Bucknell University Press: 205 books
by Caroline McCracken-Flesher, John Corbett, Cairns Craig
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Out of the mainstream but ahead of the tide, that is Scottish Science Fiction. Science Fiction emphasizes “progress” through technology, advanced mental states, or future times. How does Scotland, often considered a land of the past, lead in Science Fiction? “Left behind” by international...
by Sarah Leggott
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Memory, War, and Dictatorship in Recent Spanish Fiction by Women analyzes five novels by women writers that present women’s experiences during and after the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship, highlighting the struggles of female protagonists of different ages to confront an unresolved individual...
Menials
Domestic Service and the Cultural Transformation of British Society, 1650–1850
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Menials argues that British writers of the long-eighteenth century projected their era’s economic and social anxieties onto domestic servants. Confronting the emergence of controversial principles like self-interest, emulation, and luxury, writers from Eliza Haywood, Daniel Defoe, and Samuel Richardson...
Beyond Sense and Sensibility
Moral Formation and the Literary Imagination from Johnson to Wordsworth
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Drawing on philosophical thought from the eighteenth century as well as conceptual frameworks developed in the twenty-first century, the essays in Beyond Sense and Sensibility examine moral formation as represented in or implicitly produced by literary works of later eighteenth-century British authors...
Ricardo Palma's Tradiciones
Illuminating Gender and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Ricardo Palma’s Tradiciones is the first full-length account of Ricardo Palma informed by theories of cultural criticism. Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela sheds new light on important aspects of Palma’s work. She offers a fresh interpretation of the relations between history and literature – perhaps...
by Mieke Bal, Roald Hoffmann, Evelyn Fox Keller
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
In this book a gathering of exceptional thinkers from the sciences and the humanities engage a common theme: In what ways do language, and storytelling in particular, deal with ethics in science, in literature, or in other art forms? Evelyn Fox Keller, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Mieke Bal, and Roald Hoffmann...
Signs of the Signs
The Literary Lights of Incandescence and Neon
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
This book is a study of signs in American literature and culture. It is mainly about electric signs, but also deals with non-electric signs and related phenomena, such as movie sets. The 'sign' is considered in both the architectural and semiotic senses of the word. It is argued that the drama and...
Tobias Smollett in the Enlightenment
Travels through France, Italy, and Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Tobias Smollett (1721-71) is best known today as a novelist. In the eighteenth-century, he was principally regarded as a historian and critic. In this book, Richard J. Jones explores the diversity of Smollett's journalistic and literary writings. In doing so, he establishes new connections between...
Shakespeare and the Spanish Comedia
Translation, Interpretation, Performance: Essays in Honor of Susan L. Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Shakespeare and the Spanish Comedia is a nearly unique transnational study of the theater / performance traditions of early modern Spain and England. Divided into three parts, the book focuses first on translating for the stage, examining diverse approaches to the topic. It asks, for example, whether...
Don Quixote
The Re-accentuation of the World’s Greatest Literary Hero
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
This book is a unique scholarly attempt to examine Don Quixote from multiple angles to see how the re-accentuation of the world’s greatest literary hero takes place in film, theatre, and literature. To accomplish this task, eighteen scholars from the USA, Canada, Spain, and Great Britain have come...
Hospitality in a Time of Terror
Strangers at the Gate
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Hospitality in a Time of Terror: Strangers at the Gate offers a reading of hospitality that suggests the encounter with strangers is at the core of cultural production and culture itself in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. It documents the significance of hospitality after...
Re-Imagining Nature
Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Re-Imagining Nature: Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics explores new horizons in environmental studies, which consider communication and meaning as core definitions of ecological life, essential to deep sustainability. It considers landscape as narrative, and applies theoretical frameworks...
Machado de Assis and Female Characterization
The Novels
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
This book examines the nature and function of the main female characters in the nine novels of Machado de Assis. The basic argument is that Machado had a particular interest in female characterization and that his fictional women became increasingly sophisticated and complex as he matured and developed...
Playing the Martyr
Theater and Theology in Early Modern France
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Playing the Martyr is a book about the interplay between theater and religion in early modern France. Challenging the standard narrative of modernity as a process of increased secularization Christopher Semk demonstrates the centrality of religious thought and practices to the development of neoclassical...