M.B - Literary Theory & Criticism 26

The Devil's Dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906. In that year a large part of it was published in covers with the title ……続きを見る

How to Be a Man written by an American clergyman and writer Harvey Newcomb. This book is one of many works by him. Published in 1847. A Book For Boys Containing Useful Information on Character Build……続きを見る

" Joy, veux-tu être ma femme ? " " Oui, je le veux ! ", a répondu Joy à Guillaume avec une ferveur égale à la profondeur de l'amour qu'elle lui porte. Et pourtant, le soir même du mariage, alors que……続きを見る

Il l'attend depuis toujours... elle ne l'a pas vraiment oublié ! Vu de l'extérieur, Camille mène une vie parfaite : mariée à un homme de bonne famille, avocate de renom, deux enfants... Et pourtant ……続きを見る

Irreverent and provoking, the figure of the 'queer troublemaker' is a disruptive force both poetically and politically. Tracing the genealogy of this figure in modern avant-garde American poetry, Pr……続きを見る

Secondhand-Zeit von Swetlana Alexijewitsch – Endlich verständlich mit der Lektürehilfe von derQuerleser.de! Diese klare und zuverlässige Analyse von Swetlana Alexijewitschs Secondhand-Zeit aus dem J……続きを見る

After the Second World War, millions of people across Eastern Europe, displaced as a result of wartime destruction, deportations and redrawing of state boundaries, found themselves living in cities ……続きを見る

Die Weimarer Klassik ist eine zentrale, wenn auch umstrittene Epoche der Literaturgeschichte. Diese Einführung skizziert die Diskussion über eine um Goethe und Schiller gruppierte ›Weimarer Klassik‹……続きを見る

This book explores Italian science fiction from 1861, the year of Italy’s unification, to the present day, focusing on how this genre helped shape notions of Otherness and Normalness. In particular,……続きを見る

Of Words and Whiskey is a blurry lens for the readers, hiding the flaws of chaos in a burning world. It takes you through the messed up thoughts in the mind of the author, every day, every minute, e……続きを見る

A popular subject in sociology and cultural studies, divorce has until recently been overlooked by literary critics. Spanning nearly a century during which the divorce rate skyrocketed, Love America……続きを見る

Rethinking Milton's "Paradise Lost", William Blake examines 'innocence' and 'experience' in this beautiful collection. "Poems of William Blake" combines three classic books of his essential poetry. ……続きを見る

In Art Matters, Robert Paul Lamb provides the definitive study of Ernest Hemingway's short story aesthetics. Lamb locates Hemingway's art in literary historical contexts and explains what he learned……続きを見る

A descendant of both Spanish settlers and Nahua (Aztec) rulers, Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl (ca. 1578–1650) was an avid collector of indigenous pictorial and alphabetic texts and a prodigious……続きを見る

"The Adventures of Ulysses" was written by in 1808 to tell the tale of Homer's "Odyssey" to children. It is a wonderfully well-written and accurate account of the story of Ulysses, and modern reader……続きを見る

Dante's work has fascinated readers for seven hundred years and has provided key reference points for writing as diverse as that of Chaucer, the Renaissance poets, the English Romantics, Tennyson an……続きを見る

'To die will be an awfully big adventure.' Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is one of the immortals of children's literature. J. M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as a baby, living in secr……続きを見る

Tolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien worked between 1922 and 1928 on his Clarendon edition Selectio……続きを見る

Samtaler med danske digtere ved Niels Birger Wamberg udkom første gang i 1968 er lavet på baggrund af radiosamtaler mellem forfatteren og 11 af datidens store danske digtere: Knuth Becker, Karl Bjar……続きを見る

Litteraturforsker og forfatter Niels Birger Wamberg giver i Soya en samlet fremstilling af hele Soyas (1896-1983) forfatterskab med dets mere end 70 bøger. Bogen udkom oprindeligt i 1966. 続きを見る

Among the numerous books on Dickenss London, Going Astray is unique in combining detailed topography and biography with close textual analysis and theoretically informed critiques of most of the nov……続きを見る

Be enchanted. These handpicked Halloween tales of African deities and daemons, shamans and shape-shifters will keep you spellbound page after page. FEATURED STORIES DAEMON TRAPPED by Bambo Deen When……続きを見る

Poetry: that fifth element: essential for human eyes to read, human ears to hear, and human hearts and souls to feel. Four elements as envisioned by Linda Imbler within poetry’s arc: from the myth o……続きを見る

Décryptez La Civilisation, ma Mère !... de Driss Chraïbi avec l’analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr ! Que faut-il retenir de La Civilisation, ma mère !..., le roman autobiographique engagé de l'auteur ? R……続きを見る

Extrait : "LES RÉPARTIES DE NINA – LUI. – Tu plongerais dans la luzerne, Ton blanc peignoir, Rosant à l'air ce bleu qui cerne, Ton grand oeil noir." 続きを見る

A modern-day Taming of the Shrew that concludes at a high school prom. An agoraphobic Olivia from Twelfth Night sending video dispatches from her bedroom. A time-traveling teenager finding romance i……続きを見る

Inspired by Susan Sontag’s examination of the impact of “photography of conscience” in Regarding the Pain of Others, Kimberly A. Nance’s Responding to the Pain of Others: Ethics of Witness in Global……続きを見る

Is linguistic revival beneficiary to the plight of newly emerging, peripheral or even ‘threatened’ cultures? Or is it a smokescreen that hides the vestiges of ethnocentric ideologies, which ultimate……続きを見る

Oscar Wilde: A Literary Life tracks the intellectual biography of one of the most influential minds of the nineteenth century. Rather than focusing on the dramatic events of Wilde’s life, this volum……続きを見る

En délicatesse avec sa maison de disques, Bob Dylan reçoit en 1962 le soutien du " man in black " : le légendaire Johnny Cash. Leur amitié devient le roman de l'Amérique. Dès la sortie de son premie……続きを見る