Author: Steven Frye
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107095379
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the literature of the American West, one of the most vibrant and diverse literary traditions.
The Cambridge Companion to Literature of the American West
Author: Steven Frye
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107095379
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the literature of the American West, one of the most vibrant and diverse literary traditions.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107095379
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the literature of the American West, one of the most vibrant and diverse literary traditions.
The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry Since 1945
Author: Jennifer Ashton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521766958
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Explores the ways in which American poetry has documented and sometimes helped propel the literary and cultural revolutions of the past sixty-five years.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521766958
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Explores the ways in which American poetry has documented and sometimes helped propel the literary and cultural revolutions of the past sixty-five years.
The Cambridge Companion to Allegory
Author: Rita Copeland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827898
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Allegory is a vast subject, and its knotty history is daunting to students and even advanced scholars venturing outside their own historical specializations. This Companion will present, lucidly, systematically, and expertly, the various threads that comprise the allegorical tradition over its entire chronological range. Beginning with Greek antiquity, the volume shows how the earliest systems of allegory developed in poetry dealing with philosophy, mystical religion, and hermeneutics. Once the earliest histories and themes of the allegorical tradition have been presented, the volume turns to literary, intellectual, and cultural manifestations of allegory through the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The essays in the last section address literary and theoretical approaches to allegory in the modern era, from reactions to allegory in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to reevaluations of its power in the thought of the twentieth century and beyond.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827898
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Allegory is a vast subject, and its knotty history is daunting to students and even advanced scholars venturing outside their own historical specializations. This Companion will present, lucidly, systematically, and expertly, the various threads that comprise the allegorical tradition over its entire chronological range. Beginning with Greek antiquity, the volume shows how the earliest systems of allegory developed in poetry dealing with philosophy, mystical religion, and hermeneutics. Once the earliest histories and themes of the allegorical tradition have been presented, the volume turns to literary, intellectual, and cultural manifestations of allegory through the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The essays in the last section address literary and theoretical approaches to allegory in the modern era, from reactions to allegory in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to reevaluations of its power in the thought of the twentieth century and beyond.
The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing
Author: Alfred Bendixen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521861098
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A stimulating overview of American journeys from the eighteenth century to the present.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521861098
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A stimulating overview of American journeys from the eighteenth century to the present.
The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy
Author: Steven Frye
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107018153
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
This book provides a sophisticated introduction to the life and work of Cormac McCarthy appropriate for scholars, teachers and general readers.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107018153
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
This book provides a sophisticated introduction to the life and work of Cormac McCarthy appropriate for scholars, teachers and general readers.
The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel
Author: Efraín Kristal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521825334
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The diverse countries of Latin America have produced a lively and ever evolving tradition of novels, many of which are read in translation all over the world. This Companion offers a broad overview of the novel's history and analyses in depth several representative works by, for example, Gabriel Garcìa Màrquez, Machado de Assis, Isabel Allende and Mario Vargas Llosa. The essays collected here offer several entryways into the understanding and appreciation of the Latin American novel in Spanish-speaking America and Brazil. The volume conveys a real sense of the heterogeneity of Latin American literature, highlighting regions whose cultural and geopolitical particularities are often overlooked. Indispensable to students of Latin American or Hispanic studies and those interested in comparative literature and the development of the novel as genre, the Companion features a comprehensive bibliography and chronology and concludes with an essay about the success of Latin American novels in translation.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521825334
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The diverse countries of Latin America have produced a lively and ever evolving tradition of novels, many of which are read in translation all over the world. This Companion offers a broad overview of the novel's history and analyses in depth several representative works by, for example, Gabriel Garcìa Màrquez, Machado de Assis, Isabel Allende and Mario Vargas Llosa. The essays collected here offer several entryways into the understanding and appreciation of the Latin American novel in Spanish-speaking America and Brazil. The volume conveys a real sense of the heterogeneity of Latin American literature, highlighting regions whose cultural and geopolitical particularities are often overlooked. Indispensable to students of Latin American or Hispanic studies and those interested in comparative literature and the development of the novel as genre, the Companion features a comprehensive bibliography and chronology and concludes with an essay about the success of Latin American novels in translation.
The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature
Author: Gregory Claeys
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139828428
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical survey of the development of utopianism, from the publication of Utopia to today's dark and despairing tendency towards dystopian pessimism, epitomised by works such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Chapters address the difficult definition of the concept of utopia, and consider its relation to science fiction and other literary genres. The volume takes an innovative approach to the major themes predominating within the utopian and dystopian literary tradition, including feminism, romance and ecology, and explores in detail the vexed question of the purportedly 'western' nature of the concept of utopia. The reader is provided with a balanced overview of the evolution and current state of a long-standing, rich tradition of historical, political and literary scholarship.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139828428
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical survey of the development of utopianism, from the publication of Utopia to today's dark and despairing tendency towards dystopian pessimism, epitomised by works such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Chapters address the difficult definition of the concept of utopia, and consider its relation to science fiction and other literary genres. The volume takes an innovative approach to the major themes predominating within the utopian and dystopian literary tradition, including feminism, romance and ecology, and explores in detail the vexed question of the purportedly 'western' nature of the concept of utopia. The reader is provided with a balanced overview of the evolution and current state of a long-standing, rich tradition of historical, political and literary scholarship.
The Cambridge Companion to Theatre History
Author: David Wiles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521766362
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
A wide-ranging set of essays that explain what theatre history is and why we need to engage with it.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521766362
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
A wide-ranging set of essays that explain what theatre history is and why we need to engage with it.
The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author: Ruth Prigozy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521624749
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) Eleven specially-commissioned essays by major Fitzgerald scholars present a clearly written and comprehensive assessment of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a writer and as a public and private figure. No aspect of his career is overlooked, from his first novel published in 1920, through his more than 170 short stories, to his last unfinished Hollywood novel. Contributions present the reader with a full and accessible picture of the background of American social and cultural change in the early decades of the twentieth century. The introduction traces Fitzgerald's career as a literary and public figure, and examines the extent to which public recognition has affected his reputation among scholars, critics, and general readers over the past sixty years. This is the only volume that offers undergraduates, graduates and general readers a full account of Fitzgerald's work as well as suggestions for further exploration of his work. Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Fitzgerald, F, Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 Criticism and interpretation Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521624749
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) Eleven specially-commissioned essays by major Fitzgerald scholars present a clearly written and comprehensive assessment of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a writer and as a public and private figure. No aspect of his career is overlooked, from his first novel published in 1920, through his more than 170 short stories, to his last unfinished Hollywood novel. Contributions present the reader with a full and accessible picture of the background of American social and cultural change in the early decades of the twentieth century. The introduction traces Fitzgerald's career as a literary and public figure, and examines the extent to which public recognition has affected his reputation among scholars, critics, and general readers over the past sixty years. This is the only volume that offers undergraduates, graduates and general readers a full account of Fitzgerald's work as well as suggestions for further exploration of his work. Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Fitzgerald, F, Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 Criticism and interpretation Handbooks, manuals, etc.
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis
Author: Vera J. Camden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108477488
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Combining literature and psychoanalysis, this collection foregrounds the work of literary creators as foundational to psychoanalysis.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108477488
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Combining literature and psychoanalysis, this collection foregrounds the work of literary creators as foundational to psychoanalysis.