The Sketch, the Tale, and the Beginnings of American Literature, Lydia G. Fash
Автор: Briggs, Katharine M. Название: Fairies in tradition and literature ISBN: 0415286018 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415286015 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 2448.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This remarkable book explores the history of fairies in literature and tradtion.
Автор: Greenblatt Stephen Название: Norton Anthology of English Literature ISBN: 0393913007 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780393913002 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 5701.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The most-trusted literature anthology of all time, now in its 50th year.
Автор: Greenblatt Stephen Название: Norton Anthology of English Literature ISBN: 0393913015 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780393913019 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 5859.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The most-trusted literature anthology of all time, now in its 50th year.
Автор: Kahn, Andrew et all Название: A History of russian literature ISBN: 0199663947 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199663941 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14573.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Russia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century. This volume provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing from its earliest origins in the monastic works of Kiev up to the present day, still rife with the creative experiments of post-Soviet literary life.
Описание: The Modes of Modern Writing tackles some of the fundamental questions we all encounter when studying or reading literature, such as: what is literature? What is realism? What is relationship between form and content? And what dictates the shifts in literary fashions and tastes? In answering these questions, the book examines texts by a wide range of modern novelists and poets, including James Joyce, T.S.Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett and Philip Larkin, and draws on the work of literary theorists from Roman Jakobson to Roland Barthes. Written in Lodge’s typically accessible style this is essential reading for students and lovers of literature at any level. The Bloomsbury Revelations edition includes a new Foreword/Afterword by the author.
Автор: Lydia G. Fash Название: The Sketch, the Tale, and the Beginnings of American Literature ISBN: 0813943981 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813943985 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5455.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Accounts of the rise of American literature often start in the 1850s with a cluster of "great American novels"—Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Melville's Moby-Dick and Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. But these great works did not spring fully formed from the heads of their creators. All three relied on conventions of short fiction built up during the "culture of beginnings," the three decades following the War of 1812 when public figures glorified the American past and called for a patriotic national literature. Decentering the novel as the favored form of early nineteenth-century national literature, Lydia Fash repositions the sketch and the tale at the center of accounts of American literary history, revealing how cultural forces shaped short fiction that was subsequently mined for these celebrated midcentury novels and for the first novel published by an African American. In the shorter works of writers such as Washington Irving, Catharine Sedgwick, Edgar Allan Poe, and Lydia Maria Child, among others, the aesthetic of brevity enabled the beginning idea of a story to take the outsized importance fitted to the culture of beginnings. Fash argues that these short forms, with their ethnic exclusions and narrative innovations, coached readers on how to think about the United States' past and the nature of narrative time itself. Combining history, print history, and literary criticism, this book treats short fiction as a vital site for debate over what it meant to be American, thereby offering a new account of the birth of a self-consciously national literary tradition.
Автор: Philpot Brad Название: English Language and Literature for the IB Diploma ISBN: 1107400341 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107400344 Издательство: Cambridge Education Рейтинг: Цена: от 7448.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть
Описание: For students studying the new Language A Language and Literature syllabus for the IB Diploma.
Автор: Steel Название: The Cambridge Companion to Cicero ISBN: 0521729807 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521729802 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A comprehensive introduction to Cicero`s writings for students and non-specialists. Draws on recent transformative research on the political and literary culture of the late Roman Republic and presents important new research on Cicero`s reception in late antiquity and from the Renaissance period onwards.
Описание: This Companion maps the dynamic literary landscape of the American South. Featuring newly commissioned essays from leading scholars, the text highlights patterns and connections amongst Southern writers across generations, making it a valuable guide for students and teachers of American literature, American studies and the history of storytelling in America.
We live in a world of stories; yet few of us pause to ask what stories actually are, why we consume them so avidly, and what they do for story makers and their audiences. This book focuses on the experiences that good stories generate: feelings of purposeful involvement, elevation, temporary loss of self, vicarious emotion, and relief of tension. The author examines what drives writers to create stories and why readers fall under their spell; why some children grow up to be writers; and how the capacity for creating and comprehending stories develops from infancy right through into old age.
Entranced by Story applies recent research on brain function to literary examples ranging from the Iliad and Wuthering Heights to Harold and the Purple Crayon, providing a groundbreaking exploration of the biological and neurological basis of the literary experience. Blending research, theory, and biographical anecdote, the author shows how it is the unique structure of the human brain, with its layering of sophisticated cognitive capacities upon archaic, emotion-driven functions, which best explains the mystery of story.
Автор: Peter Marks Название: Literature of the 1990s: Endings and Beginnings ISBN: 1474452507 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474452502 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 3642.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Placing literary creativity within a changing cultural and political context that saw the end of Margaret Thatcher and rise of New Labour, this book offers fresh interpretations of mainstream and marginal works from all parts of Britain.
