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Taylor & Francis A Theory of Adaptation
Book SynopsisA Theory of Adaptation explores the continuous development of creative adaptation, and argues that the practice of adapting is central to the story-telling imagination. Linda Hutcheon develops a theory of adaptation through a range of media, from film and opera, to video games, pop music and theme parks, analysing the breadth, scope and creative possibilities within each.This new edition is supplemented by a new preface from the author, discussing both new adaptive forms/platforms and recent critical developments in the study of adaptation. It also features an illuminating new epilogue from Siobhan OâFlynn, focusing on adaptation in the context of digital media. She considers the impact of transmedia practices and properties on the form and practice of adaptation, as well as studying the extension of game narrative across media platforms, fan-based adaptation (from Twitter and Facebook to home movies), and the adaptation of books to digital formats.A TheorTrade ReviewThe reviewers were asked if advances in digital media should be covered, and all agreed that they should. Opinions of the current edition are as follows. 'Hutcheon’s book is intelligent and accessible, two features that, unfortunately, rarely come together in academic writing.' - Professor Stephannie Gearhart, Bowling Green State University, US 'Overall I think the book offers an excellent look at the tremendously broad sweep of adaption as it encompasses myriad media.' - Professor David Marshall, California State University San Bernardino, US 'Hutcheon is a terrific theorist and students respond well to the assertive, agenda-shaping approach of this textbook.' - Professor Julie Sanders, University of Nottingham, UK 'The book offers a strong introduction to the study of adaptations.' - Dr David Watson, Uppsala University, Sweden 'The book is good – very solid.' - Dr Joyce Goggin, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Table of ContentsPreface to the 1st Edition Preface to the Revised Edition Chapter 1 Beginning to Theorize Adaptation Chapter 2 What? (Forms) Chapter 3 Who? Why? (Adapters) Chapter 4 How? (Audiences) Chapter 5 Where? When? (Contexts) Chapter 6 Final Questions Epilogue by Siobhan O’Flynn
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Philosophy of Mr Brtrnd Rssll With an Appendix of Leading Passages from Certain Other Works A Skit Routledge Library Editions Russell
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Taylor & Francis Spatiality
Book SynopsisSpatiality has risen to become a key concept in literary and cultural studies, with critical focus on the âspatial turnâ presenting a new approach to the traditional literary analyses of time and history.Robert T. Tally Jr. explores differing aspects of the spatial in literary studies today, providing: An overview of the spatial turn across literary theory, from historicism and postmodernism to postcolonialism and globalization Introductions to the major theorists of spatiality, including Michel Foucault, David Harvey, Edward Soja, Erich Auerbach, Georg LukÃcs, and Fredric Jameson Analysis of critical perspectives on spatiality, such as the writer as map-maker, literature of the city and urban space, and the concepts of literary geography, cartographics and geocriticism. This clear and engaging study presents readers with a thought provoking and illuminating guide to the literature and criticism of âspaceâ. Trade Review"Until Tally, no one had thought to explore contemporary theory more generally for the traces of spatial practice and thinking, something he has done with extraordinary thoroughness and intelligence, as well as with a good deal of originality. I would now consider his book on to the subject an indispensable introduction to the "spatial turn" of modern philosophy and criticism."Fredric Jameson, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: You Are Here 1. The Spatial Turn 2. Literary Cartography 3. Literary Geography 4. Geocriticism Conclusion: Other Spaces
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Taylor & Francis Ways of Reading
Book SynopsisWays of Reading is a best-selling textbook for undergraduate students of English Language and English Literature, providing readers with the tools to analyse and interpret the meanings of literary and non-literary texts. Six sections, comprising twenty five self-contained units, cover: techniques of analysis and problem-solving language variation attributing meaning poetic uses of language narrative drama and performance texts The book combines the linguistic and literary background to each topic with discussion of examples from books, poems, magazines and online sources, and links those examples to follow-up practical activities and a list of titles for further reading. This fourth edition has been redesigned and updated throughout, with many fresh examples and exercises. Further reading suggestions have been brought up tTrade ReviewPraise for the first edition:'Ways of Reading is a valuable and immensely usable book ... More than fills a major gap.' – Literature & Language'This is a clear and incisive introduction to main issues in the critical study of literature.' - Robin Jarvis, University of the West of England, UKPraise for the third edition:'...ground-breaking... The academic underpinning is just where it should be, in the background, allowing prominence for the much more important idea that looking at reading in new ways gives new insights and new pleasures... This is an ideal book for teachers of English at all levels... Third editions can sometimes seem to be marginally altered versions of the previous editions. It is certainly not the case here. Do read this superb book.' - Adrian Beard, NATE'Ways of Reading is the one textbook that no undergraduate student of English can afford to do without. Whether for their essays in literary criticism or literary theory, this book is an invaluable resource providing expert guidance and relevant information. Each chapter offers clear explanations of theoretical concepts and practical applications of interpretive techniques. This richly revised fourth edition confirms its ever-rising popularity as a key textbook in English Studies, with exciting new material and fresh examples.'Jean-Jacques Weber, University of Luxembourg'Ways of Reading is by far the most lucid and lively guide to the skills of reading. Beginners and advanced students alike will find clearly set out in this book the concepts and techniques, examples and exercises, that can help them become active and critical readers of all kinds of literary and media discourse.'Douglas Kerr, Hong Kong University‘This comprehensive introduction to the study of literature deftly balances a focus on practical techniques with a considered handling of theoretical approaches. Undergraduate students – and their lecturers – will welcome in particular its clarity, topical examples and accessibility.’ Julie Scanlon, Northumbria University, UK Table of ContentsSection 1: Basic techniques and problem-solving 1. Asking Questions as a Way into Reading 2. Using Information Sources 3.Analysing Units of Structure 4. Recognizing Genre Section 2: Language variation 5. Language and Time 6. Language and Place 7. Language and Context: Register 8. Language and Gender 9. Language and Society Section 3: Attributing meaning 10. Metaphor and Figurative Language 11. Irony 12. Juxtaposition 13. Allusion and Intertextuality 14. Authorship and Intention 15. Mode of Address: Positioning the Reader Section 4: Poetic form 16. Rhyme and Sound Patterning 17. Verse, Metre and Rhythm 18. Parallelism 19. Deviation Section 5: Narrative 20. Narrative 21. Narrative Point of View 22. Speech and Narration 23. Narrative Realism Section 6: Drama and performance 24. Ways of Reading Drama 25. Performance and the Page
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Taylor & Francis Literature and Animal Studies Literature and
Book SynopsisWhy do animals talk in literature? In this provocative book, Mario Ortiz Robles tracks the presence of animals across an expansive literary archive to argue that literature cannot be understood as a human endeavor apart from its capacity to represent animals. Focusing on the literary representation of familiar animals, including horses, dogs, cats, and songbirds, Ortiz Robles examines the various tropes literature has historically employed to give meaning to our fraught relations with other animals. Beyond allowing us to imagine the lives of non-humans, literature can make a lasting contribution to Animal Studies, an emerging discipline within the humanities, by showing us that there is something fictional about our relation to animals.Literature and Animal Studies combines a broad mapping of literary animals with detailed readings of key animal texts to offer a new way of organizing literary history that emphasizes genera over genres and a new way of classifying animals that is premised on tropes rather than taxa. The book makes us see animals and our relation to them with fresh eyes and, in doing so, prompts us to review the role of literature in a culture that considers it an endangered art form.Trade Review"Ortiz-Robles (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison) offers a broad analysis of treatments of animals in literary sources ranging from early myths to present-day works in English and various European languages. Much of the volume is organized around family classifications of animals (e.g., equids, canids, felids), but the book also includes a general discussion of animals as tropes and a chapter on “revolutionary animals.” The author provides brief but insightful analyses of selected examples—highlighted by an extended treatment of poems on songbirds, beginning with samples from standard Romantic poets (Clare, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley) but also ranging into work by modernist and contemporary writers. Part of Routledge’s "Literature and Contemporary Thought" series, this book could serve as a foundational textbook for courses on animals in literature, especially since Ortiz-Robles includes a helpful glossary and suggestions for further reading. The discussion is informed by recent theory, but the writing is clear and accessible. A welcome and substantial contribution to both literary studies and animal studies."- R. D. Morrison, Morehead State UniversitySumming Up: Highly recommended. Choice Review, March 2017."In this publication, Ortiz Robles ingeniously works his way through the working of literary form on our perception and makes a most compelling case against the myopic focus of some scholars on representation."- Roman Bartosch, Universitätsverlag WinterTable of ContentsPreface1. What is it Like to Be a Trope?2. Equids (Might and Right)3. Canids (Companionship, Cunning, Domestication)4. Songbirds (Poetry and Environment)5. Felids (Enigma and Fur)6. Animal Revolutions (Allegory and Politics)GlossarySuggested Reading
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Taylor & Francis Romanticism and Visuality
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the productive crosscurrents between visual culture and literary texts in the Romantic period, focusing on the construction and manipulation of the visual, the impact of new visual media on the literary and historical imagination, and on fragments and ruins as occupying the shifting border between the visible and the invisible. It examines a broad selection of instances that reflect debates over how seeing should itself be viewed: instances, from Daguerre's Diorama, to the staging of Coleridge's play Remorse, to the figure of the Medusa in Shelley's poetry and at the Phantasmagoria, in which the very act of seeing is represented or dramatized. In reconsidering literary engagements with the expanding visual field, this study argues that the popular culture of Regency Britain reflected not just emergent and highly capitalized forms of mass entertainment, but also a lively interest in the aesthetic and conceptual dimensions of looking. What is commonly thought toTrade Review"Exploring the inter-relationship between literature and visual culture in the Romantic period, Thomas (humanities, U. of Sussex) looks at how seeing itself was viewed, both by people involved in creating visual spectacle and those who responded by writing in literature about the status of the visual. Her topics include the fragment in ruins, Romantic idealism and the interference of sight, and vision and revulsion in Shelley. Some of the chapters have been published as independent essays." -- Book News Inc., August 2008Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments List of Illustrations (Introduction) Regarding Visuality: From the Picturesque to the Panorama ‘Shadows of a Magnitude’: Keats, Fragments, and Vision The Fragment in Ruins Seeing Past Rome: Ruins, History, Museums Romantic Idealism and the Interference of Sight Making Visible: The Diorama, the Double, and the Gothic Subject Seeing Things ("as they are"): Coleridge, Schiller, and the Play of Semblance Vision and Revulsion: Shelley, Medusa, and the Phantasmagoria NotesBibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Reading Early Modern Women An Anthology of Texts
Book SynopsisThis anthology assembles 144 primary texts and documents written by women between 1550 and 1700 and reveals a comprehensive view of the intellectual and literary lives of women in early modern England. The writings range from poetry to philosophical treatises, addressing a wide array of subjects.Trade Review"Reading Early Modern Women is an essential resource for teaching and research, providing as it does a wide array of texts not easily accessed, from medical books, through prophecies and letters, to poetry and music. Contextualized both critically and historically, this book allows contemporary readers to benefit from the dazzling array of early modern women's writing." -- Marion Wynne-Davies, University of Dundee"This book should certainly be recommended to students as an expert guide through a range of materials which will be new to them; it will also be of invaluable use to scholars in the field, as it makes available and discusses a fascinating number of texts otherwise available only in archives. One of the book's many strengths is the way in which each text and each genre is not only adeptly introduced, but is also cross-referenced with other works, primary and secondary, both in the anthology and beyond it. This serves not only to open up the expanding field of early modern women's writing to the newcomer, but also to indicate ways in which researchers can expand their studies across a number of interrelated literary areas." -- Hilary Hinds, Lancaster University, UK"Reading Early Modern Women is an astonishing achievement. Bringing together 150 manuscript and print texts--many published here for the first time--as well as commentaries by more than 80 scholars, this remarkable collection introduces us to a very broad spectrum of the literary achievements of women. It should quickly become the centerpiece of many undergraduate and graduate courses in early modern literature, history, and women's studies. Thanks to Ostovich and Sauer's extraordinary efforts, early modern women writers may finally get the Renaissance they so richly deserve." -- Douglas A. Brooks, Texas A&M University"This imaginatively conceived and brilliantly executed anthology with its ingeniously chosen texts, its illustrative images from the original books or manuscripts, and its impressive array of distinguished contributing editors shows that whatever their disadvantages and the injustices of their society early modern women did indeed have not just a room of their own but a whole house, a whole palace, and even (as Christine de Pisan insisted), a whole city. Ostovich and Sauer have produced an invaluable resource for anybody interested in Renaissance literature or women's studies." -- Anne Lake Prescott, Professor of English at Barnard College and coeditor of Female and Male Voices in EarlyModern England: A Renaissance Anthology"Reading Early Modern Women is an astonishing achievement. Bringing together 150 manuscript and print texts--many published here for the first time--as well as commentaries by more than 80 scholars, this remarkable collection introduces us to a very broad spectrum of the literary achievements of women. It should quickly become the centerpiece of many undergraduate and graduate courses in early modern literature, history, and women's studies. Thanks to Ostovich and Sauer's extraordinary efforts, early modern women writers may finally get the Renaissance they so richly deserve." -- Douglas A. Brooks, Texas A&M UniversityTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION: REREADING WOMEN’S LITERARY HISTORY 1 Legal Documents/Women’s Testimony 2 The Status of Women 3 Mothers’ Legacies and Medical Manuals 4 Religion, Prophecy, and Persecution 5 Letters 6 Life-writing: Nonfiction and Fiction CHAPTER 7 Translations/Alterations 8 Poetry 9 Plays 10 Applied Arts and Music
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The University of Michigan Press Modern Japanese Literary Studies
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The University of Michigan Press The Natural Contract
Book SynopsisMeditations on environmental change and the necessity of a pact between Earth and its inhabitants
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University of California Press The Works of John Dryden Volume II Poems 16811684 2
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University of California Press Inventing Baby Food
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University of California Press Mark Twain Among the Indians and Other Indigenous
Book SynopsisMark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples is the first book-length study of the writer's evolving views regarding the aboriginal inhabitants of North America and the Southern Hemisphere, and his deeply conflicted representations of them in fiction, newspaper sketches, and speeches. Using a wide range of archival materialsincluding previously unexamined marginalia in books from Clemens's personal libraryDriscoll charts the development of the writer's ethnocentric attitudes about Indians and savagery in relation to the various geographic and social milieus of communities he inhabited at key periods in his life, from antebellum Hannibal, Missouri, and the Sierra Nevada mining camps of the 1860s to the progressive urban enclave of Hartford's Nook Farm. The book also examines the impact of Clemens's 189596 world lecture tour, when he traveled to Australia and New Zealand and learned firsthand about the dispossession and mistreatment of native peoples under British colonial rTrade Review“[a] ground-breaking new study.... Readers of this book will be disturbed, provoked, and disheartened, but not disappointed. They will find the excellent illustrations, bibliography, and index subentries extremely helpful and suggestive of further readings and research. Honest scholarly enquiry often leads to more questions than answers, and if there are unanswered questions at the end of Driscoll's superb enquiry, it is not the fault of the enquirer, but Mark Twain himself, who left us no clear answers on this subject—not because he knew the answers and chose to withhold them, but because he simply did not know himself.” * Mark Twain Forum *"Driscoll’s book offers a comprehensive examination of Twain’s attitudes about 'Indians' and the results are arguably more dismal, and even damning, than one might expect." * American Literary Realism *"Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous People will be the definitive resource for those seeking to track Twain’s attitudes toward Indigenous peoples." * Great Plains Quarterly *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xv Introduction 1 1. The Romance and Terror of Indians 14 2. Blind in Nevada: Early Perceptions of Indians in the West 53 3. Indians Imagined, 1862–72 93 4. The Roots of Racial Animus in “The Noble Red Man” 144 5. “How Much Higher and Finer Is The Indian’s God” 185 6. The Curious Tale of the Connecticut Indian Association 228 7. Indigenes Abroad: The Unseen Aboriginals of Australia 268 8. The Maori: “A Superior Breed of Savages” 309 Conclusion 349 Notes 371 Bibliography 405
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Cambridge University Press The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England
Book SynopsisThe Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England explores how attitudes toward, and explanations of, human emotions change in England during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. Typically categorized as 'literary' writers Edmund Spenser, John Donne, Robert Burton and John Milton were all active in the period's reappraisal of the single emotion that, due to their efforts, would become the passion most associated with the writing life: melancholy. By emphasising the shared concerns of the 'non-literary' and 'literary' texts produced by these figures, Douglas Trevor asserts that quintessentially 'scholarly' practices such as glossing texts and appending sidenotes shape the methods by which these same writers come to analyse their own moods. He also examines early modern medical texts, dramaturgical representations of learned depressives such as Shakespeare's Hamlet, and the opposition to materialistic accounts of the passions voiced by Neoplatonists such as Edmund Spenser.Trade Review"A highly significant history of the passions...." -SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900"...the visual parameters are set forth with laudable clarity and comprehensiveness. Kiefer's work, which concludes with an exemplary thirty-five page select bibliography, is a welcome addition to Shakespeare studies." -Clifford Davidson, Modern Philology"Douglas Trevor's Poetics of Melancholy is an illuminating and thought-provoking analysis of the representation of sadness in early modern English writing." -Ian Frederick Moultan, Arizona State University Polytechnic"[T]his is a fascinating, probing book." -David W. Swain, Southern New Hampshire University, American and English Studies"This book constitutes a major contribution to Renaissance studies: lucidly written, ambitious in its choice of topic and of texts, and opulently intelligent in the details of its literary analysis." --Katherine Elsaman Maus, University of Virginia.Table of Contents1. The reinvention of sadness; 2. Detachability and the passions in Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender; 3. Hamlet and the humors of skepticism; 4. John Donne and scholarly melancholy; 5. Robert Burton's melancholic England; 6. Solitary Milton; Epilogue: after Galenism: angelic corporeality in Paradise Lost.
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Cambridge University Press Virgil in the Renaissance
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Cambridge University Press German Romantic Literary Theory Cambridge Studies in German
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture Cambridge Companions to Culture
Book SynopsisThis Companion explains key aspects of modern Chinese culture without assuming prior knowledge of China or the Chinese language. Invaluable for students of Chinese studies, this book includes a glossary of key terms, a chronology and a guide to further reading.Trade Review"Highly recommended." - ChoiceTable of Contents1. Defining modern Chinese culture Kam Louie; 2. Social and political developments: the making of the twentieth-century Chinese state Peter Zarrow; 3. Historical consciousness and national identity Prasenjit Duara; 4. Gender in modern Chinese culture Harriet Evans; 5. Ethnicity and Chinese identity: ethnographic insight and political positioning William Jankowiak; 6. Flag, flame and embers: diaspora cultures Wang Gungwu; 7. Modernizing Confucianism and 'new Confucianism' Tan Sor-hoon; 8. Socialism in China: a historical overview Arif Dirlik; 9. Chinese religious traditions from 1900–2005: an overview Daniel Overmeyer; 10. Languages in a modernizing China Chen Ping; 11. The revolutionary tradition in modern Chinese literature Charles Laughlin; 12. The involutionary tradition in modern Chinese literature Michel Hockx; 13. Music and performing arts: tradition, reform and political and social relevance Colin Mackerras; 14. Revolutions in vision: Chinese art and the experience of modernity David Clarke; 15. Cinema: from foreign import to global brand Chris Berry; 16. Media boom and cyber culture: television and the internet in China Liu Kang; 17. Physical culture, sports and the Olympics Susan Brownell; Glossary of Chinese characters; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Jane Austen In Context
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays covering many aspects of Austen's life, works and historical context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the life and times of Jane Austen. Jane Austen in Context is a generously illustrated collection of short, lively contributions arranged alphabetically, and covering topics from biography to portraits and agriculture to transport. An essay on the reception of Austen's work is also included, showing how criticism of Austen has responded to literary movements and fashions. The volume emphasises the subtle interactions between Austen's life and times and her novels. This is a work of reference that readers and scholars of Austen will turn to again and again.Trade Review"Jane Austen deserves, and here gets, the reward of other people's skillful work on her little bit of ivory, two inches wide.... The Cambridge Edition justifies its claim to the 'the first ever scholarly edition of the works of Jane Austen', and is a fine tribute to her for the twenty-first century." -Jane Austen Society NewsletterTable of ContentsPreface Janet Todd; Chronology Deirdre Le Faye; Part I. Life and Works: 1. Biography Jan Fergus; 2. Composition and publication Kathryn Sutherland; 3. Language Anthony Mandal; 4. Letters Deirdre Le Faye; 5. Literary influences Jane Stabler; 6. Memoirs and biographies Deirdre Le Faye; 7. Poetry David Selwyn; 8. Portraits Margaret Kirkham; Part II. Critical Fortunes: 9. Critical responses, early Mary Waldron; 10. Critical responses, 1830–1970 Nicola Trott; 11. Critical responses, recent Rajeswari Sunder Rajan; 12. Cult of Jane Austen Deidre Lynch; 13. Publishing history David Gilson; 14. Sequels Deidre Lynch; 15. Translations Valerie Cossy and Diego Saglia; Part III. Historical and Cultural Context: 16. Agriculture Robert Clark and Gerry Dutton; 17. Book production James Raven; 18. Cities Jane Stabler; 19. Consumer goods David Selwyn; 20. Domestic spaces Claire Lamont; 21. Dress Antje Blank; 22. Education and accomplishments Gary Kelly; 23. Food Maggie Lane; 24. Landownership Chris Jones; 25. Landscape Alistair M. Duckworth; 26. Literary scene Richard Cronin; 27. Manners Paula Byrne; 28. Medical theories John Wiltshire; 29. Money Edward Copeland; 30. Nationalism and empire Warren Roberts; 31. Pastimes Penny Gay; 32. Philosophy Peter Knox-Shaw; 33. Politics Nicholas Roe; 34. Professions Brian Southam; 35. Psychology John Mullan; 36. Rank Tom Keymer; 37. Reading practices Alan Richardson; 38. Religion Michael Wheeler; 39. Trade Markman Ellis; 40. Transport Pat Rogers; Select bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The Letters of Ernest Hemingway Volume 6 19341936
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Pearson Education Speaking Your Mind
Book SynopsisTory Young, Department of English, Polytechnic University Cordella Bryan, Freelance Educational ConsultantTable of Contents1. Conversations and Seminars 2. Introduction to Rhetoric and Argument 3. Shakespeare and Renaissance Rhetoric 4. Everyday Rhetorics 5. Making your Case 6. Presenting your Case. Appendix 1: Sample Criteria Sheet for Peer Oral Assessment. Appendix 2: Sample Practice Presentation Scenarios. Further Reading. Glossary.
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Pearson Education The Prelude and Selected Poems York Notes
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.
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Harvard University Press A Bull of a Man
Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking study of previously unexplored aspects of the early Buddhist tradition, Powers adapts methodological approaches from European and North American historiography to the study of early Buddhist literature, art, and iconography, highlighting aspects of the tradition that have been surprisingly invisible in earlier scholarship.Trade ReviewA Bull of a Man is one of the most creative and remarkable manuscripts on an Indian-Buddhist related topic that I have read in the past quarter-century. No other publication on embodiment in Buddhism even approaches its sophistication. It is an exciting, essential volume for all in Buddhist studies. -- Charles S. Prebish, Utah State UniversityWhereas for years Western scholars have propagated a disembodied view of Buddhism, John Powers makes a powerful case for the Indian tradition's obsession with gender, sexuality, and the body. Engagingly written and packed with fascinating details, A Bull of a Man is a major contribution to Buddhist studies and a must read for anyone interested in the interaction between gender and religion. -- Christopher E. Forth, author of Masculinity in the Modern WestA wide audience will benefit from reading it. -- Björn Krondorfer * Journal of Men, Masculinities, and Spirituality *For the first time, Powers's study presents us with a new perspective on the Buddha as an ideal, perfect man for others to emulate through his careful examination of masculinity in Indian Buddhist literatures...Powers's study offers the reader a fresh look from a community perspective of how the immediate disciples of the Buddha lived together and associated with one another, how they treated their bodies in private and in meditation, and how they interacted with women. Contrary to conventional understandings, Powers also shows that, as human beings, the Buddhist monks also built intimate friendships, valued companionship, and encountered challenges of various kinds. Thus, this book broadens our understanding of the foundational Buddhist community and the lives of its members. -- Guang Xing * American Historical Review *A welcome addition to a growing corpus of scholarship on body, gender, and sexuality in Buddhist studies...Powers displays an encyclopedic knowledge of South Asian Buddhist history and literature...Powers excels at documenting broad changes in concepts of masculinity and body across Buddhist sects. -- Susanne Mrozik * H-Net Reviews *Although the Buddha was depicted in early Buddhist literature as a virile and stunningly beautiful man, in the modern West he has been largely stripped of his masculinity by well-meaning, if historically inaccurate, attempts to render him asexual and gender neutral. In A Bull of A Man John Powers seeks to reinvigorate the Buddha and his early disciples, restoring to them the masculinity that the authors of the Pali canon clearly intended them to have. Powers' readings of the early biographies of the Buddha show that the story is one of heroic and manly self-control, and in the Vinaya he finds evidence in the stories of sexual escapades that early Indian monks were routinely depicted as models of masculinity. While their chastity may have yoked their seminal energies for the pursuit of the exalted goal of liberation, their minds appear to have remained with their manhood. -- Alexander Gardner * Buddhadharma *Powers plots the ways in which masculinity and the Indian Buddhist path are discursively intertwined, and he offers explanations for an Indian Buddhist discourse of masculinity that many have ignored or found counterintuitive. He situates his work within emerging scholarship on religion, gender, and the body, noting the central importance of somatic displays of virtue and of the male body in particular as a symbol of spiritual accomplishment in Indian Buddhism. Calling on the theoretical work of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Pierre Bourdieu, and others, Powers further suggests that Buddhist discourses of masculinity were a vital resource for Indian Buddhists who had to perform their masculinity in order to succeed in their local social environments...Powers's employment of masculinity as an interpretive category in the study of Indian Buddhism is fresh and extremely useful. His mastery of a wide range of textual sources in several Buddhist languages makes his discussion substantive and well balanced. Furthermore, he takes a pedagogical tone throughout, always providing a basic discussion of Buddhist traditions even while advancing more sophisticated arguments about gender and the body in Buddhism. These qualities make his volume one of a rare few that are both challenging for experts and accessible to students...A Bull of a Man is a solid and worthy study that will be revelatory to many. -- Amy Paris Langenberg * Journal of Asian Studies *A Bull of a Man is an exceptional contribution to the field of Indian Buddhist Studies. The main argument is simple, and yet scholars in the field have consistently missed it for decades. Powers has managed to put his finger on a central theme in Buddhist literature that has evaded the majority of us...Powers has opened the door to a new and exciting field of inquiry for Buddhist Studies. -- Vanessa Sasson * Journal of Buddhist Ethics *This compelling book on the masculine aspects of the Buddha's body explores areas untouched by current studies in "embodiment" in Buddhism. While traditionally, discussions of the body in general, and of the Buddha's body in particular, have highlighted the intersexual and asexual nature of the Buddha...this intriguing and persuasive work explores the "manliness" of the Buddha's body...Indispensable for all early Buddhist study. -- E. Findly * Choice *Table of Contents* Preface * The Ultimate Man * A Manly Monk * Sex and the Single Monk * The Problem with Bodies * The Company of Men * The Greater Men of the Greater Vehicle * Adepts and Sorcerers * Conclusion * Appendix 1: The Major and Minor Physical Characteristics of a Great Man * Appendix 2: Epithets of the Buddha * Notes * Bibliography * Index
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Harvard University Press Dostoevsky and the Idiot
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Harvard University Press MiLou
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Harvard University Press The Fairest of Them All
Book SynopsisVersions of the Snow White story have been shared across the world for centuries. Acclaimed folklorist and translator Maria Tatar places the well-known editions of Walt Disney and the Brothers Grimm alongside other tellings, inviting readers to experience anew a beloved fantasy of melodrama and imagination.Trade ReviewTilt the magic mirror this way, that, and you’ll find in The Fairest of Them All nearly two dozen reflections, each dazzling, of the ur-fairy tale known as Snow White. With her trademark brio and deep-tissue understanding, Maria Tatar opens the glass casket on this undying story, which retains its power to charm twenty-one times, and counting. -- Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and Mirror MirrorA fascinating volume…Far from demystifying fairy tales, Tatar’s analysis has the effect of deepening an appreciation for their magic…The Fairest of Them All delivers a trove of forgotten fairy tales to readers and returns the Snow White of Disney and the Brothers Grimm to her international context—as but one version in a strange, beguiling history of stories about beauty, jealousy, and maternal persecution. * Wall Street Journal *Is the story of Snow White the cruelest, the deepest, the strangest, the most mythopoeic of them all? The answer must be yes. Maria Tatar trains a keen eye on the appeal of the bitter conflict between women at the heart of the tale, unearths retellings from far and wide, and spreads a feast of rich thoughts on the tale’s remarkable aesthetic migrations into literature and film. The Fairest of Them All is an exciting and authoritative anthology from the wisest good fairy in the world of the fairy tale. -- Marina Warner, author of Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale and Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian NightsThe Snow White tales that Tatar presents here are not as slick as the confections of the Grimms and Disney… What Tatar urges in her deft and thoughtful introduction is that we read each variation, whether it is from West Africa, Afghanistan or China, with equal attention… This provides a way of thinking about how fairy tales reveal more than the essentially early 20th-century upper bourgeois insights of Freudian psychoanalysts. There are plenty of examples of mother–daughter rivalries in these tales to be sure, but there is so much more of the material and temporal world—food, hunger, disease, and war—too. -- Kathryn Hughes * The Guardian *[A] fascinating collection of tales…Shocking yet familiar, these stories of regeneration and transformation even when written down retain the secret whisper of storytelling. This is a properly magical, erudite book that follows Snow White’s trail into the darker forests of the human psyche in which she originated. -- Lucy Lethbridge * Literary Review *Going to the root of a story is a journey to the very core of the soul. Reading across the world, the inimitable Maria Tatar offers us a maze of mothers and daughters and within that glorious tangle an archetype with far more meaning than we imagine when we say ‘Snow White.’ -- Honor Moore, author of Our Revolution: A Mother and Daughter at Midcentury
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Harvard University Press Gliglois
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Harvard University Press Spenser and the Table Round
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Harvard University Press The Phoenix and the Spider
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Harvard University Press Bloodhounds of Heaven
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Harvard University Press Joseph Conrad
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Harvard University Press The Romantic Imagination
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Voice of Her Own Women and the Journal Writing
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Princeton University Press A Defence of Pretence
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Princeton University Press A History of Modern French Literature
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Princeton University Press Authority Autonomy and Representation in American
Book SynopsisFrom the Revolutionary War to the Civil War, a familiar scene appears and reappears in American literature: a speaker stands before a crowd of men and women, attempting to mitigate their natural suspicions in order to form a body of federated wills. In this important study of the relationship of literature and politics, Mark Patterson argues that tTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. ix*INTRODUCTION, pg. xv*ABBREVIATIONS OF FREQUENTLY CITED WORKS, pg. xxix*Chapter One. Benjamin Franklin and the Authority of Imitation, pg. 3*Chapter Two. Hugh Henry Brackenridge and Representation, pg. 34*Chapter Three. Charles Brockden Brown, Authority, and Intentionality, pg. 61*Chapter Four. Myth from the Perspective of History: James Fenimore Cooper and Paternal Authorities, pg. 81*Chapter Five. Ralph Waldo Emerson and the American Representative, pg. 137*Chapter Six. Herman Melville: The Authority of Confidence, pg. 189*Conclusion, pg. 240*Index, pg. 245
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Princeton University Press Fictions of Form in American Poetry
Book SynopsisIn the 1830s Alexis de Tocqueville prophesied that American writers would slight, even despise, form--that they would favor the sensational over rational order. He suggested that this attitude was linked to a distinct concept of democracy in America. Exposing the inaccuracies of such claims when applied to poetry, Stephen Cushman maintains that AmeTrade Review"Cushman's position is that major American poets have probably overvalued the formal and perhaps fallaciously have believed that the formal aspects of their poetry reflect deep-seated views of Americanness. The book is vital, new, offering the changing poetic view of America from 1855 to the present."--ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1Fictions of Form in American Poetry32Walt Whitman's Six Children253The Broken Mathematics of Emily Dickinson424Ezra Pound and the Terrifyin' Voice of Civilization755Elizabeth Bishop's Winding Path1126A. R. Ammons, or the Rigid Lines of the Free and Easy149Envoi187Notes191Index211
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Princeton University Press Heirs to Dionysus
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Princeton University Press Gender and Romance in Chaucers Canterbury Tales
Book SynopsisIn this fresh look at Chaucer's relation to English and French romances of the late Middle Ages, Crane shows that Chaucer's depictions of masculinity and femininity constitute an extensive and sympathetic response to the genre. For Chaucer, she proposes, gender is the defining concern of romance. As the foundational narratives of courtship, romanceTrade Review"Susan Crane is a meticulous scholar and a daring thinker—always a rare combination. This work is marked throughout by extraordinary expository clarity and a bold readiness to map uncharted areas. Its characteristic virtue is that, having situated itself by this kind of mapping, it then produces a plethora of remarkable insights about texts and their gender-based strategies."—Paul Strohm, Indiana UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction3Ch. IMasculinity in Romance16Ch. IIFeminine Mimicry and Masquerade55Ch. IIIGender and Social Hierarchy93Ch. IVSubtle Clerks and Uncanny Women132Ch. VAdventure165Bibliography: Primary Sources205Bibliography: Secondary Sources210Index229
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Princeton University Press The Poetics of Cavafy Textuality Eroticism History
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Princeton University Press Paul Nizan Committed Literature in a
Book SynopsisSartre's friend and sometime rival, Paul Nizan was a prototype of the angry young man. Ideologically a Marxist, politically a Communist, professionally a writer, endowed--Sartre conceded--with a sharper mind and greater literary ability than his own, Nizan diagnosed the ills of French society in the 1930's. His writings, vilified by the Party he leTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 1*1. Evolution Of A Young Thinker, pg. 9*2. An Alienated Man: Antoine Bloye, pg. 47*3. Member Of A Working Party, pg. 78*4. Politics And The Novel: Le Cheval De Troie, pg. 119*5. A Conspiratorial World: La Conspiration, pg. 151*6. Breaks And Fidelities, pg. 183*Conclusion, pg. 216*Bibliography, pg. 223*Index, pg. 229
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Princeton University Press Mythology in the Modern Novel A Study of
Book SynopsisJ. J. White reexamines the use of myth in fiction in order to bring a new terminological precision into the field. While concentrating on the German novel (Mann, Broch, and Nossack), he discusses the work of Alberto Moravia, John Bowen, Michel Butor, and Macdonald Harris as well, in order to show the modern predilection for myth in whatever nationaTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*Acknowledgments, pg. xi*Chapter One. Myth and the Modern Novel, pg. 1*Chapter Two. Terms and Distinctions, pg. 32*Chapter Three. Approaches to the Mythological Novel, pg. 76*Chapter Four.The Unilinear Pattern of Development, pg. 118*Chapter Five. Distorted Motif-Structures, pg. 191*Select Bibliography, pg. 241*Index, pg. 255
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Princeton University Press Mortal No Death and the Modern Imagination
Book SynopsisUsing examples from modem writers the author examines the impact of death using the concepts of grace, violence and self. Originally published in 1954. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These eTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*PREFACE, pg. vii*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xi*CONTENTS, pg. xv*INTRODUCTION: A LOOK AT THE TERMS, pg. 1*1. VIOLENCE AND DECORUM, pg. 23*2. THE CONSEQUENCES OF SECULAR GRACE, pg. 94*3. THE ASSAILANT AND THE VICTIM: SOME DEFINITIONS OF MODERN VIOLENCE, pg. 139*4. THE MOMENT OF VIOLENCE: ERNST JUENGER AND THE LITERARY PROBLEM OF FACT, pg. 158*5. THE SCENE OF VIOLENCE: DOSTOEVSKY AND DREISER, pg. 179*6. THE IMAGERY OF CATASTROPHE, pg. 202*7. "TERROR'S UNIQUE ENIGMA": THE LITERATURE OF WORLD WAR II, pg. 224*8. THE HERO IN ABSENTIA: THE CONCENTRATION CAMP, pg. 267*9. KAFKA'S THE TRIAL: THE ASSAILANT AS LANDSCAPE, pg. 291*10. THE TRANSCENDENT SELF, pg. 317*11. "ECSTATIC TEMPORALITY": THE SELF IN TIME, pg. 341*12. "THE BOOK OF HIMSELF": JOYCE AND LAWRENCE, pg. 393*13. EXISTENTIALIST LIVING AND DYING, pg. 424*14. CONCLUSION: THE WHEEL OF SELF, pg. 453*INDEX, pg. 495
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Princeton University Press Racines MidCareer Tragedies
Book SynopsisTranslated into English rhyming verse, with introductions, by Lacy Lockert, the four plays included in this volume are Berenice, Bajazet, Mithridate, and Iphigenie. They are significant for their inherent excellence, and for what they reveal about the development of a great dramatist. Originally published in 1958. The Princeton Legacy Library useTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. ix*BERENICE (BERENICE), pg. 1*BAJAZET, pg. 89*MITHRIDATE (MITHRIDATES), pg. 183*IPHIGENIE (IPHIGENIA), pg. 273
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Princeton University Press Unpremeditated Verse
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Princeton University Press A History of AngloLatin Literature 5971066 Volume
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Princeton University Press The Epigram in the English Renaissance 4032 Princeton Legacy Library
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Women Beware Women
Book SynopsisThomas Middleton (1570-1627) was an English dramatist, who excelled in both comedy and tragedy. Whilst his so-called 'city comedies' provide insight into 17th-century London life and manners, his tragedies are noted for their richly poetic verse, their emphasis on guilt and corruption, and their understanding of feminine psychology. He often worked in collaboration with other dramatists for the theatre owner Philip Henslowe, including Thomas Dekker and William Rowley. Middleton's works include A Trick to Catch the Old One (1604-05), A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (1619), the tragedy Women Beware Women (1621) and the political satire A Game of Chess (1624).Trade ReviewThomas Middleton's Jacobean drama spreads like a web around the the black- widow figure of Livia... it is clear that Livia's deviousness is a profoundly cynical response to the hipocrisy of a society in which women are powerless and men do as they please.' Sarah Hemming, Financial Times, 29.04.10 'Thomas Middleton's 17th- century study of self- survival and the destruction of innocence' Clare Allfree, Metro (London), 29.04.10 'A sardonic masterwork that admits one to the world of fuliginous cruelty.' Michael Billington, Guardian, 29.04.10 'Dark, decadent and immensely stylish, Women Beware Women makes you laugh even as you shiver.' Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 29.04.10 'A fiercely felt, finely wrought, seldom-seen play by one of Shakespeare's contemporaries.' Susannah Clapp, Obcerver, 02.05.10
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Epicoene or The Silent Woman
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Recruiting Officer
Book SynopsisThe editor, Tiffany Stern, is Professor of Early Modern Drama at Oxford University. She is a General Editor of the New Mermaid Series, and is author of Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan (2000), Making Shakespeare (2004), Shakespeare in Parts (co-written with Simon Palfrey, 2007), and Documents of Performance in Early Modern England (2009).
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