'Jane Eyre' is a story about an orphan child. Jane's parents died when she was still too little to remember them, and it is her uncle (her mother's brother) who takes her in. Jane's uncle also dies not to long after this, and he makes hir wife,... Zobraziť viac
A powerful study of bigotry, persecution, obsession and hypocrisy in early American society, the "Penguin Classics" edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's. "The Scarlet Letter" contains an introduction by Nina Baym and notes by Thomas E. Connolly. Set in the ha Zobraziť viac
I looked at her, wanting her to laugh. Wanting her to share in the joke. But she didn't. She just stared. I knew then, in that moment – that she had taken it literally... Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Richard Gadd has a chilling story to tell about... Zobraziť viac
Cette monographie porte sur les topo? poétiques et les images littéraires dans l’oeuvre romanesque de Patrick Chamoiseau. L’imaginaire, notion étudiée par Ernst Robert Curtius (La Littérature européenne et le Moyen Âge latin, 1957)... Zobraziť viac
Drawing on biblical commentary from throughout the ages, the author shines a legal light on the stories from Genesis. What he reveals is how our shared tradition has formed our attitude toward modern day justice and why we are all engaged in a never-... Zobraziť viac
This Companion gives an up-to-date overview of HeaneyâEUR(TM)s career thus far, with detailed readings of all his major publications. Designed for students, this volume will also have much to interest and inform the general reader and admirer of... Zobraziť viac
This wide-ranging volume looks at the reception history of the Bible's many texts; Part I surveys the outline, form, and content of twelve key biblical books that have been influential in the history of interpretation. Part II offers a series of in-... Zobraziť viac
Kniha se zabývá texty z anglicky psaných literatur, které svým způsobem zpochybňují fiktivní, osobní či akademické žánrové konvence ve vztahu k literární auto/biografii, a spíše upozorňují na mnohoznačnost způsobů psaní o životě... Zobraziť viac
A new edition of Paul Fussell's literate, literary, and illuminating account of the Great War, now a classic text of literary and cultural criticism. Zobraziť viac
Writers, Readers, and Reputations explores the literary world in which the modern best-seller first emerged. Writers were promoted as celebrities, advertising both products and themselves. Philip Waller's detailed and entertaining study is a... Zobraziť viac
The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov provides a concise introduction to the fascinating creative world of one of the twentieth centurys most important writers. Fourteen individual essays cover such topics as Nabokovs storytelling techniques, his... Zobraziť viac
This book focuses on how metamorphosis figures in three formative configurations in the Western tradition: the classical, the biblical, and the scientific. It brings the history of transformative change from the eighteenth century to the present. Zobraziť viac
The remains of Tai Fu's lost collection Kuang-i chi preserve three hundred short tales of encounters with the other world. This study analyses these tales. Zobraziť viac
Jenefer Robinson takes the insights of modern scientific research on the emotions and uses them to illuminate questions about our emotional involvement with the arts. Laying out a theory of emotion supported by the best evidence from current empirical... Zobraziť viac
Henry V is the final and most celebrated play of Shakespeare’s ‘history plays’. Prince Harry reigns over England after the death of his father King Henry IV, uniting his country with his valiant leadership in the face of war against France... Zobraziť viac
Have you ever wondered why some people seem to be so good at writing essays, with the ability to write well-structured prose, incorporating interesting and relevant ideas with the minimum of effort, while others struggle to get even the simplest idea down Zobraziť viac
"Teaching Literature" is an inspirational guidebook for all teachers of English and American literature in higher education.Written by leading academic, prolific author and cultural journalist, Elaine ShowalterOriginal and provocative reflections on... Zobraziť viac
Written by a leading authority on the subject, the fifth edition of this bestselling book provides students with a thorough grounding in the essentials of sentence structure and the fundamentals of syntactic argumentation... Zobraziť viac
Medieval BoundariesRethinking Difference in Old French LiteratureSharon Kinoshita"From beginning to end, Kinoshita drives home her innovative thesis: that the formation of French literary texts between 1150 and 1225 cannot adequately be understood... Zobraziť viac
Pearson Education, Oxford: The "Heinemann Plays" series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom... Zobraziť viac
