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Breaking new ground by considering productions of popular culture from above, rather than from below, this book draws on theorists of cultural studies, such as Pierre Bourdieu, Roger Chartier and Jo……続きを見る

This critical evaluation of Ford Madox Ford's "novels of war, which are also novels about peace," is made in a most delightful manner. Based on a thorough knowledge of the novelist, it is enriched b……続きを見る

Crónicas publicadas em forma de carta, descrevendo as festas de inauguração do Canal de Suez. Primeiro, no jornal "Diário de Notícias" e de seguida no "Folhetim", as crónicas de Eça de Queiroz - "um……続きを見る

First Published in 2002. Modes and categories inherited from the past no longer seem to fit the reality experienced by a new generation. ‘New Accents’ is intended as a positive response to the initi……続きを見る

Shakespeare and World Cinema radically re-imagines the field of Shakespeare on film, drawing on a wealth of examples from Africa, the Arctic, Brazil, China, France, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapor……続きを見る

The fact that Abraham Lincoln is now universally recognized as America’s greatest political orator would have surprised many of the citizens who voted him into office. Ungainly in stature and awkwar……続きを見る

An Introduction to Narratology is an accessible, practical guide to narratological theory and terminology and its application to literature. In this book, Monika Fludernik outlines: the key concep……続きを見る

First published in 1951. G B Harrison here recognizes that Shakespeare's tragedies were intended for performance in a theatre and that the playwright's conspicuous gift among his contemporaries was ……続きを見る

Esta novela passional é a mais famosa obra de Camilo, um dos expoentes do romantismo em Portugal, inspirado nas desventuras amorosas do próprio autor e na peça "Romeu e Julieta" de Shakespeare. Simã……続きを見る

There is a crying need for an accessible, comprehensive guide to John Milton for the thousands of students who make their way through his poetry every year on literary survey and seventeenth century……続きを見る

This book explores the anxious and unstable relationship between court poetry and various forms of authority, political and cultural, in England and Scotland at the beginning of the sixteenth centur……続きを見る

Haunting and enigmatic, Virgil's Eclogues combined a Greek literary form with scenes from contemporary Roman life to create a work that inspired a whole European tradition of pastoral poetry. For de……続きを見る

Text, Theory, Space is a landmark in post-colonial criticism and theory. Focusing on two white settler societies, South Africa and Australia, the contributors investigate the meaning of 'the South' ……続きを見る

Charles Baxter inaugurates The Art of, a new series on the craft of writing, with the wit and intelligence he brought to his celebrated book Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction. Fiction writer……続きを見る

Irony and theatre share intimate kinships, not only regarding dramatic conflict, dialectic or wittiness, but also scenic structure and the verbal or situational ironies that typically mark theatrica……続きを見る

'She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.' Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century american writers, whose fiction explored new and often ……続きを見る

A beautiful ebook edition of the NRSV Bible, annotated with writings from the works of C. S. Lewis. For generations, readers have found insight from Lewis’s celebrated classics such as Mere Christia……続きを見る

Milton and the Spiritual Reader considers how John Milton’s later works demonstrate the intensive struggle of spiritual reading. Milton presents his own rigorous process of reading in order to instr……続きを見る

This three-volume collection focuses on writings by and about cross-dressing women from the early nineteenth century up until the beginning of World War II. In so doing, it provides a new perspectiv……続きを見る

Uma história de amor em forma de cartas, tão ao gosto da época profundamente romântica – o fim do século XIX. São cartas tocantes e belas, com uma marca inconfundível… Assinadas por Fradique Mendes ……続きを見る

First published in 1997. For this second edition of Art Books: A Basic Bibliography of Monographs on Artists, the vast number of new books published since 1985 was surveyed and evaluated. This has r……続きを見る

'It was the time when the rush for spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking of whips, the flaring of torches. The appetites let loose were satisfied at last, sha……続きを見る

Following Common Core Standards, this lesson plan for William Golding’s, "Lord of the Flies" is the perfect solution for teachers trying to get ideas for getting students excited about a b……続きを見る

The groundbreaking novel about sex and growing up, available as an ebook for the first time. Longlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize, The Hand-Reared Boy was the first literary novel to honestly, a……続きを見る

Literature and Gender combines an introduction to and an anthology of literary texts which powerfully demonstrate the relevance of gender issues to the study of literature. The volume covers all thr……続きを見る

Johnny Ludlow is a forth series by Mrs. Henry Wood. AUTHOR OF “EAST LYNNE,” “THE CHANNINGS,” ETC. RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON, Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen. 1895. 続きを見る

Eurico, nobre gardingo, mas sem fortuna, impedido de casar com Hermengarda, filha do orgulhoso Fábila, troca a armadura de guerreiro pela batina de sacerdote numa aldeia próxima de Gibraltar. Prevê ……続きを見る

John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps while he was seriously ill at the beginning of the First World War. In it he introduces his most famous hero, Richard Hannay, who, despite claiming to be an `……続きを見る

'I hereby bet Tony Hawks the sum of One Hundred Pounds that he cannot hitchhike round the circumference of Ireland, with a fridge, within one calendar month' A foolhardy attempt to win a drunken bet……続きを見る

The first literary/biographical study of Hawthorne's full career in almost forty years, Hawthorne's Habitations presents a self-divided man and writer strongly attracted to reality for its own sake ……続きを見る