Uses of Literature bridges the gap between literary theory and common-sense beliefs about why we read literature. Explor
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While the concept of defeat in the Mexican literary canon is frequently acknowledged, it has rarely been explored in the
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The excitement of the brilliantly innovative book is that it challenges the reader to revise his concept of order—and to
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The Making of the Alice Books includes discussions of the didactic and nursery-rhyme verse traditionally addressed by Ca
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The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan explores the varying uses of literature in Japan from the late Meiji period to th
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Analyses Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson against the background of Anglo-American print culture and oral performa
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This compelling work examines classic and contemporary Jewish and African American children’s literature. Through close
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Looking at the uses and abuses of high-talent manpower in the United States, Dael Wolfle analyzes the ways in which this
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In this collection, Marshall Brown has gathered essays by twenty leading literary scholars and critics to appraise the c
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We celebrate innovation and experimentation, but Claudia Stokes reminds us that nineteenth-century American writers inst
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