"This book examines novels of Faulkner and Morrison as well as Mark Twain and Ralph Ellison in order to show that their works forcefully undermine the racial and sexual divisions characterizing both the South and contemporary culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries"--.
"This book examines novels of Faulkner and Morrison as well as Mark Twain and Ralph Ellison in order to show that their works forcefully undermine the racial and sexual divisions characterizing both the South and contemporary culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries"--
"This book examines novels of Faulkner and Morrison as well as Mark Twain and Ralph Ellison in order to show that their works forcefully undermine the racial and sexual divisions characterizing both the South and contemporary culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries"--
"The second half of the fourteenth century was an important transition period both in the spheres of literary form and message, and of social, economic, and political power. This book is concerned with fourteenth-century literature, verse and prose, in Anglo-Norman, Latin, and M…
How do readers experience literary narrative? Drawing on narrative theory, cognitive science, and the philosophy of mind, this book offers a principled account of the dynamics underlying readers' responses to narrative. Through its interdisciplinary approach, this study combines…
"Using a reading code sheet developed by the author, this book teaches students how to approach social and behavioral science journal articles as texts that can be deciphered structurally, mechanically, and grammatically. The included reading code sheet and reading strategies wi…
This volume looks at the reception history of the Bible's many texts. Part I surveys the outline, form, and content of 12 key biblical books that have been influential in the history of interpretation. Part II offers a series of in-depth case studies of the interpretation of par…
