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Author: David Glover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-04-05
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 0521513375
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An overview of popular literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day from a historical and comparative perspective.
Author: Victor E. Neuburg
Publisher: Popular Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780879722333
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this pioneering work Victor Neuberg has assembled a wealth of information about popular literature, from the invention of the printing press to the present. This guide, by judicious selection, gives a vivid picture of the range and variety of popular literature and its producers. Besides describing the main genres, the author has also included the social, cultural and commercial background to the production of popular literature, factors that were crucial in influencing the forms it took.
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: Deborah Cartmell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-05-10
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 1139827553
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Companion offers a multi-disciplinary approach to literature on film and television. Writers are drawn from different backgrounds to consider broad topics, such as the issue of adaptation from novels and plays to the screen, canonical and popular literature, fantasy, genre and adaptations for children. There are also case studies, such as Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the nineteenth-century novel and modernism, which allow the reader to place adaptations of the work of writers within a wider context. An interview with Andrew Davies, whose work includes Pride and Prejudice (1995) and Bleak House (2005), reveals the practical choices and challenges that face the professional writer and adaptor. The Companion as a whole provides an extensive survey of an increasingly popular field of study.
Author: Robert Shaughnessy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-06-28
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1107495024
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Companion explores the remarkable variety of forms that Shakespeare's life and works have taken over the course of four centuries, ranging from the early modern theatrical marketplace to the age of mass media, and including stage and screen performance, music and the visual arts, the television serial and popular prose fiction. The book asks what happens when Shakespeare is popularized, and when the popular is Shakespeareanized; it queries the factors that determine the definitions of and boundaries between the legitimate and illegitimate, the canonical and the authorized and the subversive, the oppositional, the scandalous and the inane. Leading scholars discuss the ways in which the plays and poems of Shakespeare, as well as Shakespeare himself, have been interpreted and reinvented, adapted and parodied, transposed into other media, and act as a source of inspiration for writers, performers, artists and film-makers worldwide.
Author: John Parham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-06-17
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1108498531
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From catastrophe to utopia, the most comprehensive survey yet of how literature can speak to the 'Anthropocene'.
Author: Edward James
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-01-26
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1107493730
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major publishing phenomenon. In this volume, critics and authors of fantasy look at its history since the Enlightenment, introduce readers to some of the different codes for the reading and understanding of fantasy, and examine some of the many varieties and subgenres of fantasy; from magical realism at the more literary end of the genre, to paranormal romance at the more popular end. The book is edited by the same pair who produced The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (winner of a Hugo Award in 2005).
Author: Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-05-06
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 0521514703
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Diverse, vibrant, and challenging as the city itself, this Companion is the definitive guide to LA in literature.
Author: Victor E. Neuburg
Publisher: Harmondsworth, Eng. ; New York : Penguin Books
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 316
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Andrew Hadfield
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-23
Total Pages: 586
ISBN-13: 1317042069
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of current research on popular culture in the early modern era. For the first time a detailed yet wide-ranging consideration of the breadth and scope of early modern popular culture in England is collected in one volume, highlighting the interplay of 'low' and 'high' modes of cultural production (while also questioning the validity of such terminology). The authors examine how popular culture impacted upon people's everyday lives during the period, helping to define how individuals and groups experienced the world. Issues as disparate as popular reading cultures, games, food and drink, time, textiles, religious belief and superstition, and the function of festivals and rituals are discussed. This research companion will be an essential resource for scholars and students of early modern history and culture.
