Literary category: 117525 books
Repetition and Identity
The Literary Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly...
Lawyers at Play
Literature, Law, and Politics at the Early Modern Inns of Court, 1558–1581
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Many early modern poets and playwrights were also members of the legal societies the Inns of Court, and these authors shaped the development of key genres of the English Renaissance, especially lyric poetry, dramatic tragedy, satire, and masque. But how did the Inns come to be literary centres in...
by Kyle Keefer
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2008
The words, phrases, and stories of the New Testament permeate the English language. Indeed, this relatively small group of twenty-seven works, written during the height of the Roman Empire, not only helped create and sustain a vast world religion, but also have been integral to the larger cultural...
Literary Partnerships and the Marketplace
Writers and Mentors in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
In Literary Partnerships and the Marketplace, David Dowling examines an often-overlooked aspect of the history of publishing -- relationships, of both a business and a personal nature. The book focuses on several intriguing duos of the nineteenth century and explores the economics of literary partnerships...
Literary Activism
Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Literary Activism revisits and interrogates, and looks to renew, the force of the literary. It's a movement that emerges from a radically altered landscape for both publishing and academia, where what Amit Chaudhuri calls ‘market activism’ has effected changes – on language, on the measuring...
Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century
The Literary Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly...
Is Literature Healthy?
The Literary Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly...
Ukraine's Quest for Identity
Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991–2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Ukraine's Quest for Identity: Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991–2011 is the first study that looks at the literary process in post-independence Ukraine comprehensively and attempts to draw the connection between literary production and identity construction. In its quest...
by Kathy-Ann Tan
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Literature has always played a central role in creating and disseminating culturally specific notions of citizenship, nationhood, and belonging. In Reconfiguring Citizenship and National Identity in the North American Literary Imagination, author Kathy-Ann Tan investigates metaphors, configurations,...
by Christopher Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
As an anthropology student studying with Franz Boas, Zora Neale Hurston recorded African American folklore in rural central Florida, studied hoodoo in New Orleans and voodoo in Haiti, talked with the last ex-slave to survive the Middle Passage, and collected music from Jamaica. Her ethnographic work...
by Suman Gupta
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of the relationship between globalization studies and literature and literary studies, and the bearing that they have on each other. It engages with the manner in which globalization is thematized in literary works, examines the relationship between globalization...
Literary Studies
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Literary Studies: A Practical Guide provides a comprehensive foundation for the study of English, American, and world literatures, giving students the critical skills they need to best develop and apply their knowledge. Designed for use in a range of literature courses, it begins by outlining the...
Reading and the Reader
The Literary Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly...
The Oxford English Literary History
Volume I: 1000-1350: Conquest and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions,...