 | Above All, Don't Look Back (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature translated from the French)
Publication Date: August 6, 2009| ISBN-10: 0813928443 | ISBN-13: 978-0813928449 Above All, Don't Look Back follows the path of a young woman—Amina—as she makes her way through a city, a life, and a sense of self that have been ravaged by an earthquake. In this powerful novel, inspired by a devastating earthquake in northern Algeria in 2003, the acclaimed Algerian writer Maïssa Bey skillfully interweaves descriptions of the earthquake with descriptions of Amina's family, culture, and country and her place within them. She leaves the reader to wonder whether Amina is fle...
 |  | Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism
Publication Date: November 25, 1994This book offers an analysis of the life and thought of Samuel Johnson from a historian's viewpoint, which reverses the orthodoxy that has dominated the subject for over thirty years. J.C.D. Clark presents here a Johnson strikingly different from the apolitical, pragmatic and eccentric figure who emerges from the pages of most students of English literature. Johnson's commitments and conflicts in religion and politics are reconstructed; his role in the literary dynamics of his age is revealed against a new context for English cultural politics between the R...
|  | Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival
Publication Date: August 10, 2006| ISBN-10: 0195306392 | ISBN-13: 978-0195306392The story of the Grail, usually identified as some kind of mystical vessel, has gripped the imaginations of millions since it first appeared in several medieval romances. Of these, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Middle High German Parzival (c. 1210) is generally recognized as the most complex and beautiful. Strangely, in Parzival, the Grail is identified as a stone rather than a cup or dish. This oddity is usually seen as just another mystery, further evidence of the difficulty of discerning the true sources of the...
|  | Reality Fictions: Romance, History, and Governmental Authority, 1025-1180
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|  | The Arthur of the English: The Arthurian Legend in English Life and Literature (University of Wales Press - Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages)
Publication Date: June 28, 2001| Series: University of Wales Press - Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages The English think of Arthur as their own—stamped on the landscape in scores of place-names, echoed in the names of their princes even today. Yet if the English had anything to do with a historical Arthur, it was as his bitterest enemies and hi-jackers of the British heritage. This book, which brings together the work of leading international scholars, is the first comprehensive treatment of Arthurian literature in the English language to the end of the Middle Ages and trace...
|  | Shelley and Vitality
Release Date: August 21, 2012| ISBN-10: 1137011122 | ISBN-13: 978-1137011121Shelley and Vitality, now in paperback and with a new Preface, reassesses Percy Shelley's engagement with late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century science and medicine, specifically his knowledge and use of theories on the nature of life presented in the debate between surgeons John Abernethy and William Lawrence. Ruston presents new biographical information to link Shelley to a medical circle and St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. In poems such as Prometheus Unbound, Adonais, and the Defence of Poetry, Sh...
|  | Second Language (Many Voices Project)
Publication Date: October 1, 2005| Series: Many Voices Project From Sonia Chernoff, an elderly widow looking for closure, to Elaine, a therapist with a vengeance for her husband’s lover, Second Language is home to a charmingly eclectic collection of characters who share one thing in common: choices.The humor, despair, and triumph of Wineberg’s characters find the reader alongside Lucy, who tries to deal with her mother’s illness while navigating her way through an adulterous affair. We also meet a doctor’s wife, Sofia, whose happenstance relationship with the doorman ...
|  | Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World
Release Date: March 7, 2000A series of extraordinary explorations of the biographies and literary achievements of twelve modern women writers, Passionate Minds tells the stories of women who "rewrote" the world that they inherited, shaping beliefs about vital issues ranging from religion to sex to race to politics.Claudia Roth Pierpont organizes these probing portraits into three sections. Broadly speaking, the first deals with issues of sexual freedom, in essays on Olive Schreiner, Gertrude Stein, Anaïs Nin, and -- surprisingly, for those who do not know her as a writer -- ...
|  | Twenty-first-century Gothic
Publication Date: October 1, 2010The essays in this volume reinterpret and contest the Gothic cultural inheritance, each from a specifically twenty-first century perspective. Most are based on papers delivered at a conference held, appropriately, in Horace Walpole's Gothic mansion at Strawberry Hill in West London, which is usually seen as the geographical origin of the first, but not the last, of the many Gothic revivals of the past 300 years. In a contemporary context, the Gothic sensibility could be seen as a mode particularly applicable to the frightening instability of the world in whic...
|  | Britain's Bloodless Revolutions: 1688 and the Romantic Reform of Literature (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print)
Release Date: September 29, 2005| ISBN-10: 1403941076 | ISBN-13: 978-1403941077| Edition: First Edition Britain's Bloodless Revolutions explores the relationship of the emerging category of Literature to the emerging threat of popular violence after the Bloodless Revolution. The book argues that at a time when the political nature of the Bloodless Revolution became a subject of debate--in the period defined by France's famously bloody revolution--"Literature" emerged as a kind of political institution and constituted a bloodless revolution in its own right. ...
|  | Majestic Indolence: English Romantic Poetry and the Work of Art
Publication Date: June 15, 1995| ISBN-10: 0195093569 | ISBN-13: 978-0195093568Spiegelman examines the theme of indolence-- both positive and negative--as it appears in the canonical work of four Romantic poets. He argues for a renewal of interest in literary formalism, aesthetics, and the pastoral genre. Wordsworth's "wise passiveness," Coleridge's "dejection" and torpor, Shelley's pastoral dolce far niente, and Keats's "delicious...indolence" are seen as individual manifestations of a common theme.Spiegelman argues that the trope of indolence originated in the religious, philosophical...
|  | Multilingualism and Mother Tongue in Medieval French, Occitan, and Catalan Narratives (Penn State Romance Studies)
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| Series: Penn State Romance Studies (Book 11) The Occitan literary tradition of the later Middle Ages is a marginal and hybrid phenomenon, caught between the preeminence of French courtly romance and the emergence of Catalan literary prose. In this book, Catherine Léglu brings together, for the first time in English, prose and verse texts that are composed in Occitan, French, and Catalan-sometimes in a mixture of two of these languages. This book challenges the centrality of "canonical" texts and draws attention to the marginal, the complex, and the hyb...
|  | Committed: Men Tell Stories of Love, Commitment, and Marriage
Release Date: January 24, 2006In these original essays, seventeen celebrated authors give a private tour of the male psyche and discuss the journey to lasting love. Exploring aspects of themselves that they've never revealed before, they provide essential wisdom for men and women alike on the ritual of mating, and a look inside the hearts and minds of men who commit. ...
|  | Tchaikovsky's Ballets: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker
Publication Date: March 7, 1985| ISBN-10: 0193153149 | ISBN-13: 978-0193153141Tchaikovsky's Ballets combines a detailed and thorough analysis of the music of Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and Nutcracker with descriptions of the first productions of these works in Imperial Russia.A background chapter on the ballet audience, the collaboration of composer and balletmaster, and Moscow of the 1860's leads into an account of the first production of Swan Lake in 1877.A discussion of theater reforms initiated by the Director of the Imperial Theaters prepares the reader for a study of the still-fam...
|  | True and False Romances (Masks)
Publication Date: September 1, 1994| Series: Masks In this scintillating collection of stories Puerto Rican writer Ana Lydia Vega exposes machismo, Caribbean style. With deft pastiches of genre fiction - the thriller, the historical romance, the bodice ripper - she turns the traditions of Latin American fiction on their heads and produces a work that critically reflects the influence of US culture. Though her stories appear in many anthologies, this is the first collection of Ana Lydia Vega's work to be published in English. It showcases one of the provocative 'post-feminist' voices of the c...
|  | Encyclopedia Of Gothic Literature (Facts on File Library of World Literature: Literary Movements)
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|  | Teaching and Writing Popular Fiction: Horror, Adventure, Mystery and Romance in the American Classroom
Publication Date: September 1, 2000| ISBN-10: 0915924048 | ISBN-13: 978-0915924042Genre fiction is finally given its due, with 3 to 5 essays for each genre style, filled with exercises and student samples. This fun loving T&W classic was designed to help teachers expand their writing curricula with popular fiction genres. A fascinating guide, Teaching and Writing Popular Fiction provides ways to help students write, using the literature they already know and love. ...
|  | What Jane Austen Taught Me About Love and Romance
Publication Date: January 1, 2007Debra White Smith, bestselling author of the Jane AustenSeries (more than 89,000 copies sold) explores the lessons about love andromance revealed through Austen’s beloved stories—Pride and Prejudice, Emma,Mansfield Park, Sense and Sensibility, and others.Alongside wisdom from 1 Corinthians, Debra reveals lovetruths reflected in the lives of couples and characters from Austen’s created worlds.George and Emma (Emma)—Love is patientMr. Darcy and Elizabeth (Pride and Prejudice)—Love is not proudColonel Brandon and Marianne (Sens...
|  | Merlin: A Casebook (Arthurian Characters and Themes)
Publication Date: June 17, 2003| ISBN-10: 081530658X | ISBN-13: 978-0815306580This book deals with all aspects of the Merlin legend, from its origins to its expression in medieval and modern literature, film, and popular culture. Following an extended introduction and a full bibliography, the volume offers nearly twenty essays-some newly commissioned for this volume others selected from the most important scholarly and critical studies of Merlin and his role. Two of the reprinted essays are translated into English for the first time. ...
|  | Asian Gothic: Essays on Literature, Film and Anime
Publication Date: January 21, 2008| ISBN-10: 0786433353 | ISBN-13: 978-0786433353The essays in this collection acknowledge the rich Gothic tradition in Asian narratives that deal with themes of the fantastic, the macabre, and the spectral. Through close analyses of Asian works using the theoretical framework outlined by Gothic criticism, these essays seek to expand the notion of the Gothic to include several popular Asian works. Broadly divided into essays on postcolonial Asian Gothic, Asian-American Gothic, and the Gothic writings of specific Asian nations, this volume covers a wide var...
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