Literary Criticism Books › teaching literature in the context

Pre-Owned Momaday s the Way to Rainy Mountain (Approaches to Teaching World Literature (Paperback)): 17 (Approaches to Teaching World Literature S.) Paperback

Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more

Pre-Owned Ellisons Invisible Man (Approaches to Teaching World Literature (Paperback)): 24 (Approaches to Teaching World Literature S.) Paperback

Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more

Pre-Owned Manns Death in Venice & Other (Approaches to Teaching World Literature (Paperback)): 43 (Approaches to Teaching World Literature S.) Paperback

Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more

Pre-Owned Masterworks of Asian Literature in Comparative Perspective: A Guide for Teaching: A Guide for Teaching: A Guide for Teaching (Columbia Project on Asia in the Paperback

Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more

Literature in Context: Emily Dickinson in Context (Hardcover)

Long untouched by contemporary events ideas and environments Emily Dickinson s writings have been the subject of intense historical research in recent years. This volume of thirty-three essays by leading scholars offers a comprehensive introduction to... more

Literature in Context: Susan Glaspell in Context (Hardcover)

Susan Glaspell in Context provides new accessible and informative essays by leading international scholars and artists on Pulitzer Prize winner Susan Glaspell s life career development writing and ongoing global creative impact. The collection features... more

Literature in Context: Edith Wharton in Context (Hardcover)

Edith Wharton was one of America s most popular and prolific writers becoming the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921. In a publishing career spanning seven decades Wharton lived and wrote through a period of tremendous social... more

Literature in Context: Sylvia Plath in Context (Hardcover)

Sylvia Plath in Context brings together an exciting combination of established and emerging thinkers from a range of disciplines. The book reveals Plath s responses to the writers she reads her interventions in the literary techniques and forms she... more

Literature in Context: David Foster Wallace in Context (Hardcover)

David Foster Wallace is regarded as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book introduces readers to the literary philosophical and political contexts of Wallace s work. An accessible and useable... more

Literature in Context: Christopher Marlowe in Context (Hardcover)

The life and death of Christopher Marlowe has long been shrouded in mystery and subject to speculation. One of the foremost dramatists of his day Marlowe and his writings exerted an influence not only on the work of his contemporaries including... more

Literature in Context: Roberto Bolaño In Context (Hardcover)

From his first fifteen years in Chile to his nine years in Mexico City from 1968 to 1977 to the quarter of a century he lived and worked in the Blanes-Barcelona area on the Costa Brava in Spain through his death in 2003 Roberto Bolaño developed into... more

Literature in Context: Geoffrey Chaucer in Context (Paperback)

Geoffrey Chaucer is widely acknowledged as the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages. His texts are studied extensively but in order to be fully appreciated they demand a nuanced understanding of the medieval period. This volume provides freshly... more

Literature in Context: Mark Twain in Context (Hardcover)

Mark Twain In Context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the multifaceted life and times of one of the most celebrated American writers. It is a collection of short lively contributions covering a wide range of topics on Twain s life... more

Literature in Context: Salman Rushdie in Context (Hardcover)

Salman Rushdie in Context discusses Rushdie s life and work in the context of the multiple geographies he has inhabited and the wider socio-cultural contexts in which his writing is emerging published and read. This book reveals the evolving political... more

Literature in Context: Dante in Context (Paperback)

In the past seven centuries Dante has become world renowned with his works translated into multiple languages and read by people of all ages and cultural backgrounds. This volume brings together interdisciplinary essays by leading international... more

Literature in Context: Samuel Beckett in Context (Hardcover)

When Samuel Beckett first came to international prominence with the success of Waiting for Godot many critics believed the play was divorced from any recognizable context. The two tramps and the master and servant they encounter seemed to represent no... more

Literature in Context: Daniel Defoe in Context (Hardcover)

Innovative in its structure and approach Daniel Defoe in Context contains 42 essays by leading scholars illuminating the life times and world of Daniel Defoe. Defoe is one of the most important literary figures in English history thanks not only to his... more

Pre-Owned Geoffrey Chaucer in Context (Literature Context) Paperback

Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more

Literature in Context: Ralph Ellison in Context (Hardcover)

Ralph Ellison s Invisible Man is the second-most assigned American novel since 1945 and is one of the most enduring. It is studied by many thousands of high school and college students every year and has been since the 1950s. His landmark essays with... more

Literature in Context: Virginia Woolf in Context (Hardcover)

As a paradigmatic modernist author Virginia Woolf is celebrated for the ways her fiction illuminates modern and contemporary life. Woolf scholars have long debated how context - whether historical cultural or theoretical - is to be understood in... more

Literature in Context: Vladimir Nabokov in Context (Hardcover)

Vladimir Nabokov bilingual writer of dazzling masterpieces is a phenomenon that both resists and requires contextualization. This book challenges the myth of Nabokov as a sole genius who worked in isolation from his surroundings as it seeks to anchor... more

Literature in Context George Eliot in Context (Hardcover)

George Eliot has always challenged her readers. Prodigiously learned alive to the massive social changes of her time defiant of many Victorian orthodoxies she is at once chronicler and analyst novelist of nostalgia and monumental thinker. In her great... more

Literature in Context The Brontes in Context (Hardcover)

Very few families produce one outstanding writer. The Brontë family produced three. The works of Charlotte Emily and Anne remain immensely popular and are increasingly being studied in relation to the surroundings and wider context that formed them.... more

Literature in Context: Jorge Luis Borges in Context (Hardcover)

Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) is Argentina s most celebrated author. This volume brings together for the first time the numerous contexts in which he lived and worked; from the history of the Borges family and that of modern Argentina through two world... more

Literature in Context: Ben Jonson in Context (Paperback)

Bringing together a group of established and emergent Jonson scholars this volume reacts to major new advances in thinking about the writer and his canon of works. The study is divided into two distinct parts: the first considers the Jonsonian career... more

Literature in Context: Franz Kafka in Context (Paperback)

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) lived through one of the most turbulent periods in modern history witnessing a world war the dissolution of an empire and the foundation of a new nation state. But the early twentieth century was also a time of social progress... more

Literature in Context: W. G. Sebald in Context (Hardcover)

The German academic and writer W. G. Sebald made an astounding ascent into the canon of world literature. In this volume leading experts from both the English- and the German-speaking worlds explore his celebrated prose works published in the short... more

Crosscurrents: Russia s Literature in Context: Chekhov s Letters : Biography Context Poetics (Paperback)

This collection examines the letters of Anton Chekhov which have received relatively little scholarly attention. The contributors approach the letters from a variety of angles—biography psychology literary criticism poetics and history—to... more

Pre-Owned The Eighteenth Century: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature 1700-1789 (Longman Literature In English Series) Paperback

Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more

Literatures Cultures Translation: Language Smugglers: Postlingual Literatures and Translation Within the Canadian Context (Hardcover)

Translation is commonly understood as the rendering of a text from one language to another - a border-crossing activity where the border is a linguistic one. But what if the text one is translating is not written in one language; indeed what if no text... more

Cambridge Contexts in Literature The Great War in British Literature (Paperback)

Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. The Great War of 1914-18 continues to fascinate readers and writers. This book aims to explore the different ways in which this war has featured both as a genre and as a theme in British... more

Pre-Owned The Eighteenth Century: Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature 1700-89 (Longman Literature in English Series) Paperback

Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more

Pre-Owned Ancient Israelite Literature in Its Cultural Context : A Survey of Parallels Between Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Literature 9780310365907 Used

CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more

Pre-Owned Understanding the Literature of World War II: A Student Casebook to Issues Sources and Historical Documents (Greenwood Press Literature in Context) ... Press Paperback

Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more

Children s Literature and Culture Voices of the Other: Children s Literature and the Postcolonial Context (Paperback)

This book offers a variety of approaches to children s literature from a postcolonial perspective that includes discussions of cultural appropriation race theory pedagogy as a colonialist activity and multiculturalism. The eighteen essays divide into... more

British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century: Representing Place in British Literature and Culture 1660-1830: From Local to Global (Hardcover)

Revising traditional rise of the nation-state narratives this collection explores the development of and interactions among various forms of local national and transnational identities and affiliations during the long eighteenth century. By treating... more

Translating Literature : Practice and Theory in a Comparative Literature Context (Paperback)

Designed for courses on literary translation Translating Literature discusses the process and the product of literary translation incorporating both practical advice for translators and theoretical discussion on the role translations play in the... more

Pre-Owned Beyond Scotland: New Contexts for Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature: 2 (SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature) Paperback

Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more