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Tragedy

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Tragedy

Tragedy: A Short Introduction reinvigorates the genre for readers who are eager to embrace it, but who often find the traditional masterpieces too distant from their own language and world. Argues that today’s most popular television shows and films thrive on the type of violence, passion, madness, and catastrophe first introduced to the stage in fifth century Athens Offers selected case studies that exemplify the compelling qualities of tragedy Reviews the history of tragic performance and the...

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Tragedy in Transition

Catherine Silverstone

Tragedy in Transition

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Looks at a broad range of topics in the field of tragedy in literature, from ancient to contemporary times Explores the links between writers from different times and cultures Focuses on the reception of classical texts in subsequent literatures, and discusses their treatment in a range of media Surveys the lasting influence of the most resonant narratives in tragedy Contemplates exciting and...

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Catherine Silverstone

Troy

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Troy

This is the first book systematically to examine Wolfgang Petersen’s epic film Troy from different archaeological, literary, cultural, and cinematic perspectives. The first book systematically to examine Wolfgang Petersen’s epic film Troy from different archaeological, literary, cultural, and cinematic perspectives. Examines the film’s use of Homer’s Iliad and the myth of the Trojan War, its presentation of Bronze-Age archaeology, and its place in film history. Identifies the modern political...

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Twentieth-Century American Poetry

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Twentieth-Century American Poetry

Written by a leading authority on William Carlos Williams, this book provides a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to twentieth-century American poetry. A wide-ranging and stimulating critical guide to twentieth-century American poetry. Written by a leading authority on the innovative modernist poet, William Carlos Williams. Explores the material, historical and social contexts in which twentieth-century American poetry was produced. Includes a biographical dictionary of major writers with...

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Umberto Eco

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Umberto Eco

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work and thought of Umberto Eco – one of the most important writers in Europe today.

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Una Colección De Poemas Escritos En...

Gift Foraine Amukoyo

Una Colección De Poemas Escritos En Salmos

”Gift Foraine Amukoyo! Usted ha purgado todo como si estuviera viajando “Una representación fea de nuestra sociedad degenerada y iniciada por los mismos pioneros en los que hemos depositado nuestras esperanzas; maravillosa representación” a través de la mente de todos, este es exactamente el pensamiento en la mente de cada usuario del puente. Su estilo es envidiable, estoy impresionado. Gracias.” “Gift Foraine Amukoyo, tienes el don. Esto es fantástico. Acabo de enterarme de que uno puede usar...

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Gift Foraine Amukoyo

Uses of Literature

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Uses of Literature

Uses of Literature bridges the gap between literary theory and common-sense beliefs about why we read literature. Explores the diverse motives and mysteries of why we read Offers four different ways of thinking about why we read literature – for recognition, enchantment, knowledge, and shock Argues for a new “phenomenology” in literary studies that incorporates the historical and social dimensions of reading Includes examples of literature from a wide range of national literary traditions

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Victorian Literature. An Anthology

Whitla William

Victorian Literature. An Anthology

Victorian Literature is a comprehensive and fully annotated anthology with a flexible design that allows teachers and students to pursue traditional or innovative lines of inquiry – from the canon to its extensions and its contexts. Represents the period’s major writers of prose, poetry, drama, and more, including Tennyson, Arnold, the Brownings, Carlyle, Ruskin, the Rossettis, Wilde, Eliot, and the Brontës Promotes an ideologically and culturally varied view of Victorian society with the...

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Whitla William

Victorian Poetry

Duncan Wu

Victorian Poetry

This volume distils into two hundred pages some of the most influential poetry of the Victorian period. Distils into one volume the key poems of the Victorian era. Organised chronologically, allowing readers to perceive continuities and changes through the century. Includes a general introduction, giving readers an overview of the poets and the period. Represents texts in their entirety where possible.

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Duncan Wu

Victorian Poetry Now. Poets, Poems...

Valentine Cunningham

Victorian Poetry Now. Poets, Poems and Poetics

This book is the definitive guide to Victorian poetry, which its author approaches in the light of modern critical concerns and contemporary contexts. Valentine Cunningham exhibits encyclopedic knowledge of the poetry produced in this period and offers dazzling close readings of a number of well-known poems Draws on the work of major Victorian poets and their works as well as many of the less well-known poets and poems Reads poems and poets in the light of both Victorian and modern critical...

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Valentine Cunningham

Victorian Poets. A Critical Reader

Valentine Cunningham

Victorian Poets. A Critical Reader

Victorian Poets: A Critical Reader features a collection of critical essays focusing on various aspects of Victorian-era poetry from the 1830s to the 1890s. Presents key criticism on Victorian poetry Features contributions from a variety of scholars in the field Illustrates the full range of critical approaches to the Victorian poets, including attention to texts, words, forms, modes, and sub-genres Offers fresh reinterpretations, many driven by contemporary ideological interests, including...

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Valentine Cunningham

Vienna Is Different

Hillary Hope

Vienna Is Different

Assessing the impact of fin-de-siècle Jewish culture on subsequent developments in literature and culture, this book is the first to consider the historical trajectory of Austrian-Jewish writing across the 20th century. It examines how Vienna, the city that stood at the center of Jewish life in the Austrian Empire and later the Austrian nation, assumed a special significance in the imaginations of Jewish writers as a space and an idea. The author focuses on the special relationship between...

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Hillary Hope

Virgil's Aeneid

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Virgil's Aeneid

Written by eminent scholar David O. Ross, this guide helps readers to engage with the poetry, thought, and background of Virgil’s great epic, suggesting both the depth and the beauty of Virgil’s poetic images and the mental images with which the Romans lived. Guides readers through the complexity of Virgil’s poetic style and imagery All extracts are translated, with original Latin given when necessary Provides useful historical and social context in which to understand the poem as it was viewed...

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Walter Benjamin

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Walter Benjamin

The works of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) are widely acclaimed as being among the most original and provocative writings of twentieth-century critical thought, and have become required reading for scholars and students in a range of academic disciplines. This book provides a lucid introduction to Benjamin's oeuvre through a close and sensitive reading not only of his major studies, but also of some of his less familiar essays and fragments. Gilloch offers an original interpretation of, and fresh...

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Where is American Literature?

Caroline Levander F.

Where is American Literature?

Where is American Literature? offers a spirited and compelling argument for rethinking the way we view American literature in relation to the nation while powerfully demonstrating why it continues to matter in a global age. A refreshing and accessible investigation into the various locations – linguistic, geographical, virtual, ideological – where American writing is produced and consumed Takes a highly original approach by viewing US literature spatially rather than chronologically or...

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Caroline Levander F.

Whither Quo Vadis?

Ruth Scodel

Whither Quo Vadis?

Whither Quo Vadis? offers an engaging account of how the Roman world and its history are represented in film and the way in which the different adaptations reflect the shifting historical situations and ideological concerns of their own times. Explores five surviving film adaptations – Guazzoni's of 1912; D’Annunzio/Jacoby of 1925; Mervyn LeRoy's of 1951; the Italian TV mini-series of 1985 by Franco Rossi; and Kawalerowicz’s 2001 Polish version Examines how these different versions interpret,...

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Ruth Scodel

Who Was William Shakespeare? An Int...

Dympna Callaghan

Who Was William Shakespeare? An Introduction to the Life and Works

A new study of Shakespeare’s life and times, which illuminates our understanding and appreciation of his works. Combines an accessible fully historicised treatment of both the life and the plays, suited to both undergraduate and popular audiences Looks at 24 of the most significant plays and the sonnets through the lens of various aspects of Shakespeare’s life and historical environment Addresses four of the most significant issues that shaped Shakespeare’s career: education, religion, social...

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Dympna Callaghan

Why Victorian Literature Still Matt...

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Why Victorian Literature Still Matters

Why Victorian Literature Still Matters is a passionate defense of Victorian literature’s enduring impact and importance for readers interested in the relationship between literature and life, reading and thinking. Explores the prominence of Victorian literature for contemporary readers and academics, through the author’s unique insight into why it is still important today Provides new frames of interpretation for key Victorian works of literature and close readings of important texts Argues for...

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Wiley's Real Latin. Learning Latin...

Maltby Robert

Wiley's Real Latin. Learning Latin from the Source

This innovative guide to the Latin language, written for a new generation of students, deploys examples and translation exercises taken exclusively from the Classical Latin canon. Translation exercises use real Latin from a variety of sources, including political speeches, letters, history, poetry, and plays, and from a range of authors, including Julius Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, Catullus, Ovid, and Plautus, among others Offers a variety of engaging, informative pedagogical features to help...

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Maltby Robert

William Faulkner

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William Faulkner

Considered by many to be the most influential US novelist the world has known, William Faulkner's roots and his writing are planted in a single obscure county in the Deep South. A foremost international modernist, Faulkner's subjects and characters, ironically, are more readily associated with the history and sociology of the most backward state in the Union. He experimented endlessly with narrative structure, developing an unorthodox writing style. Yet his main goal was to reveal the truth of...

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«Adelchi»

Иоганн Гёте, 1980

«Adelchi»

Рецензия на трагедию «Адельгиз» итальянского писателя Алессандро Мандзони (1785–1873) представляет собой часть введения, которое было предпослано «Поэтическим произведениям Алессандро Мандзони».

Автор	Иоганн Гёте
Жанр	Критика
Год	1980

«Cain»

Иоганн Гёте, 1980

«Cain»

Автор	Иоганн Гёте
Жанр	Критика
Год	1980

«Don Juan» Байрона

Иоганн Гёте, 1980

«Don Juan» Байрона

Автор	Иоганн Гёте
Жанр	Критика
Год	1980

«German Romance»

Иоганн Гёте, 1980

«German Romance»

Рецензия на английское издание «Немецких романтических историй», переведенных писателем и критиком Томасом Карлейлем (1795–1881).

Автор	Иоганн Гёте
Жанр	Критика
Год	1980

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