This monograph is the first book-length comprehensive textual analysis of the Beowulf saga as an Indo-European epic. It provides a detailed reading of the epic in conjunction with ancient legal and cultural practices that allow for a new understanding of this classic work. This …
"Temporalities presents a concise critical introduction to the treatment of time throughout literature. Time and its passage represent one of the oldest and most complex philosophical subjects in art of all forms, and Russell West-Pavlov explains and interrogates the most import…
Literature about language
by ProQuest (Firm), Shepherd, Valerie
fromInterface (London, England)
Brings together linguistic theory and literary criticism, and examines language as a theme in a range of literary texts. The book includes discussion of Sontag, Joyce, Swift, Hardy, Cummings, Lodge and Gordimer.
By looking at writers such as Joyce, Swift and Sontag, Shepherd brings together linguistic theory and literary criticism. Written specifically for a student audience, this is an invaluable text for A-Level and undergraduate students.
Close encounters: essays on Russian literature
by Jackson, Robert Louis, Bethea, David M.
fromArs Rossika
"Close Encounters: Essays on Russian Literature combines discussions of ethical, esthetic, and philosophical interest raised by Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Gorky, with close analyses of their texts. This book focuses on four thematic configurations: first …
What would world literature look like, if we stopped referring to the ?West?? Starting with the provocative premise that the ????±???West{u2019} is ten percent of the planet?, World Literature Decentered is the first book to decenter Eurocentric discourses of global literature a…
"Looking at a series of themes across three literatures (Mexico, Turkey and Bengal), the book examines hotels, melancholy, orientalism, femicide and the ghost story in a series of literary traditions outside the 'West'"--