The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. VI: Prefaces and Introductions

Prepared jointly for the 1st time, thirty-two introductions by means of W. B. Yeats to the works of such literary greats as William Blake, J. M. Synge, girl Gregory, Oscar Wilde and extra.

Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science (Science and Literature Series)

Contemplating Thoreau as a major, devoted scientist, this e-book bargains an alternate figuring out of his accomplishment and where of technological know-how in American literature. It indicates how Thoreau's adventure finds the interplay among Romanticism and the dynamic, law-seeking technological know-how of its day.

Detective Fiction and Literature: The Figure on the Carpet

A literary examine exploring detective fiction as a really expert literary style, from its origins within the works of Poe, Wilkie Collins and Doyle to present-day writers.

Decoding Women's Magazines: From Mademoiselle to Ms.

This can be a learn of greater than 50 smooth courses for girls within the usa at the present time, together with the sweetness and style titles, the carrier and residential magazines, these geared toward minority readership, new girl staff, and ladies with special-interests and spending energy. The research specializes in the concepts through which the industrial constitution shapes the cultural content material, the magazines' repetitive makes an attempt to safe a consensus concerning the female that's grounded in consumerism and the contradictory semiotic constructions at paintings inside of and among bought ads, covert ads and editorial gains.