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In the early 1990s the collapse of the Iron Curtain and the dissolution of the Soviet Union opened Eastern Europe, Russia, and the newly independent states of the former U.S.S.R.

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Examining the major works of some of the Russian writers who came to prominence since 1985, when Gorbachev abolished all literary controls, this book contends that 'alternative prose' deserves serious critical attention. It states that this prose aligns itself more with Western literature and re-discovers pre-Stalinist literary trends.

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Timothy Powell reimagines the canonical origins of "American" identity by juxtaposing authors such as Hawthorne, Melville, and Thoreau with Native American, African American, and women authors.

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"There are no studies of a sacred grand style in the English Renaissance," writes Debora Shuger, "because even according to its practitioners it was not supposed to exist." Yet the grand style forms the unacknowledged center of traditional rhetorical theory. In this first history of the grand style, Professor Shuger explores the growth of a Christi

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A selection of passages from "Sallust's Bellum Iugurthinum", arranged in three main narrative sections: the Numidian Civil War and the appeal to Rome; limited intervention; and outright war. It offers an introduction on both Africa and Rome, giving the history and context of the war.

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Bombay, London, New York and Delhi, cities are central to Salman Rushdie's novels. Reading his urban representations, this study explains how Rushdie has contributed to our understanding of the postcolonial, the contemporary, the local and the global city.

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New critical perspectives on Salman Rushdie's fiction and non-fiction by leading scholars.

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New critical perspectives on Salman Rushdie's fiction and non-fiction by leading scholars.

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This book provides a new way of understanding queer culture. The frameworks offered by queer theorysteeped in philosophical, theoretical and political commitments to 'difference'have obscured the important investments in 'sameness' that have been central to queer history. Same old dwells on these investments and elucidates their significance.

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This book provides a new way of understanding queer culture. The frameworks offered by queer theorysteeped in philosophical, theoretical and political commitments to 'difference'have obscured the important investments in 'sameness' that have been central to queer history. Same old dwells on these investments and elucidates their significance.

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Balancing long-overlooked and well-known works from early modern England, Same-sex desire in early modern England, 1550-1735: An anthology of literary texts and contexts is a collection of English texts about homoerotic love, relationships, desires, and sexual acts. -- .

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Presents the study of Samuel Beckett's fascination with the seventeenth-century philosopher Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669). This title documents the extent of the influence Geulincx's philosophy had on Beckett's prose and late drama.

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Providing one of the first book-length accounts of Samuel Becketts poetry, this book argues how Becketts poetry reconfigures lyrical language to mark the emergence of an anti-expressive poetics.

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When Samuel Johnson is discussed as an essayist, his and Idler are generally the works that are considered.

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Tragedy in the eighteenth century is often said to have expired or been deflected into nondramatic forms like history and satire, and to have survived mainly as a "tragic sense" in writers like Samuel Johnson. Leopold Damrosch shows that many readers were still capable of an imaginative response to tragedy. In Johnson, however, moral and aesthetic

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Adding a lively voice to Richardsonian studies, Carol Houlihan Flynn traces the complex workings of a major literary imagination. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.