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Responding in part to the postmodernist turn in literary study, Literature and the Conservative Ideal examines the ways in which conservatism has been depicted in literature, as well as how its tendencies might restore literature's potential as an artistic reflection of the un...

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Virtue, as used here, connotes integrity--that living force that issues from persons, societies, or texts in consequence of their accomplishing their distinctive ends. Professor Berthoff outlines the descent of the intuition of virtue from classical times into our own era and examines it as a formative presence in a series of major literary works

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Each chapter provides brief biographical information on the author, discussions of the work's structural, thematic, and stylistic components, and insights into the historical context that relates the work to relevant environmental issues.

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It has long been assumed that France was dominated by the political left-wing and by Existentialism throughout the 1940s and 1950s. This book re-evaluates the impact of the vigorous and unrepentant right-wing cultural and literary movement during the post-war period.

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Presents a selection of essays by a range of key contemporary thinkers on the interdisciplinary study of literature and history. This title features such chapters as: Historicism; Modernism; Tragedy; the WW I; and, Servants in the 18th Century. It deals with the interrelationship between literary/cultural production and its historical moment.

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New essays by a range of leading theorists on the interdisciplinary study of literature and history.

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This book examines how the practices of criticism establish a particular domain of knowledge, the truth of literature. As a discussion of the ideology and politics of literary knowledge, it concentrates on constitutive elements of its production: the intertextuality of writing, the mediatedness of understanding, the formative role of reading expect

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Writing in the tradition of Ortega y Gasset's History as a System and Saussure's linguistic model, Claudio Guillen proposes a structural approach to literary history. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished ba

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This bibliography includes annotated entries from children's and young adult literature concerning the cultures of Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, Australia and New Zealand. It begins with an overview of geographical features, people and customs.

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Building on aesthetic, sociological, and literary theories, the author focuses on a selection of novelists from the early 1800s to the early 1900s and their contribution to the sociological imagination. Throughout the text, the book considers these stories that are telling in light of social issues today.

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As more works of African Literature are being incorporated into the Language Arts and Cultural Studies curriculum, it becomes increasingly important to offer students and educators a meaningful context in which to explore these works.

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The Caribbean is an exotic but not too distant land, full of rich cultural traditions. Students in literature courses will value this book as a guide to popular works by Caribbean writers, while students in social studies courses will learn how to use literature to study Caribbean culture.

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General editor of series Ehsan Yarshater.

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The Spanish novelist and screenwriter writes of his imprisonment in Buchenwald and his different attempts to record the memories.

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A study of how three important European thinkers - Kierkegaard, Kafka and Blanchot - use the Binding of Isaac to illuminate the sacrificial situation of the literary writer. It shows that literature plays a vital and heretical role in these three writers' highly idiosyncratic accounts of the Akedah.

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Shows how Kierkegaard, Kafka and Blanchot develop heretical accounts of the sacrifice of Isaac in order to illuminate the sacrificial situation of the literary writer.

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Offers an account of political change since 1945, and how such change shaped the cultural output of our time. This book looks at how and when literature intersects with other cultural forms - including jazz and rock music, television, journalism, commercial and "mass" cultures - and the growth of American cultural dominance.

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Famous phrases, literary terms, memorable characters, the secret lives and loves of authors--facts, fiction, and fundamentals to delight every reader. This entertaining compendium covers thousands of years of literary endeavors in compact and informative question-and-answer format. Each answer puts the work or author into a historical and literary context. Bibliography. Index.

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This volume demonstrates how the Hundred Years War (13371453) provides a necessary context for late-medieval literature. It shows how war impacted the lives and works of major writers like Geoffrey Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, and Catherine of Siena, while also arguing for a transnational approach that moves beyond the Anglo-French core.

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A young scholar goes to Grandmother's house--and beyond--to uncover the surprisingly complex and contradictory morals we've learned from this seemingly simple folk tale