reconstructing literature in an ideological

Advances in Primatology: Reconstructing Behavior in the Primate Fossil Record (Paperback)

This volume brings together a series of papers that address the topic of reconstructing behavior in the primate fossil record. The literature devoted to reconstructing behavior in extinct species is ovelWhelming and very diverse. Sometimes it seems as... more

Pre-Owned Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age (Paperback 9780393314991) by Robert Alter Alexander Whitney Knowlton

9780393314991. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 260. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 260 p. From one of our premier literary scholars here is a learned and witty introduction to the sheer vitality of literature... more

Cambridge Studies in American Literature Ideology and Classic American Literature Book 16 (Paperback)

This volume of essays brings together some of the best work by Americanists concerned with the problem of ideology and its bearing upon American literature and culture. It projects neither a particular ideological view nor a particular view of... more

Cambridge Companions to Literature: The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature and Politics (Hardcover)

For a long time people had been schooled to think of modern literature s relationship to politics as indirect or obscure and often to find the politics of literature deep within its unconsciously ideological structures and forms. But twentieth-century... more

African American Literature in Transitio African American Literature in Transition 1920-1930: Volume 9 (Hardcover)

African American Literature in Transition 1920-1930 presents original essays that map ideological historical and cultural shifts in the 1920s. Complicating the familiar reading of the 1920s as a decade that began with a spectacular boom and ended with... more

Cambridge Companions to Literature: The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature and Politics (Paperback)

For a long time people had been schooled to think of modern literature s relationship to politics as indirect or obscure and often to find the politics of literature deep within its unconsciously ideological structures and forms. But twentieth-century... more

Advertising Literature and Print Culture in Ireland 1891-1922 (Hardcover)

A study of Irish advertising s cultural literary and ideological resonance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. more

Transforming Literary Studies: The Postcolonial Subject in Transit : Migration Borders and Subjectivity in Contemporary African Diaspora Literature (Hardcover)

Reconstructing transnational identities in postcolonial migration The Postcolonial Subject in Transit highlights the complexities of cultural hybridity in contemporary African diasporic literature. It captures migrants’ desire for cultural... more

Routledge Revivals: Handbook of Latin American Literature (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback)

First published in 1987 (this second edition in 1992) the Handbook of Latin American Literature offers readers the opportunity to explore this literary history in the English Language and constitutes an ideological approach to Latin American... more

Literature in History Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton Book 1 (Paperback)

Alexander the Great according to Plutarch carried on his campaigns a copy of the Iliad kept alongside a dagger; on a more pronounced ideological level ancient Romans looked to the Aeneid as an argument for imperialism. In this major reinterpretation of... more

Children s Literature and Culture The Making of the Modern Child (Paperback)

This book explores how the concept of childhood in the late 18th century was constructed through the ideological work performed by children s literature as well as pedagogical writing and medical literature of the era. Andrew O Malley ties the... more

Pre-Owned Making Sense of Self : Medical Advice Literature in Late Nineteenth-Century America 9780812278101

Making Sense of Self is an historical analysis of the ideological content of a broad sample of late nineteenth-century popular advice literature concerning the body and the mind. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good... more

Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature: Valuing the Vernacular (Paperback)

In Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature leading critic Alastair Minnis presents the fruits of a long-term engagement with the ways in which crucial ideological issues were deployed in vernacular texts. The concept of the vernacular... more

Cambridge Studies in French Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature Book 53 (Hardcover)

This wide-ranging study explores the ideological framework of genre in Old French and Occitan literature by charting the relationship between ideology and gender in five key genres: the chansons de geste courtly romance the Occitan canso hagiography... more

Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Environmental Humanities: Reclaiming Nostalgia : Longing for Nature in American Literature (Hardcover)

Often thought of as the quintessential home or the Eden from which humanity has fallen the natural world has long been a popular object of nostalgic narratives. In Reclaiming Nostalgia Jennifer Ladino assesses the ideological effects of this phenomenon... more

Studies in Childhood 1700 to the Presen The Making of Modern Children s Literature in Britain (Hardcover)

Lucy Pearson s lively and engaging book examines British children s literature during the period widely regarded as a second golden age . Drawing extensively on archival material Pearson investigates the practical and ideological factors that shaped... more

Women Gender and Sexuality in German Literature and Culture: Domesticating the Public: Women s Discourse on Gender Roles in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Paperback)

The domestic sphere the ideological as well as physical context of female life during the nineteenth century featured prominently in German women s writing of the period. Women writers such as Fanny Lewald Ida von Hahn-Hahn and E. Marlitt who had begun... more

Pre-Owned Blooming and Contending : Chinese Literature in the Post-Mao Era 9780253312020 Used

The final chapter discusses the post-Mao generation of young writers who are trying to create works that go beyond narrowly ideological boundaries of the past and reach toward a true modern Chinese literature. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD... more

Pre-Owned The Rule of Art: Literature and Painting in the Renaissance (Hardcover) by Clark Hulse

9780226360522. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. 2nd ed. Language: English. Pages: 230. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 230 p. Contains: Illustrations. What do Renaissance poetry and painting have in common? What are the social ideological and... more

Ideology and Literary Form (Paperback)

In the post- 9/11 world where ideological conflicts form the very basis of all geopolitical developments the domain of literature too cannot be considered insulated from ideological concerns. As a matter of fact in the aftermath of 9/11 a burgeoning... more

Routledge Studies in Folklore and Fairy Consuming Agency in Fairy Tales Childlore and Folkliterature (Paperback)

In this book Honeyman looks at manifestations of youth agency (and representations of agency produced for youth) as depicted in fairy tales childlore and folk literature investigating the dynamic of ideological manipulation and independent resistance... more

Work Time : English Departments and the Circulation of Cultural Value (Hardcover)

This book shares with a number of recent studies an interest in the historical development of English in the United States in how it became a central discipline in the humanities and in what the ideological affiliations of literature and literary study... more

Censorship and Cultural Sensibility: The Regulation of Language in Tudor-Stuart England (Hardcover)

In this study of the reciprocities binding religion politics law and literature Debora Shuger offers a profoundly new history of early modern English censorship one that bears centrally on issues still current: the rhetoric of ideological extremism the... more

Garden Plots: The Politics and Poetics of Gardens (Hardcover)

Shelley Saguaro s unique book illustrates the persistent presence of gardens in literature. Gardens in fiction do not simply represent a familiar theme Saguaro contends but are bound up with wider aesthetic and ideological issues. As with literary... more

Language Power and Ideology in Political Writing: Emerging Research and Opportunities (Hardcover)

Politics and political literature studies have emerged as one of the most dynamic areas of scrutiny. Relying on ideological as well as socio-political theories politics have contributed to cultural studies in many ways especially within written texts... more