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Words, Music, and the Popular: Global Perspectives on Intermedial Relations opens up the notion of the popular, drawing useful links between wide-ranging aspects of popular culture, through the lens of the interaction between words and music. This collection of essays explores the relation of...

Video Game Chronotopes and Social Justice examines how the chronotope, which literally means "timespace," is an effective interpretive lens through which to understand the cultural and ideological significance of video games. Using 'slow readings' attuned to deconstruction along the lines of post-structuralist theory, gender...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

In Of Effacement, David Marriott endeavors to demolish established opinion about what blackness is and reorient our understanding of what it is not in art, philosophy, autobiography, literary theory, political theory, and psychoanalysis. With the critical rigor and polemical bravura which he displayed in...

This book presents an extensive literary survey of the influence of ancient Chinese cultural classics around the globe, highlighting a mammoth research project involving over forty countries or regions and more than twenty languages. As the book reveals, ancient Chinese culture was introduced to...

A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator--often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another--he first gained...

A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator--often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another--he first gained...

A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator--often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another--he first gained...

The Poems of Paul Verlaine is a collection of poetry written by the French poet Paul Verlaine. The book features a selection of his most famous works, including ""Chanson d'Automne"" (""Autumn Song""), ""Il pleure dans mon coeur"" (""It weeps in my heart""), and ""Green""....

An Essay On Criticism is a poem written by Alexander Pope that explores the nature and principles of literary criticism. The poem is divided into three parts and contains a total of 744 lines. In the first part, Pope discusses the importance of understanding...

The Book of Analysis or A New Method of Experience: Whereby the Induction of the Novum Organon is a book written by Tweedy John Todd in 1831. The book presents a new method of experience which aims to enhance the process of induction in...

The Living Corpse: A Drama In Six Acts And Twelve Tableaux is a play written by the renowned Russian author, Leo N. Tolstoy, and first published in 1919. The play follows the story of Prince Prozorov, a man who has been declared legally dead...

The Last Feast of the Fianna: A Dramatic Legend is a book written by Alice Milligan in 1900. It is a dramatic retelling of an ancient Irish legend about the Fianna, a group of warriors who served the High King of Ireland. The story...

Nine Greek Dramas is a collection of plays by four of the most famous ancient Greek playwrights: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes. The book was first published in 1909 and is edited by E.D.A. Morshead. The collection includes nine plays, each with its own...

Memoirs of Charles Macklin, Comedian: With the Dramatic Characters, Manners, Anecdotes, Etc. of the Age in Which He Lived is a book written by Charles Macklin and published in 1806. The book is an autobiographical account of Macklin's life as a comedian and actor...

Musical History: As Shown In The International Exhibition Of Music And The Drama, Vienna 1892 (1893) is a book written by Robert A. Marr. The book provides a comprehensive history of music and drama as exhibited in the International Exhibition held in Vienna in...

St. Bernardine: A Dramatic Poem is a work of literature written by Catherine Swanwick in 1862. The book is a dramatic poem that tells the story of St. Bernardine of Siena, an Italian Franciscan friar who lived in the 15th century. The poem is...

""The Rent Day"" is a two-act play written by Douglas William Jerrold and first performed at the Theater Royal Drury Lane in 1832. The play is a domestic drama that follows the lives of a group of tenants living in a poverty-stricken area of...

Don Carlos, Prince Royal of Spain: A Historical Drama is a play written by Friedrich Schiller in 1798. The play is set in the 16th century during the reign of King Philip II of Spain and revolves around the relationship between the king, his...

Boyology: Or Boy Analysis is a book written by Henry William Gibson in 1922. The book explores the psychology of boys and provides insights into their behavior, thoughts, and emotions. Gibson, a renowned psychologist and educator, draws on his extensive experience working with boys...

King Rene's Daughter is a Danish lyrical drama written by Henrik Hertz in 1850. The play is set in medieval France and revolves around the story of Iolanthe, the daughter of King Rene of Provence. Iolanthe is blind, and her father is determined to...

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The Divine Comedy is a classic masterpiece of Italian literature written by Dante Alighieri in the early 14th century. The book is divided into three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, each representing a different realm in the afterlife. In Inferno, Dante describes his journey...

""On The Wings Of Occasions"" is a historical book written by Joel Chandler Harris, originally published in 1900. The book recounts certain curious episodes of the late Civil War, providing a unique perspective on the conflict. As an authorized version, the book is based...

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Chapters 5, 12, and 18 of this work are available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International open access licence. These parts of the work are free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from...

The Routledge Diaspora Studies Reader provides a comprehensive resource for students and scholars working in this vital interdisciplinary field. The book traces the emergence and development of diaspora studies as a field of scholarship, presenting key critical essays alongside more recent criticism that explores...

The Shakers are perhaps the best known of American religious communities. Their ethos and organization had a practical influence on many other communities and on society as a whole. This three volume collection presents writings from a broad cross-section of those who opposed the...

The conception of modernity as a radical rupture from the past runs parallel to the conception of Europe as the primary locus of global history. The essays in this volume contest the temporal and spatial divisions-between past and present, modernity and tradition, and Europe's...

Futures of Comparative Literature is a cutting edge report on the state of the discipline in Comparative Literature. Offering a broad spectrum of viewpoints from all career stages, a variety of different institutions, and many language backgrounds, this collection is fully global and diverse....

Literary Allusion in Harry Potter builds on the world-wide enthusiasm for J. K. Rowling's series in order to introduce its readers to some of the great works of literature on which Rowling draws. Harry Potter's narrative techniques are rooted in the western literary tradition...

Previously available as "Before You Write a Word", Before You Write Your Novel sets out the essential techniques and approaches that lay the perfect foundation for writing your first novel. This concise and readable guide addresses the major stumbling blocks of fiction writing: the...

The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel provides a clear, lively, and accessible account of the novel in Australia. The chapters of this book survey significant issues and developments in the Australian novel, offer historical and conceptual frameworks, and demonstrate what reading an Australian...

What is colloquial Latin? What can we learn about it from Roman literature, and how does an understanding of colloquial Latin enhance our appreciation of literature? This book sets out to answer such questions, beginning with examinations of how the term 'colloquial' has been...

Sir William Ridgeway (1858-1926) was a prominent classical scholar, archaeologist and anthropologist who was appointed to the Disney Chair for Archaeology in 1892. Originally published in 1913, this volume was created in honour of his sixtieth birthday. It provides essays and studies by various...

How did eighteenth-century travellers experience, describe and represent the urban environments they encountered as they made the Grand Tour? This fascinating book focuses on the changing responses of the British to the cities of Florence, Rome, Naples and Venice, during a period of unprecedented...

Although recent scholarship has focused on the city-state as the context for the production of Greek poetry, for poets and performers travel was more the norm than the exception. This book traces this central aspect of ancient culture from its roots in the near...

The Swiss Chalet Book: A Minute Analysis And Reproduction Of The Chalets Of Switzerland (1913) is a book written by William Sumner Barton Dana. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of the chalets in Switzerland, including their architectural design, construction, and decoration. The author...

This textbook on academic writing and rhetoric, with selected readings, has been designed especially for Dr. Roy Bearden-White's English 1301 & English 1302 classes at South Plains College. Based upon seventeen years of teaching College Composition, Bearden-White's Craft of the Essay provides a streamlined,...

Accepting Differences (Series 1) is written to encourage children to accept others who are not like them and to be proud of who they are, regardless of what they look like on the outside. Being Bullied: Maybe I'll Tell and Maybe I Won't (Series...

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A quick-witted how to manual for anyone who wants to understand autofiction Literary Nonfiction. A brave new mode of literature has been emerging in the work of Sheila Heti, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and others. Call it what you will; Adam Colman calls it essayistic...

The Narrow Gate presents 19 short essays that explore ways in which literary writing and visual art affirm and clarify values, in our personal lives and in art, itself, with topics ranging from "resilience" to "madness" to "art + work." These essays often take...

If you love Lewis Carroll, or if you remember the hippie days -- the flower power generation -- of the 1960s, you'll love Alice in Acidland. Was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland really a drug trip? Men who cleaned top hats in the days of...

An examination of Le Guin's career, from her obscure beginnings in the science fiction magazines to her rapid rise to the top in the 1970's.Author: George Edgar SlusserISBN-10: 0893702056ISBN-13: 9780893702052Publisher: Wildside PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/30/2008Pages: 108Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.38d

The essays in Tracing the Autobiographical work with the literatures of several nations to reveal the intersections of broad agendas (for example, national ones) with the personal, the private, and the individual. Attending to ethics, exile, tyranny, and hope, the contributors listen for echoes...

Conversations with Erskine Caldwell contains thirty-two interviews with this major writer, who during his long career enjoyed both the celebrity and the controversy that his books generated. These collected interviews include what is apparently his first, given in 1929 before the publication of The...

A critical edition and translation of a 13th-century Latin poem from Brittany; a retelling of Geoffrey's History emphasising the tragic side of Britain's decline. The Gesta Regum Britannie, a Latin poem comprising nearly 5,000 hexameters, is a vital but little known witness to the...