Search results for “[Subject: comparative-literature]”

• Author(s): Velma Bourgeois Richmond • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comparative Literature Cervantes is regarded as the author of the first novel and the inventor of fiction. From its p...

• Author(s): Margaret R. Higonnet • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Women AuthorsThe first book to assess the impact of feminist criticism on comparative literature, Borderwork recharts t...

• Author(s): Klara Szmańko • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General The book is a comparative study of the invisibility trope in African American and Asian American literature. ...

• Author(s): Kiki Gounaridou • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism Text & Presentation is an annual anthology of essays devoted to all aspects of theatre a...

• Author(s): Anna Wing Tso • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Short Stories Beginning with a brief history and evolution of the short story genre, alongside an overview of the key short stor...

• Author(s): Jacob Emery • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russian & SovietAccording to Marx, the family is the primal scene of the division of labor and the "germ...

• Author(s): Holly E. Martin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General Hybrid narrative forms are used frequently by authors exploring or living in multicultural societies as a m...

• Author(s): Aristotle • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalFrom the Back CoverAristotle's Poetics is one of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western lite...

• Author(s): Molly Brunson • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russian & SovietOne fall evening in 1880, Russian painter Ilya Repin welcomed an unexpected visitor to...

• Author(s): Maurizio Ascari • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General In an age of world citizenship, literary scholarship is focusing increasingly on texts which communicate effectively o...

• Author(s): David Leverenz • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralIn the view of David Leverenz, such nineteenth-century American male writers as Emerson, Hawthorne, Melvill...

• Author(s): Glending Olson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: MedievalThis book studies attitudes toward secular literature during the later Middle Ages. Exploring two related medieval ju...

• Author(s): Doug Underwood • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Journalism The debate surrounding "fake news" versus "real" news is nothing new. From Jonathan Swift's work as an acerbic, anon...

• Author(s): Heather Duerre Humann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comparative Literature A figure from ancient folklore, the doppelganger--in fiction a character's sinister look-alike--c...

• Author(s): Roland H. Worth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Christianity - History - General There is a body of religious literature, most of which was written centuries after the New Te...

• Author(s): Harold Bloom • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: European - GeneralA critical novel about the ways in which we absorb various forms of wisdom from the literature we consume, fr...

• Author(s): Tobias Boes • Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi • BISAC: European - GermanThe Bildungsroman, or "novel of formation," has long led a paradoxica...

• Author(s): Laura Tosi | Peter Hunt | Donald E. Palumbo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comparative Literature Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Loo...

• Author(s): Barbara Wyllie • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Vladimir Nabokov claimed, speaking of Laughter in the Dark: "I wanted to write the entire book as if it were a ...

• Author(s): Carol J. Clover • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: European - GermanWritten in the thirteenth century, the Icelandic prose sagas, chronicling the lives of kings and commoners,...

• Author(s): Jingyuan Zhang • Publisher: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Psychotherapy - PsychoanalysisA historical and bibliographical study of the recepti...

• Author(s): Paul Auster • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Letters"[A] civilized discourse between two cultivated and sophisticated men. . . . It's a pleasure to be in their company."--Mi...

• Author(s): Paul F. Steinberg • Publisher: Mit Press • Publisher Imprint: Mit Press • BISAC: Comparative PoliticsCombining the theoretical tools of comparative politics with the substantive concerns of environmental policy, experts explore respo...

• Author(s): Melissa S. Van Vuuren • Publisher: Scarecrow Press • Publisher Imprint: Scarecrow Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThis volume discusses traditional and new resources for researching British literature of the Victorian a...

• Author(s): Helene P. Foley • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalRitual Irony is a critical study of four problematic later plays of Euripides: the Iphigenia in Aulis, ...

• Author(s): Timothy J. Reiss • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Comparative LiteratureTimothy J. Reiss perceives a new mode of discourse emerging in early seventeenth-century Europe; he b...

• Author(s): David Brion Davis • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyHomicide has many social and psychological implications that vary from culture to culture and ...

• Author(s): Robert L. McDonald • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Essays Erskine Caldwell has been compared to literary giants like Faulkner and Hemingway, yet he has also been reviled as p...

• Author(s): Emily Dial-Driver | Jim Ford | Sara N. Beam • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Children's & Young Adult Literature Using children's and young adult literature is a great way...

• Author(s): Giovanni Boccaccio • Publisher: Penguin • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: ClassicsFrom the Back CoverIn the early summer of the year 1348, as a terrible plague ravages the city, ten charming y...

• Author(s): Flo Keyes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Medieval The influence of medieval literature is instantly apparent in modern fantasy literature, where knights and wizards populate...

• Author(s): Luce Irigaray | Luce Irigaray | Sylvere Lotringer • Publisher: Semiotext(e) • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Gender StudiesA collection of interviews that deal explicitly with the relationship between daughter and mother, t...

• Author(s): Anne Lounsbery • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russia - GeneralIn Life Is Elsewhere, Anne Lounsbery shows how nineteenth-century Russian literature crea...

• Author(s): Joel Fineman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralJoel Fineman was considered one of the most brilliant literary critics of his generation, gifted in doing what the Russian formalists called making st...

• Author(s): Velma Bourgeois Richmond • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Shakespeare Although William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language, he tradit...

• Author(s): Flint F. Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh There are three archetypal and widespread Arthurian stories--the abduction of Guinevere, the ...