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Modern Retellings of Chivalric Texts Gloria Allaire · 2018 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Published in 1999, the ten essays in this collection identify and examine reworkings of identifiable source texts from the medieval or Renaissance periods. The reasons for the modern adaptations depend variously on an individual author’s personal perspectives, the worldview of his or her society, and the individual’s place in it. The various chapters therefore address issues such as why a… Shares: Histoire et critique, Literary, History and criticism, Biography & Memoir

From Puritanism to postmodernism Richard Ruland · 1991 · ★ 4.0 · 470p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Widely acknowledged as a contemporary classic that has introduced thousands of readers to American literature, From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature brilliantly charts the fascinating story of American literature from the Puritan legacy to the advent of postmodernism. From realism and romanticism to modernism and postmodernism it examines and reflects on the work of a… Shares: Letterkunde, History and criticism

Women's Life Writing And Imagined Communities Cynthia Huff · 2004 · 337p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Engaging Donna Haraway: Lives in the Natureculture Web explores the impact of major theorist, Donna Haraway, in such diverse areas as feminisms, Marxism, new materialism, science studies, posthumanism, animal studies, ecocriticism, digital media, and life narrative. The book shows how Haraway’s decades-long career as a major theoretical voice and provocateur of thinking about new and complex… Shares: Letterkunde, History and criticism, Biography & Memoir

Law and literature Lenora Ledwon · 1996 · 518p · ≈ 17h · Moderate First published in 1996. The first anthology of its kind in this dynamic new field of study, this volume offers students the best of both worlds-theory and literature. Organized around specific themes to facilitate use of the text in a variety of courses, the material is highly accessible to undergraduates and is suitable as well for graduate students and law students. The anthology includes… Shares: Histoire et critique, Literary, History and criticism, Biography & Memoir

Classical and Christian ideas in English Renaissance poetry Isabel Rivers · 1979 · 246p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. It: provides an account of the main classical and Christian ideas, outlining their meaning, their origins and their transmission to the Renaissance; illustrates the ways in which Renaissance poetry drew on classical and Christian ideas; contains extracts from key… Shares: Renaissance, History and criticism

Tragedy Clifford Leech · 1969 · 102p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Tarentum (Modern Day Taranto) believed to depict scenes from Greek tragedy: at left Electra and Orestes, who murder their mother Clytemnestra in order to avenge their father, Agamemnon; Clytemnestra was motivated by Agamemnon taking the princess Cassandra as concubine, and by Agamemnon sacrificing their daughter Iphigenia.At right is Oedipus and Antigone; Oedipus was abandoned as an infant and… Shares: Histoire et critique, History and criticism, Drama

How to read literature like a professor Thomas C. Foster · 2002 · ★ 3.6 · 325p · ≈ 10h · Moderate What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey?. Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface—a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or an unexpected twist on a character—and there's that sneaking suspicion that the deeper meaning of a literary text keeps escaping you.In this practical… Shares: Literatur, History and criticism

Cold counsel Karen Swenson · 2000 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Cold Counsel is the only collection devoted to the place of women in Old Norse literature and culture. It draws upon the disciplines of history, sociology, feminism, ethnography and psychoanalysis in order to raise fresh questions about such new subjects as gender, class, sexuality, family structure and ideology in medieval Iceland. Shares: Literatur, Histoire et critique, History and criticism

Steaming into a Victorian future Julie Anne Taddeo · 2012 · 347p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Examines various manifestations of steampunk in order to better understand steampunk sub-culture & its effect on popular culture & wider society. Expands & extends existing scholarship on steampunk in order to explore many previously unconsidered questions about cultural creativity, social networking, fandom, appropriation, & creation of meaning. Shares: Literary, History and criticism, Biography & Memoir

Literatursprache und Publikum in der lateinischen Spätantike und im Mittelalter Erich Auerbach · 1958 · 405p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares: Letterkunde, History and criticism

Pastoral Terry Gifford · 1999 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Terry Gifford clarifies the different uses of pastoral, and traces the history of the genre from its classical origins in the poetic dialogues of supposed shepherds, to Elizabethan dramas such as The Winters Tale, through the pastoral poetry of Pope, Wordsworth and Clare, to the more recent rural novels and contemporary American nature writing. Beginning with constructions of Arcadia, the book… Shares: Histoire et critique, Literary, History and criticism

White woman speaks with forked tongue Nicole Ward Jouve · 1991 · 217p · ≈ 7h · Moderate The appraisals here of a broad range of women's writing suggests a different direction for feminist criticism, combining as it does intellectual debate and textual analysis with fictional example and autobiographical detail. In addressing the need for the critic to say "I" and to own judgements and statements instead of attributing these to an apparently impersonal third person, the author points… Shares: Letterkunde, History and criticism, Biography & Memoir

The Bill of Rights in Modern America David J. Bodenhamer · 1993 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate As the 2020s began, protestors filled the streets, politicians clashed over how to respond to a global pandemic, and new scrutiny was placed on what rights US citizens should be afforded. Newly revised and expanded to address immigration, gay rights, privacy rights, affirmative action, and more, The Bill of Rights in Modern America provides clear insights into the issues currently shaping the… Shares: Literatur, History and criticism

Arthurian literature and Christianity Peter Meister · 1999 · 225p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Intended as "the other bookend" to Jessie Weston's work some eighty years earlier, this essay collection provides a careful overview of recent scholarship on possible overlap between Arthurian literature and Christianity. From Ritual to romance and Notes, taken together, bracket contemporary inquiry into the relationship (if any) between Jesus and Arthur. T.S. Eliot's "The Waste… Shares: Histoire et critique, Literary, History and criticism, Biography & Memoir

Language of Natural Description in Eighteenth-Century Poetry John Arthos · 1949 · 476p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Originally published in 1949, this title was written in order to help establish a better understanding of the ‘stock diction’ of eighteenth-century English poetry, and, in particular, of the diction commonly used in the description of nature. The language characteristic of so much of the poetry of this period had been severely criticized for a long time. But in the twenty or thirty years prior to… Shares: Histoire et critique, History and criticism, Poetry

Controllership Steven M. Bragg · 1993 · 306p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Today's controllers are no longer seen as technicians who process transactions; they are now seen as business executives with a wide-ranging knowledge of total business operations, best practices, and corporate strategy. Providing a comprehensive overview of the roles and responsibilities of controllers in today's environment, this Eighth Edition of Controllership continues to provide controllers… Shares: Literatur, History and criticism

Women Writers in Renaissance England Randall Martin · 1997 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate This lively book surveys women writers in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Its selection is vast, historically representative, and original, taking examples from twenty different, relatively unknown authors in all genres of writing, including poetry, fiction, religious works, letters and journals, translation, and books on childcare. It establishes new contexts for the debate about… Shares: Renaissance, Biography & Memoir

Cleopatra Lucy Hughes-Hallett · 1990 · ★ 4.3 · 417p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Cleopatra, a competent Hellenistic ruler who was celibate for over half of her adult life, has been remembered as the heroine of an exotic love story and has been recreated over and over again, each time in a form that fits the prejudices and fantasies of the age that produced it. Shares: Literatur, Biography & Memoir

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