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Author: Virginia Brackett
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 1438108354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a comprehensive A-to-Z reference with approximately 400 entries providing facts about British poets and their poetry from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Author: Andrew Maunder
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 0816074968
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive reference to short fiction from Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Commonwealth. With approximately 450 entries, this A-to-Z guide explores the literary contributions of such writers as Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, D H Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Katherine Mansfield, Martin Amis, and others.
Author: Michelle M. Sauer
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 529
ISBN-13: 1438108346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSome of the most important authors in British poetry left their mark onliterature before 1600, including Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, and, of course, William Shakespeare. "The Facts On File Companion to British Poetry before 1600"is an encyclopedic guide to British poetry from the beginnings to theyear 1600, featuring approximately 600 entries ranging in length from300 to 2,500 words.
Author: Michael Sollars
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 957
ISBN-13: 1438108362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John E. Thorburn
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 689
ISBN-13: 0816074984
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSurveys important Greek and Roman authors, plays, characters, genres, historical figures and more.
Author: Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 657
ISBN-13: 1438129661
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeatures a comprehensive guide to American dramatic literature, from its origins in the early days of the nation to the groundbreaking works of today's best writers.
Author: Patrick Gill
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-05-11
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 1351382136
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first major collection of essays on the contemporary British short story cycle, this volume offers in-depth explorations of the genre by comparing its strategies for creating coherence with those of the novel and the short story collection, inquiring after the ties that bind individual short stories into a cycle. A section on theory approaches the form from the point of view of genre theory, cognitive literary studies, and book studies. It is followed by investigations of hitherto neglected aspects of the generic tradition of the British short story cycle and how they relate to the contemporary outlook of the form. Readings of individual contemporary cycles, illustrating the form’s multifaceted uses from the presentation of sexual identities to politics and trauma, make up the third and most substantial part of the volume, placing its focus squarely on the past decades. Unique in its combination of a focus on the literary traditions, politics and markets of the UK with a thorough examination of the genre’s manifold formal and thematic potentials, the volume explores what is at the heart of the short story cycle as a literary form: the constant negotiation between unity and separateness, collective and individual, of coherence and autonomy.
Author: Honors World Voices Students Saint Mary's School
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2010-04-17
Total Pages: 121
ISBN-13: 1300420146
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a collection of essays about authors from around the world. It is a collaborative effort from Vickie Posey's ninth grade Honors World Voices classes at Saint Mary's School in Raleigh, North Carolina. In order to analyze and learn world voices and cultures, the classes researched authors, wrote about their lives and contributions, and discovered why these authors are so important. The purpose of this book is to share information with others so that they can become more familiar with these important world authors.
Author: Dorsey Armstrong
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Published: 2016-07-05
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 1580442293
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe great corpus that is medieval literature contains, at its very center, the tale. These verse and prose fictional narratives, as well as stories that are grounded in some degree of historical truth, are the foundation of what readers, scholars, and enthusiasts often point to as signifiers of the medieval age. These tales - from the skillfully crafted to the more rudimentary and plain - often make familiar to modern readers what seems so distant and foreign about the Middle Ages. This volume of essays focuses on the tale and its ability to create "mirth," what modern audiences would often define as "happiness" or "joy," and the significance that the book has had on the transference of this mirth to audiences. This volume also celebrates the scholarship of Thomas H. Ohlgren, a medievalist whose work encompasses a number of different areas, but at its center lives the power of the tale and its ability to create a lasting impression on readers, both medieval and modern.
Author: Martha W. Driver
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-01-10
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0786491655
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvery generation reinvents Shakespeare for its own needs, imagining through its particular choices and emphases the Shakespeare that it values. The man himself was deeply involved in his own kind of historical reimagining. This collection of essays examines the playwright's medieval sources and inspiration, and how they shaped his works. With a foreword by Michael Almereyda (director of the Hamlet starring Ethan Hawke) and dramaturge Dakin Matthews, these thirteen essays analyze the ways in which our modern understanding of medieval life has been influenced by our appreciation of Shakespeare's plays.
