Joinings and Disjoinings

Joinings and Disjoinings
Author: JoAnna Stephens Mink
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 186
Release: 1991
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780879725242

Joinings and Disjoinings illustrates the importance of marriage or singleness in short stories and novels and suggests the diverse perspectives the topic can provide on specific works and on analysis of the cultural importance of marriage and marital status. Essays discuss canonical and lesser-known works, providing social, historical, and literary context.

English Stage Comedy 1490-1990

English Stage Comedy 1490-1990
Author: Alexander Leggatt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2002-01-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134657900

First published in 2004. English stage comedy has weathered centuries of social and theatrical change. How did it survive? English Stage Comedy 1490–1990 is a unique and beautifully written study of the comedy of the English stage from the Tudor period to the late twentieth century. Organized thematically, it shows how this remarkably enduring genre has dealt with the tensions of social life, using its conventions as tools for social inquiry. Through an examination of comedy Alexander Leggatt demonstrates that an approach through genre, neglected in recent criticism, can have much to say about our current concerns with the relations between literature and society. English Stage Comedy 1490–1990 surveys five centuries of classic comic drama, focusing on major playwrights such as: Shakespeare, Jonson, Etherege, Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Wilde, Shaw, Coward, Orton, Ayckbourn and many lesser-known figures.

Music, Subjectivity, and Schumann

Music, Subjectivity, and Schumann
Author: Benedict Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2022-04-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1009158082

What is musical subjectivity? Drawing on philosophy and critical theory, Benedict Taylor investigates this concept in relation to Schumann.

Communication and Women's Friendships

Communication and Women's Friendships
Author: Janet Doubler Ward
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1993
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780879726447

Eleven contributed essays discuss a variety of literary texts against a background of the historical and cultural aspects of women's friendships. The listings of works cited and primary works discussed do not adequately substitute for an index. Paper edition (unseen), $15.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Encyclopedia of German Literature

Encyclopedia of German Literature
Author: Matthias Konzett
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 3105
Release: 2015-05-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1135941297

Designed to provide English readers of German literature the opportunity to familiarize themselves with both the established canon and newly emerging literatures that reflect the concerns of women and ethnic minorities, the Encyclopedia of German Literature includes more than 500 entries on writers, individual work, and topics essential to an understanding of this rich literary tradition. Drawing on the expertise of an international group of experts, the essays in the encyclopedia reflect developments of the latest scholarship in German literature, culture, and history and society. In addition to the essays, author entries include biographies and works lists; and works entries provide information about first editions, selected critical editions, and English-language translations. All entries conclude with a list of further readings.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell
Author: Nancy S. Weyant
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 1994
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780810828902

Identifies biographies, newly discovered correspondence, critical works, and other bibliographies. An extensive subject index provides easy access to 350 entries.

A web of relationship

A web of relationship
Author: Mary R. Reichardt
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1992
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781617033414

Insights into a rediscovered author's revealing portraits of New England women

The Significance of Sibling Relationships in Literature

The Significance of Sibling Relationships in Literature
Author: JoAnna Stephens Mink
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 190
Release: 1993
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780879726133

Examines the significance of sibling relationships, or the lack of them, as portrayed in literature. Many of the 13 essays compare two or more novels, most of which are from the Victorian era or the 20th century. Paper edition (613-X), $14.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Physiologia

Physiologia
Author: Dennis Des Chene
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2018-08-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1501723715

Sixteenth-century Aristotelianism was the culmination of four centuries of commentary and criticism. Physiologia is one of the first books to provide an accessible and comprehensive guide to that tradition in natural philosophy. In an incisive and readable treatment, Dennis Des Chene illuminates the continuities and disruptions between medieval and modern philosophy and promotes a new understanding of the philosophical setting in which modern notions of science emerged.

Making Chaucer's Book of the Duchess

Making Chaucer's Book of the Duchess
Author: Jamie C. Fumo
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2015-09-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1783163496

- provides the first comprehensive overview of the critical history of Book of the Duchess - offers for the first time a thorough analysis of Book of the Duchess’s medieval and early modern reception - establishes Book of the Duchess’s structuring investment in the idea of ‘the book’ – its construction, consumption, and transmission - as it contributes to a poetics of intertextuality