Here is a convenient introduction to the unique aspects of interpreting the one-third of the Hebrew Bible that is in poetic form. Numerous are the occasions when a failure to distinguish poetry from prose in the Old Testament has resulted in flawed interpretation. Robert Lowth's Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews (1753, 1787), marked a ......
Offers an exploration of the indissoluble link between war and sexuality based on over the years of interviews by the well-known Lebanese expatriate teacher, critic, and writer. This book refers to sexuality as the physical and psychological relations of men and women, and examines Middle Eastern customs involved in defining such relationships.
This is a ''biography of the imagination, '' an inner narrative of Sylvia Plath's life and work. Combining psychoanalytical, feminist, and intertextual methods, Steven Gould Axelrod traces what Roland Barthes has called ''the body's journey through language.'' After an introductory look at the roles played by language and silence in Plath's verbal ......
Robert Ingersoll was America's finest orator and foremost leader of freethinkers. This author selected the best from speeches and essays of this iconoclastic orator who laboured to destroy the superstition and hypocrisy of fundamentalism in America and who answered the Moral Majority.
With characteristic flair, Kenner explores the ways Joyce teaches us to read his novel as Joyce taught himself to write it: moving from the simple to the complex, from the familiar to the strange and new, from the norms of the nineteenth-century novel to the open forms of modernism.
In an award winning book of literary scholarship, Sacks explores the functions as well as forms of convention and provides an interpretive study of the elegy as a genre. ''The English Elegy'' is an ambitious and humane book, an eloquent work on the poetry of mourning. (Poetry)
One of the more exciting ways to grapple with philosophical questions, positions, and arguments, is through philosophical fiction. This collection presents philosophically interesting science fiction. It provides an introduction to philosophy of science fiction and an introduction to science fiction for the philosophically inclined.
The Symbol of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics in the American Renaissance
''This is major scholarship, both as it contributes to American history of ideas and as it offers a brilliant new interpretation of major nineteenth-century American writers.''--J. Hillis Miller
''Avrom Fleishman's ''The English Historical Novel'' provides the first comprehensive study not only of this subject but also of the theoretical relationship between history and the historical novel''.--Harriet Gilliam, ''Clio''.
This is an illuminating interpretation of the life and work of twenty-two major literary figures during three hundred years of English literature. It reveals how they were rooted in the political and social movements of their own time, with representative selections from their writings.
