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Amberley Publishing Nottinghamshires Literary Heritage
Book SynopsisThis book explores the fascinating history of Nottinghamshireâs remarkable literary heritage as well as being a guide to the locations where that heritage can still be found.
£14.39
Edinburgh University Press Law Equity and Romantic Writing
Book SynopsisExplores the pursuit of justice through the processes of writing, reading and interpreting in Enlightenment and Romantic-period literature
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Duke of Lennox 15741624
Book SynopsisA biography of the second Duke of Lennox, the most consequential person in the Jacobean court in Scotland and England
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Forms of Modernist Fiction
Book SynopsisInnovative literary form examined from the point of view of the reader's experience
£22.49
Edinburgh University Press African Literature and Us Empire
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Edinburgh University Press Reading Espionage Fiction
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Edinburgh University Press Virginia Woolf and Motherhood
Book SynopsisEstablishes maternity as a vital theme within Virginia Woolf's feminist and political thought
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Narratives of Disability and Illness in the
Book SynopsisA comprehensive study of the representations of disability and illness in the fiction of J. M. Coetzee
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Elevated Realms An Anatomy of Mina Loy
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Edinburgh University Press Psychic Connection and the TwentiethCentury British Novel
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Edinburgh University Press Literary History and AvantGarde Poetics in the Antipodes
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Edinburgh University Press The Ecology of British and American Empire Writing 1704 1894
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Edinburgh University Press Rachel Bowlby Unexpected Items
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Edinburgh University Press The English Baroque in Early Modern Literature
Book SynopsisThe first large-scale study of English baroque literature.
£76.50
Edinburgh University Press Reading with Peter Brooks
Book SynopsisShort, sharp and original commentary inspired by Peter Brooks's diverse critical work.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Thomas Moore and the Transatlantic 18001840
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and
Book SynopsisTo capture the many Woolfian currents circulating around the world, the twenty-three chapters in this companion examine the global responses Woolf?s work has inspired and explore her worldwide influence. Authors address ways Woolf is received by writers, publishers, reading audiences and academics in countries around the world; how she is translated into multiple languages; and the transformation of her life into global contemporary biofiction. This collection is dialogic and comparative, incorporating both transnational and local tendencies insofar as they epitomize Woolf?s global reception and legacy. It contests the ?centre? and ?periphery? binary, offering new models for Woolf global studies and promoting cross-cultural understandings.
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Palgrave USA Reading Late Lawrence
Book SynopsisReading Late Lawrence is a study of a number of the neglected fictional works of D. Lawrence's last period: these include Glad Ghosts , Sun, The Lovely Lady, The Blue Moccasins , and the first two revisions of Lady Chatterley's Lover .Table of ContentsPreface In In Love At Home, At Peace: Glad Ghosts Sun and The Virgin and the Gipsy Parkin's Wedding Photograph Strange Women with White Hair: The Lovely Lady, Mother and Daughter, The Blue Moccasins Bibliography of Lawrence's Works Bibliography Index
£42.74
Routledge The Poems of Robert Browning Volume Five
Book SynopsisThe Ring and the Book, published serially in 18689, is one of the most daring and innovative poems in the English language. The story is based on the trial of an Italian nobleman, Guido Franceschini, for the murder of his wife Pompilia in Rome in 1698. Browning's discovery of the old yellow book', a bundle of legal documents and letters relating to the trial, on a second-hand market stall in Florence, sparked an imaginative engagement with this sordid tale of domestic cruelty, adultery, and greed which grew, through four years of arduous labour, into an epic peopled not by gods and warriors but by concrete, recognisably human beings. Fusing the technique of the dramatic monologue, the form he had made his own, with the grandeur of classical epic and the vivid realism of the modern novel, Browning created a unique hybrid form that allowed him not only to bring to life an entire historical period but also to reflect on the process of artistic creation itself th
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Johns Hopkins University Press The New Middle Kingdom
Book SynopsisSpanning a full century, from the post-Revolutionary War era to the Gilded Age, The New Middle Kingdom is a vivid look at the Far East through Western eyes, one that highlights the importance of China in antebellum US culture.Trade ReviewThe New Middle Kingdom is at its core an account of those who shaped the US’ early relationship with China. By examining these figures through their own works and their national context, Johnson crafts a remarkable argument about the intricacies of both the China trade, and, more challengingly, the roots of American empire to be found there.—American Literary History. . . in exploring, in so much depth and so persuasively, the “romance of free trade,” Johnson has prepared the way for further explorations of how different approaches to American political economy intersected with US-China relations, as well as provided a basis for interrogating why—and how—there could have been such ideological and narrative continuity amid such significant change in this complex relationship.—H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue Introduction Chapter 1. Characterizing the American China Trader: The Global Geography of Opium Traffic in Josiah Quincy's The Journals of Major Samuel Shaw (1847) Chapter 2. Captain Amasa Delano, China Trader: Slavery, Sealskins, and Herman Melville's Dollar Signs of the Canton Trade Chapter 3. The Troubled Romance in Harriett Low's Picturesque Macao: Transnational Family Fortunes and the Rise of Russell & Company Chapter 4. The Sacred Fount of the ABCFM: Free Press, Free Trade, and Extraterritorial Printing in China 132Chapter 5. Caleb Cushing's Print Trail of Legal Extraterritoriality: A Confederated Christendom of Commerce, from the Far East to the Far West Chapter 6. Extraterritorial Burial and the Visual Aesthetics of Free-Trade Imperialism in Commodore Matthew Perry's Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan (1856) Chapter 7. Passages to India from the Newly United States: Revising The Middle Kingdom (1883) Notes Bibliography Index
£49.95
Johns Hopkins University Press Rousseaus Venetian Story
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1966. This book is primarily a literary study of Rousseau's account of his diplomatic experiences in Venice, contained in book 7 of the Confessions and written in 1769. The author analyzes Rousseau's methods of achieving an artistic rendering of psychological truth in autobiography, as exemplified in his treatment of the events of 17421749. Professor Madeleine Ellis contributes to an understanding of Rousseau as a creative artist and positions him vis-à-vis the classical and romantic movements. Ellis collates the text of the Confessions with contemporary correspondence and other documents to show how discrepancies between the two have artistic implications. These implications lead her to define Rousseau's principles and methods as a man of letters and the interrelations of art and truth in his memoirs. In revealing that Rousseau, the memorialist, gives an artistic rendering of psychological truth, Ellis shows Rousseau's attitude toward truth. She does this by foTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionI. Les Confessions: Prologue to the StoryII. The Venetian StoryIII. Confessions of the EpilogueIV. ConclusionSelected BibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Not Even Past
Book SynopsisHow the Civil War endures in American life through literature and culture. Recipient of the Eric Hoffer Award's Montaigne MedalThe American Civil War lives on in our collective imagination like few other events. The story of the war has been retold in countless films, novels, poems, memoirs, plays, sculptures, and monuments. Often remembered as an emancipatory struggle, as an attempt to destroy slavery in America now and forever, it is also memorialized as a fight for Southern independence; as a fratricide that divided the national family; and as a dark, cruel conflict defined by its brutality. What do these stories, myths, and rumors have in common, and what do they teach us about modern America? In this fascinating book, Cody Marrs reveals how these narratives evolved over time and why they acquired such lasting power. Marrs addresses an eclectic range of texts, traditions, and creators, from Walt Whitman, Abram Ryan, and Abraham Lincoln to Margaret Mitchell, D. W. Griffith, and W.Trade ReviewMarrs examines the shifting landscape of Civil War perspectives throughout history using public memory and writing from creators such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Walt Whitman, and Margaret Mitchell. He argues that this continual retelling and reinterpretation reveal the Civil War as an ongoing struggle never far from American consciousness and identity.—Chelsea Risley, Southern Review of BooksMarrs weaves a complex history to capture the essence of the literature and art surrounding the Civil War, resulting in a valuable work beneficial to a variety of collections.—Library JournalNot Even Past is a trenchant, wide-ranging survey of the history that binds us a nation while, at the same time, drives us apart. Because it still needs proving now and again, Marrs' book proves that the American Civil War is with us today as much as it was when it began a century and a half ago.—Lance Weller, New York Journal of BooksNot Even Past is an impressive feat that straddles the line between intense academic history and popular history. The world needs more such books.—Daniel Sunshine, Civil War Book ReviewThe reader is left with a sense of an America still divided, and, in the words of W.E.B. Du Bois, the Civil War as "...a social revolution... never allowed to complete itself."—Eric Hoffer Award CommitteeCody Marrs serves up a feast of Civil War stories in his timely, compact, and entertaining new analysis, Not Even the Past: The Stories We Keep Telling about the Civil War.—LeAnna Keith, The Journal of Southern HistoryCody Marr's impressive, wide-ranging new book...—Michel LeMahieu, Clemson University, American Literary HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction Chapter 1. A Family Squabble Chapter 2. A Dark and Cruel War Chapter 3. The Lost CauseChapter 4. The Great Emancipation Afterword. Recent and Future Civil Wars Acknowledgments NotesSuggested Further Reading Index
£17.25
Johns Hopkins University Press Material Ambitions
Book SynopsisWhat the Victorian history of self-help reveals about the myth of individualism. Stories of hardworking characters who lift themselves from rags to riches abound in the Victorian era. From the popularity of such stories, it is clear that the Victorians valorized personal ambition in ways that previous generations had not. In Material Ambitions, Rebecca Richardson explores this phenomenon in light of the under-studied reception history of Samuel Smiles's 1859 publication, Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance. A compilation of vignettes about captains of industry, artists, and inventors who persevered through failure and worked tirelessly to achieve success in their respective fields, Self-Help links individual ambition to the growth of the nation. Contextualizing Smiles's work in a tradition of Renaissance self-fashioning, eighteenth-century advice books, and inspirational biography, Richardson argues that the burgeoning self-help genre of the VictoriaTrade ReviewRebecca Richardson shows that even those writers who appear to celebrate self-help invite more nuanced readings. They explored the ways in which aspiration encourages not only ambition but competition, and often exploitation – inequities, as declared by Richardson in a brief polemical coda, that persist today.—Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Self-Help and the Story of the Ambitious Individual1. Forming the Ambitious Individual in Samuel Smiles's Self-Help2. Expanding the Story of Ambition, Work, and Health in a Limited World: Harriet Martineau's Economic and Illness Writing3. Enabling the Self-Help Narrative in Dinah Craik's John Halifax, Gentleman4. "At What Point This Ambition Transgresses the Boundary of Virtue": From Thackeray's Barry Lyndon to Vanity Fair5. Individuating Ambitions in a Competitive System: Trollope's Autobiography and The Three Clerks6. Placing and Displacing Ambition: Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career and My Career Goes BungCodaNotes BibliographyIndex
£22.88
Johns Hopkins University Press From Empire to Anthropocene
Book SynopsisHow contemporary novels use narrative time to counter cultural homogenization and historical flattening. In From Empire to Anthropocene, Betty Joseph celebrates how contemporary fiction contributes to a novel framing of world literature by playing with our understanding of time. Bringing together an unusual constellation of writersincluding Jamaica Kincaid, Teju Cole, Hari Kunzru, and Barbara KingsolverJoseph traces how the novelistic interplay of concrete and abstract temporalities offers a new theory of critical globality. Joseph examines time in contemporary life through five conceptual metaphors that have captivated literary, critical, and cultural studies: specters, attachments, networks, markets, and assemblages. Joseph demonstrates how these terms are embedded with their own temporal structures and linguistic complexity. She develops a mode of reading that she calls conceptual-metaphorical performances, which embody the writers' complex chronopolitical commitments and their re
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Xlibris Sallad Dayes
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State University Press of New York (SUNY) The Tellers Tale Lives of the Classic Fairy Tale Writers
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State University Press of New York (SUNY) Avowal of Difference The Queer Latino American Narratives SUNY series Genders in the Global South
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State University of New York Press Crossing Boundaries and Confounding Identity
Book SynopsisExamines literary, historical, and cultural portrayals of Chinese women, across centuries and continents.
£68.66
State University of New York Press A Bastard Kind of Reasoning
Book SynopsisRanges widely and deeply across William Blake's oeuvre to show how his post-Newtonian vision of space-time anticipates Einsteinian relativity.
£65.04
State University of New York Press The Dybbuk
Book SynopsisA comprehensive study of the history and evolution of the dybbuk, from kabbalistic tradition to popular folklore.The Dybbuk is the first comprehensive study of the historical and kabbalistic sources of the dybbuk phenomenon, from the first recorded case of dybbuk possession in Safed in 1571 onward. Dybbuk possession differs from possession by demons or Satan. Its origin is in the Kabbalistic concept of gilgul (transmigration) for sins that are so grievous that Gehenna is not sufficient punishment, and the soul must therefore wander until expiation is found. The dybbuk can temporarily find refuge in animals or people and can only be exorcised by a Baal Shem, a great kabbalist or expert in Jewish magic. In addition to describing the history and evolution of this concept, The Dybbuk includes English translations of all dybbuk stories discussed in the book, many translated for the first time.
£65.04
State University of New York Press How Close Reading Made Us
Book SynopsisDoes reading shape who we are? What happens to the relationship between reading and subject-formation as methods of interpretation travel globally? Yael Segalovitz probes these questions by tracing the transnational journey of the New Critical practice of close reading from the United States to Brazil and Israel in the mid-twentieth century. Challenging the traditional view of New Criticism as a purely aesthetic project, Segalovitz illustrates its underlying pedagogical objective: to cultivate close readers capable of momentarily suspending subjectivity through focused attention. How Close Reading Made Us shows that close reading, as a technique of the self, exerted a far-reaching influence on international modernist literary production, impacting writers such as Clarice Lispector, Yehuda Amichai, William Faulkner, João Guimarães Rosa, and A. B. Yehoshua. To appreciate close reading''s enduring vitality in literary studies and effectively adapt this method to the present, Segalovitz argues, we must comprehend its many legacies beyond the confines of the Anglophone tradition.
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iUniverse Waist Deep in Broom Sedge
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Dostoevskys The Brothers Karamazov
Book SynopsisFyodor Dostoevsky''s The Brothers Karamazov is unquestionably one of the greatest works of world literature. With its dramatic portrayal of a Russian family in crisis and its intense investigation into the essential questions of human existence, the novel has had a major impact on writers and thinkers across a broad range of disciplines, from psychology to religious and political philosophy. This proposed reader''s guide has two major goals: to help the reader understand the place of Dostoevsky''s novel in Russian and world literature, and to illuminate the writer''s compelling and complex artistic vision. The plot of the novel centers on the murder of the patriarch of the Karamazov family and the subsequent attempt to discover which of the brothers bears responsibility for the murder, but Dostoevsky''s ultimate interests are far more thought-provoking. Haunted by the question of God''s existence, Dostoevsky uses the character of Ivan Karamazov to ask what kind of God would Trade ReviewA superb introduction to Dostoevsky's great novel. Connolly offers a wealth of original and convincing new insights, situating them within a thorough reading of both classic and recent scholarship. Of particular value is the pitch-perfect analysis of The Brothers Karamazov in its religious context. The extensive and up-to-date bibliography is one of the best I have seen. Connolly's book will be an essential resource for first-time readers and seasoned scholars alike. -- Carol Apollonio, Professor of the Practice, Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Duke University, USAThis is an excellent guide to Dostoevsky’s final grand statement as a novelist, illuminating the complexities of its plot, characters, themes, and motifs, and paying special attention to its religious dimensions. Drawing on a wide body of scholarship, it will be helpful both for first readers of the novel and for its more advanced students. -- John Burt Foster, Professor of World and Comparative Literature, George Mason University, USAfter guiding the readers through the intricacies of Nabokov’s Lolita, Julian W. Connolly once again produced a valuable companion, this time to Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. Connolly should be commended for the lucid and at the same time insightful and nuanced presentation of the complexities of Dostoevsky’s last novel. Connolly’s book will be indispensable not only for students in every echelon of academic learning, but also for all those interested in Russian literature. -- Gavriel Shapiro, Professor of Comparative and Russian Literature, Cornell University, USConnolly does an excellent job of guiding the reader through Dostoevsky's vast and complex novel. His prose is straightforward and free of jargon; the book is a pleasure to read. [...] Even an experienced student of Dostoevsky will find Connolly's survey and deployment of recent scholarly work on the novel to be of great interest and assistance. [...] Connolly's guide to The Brothers Karamazov will be useful and illuminating for students and general readers as well as Russianists interested in an incisive précis of recent work on the novel. -- Susanne Fusso, Wesleyan University * Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 58, No. 2, Summer 2014 *Table of Contents1. Contexts 2. Language, Form and Style 3. Reading The Brothers Karamazov 4. Critical Reception, Composition and Publishing History 5. Adaptation, Interpretation and Influence 6. Further Reading Index
£21.84
Continuum Publishing Corporation Dostoevsky
Book SynopsisThere is an unresolved tension in Dostoevsky's novels - a tension between believing and not believing in the existence of God. This book enables us to consider the nature of God in the 21st Century through the lens of Dostoevsky's novels.Trade Review"'The Archbishop of Canterbury has written a book on Dostoevsky which illuminates the real operations of religion in human minds' A. N. Wilson, Times Literary Supplement 'Rowan Williams is an excellent literary critic. He makes you want to read, or reread, everything that Dostoevsky wrote. The books that he describes are spacious enough to contain a whole world, and beautiful enough to serve as icons that illuminate ours' The Guardian 'Although Rowan Williams is very modest about his credentials in writing an important book on Dostoevsky, it is difficult to think of anyone who is better qualified... a remarkable contribution to understanding not just Dostoevsky, but what it might involve to be a religious believer in the world today' Richard Harries, Church Times "...a real feeling for literary narrative... a profound and thought provoking book" Salley Vickers, The Times"Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. Christ Against the Truth; 2. Devils; 3. The Last Word? Dialogue and Recognition; 4. Exchanging Crosses; 5. Sacrilege and Revelation: The Broken Image; Conclusion; Bibliography.
£18.04
Taylor & Francis Ltd Understanding Semantics
Book SynopsisUnderstanding Semantics, Second Edition, provides an engaging and accessible introduction to linguistic semantics. The first part takes the reader through a step-by-step guide to the main phenomena and notions of semantics, covering levels and dimensions of meaning, ambiguity, meaning and context, logical relations and meaning relations, the basics of noun semantics, verb semantics and sentence semantics. The second part provides a critical introduction to the basic notions of the three major theoretical approaches to meaning: structuralism, cognitive semantics and formal semantics.Key features include: A consistent mentalist perspective on meaning Broad coverage of lexical and sentence semantics, including three new chapters discussing deixis, NP semantics, presuppositions, verb semantics and frames Examples from a wider range of languages that include German, Japanese, Spanish and Russian. Practical exercises on linguistic Trade ReviewPraise for the first edition "Understanding Semantics is an original and innovative resource for introductory courses on linguistic semantics, excelling in particular in conciseness and accessibility of presentation."Linguistics 43-2 "Löbner's book is strongly recommended and is best seen as a starting point in one's inquiry into what semantics comprises."Luna Filipovic Kleiner, Journal of Pragmatics Praise for the second edition "Sebastian Löbner deserves great credit for producing an introduction to linguistic meaning that is both accessible and thorough." Chris Lucas, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK "This excellent and well-written introductory textbook provides students with easy access to the fascinating world of semantics." Klaus von Heusinger, University of Cologne, Germany "Sebastian Löbner’s Understanding Semantics is a rare treat for both seasoned researchers in semantics and novices to the field, and I believe this book should be on every semantics curriculum as it has been on mine since it first appeared." Luna Filipovic, University of East Anglia, UK "Without stinting on presenting core areas of sentential logic, predication, and lexical relations, the new edition of this comprehensive survey of semantics is enhanced by three new chapters. Students will benefit from the exercises that cover the intersection of semantic and pragmatics at the lexical, sentential and cognitive levels and require seeking evidence from their own as well as typologically diverse languages." Laurel Smith Stvan, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Table of Contents1. Meaning and semantics2. Dimensions of meaning3. Ambiguity4. Meaning and context5. Predication6. Verbs7. Meaning and logic8. Meaning relations9. Meaning components10. Meaning and language comparison11. Meaning and cognition12. Frames13. Formal semantics
£43.99
Gorgias Press On This Day August
Book SynopsisThe Armenian Church Synaxarion is a collection of saints' lives according to the day of the year on which each saint is celebrated. Part of the great and varied Armenian liturgical tradition from the turn of the first millennium, the first Armenian Church Synaxarion represented the logical culmination of a long and steady development of what is today called the cult of the saints. This volume, the first Armenian-English edition, is the eighth of a twelve-volume series - one for each month of the year - and is ideal for personal devotional use or as a valuable resource for anyone interested in saints.
£65.55
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Literature An Introduction to Theory and Analysis
Book SynopsisHow does literature work? And what does it mean? How does it relate to the world: to politics, to history, to the environment? How do we analyse and interpret a literary text, paying attention to its specific poetic and fictitious qualities? This wide-ranging introduction helps students to explore these and many other essential questions in the study of literature, criticism and theory. In a series of introductory chapters, leading international scholars present the fundamental topics of literary studies through conceptual definitions as well as interpretative readings of works familiar from a range of world literary traditions. In an easy-to-navigate format, Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis covers such topics as: Key definitions from plot, character and style to genre, trope and author Literature's relationship to the surrounding world ethics, politics, gender and nature Modes of literature and criticism from books to perfoTrade Review[Employs] engaging writing and [a] clear layout of the topic ... A great resource for first timers in literary theory. The second and third sections of the volume are of greatest interest and can prove useful to those who wish to grasp how literary studies have embraced a wider scope both in theory and practice. * Style *[An] interesting, helpful volume that, to use the words of J. Hillis Miller, ‘will be useful' for advanced literature courses, even postgraduate ones, or as a great resource for teachers of literature, or as a valuable resource for ordinary readers who may want to know something about what is meant by the ‘‘narrator’’ of a novel, or by ‘‘ethnicity’’ in literature. * The Year's Work in English Studies *The range of topics covered in this volume is both capacious and creative. Individual entries are very deft in their interweaving of analysis with example and score high marks for clarity. An excellent resource for students as well as for anyone keen to brush up their knowledge of what’s happening in literary studies. * Rita Felski, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English, University of Virginia *Table of ContentsForeword J. Hillis Miller, University of California Irvine Introduction Thomsen et el, Aarhus University 1. Literature Lasse Horne Kjældgaard, Peter Simonsen, Roskilde University and University of Southern Denmark 2. Interpretation Jesper Gulddal, Newcastle, AU 3. Genre Eva Hättner Aurelius, Lund University 4. Narrative Stefan Iversen, Aarhus University 5. Character Lis Møller, Aarhus University 6.Narrator Jan Alber, Freiburg University 7. Style Lilian Munk Rösing, Copenhagen University 8. Sensation, Isak Winkel Holm, Copenhagen University 9. Rhytm. Dan Ringgaard, Aarhus University 10. Tropes Christoph Bode, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 11. Intertext Elisabeth FriisLund University 12. Author Jon Helt Haarder, University of Southern Denmark 13. Reader Winfried Fluck, Freie Universität 14. History Mads Rosendahl Thomsen,Aarhus University 15. Ethics Lasse Horne Kjældgaard, Roskilde University 16. Politics Jakob Ladegaard, Aarhus University 17. Sex Lilla Toke and Karen Weingarten, Stony Brook and CUNY 18. Ethnicity Tabish Khair, Aarhus University 19. Desire Lilian Munk Rösing, Copenhagen University 20. Nature Peter Mortensen, Aarhus University 21. Place Frederik Tygstrup, Copenhagen University 22. Things Karin Sanders, UC Berkeley 23. Mobility Søren Frank, University of Southern Denmark 24. Memory Ann Rigney, Utrecht University 25. Archives Dennis Tenen, Columbia University 26. Books Tore Rye Andersen, Aarhus University 27. Adaptation Kiene Brillenburg, Utrecht University 28. Art Peter Simonsen, University of Southern Denmark 29. Performance Claire Warden, DeMontfort University 30. Translation Karen Emmerich, Princeton University 31. Creative writing Kiene Brillenburg, Utrecht University 32. Critical writing Gloria Fisk, CUNY 33. Quality Susan Bassnett, University of Warwick Index of schools Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Literature An Introduction to Theory and Analysis
Book SynopsisHow does literature work? And what does it mean? How does it relate to the world: to politics, to history, to the environment? How do we analyse and interpret a literary text, paying attention to its specific poetic and fictitious qualities? This wide-ranging introduction helps students to explore these and many other essential questions in the study of literature, criticism and theory. In a series of introductory chapters, leading international scholars present the fundamental topics of literary studies through conceptual definitions as well as interpretative readings of works familiar from a range of world literary traditions. In an easy-to-navigate format, Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis covers such topics as: Key definitions from plot, character and style to genre, trope and author Literature's relationship to the surrounding world ethics, politics, gender and nature Modes of literature and criticism from books to perfoTrade Review[Employs] engaging writing and [a] clear layout of the topic ... A great resource for first timers in literary theory. The second and third sections of the volume are of greatest interest and can prove useful to those who wish to grasp how literary studies have embraced a wider scope both in theory and practice. * Style *[An] interesting, helpful volume that, to use the words of J. Hillis Miller, ‘will be useful' for advanced literature courses, even postgraduate ones, or as a great resource for teachers of literature, or as a valuable resource for ordinary readers who may want to know something about what is meant by the ‘‘narrator’’ of a novel, or by ‘‘ethnicity’’ in literature. * The Year's Work in English Studies *The range of topics covered in this volume is both capacious and creative. Individual entries are very deft in their interweaving of analysis with example and score high marks for clarity. An excellent resource for students as well as for anyone keen to brush up their knowledge of what’s happening in literary studies. * Rita Felski, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English, University of Virginia *Table of ContentsForeword J. Hillis Miller, University of California Irvine Introduction Thomsen et el, Aarhus University 1. Literature Lasse Horne Kjældgaard, Peter Simonsen, Roskilde University and University of Southern Denmark 2. Interpretation Jesper Gulddal, Newcastle, AU 3. Genre Eva Hättner Aurelius, Lund University 4. Narrative Stefan Iversen, Aarhus University 5. Character Lis Møller, Aarhus University 6.Narrator Jan Alber, Freiburg University 7. Style Lilian Munk Rösing, Copenhagen University 8. Sensation, Isak Winkel Holm, Copenhagen University 9. Rhytm. Dan Ringgaard, Aarhus University 10. Tropes Christoph Bode, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 11. Intertext Elisabeth FriisLund University 12. Author Jon Helt Haarder, University of Southern Denmark 13. Reader Winfried Fluck, Freie Universität 14. History Mads Rosendahl Thomsen,Aarhus University 15. Ethics Lasse Horne Kjældgaard, Roskilde University 16. Politics Jakob Ladegaard, Aarhus University 17. Sex Lilla Toke and Karen Weingarten, Stony Brook and CUNY 18. Ethnicity Tabish Khair, Aarhus University 19. Desire Lilian Munk Rösing, Copenhagen University 20. Nature Peter Mortensen, Aarhus University 21. Place Frederik Tygstrup, Copenhagen University 22. Things Karin Sanders, UC Berkeley 23. Mobility Søren Frank, University of Southern Denmark 24. Memory Ann Rigney, Utrecht University 25. Archives Dennis Tenen, Columbia University 26. Books Tore Rye Andersen, Aarhus University 27. Adaptation Kiene Brillenburg, Utrecht University 28. Art Peter Simonsen, University of Southern Denmark 29. Performance Claire Warden, DeMontfort University 30. Translation Karen Emmerich, Princeton University 31. Creative writing Kiene Brillenburg, Utrecht University 32. Critical writing Gloria Fisk, CUNY 33. Quality Susan Bassnett, University of Warwick Index of schools Bibliography
£90.00
Edinburgh University Press DickensS Clowns
Book SynopsisThis book reappraises Dickens's Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi and his imaginative engagement with its principal protagonist.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Rural Modernity in Britain
Book SynopsisRural Modernity in Britain argues that the rural areas of Britain were impacted by modernisation just as much if not more than urban and suburban areas.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to the Postcolonial
Book SynopsisThe first collection of essays on this subject, this Edinburgh Companion assembles some of the world's foremost postcolonialists to explore the critical, theoretical and disciplinary possibilities that inquiry into this region opens for postcolonial studies.
£29.99
Edinburgh University Press Oscar Wilde and the Radical Politics of the Fin
Book SynopsisThis book reads Oscar Wilde's literary texts in relation to his open support for revolutionaries, along with his expressions of solidarity with Irish republicans, anarchists, workers and migrants.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Beckett Beyond the Normal
Book SynopsisThis book examines why Beckett's writing is so queer, so disabled and disabling.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Crossings in NineteenthCentury American Culture
Book SynopsisA state of the field essay collection that offers new models for analysing time, space, self and politics in nineteenth-century American culture.
£22.49
Edinburgh University Press Gertrude Stein and the Politics of Participation
Book SynopsisOffers a new way of reading Stein's key publications: as responses to the politics of authorship and aesthetic participationTrade Review"Isabelle Parkinson provides keen-eyed reappraisals of Stein's political writing, and of the political claims made by others about Stein's writing. Gertude Stein and the Politics of Participation is a sober, multidimensional guide to some of the most vexing problems of modernism and mass democracy." -Jeremy Braddock, Cornell University
£76.50
Edinburgh University Press Scottish Writing After Devolution
Book SynopsisRemaps the state of Scottish writing in the contemporary moment, embracing its uncertainty and the need to reconsider the field's founding assumptions and exclusions.
£22.49
Edinburgh University Press Tennyson and Goethes Faust
Book SynopsisShows that Faust was a central influence on Tennyson's creative life.Trade Review"An outstanding work of literary-historical scholarship" -John T. Hamilton, Harvard University
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Contemporary Arab Womens Life Writing and the
Book SynopsisExplores the relationship between revolutionary movements and experimental life writing forms by contemporary Arab women.Trade Review"By examining Arabophone, Francophone, and Anglophone autobiographical writings of Arab women found in various modes, including testimonials, diaries, and more recently in digital media, Cheurfa's book, well-grounded in related theories, contributes to the analysis of dissident literature showing the strong involvement of Arab women in national struggle movements and redefining the modern cultural history of the Arab world." -Nawar Al-Hassan Golley, American University of Sharjah
£76.50
