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Reading the American Novel 1920-2010

Phelan, James — 20 May 2013 08:18:06 +0200

This astute guide to the literary achievements of American novelists in the twentieth century places their work in its historical context and offers detailed analyses of landmark novels based on a clearly laid out set of tools for analyzing narrative form. It includes a valuable overview of twentieth- and early twenty-first century American literary history and provides analyses of numerous core texts including The Great Gatsby, Invisible Man, The Sound and the Fury, The Crying of Lot 49 and Freedom. [278 Seiten, Hardcover]

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The Anglo Saxon Literature Handbook

Amodio, Mark C. — 20 May 2013 08:18:05 +0200

Anglo-Saxon Literature: An Introduction makes the literature of the Anglo-Saxon period (AD410 - 1066) accessible to today's readers. It helps readers to overcome the linguistic, aesthetic and cultural barriers to understanding and appreciating Anglo-Saxon verse and prose, and familiarizes readers with the world in which Anglo-Saxon texts were produced, including its language, politics, and religion. It offers original readings of particular works, including Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Wanderer, The Seafarer and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and is written by an acknowledged authority on oral poetics. [432 Seiten, Softcover]

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A Companion to George Eliot

Anderson, Amanda / Shaw, Harry E. (eds.) — 20 May 2013 08:17:59 +0200

This volume offers students and scholars of Eliot's work a timely critical reappraisal of her corpus, including her poetry and non-fiction, and reflecting the latest developments in literary criticism. It features innovative analysis tracing the parallels between Eliot's Victorian intellectual sensibilities and those of our own era. [542 Seiten, Hardcover]

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A Companion to Digital Literary Studies

Siemens, Ray / Schreibman, Susan (eds.) — 20 May 2013 08:17:52 +0200

This Companion offers an extensive examination of how new technologies are changing the nature of literary studies, from scholarly editing and literary criticism, to interactive fiction and immersive environments. [640 Seiten, Softcover]

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A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture

Castro-Klaren, Sara (ed.) — 20 May 2013 08:17:51 +0200

A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture reflects the changes that have taken place in cultural theory and literary criticism since the latter part of the twentieth century. Written by more than thirty experts in cultural theory, literary history, and literary criticism, this authoritative and up-to-date reference places major authors in the complex cultural and historical contexts that have compelled their distinctive fiction, essays, and poetry. This text provides the historical background to help the reader understand the people and culture that have defined Latin American literature and its reception. Each chapter also includes short selected bibliographic guides and recommendations for further reading. [712 Seiten, Softcover]

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A Companion to the Modern American Novel 1900 - 1950

Matthews, John T. (ed.) — 20 May 2013 08:17:50 +0200

This cutting-edge Companion is a comprehensive resource for the study of the modern American novel. Published at a time when literary modernism is being thoroughly reassessed, it reflects current investigations into the origins and character of the movement as a whole. The Companion allows students to orient individual works and authors in their principal cultural and social contexts. Contributions treat major directions in fiction, such as regionalism and the proletarian movement, for example, as well as the related practices of individual novelists; complementary essays address pertinent cultural, social, economic and political contexts. [616 Seiten, Softcover]

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A Bronte Encyclopedia

Barnard, Robert / Barnard, Louise — 20 May 2013 08:17:49 +0200

A Bronte Encyclopedia is an A-Z encyclopedia of the most notable literary family of the 19th century highlighting original literary insights and the significant people and places that influenced the Brontes' lives. [416 Seiten, Softcover]

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Where is American Literature?

Levander, Caroline F. — 13 May 2013 08:17:47 +0200

Where is American Literature? offers a spirited and compelling argument for rethinking the way we view American literature in relation to the nation while powerfully demonstrating why it continues to matter in a global age. * A refreshing and accessible investigation into the various locations - linguistic, geographical, virtual, ideological - where American writing is produced and consumed * Takes a highly original approach by viewing US literature spatially rather than chronologically or thematically, retuning our understanding of the subject * The book offers a vital intervention in current debates over the impact of digital technologies on the production and reception of literature, ensuring that the field remains lively and dynamic * Invites readers to reconsider the subject by questioning current perspectives on, and approaches to, US literature, offering a range of fresh perspectives on familiar texts and topics [210 Seiten, Hardcover]

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Where is American Literature?

Levander, Caroline F. — 13 May 2013 08:17:46 +0200

Where is American Literature explores how American literature emerged over space as well as over time, asking us in the process to reconsider familiar stories of national literary development and culture. The book explores the history of the idea of American literature, as a series of collaborations, and points to future directions of study in the field. It shows how distinctive geographic areas constitute a dynamic range of literary practices and movements that come to comprise American writing, and deconstructs the routine chronological divisions usually made in the field. [210 Seiten, Softcover]

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A Concise Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Drama

Holdsworth, Nadine / Luckhurst, Mary (eds.) — 13 May 2013 08:17:40 +0200

Focusing on major and emerging playwrights, institutions, and various theatre practices this Concise Companion examines the key issues in British and Irish theatre since 1979. Written by leading international scholars in the field, this collection offers new ways of thinking about the social, political, and cultural contexts within which specific aspects of British and Irish theatre have emerged and explores the relationship between these contexts and the works produced. It investigates why particular issues and practices have emerged as significant in the theatre of this period. [304 Seiten, Softcover]

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A History of Old English Literature

Fulk, Robert D. / Cain, Christopher M. (eds.) — 29 Apr 2013 08:18:58 +0200

This introduction responds to the renewed historicism in medieval studies, focusing on the production and reception of Old English texts, and on their relation to Anglo-Saxon history and culture. It covers a wide range of genres, from riddles and cryptograms to allegory, liturgical texts, and romance, without neglecting such mainstays of Old English studies as lyric poetry and heroic legend. Into this coverage it also integrates discussion of Anglo-Latin texts which are crucial to understanding the development of Old English literature. This new edition incorporates extensive reference to scholarship of the past decade and adds new chapters on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and incidental and marginal texts, while expanding coverage in the remaining chapters. It concludes with a retrospective outline of the reception of Anglo-Saxon literature and culture in subsequent periods. [504 Seiten, Hardcover]

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John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Walker, Keith / Fisher, Nicholas (eds.) — 29 Apr 2013 08:17:44 +0200

Building on the strength of Keith Walker's acclaimed The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1984), leading scholar Nicholas Fisher presents a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the work of one the greatest Restoration wits. It includes the text of Lucina's Rape, Rochester's adaptation of Fletcher's revenge tragedy Valentinian, in a text that readily identifies Rochester's revisions. It presents the poems in versions that were current during Rochester's lifetime and incorporates insights and discoveries made over the last twenty-five years and texts of manuscripts that previously were unavailable for study. [296 Seiten, Softcover]

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A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts

Bland, Mark — 24 Apr 2013 08:18:01 +0200

A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts provides a concise introduction to the language and concepts employed in bibliographical studies and textual scholarship as they pertain to early modern manuscripts and printed texts. Focusing on documents from the late sixteenth and early mid-seventeenth century, the author explains the complex process of viewing documents as artefacts, showing readers how to describe documents properly and how to read their physical properties. This book is an invaluable resource illuminating the complex relationship between the material processes and the meanings of the written and printed word. [248 Seiten, Softcover]

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A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory

Payne, Michael / Barbera, Jessica Rae (eds.) — 24 Apr 2013 08:18:00 +0200

Now thoroughly updated and revised, this new edition of the highly acclaimed dictionary provides an authoritative and accessible guide to modern ideas in the broad interdisciplinary fields of cultural and critical theory. The new volume has been updated with over 40 new entries including pieces on Alain Badiou, Ecocriticism, Comparative Racialization, and Graphic Narrative. It also includes articles from leading theorists including Julia Kristeva, Stanley Cavell, and Simon Critchley. The wide-ranging content makes this an invaluable dictionary for students of a diverse range of disciplines. [832 Seiten, Softcover]

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A Companion to the Global Renaissance

Singh, Jyotsna G. (ed.) — 24 Apr 2013 08:17:59 +0200

This exciting new Companion explores the interactions between Europe and other peoples of both the New and Old worlds during the English Renaissance, and their effect on the literature, culture, art, and history of the period. It investigates new perspectives on the English Renaissance, thus expanding its geographical, political, and conceptual boundaries. It also contextualizes and interrogates English representations of other cultures and of cross-cultural exchange. The Companion uses the emergence of English capitalism to provide a new critical viewpoint on larger historical narratives such as race, slavery, class, colonialism, and gender. [424 Seiten, Softcover]

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A Companion to African American Literature

Jarrett, Gene Andrew (ed.) — 24 Apr 2013 08:17:58 +0200

A Companion to African American Literature presents a comprehensive overview of the field from the eighteenth century to the present day. Embracing the full range of African American literature, essays explore forms, themes, genres, historical contexts, and major authors, and present the latest critical approaches. Featuring contributions from both established and rising scholars, A Companion to African American Literature offers invaluable insights for anyone wishing to gain a deeper understanding of one of America's richest and most complex literary traditions. [488 Seiten, Softcover]

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A Handbook of Modernism Studies

Rabaté, Jean-Michel — 22 Apr 2013 08:17:18 +0200

Featuring the latest research findings and exploring the fascinating interplay of modernist authors and intellectual luminaries, from Beckett and Kafka to Derrida and Adorno, this bold new collection of essays gives students a deeper grasp of key texts in modernist literature. It provides a wealth of fresh perspectives on canonical modernist texts, featuring the latest research data. The book explores current and ongoing debates on the links between the aesthetics and praxis of authors and modernist theoreticians. [474 Seiten, Hardcover]

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Joining the Resistance

Gilligan, Carol — 25 Mar 2013 08:17:51 +0100

Since the publication of her landmark book In a Different Voice, Carol Gilligan has transformed the way we think about women and men and the relations between them. It was 'the little book that started a revolution', and with more than 800,000 copies in print it has become one of the most widely read and influential books ever written on gender and human development. In her new book Joining the Resistance Carol Gilligan reflects on the evolution of her thinking and shows how her key ideas were interwoven with her own life experiences. Her work began with the question of voice: who is speaking to whom, in what body, telling what stories about which relationships? By listening carefully she heard a voice that had been held in silence, and in the process realized the extent to which we - both women and men - had been telling false stories about ourselves. In her subsequent work Gilligan found that adolescent girls resisted pressures to disengage themselves from their honest voices, and by joining their resistance she opened the way for the development of a more humane way of thinking about personal and political relationships. For the central conviction of her work today - and the central thesis of this book - is that the requisites for love and the requisites for citizenship in a democratic society are one and the same. Both voice and the desire to live in relationships inherent in our human nature, together with the capacity to resist false authority. Combining autobiographical reflection with an analysis of key questions about gender and human development, this timely and highly readable book by one of America's greatest contemporary thinkers will appeal to a wide readership. [180 Seiten, Softcover]

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A Handbook of Middle English Studies

Turner, Marion (ed.) — 18 Mar 2013 08:17:40 +0100

A Handbook to Middle English Studies presents a series of original essays from leading literary scholars that explore the relationship between critical theory and late medieval literature. The Handbook includes 26 new essays by leading scholars of late medieval literature and showcases the most current cutting-edge theoretical research. Bringing together critical theory and medieval literature, it sets the new standard for an introduction to the study of late medieval literature. [464 Seiten, Hardcover]

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Zizek Now

Khader, Jamil / Rothenberg, Molly Anne — 5 Mar 2013 08:17:25 +0100

Arguably the most prolific and widely read philosopher of our time, Slavoj ?i?ek has made indelible interventions into a number of disciplines in the so-called human sciences that have transformed the terms of discussion in these fields. Although his work has been the subject of many volumes of searching criticism and commentary, there is no assessment to date of the value of his work for the development of these disciplines. ?i?ek Now brings together distinguished critics to explore the utility and far-ranging implications of ?i?ek's thought and provide an evaluation of the difference his work makes or promises to make in their chosen fields. As such, the volume offers chapters on quantum physics and ?i?ek's transcendentalist materialist theory of the subject, Hegel's absolute, materialist Christianity, postcolonial violence, eco-politics, ceremonial acts, and the postcolonial revolutionary subject. Contributors to the volume include Adrian Johnston, Ian Parker, Todd McGowan, Bruno Bosteels, Erik Vogt, Verena Andermatt Conley, Joshua Ramey, Jamil Khader, and ?i?ek himself. [232 Seiten, Softcover]

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Zizek Now

Khader, Jamil / Rothenberg, Molly Anne — 5 Mar 2013 08:17:24 +0100

Arguably the most prolific and most widely read philosopher of our time, Slavoj Zizek has made indelible interventions into many disciplines of the so-called human sciences that have transformed the terms of discussion in these fields. Although his work has been the subject of many volumes of searching criticism and commentary, there is no assessment to date of the value of his work for the development of these disciplines. Zizek Now brings together distinguished critics to explore the utility and far-ranging implications of Zizek's thought and provide an evaluation of the difference his work makes or promises to make in their chosen fields. As such, the volume offers chapters on quantum physics and Zizek's transcendentalist materialist theory of the subject, Hegel's absolute, materialist Christianity, postcolonial violence, eco-politics, ceremonial acts, and the postcolonial revolutionary subject. Contributors to the volume include Adrian Johnston, Ian Parker, Todd McGowan, Bruno Bosteels, Erik Vogt, Verena Conley, Joshua Ramey, Jamil Khader, and Zizek himself. [232 Seiten, Hardcover]

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Double Oblivion of the Ourang-Outang

Cixous, Hélène — 4 Feb 2013 08:17:48 +0100

In 2009, the writer-narrator finds a Box. Within it lie the pages of her very first manuscript, pages she thought she had long since thrown away. Le Prénom de Dieu was the text that marked the start of her prodigious career, and yet for the narrator it is also the Nameless Book, the-Book-that-could-never-be-read, the book written by someone other than her. Now, once again, it heralds a beginning, as its discovery is the start of a journey into the past. The title, with its reference to the murderous Ourang-Outang of Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue, sets the scene: this is a detective story haunted by literary ghosts. At the very heart of literature lies the fascination with the enigma, the search for something that has been lost. Cixous illustrates this as she leads her reader on a hunt for the ultimate hidden treasure, in the company of an array of venerable predecessors from Saint-Simon, Proust and Stendhal to Shackleton, Poe and Jacques Derrida. Double Oblivion of the Ourang-Outang is a text about literature. It speaks of the books you read and the books you write, those you remember and those you forget, those you fear and those you revere. It is also a powerful, evocative tale of beginnings and endings, of remembering and forgetting, of things and their doubles. In a densely woven narrative, Cixous's latest text focuses on the extraordinary voyage that is literary creation, and in doing so also explores the themes of memory, loss and subjectivity. [208 Seiten, Softcover]

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Double Oblivion of the Ourang-Outang

Cixous, Hélène — 4 Feb 2013 08:17:47 +0100

Reading Paradise Lost

Hopkins, David — 14 Jan 2013 08:19:51 +0100

Casting a fresh perspective on the greatest long poem in English, David Hopkins guides the reader through the inspiring poetic landscape of Milton's great epic Paradise Lost, a work of literature which has compelled and fascinated readers down the ages and which offers enduring insight into the human condition. This welcome aesthetic focus on the poetic experience of reading Paradise Lost rather than its religious or political context provides a nuanced, unified vision of the poem from a celebrated authority on English poetry of the period. [106 Seiten, Hardcover]

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Hermeneutics

Ricoeur, Paul — 14 Jan 2013 08:19:23 +0100

Paul Ricoeur's contribution to the theory of interpretation, or hermeneutics, is considerable: he ranks among the masters of this discipline alongside Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger and Gadamer. In addition to major works like The Conflict of Interpretations, he wrote many articles and shorter texts which deserve to be discovered and rediscovered. These allow us to gain a deeper understanding of the development of his work over time and to appreciate the full range of his contribution. Some of the texts examine the nature of metaphor while others guide the reader through the many challenges of the hermeneutic problem - from the symbol to the text, then to the text as action, taking full account of the ethical implications. Here one encounters Ricoeur's reflections on the future of hermeneutics and his abiding concern to explore the relations between hermeneutics and analytical philosophy. Ricoeur's contribution to biblical hermeneutics has also been decisive. Two masterful studies in this volume attest to Ricoeur's attempt to explore the relations between revelation and truth, on the one hand, and between myths of salvation and reason, on the other. This book - the second volume of Ricoeur's writings and lectures - brings together texts which appeared between 1972 and 2006. It is published under the auspices of Le Fonds Ricoeur. [240 Seiten, Softcover]

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Hermeneutics

Ricoeur, Paul — 14 Jan 2013 08:19:22 +0100

Wiley AP English Literature and Composition

Woods, Geraldine — 9 Jan 2013 08:21:22 +0100

Score your highest on exam day Relax. The fact that you're even considering taking the AP English Literature & Composition exam means you're smart, hard-working, and ambitious. All you need is to get up to speed on the exam's topics and themes and take a couple of practice tests to get comfortable with its question formats and time limits. That's where Wiley AP English Literature & Composition comes in. This user-friendly and completely reliable guide helps you get the most out of any AP English class and reviews all of the topics emphasized on the test. It also provides two full-length practice exams, complete with detailed answer explanations and scoring guides. This powerful prep guide helps you practice and perfect all of the skills you need to get your best possible score. And, as a special bonus, you'll also get a handy primer to help you prepare for the test-taking experience. * A detailed overview of the test * Subject reviews covering all test topics * Practice questions * Sample free-response questions with advice for crafting critical essays * Strategies and solid test-taking advice * Two full-length practice tests with detailed explanations and walk-throughs Supplemented with handy lists of test-taking tips and more, Wiley AP English Literature & Composition helps you make exam day a very good day, indeed. [408 Seiten, Softcover]

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Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory

Cuddon, J. A. — 7 Jan 2013 08:17:53 +0100

The fifth edition of J.A. Cuddon's classic dictionary updates what has become an indispensable resource for students and teachers at all levels. Incorporating recent literary terminology, the new edition adds many new entries while refining existing topics to ensure currency and balance of coverage. Building on the already broad historical and cultural range, new entries pay particular attention to gender studies and queer theory, post-colonial theory, post-structuralism, post-modernism, narrative theory, and cultural studies. Replete with new entries and sensitive edits of existing material, this fifth edition places the charm and wit of Cuddon's original work firmly in the 21st Century. [808 Seiten, Hardcover]

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Galatians Through the Centuries

Riches, John — 7 Jan 2013 08:17:47 +0100

This commentary on Paul's highly autobiographical letter to the Galations traces the history of the book's reception through the ages. * Explores the influence and history of this important New Testament book * Demonstrates the crucial role that Galatians has played in the development of very diverse forms of Christian spirituality * Considers the influence of Galatians on a wide range of theological figures, including Chrysostom, Augustine, and Luther * Examines the ways in which Galatians has influenced images of Paul, suggesting that it is the indeterminacy and complexity of his text that cause it to be interpreted in such widely differing ways * Focuses on verses, themes or arguments that have been the subject of particularly influential readings * Published in the innovative and stimulating Wiley-Blackwell Bible Commentaries reception history series, which focuses on the broad spectrum of interpretations rather than the traditional verse by verse analysis typically found in commentaries. [352 Seiten, Softcover]

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After Globalization

Cazdyn, Eric / Szeman, Imre — 7 Jan 2013 08:17:45 +0100

After Globalization offers a new way of thinking about globalization -- both what it was and how it still operates as a social narrative. In lively and unflinching prose, the authors argue that contemporary thought about the world is disabled by a fatal flaw: the inability to think an after to globalization. Examining the work of four popular thinkers (Thomas Friedman, Richard Florida, Paul Krugman and Naomi Klein) After Globalization re-animates a discussion and debate about globalization which seems to have been shelved since the recent financial crisis. [256 Seiten, Softcover]

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Cardenio between Cervantes and Shakespeare

Chartier, Roger — 24 Dec 2012 08:19:16 +0100

How should we read a text that does not exist, or present a play the manuscript of which is lost and the identity of whose author cannot be established for certain? Such is the enigma posed by Cardenio - a play performed in England for the first time in 1612 or 1613 and attributed forty years later to Shakespeare (and Fletcher). Its plot is that of a 'novella' inserted into Don Quixote, a work that circulated throughout the major countries of Europe, where it was translated and adapted for the theatre. In England, Cervantes' novel was known and cited even before it was translated in 1612 and had inspired Cardenio. But there is more at stake in this enigma. This was a time when, thanks mainly to the invention of the printing press, there was a proliferation of discourses. There was often a reaction when it was feared that this proliferation would become excessive, and many writings were weeded out. Not all were destined to survive, in particular plays for the theatre, which, in many cases, were never published. This genre, situated at the bottom of the literary hierarchy, was well suited to the existence of ephemeral works. However, if an author became famous, the desire for an archive of his works prompted the invention of textual relics, the restoration of remainders ruined by the passing of time or, in order to fill in the gaps, in some cases, even the fabrication of forgeries. Such was the fate of Cardenio in the eighteenth century. Retracing the history of this play therefore leads one to wonder about the status, in the past, of works today judged to be canonical. In this book the reader will rediscover the malleability of texts, transformed as they were by translations and adaptations, their migrations from one genre to another, and their changing meanings constructed by their various publics. Thanks to Roger Chartier's forensic skills, fresh light is cast upon the mystery of a play lacking a text but not an author. [256 Seiten, Softcover]

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Cardenio between Cervantes and Shakespeare

Chartier, Roger — 24 Dec 2012 08:19:14 +0100

A History of American Literature

Wagner-Martin, Linda — 20 Dec 2012 08:18:14 +0100

Featuring works from notable authors as varied as Salinger and the Beats to Vonnegut, Capote, Morrison, Rich, Walker, Eggers, and DeLillo, The History of American Literature from 1950 to the Present offers a comprehensive analysis of the wide range of literary works produced in the United States over the last six decades and a fascinating survey of the dramatic changes during America's transition from the innocence of the '50s to the harsh realities of the first decade of the new millennium. Author Linda Wagner-Martin - a highly acclaimed authority on all facets of modern American Literature - covers major works of drama, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, and popular genres such as science fiction and detective novels. Viewing works produced during this fertile literary period from a wide-ranging perspective, Wagner-Martin considers literature in relation to such issues as the politics of Civil Rights, feminism, sexual preferences, and race and gender-based marketing. [410 Seiten, Hardcover]

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The Encyclopedia of the Gothic

Hughes, William / Punter, David / Smith, Andrew (eds.) — 20 Dec 2012 08:18:11 +0100

The Encyclopedia of the Gothic features a series of newly-commissioned essays from experts in Gothic studies that cover all aspects of the Gothic as it is currently taught and researched, along with the development of the genre and its impact on contemporary culture. Comprises over 200 newly commissioned entries written by a stellar cast of over 130 experts in the field, and arranged in A-Z format across two fully cross-referenced volumes, this encyclopedia represents the definitive reference guide to all aspects of the Gothic. While providing comprehensive coverage of relevant authors, national traditions, critical developments, and notable texts that define, shape, and inform the genre, it extends beyond a purely literary analysis to explore Gothic elements of film, music, drama, art, and architecture. [908 Seiten, Hardcover]

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John Milton Prose

Milton, John — 20 Dec 2012 08:18:07 +0100

John Milton Prose

Milton, John — 20 Dec 2012 08:18:05 +0100

Regarded by many as the equal of Shakespeare in poetic imagination and expression, Milton was also a prolific writer of prose, applying his potent genius to major issues of domestic, religious and political liberty. This superbly annotated new publication is the most authoritative single-volume anthology yet of Milton's major prose works. * Uses Milton's original language, spelling and punctuation * Freshly and extensively annotated * Notes provide unrivalled contextual analysis as well as illuminating the wealth of Milton's allusions and references * Will appeal to a general readership as well as to scholars across the humanities [606 Seiten, Hardcover]

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Charles Darwin: Die Entstehung der Arten

Wrede, Paul / Wrede, Saskia (eds.) — 20 Dec 2012 08:17:21 +0100

Jetzt endlich zum leichteren Verständnis eine kommentierte und illustrierte Ausgabe von Darwins epochalen Werk. Zusätzlich aufgenommen wurden die beiden Essays von Alfred Russel Wallace zur Entstehung der Arten, sowie Beiträge bedeutender gegenwärtiger Evolutionsforscher. [XXVI, 573 Seiten, Hardcover]

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Charles Darwin: Die Entstehung der Arten

Wrede, Paul / Wrede, Saskia (eds.) — 20 Dec 2012 08:17:17 +0100

Jetzt endlich auch auf Deutsch: den Klassiker von Darwin bebildert und mit Erläuterungen zum leichteren Verständnis. Außerdem enthält das Buch erstmalig seit langem die bahnbrechende Veröffentlichung von Wallace zur Artbildung, sowie bedeutender Evolutionsforscher der Gegenwart. [XXVI, 573 Seiten, Softcover]

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Who Was William Shakespeare?

Callaghan, Dympna — 17 Dec 2012 08:18:15 +0100

This new study of Shakespeare's life and times, which illuminates our understanding and appreciation of his works, combines an accessible fully historicized treatment of both the life and the plays, suited to both undergraduate and popular audiences. With a look at twenty-four of the most significant plays and the sonnets through the lens of various aspects of Shakespeare's life and historical environment, it addresses four of the most significant issues that shaped Shakespeare's career: education, religion, social status, and theatre. In addition, this important book explores and dispatches conspiracy theories about authorship. [320 Seiten, Softcover]

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Who Was William Shakespeare?

Callaghan, Dympna — 17 Dec 2012 08:18:14 +0100

A new study of Shakespeare's life and times, which illuminates our understanding and appreciation of his works. * Combines an accessible fully historicised treatment of both the life and the plays, suited to both undergraduate and popular audiences * Looks at 24 of the most significant plays and the sonnets through the lens of various aspects of Shakespeare's life and historical environment * Addresses four of the most significant issues that shaped Shakespeare's career: education, religion, social status, and theatre * Examines theatre as an institution and the literary environment of early modern London * Explains and dispatches conspiracy theories about authorship [320 Seiten, Hardcover]

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30 Great Myths about Shakespeare

Maguire, Laurie / Smith, Emma — 17 Dec 2012 08:17:43 +0100

This book addresses common myths and misconceptions about Shakespeare and his works offering authoritative, up-to-date and even-handed treatments of controversies and scholarly disagreements. The authors evaluate evidence for and against myths to show how historical material - and the lack of it - can be interpreted and misinterpreted, and what this reveals about our own personal investment in the stories we tell about England's national poet. [224 Seiten, Softcover]

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30 Great Myths about Shakespeare

Maguire, Laurie / Smith, Emma — 17 Dec 2012 08:17:41 +0100

Think you know Shakespeare? Think again . . . Was a real skull used in the first performance of Hamlet? Were Shakespeare's plays Elizabethan blockbusters? How much do we really know about the playwright's life? And what of his notorious relationship with his wife? Exploring and exploding 30 popular myths about the great playwright, this illuminating new book evaluates all the evidence to show how historical material--or its absence--can be interpreted and misinterpreted, and what this reveals about our own personal investment in the stories we tell. [224 Seiten, Hardcover]

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Derrida

Peeters, Benoit — 3 Dec 2012 08:18:15 +0100

This biography of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) tells the story of a Jewish boy from Algiers, excluded from school at the age of twelve, who went on to become the most widely translated French philosopher in the world - a vulnerable, tormented man who, throughout his life, continued to see himself as unwelcome in the French university system. We are plunged into the different worlds in which Derrida lived and worked: pre-independence Algeria, the microcosm of the École Normale Supérieure, the cluster of structuralist thinkers, and the turbulent events of 1968 and after. We meet the remarkable series of leading writers and philosophers with whom Derrida struck up a friendship: Louis Althusser, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean Genet, and Hélène Cixous, among others. We also witness an equally long series of often brutal polemics fought over crucial issues with thinkers such as Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, John R. Searle, and Jürgen Habermas, as well as several controversies that went far beyond academia, the best known of which concerned Heidegger and Paul de Man. We follow a series of courageous political commitments in support of Nelson Mandela, illegal immigrants, and gay marriage. And we watch as a concept - deconstruction - takes wing and exerts an extraordinary influence way beyond the philosophical world, on literary studies, architecture, law, theology, feminism, queer theory, and postcolonial studies. In writing this compelling and authoritative biography, Benoît Peeters talked to over a hundred individuals who knew and worked with Derrida. He is also the first person to make use of the huge personal archive built up by Derrida throughout his life and of his extensive correspondence. Peeters' book gives us a new and deeper understanding of the man who will perhaps be seen as the major philosopher of the second half of the twentieth century. [700 Seiten, Hardcover]

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American Gothic

Crow, Charles L. (ed.) — 3 Dec 2012 08:18:03 +0100

American Gothic remains an enduringly fascinating genre, retaining its chilling hold on the imagination. This revised and expanded anthology brings together texts from the colonial era to the twentieth century including recently discovered material, canonical literary contributions from Poe and Wharton among many others, and literature from sub-genres such as feminist and 'wilderness' Gothic. * Revised and expanded to incorporate suggestions from twelve years of use in many countries * An important text for students of the expanding field of Gothic studies * Strong representation of female Gothic, wilderness Gothic, the Gothic of race, and the legacy of Salem witchcraft * Edited by a founding member of the International Gothic Association [550 Seiten, Hardcover]

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American Gothic

Crow, Charles L. (ed.) — 3 Dec 2012 08:18:02 +0100

American Gothic remains an enduringly fascinating genre, retaining its chilling hold on the imagination. This revised and expanded anthology brings together texts from the colonial era to the twentieth century including recently discovered material, canonical literary contributions from Poe and Wharton among many others, and literature from sub-genres such as feminist and 'wilderness' Gothic. It features strong representation of female Gothic, wilderness Gothic, the Gothic of race, and the legacy of Salem witchcraft, and is edited by a founding member of the International Gothic Association. [550 Seiten, Softcover]

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Plato's Republic

Badiou, Alain — 19 Nov 2012 08:17:55 +0100

Plato's Republic is one of the most well-known and widely discussed texts in the history of philosophy, but how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2500 years after it was originally composed? Alain Badiou invents a new genre in order to breathe fresh life into Plato's text and restore its universality. Rather than producing yet another critical commentary, he has retranslated the work from the original Greek and, by making various changes, adapted it for our times. In this innovative reimagining of a classic text, Badiou has removed all references specific to ancient Greek society, from the endless exchanges about the moral courage of poets to those political considerations that were only of interest to the aristocratic elite. On the other hand, Badiou has expanded the range of cultural references: here philosophy is firing on all cylinders, and Socrates and his companions are joined by Beckett, Pessoa, Freud and Hegel. They demonstrate the enduring nature of true philosophy, always ready to move with the times. Moreover, Badiou the dramatist has made the Socratic dialogue a true oratorial contest: in his version of the Republic, the interlocutors have more in mind than merely agreeing with the Master. They stand up to him, put him on the spot and thereby show thought in motion. Through this work of writing, scholarship and philosophy, we are able, for the first time, to read a version of Plato's text which is alive, stimulating and directly relevant to our world today. [320 Seiten, Hardcover]

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A Companion to Thomas Hardy

Wilson, Keith (ed.) — 12 Nov 2012 08:19:00 +0100

A Companion to Thomas Hardy brings together new essays on all aspects of Thomas Hardy's work by thirty of the world's most distinguished Hardy scholars. Groundbreaking insights are revealed through examinations of his novels, short stories, poetry, and the often neglected epic-drama, The Dynasts, that Hardy, like many of his contemporaries, considered to be his major achievement. The Companion provides an influential re-assessment of Hardy's place in both Victorian and Modern literature, with essays that consider his complexity as a biographical subject, probe his ideas and attitudes in relation to their socio-cultural, scientific, and philosophical contexts, analyze his distinctive achievements in the remarkable variety of genres in which he worked, and assess his legacy for subsequent modernist writers. Comprehensive and authoritative, A Companion to Thomas Hardy offers an unparalleled range of contemporary scholarship on an author whose transitional position between the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries makes him central to the study of both. This Companion provides a seamless overview of the entirety of Hardy's oeuvre, through historical contextualization and analysis of key works. [504 Seiten, Softcover]

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Encounters

Cixous, Hélène — 5 Nov 2012 08:18:24 +0100

Isn't it ... particularly difficult to 'speak' of your work? Frédéric-Yves Jeannet asks Hélène Cixous in this fascinating book of interviews. [I]t's only in writing, on paper, ... that I reach the most unknown, the strangest, the most advanced part of me for me. I feel closer to my own mystery in the aura of writing it, Cixous responds. These conversations, which took place over three years and cover the creative process behind Cixous's fictional writing, illuminate the genesis and particular genius of one of France's most original writers. Cixous muses on her coming to writing, from her first publications to her recent acclaim for a series of fictional texts that spring, as, she insists all true writing does, from her life: the loss of her father when she was a child, and her relationship with her mother, now in her tenth decade, as well as with such friends as Jacques Derrida and Jacques Lacan. The conversations delve into Cixous's career as an academic in Paris and abroad, her summer retreats to the Bordeaux region to write uninterrupted for two months, her work with Ariane Mnouchkine's Théàtre du Soleil, her political engagements and her dreams. Readers and writers who have followed Cixous's path-blazing career as a fiction writer who crosses boundaries of genre and gender while posing essential questions about the nature of narrative and life will find this a book that cannot be put down. [224 Seiten, Softcover]

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Encounters

Cixous, Hélène — 5 Nov 2012 08:18:23 +0100

The Crime Fiction Handbook

Messent, Peter — 29 Oct 2012 08:18:07 +0100

The Crime Fiction Handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, and cultural significance of the crime fiction genre, focusing mainly on American British, and Scandinavian texts. It moves with ease between a general overview of the genre and useful theoretical approaches, and includes a close analysis of the key texts in the crime fiction tradition. By identifying what makes crime fiction of such cultural importance it illuminates the social and political anxieties at its heart. [272 Seiten, Softcover]

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