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Over the past fifty years, children's literature has freed itself of many traditional restrictions and become a field of exciting innovations in both form and content.

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In Reflections on the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Fourth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, editor Michael R. Collings has selected the best of the conference proceedings reflecting the intent of the conference to discover aspects of the fantastic in every branch of the arts.

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Provides a new sense of the historical specificity of W.B. Yeats's writings over a wide range of genres, leading to innovative readings of classic texts. >

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This comprehensive and sophisticated feminist analysis contradicts the negative evaluations of earlier feminist critics to define Oates' feminist accomplishments.

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Exploring the network of social, political and spiritual connections in north west England during Shakespeare's formative years, this text discusses how the surrounding cultural context may have shaped him as an artist, looking at "Twelfth Night", "Romeo and Juliet" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

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An interdisciplinary collection of essays examining the depiction of immigration from North Africa in contemporary French culture. -- .

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An interdisciplinary collection of essays examining the depiction of immigration from North Africa in contemporary French culture. -- .

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This volume brings together scholars working in different languagesCreole, French, English, Spanishand modes of cultural productionliterature, art, film, musicto suggest how best to model courses that impart the rich, vibrant, and multivalent aspects of the Caribbean in the classroom.

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This volume brings together scholars working in different languagesCreole, French, English, Spanishand modes of cultural productionliterature, art, film, musicto suggest how best to model courses that impart the rich, vibrant, and multivalent aspects of the Caribbean in the classroom.

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Employs theoretical aspects of mental and verbal imagery to explain iconicity as an artist process for acting and staging dramatic works.

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'Reinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-First Century' is a collection of essays about a novelist who once was the 'second most famous Englishwoman in the world' after Queen Victoria and whose books broke every previous sales record. The essays account for Corelli's popularity and reintroduce her to a new generation of readers.

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This book channels the speculative power of science fiction to examine the limits of postmodern philosophies of history. By contrasting the questioning nature of science fiction to postmodern philosophy of history, it finds that this postmodernism often engages in a forgetful, even ahistorical, reading of the past.

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Illuminates the religious life of Elizabethan England, promotes an understanding of Shakespeare's plays, and uses Shakespeare's works to examine religious culture. This book offers an overview of the origins of Elizabethan religious traditions, followed by a consideration of the chief religious beliefs and concerns of Shakespeare's world.

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This work offers an important insight into the role that the religious imagination plays in the creation of sacred worlds.

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Offers insight into the role that the religious imagination plays in the creation of sacred worlds. Covering foundational questions regarding the relation between words and worlds and the parameters of the sacred, this work explores different ways of using interdisciplinary resources to open up our understanding of religion and literature.

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Contents: I. Religion, evolution, and the novel; 1. 1888 and a look backwards; 2. George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Samuel Butler: three types of search; II. George Eliot: the search for a religious tradition; 1. George Eliot and science; 2. George Eliot and the "higher criticism"; 3. George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, and tradition; III. Middlemarch: the

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Myers has worked extensively with Frederic's correspondence as well as in publishers' archives (especially Scribner's), and he sees Frederic as a writer who flourished just as the American literary marketplace was being transformed from the rather poky 19th-century model into the faster-paced 20th-century version so familiar today.

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This book examines the colonial legacies and transnational identities of four minorities, orphans of Algeria: European settlers, Jews, mixed-race individuals, and Harkis. It argues that works of literature build an archive allowing the articulation of hidden histories and pays homage to the missing Algerian father, outcast of hegemonic narratives.