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The annual French XX Bibliography provides the most complete listing available of books, articles, and book reviews concerned with French literature since 1885. This issue contains more than 6,800 entries.

An international journal committed to the publication of essays and reviews relevant to drama and theatre history to 1642. This issue includes eight new articles, a review essay, and reviews of nine new important books.

Susan Howatch began to take her loyal following of gothic and family-saga readers into unexpected psychological and theological depths in the 1980s. This book provides a way into Howatch's new world by presenting many of her own considerations of her work, and by allowing a group of scholars to engage in a wide-ranging discussion of Howatch's art.

Using a multidisciplinary approach, this book argues that the operation of art-as-mirror is the key to the hidden unity of Huysmans' fiction. The author claims that only the elimination of Huysmans' stylistic distortions enabled his art finally to become faithful and clear.

Essays on various aspects of the work of the French poet Stephane Mallarme on the centenary of his death (1998).

Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2001.

Seeks to analyze the autobiographical perspective of mothering and motherhood not purely as their inner, emotional and private narratives. This collection features essays that position autobiography, in both theory and fiction, as a profoundly cultural and political text that makes social change possible.

This collection of essays offers a sustained, theoretically rigorous rethinking of various issues at work in film and other media adaptations. The essays in the volume as a whole explore the reciprocal, intertextual quality of adaptations that permeate the contemporary media experience¿from books, to films, to music, to graphic novels. The central argument in this book is that texts in various media always borrow, rework, and adapt each other in complex ways; in addition, the authors in this volume explore the specific forces (social, economic, historical, and authorial) that are at work in particular texts and intertexts. Together, the fourteen essays emphasize that adaptations, in the intersections they create across different media, inhabit a sort of cross-fertilization that is both artistically productive and affirmative of difference. The volume takes as its starting point the assumption that adapters cannot simply ¿transpose¿ or transfer one particular text from one medium to another. They must interpret, re-work, and re-imagine the precursor text in order to choose the various meanings and sensations they find most compelling (or most cost-effective); then, they create scenes, characters, plot elements, etc., that match their interpretation. These very relationships are the subject matter this collection seeks to explore. Poststructural theory is an ideal place to begin a rigorous and theoretically sound investigation of adaptation. As adaptation studies adopts a poststructuralist lens and defines this richer notion of intertextuality, some of its key assumptions will change. Adaptation scholars will recognize that all film adaptations are intertextual by definition, mutlivocal by necessity, and adaptive by their nature. This book brings together innovative, original work from fourteen scholars in the fields of adaptation studies, media studies, and critical theory. It includes essays of theoretical concern in adaptation studies as well as essays that engage with specific single and multi-source adaptations (among them, film adaptations of Jane Austen and James Joyce¿s fiction, Ang Lee¿s Brokeback Mountain, David Lynch¿s Lost Highway, and George Romerös Night of the Living Dead). The volume is divided into three interrelated sections: Fidelity, Ethics, and Intertextuality; Literature, Film Adaptations, and Beyond; and Adaptation as Departure. Overall, it promises to help move the study of adaptation from the fringe of critical studies to the more central role it can and should fulfill in the complex contemporary media landscape.

A study of one of the earliest major poems by Alexander Pope, this text reveals how he used the artistic conventions of the Stuart court - masque, architecture and heraldry - to create the last great Renaissance poem in English. The text shows the centrality of ?Windsor-Forest? in Pope's career and the centrality of Pope in the debates of his time.

Theatre of Crisis, part of The Apple-Zimmerman Series in Early Modern Culture, investigates how soldiers, statesmen, printers, and playwrights attempted to define Ireland's history and the identity of its inhabitants during a period of rapid and dynamic change. From the Restoration to the end of the Jacobite rebellion the kingdom's subjects suffered the consequences of war, confiscation, and religious persecution. Its leaders dramatized the most important of these events in printed materials that promoted different versions of the past. They also staged theatrical displays to communicate their narratives to the kingdom's diverse population. This book explains how different groups performed their identity in response to changing circumstances. It identifies how the productions at Dublin's Smock Alley Theatre and other dramatic displays of power, including state-sponsored pageants, civic rituals, religious ceremonies, and school dramas, articulated Ireland's social structure. Each chapter details how these public performances worked alongside the products of other media to reinforce or contest the colonial discourse that supported the kingdom's Protestant establishment. Patrick Tuite heads the Master of Arts Program in Theatre History and Criticism at The Catholic University of America.

The essays in this volume represent multiple perspectives on Lawrence Durrell's sojourn in the Hellenic diaspora and his art's connection to the Greek world.

To praise Jane Austen's novels only as stylistic masterpieces is to strip them of the historical, cultural, and literary contexts that might otherwise illuminate them. By focusing on the text of "Persuasion", this title seeks to reconcile the so-called insignificance of her content with her high canonical status.

This study, the first book-length assessment of de Crenne, delineates both her conceptual framework and her stylistic concerns. It situates her in the framework of her times and views her as a woman on the cutting edge of her era who both exploited and innovated literary tradition. The book shows how de Crenne's four works simultaneously reflects a humanist's interest in classical themes, medieval mastery of the allegorical form, and a feminist's zeal for the equality of women.

An intensely philosophical and religious poet, Olga Sedakova writes of nature, music, and the inner, spiritual life. This volume introduces to an English-speaking audience a selection of her poems.

Discusses the fundamental role played by such authors as Benjamin, Bloch and Lukacs in the shaping of Critical Theory. This book addresses more practical issues related to critical theory. It looks at elements in Benjamin's aesthetics and then in Adorno.

Bringing together translation theory and literary history, this volume conveys how Pound in his influential and controversial Homage to Sextus Propertius enriched the art of translation. The work of Louis Zukofsky, Basil Bunting, J. V. Cunningham, and Peter Porter is also discussed.

Rev. George D. Byers, Presbyterian missionary at Kachek, Hainan island, China, was murdered by bandits in 1924. Based on American and British consular archives and those of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and members of the Hainan mission, this is the story of how Mrs. Byers and Mrs. Mabel Roys got the government and their church to take action.

What does it mean to come after Blanchot? Three things, at least. First, it is to recognise that it is no longer possible to believe in an essentialist determination of literary discourse or of aesthetic experience. Second, there is the question of history. Here, a third meaning to the phrase "after Blanchot" comes into view.

To Kill a Text analyzes the intertextual conflicts between four monuments of nineteenth-century fiction: Notre-Dame de Paris, Bleak House, Le Ventre de Paris and Germinal. The fundamental hypothesis of the book is that Dickens and Zola exemplify Hugo's conception of the novel as a graft of one work upon another, producing hybrid mixtures of genres and styles of representation.

A discussion of the tradition of grotesque portrayals of war and the military, especially their proliferation in Restoration and eighteenth-century English literature. Swift's the Travels is examined in particular, as well as the novels of Smollett, Fielding, and Stern. Illustrations of graphic satire by Hogarth and others.

One of the texts to emerge from the Althusserian tradition, this book analyzes the ideological unconscious that always exists, without becoming explicit, in any discursive field.

Using Mikhal Bakhtin's concept of dialogism as a theoretical starting point, this volume investigates the manifestations of competing 'voices' within the tradition of lyric poetry. It also includes essays on the classical, medieval, early modern, and modern lyric.

Demonstrates the profound influence of Ramon Lull (c. 1232-1316) upon Donne. The author shows how Donne refashioned Lull's abstract version of Mary and used this "Mary" to include Muslims and Jews in the church universal. This study will appeal to new historicists and those interested in alchemy, emblems, or theology.