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Головокружительный роман, в который переросло мимолетное знакомство Кей Лэнсинг, скромной библиотекарши из Нью-Йорка, и Питера Кэррингтона, наследника старинного аристократического рода, увенчался свадьбой. Но не успели супруги вернуться из свадебного путешествия, как молодого мужа арестовали по обвинению в убийстве его давней подруги, пропавшей без вести двадцать два года назад. Все улики указыва...
Книгу составили небольшие по объему, но поражающие своей глубиной работы М. М. Бахтина, в которых филология и философия предстают в своем изначальном единстве. В нее вошли исследования ранних лет: «Автор и герой в эстетической деятельности» (1920-е) — важнейший труд философской эстетики Бахтина, а также «К философским основам гуманитарных наук» (1940-е), «Проблема речевых жанров» (1953) и ряд дру...
В своей самой масштабной по охвату и доступной работе Фредрик Джеймисон утверждает, что постмодернизм представляет собой культурный ответ на последние системные изменения в мировом капитализме. Он пытается найти определение термину, который содержал так много значений, что практически утратил всякую историческую значимость. Он обозревает культурный ландшафт постмодерна, оценивая политические возмо...
Although their themes are borrowed from Greek drama, these exuberant and often macabre plays focus on action rather than moral concerns and are strikingly different in style from Seneca's prose writing. This collection includes Phaedra, Oedipus, Thyestes, and The Trojan Women.
Written in the evenings of a single week to pay for his mother's funeral, Samuel Johnson's only novel offers a compelling glimpse of the distinguished English writer's moral views. Its rapid execution, it is said, was the result of a lifetime spent contemplating the book's chief topics. A philosophical romance that traces the pilgrimage of an African prince and his companions t...
Знаменитый труд Джеймса Босуэлла (1740-1795), посвященный выдающемуся английскому литератору, лексикографу и издателю Сэмюэлю Джонсону (1709-1784), выходит за рамки биографии - это своеобразная энциклопедия интеллектуальной жизни Англии XVII века.
Издание является первым полным русским переводом двух книг американского литературоведа Хэролда Блума, представляющих собой изложение оснований созданной им теории поэзии, в соответствии с которой развитие поэзии происходит вследствие борьбы поэтов со своими предшественниками.
George Webber has written a successful novel about his family and hometown. When he returns to that town he is shaken by the force of the outrage and hatred that greets him. Family and friends feel naked and exposed by the truths they have seen in his book, and their fury drives him from his home. He begins a search for his own identity that takes him to New York and a hectic social whirl; to Pari...
Laura Mulvey did not invent feminist film criticism, but her short piece "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" is a seminal essay, cited more often than almost any other single article on the movies. Mulvey brought psychoanalysis, the experience of pleasure, and the idea of the male gaze into the mainstream of feminist film criticism. Visual and Other Pleasures reprints her famous analysis along...
Situated between the Victorians and Modernism, the fin de siegrave;cle is an exciting and rewarding period to study. In the literature and art of the 1890s, the processes of literary and cultural change can be seen in action. In this, more than any previous decade, literature was an active and controversial participant within debates over morality, aesthetics, politics and science, as Victorian ce...
The Faerie Queene was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united medieval romance and renaissance epic to expound the glory of the Virgin Queen. The poem recounts the quests of knights including Sir Guyon, Knight of Constance, who resists temptation, and Arte...
The goddess Folly gives a speech, praising herself and explaining how much humanity benefits from her services, from politicians to philosophers, aristocrats, schoolteachers, poets, lawyers, theologians, monarchs, and the clergy. At the same time, her discourse provides a satire of Erasmus's world, poking fun at false pedantry and the aberrations of Christianity. Woven throughout her monologu...
In addition to ensuring broad coverage of Jonathan Swift's writing by including early, as well as more well-known later works, this Companion offers access to current critical and theoretical issues concerning the author. Special emphasis is placed on Swift's problematic relationship with the land of his birth, Ireland, and on his place as a political writer in a highly politicized age.
'In our era, criticism is not merely a library of secondary aids to the understanding and appreciation of literary texts, but also a rapidly expanding body of knowledge in its own right.' (David Lodge) This new edition of David Lodge's Modern Criticism and Theory is fully revised and expanded to take account of the developments of theoretical and general interest in contemporary...
Both Joseph K in The Trial and K in The Castle are victims of anonymous governing forces beyond their control. Both are atomized, estranged and rootless citizens deceived by authoritarian power. Whereas Joseph K is relentlessly hunted down for a crime that remains nameless, K ceaselessly attempts to enter the castle, and so belong somewhere. Both novels may be read as powerful allegories of totali...
