Download or read book Syrinx Or A Sevenfold History written by William Warner and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Novel An Alternative History written by Steven Moore and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedic in scope and heroically audacious, The Novel: An Alternative History is the first attempt in over a century to tell the complete story of our most popular literary form. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the novel did not originate in 18th-century England, nor even with Don Quixote, but is coeval with civilization itself. After a pugnacious introduction, in which Moore defends innovative, demanding novelists against their conservative critics, the book relaxes into a world tour of the pre-modern novel, beginning in ancient Egypt and ending in 16th-century China, with many exotic ports-of-call: Greek romances; Roman satires; medieval Sanskrit novels narrated by parrots; Byzantine erotic thrillers; 5000-page Arabian adventure novels; Icelandic sagas; delicate Persian novels in verse; Japanese war stories; even Mayan graphic novels. Throughout, Moore celebrates the innovators in fiction, tracing a continuum between these pre-modern experimentalists and their postmodern progeny. Irreverent, iconoclastic, informative, entertaining-The Novel: An Alternative History is a landmark in literary criticism that will encourage readers to rethink the novel.

Download or read book A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language from the Norman Conquest written by George Lillie Craik and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Compendious History of English Literature and of the Language from the Norman Conquest written by George Lillie Craik and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Compendious History of English Literature written by George Lillie Craik and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Compendius History of English Literature and of the English Language from the Norman Conquest written by George Lillie Craik and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language from the Norman Conquest with Numerous Specimens by George L Craik written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book 1818 1834 Appendices I Portraits of Lamb II Lamb s commonplace books III Lamb s library IV John Lamb s poetical pieces written by Edward Verrall Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life of Charles Lamb written by Edward Verrall Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Shakespeare and the Greek Romance written by Carol Gesner and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study to relate the Greek romances to Elizabethan drama. It focuses upon the Greek romance materials in Shakespeare's plays to clarify the background of his art and to illuminate the relationship between the two literatures. The Greek romance tradition is described historically and traced through the works of Boccaccio and Cervantes, as well as other continental and English writers. Then, full attention is given to those plays of Shakespeare which utilize the Greek materials. The notes are full and, with the aid of the extensive index, can serve as a manual of the Greek romance materials in Renaissance literature. A bibliographic appendix lists the known editions, translations, and adaptations of Greek romances from about 1470 to about 1642. The manuscript history is reviewed briefly. Thorough, careful, the book will be indispensable for concerned scholars and libraries.

Download or read book A New Universal Biography of Eminent Persons in All Ages and Countries Classed According to Their Various Talents and Pursuits and Arranged in Chronological Order Showing the Progress of Men and Things to which is Added an Alphabetical Index written by John PLATTS (Unitarian Minister.) and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England written by George Lillie Craik and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Medieval Insular Romance written by Judith Elizabeth Weiss and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2000 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major themes explored are narratives of the disguised prince, and the reinvention of stories for different tastes and periods. These studies cover a wide chronological range and familiar and unfamiliar texts and topics. The disguised prince is a theme linking several articles, from early Anglo-Norman romances through later English ones, like King Edward and the Shepherd, to a late 16th-century recasting of the Havelok story as a Tudor celebration of Gloriana. 'Translation' in its widest sense, the way romance can reinvent stories for different tastes and periods, is anotherrunning theme; the opening introductory article considers the topic of translation theoretically, concerned to stimulate further research on how insular romances were transferred between vernaculars and literary systems, while other essays consider Lovelich's Merlin (a poem translating its Arthurian material to the poet's contemporary London milieu), Chaucer, and Breton lays in England. Contributors: JUDITH WEISS, IVANA DJORDJEVIC, ROSALIND FIELD, MORGAN DICKSON, ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD, AMANDA HOPKINS, ARLYN DIAMOND, PAUL PRICE, W.A. DAVENPORT, RACHEL SNELL, ROGER DALRYMPLE, HELEN COOPER. Selected studies, 'Romance in Medieval England' conference.

Download or read book Specimens of the Early English Poets to Which is Prefixed an Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the English Poetry and Language with a Biography of Each Poet c written by George Ellis and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-28 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.

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Download or read book Fictions of Authorship in Late Elizabethan Narratives written by Katharine Wilson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-02-23 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sensational narratives of John Lyly, Robert Greene, and Thomas Lodge established prose fiction as an independent genre in the late sixteenth century. The texts they created are a paradoxical blend of outrageous plotting and rhetorical sophistication, high and low culture. Although their works were feverishly devoured by contemporary readers, these writers are usually only known to students as sources for Shakespearean comedy. Fictions of Authorship in Late Elizabethan Narratives re-examines some of the pamphleteers earlier critics christened the 'University Wits', young professionals who exposed their education and talents to the still new and uncertain world of mass market publication. These texts chart their authors' disenchantment with the limitations of romance and of their own careers, yet they also form an alternative canon of vernacular writing, which is both self-referential and self-questioning. Shocking, unpredictable, and very engaging, these narratives provide a vivid commentary on the interface between popular taste and 'English literature'.

Download or read book A Compendious History of English Literature written by George L. Craik and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.