Tag: Literature

Free Download Allen Stroud, "Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature "
English | ISBN: 1538166062 | 2023 | 578 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Fantasy is both old and new. In the ancient past, stories of magic, where supernatural creatures existed, the gods walked the earth and heroes saved their civilizations from the dark fate that awaited them were intermingled with history, religion, and fact. It is only in the last few hundred years that a conscious suspension of disbelief has allowed us to return to fantasy: the literature of the impossible and appreciate it for its craft and storytelling once more.

Free Download Bruce Edward Walker, "CliffsNotes on Wharton’s The House of Mirth (CliffsNotes on Literature)"
English | 2003 | pages: 82 | ISBN: 0764537164 | PDF | 0,9 mb
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, Descriptions, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.

Free Download Ila Ahlawat, "Women and Temporality in Literature and Cinema: Negotiating with Timelessness"
English | ISBN: 9463729747 | 2021 | 140 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB
Women and Temporality in Literature and Cinema delves into the subject of literary and cinematic women characters entrapped in temporal spaces and their peculiar communication with visibility, enclosure, space, and time in the context of sexual and temporal discord. It explores subjects such as youth, ageing, remembering, forgetting, and repeating within the larger realm of gendered temporalities that are essentially nuanced and affective experiences. Throughout, this book seeks to locate and spell out the damaging as well as the healing effects of temporality upon women’s consciousness.

Free Download Literature and Medievalism in Early Modern England: Strange Histories
by Mike Rodman Jones
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1843846594 | 190 Pages | PDF | 4.86 MB

Free Download Rick Honings, "Language, Literature and the Construction of a Dutch National Identity (1780-1830) "
English | ISBN: 9089648275 | 2018 | 304 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In exploring the birth of a Dutch identity between 1780 and 1830, this book integrates nationalism studies with literary and linguistic history by highlighting scholarly study of the Dutch language as a factor in the creation of the national identity. These early scholars promoted the Dutch language during a time of political upheaval, when citizens needed something to feel proud of. This book examines the impact individual agents had on a crucial stage in the Dutch nation-building process.

Free Download Derek Ryan, "Bloomsbury, Beasts and British Modernist Literature"
English | ISBN: 1009182978 | 2022 | 280 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Bloomsbury, Beasts and British Modernist Literature reveals how the Bloomsbury group’s fascination with beasts – from pests to pets, tiny insects to big game – became an integral part of their critique of modernity and conceptualisation of more-than-human worlds. Through a series of close readings, it argues that for Leonard Woolf, David Garnett, Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster, profound shifts in interspecies relations were intimately connected to questions of imperialism, race, gender, sexuality and technology. Whether in their hunting narratives, zoo fictions, canine biographies or (un)entomological aesthetics, these writers repeatedly test the boundaries between, and imagine transformations of the human and nonhuman by insisting that we attend to the material contexts in which they meet. In demonstrating this, the book enriches our understanding of British modernism while intervening in debates on the cultural significance of animality from the turn of the twentieth century to the Second World War.

Free Download Austin E. Quiqley, "Theoretical Inquiry: Language, Linguistics, and Literature"
English | 2003 | pages: 287 | ISBN: 030010166X | PDF | 1,0 mb
In the aftermath of debate about the death of literary theory, Austin E. Quigley asks whether theory has failed us or we have failed literary theory. Theory can thrive, he argues, only if we understand how it can be strategically deployed to reveal what it does not presuppose. This involves the repositioning of theoretical inquiry relative to historical and critical inquiry and the repositioning of theories relative to each other.

Free Download Taylor Swift by the Book: The Literature Behind the Lyrics, from Fairy Tales to Tortured Poets by Rachel Feder, Tiffany Tatreau
English | November 26th, 2024 | ISBN: 1683694740 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 33.70 MB
From a Robert Frost poem on her debut album to the myth of Cassandra on The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift’s lyrics are filled with literary connections.

Free Download Jonathan Picken, "Literature, Metaphor and the Foreign Language Learner"
English | 2007 | pages: 189 | ISBN: 023050695X, 1349353264 | PDF | 0,5 mb
Theory in reader-response and stylistics traditions supports L2 work with literature as it is valued by students and helps develop communicative and critical language skills. The author uses insights from empirical research to evaluate current teaching practices against this background, highlighting readers’ responses to metaphor as a test case.

Free Download A. James Arnold, "A History of Literature in the Caribbean"
English | 2001 | pages: 683 | ISBN: 9027234485, 1588110419 | PDF | 2,2 mb
For the first time the Dutch-speaking regions of the Caribbean and Suriname are brought into fruitful dialogue with another major American literature, that of the anglophone Caribbean. The results are as stimulating as they are unexpected. The editors have coordinated the work of a distinguished international team of specialists.