Share
Sort by
Literary Criticism: Most bookmarked
The Wars of German Unifi...
Based on archival research as well as wide reading of secondary literature; Showalter's fundamental reappraisal changes our perceptions of the struggle and of its outcomerchival research as well as wide reading of secondary literature; major new study of three of the most form...
(2004)
2 bookmarks
American Literature
A reference guide to American literature, with more than four hundred entires devoted to aspects of American history, literary movements, influential writers and key texts. It is suitable for students of American literature at any level, and it is also relevant to those intere...
(2002)
2 bookmarks
Family Life in the Age o...
From the star-crossed romance of Romeo and Juliet to Othello's misguided murder of Desdemona to the betrayal of King Lear by his daughters, family life is central to Shakespeare's dramas. This book helps students learn about family life in Shakespeare's Eng...
(2008)
1 bookmarks
Terror and Text
Representing Political Violence in Literature and the Visual Arts
by Gerrit J Ber... and Mark Williams
(2002)
1 bookmarks
Women in the Age of Shak...
Like the other entries in this fascinating series, _Women in the Age of Shakespeare_ shows the influence of the world William Shakespeare lived in on the worlds he created for the stage, this time by focusing on women in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras in general and in ...
(2009)
1 bookmarks
Victorian Fiction
Written in an accessible and manageable style, the books in the Contexts series fill the gap in students' knowledge of the historical facts, literary associations and wider cultural climate of the main literary periods. As well as offering a background in relevant social histo...
(2002)
1 bookmarks
Romantic Literature
Brief, manageable and affordable, the books in the 'Contexts' series fill the gap in students' knowledge of the historical facts, literary associations and wider cultural climate of the main literary periods. As well as offering a background in relevant social history, these t...
(2002)
1 bookmarks
Where No Gods Came
Winner 2003 Michigan Literary Fiction Award for original novel "Written with precision and perception, this is a highly recommended work from a writer to watch." ---Library Journal "O'Connor . . . remains a consummate artist, true to her vision of a work that is bleak, truthfu...
(2010)
1 bookmarks
Ts'ao Yu, The Reluctant ...
A Study in Literary Influence
This book is not only an introduction to the work of a contemporary literary figure who helped establish Western-style drama on the Chinese stage, it is also the first critical study with a comparative approach. It will be welcome to the Asian specialist
(2010)
no bookmarks
Unworldly Wise
as the owl remarked to the rabbit
by A.A. Rickett
In the first decade of the twentieth century while other intellectuals were concerned with translating words of political and scientific import into Chinese, Wang Kuo-wei (1877-1927) looked to Western philosophy to find answers to the fundamental question
(2010)
no bookmarks
Understanding Chinese Co...
by Minkang Gu
In this kaleidoscope of stories, translated from the Chinese, P.K. Leung, one of Hong Kong's most celebrated literary figures, presents his personal vision of the city, evoking in his inimitable voice the local and international dimensions of this extraordinary place, capturin...
(2010)
no bookmarks
HONG KONG x 24 x 365
A Year in the Life of a City
by David Clarke
The fourteen chapters in this book examine various topics and contexts of travel writings on China, Japan and Southeast Asia. From the first Colombian on a trade mission to China, to French women travellers in Asia, and the opening of "Japan Fairs" in the US during the latter ...
(2008)
no bookmarks
Renaissance Drama
by Andrew McRae
Brief, manageable and affordable, the books in the Contexts series fill the gap in students' knowledge of the historical facts, literary associations and wider cultural climate of the main literary periods. As well as offering a background in relevant social history, these tex...
(2003)
no bookmarks
Textual Awareness
A Genetic Study of Late Manuscripts by Joyce, Proust, and Mann
Aware of the act of writing as a temporal process, many modernist authors preserved numerous manuscripts of their works, which themselves thematized time. Textual Awareness analyzes the writing processes in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps ...
(2009)
no bookmarks
A Bad and Stupid Girl
by Jean McGarry
Siri is a legacy admission, rich and spoiled and destined to flunk out of her freshman year at college. Esther, her roommate, is a scholarship student from humble means, brilliant and driven to succeed. Brought together by chance, the girls soon become partners in a struggle t...
(2009)
no bookmarks
A Century of November
A Novel
Winner of the 2004 Michigan Literary Fiction Award for novel A haunting story of the power of death, the pain of loss, and the possibility of hope. "Gripping, damning, and transfixing." ---Entertainment Weekly " . . . possesses a time-bending gravity. . . . [A] small classic o...
(2009)
no bookmarks
Cities in the Sea
In Cities in the Sea, Maura Stanton taps into the mysterious force of the fairy tale, with its fantastic images and magical narrative patterns. Her stories blur the boundaries between fairy tale and verit+, and comment on the art of storytelling. A range of characters -- from ...
(2009)
no bookmarks
Miss Kansas City
by Joan Frank
Miss Kansas City is the story of an improbable friendship, set in the tumultuous mid-80s dotcom California, where youthful greed and blinkered innocence arrive intertwined. Friendless and reclusive, Alex Blue commutes two hours each way to a job that serves mainly as a place t...
(2009)
no bookmarks
Quick
Stories
Praise for Quick: "T.M. McNally's stories are compact, complex, artful and truthful miracles of humanity and language-strong coffee for these narcoleptic times." -Pam Houston, author of Waltzing the Cat "Like good blues, these stories don't strain but seem to erupt from the he...
(2009)
no bookmarks
