Literary category: 117525 books
On Brokeback Mountain
Meditations about Masculinity, Fear, and Love in the Story and the Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2008
On Brokeback Mountain: Meditations About Masculinity, Fear, and Love in the Story and the Film provides a close, detailed, comparative discussion of the short story and the film in relation to ways of understanding masculinity and love between men in American culture. It uses analytical ideas from...
Screening Woolf
Virginia Woolf on/and/in Film
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
As the subtitle indicates, this book has three majors concerns. The first and most important concern is an examination of the film adaptations of Woolf’s novels—To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and Mrs. Dalloway—in the order the films were released. This is the heart of the matter, a fairly conventional...
Beirut 39
New Writing from the Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2010
Beirut is the 2009 World Book Capital, as designated by UNESCO, and at the center of the festivities, in collaboration with the world-renowned Hay Festival, is a competition to identify the thirty-nine most promising young talents in Arab literature. The selection of the "Beirut 39" follows...
by Deborah Lutz
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
An intimate portrait of the lives and writings of the Brontë sisters, drawn from the objects they possessed.
In this unique and lovingly detailed biography of a literary family that has enthralled readers for nearly two centuries, Victorian literature scholar Deborah Lutz illuminates the complex...
Conceived in Modernism
The Aesthetics and Politics of Birth Control
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Current debates about birth control can be surprisingly volatile, especially given the near-universal use of contraception among American and British women. Conceived in Modernism: The Aesthetics and Politics of Birth Control offers a new perspective on these debates by demonstrating that the political...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa's leading literary prize. For over ten years it has supported and promoted contemporary African writing. Keeping true to its motto "Africa will always bring something new," the prize has helped launch the literary careers of Chimamanda Ngozi...
by Robert Barnard, Louise Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
A Brontë Encyclopedia is an A- Z encyclopedia of the most notable literary family of the 19th century highlighting original literary insights and the significant people and places that influenced the Brontës’ lives.
Comprises approximately 2,000 alphabetically arranged entries
Defines and...
Poetic Sisters
Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
In Poetic Sisters, Deborah Kennedy explores the personal and literary connections among five early eighteenth-century women poets: Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea; Elizabeth Singer Rowe; Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford; Sarah Dixon; and Mary Jones. Richly illustrated and elegantly written,...
Jane Welsh Carlyle and Her Victorian World
A Story of Love, Work, Marriage, and Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Hailed by Virginia Woolf as one of the all-time great letter writers, Jane Welsh Carlyle, wife of Victorian literary celebrity Thomas Carlyle, has been much overlooked. In this compelling new biography, Kathy Chamberlain brings Jane out of her husband’s shadow, focusing on Carlyle as a remarkable...
From Text to Txting
New Media in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Literary scholars face a new and often baffling reality in the classroom: students spend more time looking at glowing screens than reading printed text. The social lives of these students take place in cyberspace instead of the student pub. Their favorite narratives exist in video games, not books....
At the End of the Road
Jack Kerouac in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
“We had finally found the magic land at the end of the road and we never dreamed the extent of the magic.” Mexico, an escape route, inspiration, and ecstatic terminus of the celebrated novel On the Road, was crucial to Jack Kerouac’s creative development. In this dramatic and highly compelling...
Widow
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Extremely moving fiction that leaves a stamp on the mind and heart.
A stand-out collection by a writer's writer.
These stories are collected here for the first time. Many of them have previously appeared in magazines such as The Northwest Review, The Iowa Review, Zyzzyva, The Antioch...
by Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Henry James was born on 15 April 1843 as is regarded as one of the great literary figures of 19th Century writing. Born in New York, he moved between there and Europe, being tutored in Geneva, London, Paris, Bologna, and Bonn. At the age of 19 he briefly attended Harvard Law School, but preferred reading...
Literature and Error
A Literary Take on Mistakes and Errors
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Literature and Error comprises a series of essays by French scholars who seek to lay down the foundations of a theory that would argue for the productivity of errors and mistakes in literary works. While the "necessity of errors" has repeatedly been tackled from a philosophical angle, rarely...