Against the Stream is the latest volume of Frederic Raphaels acclaimed memoirs Personal Terms, an unrivalled parade of the authors eventful and provocative life, opinions and times drawn from his living and breathing cahiers and journals. `Shrewd, funny, gossipy and elegantly written, as Jeremy Lewis said in the Literary Review, these writings ......
This book analyzes representations of the Algerian War in French-language comics published since 1982. Throughout this book, Howell investigates the ways in which marginalized memory communities resist, rewrite, and/or repair institutionalized history in popular culture.
The decolonization of Algeria represents a turning point in world history, marking the end of France's colonial empire, the birth of the Algerian republic, and the appearance of the Third World and pan-Arabism. Algeria emerged from colonial domination to negotiate the release of American hostages in Iran during the Carter administration. Radical ......
This book collects, for the first time, Colm Tóibín's critical essays on Henry James. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his novel about James's life, The Master, Tóibín brilliantly analyzes James from a novelist's point of view.Known for his acuity and originality, Tóibín is himself a master of fiction and critical works, which makes this ......
This book collects, for the first time, Colm T¾ibÝn's critical essays on Henry James. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his novel about James's life, The Master, T¾ibÝn brilliantly analyzes James from a novelist's point of view.Known for his acuity and originality, T¾ibÝn is himself a master of fiction and critical works, which makes this ......
Alternative Masculinities in Feminist Speculative Fiction: A New Man traces efforts within American feminist utopias to imagine healthier conceptions of manhood. As this analysis illuminates, feminist works envisioning the improved society and its attending masculinities constitute an overlooked site for mining new masculinities. During the years ......
The Symbol of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics in the American Renaissance
The discovery of the Rosetta Stone and the subsequent decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics captured the imaginations of nineteenth-century American writers and provided a focal point for their speculations on the relationships between sign, symbol, language, and meaning. Through fresh readings of classic works by Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, ......
'Since the earliest days,' writes Richard Chase in this classic study, 'the American novel, in its most original and characteristic form, has worked out its destiny and defined itself by incorporating an element of romance.' In his detailed study of works by Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark ......
Illuminating the religious and existential themes in Stephen King's horror stories Who are we? Why are we here? Where do we go when we die? For answers to these questions, people often look to religion. But religion is not the only place seekers turn. Myths, legends, and other stories have given us alternative ways to address the fundamental ......
