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Using autobiographical sources such as letters, diaries, and oral testimonies, the contributors to this volume suggest possibilities for approaching these materials as literature and introducing them into the classroom. The appendices include two previously unpublished narratives: the diary of Amelia Buss and the letters of Delina Hopper.

Since 1974, the Florence Howe Award has honoured distinguished feminist literary criticism written by scholars in the fields of language and literature study. Seventeen winning essays are collected in this volume. Written by leading scholars and theorists, these groundbreaking essays discuss topics such as resistance to the patriarchal order and the development of a feminist literary theory.

Since 1974, the Florence Howe Award has honoured distinguished feminist literary criticism written by scholars in the fields of language and literature study. Seventeen winning essays are collected in this volume. Written by leading scholars and theorists, these groundbreaking essays discuss topics such as resistance to the patriarchal order and the development of a feminist literary theory.

This edition of The Winter's Tale not only contains the complete text of the play but also presents the expanse of scholarly opinion and interpretation since the earliest commentary. It covers dating, sources, and emendations to stage history and influential interpretations of particular words.

This collection of essays and materials aims to help teachers design courses in which students use out-of-print books, autobiographies, letters, diaries, memoirs, and oral testimonies by the women of their region.

This handbook was produced with the aim of providing students with an introduction to Old Irish literature as well as to the language. One of the notable Old Irish stories is used as the basic text. Examples of poems, and of the glosses, supplement it. All are thoroughly annotated. The grammatical information provided in these annotations is summarized in grammatical sections dealing with specific constructions and forms. The first fifty of these sections are descriptive; many of the same matters are discussed in the second fifty section from a historical point of view. A final glossary includes references to all words occurring in the texts. The apparatus was accordingly designed to permit a relatively easy approach to a very difficult language.

This bibliography supplements the New Variorum Edition of 1936 and the supplement of 1956.

This bibliography supplements the New Variorum Edition of 1955.

Like other editions in the series, the New Variorum Measure for Measure contains the complete text of the play. It also presents scholarly opinion and interpretation since the earliest commentary; covers dating, emendations, criticism, and sources and analogues.

The eleven essays collected in this volume describe individual African American, Chicano and Chicana, Native American, Asian American, gay and lesbian, and white female experiences in academe. Representing a wide variety of fields, the authors explore topics such as marginalization; the obstacles women and minorities face in advancing their careers; and the backlash against affirmative action.

Explores disciplines that have evolved in the years since the publication of volume one. It discusses fields ranging from art history to feminist studies to religion through the study of the radical press, publisher's archives, periodicals of the 1890s, children's periodicals, and Scottish and Welsh periodicals. The appendices update the essays in the first volume.

Explores disciplines that have evolved in the years since the publication of volume one. It discusses fields ranging from art history to feminist studies to religion through the study of the radical press, publisher's archives, periodicals of the 1890s, children's periodicals, and Scottish and Welsh periodicals. The appendices update the essays in the first volume.

Literacy is a right and not a privilege: a right that has been denied to an extraordinary number of citizens. Guided by this belief, the authors of the twenty-nine essays in The Right to Literacy discuss what literacy is, what keeps people from attaining it, and how we can help them attain it.

One of the most influential critics of the twentieth century, Leo Spitzer (1887-1960) published more than 1,000 books and articles in a number of languages, including Basque, Catalan, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Provencal, Romanian, and Spanish. Baer and Shenholm have compiled and annotated the first comprehensive bibliography of Spitzer's scholarship.

Presents seventeen essays and six bibliographies linked, in the words of the introduction, by ""a commitment to deal with history and attributes of literature in ways that have been slighted in the making of previous literary histories of the United States."" The volume suggests methods for redefining the American literary canon.

Providing a history of Native American literature from 1772 to the present, this work describes various types of oral literatures and life histories, evaluates secondary works in the field, and includes an extensive selected bibliography. Includes an appendix of important dates in American Indian history. Index.

Growing out of a conference of representatives of programs that grant the doctorate in English, this volume examines the profession and the ways that graduate students are socialized into it. The essays sketch the profession's current views of the relation between reading and writing, addressing, in the words of the preface, ""what it is that can now be said to constitute our discipline.

Growing out of a conference of representatives of programs that grant the doctorate in English, this volume examines the profession and the ways that graduate students are socialized into it. The essays sketch the profession's current views of the relation between reading and writing, addressing, in the words of the preface, ""what it is that can now be said to constitute our discipline.

Explores biased usage in depth - its origins, its effect, the related controversies - and provides sensible and sensitive guidelines for nondiscriminatory speech and writing.

Theory meets practice as twenty-four distinguished scholars apply a variety of methodologies to many different literatures, including American, Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latin American, and Spanish. The texts range from Petrarch's Song 126 and Cervantes's La gitanilla to Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman.

Theory meets practice as twenty-four distinguished scholars apply a variety of methodologies to many different literatures, including American, Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latin American, and Spanish. The texts range from Petrarch's Song 126 and Cervantes's La gitanilla to Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman.

Provides a general introduction to the practice, followed by many Victorian novelists, of publishing their works in instalments in newspapers and magazines. The bulk of the volume contains charts for 192 novels. Each chart lists the dates of appearance of individual parts and their relation to the chapters of the final book.

Guides instructors in choosing among many possibilities to design an history of the English language (HEL) course to match their own interests and institutions. The essays consider what subjects to include, how to organise the course, and what textbook to assign. They offer historical approaches and those that are not structured by chronology.

Guides instructors in choosing among many possibilities to design an history of the English language (HEL) course to match their own interests and institutions. The essays consider what subjects to include, how to organise the course, and what textbook to assign. They offer historical approaches and those that are not structured by chronology.

In this volume, instructors will find ideas for teaching the Italian Renaissance romance epic along with its adaptations in film, theatre, visual art, and music. An extensive resources section locates primary texts online and lists critical studies, anthologies, and reference works.

In this volume, instructors will find ideas for teaching the Italian Renaissance romance epic along with its adaptations in film, theatre, visual art, and music. An extensive resources section locates primary texts online and lists critical studies, anthologies, and reference works.