Autor: Abbott Rob

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King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales

Thomas Malory, knight, adventurer, and soldier died on March 14, 1471, having spent the last 20 years of his life in prison, where he wrote most of his works. KING ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS is a …


geschrieben von Thomas Malory (Autor) und Eugene Vinaver (Herausgeber)

Politics, Philosophy, and the Production of Romantic Texts

Works by authors of the Romantic period have often been viewed primarily as expressions of escapism, disillusionment, or apostasy on the part of the writer. In contrast, Hoagwood shows that political …


geschrieben von Terence Hoagwood (Autor)

Literary Theory: An Anthology

Julie Rivkin is Professor at Connecticut College, where she teaches courses in American Literature, Contemporary Women Writers, and Literary Theory. She is the author of False Positions: The …

This anthology of classic and cutting-edge statements in literary theory has now been updated to include recent influential texts in the areas of Ethnic Studies, Postcolonialism and International …

Preface.Acknowledgments.Part One Formalisms: Russian Formalism and New Criticism.1. Introduction: Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, Formalisms.2. Boris Eichenbaum, The Formal Method.3. Viktor Shklovsky, …


geschrieben von Julie Rivkin (Herausgeber) und Michael Ryan (Herausgeber)

From Dickens to Dracula: Gothic, Economics, and Victorian Fiction

Gail Turley Houston is Associate Professor of English …

Ranging from the panoramic novels of Dickens to the horror of Dracula, Gail Turley Houston examines the ways in which the language and imagery of economics, commerce and banking are transformed in …

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Banking on panic: the historical record and a theoretical frame; 2. Gothic economies in Bagehot, Marx and Lord Overstone; 3. The …


geschrieben von Gail Turley Houston (Autor)

The Bleeding of America: Menstruation as Symbolic Economy in Pynchon, Faulkner, and Morrison

DANA MEDORO is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Manitoba. Her major areas of research and specialization are 19th- and 20th-century American literature and literary theory. She is …

Menstruation as a narrative antidote to America's bloody history …

Introduction; Thomas Pynchon: Blood, Tears, and War; William Faulkner: There's a Curse on Us; Toni …


geschrieben von Dana Medoro (Autor)

Beowulf

Ewald Standop ist Professor emeritus für Anglistik der …

The Old English heroic epic Beowulf, which is comprised of 3182 alliterated lines, was written in the 8th century. Beowulf is the oldest and only completely preserved Old Germanic epic. The new …


geschrieben von Ewald Standop (Herausgeber)

Shakespeare Survey: Writing about Shakespeare

The theme for Shakespeare Survey 58 is …

Having Our Will: Imagination in Recent Shakespeare Biographies Lois Potter; Toward a New Biography of Shakespeare James Shapiro; Jonson, Shakespeare and the Exorcists Richard Dutton; 'Lending soft …


geschrieben von Peter Holland (Herausgeber)

New Visions of Community in Contemporary American Fiction: Tan, Kingsolver, Castillo, Morrison

Magali Cornier Michael is associate professor of English and co-director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. She is the author of Feminism and the …

In this engaging, optimistic close reading of five late twentieth-century novels by American women, Magali Cornier Michael illuminates the ways in which their authors engage with ideas of communal …


geschrieben von Magali Cornier Michael (Autor)

Dickens's Great Expectations

Ian Brinton is Reviews Editor for The Use of English and Chair of The …

Part of a series, which provides an overview of the context, criticism and influence of key works. This title is not only one of the last great novels to be written by Dickens but is also one which …

1.Contexts; 2. Language, Style and Form; 3. Reading Great Expectations; 4. Critical Reception …


geschrieben von Ian Brinton (Autor)

The Imperfect Friend: Emotion and Rhetoric in Sidney, Milton, and Their Contexts

Wendy Olmsted is a professor in the Humanities …

Many writers in early modern England drew on the rhetorical tradition to explore affective experience. This work examines a broad range of Renaissance and Reformation sources, all of which aim to …


geschrieben von Wendy Olmsted (Autor)


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