KENT - Literary Theory & Criticism 1

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

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

"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

"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

Même les fantômes ont un cœur... 1836. Dans un petit village de Prusse, Hanne, enfant de la nature, sent son destin de femme peser sur elle comme un fardeau. Entre corvées, sermons et injonctions, c……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

Literature, Science, and Animal Advocacy in Canada: Practical Zoocriticism is the first book-length study of animals in Canadian literature. Using a historical approach, it offers a much-needed alte……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

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

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

The Modern Age examines the discourses that have come to characterize adolescence and argues that commonplace views of adolescents as impulsive, conflicted, and rebellious are constructions inspired……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

First published by Oxford University Press in 1993, Exploration Literature is a groundbreaking collection of early writing inspired by the opening of a continent.With maps, notes, and thumbnail biog……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

" Voici une nouvelle voix originale, qui tient son histoire avec une remarquable maîtrise de la langue. Le premier roman d'Hannah Kent, A la grâce des hommes, est un pur bijou, sa prose aussi froide……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

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

What--other than embarrassment--could one hope to gain from prolonged exposure to the social mistake? Why think much about what many would like simply to forget? In Bad Form: Social Mistakes and the……続きを見る

101 Short Essays on Shakespeare is an accessible and jargon-free guide, whether you're new to Shakespeare, or a seasoned playgoer. Contents include: General introductions to the comedies, tragedies ……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

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

The vastness of Britain’s nineteenth-century empire and the gap between imperial policy and colonial practice demanded an institutional culture that encouraged British administrators to identify the……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