued the Domostroi for its insights into how society was ordered in the early days of czarist rule. But even the merely curious can revel in the domestic preoccupations and atavistic advice in this ably translated and annotated edition.. Much of the Domostroi reads like a kind of 'Hints from Heloise'—and Abelard. -- Alessandra Stanley * New York Times Book Review *Table of ContentsIntroductionThe DomostroiAppendix: Contents of Manuscripts Glossary Suggestions for Future Reading Printed Editions of the Domostroi Index
£16.99
ME - Fordham University Press SoundingSilence Martin Heidegger at the Limits
Book SynopsisSounding/Silence argues for the significance Martin Heidegger’s writing on poetry for the discipline of poetics. Focusing on Heidegger’s accounts of rhythm, metaphor, the relation between text and reader, and the relation between philosophy and poetry, Nowell Smith ultimately outlines a ‘poetics of limit’ that reaches beyond Heidegger’s own thinking.Trade Review"This is a major work of critical thought... highly recommended." -Choice "Nowell Smith's adventurous book shows that what is valuable in Heidegger's poetics is its disclosure of a truth in poetry opening up areas in which the reader can leave Heidegger behind. While Heidegger might still try to feign ownership of this clearing away of his own problematic authority, it is the poetry and its characteristic sounding of its own voice that exceed his. Nowell Smith reads Heidegger's readings of poems whose prosody is the catalyst of this transformation. He persuades us that Heidegger tries to see poetic figure, rhythm, and metrical invention as effacing themselves before an insight into the being of language. In fact, though, he exposes his own paradoxical reliance on poetry to try to establish the philosophical control his insights have empowered poetry to displace. To read Heidegger adequately here is to read him despite himself. Nowell Smith carefully and accessibly unpacks the ways in which Heidegger sets the poems to work against his philosophical unleashing of their own authority. Throughout, this central struggle of Heidegger's thought with itself is dramatized by concrete poetic examples and so by close attention to Heidegger's close attention to the words on the page. The result is a work with unusual power to make us intimate with Heidegger's still-compelling mix of the highest philosophical abstraction and the closest intimacy with the living contexts of expression." -- -Paul Hamilton Queen Mary, University of London "The best book on Heidegger and poetry that I have ever read, Nowell-Smith's Sounding/Silence takes both Heidegger and poetry very seriously, presuming that the most worthwhile goal is to do justice to both in an attempt to advance our understanding of poetics." -- -Jonathan Culler Cornell University "'Sounding/Silence' is a welcome contribution to a growing movement to rehabilitate literary criticism left casting about in the ruins that critical theory has made of literature studies." -The Review of MetaphysicsTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Note on the text Introduction: The limits of poetics 1. For the first time 2. The naming power of the word 3. Heidegger's figures 4. Reading Heidegger reading Conclusion: A Poetics of Limit? Notes Bibliography Index
£49.50
MP-MLA Modern Lanuage Assoc An Introduction to the Gothic Language
Book SynopsisPresents twenty-seven graded readings, each accompanied by a vocabulary and an explanation of grammatical details; the final chapter provides a sample of the Codex Argenteus. Among the readings, the first seven are in effect preliminary exercises. The remaining twenty readings represent the Gothic Bible and the Skeireins.Trade ReviewAn introductory textbook of Gothic by a scholar of Professor Bennett's eminence is of course to be welcomed without qualification, the more so because it in no way duplicates its competitors in the field. The clarity of presentation is exemplary." --Modern Language Review
£26.55
The 87 Press Son of Sin
Book SynopsisIn this extraordinary work, Omar Sakr deftly weaves a multifaceted tale brimming with angels and djinn, racist kangaroos and adoring bats, examining with a poet's eye the destructive impetus of repressed desire and the complexities that make us human.
£13.49
Modern Language Association of America Teaching Narrative Theory
Book SynopsisThe last two decades have seen a burst of renewed interest in narrative theory across many academic disciplines as scholars analyze the power of storytelling in print and other media. Teaching Narrative Theory provides a comprehensive resource for instructors who aim to help students identify and understand the distinctive features of narrativity in a text or discourse and make use of the terms and concepts of the field.This volume in the Options for Teaching series is organized to assist teachers at different levels of instruction and in different disciplinary settings. In twenty-one essays, the contributors discuss narrative theory’s various teaching contexts (e.g., classes on literature, creative writing, and folklore and ethnography); key concepts and terms (e.g., story and plot, time and space, voice, perspective); applications beyond printed texts (e.g., film and digital media); and impact on other areas of theory (e.g., gender and ethnic studies). A glossary provides a guide to the challenging technical terminology characteristic of the field, and the volume as a whole emphasizes the importance of understanding and implementing technical terms in learning narrative theory.
£36.86
Renard Press Ltd The Art of Fiction
Book SynopsisThat fiction is a lady, and a lady who has somehow got herself in to trouble, is a thought that must often have struck her admirers.'Penned in 1927 but first published posthumously in The Moment and Other Essays in 1947, The Art of Fiction' sets out perhaps more clearly than anywhere else Woolf's advice to writers of fiction, instructing authors to focus on language choices rather than dwelling on concerns around accuracy. On one level an amusing collection in Woolf's trademark style, skewering male writers of yore, taken together these essays form an invaluable writing guide from one of the finest craftspeople of the English language.
£6.79
Manchester University Press A Game at Chess
Book SynopsisFor many years Middleton''s A Game at Chess was more notorious than read, considered rather a phenomenon of theatrical history than a pre-eminent piece of dramatic writing. A Game at Chess was a nine days'' wonder, an exceptional play of King James'' reign on account of its unprecedented representation of matters of state usually forbidden on the stage. The King''s Men performed the play uninterruptedly between 5th and 14th August, 1624 at their Globe Theatre, attracting large audiences, before the Privy Council closed the theatre by the King''s command. More recently, growing interest in the connections of economics and politics with authorship have promoted readings that locate the play so firmly within its historical context as propaganda that, again, its worthwhile literary and theatrical qualities are neglected. In writing A Game at Chess, Middleton employed the devices of the neoclassical comedy of intrigue within the matrix of the traditional oral play. What might have seemed olTable of ContentsDocumentary foundations; the occasion of the play; composition, sources and revision; the play; the textual situation and the present text; "A Game at Chess".
£12.34
Manchester University Press Masques of Difference Four Court Masques Revels
Book SynopsisMasques of difference' presents an annotated edition of four seventeenth-century entertainments written by Ben Jonson, which reflect the royal court’s self-representation as moral and just, in contrast to stylised images of chaotically (and exotically) 'othered' groups: Africans, the Irish, witches, and the homoeroticised figure of the Gypsy.Table of ContentsIntroductionThe Masque of BlacknessThe Masque of QueensThe Irish Masque at CourtThe Masque of the Gypsies MetamorphosedAppendix 1: Masquers in BlacknessAppendix 2: Masquers in QueensAppendix 3: Irish Masque Translation
£10.44
Yale University Press Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen
Book SynopsisWhat happened when Jane Austen's heroines and heroes were finally wed?
£12.34
Princeton University Press On Elizabeth Bishop
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Edinburgh University Press Key Concepts in Literary Theory
Book SynopsisKey Concepts in Literary Theory presents the student of literary and critical studies with a broad range of accessible, precise and authoritative definitions of the most significant terms and concepts currently used in psychoanalytic, poststructuralist, Marxist, feminist, and postcolonial literary studies. The volume also provides clear and useful discussions of the main areas of literary, critical and cultural theory, supported by bibliographies and an expanded chronology of major thinkers. Accompanying the chronology are short biographies of major works by each critic or theorist.The third edition of this reliable reference work is both revised and expanded, including:* more than 100 additional terms and concepts defined.* newly defined terms include keywords from the social sciences, cultural studies and psychoanalysis and the addition of a broader selection of classical rhetorical terms.* an expanded chronology, with additional entries and a broader historical and cultural range.* expanded bibliographies including key texts by major critics.
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Law Surveillance and the Humanities
Book SynopsisExamines the use, evolution, legitimacy, and implications of surveillance with contributions from the fields of literary studies, law, philosophy, sociology, and politics.
£22.49
Edinburgh University Press Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry
Book SynopsisDemonstrates what Victorian poetry tells us about the relationship between poetry and time.
£22.49
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The New York Intellectuals The Rise and Decline
Book SynopsisFor a generation, Alan M. Wald's The New York Intellectuals has stood as the authoritative account of an often misunderstood chapter in the history of a celebrated tradition among literary radicals in the United States. With a new introduction by the author, this anniversary edition shows that the trajectory and ideological ordeals of the New York intellectual Left still matters today.
£30.36
Edinburgh University Press Anna Kavan
Book SynopsisThis first book-length study of Anna Kavan's writing contradicts earlier critical approaches that have figured her writing as sui generis by reading her comparatively alongside her contemporaries, especially Jean Rhys, Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark and Doris Lessing. Taking Kavan's fiction as pivotal to understanding trends of experimentalism that emerged across the middle of the twentieth century, it offers close readings of her distinctive prose including her early Helen Ferguson texts, her writing of asylum incarceration, her wartime stories, and her postwar novels. Observing how her fiction challenges perceived divisions between experimental and realist writing, literary and popular genre and (late) modernist and postwar literatures, it focuses on the ways that Kavan's writing undermines fixed or knowable identity and explores the relationship between reality and fiction. This study not only brings necessary attention to a neglected writer, but also suggests new taxonomies for read
£17.99
Edinburgh University Press Interrogating Lesbian Modernism
Book SynopsisA timely and original examination of lesbian modernism.
£22.49
Pan Macmillan Isherwood
Book SynopsisBorn into the English landed gentry, the heir to a substantial country estate, Christopher Isherwood ended up in California, an American citizen and the disciple of a Hindu swami. En route, he became a leading writer of the 1930's generation, an unmatched chronicler of pre-Hitler Berlin, an experimental dramatist, a war reporter, a travel writer, a pacifist, a Hollywood screenwriter, a monk, and a grand old man of the emerging gay liberation movement. In this biography, the first to be written since Isherwood's death, and the only one with access to all Isherwood's papers, Peter Parker traces the long journey of a man who never felt at home wherever he lived. Isherwood's travels were a means of escape: from his family, his class, his country, and the dead weight of the past. Parker reveals the truth about Isherwood's relationship with his war-hero father, his strong-willed mother, and his disturbed younger brother, Richard, who was also homosexual. He also draws upon a vast number of letters to describe Isherwood's complicated relationships with such lifelong friends as W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Edward Upward and John Lehmann. The result is a frank portrait of contradictions, a man searching for meaning in life, and one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.
£18.00
HarperCollins Publishers Coleridge Darker Reflections
Book SynopsisTimely reissue of the second volume of Holmes's classic biographies of one of the greatest Romantic poets.Richard Holmes's biography of Coleridge transforms our view of the poet of Kubla Khan' forever. Holmes's Coleridge leaps out of these pages as the brilliant, animated and endlessly provoking poet of genius that he was.This second volume covers the last 30 years of Coleridge's career (1804-1834) during which he travelled restlessly through the Mediterranean, returned to his old haunts in the Lake District and the West Country, and finally settled in Highgate. It was a period of domestic and professional turmoil. His marriage broke up, his opium addiction increased, he quarrelled with Wordsworth, his own son Hartley Coleridge (a gifted poet himself) became an alcoholic. And after a desperate time of transition, Coleridge re-emerged on the literary scene as a new kind of philosophical and meditative author.Trade Review’One of the greatest biographies of the century. Pure joy to read, it is a shimmering portrait of the mature artist veering between brilliance and despair’ Financial Times ’This – and I can’t remember ever thinking this before so strongly – is a biography to grow old with’ Independent
£16.19
Pearson Education Selected Poems from Opened Ground York Notes
Book SynopsisYork Notes Advanced offers a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced introduces students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.
£7.99
Pearson Education Selected Poems of W B Yeats York Notes Advanced
Book Synopsis'York Notes Advanced' offer an accessible approach to English Literature. This series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced introduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.Table of Contents Part 1: Introduction Part 2: The poems Part 3: Critical approachs Part 4: Critical history Part 5: Background Further Reading Literacy Terms
£7.99
Pearson Education Twelfth Night York Notes for GCSE
Book SynopsisTable of Contents - Intro ¿ How to Study a Play, Novel- Author Profile ¿ Historical timeline, context with dates, author life, works , historical events.- Map/family tree/character tree- Summaries (numbered summaries for every scene)- Commentary ¿ covering themes, characters, language analysis, style- exam questions end of each section- Answers to Checkpoints and exam questions- Exam questions with annotated model answers (D grade ¿ B grade)- Coursework assignments/resources/top marks/advice- Key Quotations ¿ how to use them.- Glossary/Literary terms- Timeline of events- Other titles in the Series
£7.49
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Fantasy
Book SynopsisOne of the most popular genres of modern times, fantasy literature has as rich a cultural and literary heritage as the magical worlds that so enrapture its readers. In this book, a concise history of the genre, Adam Roberts traces the central forms and influences on fantasy through the centuries to arrive at our understanding of the fantastic today. Pinning the evolution of fantasy on three key moments - the 19th-century resurgence of interest in Arthurian legend, the rise of Christian allegory, and a post-Ossian, post-Grimm emergence of a Norse, Germanic and Old English mythic identity Roberts explores how the logic of the fantastical' feeds through into the sets and trappings of modern fantasy. Tracking the creation of heroic and high fantasy subgenres through antiquarian tradition, through C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien and into the post-Tolkien boom in genre fantasy writing, the book brings the manifestation of the fantastic beyond literature into art, music, film and TV, vid
£17.09
Pearson Education Jane Austen Emma everything you need to catch up
Book SynopsisYork Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced intorduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.Table of Contents Part 1: Introduction Part 2: The Text Part 3: Critical Approaches Part 4: Critical History Part 5: Background Further Reading Literacy Terms
£7.99
Pearson Education Limited The Spire York Notes Advanced everything you
Book SynopsisDo you want a better understanding of the text? Do you want to know what the critics say? Do you want to know how to improve your grade? Whatever you want, York Notes can help. York Notes Advanced offers a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced introduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts. Key Features: Summaries with detailed commentaries Extended commentaries on key passages Discussion of themes and literary techniques Author biography Historical and literary background Check the net/film/book features Glossary of literary terms Self-test questions
£7.99
Pearson Education Limited The French Lieutenants Woman York Notes Advanced
Book SynopsisPacked full of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to the heart of the text you're studying, whether it's poetry, a play or a novel. You'll learn all about the historical context of the piece; find detailed discussions of key passages and characters; learn interesting facts about the text; and discover structures, patterns and themes that you may never have known existed. In the Advanced Notes, specific sections on critical thinking, and advice on how to read critically yourself, enable you to engage with the text in new and different ways. Full glossaries, self-test questions and suggested reading lists will help you fully prepare for your exam, while internet links and references to film, TV, theatre and the arts combine to fully immerse you in your chosen text. York Notes offer an exciting and accessible key to your text, enabling you to develop your ideas and transform your stu
£7.99
Pearson Education Frankenstein everything you need to study and
Book SynopsisYork Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students, introducing them to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.Table of Contents Part 1: Introduction Part 2: The Text Part 3: Critical Approaches Part 4: Critical History Part 5: Background Further Reading Literacy Terms
£7.99
Loeb Civil War
Book SynopsisCivil War provides a vigorous, direct, clear, third-personal, impassioned account of Caesar’s campaigns during the civil war of 49–48 BC, drawn from his three books of commentarii.
£23.70
Manchester University Press Tamburlaine the Great Christopher Marlowe The
Book SynopsisThis fully annotated version, with parts one and two in a single volume, takes account of the recent work on Marlowe. This text is related to contemporary theatrical conventions and conditions, and offers a critical account of the play closely attuned to a sense of theatre.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Christopher Marlowe2. Authorship3. Sources4. From performance to publication5. From notoriety to criticism6. The play7. Stage revivals8. The textTamburlaine the GreatPart OnePart Two
£18.99
Manchester University Press Late Merovingian France History and Hagiography
Book SynopsisThis collection of documents in translation brings together the seminal sources for the late Merovingian Frankish kingdom. It inteprets the chronicles and saint's lives rigorously to reveal new insights into the nature and significance of sanctity, power and power relationships.Table of ContentsThe 7th century in its historical context; sources and historians - hagiography and history; Merovingian Latin - the language of the sources; "Liber Historiae Francorum" (The Book of the History of the Franks); "Vita Domnae Balthildis" (The Life of Lady Balthild, Queen of the Franks); "Vita Audoini Episcopi Rotomagensis" (The Life of Audoin, Bishop of Rouen); "Acta Aunemundi" (The Deeds of Aunemund); "Passio Leudegarii" (The Suffering of St. Leudegar); "Passio Praejecti" (The Suffering of Praejectus); "Vita Sanctae Geretrudis" (The Life of Saint Geretrud), and the "Additamentum Nivialense de Fuilano" (The Nivelles Supplement to the "Vita Fursei" Concerning Foillan); the first section of "Annales Mettenses Priores" (The Earlier Annals of Metz).
£18.99
Manchester University Press The Tamer Tamed or The Womans Prize
Book SynopsisThis is the first edition for students and general readers of a pro-woman reply to Shakespeare''s ''The Tamer of the Shrew'' written in Shakespeare''s lifetime . Co-edited by a feminist critic and a distinguished textual scholar, it makes clear why ''The Tamer Tamed'' should be restored to the theatrical repertoire and the literary canon.Table of ContentsIntroductionText - The Tamer Tamed; or, The Woman's PrizeCommentary
£15.37
Manchester University Press Negotiating Cultures Eugenio Barba and the
Book SynopsisThis work examines three major strands of the work Eugenio Barba, a leading theatre artist and theorist, working across cultures: his research at the International School of Theatre Anthropology; his use of performance as a means of exchange, and his relationship with Latin America.Table of ContentsList of platesList of figuresForeword - A handful of snow - Franc ChamberlainIntroduction - Contexting Barba - Ian WatsonISTA and theatre anthropology1. Staging theatre anthropology - Ian Watson2. Transcultural dialogue: Lecture/demonstrations at ISTA - Nicola Saverese3. Actor as refusenik: Semiotics, theatre anthropology, and the work of the body - Nigel Stewart4. Finding equilibrium in disequilibrium: the impact of ISTA on its Balinese participants - I Nyoman Catra and Ron Jenkins5. Odissi and the ISTA dance: an interview with Sanjukta Panigrahi - Ron Jenkins and Ian Watson6. Interculturalism and the individual performer: an interview with the Odin actress Roberta Carreri - Ian WatsonBarter: Performance as cultural exchange7. The dynamics of barter - Ian Watson8. Borders, barters and beads: in search of intercultural arcadia - Maria Shevtsova9. Theatre presence: sea lanes, Sardinia 1975 - Iben Nagel Rasmussen, Eugenio Barba, Tony D'Urso and Ferdinando Taviani10. Provocation anthropology: bartering performance in Africa - Mette Bovin11. Invisible cities: an interview with Pino Di Buduo - Ian WatsonLatin America and the third theatre12. Barba's other culture - Ian Watson13. The house with two doors - Eugenio Barba14. The third theatre: a legacy of independence - Ian Watson15. About islands and woods: notes on a journey to the Odin Teatret - Miguel RubioA dialogue with Eugenio Barba16. The conquest of difference: an electronic dialogue - Eugenio Barba and Ian WatsonList of contributorsIndex
£18.99
University Press of America Mary Magdalenes Dreaming A Comparison of
Book SynopsisIn Mary Magdalene's Dreaming Steven Strong and Evan Strong continue their esoteric journey tracing the origins of religion that they began their first book, Constructing A New World Map. Strong and Strong examine the Gnostic Scriptures detailing the words and deeds of Mary and Jesus recently found at Nag Hammadi.Table of ContentsChapter 1: The First Apostle: Mary Chapter 2: The Gospel Truths Chapter 3: The Recurring Sentence Chapter 4: The Gnostic Scriptures of Jesus Chapter 5: The Gospel of Thomas Chapter 6: Thomas Revisited Chapter 7: The Gospel of Mary Chapter 8: Dialogue of the Saviour and Associates Chapter 9: The Alternate Genesis Chapter 10: Mary's Legacy Chapter 11 Epilogue
£34.20
McFarland & Company The King Arthur Myth in Modern American Fiction
Book SynopsisIn American fiction, two forms of the Arthurian myth are commonly found: the use of the myth for political reasons, and the use of the myth for the continuation of an aesthetic tradition.
£20.89
McFarland & Company Jane Austen on Film and Television A Critical
Book SynopsisThis work traces the history of film and television adaptations of Jane Austen manuscripts, compares the adaptations to the manuscripts, compares the way different adaptations treat the novels, and analyzes the adaptations as examples of cinematic art.Table of ContentsPreface - Why Jane Austen?; ""Sense and Sensibility""; ""Pride and Prejudice""; ""Mansfield Park""; ""Emma""; ""Persuasion""; ""Northanger Abbey""; Appendix - Filmography of Austen Adaptations.
£20.89
McFarland & Co Inc Shirley Jackson
Book Synopsis Shirley Jackson was one of America''s most prominent female writers of the 1950s. Between 1948 and 1965 she published six novels, one best-selling story collection, two popular volumes of her family chronicles and many stories, which ranged from fairly conventional tales for the women''s magazine market to the ambiguous, allusive, delicately sinister and more obviously literary stories that were closest to Jackson''s heart and destined to end up in the more highbrow end of the market. Most critical discussions of Jackson tend to focus on The Lottery and The Haunting of Hill House. An author of such accomplishment--and one so fully engaged with the pressures and preoccupations of postwar America--merits fuller discussion. To that end, this collection of essays widens the scope of Jackson scholarship with new writing on such works as The Road through the Wall and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and topics ranging from Jackson''s domestic fiction to
£20.89
McFarland & Company A Dick Francis Companion Characters Horses Plots
Book SynopsisAs of 2006, Dick Francis has written one volume of collected short stories and 38 novels, most of which contain one or more elements related to British horse racing. This title examines the fictional works of Dick Francis, a former steeplechase jockey to Queen Elizabeth and a British novelist.
£32.39
McFarland & Company Nancy Drew and Company Essays on the Popular
Book SynopsisA collection of essays that focuses its critical sights on the figure of the girl sleuth, made famous by Nancy Drew but also characterized by other famous detectives like Cherry Ames, Trixie Belden, Linda Carlton, and even in contemporary media by Veronica Mars and Hermione Granger of the ""Harry Potter"" series.
£16.49
McFarland and Company, Inc. Tolkien and the Study of His Sources Critical
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McFarland and Company, Inc. The Sister Fidelma Mysteries Essays on the
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McFarland and Company, Inc. Bram Stokers Notes for Dracula
Book Synopsis Bram Stoker''s initial notes and outlines for his landmark horror novel Dracula were auctioned at Sotheby''s in London in 1913 and eventually made their way to the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia, where they are housed today. Until now, few of the 124 pages have been transcribed or analyzed. This painstaking work reproduces the handwritten notes both in facsimile and in annotated transcription. It also includes Stoker''s typewritten research notes and thoroughly analyzes all of the materials, which range from Stoker''s thoughts on the novel''s characters and settings to a nine-page calendar of events that includes most of the now-familiar story. Ample annotations guide readers through the construction of the novel and the changes that were made to its structure, plot, setting and characters. Nine appendices provide insight into Stoker''s personal life, his other works and his early literary influences.Trade Reviewthe book is a thing of beauty...a serious book...is a real treasure...an amazing variety of material. Both authors are experts in vampire lore...a scholarly, well-organized and aesthetically pleasing marvel of a reference...a must-read""-macabreink.com ""it is a tool to study the birth of a literary classic...invaluable...stir the imagination and cast new light on a beloved tale""-Rue Morgue
£23.74
McFarland and Company, Inc. August Wilsons Pittsburgh Cycle Critical
Book SynopsisProviding a detailed portrait of American playwright August Wilson (1945-2005), this collection of new essays explores the development of the author's ethos across his twenty-year creative career - a process that transformed his life as he retraced the lives of his fellow “Africans in America”.
£20.89
McFarland & Company The Clive Cussler Adventures A Critical Review
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McFarland & Co Inc The Politics of The Hunger Games
Book Synopsis Set in the future dystopia of Panem, The Hunger Games trilogy follows the rise of a provincial rebellion against the wealthy and tyrannical Capitol. As narrator and heroine, Katniss Everdeen comes to embody the hope of the long oppressed for a new order. During her journey some of our most urgent political questions are addressed. What does it mean to be a leader? Can the oppressed recover a political identity that affirms individual values and freedoms? Do the media necessarily corrupt political discourse? This critical study of The Hunger Games explores novels in the context of how we think about the nature of politics, the value of the individual and the importance of political action. The author draws parallels between Panem and the Roman Empire, considering Herod''s Massacre of the Innocents alongside Haymitch Abernathy''s elusive political influence as mentor of tributes. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may
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McFarland & Company The Symbolism and Sources of Outlander
Book Synopsis Outlander is much more than a television romance about a World War II nurse and a Jacobite soldier in a fetching kilt. The series--and the massive serial novel on which it is based--has been categorized as a period drama, adventure saga, military history and fantasy epic. Inspired by the Irish legends of Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the prophecies of Brahan Seer, the storyline is filled with mythology and symbolism from around the world, from the Fair Folk and the Loch Ness monster to wendigos, ghosts, zombies and succubae. Literary references abound, from the Bible to the classics, to Shakespeare and the English romantic poets. The series is also rich with its own symbolism: heather and white roses, the dragonfly in amber, Claire''s blue vase and wedding gown, her wedding rings and pearl necklace. This book untangles the myriad of myths, legends, symbols and literary references found in the series.
£14.24
State University of New York Press LaoTzu and the TaoTeChing
Book SynopsisExamines the traditional and modern Western interpretations of the Tao-te-ching, and its author, Lao-tzu.
£24.27
MP-CUA Catholic Uni of Amer An Introduction to the Study of Medieval Latin
Book SynopsisDag Norberg's analysis and interpretation of medieval Latin versification, which was published in French in 1958 and remains the standard work on the subject, appears in here English, with a detailed, scholarly introduction by Jan Ziolkowski that reviews developments since its initial publication.
£26.06
University Press of America The Alliterative Morte Arthure
Book SynopsisOne of the finest narrative poems of the Middle Ages translated in its entirety by a recognized authority on the poem. This volume represents an important chapter in the evolution of the Arthurian legend. It is marked as an epic poem by its celebration of battle and conquest and its unsentimental depiction of combat and death.Trade Review...the translation should nonetheless be welcome to those college students of all levels and those general readers who have a sophisticated interest in Arthurian romance. -- Russell Hope Robbins, SUNY Albany * CHOICE *...lively, readable, accurate, and altogether an excellent piece of work, which gives the reader a good flavor of the original poem. -- Russell Hope Robbins, SUNY Albany...lively, readable, accurate, and altogether an excellent piece of work, which gives the reader a good flavor of the original poem. -- Russell Hope Robbins, SUNY Albany...the translation should nonetheless be welcome to those college students of all levels and those general readers who have a sophisticated interest in Arthurian romance. -- Russell Hope Robbins, SUNY Albany * CHOICE *
£42.30
Peter Lang Publishing Inc Baba Yaga
Book SynopsisBaba Yaga is a well-known witch from the folklore tradition of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. A fascinating and colorful character, she resembles witches of other traditions but is in many ways unique. Living in the forest in a hut that stands and moves on chicken legs, she travels in a mortar with a pestle and sweeps away her tracks with a broom. In some tales she tries to harm the protagonist, while in others she is helpful. This book investigates the image and ambiguity of Baba Yaga in detail and considers the meanings she has for East Slavic culture. Providing a broad survey of folktales and other sources, it is the most thorough study of Baba Yaga yet published and will be of interest to students of anthropology, comparative literature, folklore, and Slavic and East European studies.
£26.70
