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Englishness

Author : Simon Featherstone

Publisher : Edinburgh University Press

Page : 208 pages

File Size : 50,93 MB

Release : 2009-01-15

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0748632549

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Book Description

This book examines the conflicts, dilemmas and contradictions that marked Englishness as the nation changed from an imperial power to a postcolonial state. The chapters deal with travel writing, popular song, music hall and variety theatre, dances, elocution lessons, cricket and football, and national festivals, as well as literature and film. 'High' and 'popular' cultures are brought together in dialogue, and the diversity as well as the problematic nature of English identity is emphasised. The case studies are linked by their interests in different kinds of performances of being English, and by a particular focus upon the voice and the body as key sites for the struggles of modern England. The book is a lively contribution to current interdisciplinary debates about Englishness, national cultures and postcolonial identities. It is relevant to undergraduate students of literature, drama, film, politics and sociology, and will also appeal to a general readership.





Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century

Author : Eric L. Haralson

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 867 pages

File Size : 46,50 MB

Release : 2014-01-21

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 131776322X

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The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.



The Canterbury Tales, A Selection - Second Edition

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer

Publisher : Broadview Press

Page : 518 pages

File Size : 25,78 MB

Release : 2013-07-15

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 1554811368

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Drawing from the same text as the complete Broadview edition of the Tales, which is based on the famous Ellesmere Manuscript, this selected edition also features a critical introduction, marginal glosses in modern English of difficult words, and explanatory footnotes. The most widely taught appendix material from the complete edition is included, along with ten illustrations from the Ellesmere Manuscript. The second edition includes a new glossary, a timeline of Chaucer’s life and times, and detailed headers showing the section and line numbers, making it easier to find a specific section of the poem. Several popular prologues and tales have also been added to the selection: The Cook’s Prologue and Tale, The Friar’s Prologue and Tale, The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale, and The Parson’s Prologue.



HSC Advanced English

Author : Barry Spurr

Publisher : Pascal Press

Page : 336 pages

File Size : 30,63 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 1741253691

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"This guide contains an introduction to the new course, plus exam tips, comprehensive summary and discussion of each text in the Advanced English course, including Area of Study and Advanced English Modules, a list of key issues to consider in each chapter related to the relevant syllabus area, helpful advice on how to read different types of texts and plot outlines, character discussion and interpretations."--Publisher description.



The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry

Author : Ilan Stavans

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 769 pages

File Size : 44,54 MB

Release : 2012-03-27

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 0374533180

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Book Description

Presents a diverse sample of twentieth century Latin American poems from eighty-four authors in Spanish, Portuguese, Ladino, Spanglish, and several indigenous languages with English translations on facing pages.



The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-century French Poetry

Author : Mary Ann Caws

Publisher : Yale University Press

Page : 690 pages

File Size : 32,78 MB

Release : 2004-01-01

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 0300133154

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An influential social thinker, the late Richard Harvey Brown was professor of sociology at the University of Maryland and the author of Toward a Democratic Science: Scientific Narration and Civic Communication, published by Yale University Press.



Profiles in Canadian Literature

Author : Jeffrey M. Heath

Publisher : Dundurn

Page : 156 pages

File Size : 50,80 MB

Release : 1991

Category : Authors, Canadian

ISBN : 9994531239

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Profiles in Canadian Literature is a wide-ranging series of essays on Canadian authors. Each profile acquaints the reader with the writer's work, providing insight into themes, techniques, and special characteristics, as well as a chronology of the author's life. Finally, there is a bibliography of primary works and criticism that suggests avenues for further study. "I know of no better introduction to these writers, and the studies in question are full of basic information not readily obtainable elsewhere." -U of T Quarterly.



Reading Heresy

Author : Gregory Erickson

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Page : 226 pages

File Size : 43,32 MB

Release : 2017-11-20

Category : Religion

ISBN : 3110556820

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Heresy studies is a new interdisciplinary, supra-religious, and humanist field of study that focuses on borderlands of dogma, probes the intersections between orthodoxy and heterodoxy, and explores the realms of dissent in religion, art, and literature. Free from confessional agendas and tolerant of both religious and non-religious perspectives, heresy studies fulfill an important gap in scholarly inquiry and artistic production. Divided into four parts, the volume explores intersections between heresy and modern literature, it discusses intricacies of medieval heresies, it analyzes issues of heresy in contemporary theology, and it demonstrates how heresy operates as an artistic stimulant. Rather than treating matters of heresy, blasphemy, unbelief, dissent, and non-conformism as subjects to be shunned or naively championed, the essays in this collection chart a middle course, energized by the dynamics of heterodoxy, dissent, and provocation, yet shining a critical light on both the challenges and the revelations of disruptive kinds of thinking and acting.



Antony and Cleopatra

Author : Marga Munkelt

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 425 pages

File Size : 31,62 MB

Release : 2024-04-04

Category : Drama

ISBN : 1350321443

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This new volume in the Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition series increases our knowledge of how Antony and Cleopatra has been received and understood by critics, editors and general readers. The volume provides, in separate sections, both critical opinions about the play across the centuries and an evaluation of their positions within and their impact on the reception of the play. The chronological arrangement of the text-excerpts engages the readers in a direct and unbiased dialogue, and the introduction offers a critical evaluation from a current stance, including modern theories and methods. This volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of the play and of the traditions of Shakespearean criticism surrounding it as they have developed from century to century.