Nicholas Rowe was the first Poet Laureate of the Georgian era. A fascinating and important yet largely overlooked figure in eighteenth-century literature, he is the ‘lost Augustan’. His plays are im……続きを見る
Nicholas Rowe was the first Poet Laureate of the Georgian era. A fascinating and important yet largely overlooked figure in eighteenth-century literature, he is the ‘lost Augustan’. His plays are im……続きを見る
Nicholas Rowe was the first Poet Laureate of the Georgian era. A fascinating and important yet largely overlooked figure in eighteenth-century literature, he is the ‘lost Augustan’. His plays are im……続きを見る
Nicholas Rowe was the first Poet Laureate of the Georgian era. A fascinating and important yet largely overlooked figure in eighteenth-century literature, he is the ‘lost Augustan’. His plays are im……続きを見る
Nicholas Rowe was the first Poet Laureate of the Georgian era. A fascinating and important yet largely overlooked figure in eighteenth-century literature, he is the ‘lost Augustan’. His plays are im……続きを見る
Philip Roth scholars continue to reflect on what Philip Roth’s retirement in 2012 means for the landscape of American literature and what his professed disappearance from the public eye in 2014 woul……続きを見る
Unlock the more straightforward side of Veronika Decides to Die with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo ……続きを見る
Unlock the more straightforward side of A Game of Thrones with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Marti……続きを見る
出版社: University Press of Mississippi
発売日: 2016年11月11日
Ever since A Hall of Mirrors depicted the wild side of New Orleans in the 1960s, Robert Stone (1937-2015) has situated novels where America has shattered and the action is at a pitch. In Dog Soldier……続きを見る
出版社: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
発売日: 2016年09月23日
Albert Coryer, the grandson of a fur trade voyageur-turned-farmer, had a gift for storytelling. Born in 1877, he grew up in Prairie du Chien hearing tales of days gone by from his parents, grandpare……続きを見る
著者:Gerald Stern
出版社: Trinity University Press
発売日: 2012年01月16日
In what could be boldly called a new genre, Gerald Stern reflects with wit, pathos, rage, and tenderness, on 85 years of life. In 70 short, intermingling pieces that constitute a kind of diary of a ……続きを見る
A special edition of Bengal Lights, Bangladesh's leading English language literary journal, guest-edited by the editors of the Unnamed Press and Phoneme Media. A liberal exploration of the concept o……続きを見る
Lauded poet Christopher Merrill hatched a brilliant plan: invite six other poets to join him in four days of writing in Iowa City. The poets would write for 30 minutes, creating a poem of 15 lines, ……続きを見る
From the moment J. D. Salinger published The Catcher in the Rye in 1951, he was stalked by besotted fans, would-be biographers, and pushy journalists. In this collection of rare and revealing encoun……続きを見る
The Female Line: Northern Irish Women Writers, edited by Ruth Hooley, was first published in 1985 by the Northern Ireland Women's Movement.
In 2016, The Female Line has been republished as an ebook,……続きを見る
著者:Theodore Dreiser
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2016年11月17日
Although world-famous for his novels Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt, Theodore Dreiser was also highly accomplished in journalism, autobiography, and travel writing. In 1919, having recently accep……続きを見る
Lydia Huntley was born in 1791 in Norwich, CT, the only child of a poor Revolutionary war veteran. But her father’s employer, a wealthy widow, gave young Lydia the run of her library and later sent ……続きを見る
著者:Mary Chapman
出版社: McGill-Queen's University Press
発売日: 2016年05月01日
When her 1912 story collection, Mrs. Spring Fragrance, was rescued from obscurity in the 1990s, scholars were quick to celebrate Sui Sin Far as a pioneering chronicler of Asian American Chinatowns. ……続きを見る
U.S. Latino Literature is defined as Latino literature within the United States that embraces the heterogeneous inter-groupings of Latinos. For too long U.S. Latino literature has not been thought o……続きを見る
. . . Is... What a Poet Said is a collection of mystical and spiritual poetry by three distinctive voices: Aschak, Jean Galliano, and Ekillous.
Taken together, the poems on the pages to follow invok……続きを見る
出版社: McGill-Queen's University Press
発売日: 2016年10月01日
Sean O’Faolain (1900-1991) was Ireland’s leading social and political critic in the period following the country’s independence from the United Kingdom. Since his death, scholarly opinion has altern……続きを見る
Ever since she was a wee lass, Sioban O’Rourke has wanted to dance in her mother Ava’s footsteps. But when they left the streets of Dublin for the bright lights of Hollywood, Ava’s dreams withered, ……続きを見る
True Tales of Encounters with Bears
Bear Encounters is a collection of stories about the run-ins everyday people have with bears. From the one about the black bear at the cabin that was chased away ……続きを見る
A current of longing runs through twenty-two short stories by Oregon writers. As the characters strive for connection, they make mistakes, reach out to the wrong people, and recalibrate their lives ……続きを見る
著者:David Mamet
出版社: Grove Atlantic
発売日: 2014年10月03日
From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Glengarry Glen Ross, here is a collection of thirty-two one act plays and short dramatic pieces that David Mamet himself considers to be some of the best wr……続きを見る
This collection of Japanese folk plays reveals a previously unknown and decidedly unaristocratic element to Japanese theater.
Interspersed between the stately, slower paced dramas of Japan’s Noh the……続きを見る
Chapters from fourteen best-selling classic novels published between 1842 and 1919 are compiled here for today's readers. The selections not only give a rare un-stereotyped look at the day-to-day li……続きを見る
This dramatic and absorbing play tells the story of the courtesan Izayoi and the priest Seishin; classic lovers who are doomed to suffer the tragic consequences of their passion.
As a representative……続きを見る
The Noh Plays of Japan is the most respected collection of Noh plays in English.
The classic Japanese plays can be read for their great literary merit and also provide the reader with an understandi……続きを見る
This Korean War book tells the true story of a brutal and epic prison revolt that occurred during the war.
This absolutely authentic, horrifying account of treachery, intrigue and ruthless brutality……続きを見る