Tag: Literary

Free Download Jane Spencer, "Literary Relations: Kinship and the Canon 1660-1830"
English | 2005 | pages: 277 | ISBN: 0199262969 | PDF | 1,8 mb
Literary Relations argues that kinship relations between writers, both literal and figurative, played a central part in the creation of a national tradition of English literature. Through studies of writing relationships, including those between William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Henry and Sarah Fielding, Frances and Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, it shows that kinship between writers played a significant role not just in individual lives but in the formation of generic traditions. As writers looked back to founding fathers, and hoped to have writing sons, the literary tradition was modeled on the patriarchal family, imagined in tropes of genealogy and inheritance. This marginalized but did not exclude women, and the study ranges from the work of Dryden, with its emphasis on literature as patrilineal inheritance, to the reception of Austen, which shows uneven but significant progress towards understanding the woman writer as an inheriting daughter and generative mother.

Free Download Medieval Empires and the Culture of Competition: Literary Duels at Islamic and Christian Courts By Samuel England
2017 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1474425259 | EPUB | 1 MB
A probing inquiry into medieval court struggles, this book examines the Persian Buyids takeover of the great Arab caliphate in Iraq, the counter-Crusade under Saladin, and the literature of sovereignty in Spain and Italy at the cusp of the Renaissance.

Free Download Proust, the Body and Literary Form (Cambridge Studies in French) by Michael R. Finn
English | April 28, 1999 | ISBN: 0521641896, 0521027543 | True PDF | 226 pages | 1.3 MB
Michael Finn examines the vogue for nervous afflictions in France in the late nineteenth century, and compares Proust’s anxieties about writing In Search of Lost Time to the concerns of earlier writers suffering from nervous conditions, including Flaubert, Baudelaire, Nerval and the Goncourt brothers. Once Proust cast off his fear of being a nervous weakling, he was able to make fun of the supposed purity of the novel form.

Free Download Chiji Akọma, "Oral Literary Performance in Africa"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0367482142 | PDF | pages: 301 | 17.3 mb
This book delivers an admirably comprehensive and rigorous analysis of African oral literatures and performance.

Free Download Future T/Issues: Organ Transplantation in Literary and Medical Narratives
by Ruth Gehrmann
English | 2024 | ISBN: 311141325X | 311 Pages | PDF | 2 MB

Free Download Animal, Vegetal, Marginal: The German Literary Grotesque from Panizza to Kafka (German Jewish Cultures) by Joela Jacobs
English | March 4, 2025 | ISBN: 0253071976, 0253071984 | True EPUB | 285 pages | 0.5 MB
Animal, Vegetal, Marginal explores the oft-forgotten yet provocative German genre of die Groteske, or the literary grotesque. This short prose form challenges the norms of being human and being accepted as such by society in exaggerated and satirical ways. Between the Kaiser’s and Hitler’s Reichs, the genre’s irreverent comedy and criticism sold out cabarets, drew droves of radio listeners, and created bestsellers.

Free Download Rob Wallace, "Improvisation and the Making of American Literary Modernism"
English | ISBN: 1441113754 | 2012 | 216 pages | PDF | 796 KB
Improvisation, despite its almost ubiquitous presence in many art forms, is notoriously misunderstood and mysterious. Although earlier strands of American philosophy and art emphasized what might be called improvisational practices, it was during the modernist period that improvisational practice and theory began to make a significant impact on art and culture, specifically via the African American musical forms of jazz and blues. This musical development held important consequences for the larger artistic, cultural, and political life of America as a whole-and, eventually, the world. The historical convergence of jazz and philosophical currents like pragmatism in American culture provides the framework for Wallace’s discussion of improvisation in literary modernism. Focusing on poets ranging from Gertrude Stein to Langston Hughes, Wallace’s work provides a fresh perspective on the complex circuits of modernist culture. Improvisation and The Making of American Literary Modernism will be of interest to scholars of poetry, music, American and modernist studies, and race and ethnic studies.

Free Download Peggy Keeran, "Literary Research and the British Eighteenth Century: Strategies and Sources (Volume 12) "
English | ISBN: 0810887959 | 2013 | 328 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
The 18th century in Britain was a transition period for literature. Patronage, either by a benefactor or through subscription, lingered even as the publishing and bookselling industries developed. The practice of reviewing books became well established during the second half of the century, with the first periodical founded in 1749. For the literary scholar, these gradual changes mean that different search strategies are required to conduct research into primary and secondary source material across the era.

Free Download Basma A. Al Mutlaq, "Saudi Women Writers: Sociopolitical and Literary Landscapes"
English | ISBN: 1032855126 | 2025 | 172 pages | EPUB | 891 KB
Saudi Women Writers: Sociopolitical and Literary Landscapes details the achievements of Saudi women fiction writers from the 1960s up to the present day, many of whose works have yet to be published in English translation.

Free Download K. Sara Myers, "Ancient Roman Literary Gardens: Gender, Genre, and Geopoetics"
English | ISBN: 0197773206 | 2024 | 312 pages | PDF | 144 MB
Gardens are not central in Latin literature, but usually somewhere off to the side, as was often the real garden. They appear, however, in some form in nearly all literary genres of Latin literature-history, satire, epigrams, epics, letters, lyric poetry, elegies, and novels-and often edge their way into larger socio-economic and political discussions about Roman identity, gender, wealth, and land use. Through an analysis of ancient garden studies and close readings of major Latin texts from the first centuries BCE and CE, K. Sara Myers examines the function and representation of garden descriptions in the work of a broad range of Roman authors, such as Cicero, Catullus, Vergil, Varro, Horace, Ovid, Petronius, Columella, Statius, and Pliny the Elder and Younger.