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An indispensable reference for scholars and students of eighteenth-century English literature This addition to the celebrated Wiley-Blackwell Keywords series explores the meanings of fifty-eight of the most important words in British literature of the period 1640-1789. Professor DeMaria focuses on words used with frequency and urgency throughout the works of most major and several minor writers of the British Neoclassical era, with the occasional reach back to the early seventeenth century for a definitive usage found in Francis Bacon, for instance, and look forward to the nineteenth century to the works of Wordsworth, Austen, and Keats. Through discussions of words such as atom, economy, humanity, labor, machine, slavery, society, and system he reveals underlying assumptions about the way writers of the period thought about the physical and social world. Likewise, considerations of words such as happiness, passion, truth, and virtue shed light on the ethical and moral commitments of the age. Unlike dictionaries and many big-data semantics projects, this book brings forth the ambiguities, nuances, and ironies that accrued to word usages during the period through a heightened awareness of the contexts in which they occurred. Highlights and exposes the salient cultural and literary debates and metamorphic moments of cultural thought Reveals an increase in irony and a decrease in allegorical usage as an important trend in the evolution of literary language during the Neoclassical period Stresses the contexts within which words or phrases appear in order to offer a fuller understanding of their meanings and significance than available from digital databases Draws upon a vast compilation of sources from one of the most transformative eras of English literature Rigorous in its scholarship and historical reach, British Literature 1640-1789: Keywords is an indispensable resource which scholars and students of British Neoclassical literature will want to keep close at hand. It is certain to become a fixture of most university reference libraries.

Introduces readers to the modes of literary and cultural study of the previous half century A Companion to Literary Theory is a collection of 36 original essays, all by noted scholars in their field, designed to introduce the modes and ideas of contemporary literary and cultural theory. Arranged by topic rather than chronology, in order to highlight the relationships between earlier and most recent theoretical developments, the book groups its chapters into seven convenient sections: I. Literary Form: Narrative and Poetry; II. The Task of Reading; III. Literary Locations and Cultural Studies; IV. The Politics of Literature; V. Identities; VI. Bodies and Their Minds; and VII. Scientific Inflections. Allotting proper space to all areas of theory most relevant today, this comprehensive volume features three dozen masterfully written chapters covering such subjects as: Anglo-American New Criticism; Chicago Formalism; Russian Formalism; Derrida and Deconstruction; Empathy/Affect Studies; Foucault and Poststructuralism; Marx and Marxist Literary Theory; Postcolonial Studies; Ethnic Studies; Gender Theory; Freudian Psychoanalytic Criticism; Cognitive Literary Theory; Evolutionary Literary Theory; Cybernetics and Posthumanism; and much more. Features 36 essays by noted scholars in the field Fills a growing need for companion books that can guide readers through the thicket of ideas, systems, and terminologies Presents important contemporary literary theory while examining those of the past The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Literary Theory will be welcomed by college and university students seeking an accessible and authoritative guide to the complex and often intimidating modes of literary and cultural study of the previous half century.

Sin nombres propios y a partir de la palabra escrita, un solo detalle los encuentra a Ella y a ?l. En ese ida y vuelta, imaginan un espacio de silencio c?mplice y se invitan al juego de crear un refugio para ellos, bajo cierta atm?sfera de intriga y un poco de misterio, alejados de los ruidos que dispersan all? afuera. Ingenio. Humor. Belleza. Sexo. Pasi?n. Intensidad. Poes?a. Una historia donde el deseo empuja y crece al comp?s de los latidos, y queda finalmente ante el inevitable debate de caer o no en el amor.

Vajon mi az ?let ?rtelme, c?lja? Neh?z k?rd?s, van, akinek egy eg?sz l?t kev?s ahhoz, hogy r?j?jj?n. ?m vannak, akik felismerik – vagy felismerni v?lik -, s hogy beteljes?ts?k, megtesznek mindent. K?zdenek, harcolnak – n?ha ak?r ?nmagukkal is, ha az sz?ks?ges. Egyed?l vagy p?rra tal?lva, van, aki r?tal?l a v?laszokra, s lehet, hogy m?g jutalom is v?rja az ?t v?g?n…

Als junge Frau kommt Lore aus der Provence in ein kleines fr?nkisches Dorf und ver?ndert f?r immer das Leben der dortigen Bewohner. In der F?rsterei f?hrt sie den Haushalt, zaubert k?stliche Gerichte aus dem, was in Wald und Garten w?chst, und hat ein besonders gro?es Herz f?r ihr Ziehkind Jockel und dessen Klassenkameradin Betti, eine kleine Au?enseiterin. Die beiden Kinder sind unzertrennlich und auch Lores heimliche Liebe f?r Jockels Vater wird immer offensichtlicher. F?r einen Moment scheint die Idylle perfekt, doch dann schl?gt das Schicksal zu und zwingt Lore, eine schwere Entscheidung zu treffen. Anna Cron verwebt die Geschichten von Kindern und Erwachsenen, ?ber Liebe und Ungl?ck und f?hrt ihre Leserinnen und Leser mit vielen Einblicken in die franz?sische K?che und mit allen Sinnen durch die Vergangenheit und die Gegenwart.