Examines the rhetorical tools and literary styles that have helped reinvent the art and study of storytelling over time.
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Medievalism and the quest for the "real" Middle Ages
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Medievalism and the quest for the "real" Middle Ages
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"A selection of new and revised essays from eminent scholar and critic Professor Christopher Ricks. Christopher Ricks brings together new as well as substantially augmented critical essays across a wide range. Several derive from his term as the Professor of Poetry at the Univer…
A selection of new and revised essays from eminent scholar and critic Professor Christopher Ricks.
Gary Saul Morson's ideas about life and literature have long inspired, annoyed, and provoked specialists and general readers. His work on "prosaics" (his coinage) argues that life's defining events are not grand but ordinary, and that the world's fundamental state is mess. Viewi…
Gary Saul Morson's ideas about life and literature have long inspired, annoyed, and provoked specialists and general readers. His work on "prosaics" (his coinage) argues that life's defining events are not grand but ordinary, and that the world's fundamental state is mess. Viewi…
This far-ranging study develops Morson's concept of "prosaics," which stresses the importance of ordinary events and the novel's unique ability to portray them. Arguing that time is open and contingency real, Morson develops a "prosaics of process" showing how some masterpieces …
Gary Saul Morson's ideas about life and literature have long inspired, annoyed, and provoked specialists and general readers. His work on "prosaics" (his coinage) argues that life's defining events are not grand but ordinary, and that the world's fundamental state is mess. Viewi…
In this broad ranging study, Gretchen Woertendyke reconfigures US literary history as a product of hemispheric relations. Hemispheric Regionalism: Romance and the Geography of Genre, brings together a rich archive of popular culture, fugitive slave narratives, advertisements, po…
This broad-ranging study reconfigures US literature as a product of hemispheric relations. 'Hemispheric Regionalism' brings together a rich archive of popular culture, fugitive slave narratives, advertisements, political treatises, and literature to construct a new literary hist…
This broad-ranging study reconfigures US literature as a product of hemispheric relations. 'Hemispheric Regionalism' brings together a rich archive of popular culture, fugitive slave narratives, advertisements, political treatises, and literature to construct a new literary hist…
