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Author : Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521582946
The first comprehensive account of English Renaissance literature and the culture which shaped it.
Author : Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139825702
This is the first comprehensive account of English Renaissance literature in the context of the culture which shaped it: the courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, the tumult of Catholic and Protestant alliances during the Reformation, the age of printing and of New World discovery. In this century courtly literature under Henry VIII moves toward a new, more personal poetry of sentiment, narrative and romance. The development of English prose is seen in the writing of More, Foxe and Hooker and in the evolution of satire and popular culture. Drama moves from the churches to the commercial playhouses with the plays of Kyd, Marlowe and the early careers of Shakespeare and Jonson. The Companion tackles all these subjects in fourteen newly-commissioned essays, written by experts for student readers. A detailed chronology of major literary achievements concludes with a list of authors and their dates.
Author : Larry Scanlon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521841672
A wide-ranging survey of the most important medieval authors and genres, designed for students of English.
Author : Thomas Keymer,Jon Mee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521007577
This volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Contributors explore the development of literary genres and modes through a period of rapid change. They show how literature was shaped by historical factors including the development of the book trade, the rise of literary criticism and the expansion of commercial society and empire. The wide scope of the collection, juxtaposing canonical authors with those now gaining new attention from scholars, makes it essential reading for students of eighteenth-century literature and Romanticism.
Author : Malcolm Godden,Michael Lapidge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1991-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0521377943
Ideal for students, this collection of fifteen specially commissioned essays covers all aspects of Anglo-Saxon literature from 600-1066.
Author : Steven N. Zwicker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521563798
Brings together essays examining English literary culture in the Restoration and early eighteenth century, from Milton and Marvell to Pope and Montagu.
Author : Dale M. Bauer,Philip Gould
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521669758
A 2001 Companion providing an overview of the history of writing by women in nineteenth-century America.
Author : Neil Lazarus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521534186
Offers a lucid introduction to postcolonial studies, one of the most important strands in recent literary theory and cultural studies.
Author : Larry Scanlon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827379
The medieval period was one of extraordinary literary achievement sustained over centuries of great change, anchored by the Norman invasion and its aftermath, the re-emergence of English as the nation's leading literary language in the fourteenth century and the advent of print in the fifteenth. This Companion spans four full centuries to survey this most formative and turbulent era in the history of literature in English. Exploring the period's key authors - Chaucer, Langland, the Gawain-Poet, Margery Kempe, among many - and genres - plays, romances, poems and epics - the book offers an overview of the riches of medieval writing. The essays map out the flourishing field of medieval literary studies and point towards new directions and approaches. Designed to be accessible to students, the book also features a chronology and guide to further reading.
Author : Andrew Feldherr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521854535
An introduction to how the history of Rome was written in the ancient world, and its impact on later periods. It presents essays by an international team of scholars that aim both to orient non-specialist readers to the important concerns of the Roman historians and also to stimulate new research.
Author : Hana Wirth-Nesher,Michael P. Kramer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0521796997
For more than two hundred years, Jews have played important roles in the development of American literature. The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature addresses a wide array of themes and approaches to the distinct yet multifaceted body of Jewish American literature. Essays examine writing from the 1700s to major contemporary writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. Topics covered include literary history, immigration and acculturation, Yiddish and Hebrew literature, popular culture, women writers, literary theory and poetics, multilingualism, the Holocaust, and contemporary fiction. This collection of specially commissioned essays by leading figures discusses Jewish American literature in relation to ethnicity, religion, politics, race, gender, ideology, history, and ethics, and places it in the contexts of both Jewish and American writing. With its chronology and guides to further reading, this volume will prove valuable to scholars and students alike.
Author : Derek Hughes,Janet Todd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521527201
Traditionally known as the first professional woman writer in English, Aphra Behn has now emerged as one of the major figures of the Restoration. She provided more plays for the stage than any other author and greatly influenced the development of the novel with her ground-breaking fiction, especially Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister and Oroonoko, the first English novel set in America. Behn's work straddles the genres: beside drama and fiction, she also excelled in poetry and she made several important translations from French libertine and scientific works. This Companion discusses and introduces her writings in all these fields and provides the critical tools with which to judge their aesthetic and historical importance. It also includes a full bibliography, a detailed chronology and a description of the known facts of her life. The Companion will be an essential tool for the study of this increasingly important writer and thinker.
Author : Harriet Turner,Adelaida López de Martínez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521778158
The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel presents the development of the modern Spanish novel from 1600 to the present. Drawing on the combined legacies of Don Quijote and the traditions of the picaresque novel, these essays focus on the question of invention and experiment, on what constitutes the singular features of evolving fictional forms. It examines how the novel articulates the relationships between history and fiction, high and popular culture, art and ideology, and gender and society. Contributors highlight the role played by historical events and cultural contexts in the elaboration of the Spanish novel, which often takes a self-conscious stance toward literary tradition. Topics covered include the regional novel, women writers, and film and literature. This companionable survey, which includes a chronology and guide to further reading, conveys a vivid sense of the innovative techniques of the Spanish novel and of the debates surrounding it.
Author : Ross Posnock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521827817
A comprehensive introduction to novelist and critic Ralph Ellison and his masterpiece Invisible Man.
Author : Stan Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827133
This volume brings together specially commissioned essays by some of the world's leading experts on the life and work of W. H. Auden, one of the major English-speaking poets of the twentieth century. The volume's contributors include a prize-winning poet, Auden's literary executor and editor, and his most recent, widely acclaimed biographer. It offers fresh perspectives on his work from Auden critics, alongside specialists from such diverse fields as drama, ecological and travel studies. It provides scholars, students and general readers with a comprehensive and authoritative account of Auden's life and works in clear and accessible English. Besides providing authoritative accounts of the key moments and dominant themes of his poetic development, the Companion examines his language, style and formal innovation, his prose and critical writing and his ideas about sexuality, religion, psychoanalysis, politics, landscape, ecology, and globalisation. It also contains a comprehensive bibliography of writings about Auden.