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

Prepared jointly for the 1st time, thirty-two introductions via 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 ebook bargains another realizing of his accomplishment and where of technology in American literature. It indicates how Thoreau's event 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 learn 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.

This can be a examine of greater than 50 sleek guides for ladies within the usa at the present time, together with the wonder and style titles, the carrier and residential magazines, these aimed toward minority readership, new lady employees, and ladies with special-interests and spending energy. The research makes a speciality of the concepts 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 constructions at paintings inside of and among bought ads, covert ads and editorial beneficial properties.