For more than a century, The Red Badge of Courage has held readers spellbound. This complete study edition of Stephen Crane's classic novel includes information about the Civil War, study questions, writing ideas, projects, photographs of actual Civil War soldiers, and more.
- Friendly reading support ensures understanding and enjoyment - Guided Reading Questions guide students through the work by raising important issues in key passages. - Footnotes explain obscure references, unusual usages, and terms - Words for Everyday Use entries define and give pronunciations for difficult terms
When the editors of the English Dictionary put out a call during the late 19th century pleading for "men of letters" to provide help with their mammoth undertaking, hundreds of responses came forth. Some helpers, like Dr. W.C. Minor, provided literally thousands of entries to the editors. But Minor, an American expatriate in England and a Civil War veteran, was actually a certified lunatic who turned in his dictionary entries from the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Simon Winchester has produced a mesmerizing coda to the deeply troubled Minor's life, a life that in one sense began with the senseless murder of an innocent British brewery worker...
This complete study edition of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice includes history and information about the society of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England, a map, questions, writing ideas, and projects to help students explore this story in which arrogance, bias, and conceit derail engagements and fragment happiness.
- Friendly reading support ensures understanding and enjoyment - Guided Reading Questions guide students through the work by raising important issues in key passages. - Footnotes explain obscure references, unusual usages and terms - Words for Everyday Use entries define and give pronunciations for difficult terms
What makes something mythic? What do mythic events and narratives have to do with us? In Mythology, David Leeming offers an unusual and effective approach to the subject of mythology by stressing universal themes through myths of many cultures. This anthology collects a wide array of narrative texts from the Bible to English literature to interpretations by Joseph Campbell, C.G. Jung, and others, which illustrate how myths serve whole societies in our universal search for meaning.
Defining Literary Criticism: Scholarship, Authority and the Possession of Literary Knowledge, 1880-2002
Added by: gothicca | Karma: 0 | Non-Fiction, Literature Studies | 4 June 2011
9
Defining Literary Criticism: Scholarship, Authority and the Possession of Literary Knowledge, 1880-2002
Outlining the controversies that have surrounded the academic discipline of English Literature since its institutionalization in the late nineteenth century, this important book draws on a range of archival sources.
