M.B - Literary Theory & Criticism 4

L’histoire du Canada, dit l’auteur des « Beautés » de cette histoire, « est singulièrement riche en beautés effrayantes. Des guerres sans fin, des mœurs fortes, naïves, farouches, qui montrent à nu ……続きを見る

Thinking Italian Translation is an indispensable course for students who want to develop their Italian to English translation skills. This new edition includes: up-to-date examples and new source ……続きを見る

As stories of Indian dance’s renaissance span almost a full century, there has emerged a globally dispersed community of Indian dancers, scholars and audiences who are deeply committed to keeping th……続きを見る

Comédie en trois actes, en prose représentée pour la première fois par les Comédiens-Italiens 続きを見る

Exploring literary fascination as a key concept of aesthetic attraction, this book illuminates the ways in which literary texts are designed, presented, and received. Detailed case studies include t……続きを見る

What did Britain look like to the Muslims who visited and lived in the country in increasing numbers from the late eighteenth century onwards? This book is a literary history of representations of M……続きを見る

The term 'humanist' originally referred to a scholar of Classical literature. In the Renaissance and particularly in the Elizabethan age, European intellectuals devoted themselves to the rediscovery……続きを見る

Taking a Vygotskian sociocultural stance, this book demonstrates the meaningful role that L2 teacher educators and L2 teacher education play in the professional development of L2 teachers through sy……続きを見る

A wry and extremely witty travelogue exploring all things Irish (and Oirish).'With Spike Milligan-ish humour, Bradford investigates the Irish psyche: at times he comes close to adding a new mytholog……続きを見る

Fifty years after the publication of Martin Esslin's The Theatre of the Absurd , which suggests that 'absurd' plays purport the meaninglessness of life, this book uses the works of five major playwr……続きを見る

In the early seventeenth century, the London stage often portrayed a ruler covertly spying on his subjects. Traditionally deemed 'Jacobean disguised ruler plays', these works include Shakespeare's M……続きを見る

This book is a study of signs in American literature and culture. It is mainly about electric signs, but also deals with non-electric signs and related phenomena, such as movie sets. The 'sign' is c……続きを見る

Widely acknowledged as a contemporary classic that has introduced thousands of readers to American literature, From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature brilliantly charts t……続きを見る

How do we find the right word for the job? Where does that word come from? Why do we spell it like that? And how do we know what it means? Words are all around us - we use them every day to communic……続きを見る

In this wide-ranging study of French intellectuals who represented the Spanish Civil War as it was happening and in its immediate aftermath, Martin Hurcombe explores the ways in which these individu……続きを見る

Having previously suffered neglect as a result of Pope's dominance of the period, William Cowper (1731-1800) has now become a far more important figure in eighteenth-century literature. Following th……続きを見る

'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700 examines the construction of gypsy identity in England between the early sixteenth century and the end of the……続きを見る

Quel est le point commun entre un shérif posté dans le désert de Mojave, une hippie qui sillonne les routes californiennes en stop, une musicienne suicidaire égarée dans une petite station des Alpes……続きを見る

Based on travel writings, religious history and popular literature, Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination explores the encounter between English travellers and the Jews. While literary and re……続きを見る

John Armstrong's 2000-line poem The Art of Preserving Health was among the most popular works of eighteenth-century literature and medicine. It was among the first to popularize Scottish medical ide……続きを見る

Singles K é uma série de ebooks semanais que traz para o leitor cotidiano as melhores crônicas de colunistas e escritores da KBR publicadas no blog da editora. Nesta edição, quase uma edição especia……続きを見る

Singles K é uma série de ebooks semanais que trazem para o leitor cotidiano as melhores crônicas de colunistas e escritores da KBR publicadas no blog da editora. Nesta edição, morte, Deus, viagens, ……続きを見る

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent. Representing the very best of African creative nonfiction, Safe House brings together works from Africa's contempor……続きを見る

This book takes the work of three contemporary poets John Burnside, John Kinsella and Alice Oswald to reveal how an environmental poetics of place is of significant relevance for the Anthropocene: a……続きを見る

Graham-Bertolini provides the first analysis of vigilante women in contemporary American fiction. She develops a dynamic model of vigilante heroines using literary and feminist theory and applies it……続きを見る

Using unpublished manuscript writings, this book reinterprets material, social, literary, philosophical and religious contexts of women's letter-writing in the long 18th century. It shows how letter……続きを見る

Japan is imagined routinely in American discourse as a supernatural entity. Gothic tales from these two cultures have been exchanged, consumed, and adapted. Here, Blouin examines a prevalent tendenc……続きを見る

In 1914, Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Poundーthe founders of vorticismーundertook an unprecedented analysis of the present, its technologies, communication, politics, and architecture. The essays in Count……続きを見る

The Politics of Perfection: Technology and Creation in Literature and Film provides an exploration of the relationship between modern technological progress and classical liberalism. Each chapter pr……続きを見る

Holger Treffeysen konnte seinen ersten Roman 'Koks' vor dem frühen Ableben nicht mehr fertig schreiben. Macht nichts. Dafür wird die Rezension dieses unfertigen Manuskripts ein Roman der besonderen ……続きを見る