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

Prepared jointly for the 1st time, thirty-two introductions through W. B. Yeats to the works of such literary greats as William Blake, J. M. Synge, woman 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 booklet bargains an alternate realizing of his accomplishment and where of technology in American literature. It exhibits how Thoreau's event unearths 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 good 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.

It is a examine of greater than 50 sleek courses for girls within the usa this present day, together with the sweetness and model titles, the provider and residential magazines, these aimed toward minority readership, new lady employees, and girls with special-interests and spending strength. The research makes a speciality of the suggestions wherein the economic constitution shapes the cultural content material, the magazines' repetitive makes an attempt to safe a consensus in regards to the female that's grounded in consumerism and the contradictory semiotic buildings at paintings inside of and among bought ads, covert ads and editorial good points.