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Boydell and Brewer Studies in Arthurian and Chronicle Traditions in
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Boydell and Brewer Cultural Connections between the Continent and
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Boydell and Brewer A Companion to Latin American Crime Fiction
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Boydell and Brewer Mar237a de Zayas and her Tales of Desire Death
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Boydell and Brewer NLW MS Brogyntyn ii.1 Understanding a
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CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD The Connell Guide To Shakespeare's Macbeth
Book SynopsisMacbeth may well be the most terrifying play in the English language, but it hasn’t always been seen that way. It has divided critics more deeply than any other Shakespearian tragedy – and the argument, in essence, has been about just how terrifying the play really is and about how we should react, or do react, to Macbeth himself. No Shakespearian tragedy gives as much attention to its hero as Macbeth. With the exception of Lady Macbeth, there is much less emphasis on the figures round the hero than there is in Hamlet or Othello. Unlike King Lear, with its parallel story of Gloucester and his sons, Macbeth has no sub-plot. And its imagery of sharp contrasts – of day and night, light and dark, innocent life and murder – adds to the almost claustrophobic intensity of this most intense of plays. So why are critics so divided about Macbeth? Why is it so disturbing? Why do we feel compelled to admire its hero even as we condemn him? How reassuring is the last scene, when Macbeth is killed and Malcolm becomes king? Do we see this as the intervention of a divine providence, a restoration of goodness after all the evil? Or do we see instead signs that the whole cycle of violence and murder could be about to begin all over again? And what does the play really tell us about good and evil? In this book Graham Bradshaw answers these questions, and shows how it is only in recent years that the extent of Shakespeare’s achievement in Macbeth, and the nature of his vision in the play, has really been grasped.
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Inner City Books Archetypal Patterns in Fairy Tales Studies in
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Liberty Fund Inc My Thoughts Mes Pensees
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Pearson Education Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath 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.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
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Oxford University Press Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas
Book SynopsisVerne's classic tale of Captain Nemo and the submarine the Nautilus has left a profound mark on the twentieth century. Its themes are universal, its style humorous and grandiose, its construction masterly.Trade ReviewThis truly is the edition that serious SF readers will want. Indeed, given its rigour is at the academic level (such is the quantity and detail of ancillary information provided), it is surprising that this book is priced at the level of an average fiction paperback: it is extremely good value. * Jonathan Cowie, Concatenation.org *Review from previous edition 'stands head and shoulders above the other English translations of Verne I have seen.' * Nineteenth-Century French Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionNote on the Text and TranslationSelect BibliographyChronologyTWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEASAppendix: Sources of ideas on submarine navigationExplanatory notes
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Oxford University Press Lorna Doone
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Princeton University Press Literatures Refuge
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Taylor & Francis Narrative
Book SynopsisHuman beings have constantly told stories, presented events and placed the world into narrative form. This activity suggests a very basic way of looking at the world, yet, this book argues, even the most seemingly simple of stories is embedded in a complex network of relations. Paul Cobley traces these relations, considering the ways in which humans have employed narrative over the centuries to âre-presentâ time, space and identity.This second, revised and fully updated edition of the successful guidebook to narrative covers a range of narrative forms and their historical development from early oral and literate forms through to contemporary digital media, encompassing Hellenic and Hebraic foundations, the rise of the novel, realist representations, narratives of imperialism, modernism, cinema, postmodernism and new technologies. A final chapter reviews the way that narrative theory in the last decade has re-orientated definitions of narrative.Written in a clear, engagTable of ContentsChapter 1. In the beginning: the end Chapter 2. Early narrative Chapter 3. The rise and rise of the novel Chapter 4. Realist representation Chapter 5. Beyond realism Chapter 6. Modernism and the cinema Chapter 7. Postmodernism Chapter 8. In the end: the beginning Chapter 9. What is narrative?
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Cambridge University Press Pride and Prejudice
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1813, and Austen's most popular novel in her own lifetime, Pride and Prejudice has since been widely recognised as one of the finest novels in the English language. This edition, first published in 2006, is an indispensable resource for all scholars and readers of Austen.Table of ContentsGeneral Editor's preface; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Introduction; Note on the text; Pride and Prejudice; Appendices; Emendations; Abbreviations; Explanatory notes.
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Oxford University Press Inc The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Book SynopsisAlan Jacobs offers a witty, literate, and accessible guide for aspiring readers, offering tips on what to read and how to get the most out of it. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of approaching literary fiction or poetry or even the Bible, from reading responsively, to rereading, to reading on electronic devices.Trade ReviewHe writes with panache...it is excellent * The Tablet *fascinating study * Writing Magazine *Delightful yet discombobulating * The Wall Street Journal *what could be nicer to read than a book about how nice reading is? * Steven Poole, The Guardian *lively volume...prepare to be engrossed. * Times Higher Education Supplement *A vigorous and friendly exhortation to get back into the kind of reading that made you a reader in the first place. * Library Journal *Table of ContentsYes, we can ; Whim ; All in your head ; Aspirations ; Upstream ; Responsiveness ; Kindling ; Slowly, slowly ; True confessions ; Lost ; Abbot Hugh's advice ; The triumphant return of Adler and Van Doren ; Plastic attention ; Getting schooled ; Quiet, please ; One more, with feeling ; Judge, Jury, Executioner ; In solitude, for company ; Serendip ; How it all started
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Pearson Education Gullivers Travels GCSE
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Christopher Marlowe Four Plays
Book SynopsisChristopher Marlowe (1564-93) was an English playwright and poet, who through his establishment of blank verse as a medium for drama did much to free the Elizabethan theatre from the constraints of the medieval and Tudor dramatic tradition. His first play Tamburlaine the Great, was performed that same year, probably by the Admiral's Men with Edward Alleyn in the lead. With its swaggering power-hungry title character and gorgeous verse the play proved to be enormously popular; Marlowe quickly wrote a second part, which may have been produced later that year. Marlowe's most famous play, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, based on the medieval German legend of the scholar who sold his soul to the devil, was probably written and produced by 1590, although it was not published until 1604. Historically the play is important for utilizing the soliloquy as an aid to character analysis and development. The Jew of Malta (c. 1590) has another unscrupulous aspiring
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Princeton University Press Mimesis
Book SynopsisShows how from antiquity to the twentieth century literature progressed toward ever more naturalistic and democratic forms of representation. This title offers the optimistic view of European history now appears as a defensive - and impassioned - response to the inhumanity he saw in the Third Reich.Trade Review"The compass and the richness of the book can hardly be exaggerated. This is true too of the originality of Mr. Auerbach's critical method which is at once encyclopedic and microscopic, combining the disciplines of philology, literary criticism, and history."--New York Times "One of the great works of literary scholarship... Auerbach's method ... is to fasten with fastidious sensitivity on some stray phrase or passage in order to unpack from it a wealth of historical insight. It is his combination of scholarly erudition and critical astuteness which is most remarkable."--Terry Eagleton, London Review of Books "One of the most important and readable books in literary criticism of the past 15 years ... The author, beginning with Homer and the Bible, traces the imitation of life in literature through the ages ...touching upon every major literary figure in western culture on the way."--Publishers Weekly "Written with the authority that comes from deep learning and full of information worth knowing. Princeton's 50th anniversary edition of Mimesis has an introduction by the late literary and cultural critic Edward Said that by itself is worth the price of the book. It's the only preface I know of that I wish were longer, serving as both an analysis of Auerbach and a ramework placing him in his scholarly and historical context... Princeton's reissue of Mimesis is both timely and symbolic."--Guy Davenport, Los Angeles Times Book Review "[Mimesis] offers not just an eminent reading of the Western canon, but a mighty lesson on how to write... I don't think a more significant or useful book of criticism has been written in the half-century since Mimesis was published. What's more, I can't imagine that anything like it will ever be written again... [In] producing such a rich, strong book on how to read, Auerbach composed a virtual manual on how to write, one I've referred back to again and again since the day, almost two decades ago, when I first happened upon it."--Jim Lewis, Slate Magazine "[T]he greatest single work of literary criticism of the 20th century... [S]o suggestive, so rich in understanding and insight, so useful in teaching one how to reach more deeply and appreciatively is the book that it is difficult to believe that anyone will ever again have the intellectual resources to write another book about literature anywhere near as powerful. Written while the Nazis were marching across Europe, Mimesis is a strong reminder of the glory of Western literature, and by extension of Western civilization, and of what is at stake in the battle against those who would simplify, politicize, or otherwise degrade it."--Joseph Epstein, Weekly StandardTable of ContentsIntroduction to the Fiftieth-Anniversary Edition ix 1.Odysseus' Scar 3 2.Fortunata 24 3.The Arrest of Peter Valvomeres 50 4.Sicharius and Chramnesindus 77 5.Roland Against Ganelon 96 6.The Knight Sets Forth 123 7.Adam and Eve 143 8.Farinata and Cavalcante 174 9.Frate Alberto 203 10.Madame Du Chastel 232 11.The World in Pantagruel's Mouth 262 12.L'Humaine Condition 285 13.The Weary Prince 312 14.The Enchanted Dulcinea 334 15.The Faux Devot 359 16.The Interrupted Supper 395 17.Miller the Musician 434 18.In the Hotel de la Mole 454 19.Germinie Lacerteux 493 20.The Brown Stocking 525 Epilogue 554 Appendix 559 Index 575
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Faber & Faber Pure Pleasure A Guide to the 20th Centurys Most
Book SynopsisPure Pleasure gives us fifty of the most enjoyable books of the twentieth century, chosen on a single principle - the pleasure they inspire. Pure Pleasure is an idiosyncratic antidote to the ''definitive'' lists of twentieth-century classics. John Carey, one of Britain''s most respected literary critics, has unearthed some overlooked gems which show the century''s great authors in a new light. The result is a wonderful and witty guide for anyone looking for new recommendations or for a discussion of books they already know and love. First published weekly in the Sunday Times as ''John Carey''s Books of the Century'', the accompanying essays generated intense reader interest, and this collection includes a discussion of the letters of applause, outrage, debate and dissent they provoked.
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Nightboat Books Mausoleum of Lovers
Book SynopsisThe Mausoleum of Lovers comprises Guibert's journals, kept from 1976-1991. Functioning as an atelier, it forecasts the writing of a novel, which does not materialize as such; the journal itself - a mausoleum of lovers - comes to take its place. The sensual exigencies and untempered forms of address in this epistolary work, often compared to Barthes' A Lover's Discourse, use the letter and the photograph in a work that hovers between forms, in anticipation of its own disintegration.
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Broadview Press Ltd St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Book SynopsisSet in Europe during the Protestant Reformation and first published in 1799, St. Leon tells the story of an impoverished aristocrat who obtains the philosopher’s stone and the elixir of immortality. In this philosophical fable, endless riches and immortal life prove to be curses rather than gifts and transform St. Leon into an outcast. William Godwin’s second full-length novel explores the predicament of a would-be philanthropist whose attempts to benefit humanity are frustrated by superstition and ignorance.This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and full annotation. The appendices include contemporary reviews of the novel; Godwin’s writings on immortality, the domestic affections, and alchemy; and selections from works influenced by St. Leon, most notably Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.Trade Review“St. Leon, Godwin’s second major novel, is a radical experiment in fictional genres. Into a historical novel of vast range and violence Godwin melded elements of the domestic novel, the philosophical novel, and the scientific fantasy. More relentlessly than the earlier Caleb Williams, this novel tests Godwin’s philosophical premises to destruction, showing the importance—and failure—of family affections and the disintegration of effective social responsibility. William Brewer’s judicious annotations and informative introduction equip the reader to understand Godwin’s re-evaluation of his earlier views; the appendices contain ample material illustrating the novel’s influence on other writers, its relation to Godwin’s other works, and the lively reactions of contemporary reviewers.” — Victoria Myers, Pepperdine University“William Brewer’s edition of St. Leon is more than simply a new, well-edited version of the text. The introduction alone—which includes a precis of other important current critical work on St. Leon—makes this a must-have edition, rehearsing as it does the place of this unclassifiable novel in Godwin’s development and in the period, the influences visible in the novel, including its political implications and sources, and the novel’s reception and literary heirs. Many of these issues can be further pursued through the judiciously chosen excerpts in the appendices.” — Lisa M. Steinman, Reed CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionWilliam Godwin: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextSt. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth CenturyAppendix A: From Hermippus Redivivus (1744): The Inspiration for St. LeonAppendix B: William Godwin on Immortality, the Domestic Affections, and Alchemy From William Godwin, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness (1793) From William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 2nd Edition (1798) From William Godwin, Lives of the Necromancers (1834) Alchemy Cornelius Agrippa Paracelsus Appendix C: Reviews of St. Leon The Monthly Review (1800) Critical Review (January 1800) Monthly Magazine, and British Register (20 January 1800) Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners (January 1800) Appendix D: From Edward Du Bois, St. Godwin (1800)Appendix E: The Influence of St. Leon From John Burk, Bethlem Gabor, Lord of Transylvania, or, The Man Hating Palatine (1807) From Percy Bysshe Shelley, St. Irvyne; or,The Rosicrucian: A Romance (1811) From Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, “The Mortal Immortal: A Tale” (1833) Select Bibliography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd An Introduction to Literature Criticism and
Book SynopsisLively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at The Beginning' and concluding with The End', chapters range from the familiar, such as Character', Narrative' and The Author', to the more unusual, such as Secrets', Pleasure' and Ghosts'. Now in its sixth edition, Bennett and Royle's classic textbook successfully illuminates complex ideas by engaging directly with literary works, so that a reading of Jane Eyre opens up ways of thinking about racial difference, for example, while Chaucer, Monty Python and Hilary Mantel are all invoked in a discussion of literature and laughter.The sixth edition has been revised and updated throughout. In addition, four new chapters Literature', Loss', Human' and Migrant' engage with exciting recent developments in literary studies. As well as fully up-to-date further reading sections at the end of each chapter, the book contains a coTrade ReviewPraise for previous editions:‘This is a book which students in every introductory course on criticism and theory would benefit from having.’ Derek Attridge, University of York‘[Bennett and Royle have] cracked the problem of how to be introductory and sophisticated, accessible but not patronising.’ Peter Buse, English Subject Centre Newsletter‘Sparkling, enthusiastic and admirably well-informed.’ Hélène Cixous‘The best introduction to literary studies on the market.’ Jonathan Culler, Cornell University‘This excellent book is very well written and an outstanding introduction to literary studies. An extremely stimulating introduction.’ Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway College, University of London‘Fresh, surprising, never boring, and engagingly humorous, while remaining intellectually serious and challenging . . . This is a terrific book, and I’m very glad that it exists.’ Peggy Kamuf, University of Southern California‘An exceptional book. It is completely different from anything else currently available, refreshing, extremely well written and original in so many ways . . . It is quite the best introductory book that I have ever come across.’ Philip Martin, Sheffield Hallam University‘By far the best introduction we have, bar none. This unmatched book is for everyone: from those beginning literary study, through advanced students, and up to teachers; even those who, like me, have been pro- fessing literature for years and years.’ J. Hillis Miller, University of California‘All the chapters in the volume are illuminating, informative and original.’ Robert Mills, King’s College London‘I don’t know of any book that could, or does, compete with this one. It is irreplaceable.’ Richard Rand, University of Alabama‘Bennett and Royle have written a pathbreaking work’ Alan Shima, University of Gävle‘It is by far the best and most readable of all such introductions that I know of’ Hayden White, University of California at Santa Cruz‘The most un-boring, unnerving, unpretentious textbook I’ve ever come across.’ Elizabeth Wright, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsAlternative Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsHow to Read This BookTrigger Warning and Spoiler Alert The Beginning Literature Readers and Reading The Author The Text and the World The Uncanny Monuments Narrative Character Voice Figures and Tropes Creative Writing Feelings Loss Laughter The Tragic Wounds History Me Eco Animals Human Ghosts Body Moving Pictures Sexual Difference God Ideology Love Desire Queer Suspense Racial Difference Migrant The Colony Mutant The Performative Secrets Pleasure War The End GlossaryA Note on Texts UsedLiterary Works DiscussedBibliography of Critical and Theoretical WorksIndex
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Broadview Press Ltd Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems and Letters
Book SynopsisThis compact edition, designed for use in undergraduate courses, combines a substantial selection of Dickinson’s poems (including one complete fascicle) with a selection of letters and a range of contextual materials. In a number of cases several different versions of a poem are presented side by side. The texts are based on the handwritten manuscripts themselves, in the facsimile form in which the Emily Dickinson Archive now makes the vast majority of Dickinson’s manuscript versions available to the general public. The three major editions that are based directly on the manuscripts—those of Thomas H. Johnson (1955), R.W. Franklin (1998) and Cristanne Miller (2016)—have also been consulted; in many cases where the transcriptions of these editors differ from one another, this edition provides information in the notes as to those differences. Extensive explanatory footnotes are also provided, as is a concise but wide-ranging introduction to Dickinson and her work.The appendices include excerpts from numerous nineteenth-century reviews of Dickinson’s first published volume (including by William Dean Howells and Andrew Lang). Thomas Wentworth Higginson’s influential Atlantic Monthly article, “Emily Dickinson’s Letters,” is also included in its entirety.This volume is one of a number of editions that have been drawn from the pages of the acclaimed Broadview Anthology of American Literature; like the others, it is designed to make a range of material from the anthology available in a format convenient for use in a wide variety of contexts. This edition departs from other editions in the series in one important respect—its format. The large page size of the edition facilitates the reproduction of manuscript pages in readable facsimile form, and the two-column format of the text facilitates comparison between different versions.Trade ReviewComments on The Broadview Anthology of American Literature“The expansion, diversification, and revitalization of the texts and terms of American literary history in recent years is made marvelously accessible in the … new Broadview Anthology of American Literature.” — Hester Blum, Penn State University“The Broadview Anthology of American Literature is, quite simply, a breakthrough. … Meticulously researched and expertly assembled, this anthology should be the new gold standard for scholars and teachers alike.” — Michael D’Alessandro, Duke University“So much thought has been put into every aspect of the Broadview Anthology of American Literature, from the selection of texts to their organization to their presentation on the page; it will be a gift to classrooms for years to come.” — Lara Langer Cohen, Swarthmore College “The multiplicity of early American locations, languages, and genres is here on wondrous display.” — Jordan Alexander Stein, Fordham University “Above all, this is a volume for the 21st century. … Its capaciousness and ample resource materials make for a text that is always evolving and meeting its readers in new ways.” — Russ Castronovo, University of Wisconsin-Madison“a rich collection that reflects the diversity of American literatures…. [and] that never forgets its most important audience: students. There is a wealth of material here that will help them imagine and reimagine what American literature could be.” — Michael C. Cohen, UCLA “The Broadview Anthology of American Literature is an instructor’s dream for introducing students to the diversity and complexity of American literature.” — Venetria K. Patton, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign“I am eager to teach with this anthology! It aligns with cutting-edge research through its selections, its introductions, and explanatory notes, and the texts are supplemented with primary documents that encourage teachers and students to think critically and dynamically.” — Koritha Mitchell, The Ohio State UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionSelected Poems [It’s all I have to bring today –] [I never lost as much but twice –] [I robbed the woods –] [These are the days when Birds come back ˎ] [alternative versions] [Success is counted sweetest] [Safe in their Alabaster Chambers –] [alternative versions] [Besides the Autumn poets sing] [All overgrown by cunning moss,] [I’m “wife” – I’ve finished that –] [Title divine – is mine!] [Faith is a fine invention] [alternative version] [Some keep the Sabbath going to Church –] [The Lamp burns sure – within –] [I came to buy a smile – today –] [I’m Nobody! Who are you?] [alternative version] [Wild nights – Wild nights!] [alternative versions] [Over the fence –] [I taste a liquor never brewed –] [alternative version] [There’s a certain Slant of light,] [alternative versions] [“Hope” is the thing with feathers –] [Your Riches – taught me – Poverty.] [I found the words to every thought] [I like a look of Agony,] [I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,] [It was not Death, for I stood up,] [A Bird came down the Walk –] [I know that He exists.] [After great pain, a formal feeling comes –] [This World is not conclusion.] [I like to see it lap the Miles –] [The Soul selects her own Society –] [One need not be a Chamber – to be Haunted –] [They shut me up in Prose –] [This was a Poet –] [I died for Beauty – but was scarce] [The Malay – took the Pearl –] [Our journey had advanced –] [Because I could not stop for Death –] [alternative version] [I dwell in Possibility –] [He fumbles at your Soul] [It feels a shame to be Alive –] [This is my letter to the World] [I’m sorry for the Dead – Today –] [I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –] [The Brain – is wider than the Sky –] [There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House,] [I measure every Grief I meet] [Much Madness is divinest Sense –] [I started Early – Took my Dog –] [That I did always love] [What Soft – Cherubic Creatures –] [My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun –] [“Nature” is what We see –] [I could bring You Jewels – had I a mind to –] [Publication – is the Auction] [Truth – is as old as God –] [I never saw a Moor –] [Color – Caste – Denomination –] [She rose to His Requirement – dropt] [The Poets light but Lamps –] [A Man may make a Remark –] [Banish Air from Air –] [As imperceptibly as Grief] [The Heart has narrow Banks] [Could I but ride indefinite] [As the Starved Maelstrom laps the Navies] [A narrow Fellow in the Grass] [alternative versions] [The Bustle in a House] [A Spider sewed at Night] [Tell all the Truth but tell it slant –] [alternative version] [To pile like Thunder to its close] [Apparently with no surprise] [A Word made Flesh is seldom] [My life closed twice before its close;] [To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,] Fascicle 13 [I know some lonely Houses off the Road] [I can wade Grief] [You see I cannot see – your lifetime –] [“Hope” is the thing with feathers –] [To die – takes just a little while –] [If I’m lost – now –] [Delight is as the flight –] [She sweeps with many-colored Brooms –] [Of Bronze – and Blaze –] [There’s a certain Slant of light,] [Blazing in Gold – and] [Good Night! Which put the Candle out?] [Read – Sweet – how others – strove – a] [Put up my lute!] [There came a day – at Summer’s full –] [The lonesome for they know not What –] [How the old Mountains drip with sunset] [Of Tribulation, these are They,] [If your nerve, deny you –] Dickinson’s Personal Correspondence To Abiah Root (29 January 1850) To Jane Humphrey (3 April 1850) To Abiah Root (7 and 17 May 1850) To Susan Gilbert Dickinson (April 1852) To Susan Gilbert Dickinson (27 June 1852) To Samuel Bowles (February 1861) To Unknown Recipient (circa 1861) Susan Dickinson to Emily Dickinson (1861) To Susan Gilbert Dickinson (1861) To Thomas Wentworth Higginson (15 April 1862) To Thomas Wentworth Higginson (25 April 1862) To Thomas Wentworth Higginson (7 June 1862) To Thomas Wentworth Higginson (July 1862) To Susan Gilbert Dickinson (October 1883) In Context The Reception of Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth Century from Alexander Young, “Boston Letter,” Critic (11 October 1890) from Anonymous, “From the Book Store,” St. Joseph Daily News (22 November 1890) from Anonymous, “New Books,” Boston Post (27 November 1890) from Kinsley Twining and William Hayes Ward, “Poems by Emily Dickinson,” Independent (11 December 1890) from William Dean Howells, “Editor’s Study,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (January 1891) from Anonymous, Springfield Daily Republican (23 January 1891) from Andrew Lang, “A Literary Causerie,” Speaker (31 January 1891) Laura Coombs Hills, Retouched image of Emily Dickinson (late nineteenth century) Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “Emily Dickinson’s Letters” (The Atlantic Monthly, October 1891)
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Taylor & Francis Black Lives in the English Archives 15001677
Book SynopsisContaining an urgently needed archival database of historical evidence, this volume includes both a consolidated presentation of the documentary records of black people in Tudor and Stuart England, and an interpretive narrative that confirms and significantly extends the insights of current theoretical excursus on race in early modern England. Here for the first time Imtiaz Habib collects the scattered references to black people-whether from Africa, India or America-in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, and arranges them into a systematic, chronological descriptive index. He offers an extended historical and theoretical interpretation of the records in six chapters, which serve as an introductory guide to the index even as they articulate a specific argument about the meaning of the records. Both the archival information and interpretive scholarship provide a strong framework from which future historical debates on race in early modern England can proceed.Trade Review'Imtiaz Habib's meticulous examination of English sources, both manuscript and printed, will profoundly reshape the ongoing arguments about "race" in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. For decades to come, scholars in many fields will gratefully mine Habib's chronological chart of 448 records of "black people" between 1500 and 1677 and debate his extensive analysis. Black Lives in the English Archives is a major contribution.' Alden T. Vaughan, Columbia University, USA '...A valuable reference for ethnic historians, archivists, and Anglophiles...Recommended.' Choice ’Imtiaz Habib has done us a great service by providing this accessible database of references to Africans, Indians and Americans in early modern England, some never published before.’ Times Literary Supplement '[Habib's] book is a detailed and sophisticated study that makes a significant contribution towards filling the yawning gap in our knowledge, a gap that apparently we did not know was there. ...[an] important contribution to advancing historical understandings of race and colonialism in early modern England.' ParergonTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Missing (Black) Subject1 Early Tudor Black Records The Mixed Beginnings of a Black Population2 Elizabethan London Black RecordsThe Writing of Absence3 Black Records of Seventeenth-Century LondonABenign Neglect and the Legislation of Enslavement4 Black People outside London, 1558–1677The Provincial Backdrop5 Indians and OthersThe Protocolonial DreamAfterword
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Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to Anthony Trollope
Book SynopsisBy bringing together leading Victorianists with a wide range of interests, this innovative collection of essays involves the reader in new approaches to Trollope's work.
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Cornell University Press Paranoia and Modernity
Book SynopsisDon Quixote is the first great modern paranoid adventurer.... Grandiosity and persecution define the characters of Swift''s Gulliver, Stendhal''s Julien Sorel, Melville''s Ahab, Dostoyevsky''s Underground Man, Ibsen''s Masterbuilder Solness, Strindberg''s Captain (in The Father), Kafka''s K., and Joyce''s autobiographical hero Stephen Dedalus.... The all-encompassing conspiracy, very much in its original Rousseauvian cast, has become almost the normal way of representing society and its institutions since World War Two, giving impetus to heroic plots and counter-plots in a hundred films and in the novels of Burroughs, Heller, Ellison, Pynchon, Kesey, Mailer, DeLillo, and others.from Paranoia and ModernityParanoia, suspicion, and control have preoccupied key Western intellectuals since the sixteenth century. Paranoia is a dominant concern in modern literature, and its peculiar constellation of symptomsgrandiosity, suspicion, unfounded hostility, delusions of persTrade ReviewThis ambitious book traces the workings of paranoia through a dizzying variety of texts, not only 'Cervantes to Rousseau,' but Sophocles to Pynchon, including detailed readings of the Gawain Poet, Luther, Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Pascal, Leibniz, Locke, Pope, Swift, and Hemingway. * Renaissance Quarterly *
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Oxford University Press Inc Montaigne
Book SynopsisThe French author Michel de Montaigne is widely regarded as the founder and greatest practitioner of the personal essay. A member of the minor aristocracy, he worked as a judicial investigator, served as mayor of Bordeaux, and sought to bring stability to his war-torn country during the latter half of the sixteenth century. He is best known today, however, as the author of the Essays, a vast collection of meditations on topics ranging from love and sexuality to freedom, learning, doubt, self-scrutiny, and peace of mind. One of the most original books ever to emerge from Europe, Montaigne''s masterpiece has been continuously and powerfully influential among writers and philosophers from its first appearance down to the present day. His extraordinary curiosity and discernment, combined with his ability to mix thoughtful judgment with revealing anecdote, make him one of the most readable of all writers. In Montaigne: A Very Short Introduction, William M. Hamlin provides an overview of Montaigne''s life, thought, and writing, situating the Essays within the arc of Montaigne''s lived experience and focusing on themes of particular interest for contemporary readers. Designed for a broad audience, this introduction will appeal to first-time students of Montaigne as well as to seasoned experts and admirers. Well-informed and lucidly written, Hamlin''s book offers an ideal point of entry into the life and work of the world''s first and most extraordinary essayist.Trade ReviewWilliam Hamlin has given those first encountering Montaigne a rich and varied picture of the sixteenth-century author. * Vittoria Fallanca, New College, Oxford, French Studies *This compact new study by William Hamlin, professor of English at Washington State and specialist on the English reception of Montaigne, was written for the Oxford series of Very Short Introductions, which claims over 650 titles,...All students and teachers of Montaigne should be grateful to William Hamlin for the thorough justice he does to one of the greatest achievements of our literary tradition. * Eric Macphail, Indiana University *Table of Contents1. Writing Oneself 2. Montaigne's Life 3. Learning for Living 4. Friendship, Family, Love 5. Free and Sociable Solitude 6. America 7. Providential Diversity 8. Skepticism 9. Death and the Good Life References Further Reading
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Myths And Motifs In Literature
Book SynopsisThis collection features selections that are representative of various literary genres and historical eras in order to reveal common archetypes found across generations of literature.Myths and Motifs in Literature works to bring together a number of accepted archetypal motifs and present them as they make their appearance in various genres of literature. Arguing that society, institutions, and literature change while the human condition remains the same, David J. Burrows hopes to enable readers to deepen their appreciation of the continuity and tradition of literary heritage.
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Vintage Publishing This is Not the End of the Book
Book SynopsisJean-Claude Carrière is a writer, playwright and screenwriter, who recently collaborated with Michael Haneke on his award-winning film The White Ribbon. He has worked with many of the twentieth century's great directors including Peter Brook, Milos Forman, Buñuel and Jean-Luc Godard, and is the author of Please Mr Einstein.Umberto Eco (1932-2016) wrote fiction, literary criticism and philosophy. His first novel, The Name of the Rose, was a major international bestseller. His other works include Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before, Baudolino, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, The Prague Cemetery and Numero Zero along with many brilliant collections of essays.Jean-Philippe de Tonnac is a writer and editor. His interviews with Umberto Eco, Jean-Claude Carrière and Stephen Jay Gould were published in the book Conversations About the End of Time. He is also the editor of several collections of essays, not yet translated into English, which include A Universal Dictionary of Bread andAn Encyclopaedia of Knowledge and Belief.Trade ReviewA storming book. The next best thing to sitting in Umberto Eco's living room after dinner; a dream collection of lucid and fascinating discussions -- Nick HarkawayHurrah for philosopher and novelist Umberto Eco and playwright and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, who have come together to praise the medium... Fans of Eco and Carrière will be charmed -- Wayne Gooderham * Time Out *An entertainingly free-range dialogue about writing past, present and future -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent *The dialogue between these two superbrains is freakishly compelling and covers everything from papyrus scrolls to e-readers... Never fails to be enlightening and engaging... Hooray for this brilliant book * Dazed and Confused *This book is a reminder that the satisfaction of working through even a relatively short book comes in part through confronting digressions, dead ends and distractions: the hallmark of conversation between friends, not of Internet speed-reading * Wall Street Journal *
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Penguin Books Ltd Studies in Classic American Literature Penguin
Book Synopsis“Nobody ever read [the great old books] like Lawrence did—as madly, as wildly or as insightfully. . . . You will be jolted awake.” —A. O. Scott, The New York TimesA Penguin ClassicLawrence asserted that 'the proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it'. In these highly individual, penetrating essays he has exposed 'the American whole soul' within some of that continent's major works of literature. In seeking to establish the status of writings by such authors as Poe, Melville, Fenimore Cooper and Whitman, Lawrence himself has created a classic work. Studies in Classic American Literature is valuable not only for the light it sheds on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American consciousness, telling 'the truth of the day', but also as a prime example of Lawrence's learning, passion and integrity of judgement.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classTrade Review“Nobody ever read [the great old books] like Lawrence did—as madly, as wildly or as insightfully. . . . With its one-sentence paragraphs (“Flop goes spiritual love.”), jabbing exclamations (“Freedom!”), semi-rhetorical questions (“But what of Walt Whitman?”) and heavy use of italics and all-caps, the book can read like a scroll of social-media rants. Its manner is neither respectable nor respectful. . . . Lawrence’s bristling, inflamed, impertinent language provides a reminder that criticism is not just the work of the brain, but of the gut and the spleen as well. The intellectual refinement of his argument—fine-grained evaluations of style and form that still startle with their incisiveness; breathtaking conceptual leaps from history to myth and back again—is unthinkable without the churn of instinct and feeling beneath it. . . . You will be jolted awake.” —A. O. Scott, The New York TimesTable of Contents1. The Spirit of Place2. Benjamin Franklin3. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur4. Fenimore Cooper's White Novels5. Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Novels6. Edgar Allan Poe7. Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Scarlet Letter8. Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance9. Dana's Two Years Before the Mast10. Herman Melville's Typee and Omoo11. Herman Melville's Moby Dick12. Whitman
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Penguin Books Ltd New Ways to Kill Your Mother
Book SynopsisFrom Colm Tóibín comes New Ways to Kill Your Mother, a fabulously entertaining book about writers and their families.In this wonderfully entertaining and enlightening collection, Colm Tóibín not only explores the often tense relationship between writers and their families but also conveys, with a rare tenderness and wit, the great joy of reading their work. Here is W.B. Yeats harshly responding to his own father''s literary efforts; Thomas Mann ruining his children''s prospects; Tennessee Williams haunted by his sister''s mental illness; and John Cheever being beastly to his wife.Praise for New Ways to Kill Your Mother:''A brilliant book...Tóibín is a supple, subtle thinker, alive to hints and undertones, wary of absolute truths'' Robert Hanks, New Statesman''A penetrating and often very funny inquiry into the fraught complicity between parent and child, brother and sister'' Daily TelegraphTrade ReviewA brilliant book...Tóibín is a supple, subtle thinker, alive to hints and undertones, wary of absolute truths. * New Statesman *Insightful and compassionate, assured and knowledgeable, never less than fascinating. An impressive, fine and engaging collection * Independent on Sunday *These are foxy essays. Tóibín knows lots of things, and his characteristic approach is to sneak up on things steadily. Tóibín, with great subtlety and sometimes with splendid impudence, is interested here in what you might call the higher gossip * Spectator *Tóibín's engaged in white heat. A masterly writer, working at the full stretch of his powers * Guardian *A consistently revealing look at how writers' relationships have influenced their work * Sunday Telegraph *'Calm and pure, a tone that's unfailingly warm and compassionate...Colm Tóibín's prose meets Orwell's standard: it's like a pane of clear glass * Irish Times *Tóibín is a particularly compelling guide to fellow novelists. A wide-ranging and enlightening study of the potentially stifling family and the individual spirit of the writer * Sunday Times *He writes in muscular prose with a keen eye for detail * Economist *Penetrating and often very funny...Tóibín is a master * Telegraph *Colm Tóibín is an exceptionally fine writer...He puts his natural empathy to good use in these essays...outstanding * Mail on Sunday *
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Oxford University Press Inc Before the Scrolls
Book SynopsisBefore the Scrolls traces the media history of the biblical prophetic corpus to propose a material approach to biblical literature. Although scholars understand that the material of composition was the scroll rather than the codex, they persist in imagining the form as a single textual object. This assumption pervades centuries of scholarship and drives many of the questions asked about biblical composition. Nathan Mastnjak raises the question of the original physical format of biblical texts and argues that many of the literary works that would eventually become the Bible''s prophetic books were not written initially as books. Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel were originally composed on loosely organized collections of multiple short papyrus scrolls and sheets. Though rarely considered in scholarship, the realia of a text''s form, format, production, and material substance have a profound influence on the meaning of the text. Unlike works committed to single book-scrolls, these collectioTrade ReviewThis book provides an important corrective to the scholarly tendency to import anachronistic assumptions about contemporary books into study of ancient biblical texts. An exciting entry in the emergent field of material historical study of the Bible, Mastnjak's work introduces a "collection model" that has major implications for the interpretation of biblical books and study of their formation." * David M. Carr, Professor of Hebrew Bible, Union Theological Seminary *Almost two centuries after biblical scholars began the conversation of hypothetical documents lying behind the present text, Mastnjak puts flesh on what those earlier texts looked like as objects, the organizational logic behind their collection, and the process by which these smaller scrolls were brought together in the large scrolls found at Qumran. This is an important volume for Hebrew Bible scholarship which will in turn generate rich insights into the development of the biblical text." * Thomas Bolin, Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, St. Norbert College *Mastnjak has produced a remarkable study that offers an elegant and convincing solution to the problem of the earliest material forms of biblical literature. His bold and convincing arguments combine recent discoveries about ancient technologies of writing with careful textual analysis and will change how scholars imagine the literary form of the earliest manuscripts of biblical texts." -Brennan W. Breed, Associate Professor of Old Testament, Columbia Theological SeminaryMastnjak's Before the Scrolls should be a cornerstone for any biblical scholarship that considers notions of materiality in ancient Israelite and Judean (and Jewish) texts. * William Brown, The Biblical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 The Materiality of the Prophetic Literature 2 Prophetic Scrolls in the Persian Period 3 The Multi-Volume Sefer 4 The Prophetic Library 5 Isaiah, the Twelve, and the Prophetic Anthology 6 Jeremiah and the Prophetic Book as Narrative 7 Narrative in the Books of Ezekiel 8 Conclusion Bibliography Subject Index
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Oxford University Press The Child in Shakespeare
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Oxford University Press King Lear Shakespeares Dark Consolations My
Book SynopsisA book on the experience of reading Shakespeare's 'dark plays' which 'often begin with lives falling apart: an event--shipwreck, exile, doubt, or unexpected love--derails what had seemed secure. Those who participate in the plays, as players, audience members, or readers, are invited to see in those events the vulnerability of their own lives.Table of ContentsPrologue: A Tale of Two Families Vulnerable Reading The Unravelling The Refuge of Second Selves The Lost, the Mad, and the Image of Horror Reconciliations Living With an Unpromised End How King Lear Helps Tragic Sharing Coda: In Place of the Jig
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature
Book SynopsisThe Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature begins by asking if there was a distinctive literature of the Restoration. For a long time, the answer seemed obvious: heroic drama, libertine comedy, scandalous lyrics, and the short but brilliant career of John Wilmot, earl of Rochester. Could there be an age when the coincidence of literary culture and political rule were any more obvious? But as this Handbook will remind us, some of the most wonderful literature of this Restoration came from writers who had lived across the decades of turbulence and into an age when the Stuart kings returned, when the Church and House of Lords were restored, a world made safe for bishops and for the memory of divine right rule. Of course, these returns and restorations did not meet with uniform celebration. John Milton wrote his great epic poems not in quiet submission but in a kind of resistance to the dominant culture of the 1660s, and Andrew Marvell produced his most brilliant satiric verse by holding up a looking glass to court corruption and Anglican intolerance. So we begin with the most obvious conclusion: Restoration literature does and does not fit to the categories that so long defined the late Stuart age. This book explores and contests, challenges and reimagines the experience embodied by the writing of the late Stuart world and invites readers new to this world and those who have often read its literatures to the pleasures but as well to the challenges and discomforts of its texts.
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Oxford University Press Milton in Translation
Book SynopsisMilton in Translation represents an unprecedented collaboration that demonstrates the breadth of John Milton''s international reception, from the seventeenth century through today. This book collects in one volume new essays written on the translation of Milton''s works written by an international roster of experts: stalwart and career-long Miltonists, scholars primarily of translation studies, and practitioners who have translated Milton''s works. Chapters are grouped geographically but also, by and large, chronologically, given that Milton''s works radiated further abroad over time. The chapters on the twenty-three individual languages showcased in this volume are framed by ''Part I: Approaches'', consisting of an introduction and two major essays on the global reach and the aural nature of Milton''s poetry, and by an epilogue. ''Part II: Influential Translations'' features the most influential languages in translations of Milton''s works (English, Latin, German, French). Then, accouTrade ReviewWinner of the Milton Society of America's Irene Samuel Memorial Award (2017)[Milton in Translation] is important for bringing to notice the existence of over 300 translations of Milton into ?fty-seven languages, and the fact that there have been more such translations in the last thirty years than the preceding 300. It is fascinating to read, across a number of essays, of Milton's appropriation as a revolutionary in, for example, the Protestant colonies of North America (Thomas N. Corns), the Catholic colonies of postindependence Latin America (Mario Murgia), and in both Maoist and contemporary China (Bing Yan). * Catherine Bates, Studies in English Literature *What Angelica Duran, Islam Issa, and Jonathan R. Olson have put together for Milton in Translation proves that translation continues to serve an important role in the interpretation of literature. Duran, Issa, and Olson also make an important contribution to Milton studies, despite the exhaustive corpus of literary studies devoted to John Milton's work ... Overall, the editors and contributors provide an engaging look at Milton studies through translation studies and a text that will appeal to scholars and students in both areas. * William John Silverman Jr., Renaissance Quarterly *The volume creates an impressive panopticon of the diversity of target-language-specific reformulations of Milton's epic vision ... this [is a] marvelous insightful, and truly pioneering volume. * Anne-Julia Zwierlein, Milton Quarterly *[Milton] would have approved of Milton in Translation...In total, twenty-three languages are represented in this fascinating volume, including Chinese, Korean, Bulgarian, Czech, Serbo-Croatian and the Finno-Ugric languages. * Neil Forsyth, Times Literary Supplement *Winner of the Milton Society of America's Irene Samuel Memorial Award (2017)Fifty years ago, William Riley Parker opined that 'A good book on the translating of Milton into other languages (and his influence on other literatures) is long overdue.' Here is that book, appearing close to the 350th anniversary of the first appearance of Paradise Lost. * John Hale, Translation and Literature *Milton in Translation (2017) offers an expansive and novel study of the global reach of John Milton through translations into twenty-three languages, bringing together a wealth of knowledge by a wide variety of specialists in their respective fields. Ranging from western Europe to Asia and the Americas, the volume strives to be as inclusive as possible. Given the rising interest in the combined approach of translation and literary studies, this volume demonstrates the potential fruitfulness of such research in both a historical and a more contemporary context. * Rena Bood, H-Nationalism *This is an important collection of essays on the wide range of translations that have been made of Milton's works, encompassing several centuries of publication...The sheer number of translations that the collection manages to catalogue is breathtaking, ranging over the major European languages, through Latin and Hebrew, as well as noting cultural reception from South America to Asia...one can imagine Milton would have approved of the demonstration of this global engagement with his work. * Esther van Raamsdonk, The Modern Language Review *Table of ContentsPart I Approaches 1: Angelica Duran and Islam Issa: Introduction: From 'Cambalu' to 'El Dorado' 2: Thomas N. Corns: Milton's Global Reach 3: Beverley Sherry: Lost and Regained in Translation: The Sound of Paradise Lost Part II Influential Translations 4: Aaron Shapiro: 'Levelling the Sublime': Translating Paradise Lost into English in the Eighteenth Century 5: Estelle Haan: 'Translated Verse': Milton's Latin Poetry in the Long Eighteenth Century 6: Estelle Haan: 'Latinizing' Milton: Paradise Lost, Latinitas, and the Long Eighteenth Century 7: Curtis Whitaker: Domesticating and Foreignizing the Sublime: Paradise Lost in German 8: Christophe Tournu: 'The French Connection' among French Translations of Milton and within du Bocage's Paradis terrestre Part III Western European and Latin American Translations 9: Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen: Paradise Lost in Dutch, 1728-2003: Form, Politics, Religion 10: Anne Lange: A Vision in Times of Need: Milton in Estonia 11: David Robertson: Traces of the Birth of the State of Finland in Jylhä's Translation of Paradise Lost 12: Ástráður Eysteinsson: Iceland's Milton: On Jón Þorláksson's Translation of Paradise Lost 13: Daniele Borgogni: 'Censur'd to Be Much Inferiour': Paradise Lost and Regained in Italian 14: Hélio J.S. Alves: Milton in Portuguese: A Story in Blank Verse 15: Angelica Duran: Paradise Lost in Spanish Translation and as World Literature 16: Mario Murgia: Either in Prose or Rhyme: Translating Milton in(to) Latin America Part IV Central and Eastern European Translations 17: Alexander Shurbanov: The Quest for the Right Accent: Milton in Bulgarian Translation 18: %SárkaTobrmanová: Jungmann's Translation of Paradise Lost in the Vanguard of Modern Czech Culture 19: Miklós Péti: In 'Milton's Prison': Milton in Hungarian Translation 20: Joanna Rzepa: Translation as Resistance: Three Centuries of Paradise Lost in Polish 21: Marjan Strojan: Milton in Serbian/Montenegrin: Paradise Lost from behind Bars 22: Marjan Strojan: Milton in Illyria Part V Middle Eastern Translations 23: Islam Issa: Paradise Lost in Arabic: Images, Style, and Technique 24: Noam Reisner: Pre-Eminent among Gentiles: Milton's Major Poetry in Hebrew Translations 25: Jeffrey Einboden: Plotting a Persian Paradise: Milton's Iranian Afterlives Part VI East Asian Translations 26: Bing Yan: Milton in China 'Yet Once More' 27: Hiroko Sano: Translating Milton's Poetry into Japanese with a Case Study of Samson Agonistes 28: Kim Hae Yeon with Angelica Duran: The 1960s and Paradise Lost in Korean Gordon Campbell: Epilogue: Multilingual and Multicultural Milton
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John Wiley & Sons The Cely Letters 14721488
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John Wiley & Sons Henry Lovelichs Merlin vol II
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John Wiley & Sons The English Charlemagne Romances I Sir Ferumbras
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Early English Text Society Two Coventry Corpus Christi Plays
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Oxford University Press Inc George Orwell
Book SynopsisGeorge Orwell is sometimes read as disinterested in (if not outright hostile) to philosophy. Yet a fair reading of Orwell''s work reveals an author whose work was deeply informed by philosophy and who often revealed his philosophical sympathies. Orwell''s written works are of ethical significance, but he also affirmed and defended substantive ethical claims about humanism, well-being, normative ethics, free will and moral responsibility, moral psychology, decency, equality, liberty, justice, and political morality. In George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality, philosopher Peter Brian Barry avoids a narrow reading of Orwell that considers only a few of his best-known works and instead considers the entirety of Orwell''s corpus, including his fiction, journalism, essays, book reviews, diaries, and correspondence, contending that there are ethical commitments discernible throughout his work that ground some of his best-known pronouncements and positions. While Orwell is often read as a humaniTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. George Orwell: Philosophical Outsider Chapter 2. George Orwell: The Age's Advocate Chapter 3. Orwell on Free Will and Responsibility Chapter 4. Orwellian Moral Psychology Chapter 5. Orwellian Decency Chapter 6. Orwell's Egalitarianism Chapter 7. George Orwell and Left-Libertarianism Chapter 8. Orwell's Incomplete Case for Socialism Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Love Subjectivity and Truth
Book SynopsisLove, Subjectivity, and Truth engages in a lively manner with the overlapping areas of philosophy and literature, philosophy of emotions, and existential thought. Subjective truth, a phrase used in Proust''s novel In Search of Lost Time, is rich with existential connotations. It invokes Kierkegaard above all, but significantly Nietzsche as well, and other philosophers who thematize love, subjectivity, and truth. In Search of Lost Time is especially concerned about what we can know about others through love. Insofar as it conveys and analyzes experience, the novel is capable not only of exploring existential issues but also of doing something like phenomenology. What we know is shaped by our way of knowing, just as the properties of visible, colored objects are determined by the wavelengths of light our eyes can see. Nowhere does the subjective basis of our awareness appear so evident as it does when we view things through loving eyes. In Proust''s novel we find skeptical views about loTrade ReviewIn this lucid and beautifully written book, Rick Anthony Furtak explores the infinite folds of the heart as it closes and opens to reality -- the reality of the world, and the reality of the self. His inquiry into the truthfulness of love in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu crosses seamlessly between literature, philosophy, and psychology, illuminating the grounds of perception and value. * Yi-Ping Ong, Associate Professor of Comparative Thought and Literature, Johns Hopkins University *A hundred years on, Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu remains the leading candidate for The Great Philosophical Novel. Rick Furtak has written a great philosophical book to accompany that novel, a book that helps us navigate the complex, often contradictory statements of Proust's narrator and reveals the coherent philosophical sensibility that lies beneath. Furtak is the ideal guide to a potentially intimidating but profoundly rewarding and enriching literary work. Readers will find it both informative and inspiring, and will be inspired by it, I hope, to return to Proust's novel. * Troy Jollimore, Author of Love's Vision and Earthly Delights: Poems *Once in a rare while, a book comes along that makes you rethink everything you believed about Proust; Love, Subjectivity, and Truth is just such a book. It is original, persuasive, and as clear as it is erudite, and it has persuaded me to see matters of love and knowledge in an entirely new way. Elegantly written, and even moving at times, this is the best book on Proust I've read in many years. * Joshua Landy, Author of The World According to Proust *Table of ContentsPreface 1. Love and the Meaning of Life 2. On Possibility and Significance 3. Skepticism and Perspective: The Elusiveness of Truth 4. On Loving Badly and Discovering Truth Nonetheless 5.
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Oxford University Press Inc The Classical Upanisads
Book SynopsisThe Upani?ads are rich and complex Sanskrit Hindu scriptures dating back to the 8th century BCE and are a staple of world religion courses across the globe. In this volume, Signe Cohen guide readers through on the thirteen Classical Upani?ads, those generally regarded as the oldest: Bhadrayaka, Chandogya, Taittiriya, Aitareya, Isa, Kena, Katha, Mundaka, Svetasvatara, Mandukya, Prasna, Kausitaki, and Maitri Upanisad. Where most survey textbooks present a cursory overview of these texts, The Classical Upani?ads: A Guide provides a nuanced but accessible exploration of the Upani?ads that will benefit both scholars, students, and general readers alike. This volume explores the historical, geographical, and social context of the Classical Upani?ads and discusses issues of dating, authorship, and transmission of the texts. Cohen also breaks down central ideas in the Upani?ads, such as atman, brahman, karma, reincarnation, moksa, knowledge, and sacred sounds (mantras). The text also discusse
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Oxford University Press Leo Tolstoy
Book SynopsisWar and Peace and Anna Karenina are widely recognised as two of the greatest novels ever written. Their author, Leo Tolstoy, has been honoured as the father of the modern war story; as an innovator in psychological prose and forerunner of stream of consciousness; and as a genius at using fiction to reveal the mysteries of love and death. At the time of his death in 1910, Tolstoy was known the world over as both a great writer and as a merciless critic of institutions that perpetrated, bred, or tolerated injustice and violence in any form. Yet among literary critics and rival writers, it has become a commonplace to disparage Tolstoy''s thought while praising his art. In this Very Short Intorduction Liza Knapp explores the heart of Tolstoy''s work. Focussing on his masterpieces of fiction which have stood the test of time, she analyses his works of non-fiction alongside them, and sketches out the core themes in Tolstoy''s art and thought, and the interplay between them. Tracing the continuing influence of Tolstoy''s work on modern literature, Knapp highlights those aspects of his writings that remain relevant today.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade Review... excellent short biograph[y]. * Donna Tussing Orwin, Slavonic and East European Review *Knapp has succeeded in writing a worthwhile introduction to Tolstoy, perfectly suited to the classroom or, for that matter, anyone with some curiosity and two hours of quiet. Even Tolstoy scholars will appreciate her insights and, more importantly, her ability to connect seemingly divergent aspects of this notoriously unstable genius. * Martin Denver, Russian Review *A superb short work. * Paradigm Explorer *Liza Knapp has given us the ideal introduction to Tolstoy a marvellous synthesis and critique that takes his ideas and philosophy as seriously as his novels. Brilliantly written and useful. * Jay Parini, author of The Last Station *Dazzling. Compelling. Moving! Knapp brilliantly illuminates the inseparability of Tolstoys art and thought and how a cherished childhood game inspired both. * Robin Feuer Miller, Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, Brandeis University *Table of Contents1: From "Ant Brothers" to loving all as brothers and sisters 2: Tolstoy on War and on Peace 3: Tolstoy on love 4: Tolstoy on death 5: What Tolstoy believed 6: What then must we do? 7: Tolstoy's art and Tolstoy's devices Further reading Index
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Oxford University Press Imitating Authors Plato to Futurity
Book SynopsisImitating Authors is a major study of the theory and practice of imitatio (the imitation of one author by another) from antiquity to the present day. It extends from early Greek texts right up to recent fictions about clones and artificial humans, and illuminates both the theory and practice of imitation. At its centre lie the imitating authors of the English Renaissance, including Ben Jonson and the most imitated imitator of them all, John Milton.Imitating Authors argues that imitation was not simply a matter of borrowing words, or of alluding to an earlier author. Imitators learnt practices from earlier writers. They imitated the structures and forms of earlier writing in ways that enabled them to create a new style which itself could be imitated. That made imitation an engine of literary change. Imitating Authors also shows how the metaphors used by theorists to explain this complex practice fed into works which were themselves imitations, and how those metaphors have come to influence present-day anxieties about imitation human beings and artificial forms of intelligence. It explores relationships between imitation and authorial style, its fraught connections with plagiarism, and how emerging ideas of genius and intellectual property changed how imitation was practised. In refreshing and jargon-free prose Burrow explains not just what imitation was in the past, but how it influences the present, and what it could be in the future. Imitating Authors includes detailed discussion of Plato, Roman rhetorical theory, Virgil, Lucretius, Petrarch, Cervantes, Ben Jonson, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, and Kazuo Ishiguro.Trade ReviewAny scholar interested in literary imitation would profit from reading Imitating Authors, while those interested in Renaissance literary culture will find it particularly valuable. I know of no better introduction to the long, intricate history of imitatio. * William Ramsay, Ben Jonson Journal *Burrow's home turf is early modern English literature, but he is an early modernist of exceptional range, extending across to the Continent, back to classical antiquity, and forward to contemporary poetry and fiction. He is also uncommonly good at explaining recondite matters in plain English. * Tobias Gregory, London Review of Books *one of the finest authors of the English language in this century...this is a book of intoxicating depth that will leave many intelligent readers astonished at their own ignorance in comparison...I highly recommend a full engagement with Burrow's text. * Dr Clifford Cunningham, University of Southern Queensland, Sun News Tucson *There is a genuine challenge to our presumptions about creation and authorship. * Geoffrey Heptonstall, P.N. REVIEW *Imitating Authors offers lessons for creative writers as well as critics, signalling a world of literary predecessors, practices and forms waiting for a knowingly imitative literary culture to inherit it once again. * Charles Green, University of Chichester *Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations and a Note on the Texts Introduction Part 1: Antiquity 1: From Mimēsis to Imitatio: Before and After Plato Building Bodies: Imitatio and the Roman Rhetorical Tradition Dreamitation: Lucretius, Homer, Virgil Part 2: Early Modernity 4: Petrarchan Transformations 5: Adaptive Imitation: Ciceronians, Courtiers and Quixotes 6: Formal Imitation: The 'Leaden-Headed Germans' and Their English Heirs 7: Ben Jonson: Formal Imitation Part 3: Milton and After 8: Milton: Modelling the Ancients 9: Imitation in the Age of Literary Property: Pope to Wordsworth 10: The Promethean Moment: Mary Shelley and Milton's Monstrous Progeny Posthuman Postscript: Poems more Durable than Brass Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Bibliophobia
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Oxford University Press The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney
Book SynopsisThe fifth of six volumes that will present in their entirety Frances Burney's journals and letters from July 1786, when she assumed the position of Keeper of the Robes to Queen Charlotte, to her resignation in July 1791. This volume brings together the letters and journals of 1789.Trade ReviewThe Facinations of this volume lie in these occasional flashes of the Burney of Evelina and Cecilia, and the way, almost by accident, she reveals court life at its most regressive - snobbish, insular, gossipy. * Kate Chisholm, Times Literary Supplement *Immaculately edited, generously footnoted and with a comprehensive introduction. * Maggie Lane, Burney Letter *Table of ContentsCOURT JOURNALS AND LETTERS OF FRANCES BURNEY
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Oxford University Press Short Oxford History of English Literature
Book SynopsisThe Short Oxford History of English Literature is the most comprehensive and scholarly history of English literature on the market. It offers an introductory guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day in eleven chapters covering all the major periods of English literature chronologically. Professor Sanders provides detailed analysis of the major writers and their works and examines the impact of British literature on contemporary political, social and intellectual developments.This third edition has been revised and updated for a 21st century reader, incorporating discussion of a greater number of female and contemporary authors.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition 'A very fine, enlightening, introductory, single-volume text'. * Ron Vaverka at Orebro University in Sweden *'Informative, accurate, brilliantly comprehensive, the author manages to survey an incredible array of texts while providing a thoughtful resume and analysis of particular works. I really enjoyed reading this book!' * Jim McKusick at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County *'The book manages to do a very large number of things very intelligently and gracefully...I look forward to seeing the third edition and to being able to recommend it to students'. * John Sitter at Emory University *'One of the major reasons I recommend the text'. (On Sanders' writing style) * Jane Dowson at De Montford *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ; Poets' Corners: The Development of a Canon of English Literature ; 1. Old English Literature ; 2. Medieval Literature ; 3. Renaissance and Reformation: Literature 1510-1620 ; 4. Revolution and Restoration: Literature 1620-1690 ; 5. Eighteenth-Century Literature 1690-1780 ; 6. The Literature of the Romantic Period ; 7. High Victorian Literature ; 8. Late Victoria and Edwardian Literature 1880-1920 ; 9. Modernism and its Alternatives: Literature 1920-1945 ; 10. Post-War and Post-Modern Literature
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