Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain
Siân Echard and Robert Rouse, Editors Wiley Press 2017 Bringing together scholarship on multilingual and intercultural medieval Britain like never before, The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain comprises over 600 authoritative entries spanning key figures, contexts and influences in the literatures of Britain from the fifth to the sixteenth centuries. Purchase this Book About […]
Post-Personal Romanticism
Bo Earle Ohio State University Press 2017 Post-Personal Romanticism: Democratic Terror, Prosthetic Poetics, and the Comedy of Modern Ethical Life by Bo Earle offers a broad recasting of Romantic lyric’s formal innovations in terms of Hegel’s historical ethics. These innovations attempt to come to terms with the Enlightenment’s paradoxical legacy: industrial and consumerist modernity depends […]
The Evolution of Pragmatic Markers in English
Laurel J. Brinton Cambridge University Press 2017 Based on a rich set of historical data, this book traces the development of pragmatic markers in English, from hwæt in Old English and whilom in Middle English to whatever and I’m just saying in present-day English. Laurel J. Brinton carefully maps the syntactic origins and development of […]
Pizarro, Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Selena Couture and Alexander Dick, editors Cambridge University Press 2017 Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s last play, an adaptation of August von Kotzebue’s Die Spanier in Peru first performed in 1799, was one of the most popular of the entire century. Set during the Spanish Conquest of Peru, Pizarro dramatizes English fears of invasion by Revolutionary France, but it is also […]
English Historical Linguistics, Approaches and Perspectives
Laurel J. Brinton, editor Cambridge University Press 2017 Written by an international team of leading scholars, this engaging textbook on the study of English historical linguistics is uniquely organized in terms of theoretical approaches and perspectives. Each chapter features textboxes, case studies, suggestions for further reading and exercises, enabling students to understand the strengths […]
Friedman House, SALA Modern House Series
Richard Cavell ACC Publishing 2017 The Friedman House is a modernist icon, designed by Frederic Lasserre, founder of the UBC School of Architecture, and landscaped by Cornelia Oberlander. Faced with demolition, it was saved by purchasers who understood its architectural value and historical significance. This book reflects on the possibility of its destruction, remarking on […]
Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-cosmopolitan Mediators
Sneja Gunew Anthem Press 2017 Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-Cosmopolitan Mediators argues the need to move beyond the monolingual paradigm within Anglophone literary studies. Using Lyotard’s concept of post as the future anterior (back to the future), this book sets up a concept of post-multiculturalism salvaging the elements within multiculturalism that have been forgotten in its […]
Posthumanism: A Guide for the Perplexed
Peter Mahon Bloomsbury Publishing 2017 In Posthumanism, Peter Mahon provides an overview of posthumanism, exploring not only the key scientific advances in information technology and genetics that have made us and society posthuman, but also how certain strands in art (such as science fiction and video games) and philosophy (for example, in the work of […]
Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature, 2nd edn.
Eva-Marie Kröller Cambridge University Press 2017 This fully revised second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature offers a comprehensive introduction to major writers, genres and topics. For this edition several chapters have been completely re-written to reflect major developments in Canadian literature since 2004. Surveys of fiction, drama, and poetry are complemented by […]
David Foster Wallace’s Balancing Books
Jeffrey Severs Columbia University Press 2017 What do we value? Why do we value it? And in a neoliberal age, can morality ever displace money as the primary means of defining value? These are the questions that drove David Foster Wallace, a writer widely credited with changing the face of contemporary fiction and moving […]