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This volume of essays presents innovative research from a variety of perspectives on the cultural significance of wolves, children raised by wolves, and werewolves, as portrayed in different media and genres. -- .

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In the Mainstream represents the second in a multi-volume study of the Jewish American as both writer and character in our nation's literature.

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During the past 10 years, the situation of women writers in Latin America has dramatically changed as has the interest the reading public has shown in their work. Publishers have noted the growing significance of Latin American women writers and have responded by increasing the availability of the work of these women.

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This text provides a survey of the critical interpretive material written about the literature of the authors from Oceania. It focuses on the commentary and scholarship concerned with the poetry, fiction and drama written in English by indigenous peoples of the Pacific.

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One of the few theological formulas of medieval times to survive the scrutiny of the Reformation was that of the infernal triad of the sins of the Flesh, the World, and the Devil. Through a close analysis of the structural and thematic role that this triad plays in Books I and II of the Faerie Queene and in Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Sam

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At the heart of the book is a departure from the obsession with modernity that has been so prominent in nineteenth-century cultural studies.

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At the heart of the book is a departure from the obsession with "modernity" that has been so prominent in nineteenth-century cultural studies. -- .

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Arguing that genre must play a role in our study of narrative fiction, this tour of the novel examines interactive storytelling scenes in which characters argue about how to tell a tale that meets their respective social and aesthetic expectations.

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Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this is the first monograph to frame three once widely-read tanci fiction as interrelated texts composed by three generations of members of one extended gentry family in nineteenth-century China.

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A collection of essays, presenting international perspectives on the Faust theme in literature, theatre, performance, music, film, and dance. It examines questions of adaptation, translation and reception centering on a diversity of cultural traditions, including the Chinese, African, Brazilian, Indian and Canadian, as well as the European.

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A collection of essays by leading scholars presenting international perspectives on adaptation, reception and translation of the Faust theme in literature, theatre and music.

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This collection of essays on women's writing since 1945 is the first to explore the diversity of female identity as it is expressed in the literatures of Africa, India, Latin America, the Caribbean, Western Europe, Russia, Canada (Quebec), and the United States (including texts by African, Chinese, Hispanic, and Jewish American writers).

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Joseph Wittreich reveals Samson to be an intensely political work that reflects the heroic ambitions and failings of the Puritan Revolution and the tragic ambiguities of the era. He sees in the work not the purveyance of Medieval and early Renaissance typological associations but an interrogation of them and a consequent movement away from them. O

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Interpreting the Republic focuses on contemporary French literary and cinematic works (1986-2003) to reflect on what it means to belong to a nation such as France. Vinay Swamy demonstrates how supposedly unshakable principles based on French republican ideals, can be, and ofte...

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Examines how Imperial Germany's loss of Oceania after the First World War and its post-war crises of national identity played out in a body of German exoticist literature about Oceania published after 1914.

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