Literary Criticism 7

Winner of the 2008 Jules and Frances Landry Award, this comprehensive, groundbreaking study explores how American novelists since World War I have imagined the institution of slavery and the experience of those involved in it. Complicating the common assumption that authentic black-authored fictio……続きを見る

Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the best-loved figures in nineteenth-century American literature. Though he earned his central place in our culture as an essayist and philosopher, since his death his reputation as a poet has grown as well. Known for challenging traditional thought and for his faith……続きを見る

In his first book, "How to Read Literature Like a Professor," Foster led readers through the symbolic codes of literature. Now he presents this lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels to make everyday reading more enriching, satisfying, and fun.続きを見る

This breakthrough collection by a major world poet established a new direction in Arabic poetry.続きを見る

The vibrant Old Norse poems in this 13th-century collection recapture the ancient oral traditions of the Norsemen. These mythological poems include the "Voluspo, " one of the broadest literary conceptions of the world's creation and ultimate destruction; the "Lokasenna, " a comedy bursting with vi……続きを見る

Henry Miller s landmark travel book, now reissued in a new edition, is ready to be stuffed into any vagabond s backpack.続きを見る

This updated verse translation of the first great narrative poem in the English language captures the feeling and tone of the original.続きを見る

The hypothesis of Paolo Bartoloni's book is based on the belief that a substantial and innovative discussion of the philosophical notions of immanence and potentiality is not only overdue but also necessary to address the social, political, cultural, and ethical aporia confronting us today. The ph……続きを見る

The all -time bestselling of the sagas in Penguin Classics, "The Vinland Sagas" are published here in a vibrant new translation. Consisting of "The Saga of the Greenlanders" and "Eirik the Red's Saga," they chronicle the adventures of Eirik the Red and his son, Leif Eirikson, who explored North Am……続きを見る

With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography--in short, both the sign-oriented realities and fantasies--of Japan itself.続きを見る

Edited by award-winning poet and essayist Oliver, the latest edition of this rich and thoughtful collection ("Publishers Weekly") offers the finest essays judiciously selected from countless publications ("Chicago Tribune").続きを見る

Here is a substantial selection of Samuel Johnson's magisterial and unforgettable portraits of the lives of the English poets of the 17th and 18th centuries. Originally covering the lives of 52 poets, with the primary focus on Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope, Johnson's Lives was described by Thoma……続きを見る

Robert Browning's poetic scope was broad, ranging from the beguiling magic of The Pied Piper of Hamelin to the epic book-length poem The Ring and the Book. This comprehensive selection includes over eighty of his shorter poems, amongst them his most famous and best-loved dramatic monologues, as we……続きを見る

The most widely used and respected text in its field, "Writing Fiction, 7e" by novelists Janet Burroway and Elizabeth Stuckey-French guides the novice story writer from first inspiration to final revision by providing practical writing techniques and concrete examples. Written in a tone that is pe……続きを見る

An insightful exploration into the works of African American writers born in the 1960s and 1970s続きを見る

Originally published: Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.続きを見る

Take the Mic is an essential guide for lifting your poetry from the page to the stage.続きを見る

Traces the way classical myths have shaped American womenas identity.続きを見る

Charles S. Aiken, a native of Mississippi who was born a few miles from Oxford, has been thinking and writing about the geography of Faulkners Yoknapatawpha County for more than thirty years. William Faulkner and the Southern Landscape is the culmination of that long-term scholarly project. It is ……続きを見る

The creators of such famous comic books as "Superman, Spider-Man, X-Men," and "Batman"--as well as the founders of "MAD" Magazine--were Jewish. This oversized, full-color volume demonstrates how they brought a uniquely Jewish perspective to the comics industry as a whole. Jewish Publication Society続きを見る

Batuman searches for the answers to the big questions in the details of lived experience, combining fresh readings of the great Russians with the sad and funny stories of the lives they continue to influence--including her own.続きを見る