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Luiz Carlos Martins Penna was a formative figure in Brazilian theater, creating the comedy of manners in the period after the country gained its independence in 1822. This book examines the interactions of music, theater, and society in Martins Pennas body of work, exploring music theater, music history, and theater history in the Americas.

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A new and exciting interdisciplinary resource which integrates the worlds of music and literature. The first primary and secondary source collection of its kind to focus on the relationship between words and music and between musical and literary forms. -- .

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Professor Colie brings together all previous and partial perspectives on Andrew Marvell, adds new ones harvested from her own deep learning and wide research, and transforms the whole into what Professor Joseph Summers of the University of Michigan has called "the best critical book on Marvell's poetry." Rich in details and knowledge of seventeenth

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In 1954, in Orlando, Florida, nine-year-old Pat Conroy discovered the game of basketball.

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The books listed are found in most children's library collections, and many are award winners (e.g., Boston Globe-Horn Book, Jane Addams, Coretta Scott King, Caldecott, Newbery, state readers' choices) or are listed in Children's Catalog or Elementary School Library Collection.

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Mystic Moderns examines divergent but overlapping treatments of mysticism in the fiction of early twentieth-century British authors Evelyn Underhill, May Sinclair, and Mary Webb. These authors challenged assumptions of a modern, secularized age by seeing sensitivity to a greater reality as integral to their identities as modern women.

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This book discusses the various cultural forms and literary works by which information, myth and misinformation on medical practices and personages were spread during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and some of the reasons for this, from authorial self-interest to scientific ignorance.

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This title seeks to analyze African / Diaspora women's literary voices and images. Dr Brooks De Vita aims to develop culturally relevant modes of literary analysis of African / Diaspora literatures by identifying traditional figures of myth, religion, legend and history.

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This literary and critical approach to Wagner's Ring provides an original interpretation of the Ring tetralogy and challenges the standard political analyses of the work. The Ring is examined in the tradition of romantic drama as a reworking of Greek tragedy, theoretically expressed in the second part of Oper und Drama.

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J. J. White reexamines the use of myth in fiction in order to bring a new terminological precision into the field. While concentrating on the German novel (Mann, Broch, and Nossack), he discusses the work of Alberto Moravia, John Bowen, Michel Butor, and Macdonald Harris as well, in order to show the modern predilection for myth in whatever nationa

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An "eclectic study of the seismic cultural and technological shifts of the early 20th century and their impact on, and reflection in, Russian literature, and in the writings of Vladimir Nabokov in particular"--

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An "eclectic study of the seismic cultural and technological shifts of the early 20th century and their impact on, and reflection in, Russian literature, and in the writings of Vladimir Nabokov in particular"--

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A major reexamination of the novelist Vladimir Nabokov as "literary gamesman," this book systematically shows that behind his ironic manipulation of narrative and his puzzle-like treatment of detail there lies an aesthetic rooted in his intuition of a transcendent realm and in his consequent redefinition of "nature" and "artifice" as synonyms. Begi