Professor Murray Roston 
The Comic Mode in English Literature [EPUB ebook] 
From the Middle Ages to Today

A comprehensive analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on Shakespeare »s reception by major American writers and poets. …

The revival of translation as a means of learning and teaching a foreign language and as a skill in its own right is occurring at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in universities. In this b …

Focusing on four aspects of Chaucer »s poetics-use of narrative, speech, rhetoric, and figurative language-this is the first book-length study to identify Chaucer »s distinctive poetic strategies by …

‘Three essays on the nature of the bonds between Vita Nuova and Convivio; the nature and significance of the Donna Gentile, Dante »s  »second love »; and the imaginative and intellectual coherence of …

For John Henry Newman, religion is animated by an imaginative  »master vision » which  »supplies the mind with spiritual life and peace ». All his life, Newman reflected on this  »master vision ». Hi …

Why have vampires become such a feature of modern culture? Can vampire-like conditions be explained by medical research? Is there a connection between vampirism and Freud? The Psychology of Vampires …

Chicago and the Making of American Modernism is the first full-length study of the vexed relationship between America »s great modernist writers and the nation »s “second city.” Michelle E. Moore exp …

In 15 all-new essays, this volume explores how science fiction and fantasy draw on materials from ancient Greece and Rome,  »displacing » them from their original settings-in time and space, in point …

Renjian cihua is a masterpiece of literary criticism written by Wang Guowei (1877–1927), a scholar of the Chinese classics who lived during the late Qing and early Republican periods. Since its publi …

150 years after Alice »s Adventures in Wonderland was first published, Lewis Carroll »s eponymous heroine has become one of the most familiar figures in the cultural landscape. The enduringly iconic …