The Formal Center in Literature

Richard Kopley

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English and American Literature and Culture | nr. 27
• This book concerns the framed center in selected literary works of the 19th to 21st centuries. Such a center involves a critical passage bracketed by ... Lees meer

Of Time and the Artist

Carol Ingalls Johnston

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English and American Literature and Culture | nr. 10
• Investigation of the complex relationship between Thomas Wolfe and his critics, showing the effect of criticism on his career. This volume takes as it... Lees meer

The Critical Fortunes of Aphra Behn

Janet Todd

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English and American Literature and Culture | nr. 16
• This is the first study of the posthumous life of Aphra Behn, the extraordinary vicissitudes of her critical reception, and the personal vilifications... Lees meer

The Noah Myth in Twenty-First-Century CLI-Fi Novels

Helen E Mundler

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English and American Literature and Culture | nr. 29
• Breaks new ground by both analyzing the literary qualities of four recent rewritings of the Noah myth and contextualizing their concern with climate c... Lees meer

Ritual Performance in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor

Cynthia Seel

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English and American Literature and Culture | nr. 21
• The first study of the importance of ritual in the works of O'Connor, with in-depth analysis of six of the writer's works. Flannery O'Connor wrote som... Lees meer

Form as Compensation for Life

Oddvar Holmesland

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English and American Literature and Culture | nr. 14
• Stylistic study of Virgina Woolf's fiction. Reading a novel by Virginia Woolf involves an element of `double reflexiveness': first, the reader's inter... Lees meer

The Otherworlds of Liz Jensen

Helen E Mundler

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English and American Literature and Culture | nr. 25
• The first study of one of the most innovative of contemporary novelists, Liz Jensen, and of the "otherworlds" in her fiction. Liz Jensen, a British au... Lees meer

The Intellectual Landscape in the Works of J. M. Coetzee

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English and American Literature and Culture | nr. 26
• Arguably the most decorated and critically acclaimed writer of today, J. M. Coetzee is a deeply intellectual writer. Yet while just about everyone who... Lees meer

Wordsworth and the Critics

John L Mahoney

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English and American Literature and Culture | nr. 22
• William Wordsworth, often regarded as the High Priest of British Romantic Poetry, certainly had the longest career of the Romantics, one extending fro... Lees meer

Patterns of Ambivalence

Catherine A Civello

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English and American Literature and Culture | nr. 13
• A study drawing from a wide range of disciplines - social history, psychoanalytic theory, and feminist philosophy as well as literary criticism - to c... Lees meer

Thoreau's Late Career and the Dispersion of Seeds

Michael Berger

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English and American Literature and Culture | nr. 18
• The first detailed study of a major but neglected work by Thoreau. Until very recently, only a handful of Thoreau specialists knew of the existence of... Lees meer

Fact, Fiction, and Representation

Louis Mackey

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English and American Literature and Culture | nr. 11
• First ever full-length study of four works by Gilbert Sorrentino, the contemporary American novelist. Gilbert Sorrentino is the most innovative and ex... Lees meer

Iris Murdoch's Paradoxical Novels

Barbara Stevens-Heusel

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English and American Literature and Culture | nr. 23
• Collecting the major critics who have described for the last third of a century the phenomena of Iris Murdoch's fiction, this study analyzes the stori... Lees meer

How D. H. Lawrence Read Herman Melville

Kevin J Hayes

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English and American Literature and Culture | nr. 28
• How Lawrence Read Melville is a highly focused account of D. H. Lawrence's discovery and reception of Herman Melville, from when he first read Moby-Di... Lees meer

The Critical Reception of Emerson

Sarah Ann Wider

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English and American Literature and Culture | nr. 20
• Since the 1820s, Ralph Waldo Emerson has provoked an unsettled response from his readers and contentiousness among critics. Critics still contest Emer... Lees meer

The Strange Sad War Revolving

Luke Mancuso

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English and American Literature and Culture | nr. 12
• Walt Whitman's prolific Reconstruction project has remained the most uncultivated decade in Whitman studies for over a century. This first book-length... Lees meer

Textuality and Subjectivity

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English and American Literature and Culture | nr. 7
• Reveals strikingly the fundamental problem of translating oral poetry into a written literature. Lees meer

Recent Criticism of James Joyce's Ulysses

Michael Patrick Gillespie, Paula Gillespie

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English and American Literature and Culture | nr. 19
• Since its appearance in 1922, James Joyce's novel Ulysses has remained extremely popular, never having gone out of print. Since the expiration of its ... Lees meer

Matthew Arnold

Laurence W Mazzeno

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English and American Literature and Culture | nr. 17
• Examines the critical reputation of one of the great literary critics. From the publication of The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems in 1849, Matthew A... Lees meer

Open World

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English and American Literature and Culture | nr. 9
• Essays of American-domiciled Anglo-Welsh poet. This collection of essays, interviews and poems explores the life and work of Leslie Norris, one of the... Lees meer

Talking Books

Kenneth Mendoza

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English and American Literature and Culture | nr. 8
• Study of problems of translating oral literature, illustrated by Pawnee examples. The increasing academic interest in the wide field of ethnopoetics h... Lees meer