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The annual French XX Bibliography provides the most complete listing available of books, articles, and book reviews concerned with French literature since 1885. This issue contains more than 6,800 entries.

An international journal committed to the publication of essays and reviews relevant to drama and theatre history to 1642. This issue includes eight new articles, a review essay, and reviews of nine new important books.

Susan Howatch began to take her loyal following of gothic and family-saga readers into unexpected psychological and theological depths in the 1980s. This book provides a way into Howatch's new world by presenting many of her own considerations of her work, and by allowing a group of scholars to engage in a wide-ranging discussion of Howatch's art.

Using a multidisciplinary approach, this book argues that the operation of art-as-mirror is the key to the hidden unity of Huysmans' fiction. The author claims that only the elimination of Huysmans' stylistic distortions enabled his art finally to become faithful and clear.

Essays on various aspects of the work of the French poet Stephane Mallarme on the centenary of his death (1998).

Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2001.

Seeks to analyze the autobiographical perspective of mothering and motherhood not purely as their inner, emotional and private narratives. This collection features essays that position autobiography, in both theory and fiction, as a profoundly cultural and political text that makes social change possible.

A study of one of the earliest major poems by Alexander Pope, this text reveals how he used the artistic conventions of the Stuart court - masque, architecture and heraldry - to create the last great Renaissance poem in English. The text shows the centrality of ?Windsor-Forest? in Pope's career and the centrality of Pope in the debates of his time.

The essays in this volume represent multiple perspectives on Lawrence Durrell's sojourn in the Hellenic diaspora and his art's connection to the Greek world.

To praise Jane Austen's novels only as stylistic masterpieces is to strip them of the historical, cultural, and literary contexts that might otherwise illuminate them. By focusing on the text of "Persuasion", this title seeks to reconcile the so-called insignificance of her content with her high canonical status.

This study, the first book-length assessment of de Crenne, delineates both her conceptual framework and her stylistic concerns. It situates her in the framework of her times and views her as a woman on the cutting edge of her era who both exploited and innovated literary tradition. The book shows how de Crenne's four works simultaneously reflects a humanist's interest in classical themes, medieval mastery of the allegorical form, and a feminist's zeal for the equality of women.

An intensely philosophical and religious poet, Olga Sedakova writes of nature, music, and the inner, spiritual life. This volume introduces to an English-speaking audience a selection of her poems.

Michael Malia's The Black Shore is actually the final novel of Irish writer and civil servant Joseph O'Neill. It points to the fact that his previous novels were carefully crafted metaphors for the bitter contempt in which he regarded his fellow countrymen, their culture, values, and religion. Thus, The Black Shore serves the purpose of bringing all O'Neill's works together and casting them in an altogether different light than previous criticism. Illustrated.

In this critical work, the author spotlights some of the autobiographical kernels in Morrison's novels and a study of the novels, demonstrating that each is a thematic and structural offshoot of the preceding one, evidencing a pattern of growth in Morrison's consciousness of the exploitation and oppression of people of African descent.

Bringing together translation theory and literary history, this volume conveys how Pound in his influential and controversial Homage to Sextus Propertius enriched the art of translation. The work of Louis Zukofsky, Basil Bunting, J. V. Cunningham, and Peter Porter is also discussed.

Rev. George D. Byers, Presbyterian missionary at Kachek, Hainan island, China, was murdered by bandits in 1924. Based on American and British consular archives and those of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and members of the Hainan mission, this is the story of how Mrs. Byers and Mrs. Mabel Roys got the government and their church to take action.

To Kill a Text analyzes the intertextual conflicts between four monuments of nineteenth-century fiction: Notre-Dame de Paris, Bleak House, Le Ventre de Paris and Germinal. The fundamental hypothesis of the book is that Dickens and Zola exemplify Hugo's conception of the novel as a graft of one work upon another, producing hybrid mixtures of genres and styles of representation.

A discussion of the tradition of grotesque portrayals of war and the military, especially their proliferation in Restoration and eighteenth-century English literature. Swift's the Travels is examined in particular, as well as the novels of Smollett, Fielding, and Stern. Illustrations of graphic satire by Hogarth and others.

One of the texts to emerge from the Althusserian tradition, this book analyzes the ideological unconscious that always exists, without becoming explicit, in any discursive field.

Using Mikhal Bakhtin's concept of dialogism as a theoretical starting point, this volume investigates the manifestations of competing 'voices' within the tradition of lyric poetry. It also includes essays on the classical, medieval, early modern, and modern lyric.

Demonstrates the profound influence of Ramon Lull (c. 1232-1316) upon Donne. The author shows how Donne refashioned Lull's abstract version of Mary and used this "Mary" to include Muslims and Jews in the church universal. This study will appeal to new historicists and those interested in alchemy, emblems, or theology.

Offering an assessment of how the work of Alfonso Reyes helped to create the role of the writer as a public intellectual in Latin America, this study reconstructs Reyes's model of intellectual community, showing how Reyes was influential in forging a sense of unity among the Latin American writers of his generation.

This book examines the treatment of literary influence in the first six books of poetry from Mexico's Jose Emilo Pacheco.