Serija: Oxford Studies in American Literary History
(Išleidimo metai: 25-Sep-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199348626)
Andy Doolens monograph reorients literary history, turning to the neglected Western writings that shaped the distinctive process of U.S. expansionism in the years following the Louisiana Purchase...Daugiau...
Serija: Oxford Studies in American Literary History
(Išleidimo metai: 04-Sep-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199354900)
Propaganda 1776 reframes the culture of the U.S. Revolution and early Republic, revealing it to be rooted in a vast network of propaganda....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 07-Aug-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199950942)
From archaic Greece to the Roman Empire, the remains of comic and satyric performances reveal a range of literary, aesthetic, historical, religious, and geographical connections. Satyric Play analyzes the details of this interplay diachronically, sh...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 07-Aug-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199998142)
Surveying English and colonial thinkers from William Shakespeare and John Milton to Anne Hutchinson and Benjamin Franklin, Inventing Eden tells how a belief in Eden shaped American literature, history, and culture....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Jul-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198703747)
In the mid-eleventh century, secular Byzantine poetry attained a hitherto unseen degree of wit, vividness, and personal involvement. This is the first volume to consider this poetic activity as a whole, focusing on Byzantine conceptions of the role...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Jul-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198704836)
Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History offers a detailed examination of Edward Gibbons History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as a work of scholarship and of literature....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Jul-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198704843)
A readers guide and a companion to this complex and great saga, a classic of world literature, comparable to the greatest in any language. Why is your axe bloody? provides what, in effect, is a graduated course in the saga....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Jul-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199562183)
English Poetry and Old Norse Myth: A History traces the influence of Old Norse myth on poetry in English from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day, examining how bmajor and minor poets in English have reflected changing attitudes towards the pagan N...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 24-Jul-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199212446)
Dantes British Public examines the many and various ways in which the work of the leading poet of medieval Europe has been acquired, represented, and discussed by British readers over the last six centuries....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 17-Jul-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199697106)
The biographer Suetonius is one of the most fascinating writers of ancient Rome, but he is rarely afforded serious critical attention. This volume of new essays focuses on the various aspects of Suetonius work, from his lost biographical writing on...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 10-Jul-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198702818)
The Work of Form investigates ways of reading early modern poetry which unite historical and formal approaches. Essays explore a wide range of meanings of form, drawing on early modern literary theory as well as practice to expand definitions and un...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 10-Jul-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199356560)
Christopher Trinactys Senecan Tragedy and the Reception of Augustan Poetry uniquely places Senecan tragedy in its Roman literary context, offering a further dimension to the motivations and meaning behind Senecas writings. By reading Senecan trage...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 03-Jul-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199679782)
showing that contrary to the commonly held view that romances are representative of the popular culture of their day, in fact such texts appealed primarily to the gentry, Englands elite landowners who lacked titles of nobility....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 26-Jun-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780195116595)
Speaking in Tongues and Dancing Diaspora theorizes the preeminence of voice and narration (and the consequences of their absence) in the literary and cultural performances of black women....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 26-Jun-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198706830)
This volume reveals how Apuleius Metamorphoses - the only fully extant Roman novel and a classic of world literature - works as a piece of literature, exploring its poetics and the way in which questions of production and reception are reflected in...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 19-Jun-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198704416)
Determining the Shakspeare Canon makes the case for adding Arden of Faversham and A Lovers Complaint to editions of Shakespeares Complete Works. Five chapters address problems of attribution by describing the converging results of different approa...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 19-Jun-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199689125)
Philip Roth: Fiction and Power explores how Roth emerged as a writer, examining his impact on questions about the value of literature and the literary canon, the nature of tragedy, the relationship between art and the unconscious, and what it means...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 12-Jun-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198712619)
Mediatrix examines the roles women played as patrons, dedicatees, and readers, as well as writers, in the English Renaissance, and the relationship between these literary activities and religious and political activism....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 12-Jun-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199682379)
Milton and the People examines John Miltons beliefs in the role of the people, tracing the twists and turns of Miltons terminology and rhetoric as he grapples with the problem that the people have a calling to which they seem not to be adequate....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 05-Jun-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198700937)
On Flinching explores the cultural history of flinches, winces, cringes and starts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Taking the flinches of scientific observers as its starting point, it likens scientific experiments to the emoti...Daugiau...
