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The Frontier Roots of American Realism
In the antebellum South, the « plain folk maintained social norms, ideals of honor, justice, gender, and liberty that were significantly distinct from town and planter gentility, …
Africana Women Writers
Africana Women Writers: Performing Diaspora, Staging Healing focuses on contemporary literary works, plays in particular, written after 1976 by Africana women writers. From a …
John Barth and Postmodernism
John Barth's eminence as a postmodernist is indisputable. However, much of the criticism dealing with his work is prompted by his own theories of -exhaustion- and subsequent …
Magnificent Houses in Twentieth Century European Literature
Magnificent Houses in Twentieth Century European Literature is a collection of great and imaginative essays that explore the theme of magnificent and aesthetically interesting …
Reconstructing the Family in Contemporary American Fiction
Fanny Lewald
"Fanny Lewald: Between Rebellion and Renunciation" provides the first comprehensive account in English of the life and work of Fanny Lewald (1811-1889), tracing the way she …
Seven Essays
In Seven Essays: Studies in Literature, Drama, and Film, Abdulla Al-Dabbagh’s unique approach to literary and cultural issues succeeds in casting new light on these subjects, …
Scheherazade’s Daughters
Scheherazade, the storyteller of 1001 Arabian Nights, recounts stories literally to save her people, and in Scheherazade’s Daughters, Barbara Bennett explores how contemporary …
Text in the Natural World
The study of literature has expanded to include an evolutionary perspective. Its premise is that the literary text and literature as an overarching institution came into existence …
Metamorphosis and the Emergence of the Feminine
Rainer Maria Rilke
Influenced by Hegel and Nietzsche, and inspired by stays in Italy and France, as well as travels to Russia, Spain, and North Africa, Rainer Maria Rilke nevertheless sought …
Youth at War
Youth at War: Feldpost Letters of a German Boy to His Parents, 1943-1945 is a bilingual (German and English), annotated edition of a large collection of Feldpost letters and …