<P> <I>East-West Encounters: Franco-Asian Cinema and Literature</I> is the first book of its kind to examine Franco-Asian film and literary productions in the context of France's postcolonial history. It covers French film-makers' approaches to the Asian 'Other', as well as focusing on the works of Vietnamese and Cambodian directors living and working in France. The book thus examines this important ...

Volumes 1 and 2 of the original works. The following papers are designed as a contribution to the history of European popular tales, the study of which - an it is both instructive and fascinating - has been, until within comparatively recent years, much neglected in this country, though its importance has long been recognized by eminent Continental scholars, the value of whose researches it would not be easy to overrate. It is believed the papers ...

<P> <I>East-West Encounters: Franco-Asian Cinema and Literature</I> is the first book of its kind to examine Franco-Asian film and literary productions in the context of France's postcolonial history. It covers French film-makers' approaches to the Asian 'Other', as well as focusing on the works of Vietnamese and Cambodian directors living and working in France. The book thus examines this important ...

This path-breaking study attempts to view both Reformation discourse and Renaissance fiction (and, by implication, the Elizabethan theater) as constitutive of an early modern paradigm change in the authorization of discourse. ...

A FLATTERER Is the shadow of a fool. He is a good woodman, for he singleth out none but the wealthy. His carriage is ever of the colour of his patient; and for his sake he will halt or wear a wry neck. He dispraiseth nothing but poverty and small drink, and praiseth his Grace of making water. He selleth himself with reckoning his great friends, and teacheth the present how to win his praises by reciting the other gifts; he is ready for all ...

In this comprehensive appraisal of Pasternak's life and work, Henry Gifford discusses this great man's diverse genius.
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Francis James Child, compiler and editor of "English and Scottish Popular Ballads", established the scholarly study of folk ballads in the English-speaking world. His successors at Harvard University, notably George Lyman Kittredge, Milman Parry, and Albert B. Lord, discovered new ways of relating ideas about sung narrative to the study of epic poetry and what has come to be called - "oral literature". In this volume, 16 scholars from Europe and ...

<P>This two-volume collection is international and interdisciplinary in scope drawing on a large range of theoretical perspectives ranging from archival scholarship to cultural geography and film studies. There are four sections: Modernism and Modernity; Postmodernism: Intertextuality; Postmodernism: Gaze, Vision and Voice; and Postcolonialism.</P>
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Francis James Child, compiler and editor of "English and Scottish Popular Ballads", established the scholarly study of folk ballads in the English-speaking world. His successors at Harvard University, notably George Lyman Kittredge, Milman Parry, and Albert B. Lord, discovered new ways of relating ideas about sung narrative to the study of epic poetry and what has come to be called - "oral literature". In this volume, 16 scholars from Europe and ...

"He lived life with indefatigable zest, read widely and wrote with authenticity-without hypocrisy or cant. His particular fields of interest were English literature and political theory. While Shakespeare was almost a second language to him he had read in depth the works of almost every political philosopher from Plato to Fukyama. Shahzad was deeply disturbed with the poverty of the many. He saw the dominant powers in the world moving towards ...