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Author: Eric Bulson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-06-28
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1107156211
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Companion focuses on the novel as a global genre and examines its role, impact and development.
Author: Leslie Howsam
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1107023734
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An accessible and wide-ranging study of the history of the book within local, national and global contexts.
Author: Cyrus R. K. Patell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-03-11
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 1139825410
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →New York holds a special place in America's national mythology as both the gateway to the USA and as a diverse, vibrant cultural center distinct from the rest of the nation. From the international atmosphere of the Dutch colony New Amsterdam, through the expansion of the city in the nineteenth century, to its unique appeal to artists and writers in the twentieth, New York has given its writers a unique perspective on American culture. This Companion explores the range of writing and performance in the city, celebrating Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Edith Wharton, Eugene O'Neill, and Allen Ginsberg among a host of authors who have contributed to the city's rich literary and cultural history. Illustrated and featuring a chronology and guide to further reading, this book is the ideal guide for students of American literature as well as for all who love New York and its writers.
Author: Peter Bondanella
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-07-31
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780521669627
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the Italian novel from its early modern origin to the contemporary era. Contributions cover a wide range of topics including the theory of the novel in Italy, the historical novel, realism, modernism, postmodernism, neorealism, and film and the novel. The contributors are distinguished scholars from the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, and Australia. Novelists examined include some of the most influential and important of the twentieth century inside and outside Italy: Luigi Pirandello, Primo Levi, Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino. This is a unique examination of the Italian Novel, and will prove invaluable to students and specialists alike. Readers will gain a keen sense of the vitality of the Italian novel throughout its history and a clear picture of the debates and criticism that have surrounded its development.
Author: Steven Frye
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-04-26
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1107095379
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the literature of the American West, one of the most vibrant and diverse literary traditions.
Author: Richard Bales
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-06-14
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1139826115
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Cambridge Companion to Proust, first published in 2001, aims to provide a broad account of the major features of Marcel Proust's great work A la recherche du temps perdu (1913–27). The specially commissioned essays, by acknowledged experts on Proust, address a wide range of issues relating to his work. Progressing from background and biographical material, the chapters investigate such essential areas as the composition of the novel, its social dimension, the language in which it is couched, its intellectual parameters, its humour, its analytical profundity and its wide appeal and influence. Particular emphasis is placed on illustrating the discussion of issues by frequent recourse to textual quotation (in both French and English) and close analysis. This is the only contributory volume of its kind on Proust currently available. Together with its supportive material, a detailed chronology and bibliography, it will be of interest to scholars and students alike.
Author: Timothy Parrish
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1107013135
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume provides newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics on the social and cultural history of the novel in America. It explores the work of the most influential American novelists of the past 200 years, including Melville, Twain, James, Wharton, Cather, Faulkner, Ellison, Pynchon, and Morrison.
Author: Dennis Danielson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-07-22
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1107494184
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An accessible, helpful guide for any student of Milton, whether undergraduate or graduate, introducing readers to the scope of Milton's work, the richness of its historical relations, and the range of current approaches to it. This second edition contains several new and revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Milton's politics, the social conditions of his authorship and the climate in which his works were published and received, a fresh sense of the importance of his early poems and Samson Agonistes, and the changes wrought by gender studies on the criticism of the previous decade. By contrast with other introductions to Milton, this Companion gathers an international team of scholars, whose informative, stimulating and often argumentative essays will provoke thought and discussion in and out of the classroom. The Companion's reading lists and extended bibliography offer readers the necessary tools for further informed exploration of Milton studies.
Author: John N. Duvall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 0521196310
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive 2011 guide to the genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors of American fiction since the Second World War.
Author: Ruth Prigozy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780521624749
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) Eleven specially-commissioned essays by major Fitzgerald scholars present a clearly written and comprehensive assessment of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a writer and as a public and private figure. No aspect of his career is overlooked, from his first novel published in 1920, through his more than 170 short stories, to his last unfinished Hollywood novel. Contributions present the reader with a full and accessible picture of the background of American social and cultural change in the early decades of the twentieth century. The introduction traces Fitzgerald's career as a literary and public figure, and examines the extent to which public recognition has affected his reputation among scholars, critics, and general readers over the past sixty years. This is the only volume that offers undergraduates, graduates and general readers a full account of Fitzgerald's work as well as suggestions for further exploration of his work. Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Fitzgerald, F, Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 Criticism and interpretation Handbooks, manuals, etc.
