Hans-Erich Keller 
La Vie de sainte Marguerite [PDF ebook] 

A handbook in three volumes to a choice of essential books, writers and subjects in order to try to understand the world we live in, about "big questions" and possible answers, about books …

In Part III of Marjorie Bowen’s “The Rake’s Progress “, the narrative reaches its climax and resolution. This volume focuses on the theme of redemption, as the protagonist grapples with the consequ …

This is the first book-length study to read women of the Beat Generation as feminist writers. The book focuses on one author from each of the three generations that comprise the groups of female writ …

This book examines the writings of the American novelist Ayn Rand, especially The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), which Rand considered her definitive statement about the need for an u …

In the Alexander Lectures for 1965-66 at the University of Toronto, Dr. Frye describes the basis of the tragic vision as "being in time, " in which death as "the essential event that g …

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014 This book examines the connections between the growth of“terror fiction“ – the genre now known as “Gothic“ – in the late eighteenthcentury, and the simultan …

In The Ethics of Theory, Robert Doran offers the first broad assessment of the ethical challenges of Critical Theory across the humanities and social sciences, calling into question the sharp dichoto …

Marshall Walker“s lively and readable account of the highs and lows of Scottish literature from this important date to the present addresses the important themes of democracy, power and nationhood. …

As works designed for mothers to instruct their children within the home, early modern mother-directed catechisms, like traditional catechisms, use the question-and-answer format to present the basic …

Thomas Hardy“s ‚The Dynasts‘ and Leo Tolstoy“s ‚War & Peace‘ are both works which defy attempts to assign them to a particular genre but might seem to have little else in common apart from being se …