Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2013. — 260 p. Аарон Джейн. Валлийская готика (на англ. яз.) Prologue: A Long Terror. Haunted by History. Cambria Gothica (1780s-1820s). An Underworld of One's Own (1830s-1900s). Haunted Communities (1900s-1940s). Land of the Living Dead (1940s-1997). Things That Go Bump in the Celtic Twilight. Witches, Druids and the Hounds of Annwn. The...
Manchester University Press, 2011. - 240 p.
This comprehensive study of A. S. Byatt’s work spans virtually her entire career and offers insightful readings of all of Byatt’s works of fiction up to and including her Man-Booker-shortlisted novel The Children’s Book (2009). The authors combine an accessible overview of Byatt’s oeuvre to date with close critical analysis of all her...
Routledge, 2008 — 160 p. — ISBN 0-203-92875-X It might seem that the traditional family and the ideals that accompany it have long vanished. However, the depiction of the family in children’s literature is deeply conservative and the ideal of family remains surprisingly fixed. Ann Alston suggests that many similarities exist between the fictional families of the nineteenth and...
The Description of the UK Climate and factors which influence the climate of Britain. The description of different seasons in classical literature and children’s books. The weather in different months and its description in classical literature and children’s books. The theme of the weather in everyday speech.
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Hugh Seymour Walpole was an English novelist. A prolific writer, he published thirty-six novels, five volumes of short stories, two plays and three volumes of memoirs. His skill at scene-setting, his vivid plots, his high profile as a lecturer and his driving ambition brought him a large readership in the United Kingdom and North America. A best-selling author in the 1920s and...
William Somerset Maugham was born and spent his childhood in Paris. W.S. Maugham’s mastership as a short story writer is universally acknowledged. His skill in creating original human characters is combined with beauty and refinement of style and language. Yet, Maugham’s outlook is limited. His attitude towards what he describes is that of a detached observer. His best books are...
The text under analysis special duties is a short piece of fiction written by Henry Graham Greene. The author investigates person’s character, his inner world. After a heavy disease he decided to engage a person who would gain indulgencies for him. As a matter of fact, he tries to delegate responsibility, and engages a woman as assistant confidential secretary, who must be...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. - 270 p. Hundreds of writers in the English-speaking world of the seventeenth century imagined alternative ideal societies. Sometimes they did so by exploring fanciful territories, such as theworld in the moon or the nations of the Antipodes; but sometimes they composed serious disquisitions about the here and now, proposing how England or its...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 253 p. — (Semiotics and Popular Culture). Introduction: The Forensic Gothic. The House of the Seven Gables: Wrongful Convictions and Secondary Deviation. Bleak House: Authorship Attribution and Suspectology. “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”: Forensic Interviewing and Crime Scene Continuity. “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt”: Holdback Evidence and the Copycat...
New York: Palgrave Pivot, 2012 — 103 p. — ISBN10: 1137311622; ISBN13: 978-1137311627. More than three centuries later, Jonathan Swift's writing remains striking and relevant. In this engaging study, Atkins brings forty-plus years of critical experience to bear on some of the greatest satires ever written, revealing new contexts for understanding post-Reformation reading...
Open Book Publishers, 2014. — 225 p. This is the first book to combine contemporary debates in ballad studies with the insights of modern textual scholarship. Just like canonical literature and music, the ballad should not be seen as a uniquely authentic item inextricably tied to a documented source, but rather as an unstable structure subject to the vagaries of production,...
Routledge, 2014. — 410 p. — (English Language Series, 14). — ISBN: 978-0-582-55105-3. Examines the way in which poetry in English makes use of rhythm. The author argues that there are three major influences which determine the verse-forms used in any language: the natural rhythm of the spoken language itself; the properties of rhythmic form; and the metrical conventions which...
Краткое содержание романа Джейн Остин на английском языке.
Set in the English countryside in a county roughly thirty miles from London, the novel opens with the Bennet family in Longbourn and their five unmarried daughters. The family itself is not nearly as rich as those they interact with and because they have no sons, the property is entailed to pass to a male heir, in this...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 187 p.
Post/modern Dracula explores the postmodern in Bram Stoker s Victorian novel and the Victorian in Francis Ford Coppola s postmodern film to demonstrate how the century that separates the two artists binds them more than it divides them. What are the postmodern elements of Stoker s novel? Where are the Victorian traits in...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 292 p. — ISBN10: 0521006643; ISBN13: 978-0521006644. Reid Barbour's study takes a fresh look at English Protestant culture in the reign of Charles I (1625 1649). In the decades leading into the civil war and the execution of their monarch, English writers explored the experience of a Protestant life of holiness, in terms of...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 288 p. Scholars continue to find that fictional narratives provide rich insight into the historical development of a modern national consciousness. In nineteenth-century Britain, the legends of King Arthur and Robin Hood played an important role in construction of contemporary national identity. These two legends provide important windows on...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 252 p. This book frames British Romanticism as the artistic counterpart to a revolution in subjectivity occasioned by the rise of "The Rule of Law" and as a traumatic response to the challenges mounted against that ideal after the French Revolution. The bulk of this study focuses on Romantic literary replies to these events (primarily in the work of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 252 p. This book frames British Romanticism as the artistic counterpart to a revolution in subjectivity occasioned by the rise of "The Rule of Law" and as a traumatic response to the challenges mounted against that ideal after the French Revolution. The bulk of this study focuses on Romantic literary replies to these events (primarily in the work of...
Harper/Collins Publishers, 2020. — 922 p. — ISBN13: 9780008167431. I first went to the Lake District for a family holiday in 1969, when I was eleven. My favourite photograph in the family album is a faded Kodak snapshot in which I am grinning beside my brother and my father (sprightly, happy and youthful-looking, though nearly sixty) on top of Helvellyn, the third-highest...
Arc Humanities Press, 2021. — 368 p. This New Companion to Critical Thinking on Chaucer brings together preeminent scholars from around the world and adopts a novel approaching, beginning with the basics: Chaucer's words. Each chapter explores a single word from the Chaucerian corpus to develop readings that extend across the author's works. Without being limited to a...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. — 235 p. In the structuralist understanding as proposed by John G. Cawelti, a classical detective novel is defined as a formula which contains prescribed elements and develops in a predefined, ritualistic manner. When described in this way, the crime fiction formula very closely resembles a recipe: when one cooks, they also add prescribed...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 286 p. This original book examines the way in which the Romantic period’s culture of posterity inaugurates a tradition of writing which demands that the poet should write for an audience of the future: the true poet, a figure of neglected genius, can only be properly appreciated after death. Andrew Bennett argues that this involves a radical...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 330 p. William Wordsworth's poetry responded to the enormous literary, political, cultural, technological and social changes that the poet lived through during his lifetime (1770‒1850), and to his own transformation from young radical inspired by the French Revolution to Poet Laureate and supporter of the establishment. The poet of the...
London: Routledge, 1994 — 197 рp.
Elizabeth I was one of the most powerful women rulers in European history. What can feminism reveal about the attitudes of her male subjects towards this enigmatic figure?
Through readings of key Elizabethan texts by Lyly, Ralegh, Chapman, Shakespeare, and Spenser, Philippa Berry shows that while Elizabeth's combination of chastity with...
7th edition. — Oxford University Press, 2009. — 8157 p. — ISBN 9780192806871. The seventh edition of this classic Companion - now under the editorship of Dinah Birch, assisted by a team of 28 distinguished associate editors, and over 150 contributors - ensures that it retains its status as the most authoritative, informative, and accessible guide to literature available. The...
Manchester University Press, 2018. — 270 p. — (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture). This book traces affinities between digital and medieval media, exploring how reading functioned as a nexus for concerns about increasing literacy, audiences’ agency, literary culture and media formats from the late fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries. Drawing on a wide range of...
Bloom’s Literary Criticism, 2011. — 109 p.
J.R.R. Tolkien drew on his professorial expertise in Anglo-Saxon literature and the early mythology and folklore of Great Britain in creating this popular classic centering on the perils of Bilbo Baggins. Bilbo became one of the author's most enduring and vividly realized creations in this precursor to the legendary The Lord of the...
London: Chelsea House Publications, 2002 - 113 pp.
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Routledge & Kegan Paul : London and Henley, 1979. — 256 p. — ISBN: O 7100 0436 2. The Breaking of Form. Harold Bloom Shelley Disfigured. Paul de Man Living On. Jacques Derrida Words, Wish, Worth: Wordsworth. Geoffrey H.Hartman The Critic as Host. J.Hillis Miller
Updated Edition. — Infobase Publishing, 2007. — 268 p. — (Bloom’s Modern Critical Views). My Introduction celebrates Chaucer’s powers of characterization, surpassed only by Shakespeare’s, which they influenced. The most eminent scholar-critic of Chaucer, E. Talbot Donaldson, superbly summarizes the complexities of how Troilus and Criseyde concludes. Robert Worth Frank, Jr.,...
Infobase Publishing, 2007. — 246 p. — (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations).
Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", perhaps her most recognizable work, is a story of manners, courtship, and marriage in 18th- and 19th-century England. Elizabeth Bennet, the witty heroine of the novel, is Austen's most vibrant and vital literary character. This updated volume presents a...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 224 p. — ISBN-10: 0230200079; ISBN-13: 978-0230200074. A detailed study of an increasingly popular genre, this book offers readings of a group of significant and representative works, drawing on a range of interpretative strategies to examine the ways in which the contemporary historical novel engages with questions of nation and identity...
Oxford University Press, 1997. — 198 p. — ISBN 9780195102116. Nearly all literary criticism of the First World War contends, either directly or indirectly, with Paul Fussell's classic account in The Great War and Modern Memory (London: Oxford University Press, 1975). Indeed, the status of Fussell's thesis in studies of the war can hardly be overstated: although in rare cases...
Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2015. — 277 p. This study embarks on a Foucauldian descent into the archival traces of contemporary figurations of monstrosity, which permeate postmodernist British fiction at the turn of the millennium. In view of monstrous corporeality constantly marking out the perimeters of proper human embodiment, whether in teratological...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 299 p. A most thorough study of the Elizabethan Tragedy of Revenge, its origins, development, the ethical influence affecting it and the inter-relations of the plays. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 334 p. From 1980 to the present, huge transformations have occurred in every area of British cultural life. The election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979 ushered in a new neoliberal era in politics and economics that dramatically reshaped the British landscape. Alongside this political shift, we have seen transformations to the public sphere...
Chelsea House Pub (T)., 2008. — 281 р. Emily, Anne, and Charlotte Brontë were three sisters who left an indelible mark on the literature of their age. Collectively, their novels give voice to often-isolated individuals who struggle to be heard and reconcile their own needs and desires with the expectations and double standards of their times. Bloom's How to Write about the...
Publisher: Chelsea House Pub (T). Publication date: 2008-11. Number of pages: 281. Emily, Anne, and Charlotte Brontë were three sisters who left an indelible mark on the literature of their age. Collectively, their novels give voice to often-isolated individuals who struggle to be heard and reconcile their own needs and desires with the expectations and double standards of...
London: Bloomsbury, 2017. — 204 p. In his attitude toward religion, George Orwell has been characterised in various terms: as an agnostic, humanist, secular saint or even Christian atheist. Drawing on the full range of his public and private writings - from major works such as Keep the Aspidistra Flying, 1984 and Down and Out in Paris and London to his shorter journalism and...
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Read and Write (Approaching Level) is an interactive worktext for students below grade level which provides additional language and concept support. It contains authentic literature and nonfiction with substantive, differentiated, and scaffolded support at point of use.
432 pages.
Read and Write (Approaching Level) is an interactive worktext for students below grade level which provides additional language and concept support. It contains authentic literature and nonfiction with substantive, differentiated, and scaffolded support at point of use.
The Teacher Edition includes an answer key and other teacher features.
Palgrave Macmillan, 1989. — xviii, 214 p. — ISBN: 978-1-349-20362-8, 978-1-349-20360-4, 978-0-312-02393-5. In this work, the author uses literary theory to offer re-readings of various major texts. "Hamlet" is used as the key to understanding the psychological and narrative structures in the works discussed which include "Tom Jones", "Great Expectations" and "Father and Son"....
Palgrave Macmillan, 1989. — xviii, 214 p. — ISBN: 978-1-349-20362-8, 978-1-349-20360-4, 978-0-312-02393-5. In this work, the author uses literary theory to offer re-readings of various major texts. "Hamlet" is used as the key to understanding the psychological and narrative structures in the works discussed which include "Tom Jones", "Great Expectations" and "Father and Son"....
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2009. — 168 p. — (Anglo-Saxon Studies 12). The Venerable Bede is a crucial figure for Anglo-Saxonists, arguably the most important, known character from the period. A scholar of international standing from an early period of the Anglo-Saxon church (c. 672-732), he was the author not only of the well-known Ecclesiastical History of the English...
Edinburgh University Press, 2006. — 400 p. Between 1707 and 1918, Scotland underwent arguably the most dramatic upheavals in its political, economic and social history. The Union with England, industrialisation and Scotland's subsequent defining contributions throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the culture of Britain and Empire are reflected in the...
Edinburgh University Press, 2006. — 348 p. The History begins with the first full-scale critical consideration of Scotland's earliest literature, drawn from the diverse cultures and languages of its early peoples. The first volume covers the literature produced during the medieval and early modern period in Scotland, surveying the riches of Scottish work in Gaelic, Welsh, Old...
Edinburgh University Press, 2006. — 368 p. In almost a century since the First World War ended, Scotland has been transformed in many rich ways. Its literature has been an essential part of that transformation. The third volume of the History explores the vibrancy of modern Scottish literature in all its forms and languages. Giving full credit to writing in Gaelic and by the...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2019. — 568 p. The extensively revised and expanded version of the acclaimed Companion to Chaucer . An essential text for both established scholars and those seeking to expand their knowledge of Chaucer studies, A New Companion to Chaucer is an authoritative and up-to-date survey of Chaucer scholarship. Rigorous yet accessible, this book helps readers to...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2019. — 568 p. The extensively revised and expanded version of the acclaimed Companion to Chaucer . An essential text for both established scholars and those seeking to expand their knowledge of Chaucer studies, A New Companion to Chaucer is an authoritative and up-to-date survey of Chaucer scholarship. Rigorous yet accessible, this book helps readers to...
Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 2002. — 533 p. List of Illustrations The Contributors Acknowledgements Abbreviations of Chaucer’s Works The Idea of a Chaucer Companion Peter Brown Afterlife Carolyn Collette Authority Andrew Galloway Bodies Linda Ehrsam Voigts Chivalry Derek Brewer Christian Ideologies Nicholas Watson Comedy Laura Kendrick Contemporary English Writers James Simpson...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. — xiv+256 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-881248-7. The Bible had a profound impact on early modern culture, and bible-reading shaped the period's drama, poetry, and life-writings, as well as sermons and biblical commentaries. This volume provides an account of the how the Bible was read and applied in early modern England. It maps the connection...
N.-Y.: Parkstone International, 2012. — 256 p. A major figure of the Romantic Movement, the British artist William Blake (1757-1827) was at once a painter, designer, engraver and poet. He devoted himself to the illustration of his literary works, and his texts developed following the lines of his engravings and fantastic drawings, becoming veritable illuminated manuscripts....
York Medieval Press, 2023. — 294 p. A survey of the different literary forms adopted by history writers after the Conquest, exploring why and for what effects they were used. Histories of Britain composed during the "twelfth-century renaissance" display a remarkable amount of literary variety (Latin varietas). Furthermore, British historians writing after the Norman Conquest...
York Medieval Press, 2023. — 294 p. A survey of the different literary forms adopted by history writers after the Conquest, exploring why and for what effects they were used. Histories of Britain composed during the "twelfth-century renaissance" display a remarkable amount of literary variety (Latin varietas). Furthermore, British historians writing after the Norman Conquest...
Rowman and Littlefield, 2016. — 525 p. The Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction is a detailed overview of the rich history and achievements of the British espionage story in literature, cinema and television. It provides detailed yet accessible information on numerous individual authors, novels, films, filmmakers, television dramas and significant themes within the...
Routledge, 2014. — 172 p. — (Routledge Revivals). — ISBN 978-1-138-02385-7, 978-1-315-77248-6. Max Byrd’s lucidly written and compelling volume aims to provide a scholarly introduction to one of the most puzzling pieces of eighteenth-century literature, and a stimulus to critical thought and discussion. Laurence Sterne – an eccentric and largely unsuccessful clergyman - was...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 219 p. Although we have come to regard clinical and Romantic as oppositional terms, Romantic literature and clinical medicine were fed by the same cultural configurations. In the pre-Darwinian nineteenth century, writers and doctors developed an interpretive method that negotiated between literary and scientific knowledge of the natural...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 329 p. In Religion,Toleration, and British Writing, 1790–1830 Mark Canuel examines the way that Romantic poets, novelists, and political writers criticized the traditional grounding of British political unity in religious conformity. Canuel shows how a wide range of writers including Jeremy Bentham, Ann Radcliffe, Maria Edgeworth, and Lord Byron...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. — 368 p. — ISBN: ISBN: 978-0-8122-4787-9. In the late eighteenth century, British print culture took a diagrammatic and accentual turn. In graphs of emphasis and tonal inflection, in signs for indicating poetic stress, and in tabulations of punctuation, elocutionists, grammarians, and prosodists deployed new typographic marks and measures...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. — 288 p. The authorized biography of the creator of Middle-earth. In the decades since his death in September 1973, millions have read The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion and become fascinated about the very private man behind the books. Born in South Africa in January 1892, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was orphaned in...
Edinburgh University Press, 2009. — 208 p. The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns provides both a comprehensive introduction to and the most contemporary critical contexts for the study of Robert Burns. Detailed commentary on the artistry of Burns is complemented by material on the cultural reception and afterlife of this most iconic of world writers. The biographical...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 277 p. Kate Chedgzoy explores the ways in which women writers of the early modern British Atlantic world imagined, visited, created and haunted textual sites of memory. Asking how women’s writing from all parts of the British Isles and Britain’s Atlantic colonies employed the resources of memory to make sense of the changes that were...
Educational and practical guide. — Chelyabinsk: South Ural State Humanitarian-Pedagogical University, 2024. — 150 p. — ISBN 978-5-907869-40-0. The guide consists of a lecture course offering theoretical material on the history of the literature of Great Britain, and a practical part including excerpts from works of fiction and tasks for literary analysis of the text. The...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 338 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-82034-9. Sixteen leading scholars provide authoritative chapters on relevant topics of Marlowe's life and works in this complete introduction to the famed pioneer of both the Elizabethan stage and modern English poetry. The essays cover his texts and style, use of classicism, and representations of sexuality and...
Manchester University Press, 2011. - 192 p.
Julian Barnes is a comprehensive introductory overview of the novels that situates his work in terms of fabulation and memory, irony and comedy. It pursues a broadly chronological line through Barnes's literary career, but along the way it also shows how certain key thematic preoccupations and obsessions seem to tie Barnes's oeuvre...
USA, 2003 - 295 p. This new collection of the letters that Lewis Carroll wrote to the illustrators and prospective illustrators of his books affords fresh insights into Carroll's complex character, traces the history of the books that became great classics of the Victorian era, and charts the sometimes tempestuous seas of Carroll's relationships with his correspondents....
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 160 p. Beloved by children and adults worldwide, the writings of C.S. Lewis have a broad and enduring appeal. Although he is best known for the iconic Chronicles of Narnia series, C. S. Lewis was actually a man of many literary parts. Already well-known as a scholar in the thirties, he became a famous broadcaster during World War Two and wrote...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 240 p. In this book, Mary Jean Corbett explores fictional and nonfictional representations of Ireland’s relationship with England throughout the nineteenth century. Through postcolonial and feminist theory, she considers how cross-cultural contact is negotiated using tropes of marriage and family, and demonstrates how familial rhetoric sometimes...
Cambridge Universsity Press 2010-03-31 ISBN: 0521199328 232 pages
The late medieval Church obliged all Christians to rebuke the sins of others, especially those who had power to discipline in Church and State: priests, confessors, bishops, judges, the Pope. This practice, in which the injured party had to confront the wrong-doer directly and privately, was known as fraternal...
Critical Companion to Chaucer. A Literary Reference to his life and work. Книга на английском языке. Автор: Rosalyn Rossignol. Содержание: Введение. Биография. Работы Дж. Чосера в алфавитном порядке и их описание. Похожие люди и темы. Приложение в виде хронологии важных работ и событий жизни Дж. Чосера. 657 стр.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. — 389 p. This collection of essays examines how close analysis of William Blake’s manuscripts can yield new discoveries about his techniques, his working habits, and his influences. With the introduction of facsimile editions and more particularly, the William Blake Archive, the largest digital repository of Blake materials online, scholars have been...
Harper Collins, 2016. — ISBN: 978-0008129620. "Agatha Christie’s Complete Secret Notebooks" brings together for the first time "Secret Notebooks" and "Murder in the Making", two volumes that explore the fascinating contents of her 73 notebooks. This includes illustrations, deleted extracts, unused ideas, two unpublished Poirot stories and a lost Miss Marple. When Agatha...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007, -209 p.
The political and religious upheavals of the seventeenth century forced an unprecedented number of people to flee from England or remain in internal exile. Among these exiles were some of the most important authors in the Anglo-American canon. Christopher D’Addario explores how early modern authors reacted to and wrote about...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 254 p. In Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness, Jenny Davidson considers the arguments that define hypocrisy as a moral and political virtue in its own right. She shows that these were arguments that thrived in the medium of eighteenth-century Britain’s culture of politeness. In the debate about the balance between truthfulness and...
D.S.Brewer, 2015. — 264 p. The questions of fame and reputation are central to Chaucer's writings; the essays here discuss their various treatments and manifestations. Fama, or fame, is a central concern of late medieval literature: where fame came from, who deserved it, whether it was desirable and how it was acquired and kept. An interest in fame was not new but was renewed...
Ed. by David Masson. — London: A. & C. Black, 1896. — 474 p. Editor's Preface. Autobiography Continued from 1803 to 1808 . Oxford. German Studies and Kant in particular. Literary and Lake Reminiscences . A Manchester Swedenborgian and a Liverpool Literary Coterie. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Lake Poets: William Wordsworth. The Lake Poets: William Wordsworth and Robert Southey....
Ed. by David Masson. — London: A. & C. Black, 1896. — 474 p. Editor's Preface. Autobiography Continued from 1803 to 1808 . Oxford. German Studies and Kant in particular. Literary and Lake Reminiscences . A Manchester Swedenborgian and a Liverpool Literary Coterie. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Lake Poets: William Wordsworth. The Lake Poets: William Wordsworth and Robert Southey....
De Agostini, 2006. — 418 p. Schemi riassuntivi e quadri d'approfondimento per memorizzare rapidamente la storia della Letteratura Inglese e americana dalle origini ai giorni nostri. Studiare in sintesi gli scrittori, le scuole, le correnti, le forme e i generi letterari.
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 259 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture). — ISBN: 978-0-521-86265-3. In the nineteenth century, epic poetry in the Homeric style was widely seen as an ancient and anachronistic genre, yet Victorian authors worked to re-create it for the modern world. Simon Dentith explores the relationship between epic and the...
Routledge, 2020. — 498 p. The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation brings together a variety of different voices to examine the ways that Shakespeare has been adapted and appropriated onto stage, screen, page, and a variety of digital formats. The thirty-nine chapters address topics such as trans- and intermedia performances; Shakespearean utopias and...
Penguin Books, 1996. — 799 p. The magnificent Seventeenth-Century metaphysical poet John Donne created new forms of lyric, satire, erotic poems, and religious verse that left poetry in English forever changed. From his famously sensual love poems to his equally passionate and powerful Holy Sonnets, Donne's forceful language and ingenious wit encompass a remarkable range of...
Penguin Books, 1996. — 576 p. The magnificent Seventeenth-Century metaphysical poet John Donne created new forms of lyric, satire, erotic poems, and religious verse that left poetry in English forever changed. From his famously sensual love poems to his equally passionate and powerful Holy Sonnets, Donne's forceful language and ingenious wit encompass a remarkable range of...
Penguin Books, 1996. — 576 p. The magnificent Seventeenth-Century metaphysical poet John Donne created new forms of lyric, satire, erotic poems, and religious verse that left poetry in English forever changed. From his famously sensual love poems to his equally passionate and powerful Holy Sonnets, Donne's forceful language and ingenious wit encompass a remarkable range of...
Penguin Books, 1996. — 576 p. The magnificent Seventeenth-Century metaphysical poet John Donne created new forms of lyric, satire, erotic poems, and religious verse that left poetry in English forever changed. From his famously sensual love poems to his equally passionate and powerful Holy Sonnets, Donne's forceful language and ingenious wit encompass a remarkable range of...
Penguin Books, 1996. — 576 p. The magnificent Seventeenth-Century metaphysical poet John Donne created new forms of lyric, satire, erotic poems, and religious verse that left poetry in English forever changed. From his famously sensual love poems to his equally passionate and powerful Holy Sonnets, Donne's forceful language and ingenious wit encompass a remarkable range of...
Routledge, 1996 - 404 p.
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contempoprary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read the material themselves.
ISBN10: 0415134145 ISBN13: 9780415134149 (eng)
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010. — 274 p. — ISBN 978-0-307-59361-0. From a writer of astonishing versatility and erudition, the much-admired literary critic, novelist, short-story writer, and scholar ("Dazzling" -- The Washington Post; "One of those rare writers who seems to be able to work on any register, any time, any atmosphere, and make it her own" -- The Observer),...
6th edition. — Oxford University Press, 2000. — 1184 p.
Based on the text of Margaret Drabble's 1995 edition, this sixth edition has been completely reworked and expanded. There are nearly 600 entirely new entries to reflect the new figures and issues of English Literature in the new millennium, and the existing entries have been extensively revised and updated to incorporate...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 259 p. "The importance of Dunseath's study is that it proposes an original interpretation of the allegory of The Faerie Queene, Book V, and a fresh theory of its poetic function... It brings new material into play, and offers a sensible, integrated reading of many of the poem's most important passages, so that it may well prove a pace-setter for...
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1914. — 348 p. This book is offered to the public in the hope that it will prove of service to those to whom Mr, Rudyard Kipling's poems are a constant source of delight.
The History Press, 2013. — 240 p. Are you traveling to Narnia? No matter if this is your first visit to C. S. Lewis's wonderful fantasy world or if you've been there many times, you'll want to bring along this handy companion to the landscape and inhabitants of Narnia, including an A-to-Z guide to characters, places, objects and events. From Narnia expert Colin Duriez you'll...
Lion Hudson, 2014. — 288 p. The Oxford Inklings tells the story of the friendships, mutual influence, and common purpose of the Inklings - the literary circle which congregated around C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Meeting in pubs or Lewis's college rooms, they included an influential array of literary figures. They were, claimed poet and novelist John Wain, bent on 'the task...
Routledge / Taylor & Francis Group, 2000. — 159 p. ISBN: 0-415-19135-1 (hbk) ISBN: 0-415-19136-X (pbk). If you are studying English literature for A level, for the International Baccalaureate or on an Access course, or are starting a degree in literature, this book is for you. In fact, whatever English literature course you are taking, no matter where you are, this book is not...
D. S. Brewer, 2014. — 198 p. A reconsideration of Arthurian compilations in the late middle ages, looking at the complex ways in which they reshape their material for new audiences. The late-medieval adaptions and compilations of the Arthurian story are a European phenomenon that has sparked both mystification and controversy. Often dismissed as nostalgic recreations that...
Brill, 2020. — 245 p. — (Literary Modernism 7). The collection Imperial Middlebrow, edited by Christoph Ehland and Jana Gohrisch, takes middlebrow studies further in two ways. First, it focuses on the role middlebrow writing played in the popularisation and dissemination of imperial ideology. It combines the interest in the wider function of literature for a colonial society...
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Publisher: Stanford University Press (April 20, 2010)
Language: English
Romanticism and the Rise of English addresses a peculiar development in contemporary literary criticism: the disappearance of the history of the English language as a relevant topic. Elfenbein argues for a return not to older modes of criticism, but to questions about the relation between...
Amsterdam University Press, 2017. — 208 p. — (Imagination Environmental Humanities in Pre‑modern Cultures). - ISBN: 978-9048528387. Literary scholars have traditionally understood landscapes, whether natural or manmade, as metaphors for humanity instead of concrete settings for people's actions. This book accepts the natural world as such by investigating how Anglo-Saxons...
OCR, 2012. — 54 p. OCR has reproduced these exemplar candidate coursework folders to support teachers in interpreting the assessment criteria for the GCE English Literature specification. These exemplars should be read in conjunction with the assessment criteria for unit F662/ F664, and the OCR Report to Centres for unit F662/ 4 from the June 2012 exam series, also available on...
References to fairy tales in the fiction of British' writers Iris Murdoch, Margaret Drabble and A.S. Byatt highlight the importance of human connection, in a modem world where people feel increasingly alienated and alone. Characters in their fiction are continuously tempted toward solitude and withdrawal. Typically, protagonists are distanced from their families, engaged in...
Edinburgh University Press, 2010. — 208 p. This wide-ranging collection is the first to set Robert Louis Stevenson in detailed social, political and literary contexts. The book takes account of both Stevenson's extraordinary thematic and generic diversity and his geographical range. The chapters explore his relation to late nineteenth-century publishing, psychology, travel, the...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016. — 265 p. — (FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures). — ISBN10: 9027201307. — ISBN13: 978-9027201300 A lively series of spatial turns in literary studies since the 1990s give rise to this engaged and practical book, devoted to the question of how to teach and study the relationship between all sorts of literature and all sorts of...
New York Graphic Society, 1975. — 259 p. What is the link between Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein and the history and myth surrounding the barons Frankenstein - a respected German noble family that inhabited the Castle Frankenstein on the top of Magnet mountain near Darmstadt from the early Middle Ages. All is explored in this fascinating and highly detailed book by an...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 248 p. Belief in spirits, demons and the occult was commonplace in the early modern period, as was the view that these forces could be used to manipulate nature and produce new knowledge. In this ground-breaking study, Mary Floyd-Wilson explores these beliefs in relation to women and scientific knowledge, arguing that the early modern English...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 340 p. - Considers Gower’s literary relations with Chaucer, Hoccleve, and Lydgate - Engages with recent discussions on the creation of English literary canon in fifteenth-century London - Explores the use of artifactual fictions in Middle English poetry Fictions of Witness in the Confessio Amantis details the first years of the Confessio’s material...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 301 p. This new collection enables students and general readers to appreciate Coleridge's renewed relevance 250 years after his birth. An indispensable guide to his writing for twenty-first-century readers, it contains new perspectives that reframe his work in relation to slavery, race, war, post-traumatic stress disorder and ecological...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 274 p. This is the first full-length study to examine the links between high Romantic literature and what has often been thought of as a merely popular genre – the Gothic. Michael Gamer offers a sharply focused analysis of how and why Romantic writers drew on Gothic conventions whilst, at the same time, denying their influence in order to claim...
New York: Open Road Integrated Media, 2010. — 921 p. In this exquisite biography, John Gardner brings to life Geoffrey Chaucer, illuminating his writings and their inspiration like never before. Through exhaustive research and expert storytelling, Gardner takes readers through Chaucer’s varied career - from writing The Canterbury Tales to performing diplomatic work at the...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 265 p. English Romanticism and the Celtic World explores the way in which British Romantic writers responded to the national and cultural identities of the ‘four nations’ England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The essays collected here, by specialists in the field, interrogate the cultural centres as well as the peripheries of Romanticism, and...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 216 p. Ted Hughes is unquestionably one of the major twentieth-century English poets. Radical and challenging, each new title produced something of a shock to British literary culture. Only now is the breadth of his literary range and cultural influence being recognised. As well as his poetry and stories, writing for children, translations...
Second Edition. — London: Yale University Press, 2000. — 719 p.
The book examines Victorian literature from a feminist perspective. Authors Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar draw their title from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, in which Rochester's wife Bertha Mason is kept locked in the attic by her husband.
The text specifically examines Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Charlotte and...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 286 p. In Domesticity and Dissent Katharine Gillespie examines writings by seventeenth-century English Puritan women who fought for religious freedom. Seeking the right to preach and prophesy, women such as Katherine Childley, Anna Trapnel, Elizabeth Poole, and Anne Wentworth envisioned the modern political principles of toleration, the...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 266 p. — ISBN: 0-521-15457-X. New work on British Romanticism is often characterized as much by its conscious difference from preceding positions as it is by its approach to or choice of material. As a result, writing neglected or marginalized in one account will be restored to prominence in another, as we reconstruct the past as a history of...
Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. — ISBN: 978-1-137-49310-1 This book examines the socio-political and theatrical conditions that heralded the shift from the margins to the mainstream for black British Writers, through analysis of the social issues portrayed in plays by Kwame Kwei-Armah, debbie tucker green, Roy Williams, and Bola Agbaje
London: Routledge, 2013. — 132 p. When first published in 1983 The Entropy Exhibition was the first critical assessment of the literary movement known as ‘New Wave’ science fiction. It examines the history of the New Worlds magazine and its background in the popular imagination of the 1960s, traces the strange history of sex in science fiction and analyses developments in...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 485 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 25). This book explores the foundations of the intellectual renaissance in tenth-century England, including both the English Benedictine reform and the establishment by Æthelwold, Bishop of Winchester (963–84), of the most influential school in late Anglo-Saxon England. The vital early stages...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 327 p. — ISBN 978-0-521-56085-6. Before the development of a full-blown literary "market" in which an author might hope to make an independent living, books were brought to readers with considerable assistance from patronage. Dustin Griffin offers the first comprehensive study of the system of literary patronage in early modern England....
Continuum, 2011. - 193 p. Julian Barnes: Biographical Information. Julian Barnes and the Wisdom of Uncertainty. The Flâneur and the Freeholder: Paris and London in Julian Barnes’s Metroland. Inventing a Way to the Truth: Life and Fiction in Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot. ‘A preference for things Gallic’: Julian Barnes and the French Connection. ‘An Ordinary Piece of Magic’:...
Palgrave MacMillan, 2014. — 261 p. — ISBN: 1349560006; ISBN13: 9781349560004. Fantasy literature is often regarded as formally schematic and predictable. In this book, Lykke Guanio-Uluru demonstrates that even as popular fantasy texts like The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and Twilight share common structures and tropes, they put these tropes to highly diverse ethical uses....
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 312 p. — ISBN10: 0521540038; ISBN13: 978-0521540032. Sixteen new essays, written by an international array of leading scholars and critics, cover Donne's poetry (erotic, satirical, devotional) and his prose (including his Sermons and occasional letters). Providing studies of his text as well as setting them in the historical...
University Press of Mississippi, 2009. - 212 p. - (Literary Conversations Series). - ISBN10: 1604732040; ISBN13: 9781604732047 Conversations with Julian Barnes collects eighteen interviews, conducted over nearly three decades, by journalists and correspondents throughout the world with the author (b. 1946) of such highly praised novels as Flaubert's Parrot and Arthur & George....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. - 240 p.
This Guide provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the essential criticism on Julian Barnes's work, drawing from a selection of reviews, interviews, essays and books. Through the presentation and assessment of key critical interpretations and perspectives, the Guide examines the various issues in his work which have aroused...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 218 p. Salman Rushdie is a major contemporary writer, who engages with some of the vital issues of our times: migrancy, postcolonialism, religious authoritarianism. This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to his entire oeuvre. Part I provides thematic readings of Rushdie and his work, with chapters on how Bollywood films are...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 225 p.
This wide-ranging study investigates the intersections of erotic desire and dramatic form in the early modern period, considering to what extent disruptive desires can successfully challenge, change, or undermine the structures in which they are embedded. Through close readings of texts by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Webster, Middleton,...
London: Routledge, 2013. — 556 p. — ISBN10: 0415852684; ISBN13: 978-0415852685 This anthology gathers together a selection of the first reviews and essays covering the volumes of poetry by Auden published between 1930 and 1976. The terminus date allows for the inclusion of selected reviews of ‘Collected Poems’ (1976), but not of ‘The English Auden: Poems, Essays and Dramatic...
The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. — 328 p. — (Literature and Philosophy). — ISBN: 0-271-02051-2. Interweaving past and present texts, The Challenge of Coleridge engages the British Romantic poet, critic, and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge in a "conversation" (in Hans-Georg Gadamer's sense) with philosophical thinkers today who share his interest in the...
Cornell University Library - 404 p.
The Physical Geography of Britain
Pre-English Britain
The Primitive Englishman
Anglo-Saxon Britain
Anglo-Saxon Literature
Norman England
Anglo-Norman Literature
The Age of Chaucer
The Century of Darkness
The Age of the Renaissance
The Renaissance of English Prose
The Dawn of Lyric Poetry
The Evolution of the Drama
The Age of...
McGraw-Hill, 2022. — 627 p. — ISBN 978-1-26-443419-0. Updated to reflect the current exam, this popular AP test prep offers a wealth of study materials, pro tips, and practice tests—accessible in print, online, and mobile devices. Year after year, AP students choose "5 Steps to a 5" series because it's relevant, accurate, and comprehensive. It explains the tough stuff, offers...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 200 p.
This book examines the ways in which usury was perceived and portrayed as it rose to popularity in Renaissance England, taking into account the works of key literary figures of this period, including Milton and Shakespeare.
Palgrave, Macmillan, 2011. -253 p. История британских рассказов о привидениях (история литературного жанра). A History of the Modern British Ghost Story places the ghost story in the contexts of historical period and literary form. It reads ghost stories as continuously engaging with, or even a kind of shadow form of, the novel: as the dominant mode of novelistic writing moves,...
Manchester University Press, 2008. - 240 p.
In this survey Ian McEwan emerges as one of those rare writers whose works have received both popular and critical acclaim. His novels grace the bestseller lists, and he is well regarded by critics, both as a stylist and as a serious thinker about the function and capacities of narrative fiction.
De Gruyter, 2020. — 589 p. The Handbook of Anglophone World Literatures is the first globally comprehensive attempt to chart the rich field of world literatures in English. Part I navigates different usages of the term ‘world literature’ from an historical point of view. Part II discusses a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to world literature. This is also...
Науч. ред. Карен Хьюит при участии К. Блэр, М. Егоровй, А. Звегинцовой. — Пермь: Пермский университет, 2006. — 53 с. — ISBN: 5-7944-0687-9. Роман Дэвида Лоджа "Хорошая работа": комментарии. Учебное пособие представляет роман одного из крупнейших современных английских писателей, вводя биографический и литературно-критический материал, информацию о социально-политическом и...
Apocryphile Press, 2017. — 566 p. Will King Arthur ever return to England? He already has. In the midst of war-torn Britain, King Arthur returned in the writings of the Oxford Inklings. Learn how J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Owen Barfield brought hope to their times and our own in their Arthurian literature. Although studies of the “Oxford Inklings”...
Bloomsbury Continuum, 2012. — 257 p. Examining the global dimensions of Neo-Victorianism, this book explores how the appropriation of Victorian images in contemporary literature and culture has emerged as a critical response to the crises of decolonization and Imperial collapse. Neo-Victorianism and the Memory of Empire explores the phenomenon by reading a range of popular and...
Blackwell Publishing, 2008. — 313 p. List of Illustrations. Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgements. Nadine Holdsworth and Mary Luckhurst. National Politics and Identities. Europe in Flux: Exploring Revolution and Migration in British Plays of the 1990s. Geoff Willcocks. ‘I’ll See You Yesterday’: Brian Friel, Tom Murphy. and the Captivating Past. Claire Gleitman. Black British...
Routledge, 2017. — 478 p. Tracing the continuities and trends in the complex relationship between literature and science in the long nineteenth century, this companion provides scholars with a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date foundation for research in this field. In intellectual, material and social terms, the transformation undergone by Western culture over the...
New York: Oxford University Press Inc., 2005. — 438 p. — ISBN: 0–19–818695–9 Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy is the most thorough and detailed life of Marlowe since John Bakeless's in 1942. It has new material on Marlowe in relation to Canterbury, also on his home life, schooling, and six and a half years at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and includes fresh data on his...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 202 p. From Sherlock Holmes onwards, fictional detectives use lenses: Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction argues that these visual aids are metaphors for ways of seeing, and that they help us to understand not only individual detectives’ methods but also the kinds of cultural work detective fiction may do. It is...
Princeton University Press , 2015. — 189 p. Favorite Renaissance condiment at "the great feast of language," the epigram is here presented full-flavored and various in a brilliant study by the late Hoyt Hopewell Hudson. He considers its origins, its nature, how skillfully it was shaped to eulogy and satire alike by the lively minds of its great exponents, Sir Thomas More and his...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 306 p. The past century has witnessed an extraordinary flowering of fiction, poetry and drama from countries previously colonised by Britain, an output which has changed the map of English literature. This introduction, from a leading figure in the field, explores a wide range of Anglophone postcolonial writing from Africa,...
This is a reading comprehension activity guide and answer key for James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl. It contains 28 pages of activities ( 57 total pages including the answer key, assessments, and scoring rubrics).
This is one of the most comprehensive reading packets you will find directly related to this book. Included are comprehension questions for each chapter with an...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 270 p. This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Since 1945, British literature has served to mirror profound social, geopolitical, and environmental change. Written by a host of leading scholars, this volume explores the myriad cultural movements and literary...
Princeton University Press , 2015. — 232 p. From a 250 year-old manuscript come these selections from the work of America's first important poet, Edward Taylor of Massachusetts. He was regarded by Mark Van Doren as the writer of "the most interesting American verse before the 19th century." Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand...
Brill, 2009. — 209 p. — (SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature 12). Disappearing Men examines the complex and rebellious representations of gender in the work of several writers of 'devolutionary' Scottish fiction in the period 1979 to 1999. The study focuses on the context of a 'crisis in masculinity' accompanying the rapidly changing male role in the...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 242 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). Ewan James Jones argues that Coleridge engaged most significantly with philosophy not through systematic argument, but in verse. Jones carries this argument through a series of sustained close readings, both of canonical texts such as Christabel and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and also of less...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 173 p. This ambitious study argues that our modern conception of the aesthetic sphere emerged during the era of British and German Romanticism from conflicts between competing models of the liberal state and the cultural nation. The aesthetic sphere is thus centrally connected to ‘‘aesthetic statism,’’ which is the theoretical project of...
Aberystwyth University, 2009. — 64 p. Каппхан К. Р. Л. Гендерные отношения в средневековой валлийской литературе (на англ. яз.) Introduction: Men, Women and History. Heroic Poetry and the Englyn Cycles. The Four Branches of the Mabinogi. Culhwch ac Olwen. Conclusion: We Band of Brothers.
Edinburgh University Press, 2009. — 207 p. — (Postcolonial literary studies). — ISBN: 978-0-7486-3455-2. Series Editors’ Preface Timeline Introduction: Towards a Postcolonial History of Eighteenth-century English Literature Postcolonial Studies and Empire Today Nation-formation and Empire in the Eighteenth Century Territory, Trade Routes, War and Great Britain Print and Public...
New York: Henry Holt and Company. — First published in 1916. — 123 p. — (Writers of the Day). The Plays. I. The Plays. II. The Novels. I. The Novels. II. Tiie Sketches. Galsworthy the Artist. American Bibliography.
New York: Henry Holt and Company. — First published in 1916. — 123 p. — (Writers of the Day). The Plays. I. The Plays. II. The Novels. I. The Novels. II. Tiie Sketches. Galsworthy the Artist. American Bibliography. Page images with OCR.
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 216 p. Angela Keane addresses the work of five women writers of the 1790s and its problematic relationship with the canon of Romantic literature. Refining arguments that women’s writing has been overlooked, Keane examines the more complex underpinnings and exclusionary effects of the English national literary tradition. The book explores the...
Pegasus Books, 2021. — 208 p. From Poirot to Miss Marple, from The Mousetrap to Witness for the Prosecution, this a fascinating look at the life and work of Agatha Christie, the world's most successful and popular crime writer. Agatha Christie was not only the most successful author of detective stories the world has ever known, she was also a mystery in herself, giving only...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 316 p. This book offers an original study of the debates which arose in the 1790s about the nature and social role of literature. Paul Keen shows how these debates were situated at the intersection of the French Revolution and a more gradual revolution in information and literacy reflecting the aspirations of the professional classes in...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2009, -216p.
Covering a wide variety of dramatic texts and performances from 1550 to 1600, including Shakespeare’s second tetralogy, this book explores moral, historical, and comic plays as contributions to Elizabethan debates on Anglo-foreign relations in England. The economic, social, religious, and political issues that arose from...
Bantam Books, 2011. - 221 pages. ISBN: 1590585496
What would happen if you asked eighteen top writers who don’t normally write about Sherlock Holmes, to write about Sherlock Holmes? What if you wrote to them, saying:
In 19th century England, a new kind of hero — a consulting detective — blossomed in the mind of an underemployed doctor and ignited the world’s imagination. In...
Bantam Books, 2011. - 221 pages. ISBN: 1590585496
What would happen if you asked eighteen top writers who don’t normally write about Sherlock Holmes, to write about Sherlock Holmes? What if you wrote to them, saying:
In 19th century England, a new kind of hero — a consulting detective — blossomed in the mind of an underemployed doctor and ignited the world’s imagination. In...
Burlesque-Parody-The "Splendid Shilling"-Prior-Pope-Ambrose. Philips-Parodies of Gray's Elegy-Gay. - Defoe-Irony-Ode to the Pillory-The "Comical Pilgrim"-The. "Scandalous Club"-Humorous Periodicals-Heraclitus. Ridens-The London Spy-The British Apollo. - Swift-"Tale of a Tub"-Essays-Gulliver's Travels-Variety. of Swift's Humour-Riddles-Stella's Wit-Directions. for...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 221 p. All of London exploded on the night of 18 May 1900, in the biggest West End party ever seen. The mix of media manipulation, patriotism, and class, race, and gender politics that produced the ‘‘spontaneous’’ festivities of Mafeking Night begins this analysis of the cultural politics of late-Victorian imperialism. Paula M. Krebs examines...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 255 p. In early modern England, religious sorrow was seen as a form of spiritual dialogue between the soul and God, expressing how divine grace operates at the level of human emotion. Through close readings of both Protestant and Catholic poetry, Kuchar explains how the discourses of ªdevout melancholyº helped generate some of the most engaging...
Cornell University Press, 2002. — 280 p. Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) emerges in most accounts of his life by biographers and critics as a mysterious and sensational action figure, a hapless pawn of circumstance, or a pseudonymous cipher. Constance Brown Kuriyama's new biography reconstructs the eventful life of a radically innovative playwright who flourished briefly and...
Garland reference library of the humanities — Routledge, 2002. — 157 p. — (Children’s literature and culture; v. 16). — ISBN 0-203-90685-3. Empire's Children looks at works by Rudyard Kipling, Frances Hodgson Burnett, E. Nesbit, Hugh Lofting, A.A. Milne, and Arthur Ransome for the ways these writers consciously and unconsciously used the metaphors of empire in their writing for...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 280 p. — ISBN 9781108420747. Offering an authoritative account of the relationship between literature and medicine between approximately 1800 and 1900, this volume brings together leading scholars in the field to provide a valuable overview of how two dynamic fields influenced and shaped each during a period of revolutionary change. During...
For Continuity is a selection of critical essays by Frank Raymond Leavis, an influential British literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth century. prefatory: Marxism and Cultural Continuity. Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture. "The Literary Mind". What's Wrong with Criticism? Babbitt Buys the World. Arnold Bennett: American Version. John Dos Passos. D. H. Lawrence. D....
The great English novelists are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad.' So begins what is arguably F. R. Leavis's most controversial book, The Great Tradition, an uncompromising critical and polemical survey of English fiction that was first published in 1948. He puts a powerful case for moral seriousness as the necessary criterion for inclusion in any list of...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 215 p. This innovative study examines emotional responses to socio-economic pressures as they are revealed in early modern English plays, historical narratives and biographical accounts. These texts yield fascinating insights into the various, often unpredictable, ways in which people coped with the exigencies of credit, debt, mortgaging and...
Boydell & Brewer, 2019. — 344 p. Malory's Morte d'Arthur is now a canonical and widely-taught text. Recent decades have seen a transformation and expansion of critical approaches in scholarship, as well as significant advances in understanding its milieux: textual, literary, cultural and historical. This volume adds to and updates the influential Companion of 1996, offering...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 248 p. — ISBN: 0-521-85861-5. Early modern literature played a key role in the formation of the legal justification for imperialism. As the English colonial enterprise developed, the existing legal tradition of common law no longer solved the moral dilemmas of the new world order, in which England had become, instead of a victim of Catholic...
Penguin Books, 1994. — 256 p. The articles with which David Lodge entertained and enlightened readers of the Independent on Sunday and The Washington Post are now revised, expanded and collected together in book form. The art of fiction is considered under a wide range of headings, such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Time-shift, Magical Realism and...
Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2018. — 465 p. Edward Lear wrote some of the best-loved poems in English, including "The Owl and the Pussycat," but the father of nonsense was far more than a poet. He was a naturalist, a brilliant landscape painter, an experimental travel writer, and an accomplished composer. Sara Lodge presents the fullest account yet of Lear's passionate...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 253 p. This study challenges critical assumptions about the role of religion in shaping women’s experiences of authorship. Feminist critics have frequently been uncomfortable with the fact that conservative religious and political beliefs created opportunities for women to write with independent agency. The seventeenth-century Protestant women...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 234 p.
Collaborating with the genius of C.S. Lewis, and particularly his brilliant work The Abolition of Man, the authors offer a multi-facetted, interdisciplinary investigation of perennial questions that impact human development and freedom.
De Gruyter, 2020. — 302 p. — (Anglia Book, 69). — ISBN 978-3-11-067859-8, 978-3-11-067861-1, 978-3-11-067864-2. This study investigates the figure of haunting in the New Nature Writing. It begins with a historical survey of nature writing and traces how it came to represent an ideal of ‘natural’ space as empty of human history and social conflict. The Anglia Book Series (ANGB)...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 353 p. Most of these letters are 'finds,' never previously published and serving to deepen and to give order to our awareness of Ford's literary activities and involvements. Professor Ludwig, with lucidity, exactness and wisdom, has provided us with a coherent personal documentation. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library...
St. Martin's Press, 2013. — 495 p. We all know who James Bond is, but how many of us know much about his creator, Ian Fleming, a master of espionage and thrillers? In this full-length biography, author Andrew Lycett tells the story of Ian Fleming's life proving that it was just as dramatic as that of his fictional creation. Educated at Eaton and Sandhurst, he joined Naval...
Edinburgh University Press, 2011. — 201 p. Series Editors’ Preface Acknowledgements Timeline Rethinking the End of Empire Beyond Bloomsbury Little England and Global Englishes Decolonisation and the Cold War: Auden’s ‘Fleet Visit’ From British to US Hegemony: Greene’s The Quiet American From ‘Civilisation’ to ‘Culture’: Churchill and Orwell Reinventing the West: T.S. Eliot The...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 150 p. William Blake (1757‒1827) is one of the most original and influential figures of the Romantic Age, known for his work as an artist, poet and printmaker. Grounding his ideas both in close reading and in the latest scholarship, Saree Makdisi offers an exciting and imaginative approach to reading Blake. By exploring some of the most...
University of South Carolina Press, 2002. — 216 p. — ISBN: 1-57003-436-2. This is a discussion of the work of one of Britain's most highly regarded novelists and the winner of the 1998 Booker Prize. David Malcolm places Ian McEwan's work in the context of British literature's particular dynamism in the last decades of the 20th century. He also examines McEwan's relationship to...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 256 p. Rudyard Kipling has been one of the most loved and the most loathed of English writers. Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Life is a study of the forces and influences that shaped his work - including his unusual family background, his role as the laureate of Empire, and the deaths of two of his children - and of his complex relations with a literary...
Cybereditions, 2003. — 250 p. — ISBN: 1877275557; ISBN13: 9781877275555. 'The longer I live, the more I am convinced of the importance of children's books.' When Robert Bloomfield wrote this in 1817 he could have had no idea of the range of children's books to come, nor of how in England fantasy would be their outstanding form. In this survey of 400 English children's fantasies...
Palgrave, 2002. — ISBN: 0–333–96871–9. This text has established itself as a successful and popular introductory student guide. This fully revised and expanded third edition offers practical help and guidance. It shows the reader how to approach novels, plays and poems, and includes chapters on themes, characters, structure, style, irony and analysis. In addition, sections on...
Heritage History, 2016. — 532 p. English Literature For Boys And Girls is a book written by H. E. Marshall that introduces young readers to the world of English literature. The book covers a wide range of literary genres such as poetry, drama, and fiction, and includes works from famous authors such as William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, and Jane Austen. The book is divided...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 204 p. Why was literature so often defended and defined in early modern England in terms of its ability to provide the Horatian ideal of both profit and pleasure? Robert Matz analyzes Renaissance literary theory in the context of social transformations of the period, focusing on conflicting ideas about gentility that emerged as the English...
London: Oberon Books, 2012. — 170 p. — ISBN10: 1849430853; ISBN13: 978-1849430852. On Poetry, the latest addition to the Oberon Masters series, is a collection of short essays and reflections on poetry from the acclaimed British poet Glyn Maxwell. These essays illustrates Maxwell's poetic philosophy, that the greatest verse arises from a harmony of mind and body, and that...
British Literature is your gateway to the literature, authors, and time periods featured in your textbook. The resources and activities below will help you dive into British literature, from the earliest Anglo-Saxon poetry to the modern voices of contemporary British writers. Find links to help you with your research projects, learn more about your favorite authors, or get your...
Edinburgh University Press, 2009. — 241 p. This is the first book to take political devolution as an organising context for the presentation and discussion of main currents in contemporary Scottish poetry. The book combines thematic chapters with in-depth analysis of key poets writing in English, in Gaelic and in Scots, to address the central issues raised in work that is...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 297 p. This book explores Romantic poetry, and the concept of poetry in the Romantic period, as a locus of debate, defense, and discursive reconfiguration. Maureen McLane shows how the discourse around poetry involved itself intimately with the problem of the human and thus with contemporary discussions and theorizations of Man proposed by such...
3rd edition. — McGraw-Hill, 2021. — 288 p. — (5 Steps to a 5). — ISBN 978-1-26-047473-2, 978-1-26-047474-9. On the surface, this book appears to be a study guide for just the multiple-choice questions on the AP English Literature and Composition exam. But all high school students can benefit from practicing with the passages and questions in this study guide, not just AP...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 292 p. This ambitious study sheds new light on the way in which the English Romantics dealt with the basic problems of knowledge, particularly as they inherited them from the philosopher David Hume. Kant complained that the failure of philosophy in the eighteenth century to answer empirical scepticism had produced a culture of ‘indifferentism’....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 267 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-19807-3. Reading Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats in this way also alerts us to the fact that finding a common ground between persons, cultures, and historical eras is the precondition, not the product, of interpretation. In other words, if we are to interpret the romantics at all, we are compelled to treat...
D.S. Brewer, 1982. — 208 p. — (Chaucer Studies 8). Professor Minnis argues that the paganism in Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight's Taleis not simply a backdrop but must be central to our understanding of the texts. Chaucer's two great pagan poems, Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight's Tale, belong to the literary genre known as the `romance of antiquity' (which first appeard...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 290 p. In Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature, leading critic Alastair Minnis presents the fruits of a long-term engagement with the ways in which crucial ideological issues were deployed in vernacular texts. The concept of the vernacular is seen as possessing a value far beyond the category of language – as encompassing...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 187 p. — ISBN10: 140397442X; ISBN13: 978-1403974426. This study explores how fortune functions in relation to wider concerns about ethics and eventfulness in the works of Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate and Malory. Introduction: Conceptual Personae On Fortune, Philosophy, and Fidelity to the Event Love and Ethics to Come In Consolations of...
Basingstoke (Hampshire, UK): Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — x, 222 p. Printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham and Eastbourne. Arguing that neo-Victorian fiction enacts and celebrates cultural memory, this book uses memory discourse to position these novels as dynamic participants in the contemporary historical imaginary. Acknowledgements. Introduction: ‘I...
ELT Press, 2006. — 294 p. H. Rider Haggard on the Imperial Frontier , the first book-length study of H.R.H.'s African fiction, revises the image of Rider Haggard (1856–1925) as a mere writer of adventure stories, a brassy propagandist for British imperialism. Professor Monsman places Haggard’s imaginative works both in the context of colonial fiction writing and in the...
Berghahn Books, 2020. — 226 p. Why do we still read and discuss Chaucer? The answer may be simple: he is fun, and he challenges our intelligence and questions our certainties. This collected volume represents an homage to a toweringly great poet, as well as an acknowledgement of the intellectual excitement, challenges, and pleasure that readers owe to him as even today, his...
Manchester University Press, 2015. — 208 p. Decadent daughters and monstrous mothers interrogates the vexed question of Angela Carter’s feminist politics through the dusty lens of European Gothic. It illuminates her ambivalent relation to some of her most contentious European literary forebears, reveals her rich knowledge of French literature and offers fresh insights into her...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 322 p. — ISBN-10: 1107649846; ISBN-13: 978-1107649842. Ranging from the works of Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson and Milton to those of Robert Southwell and Anna Trapnel, this groundbreaking study explores the conscious use of archaic style by the poets and dramatists between 1590 and 1674. It focuses on the wide-ranging, complex...
Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. — 329 p. — ISBN: 1-4438-4988-X. In The Marlowe-Shakespeare Continuum, Donna N. Murphy demonstrates how Christopher Marlowe, sometimes in co-authorship with humorist Thomas Nashe, appears to have "become" Shakespeare on a linguistic basis. She documents a sharp, upward learning curve, with the initial penning of works she examines...
London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2017. — 212 p. This book of interdisciplinary essays serves to situate the original Sherlock Holmes, and his various adaptations, in a contemporary cultural context. This collection is prompted by three main and related questions: firstly, why is Sherlock Holmes such an enduring and ubiquitous cultural icon; secondly, why is it that Sherlock...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 246 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-87031-3. A common literary language linked royal absolutism to radical religion and republicanism in seventeenth-century England. Authors from both sides of the civil wars, including Milton, Hobbes, Margaret Cavendish, and the Quakers, adapted the analogy between family and state to support radically different visions...
Brill, 2020. — xiv, 356 p. — (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History). The life of Roger Ascham (1515/16–1568) coincided with the reigns of four Tudor monarchs, the rise and death of Luther, the Council of Trent and the wholesale division of Christendom. He operated in arenas including Cambridge University, the court, the continent and the capital, and his writings engaged...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 290 p. Inspired by the example of his predecessors Chaucer and Gower, John Lydgate articulated in his poetry, prose, and translations many of the most serious political questions of his day. In the fifteenth century Lydgate was the most famous poet in England, filling commissions for the court, the aristocracy, and the guilds. He wrote for an...
It should not be hard for the general reader to understand that the influence which is the theme of this
dissertation is real and explicable. If he will but call the roll of his favorite heroes, he will find Sigurd there. In
his gallery of wondrous women, he certainly cherishes Brynhild. These poetic creations belong to the
English−speaking race, because they belong to the...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan. — 1999 — 223 p. — ISBN10: 0312225237; ISBN13: 978-0312225230. Analysing Texts series. John Donne's poems are some of the most challenging and stimulating in the English literary heritage. One of the Renaissance's most human voices, his reputation as a poet has grown steadily since his death in 1631, fueled by poets like Coleridge, Browning, and...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2006. -244 p.
In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries the Inns of Court and fashionable London taverns developed a culture of clubbing, urban sociability and wit. The convivial societies that emerged created rituals to define social identities and to engage in literary play and political discussion.Michelle O’Callaghan...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 200 p. One of the most popular and widely known characters in all of fiction, Sherlock Holmes has an enduring appeal based largely on his uncanny ability to make the most remarkable deductions from the most mundane facts. The very first words that Sherlock Holmes ever says to Dr. Watson are, "How are you? You have been in Afghanistan, I...
Harper Collins Publishers, 2000. — 432 p. A biographical companion to the works of Agatha Christie revised and updated edition Agatha Christie was the author of over 100 plays, short story collections and novels which have been translated into 103 languages; she is outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Many have tried to copy her but none has succeeded. Attempts to capture...
New York: Pantheon Books, 2005. — 247 p. — ISBN-10: 0375420843; ISBN-13: 978-0375420849. America's most provocative intellectual brings her blazing powers of analysis to the most famous poems of the Western tradition--and unearths some previously obscure verses worthy of a place in our canon. Combining close reading with a panoramic breadth of learning, Camille Paglia sharpens...
London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1979. — 200 p. Here are some eighty ballads, illustrating the history of England (with occasional sidelong glances at Scotland and Wales) from 1588 to the present day. One could have started much earlier — did not John Aubrey’s nurse have ‘the history from the Conquest downe to Carl. I in ballad — but some limitation was necessary for purely practical...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 230 р. Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison examines Christie’s female poisoners in the context of Christie’s own experience in pharmacy and of detective fiction. In doing so, it uncovers an overlooked dynamic in which female poisoners deliver well-deserved comeuppance for gendered and classed wrongdoing ordinarily accepted in everyday...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 232 p. In this study, Mark Parker proposes that literary magazines should be an object of study in their own right. He argues that magazines such as the LondonMagazine, Blackwood’s EdinburghMagazine, and the New Monthly Magazine, offered an innovative and collaborative space for writers and their work – indeed, magazines became one of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 676 p. From early medieval times to the present, this diverse collection of thirty-one essays sets literary texts in their historical contexts. Ranging from early medieval times to the present, this amazing collection explores the myriad ways in which literary texts are informed by their historical contexts. The thirty-one chapters draw on...
Ignatius Press, 2016. — 545 р. Through years of meticulous research and access to the literary estate of G.K. Chesterton, Joseph Pearce presents a major biography of a 20th century literary giant, providing a great deal of important information on GKC never before published. This is a thoroughly readable and delightful biography of a multi-faceted author, artist and debater who...
Palgrave, 2002. — 183 pages. ISBN: 0333791770 A Brief History of English Literature provides a lively introductory guide to English literature from Beowulf to the present day. The authors write in their characteristically lucid style which enables the reader to engage fully with the narrative and easily understand the texts in relation to the social, political and cultural...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 339 p. For writers in the early modern period, thinking about royal favorites inevitably meant thinking about the uneasy intersection of the personal and the public in a political system traditionally organized around patronage and intimacy. Depictions of favoritism in a variety of texts including plays, poems, libels, and pamphlets explore...
Книга о жизни и творчестве Джозефа Конрада, на английском языке. Содержание: Chapter 1 Conrad’s life, Chapter 2 Conrad’s context , Chapter 3 Conrad’s early period, Chapter 4 Conrad’s middle period, Chapter 5 Conrad’s later period, Chapter 6 Conrad criticism, Guide to further reading. Preface: Joseph Conrad is one of the most intriguing and important modernist novelists. His...
D.S. Brewer, 2010. — 239 p. How do critics, religious scholars and historians in the early twenty-first century view Chaucer's relationship to religion? And how can he be taught and studied in an increasingly secular and multi-cultural environment? The essays here, on (the Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, lyrics and dream poems, aim to provide an orientation on the study...
D.S. Brewer, 2010. — 239 p. How do critics, religious scholars and historians in the early twenty-first century view Chaucer's relationship to religion? And how can he be taught and studied in an increasingly secular and multi-cultural environment? The essays here, on (the Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, lyrics and dream poems, aim to provide an orientation on the study...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012 — 170 p. — ISBN10: 1443840467; ISBN13: 978-1443840460. How can poetry embrace morality through focusing on metaphrasts? What is the relation between an allummette and the alpha rhythm? Why is it that money has turned into a metonym of goodness and success? And above all, is it still possible to think of the human subject as a...
Edinburgh University Press, 2016. — 601 p. In fifty-seven chapters leading academics in the field of twentieth-century war studies examine the major wars of the century as well as other conflicts imagined by English and US writers. These include the Boer War, Spanish Civil War, the troubles in Northern Ireland, the Korean War and the decolonizing conflicts in Africa through to...
Edinburgh University Press, 2011. — 264 p. Composed by an international group of experts, this collection of original essays explores a distinctly Scottish Romanticism as it is presented in literary theory, religious studies, music and the thematic use of Scots and Gaelic. Studying the most influential texts and authors in depth, the contributors shed new critical light on...
2 ed. — Cambridge University Press, 2017. ― xx, 736 p. ― ISBN: 978-1-107-14167-4, 978-1-316-50663-9. This is the second edition of English Literature in Context, a popular textbook which provides an essential resource and reference tool for all English literature students. Designed to accompany students throughout their degree course, it offers a detailed narrative survey of...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. - 663 pages
This comprehensive and accessible textbook is an essential resource and reference tool for all English Literature students. Designed to accompany students throughout their degree course, it provides a detaoled narrative survey of the diverse historical and cultural contexts that have shaped the development of English...
Pegasus Books, 2021. — 432 p. — ISBN 9781643136172. The surprising and illuminating look at how Tolkien's love of science and natural history shaped the creation of his Middle Earth, from its flora and fauna to its landscapes. The world J.R.R. Tolkien created is one of the most beloved in all of literature, and continues to capture hearts and imaginations around the world. From...
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970. - 220p.
The mystical world of William Blake—poet, painter, and engraver—which was largely misunderstood during his lifetime, has in succeeding generations exercised a mesmeric fascination. With the ideal of Salvation implicit throughout his art, Blake's was an intensely Christian philosophy; Kathleen Raine, however, who is well known as both...
USA: Oxford University Press, 2009 - 640 p. Cervantes in Seventeenth-century England garners well over a thousand English references to Cervantes and his works, thus providing the fullest and most intriguing early English picture ever made of the writings of Spain's greatest writer. Besides references to the nineteen books of Cervantes's prose available to seventeenth-century...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 197 p. This book presents full history of the origin of Orwell’s Animal Farm, as well as a translation of the Russuian/Ukranian source work. Has George Orwell lost his saintly luster? In The Never End, rabble-rouser, dogged investigator, and consummate literary stylist John Reed collects two decades of subject-Orwell findings previously published in...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 258 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). What associates fragmentation with Romanticism? In this book, Alexander Regier explains how fracture and fragmentation form a lens through which some central concerns of Romanticism can be analysed in a particularly effective way. These categories also supply a critical framework for a discussion of...
Glasgow: Kerr & Richardson, 1889. — 568 p. This Concordance claims to be not only a complete Verbal but also a complete Phrase Concordance - the first instance in which this combination has been attempted. In view of the fact that no poet, except Shakespeare, is more quotable than Burns, the aim has been to give every quotation in sufiscient fulness to serve the purpose of the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. — 256 p. In this fascinating book, Reid examines Robert Louis Stevenson's writings in the context of late-Victorian evolutionist thought, arguing that an interest in 'primitive' life is at the heart of his work. She investigates a wide range of Stevenson's writing, including Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Treasure Island as well as previously unpublished...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 271 p. In late fourteenth-century England, the persistent question of how to live the best life preoccupied many pious Christians. One answer was provided by a new genre of prose guides that adapted professional religious rules and routines for lay audiences. These texts engaged with many of the same cultural questions as poets like Langland and...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 287 p. The essays in this collection cover the whole range of Irish drama from the late nineteenth-century melodramas which anticipated the rise of the Abbey Theatre to the contemporary Dublin of theatre festivals. A team of international experts from Ireland, the UK, the USA and Europe provide individual studies of internationally known...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 298 p. In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that...
Oxford University Press. 2014. — 503 pages. ISBN: 0199689547 As literary scholars have long insisted, an interdisciplinary approach is vital if modern readers are to make sense of works of medieval literature. In particular, rather than reading the works of medieval authors as addressing us across the centuries about some timeless or ahistorical 'human condition', critics from...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 800 p. The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry offers thirty-eight chapters of ground breaking research that form a collaborative guide to the many groupings and movements, the locations and styles, as well as concerns (aesthetic, political, cultural and ethical) that have helped shape contemporary poetry in Britain and...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — xiv, 130 p. — (Cambridge Introductions to Literature). — ISBN: 978-0-521-76923-5, 978-0-521-13255-8. Arguably the most influential political writer of the twentieth century, George Orwell remains a crucial voice for our times. Known world-wide for his two best-selling masterpieces Nineteen Eighty-Four, a gripping portrait of a dystopian...
Springer, 2010. — 323 p. Long confounded with a monolithic British entity or misrepresented as 'Lakers' and 'Cockneys', the diverse regional forms of 'English Romanticism' are ripe for reassessment. Ranging west of a line between the Wye at Tintern and Jane Austen's Chawton, this book offers a first reconfiguration of Romantic culture in terms of English regional identity. It may...
Routledge, 2022. — 190 p. This book brings a new lens to the work of Agatha Christie through a series of close readings which challenge the official solutions by Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. This book's approach interweaves two core ideas: first, it explores the importance of French critic Pierre Bayard’s self-styled ‘detective criticism’; second, it takes detective...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 249 p. The Book of Common Prayer is one of the most important and influential books in English history, but it has received relatively little attention from literary scholars. This study seeks to remedy this by attending to the Prayerbook’s importance in England’s political, intellectual, religious, and literary history. The first half of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2007 - 248 p. ISBN: 0521877741 The Book of Prevalent Prayer is with essentially the most significant and influential books in English history, however it has received somewhat small attention from literary scholars. This study seeks to remedy this by attending towards the prayerbook’s significance in England’s political, intellectual, religious, and...
Brill, 2018. — XII, 318 p. — (Aries Book Series, 24). — ISBN 978-90-04-36911-5, 978-90-04-36903-0. Esotericism and Narrative: The Occult Fiction of Charles Williams situates the life and fiction of the Inkling Charles Williams in the network of modern occultism, with special focus on his initiatory experiences in A.E. Waite’s Fellowship of the Ros Charles Walter Stansby...
Dis Voir, 2008. — 111 p. Behind each children's book, behind each bestseller, a sacred text is hidden. Stevenson's novel has been scrutinized, read and re-read a thousand times. It has been used as a model for a map that leads us in search of an island where a cave that represented the sky was located. And in that sky, the stars and planets were represented by diamonds, real...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 312 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). Margaret Russett uses the example of Thomas De Quincey, the nineteenth-century essayist best remembered for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and his memoirs of Wordsworth and Coleridge, to examine the idea of the "minor" author, and how it is related to what we now call the Romantic canon....
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 241 p. — (Princeton Legacy Library). The nature of Renaissance allegory has been the subject of much investigation, notably by Spenserian scholars. The subject is now enlarged through a study of the plays of the Elizabethan Court dramatists of the 1580's and early 1590's, particularly the comedies of John Lyly. Mr. Saccio rejects the older...
New York: Columbia University Press, 2008 — 248 p. — ISBN10: 0231140053; ISBN13: 978-0231140058. Edward W. Said locates Joseph Conrad's fear of personal disintegration in his constant re-narration of the past. Using the author's personal letters as a guide to understanding his fiction, Said draws an important parallel between Conrad's view of his own life and the manner and...
Abingdon: Routledge, 2013. — 357 p. Editors' Preface Author's Preface Science Religious Ideas Philosophy Political Ideas and Historiography Aesthetics Visual Arts Architecture Sculpture Painting Landscape gardening Models Roman Grecian Gothic Oriental Savage Conclusion Exploration, empiricism and evolution Perception and imagination 'Age of Reason' and other clichés Chronology...
Bloom’s Literary Criticism, 2009. - 232 p.
Fourteenth-century author, poet, and civil servant Geoffrey Chaucer has delighted readers with his colorful tales filled with humanity, grace, and strength. He is best known for "The Canterbury Tales", a vibrant account of life in England during his own day. This book presents that canonical work along with some of Chaucer's...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. - 303 p.
Introduction Absent Narratives and the Textual Culture of the Late Middle Ages.
The Wanting Words of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Remembering Canacee, Forgetting Incest: Reading the “Squire’s Tale”.
Chaucer’s Family Romance: The “Knight’s Tale” as Primal Scene.
“Hic quasi in persona aliorum”: The Lover’s Repression and Gower’s...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. — 475 pages. — ISBN: 1-4438-7185-0, 978-1-4438-7185-3, 9781322608211, 1322608210, 9781443874076, 1443874078. Passion and Precision contains twenty essays on a range of major medieval and modern English and Irish poets. The first part consists of three chapters on Chaucer, including a substantial new study of Troilus and Criseyde, four on...
Edinburgh University Press, 2010. — 161 p. The subcultural enfant terrible of devolutionary protest and rebellion, Irvine Welsh is now widely acknowledged as the founding father of a whole new tradition in post-devolution Scottish writing. The unprecedented worldwide success of Trainspotting, magnified by Danny Boyle's iconic film adaptation, revolutionised Scottish culture and...
Palgrave Macmillan. 2011. — 234 pages. — (Early Modern Literature in History). — ISBN: 978–0–230–27180–7 Leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic explore translations as a key agent of change in the wider religious, cultural and literary developments of the early modern period, and restore translation to the centre of our understanding of the literature and history of...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 208 p. The Tudor era has long been associated with the rise of nationalism in England, yet nationalist writing in this period often involved the denigration and outright denial of Englishness. Philip Schwyzer argues that the ancient, insular, and imperial nation imagined in the works of writers such as Shakespeare and Spenser was not England but...
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2004. — 224 p. Foreword Acknowledgements Abbreviations and References Person and Persona in the Portrait of Imperialism ‘Hassan in England’: a Western Room with an Oriental View Forster’s Debate on ‘Kipling Is Not Literature’ Forster Writes to the Empire and Salutes the Orient: a Passage through Egypt Beyond the Mediterranean Human Norm: the Politics of...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 375 p. Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England ranges over private and public reading, and over a variety of religious, social and scientific communities to locate acts of reading in specific historical moments from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. It also charts the changes in reading habits that reflect broader social...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. — 1008 p.
Victorian Literature is a comprehensive and fully annotated anthology with a flexible design that allows teachers and students to pursue traditional or innovative lines of inquiry, from the canon to its extensions to its contexts.
Represents the period’s major writers of prose, poetry, drama, and more, including Tennyson, Arnold, the Brownings,...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 323 p. The Catholic contribution to English literary culture has been widely neglected and often misunderstood. Drawing on extensive original research, this book sets out to rehabilitate a wide range of Catholic imaginative writing, while exposing the role of anti-Catholicism as an imaginative stimulus to mainstream writers in Tudor and Stuart...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 209 p. Introduction: Decentering Transatlantic Literary Studies From English Empire to British Atlantic World The Irish Uncanny and the American Gothic Scots and Scott in the Early American Republic Wales and the American West The Literary Sketch and British Atlantic Regionalism Epilogue: British Atlantic Literatures: Anglo-American, Colonial,...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 235 p. Anna Krugovoy Silver examines the ways nineteenth-century British writers used physical states of the female body – hunger, appetite, fat, and slenderness – in the creation of female characters. Silver argues that anorexia nervosa, first diagnosed in 1873, serves asa paradigm for the cultural ideal of middle-classw omanhood in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 169 p. A new title in Palgrave Macmillan's Literary Lives series, this is a biographical narrative of Graham Greene's literary career. Among other things, it explores his motives for writing; the literary and cinematic influences that shaped his work; his writing routine and the importance of his childhood experience. Greene was elusive and...
Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1868. — 620 p. Скейн Ф. Уильям (ред,) Четыре древние книги Уэльса — Сочинения, приписываемые бардам VI века н. э. , том 1 (на англ. яз.) The Poems Contained in the Four Mentioned Books of Wales. The Literature of Wales subsequent to the Twelfth Century. Sources of the Early History of Wales. State of the Country in the Sixth Century, and Its...
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. — viii, 258 p. — ISBN 978-0-7486-4249-6. This book offers an invaluable insight into the complex and various Gothic forms of the 19th century. The Edinburgh Companion to the Victorian Gothic is an essential resource for students and scholars working on the Gothic, Victorian literature and culture and critical theory. Each chapter is...
Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1903. — 358 p. The purpose of this book is to give an account of Shakespeare's reputation during the eighteenth century, and to suggest that there are grounds for reconsidering the common opinion that the century did not give him his due. The nine Essays or Prefaces here reprinted may claim to represent the chief phases of Shakespearian study...
The History Press, 2019. — 147 p. This enchanting collection of stories gathers together legends from across Scotland in one special volume. Drawn from The History Press’ popular Folk Tales series, herein lies a treasure trove of tales from a wealth of talented storytellers. From the Spaeman’s peculiar advice and a laird who is transformed into a frog, to a fugitive hiding in a...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 297 p. Katherine Snyder’s study explores the significance of the bachelor narrator, a prevalent but little-recognized figure in pre-modernist and modernist fiction by male authors, including Hawthorne, James, Conrad, Ford, and Fitzgerald. Snyder demonstrates that bachelors functioned in cultural and literary discourse as threshold figures who,...
Wildside Press, 2010. — 208 p. The new collection features 14 essays relevant to the Literary Decadence movement, including pieces on: Joris-Karl Huysmans, Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Aloysius Bertrand, Theophile Gautier, Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, Emile Zola, Edmond de Goncourt, and Anatole France. Complete with bibliography and index.
Palgrave, 2001. — 192 с.
This book is an attempt to put together in one place as much as I can of what I have learned in over twenty-five years of teaching J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. The book does not attempt to expound any grand theory or set of critical principles; it tries only to make clear what readers of Tolkien’s tale would want made clear for their...
Книга о жизни и творчестве Джозефа Конрада, на английском языке. Содержание: - Notes on contributors - Preface - Chronology of Conrad's life - List of abbreviations - 1 Conrad's life - Owen Knowles - 2 The short fiction - Gail Fraser - 3 'Heart of Darkness' - Cedric Watts - 4 Lord Jim - J. H. Stape - 5 Nostromo - Eloise Knapphay - 6 The Secret Agent - Jacques Berthaoud - 7...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2006, -550 p.
Drawing on three decades of feminist scholarship bent on rediscovering lost and abandoned women writers, Susan Staves provides a comprehensive history of women’s writing in Britain from the Restoration to the French Revolution. This major new work of
criticism also offers fresh insights about women’s writing in all literary...
Cornell University Press, 2018. — xiv, 278 p. — ISBN: 978-1501710704. True PDF From the teeming streets of Dickens’s London to the households of domestic fiction, nineteenth-century British writers constructed worlds crammed beyond capacity with human life. In Populating the Novel, Emily Steinlight contends that rather than simply reflecting demographic growth, such pervasive...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 264 p. Although theories of exploitation and subversion have radically changed our understanding of gender in Renaissance literature, to favor only those theories is to risk ignoring productive exchanges between "masculine'' and "feminine'' in Renaissance culture. "Appropriation'' is too simple a term to describe these exchanges - as when...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. — xiv+173 p. — (Bloomsbury Studies In Classical Reception). — ISBN: 978-1-3500-5490-5. True PDF Frankenstein and Its Classics is the first collection of scholarship dedicated to how Frankenstein and works inspired by it draw on ancient Greek and Roman literature, history, philosophy, and myth. Presenting twelve new essays intended for students,...
The History Press, 2017. — 272 p. This book, a selection of folk tales, true tales, tall tales, myths, gossip, legends and memories, celebrates and honours unique Welsh stories. Some are well known, others from forgotten manuscripts or out-of-print volumes, and some are contemporary oral tales. They reflect the diverse tradition of storytelling, and the many meanings of...
London: Routledge, 2008. — 284 p. — ISBN10: 0754663698; ISBN13: 978-0754663690 Celebrations of literary fictions as autonomous worlds appeared first in the Renaissance and were occasioned, paradoxically, by their power to remedy the ills of history. Robert E. Stillman explores this paradox in relation to Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesy, the first Renaissance text to argue for...
Tectum Verlag, 2011. - 225 p.
JHauptbeschreibungEverybody knows what biographies are and many people still turn to them for truth about their subjects. But it is more obvious than ever that we can't completely trust records of the past, just as we can't always trust an eyewitness report to be true and objective. So life-stories, and particularly those with a neat narrative...
CLV, 2005. — 128 S. Die »Chroniken von Narnia« des britischen Schriftstellers C.S. Lewis erzählen uns Geheimnisse. Geheimnisse, die für unser Leben von höchster Bedeutung sind. Im zweiten Band dieser »Chroniken« geht es zum Beispiel darum, dass es Frühling werden soll, dass man wieder aufatmen und vor Freude tanzen kann. Ein Wunsch, der im tiefsten Boden jeder Menschenseele...
Clarendon Press, 1975. — 400 p. A personal selection of previously published anecdotes providing characteristic glimpses of literary men and women and their literary preoccupations and activities, drawn from over a thousand years of English literature
Routledge, 2000. — 571 p. — (Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England, vol. 5). — ISBN: 0-8153-0305-X, 978-0-8153-0305-3. With the decline of formalism and its predilection for Old English poetry, Old English prose is leaving the periphery and moving into the center of literary and cultural discussion. The extensive corpus of Old English prose lends many texts of various kinds to...
Mouton, 1976. — 368 p. This book is devoted to the theory and history of English verse from the 13th—19th centuries. It presents the results of the authors work from 1963—1973, some of which has already been published in the form of journal articles. The quantitative analysis of verse structure (approximately 100,000 lines) has been made by the author, except for the analysis...
Великие английские писатели - авторы рассказов. The short-story commenced its career as a verbal utterance, or, as Robert Louis Stevenson puts it, with "the first men who told their stories round the savage camp-fire." It bears the mark of its origin, for even to-day it is true that the more it creates the illusion of the speaking-voice, causing the reader to listen and to see,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 284 p. Limits and Languages in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry examines the transactions between the two main languages of Irish literature, English and Irish, and their formative role in contemporary poetry by Irish women. Daniela Theinová explores the works of well-known poets such as Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill,...
Routledge, 2002. - 430 p.
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2017. — 288 p. Goodbye Christopher Robin: A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh is drawn from Ann Thwaite’s Whitbread Award-winning biography of A. A. Milne, one of England’s most successful writers. After serving in the First World War, Milne wrote a number of well-received plays, but his greatest triumph came when he created Winnie-the-Pooh,...
Peter Owen, 1970. — 260 p. This book surveys the evolution and development of English prose and poetry through the centuries: from Beowulf to Samuel Beckett's dramas.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 260 p. By reading key Carter texts alongside their Decadent intertexts, Tonkin interrogates the claim that Carter was in thrall to a fetishistic aesthetic antithetical to her feminism. Through historical contextualization of the woman-as-doll, muse and femme fatale, Tonkin tests Carter's own description of her fiction as a form of literary...
Routledge, 2020. — 252 p. This book explores and re-evaluates Kipling’s connection with India, its people, culture, languages, and locales through his experiences and his writings. Kipling’s works attracted interest among a large section of the British public, stimulating curiosity in their far-off Indian Empire, and made many canonize him as an emblem of the ‘Raj’. This volume...
Routledge, 2020. — 252 p. This book explores and re-evaluates Kipling’s connection with India, its people, culture, languages, and locales through his experiences and his writings. Kipling’s works attracted interest among a large section of the British public, stimulating curiosity in their far-off Indian Empire, and made many canonize him as an emblem of the ‘Raj’. This volume...
Research indicates that a student's ability to comprehend what they read is one of the most critical pieces to success in school. This product is a ready-to-go packet of comprehension questions for the book George's Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl. The packet requires students to answer questions about the book - chapter by chapter.
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 272 p. This Companion provides an introduction to the craft of prose. It considers the technical aspects of style that contribute to the art of prose, examining the constituent parts of prose through a widening lens, from the smallest details of punctuation and wording to style more broadly conceived. The book is concerned not only with prose...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 270 p. This exciting collection of essays explores the role of the Other in Tolkien’s fiction, his life, and the pertinent criticism. It critically examines issues of gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, language, and identity in "The Lord of the Rings", "The Silmarillion", and lesser-known works by Tolkien. The chapters consider characters such as...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 290 p. Stories about Jewesses proliferated in nineteenth-century Britain as debates raged about the place of the Jews in the modern nation. Challenging the emphasis in previous scholarship on antisemitic stereotypes in this period, Nadia Valman argues that the literary image of the Jewess – virtuous, appealing and sacrificial – reveals how...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — xiii, 262 p. — ISBN: 978-1-137-51837-8, 978-1-137-51838-5. This book reveals the unique contribution made by the three founding fathers of British fantasy — Lord Dunsany, E. R. Eddison and J. R. R. Tolkien — to our culture’s perennial reassessment of the meanings of time, death and eternity. It traces the poetic, philosophical and theological roots...
Routledge, 2020. — 286 p. This book evaluates the parallels, divergences, and convergences in the literary legacies of Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats. Coming 150 years after their birth, the volume sheds light on the conversational undercurrents that pull together the often diametrically polar worldviews of these two seminal figures of the English literary canon....
Edinburgh University Press, 2013. — 167 p. Explores the significance of Liz Lochhead's work for the twenty-first century.The first contemporary critical investigation since Liz Lochhead's appointment as Scotland's second Scots Makar, this Companion examines her poetry, theatre, visual and performing arts, and broadcast media. It also discusses her theatre for children and young...
Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2024. — 647 p. — (Studies in Renaissance Literature 44). First, complete, integrated corpus of this major Elizabethan writer and first critical edition of his collected works in over one hundred years, with major new discoveries of authorship and attribution. Thomas Kyd (1558-94) is best known as author of The Spanish Tragedy, the first revenge...
Edinburgh University Press, 2023. — 320 p. Explores the connection between writers desire to prove that they work and parallel histories of craft and artisanal revival Offers the first sustained study of the connection between writers desire to prove that they work and parallel forms of craft and artisanal revival Offers a long view on writers consciously demonstrating work...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 282 p. — ISBN-10: 1403903220; ISBN-13: 978-1403903228. The historical novel has been one of the most important forms of women's reading and writing in the twentieth century, yet it has been consistently under-rated and critically neglected. In the first major study of British women writers' use of the genre, Diana Wallace tracks its...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 304 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). Through close readings of major poems, this book examines why the second-generation Romantic poets - Byron, Shelley, and Keats - stage so much of their poetry in Eastern or Orientalized settings. It argues that they do so not only to interrogate their own imaginations, but also as a way of criticizing...
Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 214 p. Ian Watt (1917–99) has long been acknowledged as one of the finest of post-War literary critics. The Rise of the Novel (1957) is still the landmark account of the way in which realist fiction developed in the eighteenth century and Watt's work on Conrad has been enormously influential. Conrad in the Nineteenth Century (1979) was to...
Routledge, 2016. — 368 p. Between 1887 and 1927, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote sixty Sherlock Holmes stories, and his great Canon has become the most praised, most studied, and best-known chapter in the history of detective fiction. Over twenty thousand publications pertaining to the Sherlock Holmes phenomenon are known to have been published, most of them historical and...
Routledge, 2016. — 216 p. In 1972, Angela Carter translated Xavière Gauthier’s ground-breaking feminist critique of the surrealist movement, Surréalisme et sexualité (1971). Although the translation was never published, the project at once confirmed and consolidated Carter’s previous interest in surrealism, representation, gender and desire and aided her formulation of a new...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 738 p. Until the Reformation, almost all sermons were written down in Latin. This is the first scholarly study systematically to describe and analyze the collections of Latin sermons from the golden age of medieval preaching in England, the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Basing his studies on the extant manuscripts, Siegfried Wenzel...
Second Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 138 p. For most readers the Canterbury Tales mean the General Prologue, with its gallery of portraits, and a few of the more humorous tales. What we retain is a handful of remarkable personalities, and such memorable moments as the end of the Miller’s tale. These areworth having in themselves, but it requires an extra effort to...
D.S. Brewer, 2017. — 276 p. The red-ink names that decorate the Winchester manuscript of Malory's Morte Darthur are striking; yet until now, no-one has asked why the rubrication exists. This book explores the uniqueness and thematic significance of the physical layout of the Morte in its manuscript context, arguing that the layout suggests, and the correlations between...
Praeger, 1998. — 174 p.
Myth, legend, and folklore have been entrenched in children's literature for several centuries and continue to be popular. Some of the most ancient traditional tales still extant come from the Celtic cultures of France and the British Isles, whose languages are among the oldest in Europe. Among these tales are four native Welsh legends collectively known...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 288 p. Religious diversity and ferment characterize the period that gave rise to Romanticism in England. It is generally known that many individuals who contributed to the new literatures of the late eighteenth century came from Dissenting backgrounds, but we nonetheless often underestimate the full significance of nonconformist beliefs and...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 332 p. — ISBN: 0-521-46219-3. This is the first comprehensive introduction to the works and social contexts of women writers in early modern Britain, a paradoxical period when it was considered unfeminine to write and yet women were the authors of many poems, translations, conduct books, autobiographies, plays, pamphlets and other texts....
D. S. Brewer, 2000. — 170 p.
Humour is rarely seen to raise its indecorous head in the surviving corpus of Old English literature, yet the value of reading that literature with an eye to humour proves considerable when the right questions are asked. Humour in Anglo-Saxon Literature provides the first book-length treatment of the subject. In all new essays, eight scholars employ...
University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018. — viii, 176 pages : ills. This multidisciplinary volume illustrates how representations of magic in fourteenth-century romances link the supernatural, spectacle, and morality in distinctive ways. By representing supernatural marvels in vivid visual detail, these texts encourage reactions of wonder that have...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 110 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-539619-5. In the summer of 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church in Oxford, Charles Dodgson - better known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll - dressed the six-year-old Alice Liddell in ragamuffin's clothes, draped the folds of cloth low enough to expose her bare chest, asked her to look deep into his eyes-and then snapped...
Open Book Publishers, 2019. — 310 p. In Tennyson’s Poems: New Textual Parallels , R. H. Winnick identifies more than a thousand previously unknown instances in which Tennyson phrases of two or three to as many as several words are similar or identical to those occurring in prior works by other hands—discoveries aided by the proliferation of digitized texts and the related...
Ashgate, 2009. — 210 p. Exploiting a link between early modern concepts of the medical and the literary, David Houston Wood suggests that the recent critical attention to the gendered, classed, and raced elements of the embodied early modern subject has been hampered by its failure to acknowledge the role time and temporality play within the scope of these admittedly crucial...
Ohio University Press, 2016. - 241 p.
In Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Erika Wright argues that the emphasis in Victorian Studies on disease as the primary source of narrative conflict that must be resolved has obscured the complex reading practices that emerge around the concept of health. By shifting attention to the ways that...
Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1999. — 234 p. — Series: Literary Lives. Waugh's life and his literary life exist in fascinating, dynamic relationship. Virtually all of his fiction was autobiographical, yet he maintained that his novels were 'objects', unrelated to the life of their author. This study traces the shifting relationship of ascertainable fact and imaginative fiction...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2004. — 400 с. — (Научная библиотека. Вып. XXXVIII). — ISBN: 5-86793-278-8. В книге на обширном материале истории литературы и литературного быта Англии XVI-XIX вв. рассматриваются социально-экономические и юридические аспекты литературного авторства: профессионализация писателей (оформление социальных, институциональных аспектов писательской...
М.: Наука, 1986. - 320 с. Качество: OCR без ошибок
В монографии рассматриваются узловые проблемы литературного процесса в Англии XIX в. в связи с творчеством Джона Рёскина, который находился в центре духовной жизни своей страны. Исследование эстетических и литературно критических идей Рёскина, оригинально истолковавшего ведущие тенденции литературы и искусства своего времени,...
М.: Издательство литературы на иностранных языках, 1949. — 510 с. Настоящая «Хрестоматия по английской литературе XIX и XX вв.» предназначается в качестве учебного пособия для студентов, изучающих английский язык и английскую литературу на старших курсах факультетов и институтов иностранных языков. Цель её — дать иллюстративный материал к соответствующим разделам курса истории...
Хрестоматия. — Курган: Курганский государственный университет, 2019. — 144 с. — ISBN 978-5-4217-0489-8. В хрестоматию «Литература английского романтизма» вошли тексты произведений, изучаемых на занятиях по дисциплине «История мировой (зарубежной) литературы (английская и американская литература)», принаджежащих перу английских романтиков XIX века: Уильяма Блейка, Уильяма...
Эссе и переводы. Сборник. — М.: Радуга, 2008. — 408 c. — ISBN: 978-5-05-006766-1. Трудно определить жанр этой книги. Здесь соседствуют эссе автора - филолога и переводчика Ксении Атаровой, - охватывающие несколько веков английской литературы - от Дефо и Диккенса до Джойса и Грэма Грина - с её же переводами таких корифеев эссеистики, как Г. К. Честертон, Вирджиния Вулф, Дж. Б....
М.: Высшая школа, 1988. — 95 с.
В пособии дан анализ выдающегося произведения Лоренса Стерна, английского романиста XVIII в., одного из основоположников европейского сентиментализма. Особое внимание уделено жанровому своеобразию романа `Сентиментальное путешествие по Франции и Италии`. В пособии характеризуется литературная атмосфера в Англии второй половины XVIII в.
М.: Высшая школа, 1988. — 96 с. В пособии дан анализ выдающегося произведения Лоренса Стерна, английского романиста XVIII в., одного из основоположников европейского сентиментализма. Особое внимание уделено жанровому своеобразию романа `Сентиментальное путешествие по Франции и Италии`. В пособии характеризуется литературная атмосфера в Англии второй половины XVIII в.
М.: Б.С.Г.-Пресс, 2014. — 416 с. — ISBN: 978-5-93381-322-4 Книга англиста Ксении Атаровой посвящена жизни и творчеству всемирно известного английского писателя Лоренса Стерна (1713—1768), отца европейского сентиментализма, оказавшего заметное влияние на всю европейскую литературу XVIII—XX вв., в том числе и на русскую (Н. М. Карамзин, Л. Н. Толстой, Андрей Белый и др.)....
Учеб. пособие - М.: Высш. школа, 1981. 144 с.
В пособии рассматривается история английской драмы от 20-х до начала 70-х годов нашего столетия в ее жанровом аспекте. Книга охватывает круг вопросов, связанных с развитием драмы и комедии, проблемой трагедии и трагического в современной драматургии.
Tashkent: 2006. — 209 с. English literature is a component part of the world literature. Its best national traditions have played an important role in enriching and development of the world literature. English literature consists of poetry, prose, and drama written in the English language by authors in England, Scotland, and Wales. These lands have produced many outstanding...
Учебно-методическое пособие. — Саратов: СГУ, 2011. — 34 с. Предлагаемое учебно-методическое пособие к спецкурсу «Литература стран изучаемого языка» для студентов 5 курса факультета педагогики и методики начального образования в группе с дополнительной специальностью (английский язык) выстроено в русле интегрированного обучения и предполагает интеграцию обучения языку, культуре и...
Пермь: Пермский государственный университет, 2010. — 254 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7944-1439-4. Монография посвящена литературному творчеству известного английского художника, основателя стиля модерн в графике. Занимая особое место в литературно-художественном процессе Великобритании на рубеже XIX–XX вв. рядом с О.Уайльдом, А.Саймонсом и др., Обри Бердсли (Aubrey Beardsley, 1872–1898) в...
Коллективная монография. — Томск: Издательство Томского государственного университета, 2023. — 140 с. Монография представляет коллективный опыт осмысления роли и значения личности и творчества Вальтера Скотта в разных гранях мировой культуры. Основной материал исследования составляет художественная словесность – русская и английская, – на примере которой оказывается видна...
Текст приведен по изданию: Иностранная литература. — 1989. — №5 . — С. 239-244; №8 . — С. 225-227; №10 . — С. 218-221. «В конце 30-х годов Всеволод Вишневский, автор «Оптимистической трагедии», был в Париже. В ту пору там жил Джеймс Джойс. Шумно-скандальный успех, выпавший на долю «Улисса», сделал его не меньшей достопримечательностью города, чем Эйфелева башня. Встречи с...
Москва: Издание К. Т. Солдатенкова, 1899. — 356 с. Перевод с английского П. Николаева. Автор книги, английский экономист Джон Аткинсон Гобсон (Хобсон, 1858-1940), подробно разбирает предложения социально-политического переустройства общества, выдвинутые Джоном Рёскиным (1819-1900), английским писателем и теоретиком искусства. Содержание: Предисловие. I. Формирующия влияния...
М.: МГУ, 1993. — 188 с. — ISBN 5-211-02233-5. В монографии впервые исследуется творчество крупнейшего английского поэта Джона Донна. Анализ творчества Джона Донна дается в контексте эволюции всей английской поэзии XVI---XVII веков, представленной такими художниками слова, как Уайет, Сидни, Спенсер, Шекспир и др. Для специалистов-филологов, аспирантов и студентов филологических...
М.: МГУ, 2012. - 316 с.
Книга содержит очерки о творчестве трех крупнейших английских поэтов: Джона Донна (1572-1631), Джона Милтона (1608-1674) и Уильяма Вордсворта (1770-1850). Это поэты разных эпох, хотя Донн и Милтон оба жили в XVII веке, и разных художественных направлений. Донн связан с поздним Ренессансом и маньеризмом, Милтон — по преимуществу с барокко, а Вордсворт...
М.: МГУ, 2012. - 316 с.
Книга содержит очерки о творчестве трех крупнейших английских поэтов: Джона Донна (1572-1631), Джона Милтона (1608-1674) и Уильяма Вордсворта (1770-1850). Это поэты разных эпох, хотя Донн и Милтон оба жили в XVII веке, и разных художественных направлений. Донн связан с поздним Ренессансом и маньеризмом, Милтон — по преимуществу с барокко, а Вордсворт...
М.: Лабиринт, 2010. - 336 с.
Читатели имеют возможность познакомиться с первой в России монографией, посвященной «отцу английской литературы» Джеффри Чосеру (1340?— 1400). Его творчество анализирует А. Н. Горбунов, один из крупнейших в нашей стране специалистов по истории английской литературы. Особое внимание в книге уделено лучшим творениям поэта — «Троилу и Кресеиде» и...
М.: Лабиринт, 2010. - 336 с.
Читатели имеют возможность познакомиться с первой в России монографией, посвященной «отцу английской литературы» Джеффри Чосеру (1340?— 1400). Его творчество анализирует А. Н. Горбунов, один из крупнейших в нашей стране специалистов по истории английской литературы. Особое внимание в книге уделено лучшим творениям поэта — «Троилу и Кресеиде» и...
Елабуга: Изд-во ЕГПУ, 2007 – 46 с. Пособие предназначено для обучения профессионально ориентированному чтению студентов филологических факультетов педвузов. В сборник включены тексты о поэтах Великобритании и поэтические произведения авторов. Материал сборника может быть использован учителями иностранного языка средних учебных заведений любого типа. Содержание: A Nest of...
Москва: Независимая газета, 2000. — 824 с. — ISBN 5-86712-050-3. Комментарий Густава Шпета к роману Чарьлза Диккенса "Посмертные записки Пиквикского клуба", составленный в 1934 г., не утратил своего историко-литературного значения и по сей день, ибо, задавшись целью ввести своих соотечественников в художественный мир Диккенса, широчайше эрудированный философ и полиглот создал...
Монографія. — К. : Пульсари, 2018. — 472 c. У монографії зосереджено увагу на окресленні іманентних рис постпостмодерну, зокрема, в дискурсі англійського літературного постпостмодернізму. Досліджено, що у центрі англійських постпостмодерністських романів експліковано межову ситуацію, у якій вихід можна знайти, якщо використати інтуїтивізм і логіку, знання й віру, наукові...
Учеб. пособие для филол. спец. ин-тов. - М.: Высш. шк.,1984. - 103 с.
В книге дан многосторонний анализ одного из романов крупнейшего современного английского писателя Ч. П. Сноу "Коридоры власти". Указывается место романа в цикле "Чужие и братья" и в современной английской литературе, рассматриваются способы достижения писателем художественной целостности произведения. Анализ...
Учебное пособие. — М.: Высшая школа, 1979 — 78 с.
В книге осуществлен обучающий анализ одного из наиболее сложных и эстетически ценных произведений зарубежной литературы XX века — «Саги о Форсайтах» Дж. Голсуорси. Показано, как переломная эпоха — рубеж XIX–XX столетий — воплощена в развивающихся системах событий и характеров, в социальных отношениях персонажей, нравственных и...
М.: Наука, 1973. - 210 с.
В книге рассказывается о жизни и творчестве Джона Китса, великого английского поэта первой четверти XIX в., современника Байрона и Шелли. Основные черты поэзии Китса — его протест против тирании и ханжества, его влюбленность в жизнь и искусство — рассматриваются во взаимодействии с идейно-художественными течениями в литературе английского романтизма....
Учебное пособие / О.В. Евстафиади; Н.В. Лаштабова; Л.А. Ласица, О.А. Хрущева. — Оренбург: ОГУ, 2015. — 107 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7410-1251-2. В учебном пособии «Reading modern British literature. Part 1» представлены упражнения и задания, необходимые для успешного и продуктивного знакомства бакалавров с современными англоязычными романами Ника Хорнби «About a Boy» и Пенелопы Лайвли...
Учебное пособие. — Л.А. Ласица; О.А. Хрущева; О.В. Евстафиади; Н.В. Лаштабова. – Оренбург: ОГУ, 2016. – 109 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7410-1495-0. В учебном пособии «Reading modern British literature. Part 2» представлены упражнения и задания, необходимые для успешного и продуктивного знакомства бакалавров с современными англоязычными романами Дэвида Лоджа «Nice Work» и Джулии Дарлинг...
// Елистратова А.А. Филдинг. Критико-биографический очерк. – М.,1954. Монография, написанная по жизни Генри Филдинга. Освещает такие темы, как: Особенности эпохи Просвещения. Специфика просветительского реалистического романа. Эстетическая программа Филдинга – теория «комического эпоса»: а) жанровое своеобразие романа «История Тома Джонса, найденыша» (кн.4 гл., кн.9 гл.1) б)...
СПб.: Издательство Европейского университета в Санкт-Петербурге, 2019. — 182 с. — ISBN 978-5-94380-273-7. Настоящее издание посвящено роману Лоренса Стерна «Сентиментальное путешествие по Франции и Италии» в контексте визуальной культуры XVIII−XIX веков. Какие образы «Сентиментального путешествия» Стерна были популярны у читателей и иллюстраторов в конце XVIII — середине XIX...
К.: Вища школа, 1977. — 178 с. Книга представляет собой монографическое исследование идейно-творческой эволюции Джона Уэйна, одного из крупных писателей Англии наших дней. В ней делается попытка осветить основные этапы творческой деятельности писателя, его наиболее значительные произведения в разных жанрах художественной прозы, поэзии, литературной критики и публицистики,...
Jusserand J. Histoire Litteraire du Peuple Anglais Либроком, 2009 - 416 с. Автор предисловия: Тер-Минасова С.Г. Серия: История языков народов Европы Язык: Русский (дореформенный) Отсканированные страницы + слой распознанного текста Вниманию читателей предлагается историко-филологический труд известного французского дипломата и писателя Ж. Жюссерана, в котором не только...
М., 2009. Вниманию читателей предлагается историко-филологический труд известного французского дипломата и писателя Ж. Жюссерана, в котором не только описываются история английского народа, становление Англии как страны, образование английской нации, но и исследуется отражение этих процессов в английской литературе. Многие наблюдения и положения автора сейчас, в эпоху...
Москва, Советский писатель - 1989. Об английском характере писали многие и много. Зачастую настаивали на сухости и даже чопорности англичан, говорили об их мнимой скупости и даже подчас почти бездушии. При этом невзначай путали слова «английский» и «британский», забывая, что термин «британский» не взаимозаменяем термином «английский». Английский и валлийский, английский и...
Очерки о литературе Великобритании 1945- 1977. Москва. Советский писатель - 1979. Автор рассматривает пути английской литературы и судьбы ее созидателей в минувшем тридцатилетии, размышляет над теми социальными процессами, которые определили характер этого времени и облик страны,—крушение Британской империи, духовный кризис общества потребления, научно-технический прогресс,...
М.: Советский писатель, 1983. – 370 с. В основе этой книги – двадцатилетняя переписка автора с английскими писателями, авторское истолкование важнейших тенденций литературного развития в Великобритании второй половины XX века. В диалогах обсуждаются жизненные проблемы литературного процесса на Западе: роль реалистического романа сегодня и отношение к этому жанру буржуазной...
М.: Советский писатель, 1983. – 370 с. В основе этой книги – двадцатилетняя переписка автора с английскими писателями, авторское истолкование важнейших тенденций литературного развития в Великобритании второй половины XX века. В диалогах обсуждаются жизненные проблемы литературного процесса на Западе: роль реалистического романа сегодня и отношение к этому жанру буржуазной...
Москва: Высшая школа, 1984. — 488 с. Настоящий учебник по литературе Великобритании охватывает период от 10-х до начала 80-х годов XX столетия. В нем прослеживаются развитие реализма, модернизма, размежевание литературных сил после второй мировой войны. Отражено влияние Великой Октябрьской социалистической революции на литературный процесс в Великобритании.
Воронеж, 2003. - 34 с.
Пособие подготовлено на кафедре английского языка факультета РГФ Воронежского государственного университета.
Рекомендуется для студентов 2-3 курса дневного отделения филологического факультета.
Old English Period.
Anglo-Norman Period.
Middle English Period.
Renaissance Period.
Neoclassic Period.
Romantic Period.
Realistic Period.
Modern, or...
Пер. с англ.: Любовь Сумм. — М.: Библейско-богословский институт св. апостола Андрея, 2009. — XIV, 256 с. — (Религиозные мыслители). — ISBN 978-5-89647-210-0. Стивен Кларк показывает отношение Честертона к молодому тогда жанру научной фантастики, кроме того, выявляет элементы этого жанра в его романах. Особый интерес представляет заключительная часть книги: автор предлагает...
Ленинград: Издательство Ленинградского университета, 1959. — 302 с.
Книга освещает вопросы стиля в историческом плане. Материалом служат стилистические явления в языке английской литературы на рубеже XVIII и XIX веков и вплоть до парламентской реформы в Англии — в этот период произошли решающие изменения во взглядах на художественный стиль. Они рассматриваются в связи с...
Ленинград: Издательство Ленинградского университета, 1959. — 302 с.
Книга освещает вопросы стиля в историческом плане. Материалом служат стилистические явления в языке английской литературы на рубеже XVIII и XIX веков и вплоть до парламентской реформы в Англии — в этот период произошли решающие изменения во взглядах на художественный стиль. Они рассматриваются в связи с...
Ленинград: Изд-во Ленинградского Университета, 1967. - 234 с.
Книга знакомит читателя с творчеством английского поэта Р. Браунинга.
Первые две главы посвящены ранним поэмам, драмам и первым сборникам стихов поэта (30—40-е годы XIX в), третья глава — его полемике с современниками, борьбе за серьезную, объективную поэзию. Четвертая глава — воззрениям Браунинга на историю искусства...
Ленинград: Издательство Ленинградского университета, 1961. — 192 с.
Вопросы традиции и новаторства рассматриваются в сборнике на материале английской литературы XIX века — творчества Вальтера Скотта, Байрона, Шелли, романистов реалистической школы, а также значительных, но менее известных советскому читателю авторов: Роберта Браунинга, Джен Остин, Джорджа Мередита. В связи со...
Ленинград: Издательство Ленинградского университета, 1961. — 192 с.
Вопросы традиции и новаторства рассматриваются в сборнике на материале английской литературы XIX века — творчества Вальтера Скотта, Байрона, Шелли, романистов реалистической школы, а также значительных, но менее известных советскому читателю авторов: Роберта Браунинга, Джен Остин, Джорджа Мередита. В связи со...
Правительство Москвы
Департамент образования
Московский городской педагогический университет
Общеуниверситетская кафедра иностранных языков
Москва 2005. — 140 c.
История английской литературы от The Ancient Britons и Средних веков до конца 20-го века.
Учебное пособие на английском языке
Магнитогорск: Магнитогорский государственный университет, 2001. — 360 с. В монографии рассматривается история английской сентиментальной комедии XVIII столетия. Генезис и эволюция этого практически не исследованного в отечественном литературоведении жанра отражает сложный процесс формирования новой жанровой системы, происходящий в английской и европейской драматургии эпохи....
Б-ка Рос. акад. наук; В. П. Комарова. — Б-ка Рос. акад. наук. — СПб., 2010. — 52 с. ISBN 978-5-336-00117-4
Три автора, выбранные для очерков, не смогли полностью раскрыть свои таланты. Филипп Сидней умер от раны в 33 года, Эдмунд Спенсер бежал из Ирландии и умер в 47 лет, а Уолтер Роли провел в Тауэре 14 лет и был казнен в 1618 г. за преступление 1603 г., которого он не...
Берлин: Директ-Медиа, 2016. — 239 с. — ISBN: 978-5-4475-8684-3. Учебное пособие освещает проблемы формирования и проявления британского мифа о России на протяжении всего периода его существования: с момента зарождения его «ядра» в XII–XIII вв. до начала XXI века. Основной акцент делается на литературных формах его бытования. Пособие представляет интерес как для специалистов в...
Берлин: Директ-Медиа, 2016. — 239 с. — ISBN: 978-5-4475-8684-3. Учебное пособие освещает проблемы формирования и проявления британского мифа о России на протяжении всего периода его существования: с момента зарождения его «ядра» в XII–XIII вв. до начала XXI века. Основной акцент делается на литературных формах его бытования. Пособие представляет интерес как для специалистов в...
Сост., пер., вступ. ст., комментарии: Александр Ливергант. — М.: Время, 2021. — 910 с. — ISBN 978-5-00112-243-7. В «Национальном предрассудке» российский читатель прочтет, причем впервые, все самое интересное и значительное, что было написано в английской нехудожественной литературе за последние 500 лет. А впрочем, можно ли считать литературой нехудожественной дневники...
Сост., пер., вступ. ст., комментарии: Александр Ливергант. — М.: Время, 2021. — 910 с. — ISBN 978-5-00112-243-7. В «Национальном предрассудке» российский читатель прочтет, причем впервые, все самое интересное и значительное, что было написано в английской нехудожественной литературе за последние 500 лет. А впрочем, можно ли считать литературой нехудожественной дневники...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2009. — 776 с. В сборнике представлены эссе, дневники, письма, путевые заметки, афоризмы, памфлеты, биографии, мемуары и очерки лучших английских писателей-сатириков XVIII века. С перепиской Свифта и Стерна, с дневниками Сэмюэля Пипса, с романами-пародиями семнадцатилетней Джейн Остен, с фрагментами из биографии крупнейшего английского...
М.: Московский государственный университет, Исторический факультет, 2007. — 53 с.
В работе на основе различных художественных произведений Г. Уэллса, написанных до 1914 г., исследуется вопрос о том, как английский писатель представлял себе будущую войну. Исследуются такие проблемы, как образ врага, представления Уэллса о тактике и стратегии в будущей войне, о будущих врагах и...
Монография. — Пермь: Пермский государственный национальный исследовательский университет, 2023. — 157 с. Монография посвящена изучению развития жанра исторического романа в литературе Великобритании на примере творчества ряда писателей, основное внимание уделяется творчеству Мэри Рено.
М.: Советская литература, 1934. — 140 с. История идей и настроений английской интеллигенции. Из биографии автора: Д. П. Святополк-Мирский, учился в Петербургском университете по отделению классической филологии, участвовал в Обществе свободной эстетики. В гражданской войне на стороне белого движения; временно был начальником штаба 1-й пехотной дивизии Добровольческой армии А....
М.: Московский педагогический государственный университет, 1995. — 152 с. Русь в английских литературных памятниках IX-XVII вв У самых истоков: Русь в английских литературных памятниках средних веков XVI век: первые свидетельства англичан, побывавших на Руси. Русь и русские в произведениях художественной литературы XVII век: от Джона Флетчера к Джону Милтону Россия в английской...
М.: Московский педагогический государственный университет, 1995. — 152 с. Русь в английских литературных памятниках IX-XVII вв У самых истоков: Русь в английских литературных памятниках средних веков XVI век: первые свидетельства англичан, побывавших на Руси. Русь и русские в произведениях художественной литературы XVII век: от Джона Флетчера к Джону Милтону Россия в английской...
М.: Прогресс, 1970. - 262 с. Эта книга возникла без предварительного плана: выступая со статьями на различные темы из истории английской литературы, А. Л. Мортон в итоге обнаружил, что писал, в сущности, на одну тему. Она обозначена в книге заголовком и подзаголовком, которые не без труда поддаются переводу. Но как бы ни переводить — «Дело Британии» или «Суть Британии»,— речь...
М.: Прогресс, 1970. — 262 с.
Эта книга возникла без предварительного плана: выступая со статьями на различные темы из истории английской литературы, А. Л. Мортон в итоге обнаружил, что писал, в сущности, на одну тему. Она обозначена в книге заголовком и подзаголовком, которые не без труда поддаются переводу. Но как бы ни переводить — «Дело Британии» или «Суть Британии»,— речь...
Москва: Книга, 1972. — 208 с. — (Судьбы книг). Автор книги предлагает читателю своеобразное путешествие по векам и странам вместе с Лемюэлем Гулливером. В этом путешествии мы заново открываем книгу Свифта — книгу безмерной горечи и сарказма, неоцененной глубины. Автор рассказывает о том, как возник замысел сатирического шедевра Свифта, об атмосфере мистификации и тайны, окружавшей...
Москва: Книга, 1972. — 208 с. Автор книги предлагает читателю своеобразное путешествие по векам и странам вместе с Лемюэлем Гулливером. В этом путешествии мы заново открываем книгу Свифта — книгу безмерной горечи и сарказма, неоцененной глубины. Автор рассказывает о том, как возник замысел сатирического шедевра Свифта, об атмосфере мистификации и тайны, окружавшей публикацию...
М.: ИМЛИ РАН, 2024. — 440 с. — ISBN 978-5-9208-0777-9 В данной коллективной монографии изучается бытование произведений английской литературы («Гамлет» У. Шекспира, «Путь паломника» Джона Баньяна, готический роман XVIII в., романы Чарльза Диккенса и Джейн Остен) в современной мировой культуре. Авторы рассматривают обширный круг произведений, для которых упомянутые выше...
М.: Изд. ИМЛИ РАН, 2003. — 272 с. — (Литература Средних Веков, Ренессанса и Барокко 9). Предлагаемая монография посвящена творчеству Досточтимого Беды (672/3-735), выдающегося церковного писателя и богослова раннего Средневековья. Произведения писателя представляют собой яркие примеры наиболее распространенных в Средние века жанров — жития, жизнеописания, послания, проповеди....
Монография. — М.: Изд. ИМЛИ РАН, 2003. — 272 с. — (Литература Средних Веков, Ренессанса и Барокко 9). Предлагаемая монография посвящена творчеству Досточтимого Беды (672/3-735), выдающегося церковного писателя и богослова раннего Средневековья. Произведения писателя представляют собой яркие примеры наиболее распространенных в Средние века жанров — жития, жизнеописания,...
Монография. — Нижний Новгород: Изд-во ННГУ им. Н.И. Лобачевского, 2013. — 369 с. В монографии исследуется трансформация жанрового содержания социального романа, традиция которого складывается в эпоху модерна, под влиянием радикальных изменений типа мышления, присущего постмодерну. Концепция реальности и возможности ее репрезентации раскрываются на материале романов М. Брэдбери, Д....
СПб.: Лениздат, Команда А, 2013. — 384 с. — ISBN: 978-5-4453-0129-5. Книга Дж.Р. Толкина "Хоббит, или Туда и обратно" открыла широкой публике удивительный мир Среднеземья, который после выхода культовой трилогии "Властелин колец" приобрел невероятную популярность. Кори Олсен - профессор, специалист по средневековой литературе и большой поклонник Толкина, предлагает нам вновь...
Оцет Георгий. Миры Уильяма Голдинга [Предисловие] // Голдинг У. Повелитель мух. — М.: Педагогика, 1990. — (224 с. ) – С. 3-
12. (6 страниц)
В предисловии Г. Оцет показывает, что творчество У. Голдинга можно рассматривать как экзистенциалистское, как мифологическое, как притчевое. Критик считает, что три романа могут пониматься как концептуальное единство.
Впервые в русском...
Магнитогорск: Магнитострой, 1993. - 86 с.
В работе рассмотрены произведения великих английских писателей 17-18 веков, которые и в конце двадцатого столетия остаются для русского читателя "книгами-невидимками": они ЕСТЬ и одновременно - их НЕТ.
ЕСТЬ, существует "Дневник" Сэмюэля Пипса, являющийся высшим достижением мировой мемуаристики всех времен, однако, поскольку мнения и...
Учебное пособие. — Курган: Курганский государственный университет, 2024. — 120 с. — ISBN 978-5-4217-0699-1. Учебное пособие охватывает несколько веков английской литературы. Рассматриваются наиболее важные явления и темы национального литературного процесса. Специальные разделы посвящены древнеанглийской поэзии, Т. Мору, У. Шекспиру, Д. Дефо, Дж. Свифту, С. Ричардсону, Г....
М.: Литсовет, 2015. — 450 с.
Книга о великом английском писателе, открывшем совершенно новые пути в мировой литературе. Его фантастические романы показали долгий и сложный процесс вырождения викторианского человека, превращение Человека разумного в новый жалкий, ничего не значащий вид.
Личные разочарования отдельного человека обычно ничего особенного не значат для всего...
Пермь: Изд-во Пермского ун-та, 2000. — 289 с. — ISBN 5-8241-0108 - 6 На материале романного творчества Дизраели, Троллопа, Дж.Элиот и Мередита рассматриваются проблемы возникновения, формально-содержательного самоопределения в жанровой системе английской литературы XIX в. одного из ярких явлений викторианской эпохи как культурно-исторической целостности - политического романа....
М.: Художественная литература, 1965. — 500 c. Борис Георгиевич Реизов (1902-1981) — советский литературовед и переводчик, академик, специалист по истории европейских литератур XVIII—XIX веков, теоретическим и методологическим проблемам литературоведения. В работах Б. Г. Реизова показан генезис эстетических идей, породивших то или иное литературное явление и определивших его...
Научное издание. — М.: РГГУ, 2012. — 608 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7281-1315-7. В книгу вошли редкие материалы, связанные с английской литературой XX в., — интервью автора с Айрис Мердок, Джоном Фаулзом, Мартином Эмисом и Пирсом Полом Ридом, а также эссе о знаменитых мало известных русскому читателю корифеях британской литературы первой половины XX в.: В. Вулф и Дж. Рис, Дж. Джойсе и...
Иркутск: Изд. Иркутского университета, 1989. — 248 с. Монография посвящена истории становления английской литературной критики. В ней рассматриваются критические суждения и литературно-теоретические взгляды английских философов-материалистов Ф. Бэкона и Т. Гоббса, а также видных английских писателей XVI—XVII вв. Ф. Сидни, Б. Джонсона, У. Давенанта, Д Мильтона и Д. Драйдена. Для...
Ленинград ; Москва : Искусство, 1958. — 124 с., 1 л. портр. — (Классики зарубежной драматургии. Научно-популярные очерки). Обзор жизни и творческого пути английского драматурга Бенджамина (Бена) Джонсона.
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012. — 272 с. — ISBN 978-3-659-14423-3. Монография посвящена исследованию театра У. С. Моэма в контексте западноевропейской драматургии конца XIX - начала XX в. В работе описано мировоззрение и эстетика писателя. Подробно рассматривается связь театра У. С. Моэма с традициями английской комедии нравов эпохи Реставрации, которые были творчески...
Челябинск: Челябинский государственный педагогический университет. - 2 с.
Лекция по зарубежной литературе.
Чартистское направление в истории.
Возникновение чартистской литературы.
Жанровое своеобразие и представители.
СПб.: 2007. — 355 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7320-1006-0 Монография проф. Э.В. Седых рассматривает жизнь и творчество Уильяма Морриса - поэта и писателя, художника и декоратора, ремесленника и политика, первого дизайнера в мире. На протяжении пяти глав шаг за шагом анализируется жизненный путь Морриса и основные вехи на этом пути: его картины, гобелены, витражи и, конечно же, его романы...
М.: Городец, 2021. — 416 с. — ISBN 978-5-907220-82-9. Книга предлагает непривычный ракурс: взгляд на Уильяма Блейка через призму русской культуры. Из текста можно узнать, как из «сумасшедшего», мистика и символиста Блейк в русской критике стал «воинствующим гуманистом», а затем и просто значительным поэтом и художником. Автор описывает палитру переводческих стратегий в...
Ленинград: Изд-во Ленинградского университета, 1987. - 188 с.
В монографии рассматривается творчество А. Поупа, одного из самых значительных представителей английской классицистической поэзии, 1700—1727 гг. В его стихах этого периода отразились сложные социально-политические процессы, происходившие в Англии после компромиссной революции 1688—1689 гг. Автор рассматривает также...
Учебно-практическое пособие. — Владимир: Владимирский государственный университет им. А.Г. и Н.Г. Столетовых (ВлГУ), 2021. — 328 с. — ISBN 978-5-9984-1341-4. Посвящено английскому роману первой половины XX века. Рассматривается литературный образ Англии-Аркадии в английских «романах об усадьбе» начала XX века как образное воплощение английской национальной идеи. С этой точки...
Монография. — Воронеж: Полиграф, 2000. — 182 с. — ISBN: 5-86937-027-2. В монографии исследуется художественное своеобразие романов современного британского писателя Питера Акройда в контексте эстетики постмодернизма (трактовка проблемы времени, истины, познания и др.). В рамках «романа-саморефлексии», «историографического романа» и «романа-пастиша» рассматриваются пути...
Сценарий по Рассказу Врача.
НГУ, ФИЯ, 2012.
Тит Ливии повествует, что некогда в Риме жил знатный рыцарь по имени Виргинии, заслуживший всеобщую любовь своей щедростью. Бог наградил его единственной дочерью, по красоте своей походившей на богиню.
М.: Детская литература, 1962. — 225 с. Эта книга посвящайся всем тем, кто любит роман «Овод», любит его героя и сам стремится стать борцом за счастье всего человечества. В этой книге рассказывается о судьбе писателя и судьбе его романа, о том, как мы нашли автора «Овода» — Этель Лилиан Войнич, о том, почему она была забыта у себя на родине и как случилось, что только на закате...
М.: Детская литература, 1962. — 225 с. Эта книга посвящайся всем тем, кто любит роман «Овод», любит его героя и сам стремится стать борцом за счастье всего человечества. В этой книге рассказывается о судьбе писателя и судьбе его романа, о том, как мы нашли автора «Овода» — Этель Лилиан Войнич, о том, почему она была забыта у себя на родине и как случилось, что только на закате...
В условиях предельной кризисности и катастрофического, конечного восприятия действительности, предопределенными поиском радикально нового ценностного ориентира, происходит формировании новой культурно-исторической реальности, определившей себя как постмодернизм. В контексте современного метода интертекстуального анализа, особую актуальность приобретает тема выявления литературной...
Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет, 2003 г.
Монография посвящена творчеству одного из самых ярких английских писателей второй половины 20 века. Особое внимание уделено технологии воздействия на читателя, которую автор разрабатывал в течении многих лет. Наиболее детально эта проблема рассмотрена на материале романа "Любовница французского лейтенанта".
СПб.: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет, 2003. — 112 с. — ISBN: 5-87403-039-5. Монография посвящена творчеству одного из самых ярких английских писателей второй половины 20 века. Особое внимание уделено технологии воздействия на читателя, которую автор разрабатывал в течении многих лет. Наиболее детально эта проблема рассмотрена на материале романа "Любовница...
СПб.: Каро, 2003. — 304 с. Лекционный курс состоит из 12 глав. Каждая из них начинается с определенного исторического этапа развития Англии, на фоне которого происходили основные тенденции эпохи. Учебное пособие рассчитано на широкий круг читателей. Это прежде всего, учащиеся английских школ и студенты вузов.
Москва: Книга, 1986. - 287 с.
Описание: Английский автор знакомит читателей с наиболее яркими загадками, подделками, розыгрышами в истории литературы, с судьбами знаменитых мистификаторов. Среди них - Томас Чаттертон и Джеймс Макферсон, Уильям Генри Айрленд, подделавший пьесу Шекспира, и майор Байрон, мнимый сын лорда Байрона. Касается Уайтхед и легенды об авторстве пьес...
М.: Наука, 1977. — 128 с. — (Из истории мировой культуры).
Книга посвящена жизни и творчеству выдающегося английского писателя Джозефа Конрада (1857-1924), автора многочисленных романов и новелл о путешествиях и приключениях. Признанный мастер прозы, Конрад оказал большое влияние на многих американских и английских писателей: среди его учеников — Хэмингуэй, Фолкнер, Грэм Грин....
М.: Наука, 1973. - 91 с. Замечательные произведения двух выдающихся писателей Англии XVIII в. Дефо и Свифта привлекают и в наши дни читателей самых разных профессий и возрастов. Одни с увлечением следят за приключениями героев, за перипетиями сюжета, другие пытаются раскрыть секреты мастерства писателей, понять, что определило неувядаемость созданных писателями образцов -...
Москва: Наука, 1973. — 89 с. — (Из истории мировой культуры). Замечательные произведения двух выдающихся писателей Англии XVIII в. Дефо и Свифта привлекают и в наши дни читателей самых разных профессий и возрастов. Одни с увлечением следят за приключениями героев, за перипетиями сюжета, другие пытаются раскрыть секреты мастерства писателей, понять, что определило неувядаемость...
М.: Наука, 1973. — 89 с. — (Из истории мировой культуры). Замечательные произведения двух выдающихся писателей Англии XVIII в. Дефо и Свифта привлекают и в наши дни читателей самых разных профессий и возрастов. Одни с увлечением следят за приключениями героев, за перипетиями сюжета, другие пытаются раскрыть секреты мастерства писателей, понять, что определило неувядаемость...
М.: Наука, 1970. — 432 c. Основная задача монографии - проследить истоки английской литературы новейшего времени, главным образом её основного жанра - жанра романа, понаблюдать, как в границах и недрах "викторианской" эпохи намечаются тенденции, получившие влияние в реалистической литературе XX века, или, напротив, в литературе так называемого "модерна".
НовГУ им. Ярослава Мудрого. — Великий Новгород, 2011. — 30 с. Данные методические рекомендации и указания предназначены для студентов, обучающихся по программе бакалавриата «Педагогическое образование» (ФГОС код 050100, профиль «Иностранный язык»). В состав пособия входят краткие планы-конспекты лекционных курсов по дисциплине «Литература страны изучаемого языка». Пособие содержит...
Ин-т мировой литературы им. A.M. Горького РАН. - М.: Наука, 2009. — 350 с. — ISBN 978-5-02-036913-9 Монография является первым системно-типологическим исследованием "поэзии воображения", наиболее ярко представленной именами поэтов Великой романтической пятерки: Вордсворта, Колриджа, Китса, Шелли и Байрона. "Поэзия воображения" относится к лирико-медитативному модусу,...
Ин-т мировой литературы им. A.M. Горького РАН. - М.: Наука, 2009. — 350 с. — ISBN 978-5-02-036913-9
Монография является первым системно-типологическим исследованием "поэзии воображения", наиболее ярко представленной именами поэтов Великой романтической пятерки: Вордсворта, Колриджа, Китса, Шелли и Байрона. "Поэзия воображения" относится к лирико-медитативному модусу,...
Учебное пособие. — Курган: Курганский государственный университет, 2017. — 137 с. — ISBN: 978-5-4217-0424-9. В книге рассматривается творчество таких представителей английской литературы периода конца Х1Х - начала XX века, как Уильям Сомерсет Моэм, Джозеф Конрад, Герберт Уэллс, Артур Конан Дойл. Каждая из глав пособия представляет собой обзор творческой биографии писателей....
Курган: Курганский государственный университет, 2017. — 102 с. — ISBN: 978-5-4217-0423-2. В учебном пособии рассматривается модернизм - актуальное направление английской литературы начала XX века. В главах пособия раскрываются биографические и творческие особенности художников слова, которые представляют образцы модернизма мирового значения в эпосе, лирике и драме. Главы...
Лекции по английской литературе: Учебно-методическое пособие. — Челябинск, 2016. — 137 c. В данном учебно-методическом пособии рассматриваются основные этапы развития литературы на английском языке, начиная с древнейших времён до наших дней. Пособие подразделяется на лекции, которые отражают предпосылки литературных направлений, исторический контекст творчества писателей, а...
Монография. — Харьков : Крок, 2004. — 208 с.
В исследовании рассматривается нравственно-философская проблематика, особенности психологизма, поэтики и стилистики произведений Кристины Джорджины Россетти (1830-1894) в контексте наиболее значимых эстетических и духовных явлений викторианской эпохи - прерафаэлитизма и трактарианства. Устанавливается объективная,...
М.: Искусство, 1978. — 293 с.: ил. — (Жизнь в искусстве). Книга известного американского писателя Оскара Шервина посвящена жизни и творчеству Ричарда Шеридана. Произведения английского драматурга хорошо известны советскому читателю, его пьесы неоднократно издавались и ставились на сцене многих театров страны. Таковы: «Школа злословия», «Дуэнья» («День чудесных обманов»),...
М.: Искусство, 1978. — 293 с.: ил. — (Жизнь в искусстве). Книга известного американского писателя Оскара Шервина посвящена жизни и творчеству Ричарда Шеридана. Произведения английского драматурга хорошо известны советскому читателю, его пьесы неоднократно издавались и ставились на сцене многих театров страны. Таковы: «Школа злословия», «Дуэнья» («День чудесных обманов»),...
Год: 2010
Издательство: Нестор-История
ISBN: 978-5-98187-520-5
Количество страниц: 321 (в книге - 312 + илл. )
Описание: Эта книга посвящена культурологическим аспектам английской литературы. В ней анализируются литературные тексты, связанные с традиционными феноменами английской культуры и национального характера: спортом, образованием, путешествием, юмором.
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СПб, 2006.
Книга петербуржского литературоведа С. Щепотьева «Диккенс и Теккерей» представляет собой очерк жизни и творчества двух ключевых фигур английского реализма XIX в. Автор рассматривает и непростые взаимоотношения этих писателей, а также некоторые вопросы русскоязычных переводов их произведений, убедительно доказывает насущность творчества английских классиков в наши...
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