(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783119145282)
This study examines ten Irish versions of Greek tragedy that have been written and produced between 1988 and 2019. Its focus is on the transformations that different formal elements of the Greek plays undergo in conjunction with the foregrounding...Loe edasi...
What does Jane Austen mean when she writes approvingly of a characters gentility and delicacy, or critically of anothers indolence and impertinence? What are her characters doing when they take the measure of a persons air and ...Loe edasi...
A go-to guide to help undergraduates navigate their way through university Shakespeare, examining 16 key plays. Addressing the transition from pre-university to undergraduate Shakespeare studies, this introductory critical guide examine...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Arden Shakespeare, ISBN-13: 9781350444270)
Addressing the transition from pre-university to undergraduate Shakespeare studies, this introductory critical guide examines 16 key plays. Each chapter focuses on modern theoretical methods, close reading skills, early modern contexts, and pro...Loe edasi...
From the acclaimed author of American Comics and Jewish Comedy comes a sweeping and entertaining narrative that details the rise and enduring grip of horror in American literature, cinema, and, ultimately, culture-from the taut, terrifying stories o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, ISBN-13: 9798765109250)
Bethany Easton explores Beatles Real Person Fiction (BRPF) as a significant element of 21st-century Beatles fandom through which fans connect with each other and feel more intimate with the group. Drawing on interviews with authors...Loe edasi...
The Anthropocene has ushered in remarkable progress and unprecedented challenges, with ecological crises threatening all life-especially the most vulnerable. In search of new solutions in this open access book, Lay Sion Ng turns to an unexpecte...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198981466)
This volume explores the significance of schadenfreude in Greek literature and culture from the archaic period to the second century CE. It examines how schadenfreude works, what purposes it serves within specific literary genres, and how generic tre...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198962519)
Inscribing Flavian Rome offers the first systematic investigation of Martials dynamic engagement with the full range of Roman epigraphic habits. Breaking new ground in the study of Roman epigram, it establishes a new interpretation of early...Loe edasi...
This book aims at providing scholars with a reference tool on prominent intellectual and erudite Lodovico Antonio Muratori, featuring contributions of both distinguished and young international scholars on his vast production, that spans fr...Loe edasi...
This book revises the view of printed ephemera as a trivial or disposable by giving a history of its role in eighteenth-century culture. It explores how tickets, playbills and posters became a way of facilitating social interaction and, for collecto...Loe edasi...
Counterfeit Culture explores the possibility of writing epic in an age of alternative facts. It addresses the relationship between the American epic and postmodernism. This book is for graduates and researchers working on post World War II American...Loe edasi...
The book analyzes the evolution of antebellum literary explorations of sympathy and human contact in the 1850s and 1860s. It will appeal to undergraduates and scholars seeking new approaches to canonical American authors, psychological theorists of...Loe edasi...
What does Jane Austen mean when she writes approvingly of a characters gentility and delicacy, or critically of anothers indolence and impertinence? What are her characters doing when they take the measure of a persons air and ...Loe edasi...
Unruly by David Mitchell meets Super Infinite by Katherine Rundell in this quick, light-hearted and very funny tour through English poetry by bestselling author Mark Forsyth....Loe edasi...
This book examines dramatic dialogue in English-language theatre, tracing verbal invention across four centuries from Shakespeare and Restoration comedy right up to contemporary English and American theatre. Published posthumously, this r...Loe edasi...
This book offers an original and innovative study of how the intersection of the Doppelgänger and the Gothic reveals repressed aspects of our singular and collective past, while also serving as a lens to investigate ourselves and our historical mome...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, ISBN-13: 9798765131138)
A work of feminist psychoanalytic literary criticism that offers original readings of early canonical works of the Western tradition.In cogently argued and brilliant readings of texts ranging from St. Augustines Confessions ...Loe edasi...
Psychoanalyst and literary scholar Peter L. Rudnytsky trains his critical eye on canonical works from St. Augustines Confessions to Miltons major poems. Arguing that the Oedipus complex can be viewed as the latent content of the Fall, Rudnytsky...Loe edasi...
What are the forces that shape us? In The Women, Hilton Als exploreswith breath taking originalitythe role of sexual and racial identity in marginalized lives. With a blend of fact and fiction, Als brings to vivid life a number of extraordinary char...Loe edasi...
The Concise Companion to World Literature will be drawn from the six-volume, 3808-page Companion to World Literature, and will offer some 72 chapters selected and edited from the 300 chapters currently contained in the full-length work. Meeting a de...Loe edasi...
This delightful miniature kit includes everything you need to cross-stitch three Jane Austen-inspired designs:Book Includes. 32-page full-color mini book with spot illustrations featuring 4 patterns and cross-stitching instructi...Loe edasi...
In this significant contribution to aesthetic philosophy from one of the foremost writers on American poetry, Charles Altieri champions the neglected, non-cognitive, aspects of our encounters with works of art....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, ISBN-13: 9798765124185)
Through short essays, leading poetry critics and Bob Dylan experts analyze songs from a range of perspectives to illuminate the songs poetic and literary character.An innovative resource for Bob Dylan fans and scholars alike, these...Loe edasi...
This book offers a material ecocritical rereading of late-Victorian science fiction and its depiction of the dynamic, agential reality with which humankind is inescapably entangled-- Provided by publisher. Adrian Tait argues that late...Loe edasi...
There are few features of the contemporary world more significant than national and regional borders. In modern Europe, the practices of human division have defined the continent from the early years of the Cold War to the present barriers of Fortre...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Multiple-component retail product, Kirjastus: RP Studio, ISBN-13: 9798894140506)
Ardent fans of Jane Austen’s works can take a deep dive into the worlds of her beloved novels with this deck featuring 400 questions and answers that go well beyond the basics!Deluxe set: Includes 100 full-color custom il...Loe edasi...
A History of European Literature provides a comprehensive survey of European literature, designed to cater to teachers, undergraduate students of literature, and general readers with an interest in the subject. It fills a significant gap in material...Loe edasi...
Ruth Barraclough, Jae-Yong Kim, Jin-kyung Lee, Sang-Kyung Lee
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University East Asia Program, ISBN-13: 9781501782213)
Island Ablaze and Other Stories is a collection of thirteen short stories dealing with the relationship between the Korean peninsula and the United States. Taken together, the stories criticize American political, economic, and military intervention...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University Press of Mississippi, ISBN-13: 9781496859563)
Chris Claremont (b. 1950) is best known for his landmark sixteen-year author run on Uncanny X-Men. This is the longest author run in Marvel comics history, one that saw X-Men go from a title on the verge of cancellation to one of the most popular co...Loe edasi...
A tender, wrenching, and comic novel that follows two twin boys from infancy to the cusp of adulthood. Twin A and Twin B. That’s what Michael and Sal’s neuroscientist father irreverently calls them. The boys are born moments apart, but...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, ISBN-13: 9781837722679)
Dyma gyfrol gyfoethog o ysgrifaun ymwneud ag amrywiol agweddau ar lenyddiaeth Gymraeg a Cheltaidd, ac syn talu teyrnged i gyfraniad arbennig yr Athro Marged Haycock ir ddisgyblaeth. Cesglir ynghyd waith ysgolheigion blaenllaw ar bynciaun ymestyn or...Loe edasi...
Showing the political importance of play in postwar French literature In postwar France, authors approached writing ludically, placing rules and conditions on language and on the context of composition itself. They eliminated es and femin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Northwestern University Press, ISBN-13: 9780810149281)
A comprehensive examination of how and why French authors turned to ludic methods to grapple with their political moment-- Provided by publisher....Loe edasi...
A roadmap for understanding and creating comedy from the visionary Second City comedy director-- Provided by publisher. A roadmap for understanding and creating comedy from the visionary Second City comedy director Great co...Loe edasi...
Ruth Barraclough, Jae-Yong Kim, Jin-kyung Lee, Sang-Kyung Lee
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Cornell University East Asia Program, ISBN-13: 9781501782220)
Island Ablaze and Other Stories is an anthology of thirteen stories—eleven from South Korea and two from North Korea—about these countries complicated relationships with their most important ally and enemy: the United States....Loe edasi...
For amateur mycologists and foragers alike, the difference between a beautiful fungal find and a potentially toxic mushroom can be difficult to distinguish. Updated and expanded nearly twenty years after its original publication, Common Edible...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781836244882)
In the first book-length study of this major contemporary author, Peter Morey traces the influence of Kamila Shamsies formative years, spent under a military dictatorship in 1980s Karachi, on writing with an acute sense of social justice and an awar...Loe edasi...
Delve through a unique exploration of the philosophy underlying The Wheel of Time “The Wheel of Time turns, and ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten…” Robert Jorda...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Wales Press, ISBN-13: 9781837723034)
The undead never rest—and neither do our fears. Zombie narratives have long mirrored society’s deepest anxieties, from pandemics to political breakdowns. Zombies in Contemporary Culture examines how the contextual depiction of z...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Wales Press, ISBN-13: 9781837722792)
The first in-depth study of Gillian Clarke’s work in the twenty-first century, reframing our understanding of her poetry and prose. Despite being one of Wales’s most celebrated poets, much of Gillian Clarke’s writing and its depth and...Loe edasi...
Hanahs Sheep and Cattle is based on the improbable but true story of a strong, secular Jewish woman and former Zionist pioneer navigating the turbulent sweep of Soviet history. Shira Gorshmans autobiographical novel provides...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487569020)
Dragons have roamed human consciousness throughout time and across cultures. A dragon is the embodiment of death and destruction in the Apocalypse battles of the Christian Bible and the evil that is vanquished by chivalrous knights in Medieval sagas...Loe edasi...
Charles Brittain, Harvey Yunis, Hayden Pelliccia, Jeffrey Rusten
Sari: Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501783487)
A collection of essays that illuminate and connect the shared concerns and conversation of philosophers, historians, and comic poets in late fifth- and early fourth-century BCE Athens--...Loe edasi...
Teaching John McGaherns The Dark provide an indispensable companion to the classic Irish novel. With an introduction aimed at first-time readers and four critical essays, this edition guides readers through the novels famously controversial history...Loe edasi...
