KENT - Literary Theory & Criticism 1

Explores the recurring pattern in media, academia, and publishing to elevate one Black writer at a time, often at the expense of hundreds of others whose works go underrecognized. Starting in the 19……続きを見る

If the Punisher became a valuable piece of intellectual property during the closing decades of the twentieth century, he has become a global icon in the twenty-first. In this pathbreaking study, Ken……続きを見る

Woolf, Bergson, and the Sciences explores the use of animals in Woolf’s novels, alongside the writing of philosopher, Henri Bergson, and relevant science and nature writers. Since Woolf and Bergson ……続きを見る

Australia's crusaders for women's voting rights and the radical feminists of the 1970s changed lives across the country and around the globe. But what about the generation in between? Throughout the……続きを見る

"It isn't half such a crazy place as it's made out to be. I know two- three people in Hollywood that are part sane." A talking gorilla called Cyril who graduated from Oxford University; a sword-wiel……続きを見る

"[I'm] as broke as the ten commandments." P. G. "Plum" Wodehouse knew a thing or two about the money-go-round; in 1938 he was the world's highest paid writer. At times, his financial affairs read li……続きを見る

Durée as Einstein-in-the-Heart traces the trajectory of modernist interaction with Bergson and Einstein through the works of Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) and Mary Butts (1890–1937). It presents an ove……続きを見る

"What are the chances of a cobra biting Harold, Jeeves?" "Slight, I should imagine, sir. And in such an event, knowing the boy as intimately as I do, my anxiety would be entirely for the snake." Chi……続きを見る

It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A.B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought ……続きを見る

"Wooster", those who know me have sometimes said, "may be a pretty total loss during the daytime hours, but plunge the world in darkness, switch on the soft lights, uncork the champagne and shove a ……続きを見る

"To the philosophical student of golf like myself" (said the Oldest Member), perhaps the most outstanding virtue of this noble pursuit is the fact that it is a medicine for the soul." Sport, in the ……続きを見る

"I am not very well up in the Peerage. I seldom read it except to get a laugh out of the names." P. G. "Plum" Wodehouse rarely stood on ceremony, and the snooty English class system was a favourite ……続きを見る

So you've won the Scripture-knowledge prize, have you?""Sir, yes, sir.""Yes," said Gussie, "you look just the sort of little tick who would." P. G. "Plum" Wodehouse has been described as "strenuousl……続きを見る

"Jeeves, I'm engaged." "I hope you will be very happy, sir." "Don't be an ass. I'm engaged to Miss Bassett." P. G. "Plum" Wodehouse was the father of the modern rom-com. In his hilarious fictional w……続きを見る

"There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'""The mood will pass, sir." Not only do trousers matter in the crazy world of P. G. "Plum" Wodehouse, they speak volumes: as d……続きを見る

Ce guide de lecture pratique propose un résumé et une analyse complets de Middlemarch de George Eliot. Il propose une exploration approfondie de l'intrigue, des personnages et des thèmes principaux ……続きを見る

Ce guide de lecture pratique offre un résumé et une analyse complète de Silas Marner de George Eliot. Il fournit une exploration approfondie de l'intrigue, des personnages et des principaux thèmes d……続きを見る

What happens when we vote? What are we counting when we count ballots? Who decides what an election should look like and what it should mean? And why do so many people believe that some or all elect……続きを見る

" Certains êtres sont différents. Ils sont nés comme ça, sur le bord du monde. Ils savent voir ce que d'autres ne voient pas. Pour eux, les rivières ne coulent pas de la même façon. " Le temps sembl……続きを見る

Representing Rural Women highlights the complexity and diversity of representations of rural women in the U.S. and Canada from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. The 15 chapters in this colle……続きを見る

Shakespeare and the Comedy of Enchantment argues that enchantment constitutes a key emotional and intellectual dimension of Shakespeare's comedies. It thus makes a new claim about the rejuvenating v……続きを見る

London 1968: The Unstable Boys are the name on every music insider's lips and tipped to follow in the footsteps of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. This is their chance to hit the bigtime. They d……続きを見る

Kent Nerburn wird eines Tages von einer jungen Frau angerufen, die ihn bittet, ihren Großvater in einem weit entfernten Reservat aufzusuchen, er sei sehr alt und wolle ihn unbedingt sehen. Nerburn e……続きを見る

Bir Cumhuriyet dönemi girişimcisinin günlüğü. "Doğulu, eleştirirken düşüncenin, yönetirken duyguların adamıdır. Muhalif iken en parlak fikirlerin savunucusu, iktidara geçince de kişisel isteklerinin……続きを見る

Horses played such a great part during the development of outback and agricultural Australia. Add them to the determination of those who work with them and there is always a positive outcome. Here w……続きを見る

This book deals with historical consciousness and its artistic expressions in contemporary Greece since 1989 from the point of view that contemporary Greeks have been faced with the contradictions b……続きを見る

This book is a significant contribution to existing research on the themes of race and slavery in the founding literature of the United States. It extends the boundaries of existing research by loca……続きを見る

Perhaps the brevity of short fiction accounts for the relatively scant attention devoted to it by scholars, who have historically concentrated on longer prose narratives. The Geographies of African ……続きを見る

First runner-up for the 2019 Ray and Pat Browne Award for the Best Edited Collection in Popular and American Culture Cultures of War in Graphic Novels examines the representation of small-scale and ……続きを見る

Here are more than 1,800 quotations, organized from A-to-Z, from America's consummate author--Mark Twain. A must-have for all Twain collectors, The Quotable Mark Twain is filled with his opinions ab……続きを見る