Comparative Literature
epub |eng | | Author:Maren Scheurer;

7 “To Keep the Sultan Amused”: Scheherazadian Narration in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace Introduction: Puzzle pieces In Margaret Atwood’s novel The Robber Bride (1993), Roz Grunwald rewrites her life’s story ...
( Category: Modern July 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-15 | Author:Pennell, Sara; Glaisyer, Natasha;

Plate 6.1 Excerpt from ‘Dialogue X’, in Abel Boyer, The Compleat French Master for Ladies and Gentlemen (10th edn, London, 1729). British Library shelfmark 1607/249, reproduced by permission of the ...
( Category: European July 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-24 | Author:Jeffrey Archer [Archer, Jeffrey]

27 EMMA HADN’T ENTERED the Palace of Westminster since their lordships had decided she was free to marry the man she loved. Giles had invited her to join him for ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers July 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-14 | Author:Robertson, Michael;

Carpenter’s vision of Urnings as utopian trailblazers was bound up in his evolutionary view of human history. After the turn into the twentieth century, at the same time as he ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic July 4,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Maria Tatar

ONCE THERE LIVED a king and a queen who had no heir. They were determined to have one, and they swore that if they had a son, or even a ...
epub |eng | 2013-05-27 | Author:Esther Allen

On Translating a Poem by Osip Mandelstam JOSÉ MANUEL PRIETO TRANSLATED BY ESTHER ALLEN I In 1996, the Mexican historian Jean Meyer asked me to translate a poem by the ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 1,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nicolai Volland;

6 MAPPING THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF LITERATURE In the early 1950s, China underwent a revolution of its conceptualization of the world and the PRC’s place therein that was no ...
( Category: Modern June 30,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Matthew X. Vernon

One could go as far to read the discrepancy between the sophistication of the frame narrative and the simplicity of the folk tale as a hopeful assessment of the social ...
( Category: United States June 30,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-07 | Author:debarati sanyal

( Category: European June 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-18 | Author:Michael Schmidt

For such is the destiny [of mortal men,] that the one who is alive.…. . Andrew George particularly notes the way in which here Shiduri uses the stative or passive ...
( Category: Middle Eastern June 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-27 | Author:Beth Blum

LETTING BYGONES BE BYGONES Learning, perhaps, from Yeats’s library failure, and giving the lie to Martin Amis’s view of Ulysses as a “war against cliché,”88 Joyce strategically employs proverbial wisdom ...
( Category: Modern June 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-14 | Author:Jillian Sayre

AnOther Mother Against this hearty reconciliation of the white, Christian American community lingers the specter of another mother, Hobomok’s mother. This Native American mother has the potential to serve as ...
( Category: United States June 7,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Donald Ostrowski

Stylometrics From 1987 to 1990, professors Ward Y. Elliott and Robert J. Valenza conducted a study at Claremont McKenna College in which they looked at fifty-eight “full and partial Shakespeare ...
( Category: Russian May 29,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Adam S. Miller

17 Sewage The head is restless. It has trouble sitting still. And this is true regardless of pleasure or circumstance. There is, as Wallace notes of himself, some “ur-American part ...
( Category: United States March 30,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ben Conisbee Baer;

The story of The Plumed Serpent is that of Kate Leslie, an upper-middle-class, white European visitor to Mexico who becomes erotically embroiled in a feudalistic (counter)revolutionary vanguard movement. The movement ...
( Category: Modern March 26,2020 )