Browsing the "Literature" category: 1275 books
Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. This ...more »
ISBN: 067964122X / Modern Library / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 1250K
Do the arts mean? Do all the arts mean? Do they all mean in the same way? Does an art work mean in the same way in which a street sign means? More importantly, do all art works mean in a semiotically interesting way? This book argues for the impor ...more »
ISBN: 0312299559 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Aug 2001 / File Size: 1196K
Stein's most famous work; one of the richest and most irreverent biographies ever written. ...more »
ISBN: 0679641955 / Modern Library / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 480K
A leading Shakespearean authority untangles the legendary writer's witty, bawdy, and ambiguous treatment of sex, love, and desire. Delves deeply into Shakespeare's rhetorical and thematic development of this largest of subjects to reveal what makes ...more »
ISBN: 0231500068 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: May 2001 / File Size: 523K
This book examines how the concept of the poet as a male professional emerged during the Restoration and 18th century. Analyzing works by writers from Rochester to Johnson, Linda Zionkowski argues that the opportunities for publication created by the ...more »
ISBN: 0312299745 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 1157K
An international bestseller that sold more than 300,000 copies when it first appeared in 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin was dismissed by some as abolitionist propaganda; yet Tolstoy deemed it a great work of literature "flowing from love of God and man." T ...more »
ISBN: 067964198X / Modern Library / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 778K
Crossroad of Arts, Crossroad of Cultures is the first book-length study of the aesthetic similarities between the French Parnassians, a 19th-century group of poets led by Th+â-¬ophile Gautier, and the Russian Acmeist poets, including Osip Mand ...more »
ISBN: 031229946X / Palgrave / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 6885K
Romantic poetry is conventionally seen as inward-turning, sentimental, sublime, and transcendent, whereas satire, with its public, profane, and topical rhetoric, is commonly cast in the role of generic other -- as the un-Romantic mode. This ...more »
ISBN: 0312299869 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Jul 2001 / File Size: 1681K
ISBN: 0231500475 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Dec 1996 / File Size: 721K
One pithy joke encapsulates a world of knowledge about a culture. Because humor plays with the most deeply seated cultural assumptions, it makes visible areas of unacknowledged attitudes and behaviors in private realms. In this groundbreaki ...more »
ISBN: 0312292767 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Jul 2001 / File Size: 1976K
This book calls for a new iconography of region that unseats New England's status as cultural center of the United States and originary metaphor for national identity. No single territorial or political axis can adequately describe the complex region ...more »
ISBN: 0312299702 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 364K
When New Line Cinema announced that they had posted the film trailer for the upcoming Lord of the Rings trilogy on their official website (www.lordoftherings.net), more than 10 million people downloaded the trailer in the first month alone. That shou ...more »
ISBN: 0312703325 / St Martins / Pub Date: Nov 2001 / File Size: 730K
Leonard Woolf has described how, when Virginia Woolf's distress was at its most acute, "for weeks almost at every meal one had to sit, often for an hour or more, trying to induce her to eat a few mouthfuls." Even when she was relatively ...more »
ISBN: 0312299419 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 529K
Tristam Shandy provoked a literary sensation when it first appeared in a series of installments between 1759 and 1767. The ribald, high-spirited book promted Diderot to hail Sterne as "the English Rabelais." An ingeniously structured novel (about wri ...more »
ISBN: 0679641963 / Modern Library / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 1252K
Inspired by a story Henry James heard at a dinner party, Washington Square tells how the rakish but idle Morris Townsend tries to win the heart of heiress Catherine Sloper against the objections of her father. Precise and understated, the book endure ...more »
ISBN: 0679641572 / Modern Library / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 439K
THE DEAD WOMAN WORE RED... Gossip columnist Ethel Lambston knew everything about everybody who was somebody---so there were more than enough suspects in her murder. But for Neeve Kearny, owner of an expensive Madison Avenue boutique, the killing of ...more »
ISBN: 0743206177 / Pocket Books / Pub Date: Dec 2000 / File Size: 353K
Although all published biographical information on Toni Morrison agrees that her birth name was Chloe Anthony Wofford, John Duvall's book challenges this claim. Using new biographical information, he explores the issue of names and naming i ...more »
ISBN: 0312299435 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 674K
William S. Burroughs is consistently thought of as a novelist who is gay, rather than a gay novelist. This distinction is slight, yet remarkable, since it has meant that Burroughs has been excluded from the gay canon and from the scope of queer theor ...more »
ISBN: 0312299370 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Jun 2001 / File Size: 433K
The Bible serves Wordsworth as a basis for his poetry and poetics, providing language, images, figures, and importantly, a paradigm of poetic genres. Working from three interrelated critical approaches -- intertextuality, poetics, and metaphysics ...more »
ISBN: 0312299338 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Jul 2001 / File Size: 619K
First published in 1856, five years after the appearance of Moby Dick, The Piazza Tales comprises six of Herman Melville's finest short stories. Included are two sea tales that encompass the essence of Melville's art: "Benito Cereno", an exhilarating ...more »
ISBN: 0679641718 / Modern Library / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 560K
Get the scoop on all the old favorites. Mother Goose is reading the news broadcast! Her lead story is about a break-in at the house of the Three Bears, and she also gives updates on other storybook characters in "News at Eleven". ...more »
ISBN: 0742417255 / McGraw-Hill / Pub Date: Mar 2002 / File Size: 954K
What defines "culture wars"? Can art and literature restore and reconnect us to the world? Or does culture, in the guise of politics, divide and separate us? What is finally at stake in the "culture wars"? In this book Geoffrey H. Hartman explores th ...more »
ISBN: 0231500203 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Jan 1999 / File Size: 406K
Despite its typically regressive associations with homesickness, nostalgia may also function progressively by imaginatively securing, and mending or repairing the past. Looking at fiction by British and American women writers of different generati ...more »
ISBN: 0312299753 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Jul 2001 / File Size: 1080K
This book describes the emergence of ecological understanding among the English Romantic poets, arguing that this new holistic paradigm offered a conceptual and ideological basis for American environmentalism. Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake, John Cl ...more »
ISBN: 0312299516 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Aug 2001 / File Size: 517K
French women of letters responded to the call to help their nation during the Great War, producing a large collection of war-centered writing including novels and short stories. While these authors were among the best-known, most critically-acclaimed ...more »
ISBN: 0312299486 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 546K
