This text reveals Greene in a dual role as author, one who projects literary experience into his view of life and subsequently projects both his experience and its literary interpretation into his fiction.

This Spanish-language anthology contains selections by 45 Latin-American authors. It is intended as a text for upper division Latin American literature survey courses. The anthology presumes a high level of linguistic command of Spanish, and it contains footnotes to allusions and cultural references, as well as words and phrases not found in standard bilingual dictionaries used in the US. Emphasis is on major 20th-century writers, while important works from colonial and 19th-century literature as also included.
The diverse selections of Literature Hispanoamericana will enable...

The subject of sexuality in the Middle Ages is examined here in 19 articles written specifically for this handbook. This volume seeks to offer a useful guide to the wealth of material and research that is available yet often overlooked.

From the vanishing hitchhiker to the hook-handed killer, from the vaginal serpent to Elvis Alive , and from the McWorm burger to the mouse in the cola can, 23 essays examine this genre, and its effect on society. Explores interpretation, reactions, folklore and film, the social construction of urb

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This collection of original and classic essays examines the contributions that female authors have made to the short story. The introductory chapter discusses why genre critics have ignored works by women and why feminist scholars have ignored the short story genre. Subsequent chapters discuss early stories by such authors as Lydia Maria Child and Rose Terry Cooke. Others are devoted to the influences (race, class, sexual orientation, education) that have shaped women's short fiction through the years. Women's special stylistic, formal and thematic concerns are also discussed in this study....

Twenty essays, most published between the middle 1970s and the middle 1990s document Greetham's intellectual career as it has been influenced over time. Among his topics are textual criticism in graduate education, models for the textual transmission of translation, normalization and challenges in e

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Increasingly, recent scholarship has focused on those married women and mothers in the Middle Ages who achieved holiness. The Merovingian Waldetrudis and Rictrudis; Ida, mother of the crusader king Godfrey of Bouillon; Elisabeth of Hungary and Bridget of Sweden are among them. Unlike Mary and her mother, Saint Anne (mother saints, whose sanctity was based on motherhood) these female parents were honoured despite rather than because of their children. They were holy mothers, whose status as spouses and mothers gave them a public voice and opened for them the road to sanctification. They...

Colonial and Postcolonial Fiction in English draws on the wealth of writing from the old British Commonwealth, including work from African, Canadian, Australian, Pakistani and New Zealand writers. The anthology comprises 35 selections by major writers from both indigenous and settler cultures, from the nineteenth century to the present day and is organized into sets of short stories and stand-alone selections from significant novels. Colonial, postcolonial, immigrant, and personal encounters are represented. Each section includes a general introduction placing the works in historical and...