800 Literature, rhetoric and criticism
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800 Literature, rhetoric and criticism
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The Literary History of the Igbo Novel:African Literature in African Languages
This book looks at the trends in the development of the Igbo novel from its antecedents in oral performance, through the emergence of the first published novel, Omenuko, in 1933 by Pita Nwana, to the contemporary Igbo novel. Defining "Igbo…
The gothic novel in Ireland:c. 1760–1829
The Gothic Novel in Ireland, 1760-1830 reveals how the Irish contribution to the rise of the gothic novel is all too frequently overlooked. Irish writers were actively engaged in shaping the form now conventionally understood as beginning with Horace…
Comics and the Body:Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability
Eszter Szép’s Comics and the Body is the first book to examine the roles of the body in both drawing and reading comics within a single framework. With an explicit emphasis on the ethical dimensions of bodily vulnerability, Szép takes her place at…
History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction
History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction combines innovative literary and historiographical analysis to investigate the way neo-Victorian novels conceptualise our relationship to the Victorian past, and to analyse their role in the…
Facing Poetry. Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten's Theory of Literature
What is Literature? According to Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Literature is perfect sensate discourse. Based on this insight Baumgarten offers the first modern theory of literature. His uniquely holistic approach encompasses a methodology,…
What Literature Knows: Forays into Literary Knowledge Production
This volume sheds light on the nexus between knowledge and literature. Arranged historically, contributions address both popular and canonical English and US-American writing from the early modern period to the present. They focus on how historically…
Make We Merry More and Less:
An Anthology of Medieval English Popular Literature
Conceived as a companion volume to the well-received Simple Forms: Essays on Medieval English Popular Literature (2015), Make We Merry More and Less is a comprehensive anthology of popular medieval literature from the twelfth century onwards.…
Literary Culture in Early Modern England, 1630-1700: Angles of Contingency
This book explores literary culture in England between 1630 and 1700, focusing on connections between material, epistemic, and political conditions of literary writing and reading. In a number of case studies and close readings, it presents the…
A World of Fiction: Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History
During the 19th century, throughout the Anglophone world, most fiction was first published in periodicals. In Australia, newspapers were not only the main source of periodical fiction, but the main source of fiction in general. Because of their…
Verbal and visual strategies in nonfiction picturebooks: Theoretical and analytical approaches
This edited volume presents new approaches to better understand how knowledge is presented verbally and visually in children’s and young adult nonfiction picturebooks. Nonfiction for children and young adults has existed alongside fiction ever since…
Collection Tree
- 800 Literature, rhetoric and criticism
- 800 Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric
- 810 American literature in English
- 820 English and Old English literatures
- 830 German and related literatures
- 840 French and related literatures
- 850 Italian, Romanian and related literatures
- 860 Spanish, Portuguese, Galician literatures
- 870 Latin and Italic literatures
- 880 Classical and modern Greek literatures
- 890 Other literatures