Widely recognized as one of today's most important cultural critics, Fredric Jameson's writing targets subjects from architecture to science fiction, cinema and global capitalism. Of his work, "The Political Unconscious" remains one of the most …
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Widely recognized as one of today's most important cultural critics, Fredric Jameson's writing targets subjects from architecture to science fiction, cinema and global capitalism. Of his work, "The Political Unconscious" remains one of the most …
The Romance of Arthur: An Anthology of Medieval Texts in Translation
This book covers nearly a thousand years of translated texts in a broad range of genres, from the early chronicles and Welsh verse through Sir Thomas Malory.
Who's Who in 20th Century World Poetry
Over 900 entries by 75 international contributors, all experts in their field — Covers canonical and lesser-known, contemporary poets — Succinct and clear, yet erudite — Truly global coverage
The Nineteenth-Century Novel: A Critical Reader
"The Nineteenth Century Novel: A Critical Reader" provides a fascinating selection of nineteenth century essays and reviews on twelve important novels of the period. They are placed alongside modern critical essays specially chosen for their …
This is a bilingual anthology of the poetry of Badia Kashgari. These are the poems of a strong and sensual soul, suffused with the rich light of the Arab-Islamic culture she not only inherits, but furthers, as a living tradition through her work. …
Culler's most famous work, Structuralist Poetics has never been out of print since first publication in 1975, selling over 20,000 copies. It introduced a new way of studying literature by attempting to create a systematic account of the structure …
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Selected): An Interlinear Translation
Each line of the original Middle English is followed by a line of modern English "translation." Includes biography of Chaucer, interpretive introduction.
This volume boldly proposes that the core of the Arthurian and Holy Grail traditions derived not from Celtic mythology, but rather from the folklore of the peoples of ancient Scythia (what are now the South Russian and Ukrainian steppes).
Originally published in 1955, James Baldwin's first nonfiction book has become a classic. These searing essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and Americans abroad remain as powerful today as when they were written. "He named for me …
Colonial and Postcolonial Fiction in English: An Anthology
Fiction from the old British Commonwealth once took second place to the literature of England and the United States, but his is no longer the case. Writers from around the globe-Africa, Canada, Australia, Pakistan, New Zealand, and the Caribbean-…
Early English Drama: An Anthology
This collection of plays from late-medieval England includes a rich selection of noncycle plays and morality plays along with some of the better-known pageants from the cycle plays and some theatrical fragments never before anthologized. These …
Creative Storytelling: Building Community/Changing Lives
In this lively and thought-provoking guide to storytelling, the author of Fairy Tale as Myth provides a vital handbook for all who include storytelling as part of their particular recipe for changing the face of education today. Zipes focuses on …
Charles Dickens's "Oliver Twist" (c.1850) is one of the most significant novels of the Victorian era and, having been adapted for both stage and screen, retains its impact in the cultural consciousness of many nations. Taking the form of a …
Offers a clear and critically engaging account of the phenomenon illustrating the critical terminology and following the contours of its continuing history. This introductory volume: provides a concise history of science fiction and explores the …
Shakespeare and the Question of Culture
Shakespeare and the Question of Culture addresses the central issue of culture in early modern studies through both literary history and disciplinary critique. Bruster argues that the culture that critics investigate through the works of …
Featuring three original and 14 classic essays, this volume examines literary representations of women in Arthuriana and how women artists have viewed them. The essays discuss the female characters in Arthurian legend, medieval and modern readers …
The first single edition to include the entire corpus of Plato's works, handsomely bound and featuring new translations by contemporary scholars. Editor Cooper (philosophy, Princeton U.) supplies an introductory essay, cogently discussing …
In the last decades of the twentieth century, French poststructuralist 'theory' transformed the humanities. Yet it also met with resistance, and today we frequently hear that theory is 'dead'. Brilliantly argued and clearly written, this is an …
Explorations in Creative Writing
This set of reflective essays about the writing life examines the poetics and politics of reading as a writer, teaching and learning about writing in an academic or informal setting, and pacing oneself through writing projects. Academic …
Offers powerful insight into the portrayal of romantic love by Jean Rhys, Clover Adams, Christina Stead, Willa Cather, Grace Paley, Raymond Carver, Andre Dubus, and others. "Gornick makes forceful and dramatic judgments. . . . She is fearless." -…
You?re going to lie anyway, might as well get good at it! ?Let's face it, you?re going to lie. Now, for the first time, there's a book to help you get good at it. (If you?re saying you?re going to stop lying, then you?re just lying to yourself.) …
Many readers have wished for a way to record their thoughts after finishing a book, or to remember their impressions of their book club meeting. Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Journal is the perfect place to do these things and more. Based on the famous …
Spivak is perhaps best known for her overtly political use of contemporary cultural and critical theories to challenge the legacy of colonialism on the way we read and think about literature and culture. Always cutting-edge, always controversial, …
The Irresistible Rise of Harry Potter
Blake's examination of the Potter phenomenon raises serious questions about the condition of the publishing industry, filmmaking, and the ways in which the Potter consumer campaign has changed ideas about literature and reading.
Introducing Children's Literature: From Romanticism to Postmodernism
Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-176) and index.
This volume offers one of the first introductory guides to the emergent field of literary ecological criticism. With an accessible and animated approach to the subject, Greg Garrard presents the reader with the theoretical background of the genre …
The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses
Since 1966 readers new to James Joyce have depended upon this essential guide to Ulysses. Harry Blamires helps readers to negotiate their way through this formidable, remarkable novel and gain an understanding of it which, without help, it might …
The tale of Cinderella is told wherever stories are still read aloud and everyone is familiar with Rapunzel and The Golden Goose, but who has heard all the wonderful stories collected by the Brothers Grimm? This volume contains all 210 of their …
Evoking and Forgetting Shakespeare
revised edition of Peter Brook's take on Shakespeare, with a new chapter. The book addresses a number of questions about performing Shakespeare today: Why is Shakespeare not out of date? What do we mean by Shakespeare's genius or creativity.
Patrick White, Painter Manque: Painters, Paintings, and Their Influence on His Writing
In 11 essays, some of which have been published in periodicals, Hewitt (language studies, Victoria U., Melbourne) explores the impact of painting and painters on 20th-century Australian writer White, both during his two decades abroad and after …