Investigates the history, values, rituals, and shared consciousness that created whiteness in the United States, as well as the representations that sustain its influence on both cultural and literary vision. This title formulates an understanding of whiteness by tracing its literary and cultural evolution.
Seldom has a single book, much less a translation, so deeply affected English literature as the translation of Cervantes' Don Quixote in 1612. The comic novel inspired drawings, plays, sermons, and other translations, making the name of the Knight of la Mancha as familiar as any folk character in English lore. In this comprehensive study of the ......
Sensibility in the Literature and Medicine of Eighteenth-Century France
In Enlightenment and Pathology Anne Vila surveys the various understandings of sensibility that passed back and forth between different professional modes of discourse in eighteenth-century France. The thrills of the nervous system, the delectations of taste, and the pangs of the heart mattered as much in the laboratory as in literature. Vila ......
Why does Christianity feel the need to impose its customs and beliefs on the rest of the world? And why has an impulse driven at least partially by sincere concern for the "salvation" of others so often played into the hands of ruthless colonizers with more cynical aims? Bringing together scholars in literature, history, and religion, Christian ......
Four Peaks in Hebrew Literature and Jewish Survival
In his admittedly controversial thesis, perhaps relevant to other minority literatures, Aberbach (Hebrew and comparative literature, McGill U.) asserts that many creative periods for this oldest of ethnic literatures were generated by crises in Jewish survival under the dominant culture. Four such
What sorts of cultural criticism are teachers and scholars to produce, and how can that criticism be employed in the culture at large? This title examines the cultural legitimacy of literary study.
What sorts of cultural criticism are teachers and scholars to produce, and how can that criticism be employed in the culture at large? This title examines the cultural legitimacy of literary study.
A Psychological Approach to Character and Conflict in Literature
One of literature's greatest gifts is its portrayal of realistically drawn characters--human beings in whom we can recognize motivations and emotions. In Imagined Human Beings, Bernard J. Paris explores the inner conflicts of some of literature's most famous characters, using Karen Horney's psychoanalytic theories to understand the behavior of ......
A Psychological Approach to Character and Conflict in Literature
Explores the inner conflicts of some of literature's most famous characters, using Karen Horney's psychoanalytic theories to understand the behaviour of these characters as we would the behaviour of real people
