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Martin Priestman
The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction
Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2003
From the execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programs like The Wire and The Sopranos, crime writing has played an important role in American culture. Its ability to register fear, desire and anxiety has made it a popular genre with a wide audience. These new essays, written for students as well as readers of crime fiction, demonstrate the very best in contemporary scholarship and challenge long-established notions of the development of the detective novel. Each chapter covers a sub-genre, from 'true crime' to hard-boiled novels, illustrating the ways in which 'popular' and 'high' literary genres influence and shape each other. With a chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion is a helpful guide for students of American literature and readers of crime fiction.
Vedi indiceNotes on contributors
1. Introduction Catherine Ross Nickerson
2. Early crime writing Sara Crosby
3. Poe and the origins of detective fiction Stephen Rachman
4. Women writers before 1960 Catherine Ross Nickerson
5. The hard-boiled novel Sean McCann
6. The American Roman Noir Andrew Pepper
7. Teenage detectives and teenage delinquents Ilana Nash
8. The American spy novel David Seed
9. Police procedurals in literature and on television Eddy Von Mueller
10. Mafia stories and the US gangster Fred L. Gardaphe
11. True crime Laura Browder
12. Race and American crime fiction Maureen T. Reddy
13. Feminist crime fiction Margaret Kinsman
14. Crime and post-modern fiction Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
American crime fiction: a chronology
Guide to reading
Index.
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Adrian Poole
The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009
In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Hardy, James, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. The significance of each writer in their own time is explained, the relation of their work to that of predecessors and successors explored, and their most important novels analysed. These essays do not aim to create a canon in a prescriptive way, but taken together they describe a strong developing tradition of the writing of fictional prose over the past 300 years. This volume is a helpful guide for those studying and teaching the novel, and will allow readers to consider the significance of less familiar authors such as Henry Green and Elizabeth Bowen alongside those with a more established place in literary history. (da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceIntroduction Adrian Poole
1. Daniel Defoe Tom Keymer
2. Samuel Richardson Peter Sabor
3. Henry Fielding Jane Spencer
4. Laurence Sterne Melvyn New
5. Frances Burney Vivien Jones
6. Jane Austen Jocelyn Harris
7. Walter Scott Alison Lumsden
8. Charles Dickens Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
9. William Makepeace Thackeray Nicholas Dames
10. Charlotte Brontë Patsy Stoneman
11. Emily Brontë Heather Glen
12. Elizabeth Gaskell Brigid Lowe
13. Anthony Trollope David Skilton
14. George Eliot Jill L. Matus
15. Thomas Hardy Penny Boumelha
16. Robert Louis Stevenson Adrian Poole
17. Henry James Michiel Heyns
18. Joseph Conrad Robert Hampson
19. D. H. Lawrence Michael Bell
20. James Joyce Maud Ellmann
21. E. M. Forster Santanu Das
22. Virginia Woolf Maria DiBattista
23. Elizabeth Bowen Victoria Coulson
24. Henry Green Bharat Tandon
25. Evelyn Waugh Anthony Lane
26. Graham Greene Dorothea Barrett
27. William Golding Robert Macfarlane
Further reading
Index.
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Claude Rawson
The Cambridge Companion to English Poets
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011
This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Larkin. The list includes, among others, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats and T. S. Eliot, and represents the tradition of English poetry at its best. Each contributor offers a new assessment of a single poet's achievement and importance, with readings of the most important poems. The essays, written by leading experts, are personal responses, written in clear, vivid language, free of academic jargon, and aim to inform, arouse interest, and deepen understanding. (da Cambridge Catalogue)
Vedi indiceIntroduction Claude Rawson
1. Geoffrey Chaucer J. A. Burrow
2. Sir Thomas Wyatt Roland Greene
3. Edmund Spenser Richard McCabe
4. William Shakespeare David Bevington
5. John Donne Achsah Guibbory
6. Ben Jonson Colin Burrow
7. George Herbert Helen Wilcox
8. John Milton Martin Evans
9. Andrew Marvell Nigel Smith
10. John Dryden David Hopkins
11. Jonathan Swift Claude Rawson
12. Alexander Pope Paul Baines
13. William Blake Morton D. Paley
14. Robert Burns Karl Miller
15. William Wordsworth Simon Jarvis
16. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Seamus Perry
17. George Gordon, Lord Byron Anne Barton
18. Percy Bysshe Shelley James Chandler
19. John Keats Susan Wolfson
20. Alfred, Lord Tennyson Herbert Tucker
21. Robert Browning J. Hillis Miller
22. Emily Bronte Dinah Birch
23. Christina Rossetti Linda Peterson
24. Thomas Hardy Peter Robinson
25. W. B. Yeats James Longenbach
26. D. H. Lawrence Marjorie Perloff
27. T. S. Eliot Michael North
28. W. H. Auden Edward Mendelson
29. Philip Larkin Alan Jenkins
Further reading
Index.
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Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn
The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012
Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major publishing phenomenon. In this volume, critics and authors of fantasy look at its history since the Enlightenment, introduce readers to some of the different codes for the reading and understanding of fantasy, and examine some of the many varieties and subgenres of fantasy; from magical realism at the more literary end of the genre, to paranormal romance at the more popular end. The book is edited by the same pair who produced The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (winner of a Hugo Award in 2005). (da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceIntroduction Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn
Part I. Histories:
1. Fantasy from Dryden to Dunsany Gary K. Wolfe
2. Gothic and horror fiction Adam Roberts
3. American fantasy, 1820–1950 Paul Kincaid
4. The development of children's fantasy Maria Nikolajeva
5. Tolkien, Lewis, and the explosion of genre fantasy Edward James
Part II. Ways of Reading:
6. Structuralism Brian Attebery
7. Psychoanalysis Andrew M. Butler
8. Political readings Mark Bould and Sherryl Vint
9. Modernism and postmodernism Jim Casey
10. Thematic criticism Farah Mendlesohn
11. The languages of the fantastic Greer Gilman
12. Reading the fantasy series Kari Maund
13. Reading the slipstream Gregory Frost
Part III. Clusters:
14. Magical realism Sharon Sieber
15. Writers of colour Nnedi Okorafor
16. Quest fantasies W. A. Senior
17. Urban fantasy Alexander C. Irvine
18. Dark fantasy and paranormal romance Roz Kaveney
19. Modern children's fantasy Charlie Butler
20. Historical fantasy Veronica Schanoes
21. Fantasies of history and religion Graham Sleight.
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David Glover, Scott McCracken
The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
Popular commercial fiction emerged in the nineteenth century, with serialised novels and sensational penny dreadfuls. Today it remains a multi-million dollar industry giving pleasure to many, but it is also a field of growing interest for scholars and students of literature. This Companion covers the major developments in the history of popular fiction, with specially commissioned chapters on pulp fiction, bestsellers, and comics and graphic narratives. The volume also examines the public and personal everyday contexts within which popular texts are read, highlighting the ways in which such narratives have circulated across a variety of constantly changing media, including theatre, television, cinema and new computer-based digital forms. Case studies from key genres – crime fiction, romance and Gothic horror – as well as a full chronology and guide to further reading make this collection indispensable to all those interested in this complex and vibrant cultural field. (da sito Cambridge University press)
Vedi indiceIntroduction David Glover and Scott McCracken
1. Publishing, history, genre David Glover
2. Fiction, theatre, and early cinema Nicholas Daly
3. Television and serial fictions John Caughie
4. The public sphere, popular culture and the true meaning of the Zombie Apocalypse Roger Luckhurst
5. The reader of popular fiction Nicola Humble
6. Reading time: popular fiction and the everyday Scott McCracken
7. Gender and sexuality in popular fiction Kaye Mitchell
8. Pulp sensations Erin A. Smith
9. Bestselling fiction: machinery, economy, excess Fred Botting
10. Comic books and graphic novels Hilary Chute and Marianne Dekoven
11. Popular fictions in the digital age Brenda Silver
Further reading
Index.
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Edited by Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn
The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003
Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields. It is a literature which draws on popular culture, and which engages in speculation about science, history, and all types of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and practitioners of science fiction, which look at the genre from these different angles. After an introduction to the nature of science fiction, historical chapters trace science fiction from Thomas More to more recent years, including a chapter on film and television. The second section introduces four important critical approaches to science fiction drawing their theoretical inspiration from Marxism, postmodernism, feminism and queer theory. The final and largest section of the book looks at various themes and sub-genres of science fiction. A number of well-known science fiction writers contribute to this volume, including Gwyneth Jones, Ken MacLeod, Brian Stableford Andy Duncan, James Gunn, Joan Slonczewski, and Damien Broderick.
Vedi indiceList of contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Introduction: reading science fiction Farah Mendlesohn
Part I. The History:
1. Science fiction before the genre Brian Stableford
2. The magazine era: 1926–1960 Brian Attebery
3. New wave and backwash: 1960–1980 Damien Broderick
4. Science fiction from 1980 to the present John Clute
5. Film and television Mark Bould
6. Science fiction and its editors Gary K. Wolfe
Part II. Critical Approaches:
7. Marxist theory and science fiction Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr
8. Feminist theory and science fiction Veronica Hollinger
9. Postmodernism and science fiction Andrew M. Butler
10. Science fiction and queer theory Wendy Pearson
Part III. Sub-Genres and Themes:
11. The icons of science fiction Gwyneth Jones
12. Science fiction and the life sciences Joan Slonczewski and Michael Levy
13. Hard science fiction Kathryn Cramer
14. Space opera Gary Westfahl
15. Alternate history Andy Duncan
16. Utopias and anti-utopias Edward James
17. Politics and science fiction Ken MacLeod
18. Gender in science fiction Helen Merrick
19. Race and ethnicity in science fiction Elisabeth Anne Leonard
20. Religion and science fiction Farah Mendlesohn
Further reading
Index.
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Gerard Carruthers, Liam McIlvanney
The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013
Scotland's rich literary tradition is a product of its unique culture and landscape, as well as of its long history of inclusion and resistance to the United Kingdom. Scottish literature includes masterpieces in three languages – English, Scots and Gaelic – and global perspectives from the diaspora of Scots all over the world. This Companion offers a unique introduction, guide and reference work for students and readers of Scottish literature from the pre-medieval period to the post-devolution present. Essays focus on key periods and movements (the Scottish Enlightenment, Scottish Romanticism, the Scottish Renaissance), genres (the historical novel, Scottish Gothic, 'Tartan Noir') and major authors (Burns, Scott, Stevenson, MacDiarmid and Spark). A chronology and guides to further reading in each chapter make this an ideal overview of a national literature that continues to develop its own distinctive style. (da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceChronology
Introduction Gerard Carruthers and Liam McIlvanney
1. Scottish literature before Scottish literature Thomas Clancy
2. The Medieval period Alessandra Petrina
3. Reformation and Renaissance Sarah Dunnigan
4. The aftermath of Union Leith Davis
5. Robert Burns Nigel Leask
6. Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Scottish Canon: cosmopolites or narrow nationalists? Murray Pittock
7. Scott and the historical novel Ian Duncan
8. The Gaelic tradition Peter Mackay
9. Scottish Gothic David Punter
10. Victorian Scottish literature Andrew Nash
11. Robert Louis Stevenson Penny Fielding
12. Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance Scott Lyall
13. Popular fiction: detective novels and thrillers from Holmes to Rebus David Goldie
14. Muriel Spark Robert Hosmer
15. The Glasgow novel Liam McIlvanney
16. 'What is the language using us for?': Modern Scottish poetry Fiona Stafford
17. The emergence of Scottish studies Matthew Wickman
18. Otherworlds: devolution and the Scottish novel Cairns Craig
19. Scottish literature in diaspora Gerard Carruthers
Index.
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A. D. Cousins, Peter Howarth
The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011
Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and e. e. cummings. The chapters explore how we think of the sonnet as a 'lyric' and what is involved in actually trying to write one. The book includes a lively discussion between three distinguished contemporary poets - Paul Muldoon, Jeff Hilson and Meg Tyler - on the experience of writing a sonnet, and a chapter which traces the sonnet's diffusion across manuscript, print, screen and the internet. A fresh and authoritative overview of this major poetic form, the Companion expertly guides the reader through the sonnet's history and development into the global multimedia phenomenon it is today. (da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceIntroduction A. D. Cousins and Peter Howarth
1. Contemporary poets and the sonnet: a trialogue Paul Muldoon, Jeff Hilson and Meg Tyler
2. The sonnet and the lyric mode Heather Dubrow
3. The sonnet, subjectivity, and gender Diana Henderson
4. The English sonnet in manuscript, print and mass media Arthur F. Marotti and Marcelle Freiman
5. European beginnings and transmissions: Dante, Petrarch, and the sonnet sequence William J. Kennedy
6. Desire, discontent, parody: the love sonnet in early modern England Catherine Bates
7. Shakespeare's sonnets A. D. Cousins
8. Sacred desire, forms of belief: the religious sonnet in early modern Britain Helen Wilcox
9. Survival and change: the sonnet from Milton to the Romantics R. S. White
10. The Romantic sonnet Michael O'Neill
11. The Victorian sonnet Matthew Campbell
12. The modern sonnet Peter Howarth
13. The contemporary sonnet Stephen Burt
Bibliography Marea Mitchell.
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Kate McLoughlin
The Cambridge Companion to War Writing
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009
War writing is an ancient genre that continues to be of vital importance. Times of crisis push literature to its limits, requiring writers to exploit their expressive resources to the maximum in response to extreme events. This 2009 Companion focuses on British and American war writing, from Beowulf and Shakespeare to bloggers on the 'War on Terror'. Thirteen period-based chapters are complemented by five thematic chapters and two chapters charting influences. This uniquely wide range facilitates both local and comparative study. Each chapter is written by an expert in the field and includes suggestions for further reading. A chronology illustrates how key texts relate to major conflicts. The Companion also explores the latest theoretical thinking on war representation to give access to this developing area and to suggest new directions for research. In addition to students of literature, the volume will interest those working in war studies, history, and cultural studies. (da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceChronology
Introduction Kate McLoughlin
Part I. Themes:
1. The idea of war Hew Strachan
2. War and words Kate McLoughlin
3. People in war Sarah Cole
4. War zones Adam Piette
5. War in print journalism Kate McLoughlin
Part II. Influences:
6. The Bible David Jasper
7. Classical war literature L. V. Pitcher
Part III. Poetics:
8. Medieval warfare Corinne Saunders
9. Early modern war writing and the British Civil Wars Philip West
10. The eighteenth century and the Romantics on war Gillian Russell
11. American Revolutionary War writing Edward Larkin
12. The Victorians and war John R. Reed
13. The American Civil War Will Kaufman
14. The First World War: British writing Trudi Tate
15. The First World War: American writing Patrick Quinn
16. The Spanish Civil War Valentine Cunningham
17. The Second World War: British writing Mark Rawlinson
18. The Second World War: American writing Walter Hölbling
19. American writing of the wars in Korea and Vietnam Jeffrey Walsh
20. The Cold War and the 'War on Terror' David Pascoe
Index.
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by David Womersley (Editor)
A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2001
This definitive Companion provides a critical overview of literary culture in the period from John Milton to William Blake. Its broad chronological range responds to recent reshapings of the canon and identifies new directions of study.
The Companion is composed of over fifty contributions from leading scholars in the field, its essays offer students a comprehensive and accessible survey of the field from a wide range of perspectives. It also, however, gives researchers and faculty the opportunity to update their acquaintance with new critical and scholarly work.
The volume meets the needs of an intellectual world increasingly given over to inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary study by covering philosophical, political, cultural and historical writing, as well as literary writing. Unlike other similar volumes, the main body of the Companion consists of readings of individual texts, both those commonly and less commonly studied.
Vedi indicentroduction: David Womersley.
Part I: Contexts, Issues and Debates.
Part II: Readings.
Part III: Periods.
Part IV: Genres and Modes.
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by Mary Luckhurst (Editor)
A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama: 1880 - 2005
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006
This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity.
An authoritative guide to modern British and Irish drama.
Engages with theoretical discourses challenging a canon that has privileged London as well as white English males and realism.
Topics covered include: national, regional and fringe theatres; post-colonial stages and multiculturalism; feminist and queer theatres; sex and consumerism; technology and globalisation; representations of war, terrorism, and trauma.
Vedi indice
Acknowledgements xi
List of Illustrations xii
Notes on Contributors xiii
Introduction 1
Mary Luckhurst
Part I Contexts 5
1 Domestic and Imperial Politics in Britain and Ireland: The Testimony of Irish Theatre 7
Victor Merriman
2 Reinventing England 22
Declan Kiberd
3 Ibsen in the English Theatre in the Fin de Siecle 35
Katherine Newey
4 New Woman Drama 48
Sally Ledger
Part II Mapping New Ground, 1900–1939 61
5 Shaw among the Artists 63
Jan McDonald
6 Granville Barker and the Court Dramatists 75
Cary M. Mazer
7 Gregory, Yeats and Ireland’s Abbey Theatre 87
Mary Trotter
8 Suffrage Theatre: Community Activism and Political Commitment 99
Susan Carlson
9 Unlocking Synge Today 110
Christopher Murray
10 Sean O'Casey's Powerful Fireworks 125
Jean Chothia
11 Auden and Eliot: Theatres of the Thirties 138
Robin Grove
Part III England, Class and Empire, 1939–1990 151
12 Empire and Class in the Theatre of John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy 153
Mary Brewer
13 When Was the Golden Age? Narratives of Loss and Decline: John Osborne, Arnold Wesker and Rodney Ackland 164
Stephen Lacey
14 A Commercial Success: Women Playwrights in the 1950s 175
Susan Bennett
15 Home Thoughts from Abroad: Mustapha Matura 188
D. Keith Peacock
16 The Remains of the British Empire: The Plays of Winsome Pinnock 198
Gabriele Griffin
Part IV Comedy 211
17 Wilde's Comedies 213
Richard Allen Cave
18 Always Acting: Noel Coward and the Performing Self 225
Frances Gray
19 Beckett's Divine Comedy 237
Katharine Worth
20 Form and Ethics in the Comedies of Brendan Behan 247
John Brannigan
21 Joe Orton: Anger, Artifice and Absurdity 258
David Higgins
22 Alan Ayckbourn: Experiments in Comedy 269
Alexander Leggatt
23 'They Both Add up to Me': The Logic of Tom Stoppard's Dialogic Comedy 279
Paul Delaney
24 Stewart Parker's Comedy of Terrors 289
Anthony Roche
Part V War and Terror 299
25 AWounded Stage: Drama and World War I 301
Mary Luckhurst
26 Staging 'the Holocaust' in England 316
John Lennard
27 Troubling Perspectives: Northern Ireland, the 'Troubles' and Drama 329
Helen Lojek
28 On War: Charles Wood's Military Conscience 341
Dawn Fowler and John Lennard
29 Torture in the Plays of Harold Pinter 358
Mary Luckhurst
30 Sarah Kane: From Terror to Trauma 371
Steve Waters
Part VI Theatre since 1968 383
31 Theatre since 1968 385
David Pattie
32 Lesbian and Gay Theatre: All Queer on the West End Front 398
John Deeney
33 Edward Bond: Maker of Myths 409
Michael Patterson
34 John McGrath and Popular Political Theatre 419
Maria DiCenzo
35 David Hare and Political Playwriting: Between the Third Way and the Permanent Way 429
John Deeney
36 Left in Front: David Edgar's Political Theatre 441
John Bull
37 Liz Lochhead: Writer and Re-Writer: Stories, Ancient and Modern 454
Jan McDonald
38 'Spirits that Have Become Mean and Broken': Tom Murphy and the 'Famine' of Modern Ireland 466
Shaun Richards
39 Caryl Churchill: Feeling Global 476
Elin Diamond
40 Howard Barker and the Theatre of Catastrophe 488
Chris Megson
41 Reading History in the Plays of Brian Friel 499
Lionel Pilkington
42 Marina Carr: Violence and Destruction: Language, Space and Landscape 509
Cathy Leeney
43 Scrubbing up Nice? Tony Harrison's Stagings of the Past 519
Richard Rowland
44 The Question of Multiculturalism: The Plays of Roy Williams 530
D. Keith Peacock
45 Ed Thomas: Jazz Pictures in the Gaps of Language 541
David Ian Rabey
46 Theatre and Technology 551
Andy Lavender
Index 563
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A Companion to Satire: Ancient and Modern
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006
This collection of twenty-nine original essays, surveys satire from its emergence in Western literature to the present.
Tracks satire from its first appearances in the prophetic books of the Old Testament through the Renaissance and the English tradition in satire to Michael Moore’s satirical movie Fahrenheit 9/11.
Highlights the important influence of the Bible in the literary and cultural development of Western satire.
Focused mainly on major classical and European influences on and works of English satire, but also explores the complex and fertile cultural cross-semination within the tradition of literary satire.
Vedi indiceIllustrations viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xiv
Introduction: Understanding Satire 1
Ruben Quintero
Part I Biblical World to European Renaissance 13
1 Ancient Biblical Satire 15
Thomas Jemielity
2 Defining the Art of Blame: Classical Satire 31
Catherine Keane
3 Medieval Satire 52
Laura Kendrick
4 Rabelais and French Renaissance Satire 70
Edwin M. Duval
5 Satire of the Spanish Golden Age 86
Alberta Gatti
6 Verse Satire in the English Renaissance 101
Ejner J. Jensen
7 Renaissance Prose Satire: Italy and England 118
W. Scott Blanchard
Part II Restoration and Eighteenth-century England and France 137
8 Satire in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century France 139
Russell Goulbourne
9 Dramatic Satire in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century 161
Jean I. Marsden
10 Dryden and Restoration Satire 176
Dustin Griffin
11 Jonathan Swift 196
Frank Boyle
12 Pope and Augustan Verse Satire 212
Ruben Quintero
13 Satiric Spirits of the Later Eighteenth Century: Johnson to Crabbe 233
James Engell
14 Restoration and Eighteenth-century Satiric Fiction 257
Joseph F. Bartolomeo
15 Gendering Satire: Behn to Burney 276
Claudia Thomas Kairoff
16 Pictorial Satire: From Emblem to Expression 293
Ronald Paulson
Part III Nineteenth Century to Contemporary 325
17 The Hidden Agenda of Romantic Satire: Carlyle and Heine 327
Peter Brier
18 Nineteenth-century Satiric Poetry 340
Steven E. Jones
19 Narrative Satire in the Nineteenth Century 361
Frank Palmeri
20 American Satire: Beginnings through Mark Twain 377
Linda A. Morris
21 Twentieth-century Fictional Satire 400
Valentine Cunningham
22 Verse Satire in the Twentieth Century 434
Timothy Steele
23 Satire in Modern and Contemporary Theater 460
Christopher J. Herr
24 Irish Satire 476
Jose Lanters
Part IV The Practice of Satire 493
25 Modes of Mockery: The Significance of Mock-poetic Forms in the Enlightenment 495
Blanford Parker
26 Irony and Satire 510
Zoja Pavlovskis-Petit
27 Mock-biblical Satire from Medieval to Modern 525
Michael F. Suarez
28 The Satiric Character Sketch 550
David F. Venturo
29 The Secret Life of Satire 568
Melinda Alliker Rabb
Index 585
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by David Malcolm (Editor), Cheryl Alexander Malcolm (Editor)
A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story provides a comprehensive treatment of short fiction writing and chronicles its development in Britain and Ireland from 1880 to the present.
Provides a comprehensive treatment of the short story in Britain and Ireland as it developed over the period 1880 to the present
Includes essays on topics and genres, as well as on individual texts and authors
Comprises chapters on women’s writing, Irish fiction, gay and lesbian writing, and short fiction by immigrants to Britain
Vedi indiceNotes on Contributors.
Preface.
Part I: 1880–1945.
Introduction.
1. The British and Irish Short Story to 1945 (Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David Malcolm, University of Gdańsk, Poland).
Topics and Genres.
2. The Story of Colonial Adventure (Mariadele Boccardi, University of West of England, Bristol).
3. Responses to War: 1914–1918 and 1939–1945 (Richard Greaves, Open University).
4. Irish Short Fiction: 1880–1945 (Patrick Lonergan, National University of Ireland, Galway).
5. The Detective and Crime Story: 1880–1945 (Jopi Nyman, University of Joensuu, Finland).
6. The British and Irish Ghost Story and Tale of the Supernatural: 1880–1945 (Becky DiBiasio, Assumption College, Worcester, Massachusetts).
7. Finding a Voice: Women Writing the Short Story (to 1945) (Sabine Coelsch-Foisner, University of Salzburg).
8. Rudyard Kipling’s Art of the Short Story (David Malcolm, University of Gdańsk, Poland).
Reading Individual Authors and Texts.
9. Robert Louis Stevenson: “The Bottle Imp,” “The Beach of Falesá,” and “Markheim” (Michael Meyer, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany).
10. Thomas Hardy: Wessex Tales (David Grylls, Kellogg College, Oxford).
11. Joseph Conrad: “The Secret Sharer” and “An Outpost of Progress” (Christopher Thomas Cairney, De Anza College, California).
12. The Short Stories of Hector Hugh Munro (“Saki”) (Sandie Byrne, formerly Balliol College, Oxford).
13. Paralysis Re-considered: James Joyce’s Dubliners (Richard Greaves, Open University).
14. H.G. Wells’s Short Stories: “The Country of the Blind” and “The Door in the Wall” (Sabine Coelsch-Foisner, University of Salzburg).
15. D.H. Lawrence’s Short Stories: “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” and “The Rocking Horse Winner” (Kathryn Miles, Unity College, Maine).
16. Virginia Woolf: “Kew Gardens” and “The Legacy” (Stef Craps, Ghent University).
17. Katherine Mansfield: “The Garden Party” and “Marriage à la Mode” (Jennifer E. Dunn, University of Oxford).
18. Frank O’Connor: “Guests of the Nation” and “My Oedipus Complex” (Greg Winston, Husson College).
19. The Short Stories of Liam O’Flaherty (Shawn O’Hare, Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, Tennessee).
20. W. Somerset Maugham’s Ashenden Stories (David Malcolm, University of Gdańsk, Poland).
21. Elizabeth Bowen: “The Demon Lover” and “Mysterious Kôr” (Sarah Dillon, University of St Andrews).
Part II: 1945–the Present.
Introduction.
22. The British and Irish Short Story: 1945–Present (Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David Malcolm, University of Gdańsk, Poland).
Topics and Genres.
23. New Identities: The Irish Short Story since 1945 (Greg Winston, Husson College).
24. Redefining Englishness: British Short Fiction from 1945 to the Present (James M. Lang, Assumption College, Worcester, Massachusetts).
25. Scottish Short Stories (post 1945) (Gavin Miller, Manchester Metropolitan University).
26. Hybrid Voices and Visions: The Short Stories of E.A. Markham, Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Patricia Duncker, and Jackie Kay (Michael Parker, University of Central Lancashire).
27. The Anglo-Jewish Short Story since the Holocaust (Cheryl Alexander Malcolm, University of Gdańsk, Poland).
28. Feminist Voices: Women’s Short Fiction after 1945 (Michael Meyer, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany).
29. British Gay and Lesbian Short Stories (Brett Josef Grubisic, University of British Columbia).
30. Science Fiction and Fantasy after 1945: Beyond Pulp Fiction (Mitchell R. Lewis, Elmira College, New York).
31. Experimental Short Fiction in Britain since 1945 (Günther Jarfe, Passau University).
Reading Individual Authors and Texts.
32. The Short Stories of Julian Maclaren-Ross (David Malcolm, University of Gdańsk, Poland).
33. Alan Sillitoe: “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner” (Michael Parker, University of Central Lancashire).
34. The Short Stories of Elizabeth Taylor (Robert Ellis Hosmer, Jr, Smith College).
35. The Short Fiction of V.S. Pritchett (Andrzej Gąsiorek, University of Birmingham).
36. Edna O’Brien: “A Rose in the Heart of New York” (Sinéad Mooney, National University of Ireland, Galway).
37. Doris Lessing: African Stories (Don Adams, Florida Atlantic University).
38. The Desire for Clarity: Seán O’Faoláin’s “Lovers of the Lake” (Paul Delaney, Trinity College, Dublin).
39. The Short Stories of Muriel Spark (Robert Ellis Hosmer, Jr, Smith College).
40. Jean Rhys: “Let Them Call It Jazz” (Cheryl Alexander Malcolm, University of Gdańsk, Poland).
41. George Mackay Brown: “Witch,” “Master Halcrow, Priest,” “A Time to Keep,” and “The Tarn and the Rosary” (Gavin Miller, Manchester Metropolitan University).
42. William Trevor: Uncertain Grounds for Assured Art (John Kenny, National University of Ireland, Galway).
43. John McGahern: Nightlines (Stanley van der Ziel, University College, Dublin).
44. The Clinking of an Identity Disk: Bernard MacLaverty’s “Walking the Dog” (Jerzy Jarniewicz, Universities of Łódź and Warsaw).
45. Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber: A World Transformed by Imagination and Desire - Adventures in Anarcho-Surrealism (Madelena Gonzalez, Avignon University).
46. J.G. Ballard: Psychopathology, Apocalypse, and the Media Landscape (Mitchell R. Lewis, Elmira College, New York).
47. The Short Stories of Benjamin Okri (Wolfgang Görtschacher, University of Salzburg).
48. James Kelman: Greyhound for Breakfast (Peter Clandfield, Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario).
49. Hanif Kureishi: Love in a Blue Time (Patrick Lonergan, National University of Ireland, Galway).
Index.
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by Jyotsna G. Singh (Editor)
A Companion to the Global Renaissance: English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
Featuring twenty one newly-commissioned essays, A Companion to the Global Renaissance: English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion demonstrates how today's globalization is the result of a complex and lengthy historical process that had its roots in England's mercantile and cross-cultural interactions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
An innovative collection that interrogates the global paradigm of our period and offers a new history of globalization by exploring its influences on English culture and literature of the early modern period.
Moves beyond traditional notions of Renaissance history mainly as a revival of antiquity and presents a new perspective on England's mercantile and cross-cultural interactions with the New and Old Worlds of the Americas, Africa, and the East, as well with Northern Europe.
Illustrates how twentieth-century globalization was the result of a lengthy and complex historical process linked to the emergence of capitalism and colonialism
Explores vital topics such as East-West relations and Islam; visual representations of cultural 'others'; gender and race struggles within the new economies and cultures; global drama on the cosmopolitan English stage, and many more
Vedi indiceList of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Global Renaissance: Jyotsna Singh (Michigan StateUniversity)
Part I: Mapping the Global:
1. The New Globalism: Transcultural Commerce, Global Systems Theory, and Spenser’s Mammon:
Daniel Vitkus (Florida State University)
2. “Travailing” Theory: Global Flows of Labor and the Enclosure of the Subject: Crystal Bartolovich (Syracuse University)
3. Islam and Tamburlaine’s World-picture: John Michael Archer (New York University)
4. Traveling Nowhere: Global Utopias in the Early Modern Period: Chloë Houston (University of Reading)
Part II: “Contact Zones”:
5. The Benefits of a Warm Study: The Resistance to Travel before Empire: Andrew Hadfield (University of Sussex)
6. “Apes of Imitation”: Imitation and Identity in Sir Thomas Roe’s Embassy to India: Nandini Das (University of Liverpool)
7. A Multinational Corporation: Foreign Labor in the London East India Company: Richmond Barbour (Oregon State University)
8. Where was Iceland in 1600?: Mary C. Fuller (MIT)
9. East by North-east: The English among the Russians, 1553–1603: Gerald MacLean (University of Exeter)
10. The Politics of Identity: William Adams, John Saris, and the English East India Company’s Failure in Japan: Catherine Ryu (Michigan State University)
11. The Queer Moor: Bodies, Borders, and Barbary Inns: Ian Smith (University of Reading)
Part III: Networks of Exchange: Traveling Objects:
12. Guns and Gawds: Elizabethan England’s Infidel Trade: Matthew Dimmock (University of Sussex)
13. Cassio, Cash, and the “Infidel 0”: Arithmetic, Double-entry Book-keeping, and Othello’s Unfaithful Accounts: Patricia Parker (Stanford University)
14. Seeds of Sacrifice: Amaranth, the Gardens of Tenochtitlan and Spenser’s Faerie Queene: Edward M. Test (Boise State University)
15. “So Pale, So Lame, So Lean, So Ruinous”: The Circulation of Foreign Coins in Early Modern England: Stephen Deng (Michigan State University)
16. Canary, Bristoles, Londres, Ingleses: English Traders in the Canaries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Barbara Sebek (Colorado State University)
17. “The Whole Globe of the Earth”: Almanacs and Their Readers: Adam Smyth (University of Reading)
18. Cesare Vecellio, Venetian Writer and Art-book Cosmopolitan: Ann Rosalind Jones (Smith College)
Part IV: The Globe Staged:
19. Bettrice’s Monkey: Staging Exotica in Early Modern London Comedy: Jean E. Howard (Columbia University)
20. The Maltese Factor: The Poetics of Place in The Jew of Malta and The Knight of Malta: Virginia Mason Vaughan (Clark University)
21. Local/Global Pericles: International Storytelling, Domestic Social Relations, Capitalism: David Morrow (College of St. Rose)
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Andrew Hass, David Jasper...
The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007
The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology is a defining volume of essays in which leading international scholars apply an interdisciplinary approach to the long and evolving relationship between English Literature and Theology. The volume first offers a chronological account of key moments in the formation of the tradition; goes on to demonstrate literary ways of reading the Bible, theological ways of reading literature, and literary conceptions of theological texts; and finally explores the great themes that have preoccupied the Jewish and Christian traditions. Framing editorial essays describe the history, the cultural implications, and the methodological issues of this now popular interdisciplinary study, before speculating as to its possible futures in a postmodern, multicultural world. (Da sito Oxford University Press)
Vedi indiceIntroductory Essays
1. `Now and in England' , Elisabeth Jay
2. The Study of Literature and Theology , David Jasper
General Reading List
The Formation of the Tradition
3. Origins in the English Tradition , Michael Fox
4. Vernacular Bibles and Prayer Books and English Literature , Lynne Long
5. The Protestant and Catholic Reformations , Brian Cummings
6. The Enlightenment , Rhodri Lewis
7. Romanticism , Scott Masson
8. The Influence of German Criticism on English Literature , David E. Klemm
9. The Victorians , T. R. Wright
10. Modernism in Literature and Theology , Cleo Kearns
11. Postmodernism , Kevin Hart
Literary Ways of Reading the Bible
12. The Bible as Literature and Sacred Text , Peter S. Hawkins
13. The Pentateuch , Tod Linafelt
14. Judges , Timothy K. Beal
15. Literary Approaches to the Psalms , Alastair Hunter
16. Song of Songs , J. Cheryl Exum
17. Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Job in Literature , Kirsten Nielsen
18. Prophetic Literature , Yvonne Sherwood
19. Literary Ways of Reading the Synoptic Gospels , George Aichele
20. The Gospel of John , Adele Reinhartz
21. Apocalyptic Literature , Christopher Rowland
Theological Ways of Reading Literature
22. William Langland and Geoffrey Chaucer , Nicholas Watson
23. Shakespeare and Marlow , Thomas Healy
24. Herbert and Donne , Helen Wilcox
25. John Milton , Michel Lieb
26. The Eighteenth-Century Novel , Scott Robertson
27. William Blake , Christopher Burdon
28. Wordsworth and Coleridge , Simon Bainbridge
29. George Eliot and Thomas Hardy , Norman Vance
30. James Joyce , Valentine Cunningham
31. T. S. Eliot, David Jones and W. H. Auden , Stephen Medcalf
32. The Feminist Literary Revisioning of Sacred Traditions , Heather Walton
Theology as Literature
33. Thomas Cranmer and the Collects , Donald Gray
34. John Bunyan - Thinker and Tinker , Robert G. Collmer
35. Bishop Butler , Lori Branch
36. John Keble and `The Christian Year' , Kirstie Blair
37. John Henry Newman , Ian Ker
38. Matthew Arnold , Luke Ferretter
39. The Theology of C. S. Lewis , Cath Filmer-Davies
40. Liturgy as Literature , Bridget Nichols
The Great Themes
41. Evil and the God of Love , Eric Ziolkowski
42. Death and the Afterlife , Tina Pippin
43. The Pastoral Tradition in English Religious Poetry , David Scott
44. The Passion Story in Literature , Paul Fiddes
45. Possibilities of Redemption within Secular Texts , Daniel Boscaljon
46. Body and Word , Alison Jasper
47. Visions of Heaven and Hell , Elena Volkova
48. Feminism and Patriarchy , Pamela Sue Anderson
49. Salvation - Personal and Political , George Newlands
Afterword
50. The Future of English Literature and Theology , Andrew Hass