Contemporary Authors: 1945 to the Present reflects the expansiveness of contemporary literature by providing in-depth and authoritative biographical, contextual, bibliographical, and other critical information on authors from as far afield as Turkey, Japan, and Nigeria, working …
Since ancient times, storytelling has been a valued art form that enables traditions, beliefs, and lessons to be transmitted from one generation to the next. Epics such as Homer's Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid and tales such as those contained in the collected The Thousand and One…
Reason, rationality, and reform were perhaps the biggest buzzwords of the Enlightenment era and the themes of much of the writing that appeared at that time. As thinkers increasingly began turning a critical eye towards accepted beliefs and practices, such luminaries as Voltaire…
Reason, rationality, and reform were the watchwords of the Enlightenment era and the themes of much of the writing that appeared at that time. Such luminaries as Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Paine took up their pens to illuminate the social injustices and injuries to …
Profiles of authors, explore the literary movements, techniques, and themes of novels, poetry, and drama of the Medieval and Renaissance eras.
Starting at the dawn of the 20th century, writers began experimenting with literary styles as never before. As perhaps the most far-reaching movement, Modernism swept across both the United States and Europe and has been embodied in the works of such writers as Marcel Proust, Vi…
Gerson as bookman : prescribing "the common school of theological truth"--Justifying authorship : new diseases and new cures -- A tour of medieval authorship : late works and poetry -- Literary expression : logic, rhetoric, and scholarly vice -- The schoolman as public intellect…
From Romanticism to Realism, the 19th century saw a flourishing of literary movements, as well as the arrival of several now-revered luminaries on the literary scene. Authors experimented with new styles that elevated the novel as a significant literary form, while new technique…
"This book examines writing that has been created in isolation and confinement, and it explores the stories, characters and situations which have arisen from these states throughout history. It offers a deeper understanding of how others have found inspiration, purpose and clari…
"This book examines writing that has been created in isolation and confinement, and it explores the stories, characters and situations which have arisen from these states throughout history. It offers a deeper understanding of how others have found inspiration, purpose and clari…
"This book examines writing that has been created in isolation and confinement, and it explores the stories, characters and situations which have arisen from these states throughout history. It offers a deeper understanding of how others have found inspiration, purpose and clari…
The contributors to this volume discuss the formation and transformation of ancient concepts of authorship, specifically among those types of texts that are classified as "religious literature" - whether Greco-Roman, early Jewish, and early Christian. In twelve case studies span…
The contributors to this volume discuss the formation and transformation of ancient concepts of authorship, specifically among those types of texts that are classified as "religious literature"--Whether Greco-Roman, early Jewish, and early Christian. In twelve case studies spann…
The contributors to this volume discuss the formation and transformation of ancient concepts of authorship, specifically among those types of texts that are classified as "religious literature"--Whether Greco-Roman, early Jewish, and early Christian. In twelve case studies spann…
The contributors to this volume discuss the formation and transformation of ancient concepts of authorship, specifically among those types of texts that are classified as "religious literature"--Whether Greco-Roman, early Jewish, and early Christian. In twelve case studies spann…
Examines the philosophic-historical conditions of literary theory"
