Автор: Luckhurst, Roger Название: Late Victorian Gothic Tales ISBN: 0199538875 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199538874 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1741.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This anthology collects together some of the most famous examples of the Gothic tale in the 1890s, with stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Vernon Lee, Henry James and Arthur Machen, as well as some lesser known yet superbly chilling tales from the era. The introduction explores the many reasons for the Gothic revival, and how it spoke to the anxieties of the moment.
Автор: McDowell Marta Название: Beatrix Potter`s Gardening Life ISBN: 1604693630 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781604693638 Издательство: Workman Рейтинг: Цена: 3795.00 р. Наличие на складе: Ожидается поступление.
Описание: A fascinating look at the gardens that helped inspire the settings for Beatrix Potter`s stories.
Автор: Rodden John Название: Becoming George Orwell: Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy ISBN: 0691182744 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691182742 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 3960.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Is George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to Rodden`s provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. He charts the astonishing passage of a litterateur into a legend.
Автор: Edgar Allan Poe Название: Collected Tales, Poems, and Other Writings of Edgar Allan Poe ISBN: 1350226459 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350226456 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 6334.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This collection brings together more than fifty of Edgar Allan Poe’s most important stories, poems, and critical writings, which established him as one of the most distinctive voices in American Literature, in a single accessible volume.Alongside annotated texts of each work, it also includes a complete Reader’s Guide to Poe’s work to help readers explore the contexts, style, and reception of his writing from his own time to today.An essential resource for students and teachers of Poe, this book includes stories such as ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’, ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’, and ‘The Purloined Letter’ as well as his Gothic narrative poem ‘The Raven’ and some of his most significant critical writings.
Описание: Guiding readers through the disorienting dreamworld of James Joyce`s last work, Kimberly Devlin examines Finnegans Wake as an uncanny text, one that is both strange and familiar. In light of Freud`s description of the uncanny as a haunting awareness of earlier, repressed phases of the self, Devlin finds the uncanniness of the Wake rooted in Joyce`s
Автор: Tatum James Название: Xenophon`s Imperial Fiction: On the Education of Cyrus ISBN: 0691606668 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691606668 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 7603.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: "If you inquire into the origins of the novel long enough," writes James Tatum in the preface to this work, "...you will come to the fourth century before our era and Xenophon`s Education of Cyrus, or the Cyropaedia." The Cyrus in question is Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Persian empire celebrated in the Book of Ezra as the liberator of Israe
Автор: Herring Phillip F. Название: Joyce`s Uncertainty Principle ISBN: 0691606404 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691606408 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 6019.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Phillip Herring distinguishes the solvable problems from the truly insolvable mysteries in Joyce studies. His unusual and often witty book contains enough background material to appeal to a beginning reader of Joyce, yet it will be of the utmost importance to the specialist. He argues that Joyce formulated an uncertainty principle as early as the f
Автор: Woodward James B. Название: Gogol`s "Dead Souls " ISBN: 0691604002 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691604008 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 7128.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Alone of the great Russian novels of the nineteenth-century, Dead Souls has remained almost as profound a mystery to critics as it was when it first appeared. James Woodward disputes the traditional view of Gogol`s work, contending that it is not a sprawling mass of loosely connected episodes, details, and digressions. His close reading of the text
Автор: Bernthal J.C. Название: Ageless Agatha Christie ISBN: 1476663130 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476663135 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4990.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: When Agatha Christie died in 1976, she was the bestselling mystery writer in history. This collection of new essays brings fresh perspectives to Christie scholarship with new readings and discussions of little-known aspects of her life, career and legacy. The final word is given to fans in an editorial that collates testimonies from readers, collectors and enthusiasts.
Автор: Beard Michael Название: Hedayat`s "Blind Owl " as a Western Novel ISBN: 0691600813 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691600819 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 7128.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Iranian writer Sadeq Hedayat is the most influential figure in twentieth-century Persian fiction--and the object of a kind of cult after his suicide in 1951. His masterpiece The Blind Owl is the most important novel of modern Iran. Its abrupt, tortured opening sentence, "There are sores which slowly erode the mind in solitude like a kind of can
Описание: Investigating autobiographical writing of Mary McCarthy, Henry James, Jean-Paul Sartre, Saul Friedlander, and Maxine Hong Kingston, this book argues that autobiographical truth is not a fixed but an evolving content in a process of self-creation. Further, Paul John Eakin contends, the self at the center of all autobiography is necessarily fictive.
Описание: In this provocative study, Susan Mizruchi argues that the act of writing history is the key to the political concerns of American novelists. Using nineteenth-century theories of history as well as recent narratological models, she examines reconstructions of the past in The House of the Seven Gables (1851), The Bostonians (1886), The Wings of the D
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