Literary category: 117525 books
Postcolonial Poetics
Genre and Form
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Postcolonial literature has often tended to invite readings that focus on the relation between texts and political contexts, not surprisingly perhaps, given the fraught historical moments of colonialism and decolonisation with which it frequently engages. Nevertheless, critics such as Nicholas Harrison...
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (Book Analysis)
Complete Summary and Book Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Unlock the more straightforward side of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, which tells...
Stephen Spender
A Literary Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2005
One of the leading poets and cultural icons of the 20th century, Stephen Spender was a prominent writer, literary critic, and social commentator--and close friend of some of the best-know creative talents of his day. Now, in this penetrating biography, John Sutherland paints a vivid portrait of Spender...
Literary Research and the Era of American Nationalism and Romanticism
Strategies and Sources
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2007
The early years of American nationhood, beginning at the close of colonial rule and ending with the onset of the Civil War, saw both a young country and its literature grow in confidence and develop an awareness of self-identity. Pride in the new nation was a primary characteristic of much literary...
Why Literary Periods Mattered
Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
In the mid-nineteenth century, the study of English literature began to be divided into courses that surveyed discrete "periods." Since that time, scholars' definitions of literature and their rationales for teaching it have changed radically. But the periodized structure of the curriculum...
Toward a Literary Ecology
Places and Spaces in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Scholarship of literature and the environment demonstrates myriad understandings of nature and culture. While some work in the field results in approaches that belong in the realm of cultural studies, other scholars have expanded the boundaries of ecocriticism to connect the practice more explicitly...
Literary Research and the British Eighteenth Century
Strategies and Sources
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
The 18th century in Britain was a transition period for literature. Patronage, either by a benefactor or through subscription, lingered even as the publishing and bookselling industries developed. The practice of reviewing books became well established during the second half of the century, with the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
The recently developed field of transatlantic literary studies has encouraged scholars to move beyond national literatures towards an examination of communications between Britain and the Americas. The true extent and importance of these material and literary exchanges is only just beginning to be...
Literary Texas
A Guide to the State's Literary Destinations
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
Most of the readers and writers we know, far from being the sort to only haunt the recesses of their town’s library or curl up on the couch when the sun's shining, like to get out and visit the places they’ve read about. Or the places that inspire them.
Lone Star Literary Life polled our...
Literary Music
Writing Music in Contemporary Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Music is commonly felt to offer a valued experience, yet to put that experience into words is no easy task. Rather than view verbal representations of music as somehow secondary to the music itself, Literary Music argues that it is in such representations that our understanding of music and its meanings...
by June Howard
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Examining the novels of Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, and other writers, June Howard presents a study of American literary naturalism as a genre. Naturalism, she states, is a way of imagining the world and the relation of the self to the world, a way of making sense -- and making narrative...
by Susan Rowland
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Jung as a Writer traces a relationship between Jung and literature by analysing his texts using the methodology of literary theory. This investigation serves to illuminate the literary nature of Jung’s writing in order to shed new light on his psychology and its relationship with literature as a...
by Kirk Melnikoff
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Elizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture explores the influence of the book trade over English literary culture in the decades following incorporation of the Stationers’ Company in 1557. Through an analysis of the often overlooked contributions of bookmen like Thomas Hacket, Richard...
Fragments and Assemblages
Forming Compilations of Medieval London
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
In Fragments and Assemblages, Arthur Bahr expands the ways in which we interpret medieval manuscripts, examining the formal characteristics of both physical manuscripts and literary works. Specifically, Bahr argues that manuscript compilations from fourteenth-century London reward interpretation as...