Literaturwissenschaft

Sending My Heart Back Across the Years

Hertha Dawn Wong

Strange Power of Speech

Susan Eilenberg

London Calling

Rob Nixon

Wallace Stevens

LONGENBACH JAMES

By examining a full range of Stevens's writing in the context of American political and intellectual history, Longenbach reveals him as a poet who was not only aware of current events but whos...

Word in Black and White

Dana D. Nelson

Beckett in Dublin

Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 4, Books 13-16

Search for Self-Definition in Russian Literature

In Gorbachev's Russia and outside of it the strength and scope of Russian nationalism is currently a subject of strenuous scholarly debate. The many and varied forms national ideology takes in...

Writing History as a Prophet

This is a postmodernist history of the historical novel with special attention to the political implications of the postmodernist attitude toward the past.Beginning with the poetics of Sir Walter ...

Flaubert's Straight and Suspect Saints

Israel Pelletier argues that Trois contes demands a different kind of reading which distinguishes it from Madame Bovary and other Flaubert texts. By the time he wrote this late work, Flaubert'...

Identity and Ideology

Rhetoric and Irony

C. Jan Swearingen

Profiles in Canadian Literature

Profiles in Canadian Literature is a wide-ranging series of essays on Canadian authors. Each profile acquaints the reader with the writer's work, providing insight into themes, techniques, and...

Profiles in Canadian Literature

Profiles in Canadian Literature is a wide-ranging series of essays on Canadian authors. Each profile acquaints the reader with the writer's work, providing insight into themes, techniques, and...

American Ideal

Peter Carafiol

Crimes of Writing

Susan Stewart

Composition As a Human Science

Louise Wetherbee Phelps

Bible and the Narrative Tradition

Hospitable Canon

The papers in this book respond to the public debate over literary canons, in the United States, and elsewhere, by placing the political-ideological aspects of the conflict inside perspectives der...

Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature