A thoughtful and provocative 30-year record of Nichol's approaches to textual production. ...

This anthology traces the ascendancy of materialist Shakespeare criticism in the United States and Great Britain over the past decade and a half. Receptive to influences of such diverse theorists as Derrida, Jameson, Foucault, Irigaray, Kristeva, Lacan and Althusser, materialist Shakespeare criticism has long since left behind the days of 'vulgar ' Marxism and has emerged as a rich interpretive practice. The essays chosen for this book cover all ...

A leading Russian Symbolist poet, essayist, and mentor to an entire generation of writers, Andrei Bely (1880-1934) achieved greatest renown for three brilliant novels: Petersburg -- which has been ranked with the masterpieces of Joyce, Kafka, and Proust -- The Silver Dove, and Kotik Letaev.<P>Vladimir Alexandrov argues cogently that the main-spring of Bely's complex art is his conception of Symbolism as a new form of cognition that links ...

Pinckney's essays on these writers, drawn from his Alain Locke Lectures at Harvard University, give us a rich understanding of what it has meant to be "children of the diaspora" over the past century. ...

Epstein's witty new book is a highly entertaining investigation of snobbery, and the first devoted exclusively to the subject since Thackeray's "The Book of Snobs." ...

The Contemporary Studies in Children's Literature series aims at studying the relations between books and the contexts in which they are read. This title provides an authoritative guide to literature for young readers which concerns warfare, from the First World War to the wars in the Gulf and the Balkans. ...

Focusing on the broad educational aims of the colonial administration and missionary societies, Stephanie Newell draws on newspaper archives, early unofficial texts, and popular sources to uncover how Africans used literacy to carve out new cultural, social, and economic spaces for themselves. Newly literate Africans not only shaped literary tastes in colonial Africa but also influenced how and where English was spoken; established standards for ...

In over, 1,100 pages of first-class writing, the reader will find works by Martin Amis, Saul Bellow, John Berryman, Keith Botsford, G.V. Desani, Herbert Gold, Mark Harris, Arthur Miller, S.J. Perelman, Philip O'Connor, and many more. Plus fascinating, unseen writing by D.H. Lawrence, Louis Guilloux and Victor Hugo. Little in this anthology has been published before in book form. ...

In this lucid, sophisticated reading of seven of Henry James's major novels, Sheila Teahan employs current rhetorical theory to strip previous criticism of some long-held assumptions and advance a new understanding of the writer's narrative technique. With insight and originality she explores James's concept of "the center of consciousness" as a rhetorical structure, and in doing so she illuminates a significant pattern of plotting and ...

History and literature of the Canterbury pilgrimages, along with a step-by-step description of the journey. Copiously illustrated. Contents: Thomas of London; Whom the King delighteth to honor; Contest in the kingdom: Church versus Crown; Martyrdom; Miracles and canonization; Cult of St. Thomas: pilgrims and pilgrimages; Chaucer and his works; Chaucer's Pilgrims: men or the world and men of the church; Tales of the first, second, third, and ...