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The Cambridge Companion to War Writing
Häftad, 2009
486 kr
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War writing is an ancient genre that continues to be of vital importance. Times of crisis push literature to its limits, requiring writers to exploit their expressive resources to the maximum in response to extreme events. This Companion focuses on British and American war writing, from Beowulf and …
The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy
Häftad, 2002
542 kr
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Best known for his great novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy remains one the most important nineteenth-century writers; throughout his career which spanned nearly three quarters of a century, he wrote fiction, journalistic essays and educational textbooks. The specially commissioned …
The Cambridge Companion to the Pre-Raphaelites
Häftad, 2012
486 kr
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The group of young painters and writers who coalesced into the Pre-Raphaelite movement in the middle years of the nineteenth century became hugely influential in the development not only of literature and painting, but also more generally of art and design. Though their reputation has fluctuated …
The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner
Häftad, 2015
486 kr
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The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner offers contemporary readers a sample of innovative approaches to interpreting and appreciating William Faulkner, who continues to inspire passionate readership worldwide. The essays here address a variety of topics in Faulkner's fiction, such as its …
The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe
Häftad, 2004
486 kr
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The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe, first published in 2004, provides a full introduction to one of the great pioneers of both the Elizabethan stage and modern English poetry. It recalls that Marlowe was an inventor of the English history play (Edward II) and of Ovidian narrative verse …
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Last Plays
Häftad, 2009
486 kr
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Which plays are included under the heading 'Shakespeare's last plays', and when does Shakespeare's 'last' period begin? What is meant by a 'late play', and what are the benefits in defining plays in this way? Reflecting the recent growth of interest in late studies, and recognising the gaps in …
The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime
Häftad, 2024
427 kr
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In recent years, manga and anime have attracted increasing scholarly interest beyond the realm of Japanese studies. This Companion takes a unique approach, committed to exploring both the similarities and differences between these two distinct but interrelated media forms. Firmly based in Japanese …
The Cambridge Companion to August Strindberg
Häftad, 2009
435 kr
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August Strindberg is one of the most enduring of nineteenth-century dramatists, and is also an internationally recognised novelist, autobiographer, and painter. This Companion presents contributions by leading international scholars on different aspects of Strindberg's highly colourful life and …
The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Häftad, 1999
486 kr
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The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson provides a critical introduction to pastor and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, author of Nature and The Conduct of Life. The tradition of American literature and philosophy as we know it at the end of the twentieth century was largely shaped by Emerson's …
The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch
Av Albert Russell Ascoli, Unn Falkeid
Häftad, 2015
504 kr
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Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304-74), best known for his influential collection of Italian lyric poetry dedicated to his beloved Laura, was also a remarkable classical scholar, a deeply religious thinker and a philosopher of secular ethics. In this wide-ranging study, chapters by leading scholars …
The Cambridge Companion to Erotic Literature
Häftad, 2017
475 kr
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The Cambridge Companion to Erotic Literature offers an introduction to key debates in the study of erotic literature from antiquity to the present. It addresses one of the longest standing controversies in literary history: the boundary between acceptable and unacceptable treatments of human …
The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime
Av Cian Duffy
Häftad, 2023
596 kr
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This is the only collection of its kind to focus on one of the most important aspects of the cultural history of the Romantic period, its sources, and its afterlives. Multidisciplinary in approach, the volume examines the variety of areas of enquiry and genres of cultural productivity in which the …
The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden
Av Stan Smith
Häftad, 2005
486 kr
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This volume brings together specially commissioned essays by some of the world's leading experts on the life and work of W. H. Auden, one of the major English-speaking poets of the twentieth century. The volume's contributors include a prize-winning poet, Auden's literary executor and editor, and …
The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction
Av Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn
Häftad, 2003
549 kr
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Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields. It is a literature which draws on popular culture, and which engages in speculation about science, history, and all types of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and practitioners of science fiction, which look …
The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature
Av Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn
Häftad, 2012
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
465 kr
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Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has …
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology
Häftad, 2008
653 kr
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Professor Roger Woodard brings together a group of the world's most authoritative scholars of classical myth to present a thorough treatment of all aspects of Greek mythology. Sixteen original articles guide the reader through all aspects of the ancient mythic tradition and its influence around the …
The Cambridge Companion to The Essay
Inbunden, 2022
1460 kr
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The Cambridge Companion to the Essay considers the history, theory, and aesthetics of the essay from the moment it's named in the late sixteenth century to the present. What is an essay? What can the essay do or think or reveal or know that other literary forms cannot? What makes a piece of writing …
The Cambridge Companion to the Epic
Av Catherine Bates, Catherine Bates
Inbunden, 2010
1554 kr
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Every great civilisation from the Bronze Age to the present day has produced epic poems. Epic poetry has always had a profound influence on other literary genres, including its own parody in the form of mock-epic. This Companion surveys over four thousand years of epic poetry from the Babylonian …
The Cambridge Companion to Dracula
Inbunden, 2017
1681 kr
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Bram Stoker's Dracula is the most famous vampire in literature and film. This new collection of sixteen essays brings together a range of internationally renowned scholars to provide a series of pathways through this celebrated Gothic novel and its innumerable adaptations and translations. The …
The Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa
Inbunden, 2011
879 kr
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One of the major novelists in world literature over the last five decades, Mario Vargas Llosa (b. 1936) is also one of Latin America's most engaging public intellectuals, a critic of art and culture, and a playwright of distinction. This Companion's chapters chart the development of Vargas Llosa's …
The Cambridge Companion to Pindar
Häftad, 2026
511 kr
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Pindar was the single most important, canonical and influential lyric poet in the ancient Greek world, and he remains one of the most demanding and rewarding poets whose work has come down to us from antiquity. This volume represents the most comprehensive introduction to the poet and his reception …
The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin
Av Michele Elam
Häftad, 2015
486 kr
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This Companion offers fresh insight into the art and politics of James Baldwin, one of the most important writers and provocative cultural critics of the twentieth century. Black, gay, and gifted, he was hailed as a 'spokesman for the race', although he personally, and controversially, eschewed …
The Cambridge Companion to Gabriel García Márquez
Häftad, 2010
523 kr
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Gabriel García Márquez is Latin America's most internationally famous and successful author, and a winner of the Nobel Prize. His oeuvre of great modern novels includes One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. His name has become closely associated with Magical Realism, a …
The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson
Av Wendy Martin
Häftad, 2002
486 kr
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Emily Dickinson, one of the most important American poets of the nineteenth century, remains an intriguing and fascinating writer. The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson includes eleven new essays by accomplished Dickinson scholars. They cover Dickinson's biography, publication history, poetic …
The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory
Av Ellen Rooney
Häftad, 2006
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
486 kr
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Feminism has dramatically influenced the way literary texts are read, taught and evaluated. Feminist literary theory has deliberately transgressed traditional boundaries between literature, philosophy and the social sciences in order to understand how gender has been constructed and represented …
The Cambridge Companion to Lacan
Häftad, 2003
486 kr
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This collection of specially commissioned essays by academics and practising psychoanalysts, first published in 2003, explores key dimensions of Jacques Lacan's life and works. Lacan is renowned as a theoretician of psychoanalysis whose work is still influential in many countries. He refashioned …
The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Häftad, 2004
549 kr
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The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 2004, offers students and teachers an introduction to Hawthorne's fiction and the lively debates that shape Hawthorne studies. In commissioned essays, twelve eminent scholars of American literature introduce readers to key issues in …
The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift
Häftad, 2003
486 kr
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The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift is a specially commissioned collection of essays. Arranged thematically across a range of topics, this 2003 volume will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Jonathan Swift for students and scholars. The thirteen essays explore crucial …
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire
Häftad, 2005
804 kr
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Satire as a distinct genre of writing was first developed by the Romans in the second century BCE. Regarded by them as uniquely 'their own', satire held a special place in the Roman imagination as the one genre that could address the problems of city life from the perspective of a 'real Roman'. In …
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830
Av Thomas Keymer, Jon Mee
Häftad, 2004
486 kr
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This 2004 volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Contributors explore the development of literary genres and modes through a period of rapid change. They show how literature was shaped by historical …
