This volume begins to show why the current period in humanistic studies could be known as "The Age of Edward Said." The collection brings together outstanding intellectuals from the wide variety of fields to which Edward Said, the most important humanist of his generation, has made contributions: literary criticism, postcolonial studies, musicology, Middle Eastern Studies, anthropology, and journalism.
Easy Strategies and Activities to Help Kids Explore and Enrich Their Experience with Literature
If you are not already familiar with teaching literary elements or what they are, this is a good reference for you.
Creative and exciting ways to help students understand literary elements and develop a vocabulary with which to discuss literature and its elements such as character, plot, setting, theme, motivation, point-of-view and more. Includes models from well-known works of literature, and reproducibles.
The Companion to Nabokov provides a concise introduction to the creative world of one of the twentieth century's most important writers. Fourteen individual essays cover such topics as Nabokov's storytelling techniques, his achievements as a short story writer, his evolution as a novelist, his relationship to the literary currents of his day, his world-view, and his lasting artistic legacy, particularly through Lolita, his most famous and controversial work.
Roman Britain: A Sourcebook (Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World)
by Stanley Ireland
Roman Britain: A Sourcebook has established itself as the only comprehensive collection of source material on the subject. It incorporates literary, numismatic and epigraphic evidence for the history of Britain under Roman rule, as well as translations of major literary sources.
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Ubik
Written in 1969, Ubik is a futuristic science-fiction novel that transcends genre fiction. Dick's novel is dense with literary substance which has been integrated into a comprehensive universe of his own imagining.The novel takes place in 1992, in a world where nearly every convenience (even the opening of doors) costs money. In this society, the dead and the living interact with one another.Ubik integrates a series of themes – on the surface it is a light sci-fi read; by the first chapter, however, the book is infused, although not laden, with important themes and "literary significance."
