Literary Criticism and Theory
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Cycles of Influence
Fiction, Folktale, Theory
Analyzes how the folktale has influenced the development of narrative theory and how postmodern fiction has drawn on the folktale to experiment with diverse narrative concepts.
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ISBN: 9780814329498
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ISBN: 9780814339091
Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography
Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography is not merely the most extensive and insightful treatment of Benjamin 's autobiographical writings.
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ISBN: 9780814330838
Other Things Being Equal
A timely reissue of Emma Wolf’s 1892 novel, which boldly interrogates the implications of Jewish-Christian marriage and examines the role of the "new woman" within the traditions of the Jewish home.
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ISBN: 9780814330227
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ISBN: 9780814337752
Royal Subjects
Essays on the Writings of James VI and I
Sixteen leading scholars explore the richness of King James’s work from a variety of perspectives, and in so doing seek to establish monarchic writing as an important genre in its own right.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814328774
The Myth of Power and the Self
Essays on Franz Kafka
The Myth of Power and the Self brings together Walter Sokel's most significant essays on Kafka written over a period of thirty-one years, 1966-1997.
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ISBN: 9780814326084
Laughing Feminism
Subversive Comedy in Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen
An examination of comedy and feminism in the works of early women British novelists.
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ISBN: 9780814330548
Lies Like Truth
Shakespeare, Macbeth, and the Cultural Moment
By demonstrating fundamental connections between audience reaction then and the use of computers today, Renaissance scholar Arthur Kinney explores the cultural moment of one of Shakespeare's most popular tragedies.
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ISBN: 9780814329658
Monsters in the Italian Literary Imagination
An examination of "the monster" in Italian culture and its evolution from the medieval period to the twentieth century.
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ISBN: 9780814339879
Humor in Borges
Humor in Borges studies the humor embedded in the fiction of the serious and metaphysical literary figure, Jorge Luis Borges.
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ISBN: 9780814328880
Feminist Perspectives on Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Called the "Quintessence of the Baroque" and "Bridge to the Enlightenment," Mexican writer and nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz has also been celebrated as the "First Feminist of the New World." Feminist Perspectives on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz fills a gap
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ISBN: 9780814322161
Cultural Memory and the Construction of Identity
This volume explores the dynamics of cultural memory in a variety of contexts.
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ISBN: 9780814327531
"Winds Can Wake Up the Dead"
An Eric Walrond Reader
A new anthology of works by a major writer from the New Negro Movement.
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ISBN: 9780814327098
Children of the Ghetto
A Study of a Peculiar People
This volume brings back to print the 1895 edition of Children of the Ghetto, the latest American version known to have been corrected by the author.
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ISBN: 9780814325933
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814340028
Does David Still Play Before You?
Israeli Poetry and the Bible
Does David Still Play Before You? explores the ways that contemporary Israeli poets have made use of images from the Bible in their poetry.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814326237
José Donoso's House of Fiction
A Dramatic Construction of Time and Place
This text examines the multiple narrative perspectives Donoso presents and traces a transformation in Donoso's works from complex stage performance to political forum.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814325261
Women of the Word
Jewish Women and Jewish Writing
Women of the Word is part of an emerging effort to listen to the voices of Jewish women both past and present.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814324233
Discarded Legacy
Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E. W. Harper, 1825-1911
In this important study, poet Melba Joyce Boyd analyzes Harper not simply as a feminist and an activist, but as a writer.
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ISBN: 9780814324899
Jewish Wry
Essays on Jewish Humor
Jewish Wry examines the development of Jewish humor in a series of essays on topics that range from Sholom Aleichem's humor to Jewish comediennes through to the humor of Philip Roth.
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ISBN: 9780814323663
Lovecraft
A Study in the Fantastic
Broader than a thematic study, however, Lévy's analysis is unique in his use of Lovecraft's work as a model for fantastic writing in general and in his provocative theory as to why Lovecraft wrote the sort of works he did.
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ISBN: 9780814319567
A Middle English Anthology
A reissue of the popular 1969 volume, this anthology includes a wide variety of selections from Middle English literature.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814317983