Sherlock Holmes Among the Pirates

Donald Aitcheson Redmond

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World Literature
• This volume presents a new aspect in the study of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: a case study of the publishing history of his works. Since Doyle's works bef... Lees meer

The Writer Written

Jean-Pierre Durix, Jean Pierre Durix

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World Literature | nr. 21
• Few people are so widely read within Commonwealth literature or are so knowledgeable about so many different cultures as Jean-Pierre Durix. . . . The ... Lees meer

Shakespeare's Proverbial Themes

Marjorie Donker

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World Literature | nr. 44
• This study analyzes the role of the sentenia (proverb, maxim, adage) in the rhetorical process of invention and, particularly, Shakespeare's use of th... Lees meer

The Image of Manhood in Early Modern Literature

Andrew P. Williams

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World Literature | nr. 95
• The numerous and multifaceted ways in which masculinities emerge and are expressed within cultures prompt a broad ranging examination and reconsiderat... Lees meer

Becoming True to Ourselves

Maria Luisa Nunes

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World Literature
• Nunes' conclusion is succinct and contains several original ideas. Unlike most writers, she claims that human interdependence is a fact that may have ... Lees meer

Judgment and Justification in the Nineteenth-Century Novel of Adultery

Maria R Rippon

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World Literature | nr. 112
• The 19th century novel typically examines social problems and values. Several novels of that period treat adulterous relationships; in doing so, they ... Lees meer

Twenty-Four Ways of Looking at Mary McCarthy

Eve Stwertka, Margo Viscusi

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World Literature | nr. 70
• This collection of essays by a diverse group of young academics, established critics, and well-known writers strikes an intriguing balance between sch... Lees meer

Sitting at the Feet of the Past

Donald R. Hettinga, Gary D. Schmidt

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World Literature
• Must a folktale be connected to its culture? Can a tale with universal applications be transmitted from one culture to another without loss? Does a te... Lees meer

Sounding the Classics

Rudolf Binion

• Paperback | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World Literature | nr. 83
• This book is a comparative study of 12 works of fiction broadly representative of the Western canon. Its aim is to discover what gives these 12 works ... Lees meer

Aristocracies of Fiction

Len Platt

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World Literature | nr. 108
• From 1890 to 1920, the British aristocracy faded in historical importance. The culture of that period often presented aristocratic characters and typi... Lees meer

Writing the Good Fight

Peter Monteath

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World Literature | nr. 52
• Monteath examines the international literature of the Spanish Civil War across the entire range of the political spectrum, from anarchism to nazism. U... Lees meer

The Art of Fact

Barbara Lounsberry

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World Literature
• The artistry of nonfiction is the great unexplored territory of contemporary criticism. Although the American book clubs now emphasize nonfiction and ... Lees meer

Scenarios of Modernist Disintegration

Timothy Schiff

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World Literature
• This is the first comprehensive analysis of the life and work of Tryggve Andersen. Stressing that Andersen was a transitional writer, Schiff deftly sh... Lees meer

Reading Buchi Emecheta

Katherine Fishburn

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World Literature | nr. 61
• In this first full-length study of Emecheta's fiction, Fishburn highlights the difficulties inherent in reading across cultures. She challenges the no... Lees meer

The Other Mirror

Kristine Ibsen

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World Literature | nr. 80
• During the last decade, women's narrative has become a recognized force in Mexican letters. The essays in this collection explore the recent work of n... Lees meer

A Matter of Faith

Robert Sullivan

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World Literature | nr. 69
• This is the most extensive account of Moore's fiction to date that considers his many works from the early stories to the recent novel, No Other Life ... Lees meer

Afro-Cuban Literature

Edward J Mullen

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World Literature | nr. 91
• Afro-Cubanism is a movement in Caribbean arts and letters that stemmed from a rediscovery of the region's African heritage during the 1920s and to som... Lees meer

Reworlding

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World Literature | nr. 42
• Adopting the concept of diaspora--literally dispersal, or the scattering of a people--to the historical and contemporary presence of people of Indian ... Lees meer

Disability Determination

Frank S Bloch

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World Literature | nr. 13
• Who determines whether persons are disabled and eligible to receive the billions of dollars that are awarded in benefits under federal disability prog... Lees meer

Imagining Africa

Lindy Stiebel

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World Literature | nr. 105
• Best known as the author of such works as King Solomon's Mines and She, H. Rider Haggard was one of the most popular writers of the late-Victorian era... Lees meer

Writing and Reality

Andrew Hassam

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World Literature
• The diary format has long been utilized by novelists as a means of imparting reality to fiction. This volume analyzes the forms of diary fiction emplo... Lees meer

The Literary Heritage of Childhood

Charles H Frey, John Griffith

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World Literature | nr. 20
• In twenty-eight essays, Frey and Griffith, members of the English faculty at the University of Washington, examine many of the traditional and new chi... Lees meer

Satirical Apocalypse

Jonathan Cook

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World Literature
• This valuable new addition to Melville studies offers a ground-breaking interpretation of Melville's last published novel, one of the most complex tex... Lees meer

Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults

Mingshui Cai

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of World Literature | nr. 116
• There is much discussion of multiculturalism in education. This is especially true of multicultural literature for children and young adults. The rise... Lees meer