Download e-book for iPad: T.S. Eliot: A Cross Cultural Perspective by Adibur Rehman

Eliot’s poetry is not just severe of the huge progress of the lifelike society, it additionally issues to the cultural aberration and ethnological confusion winning in a society in which different cultures and identities have become commingled. Eliot places extra emphasis at the “extinction of character” instead of at the play of aesthetic emotion.

Download e-book for kindle: Picturing: Description and Illusion in the Nineteenth by Michael Irwin

First released in 1979. lots of the nice 19th century novelists strove to render in phrases the folks and areas that they invented and so much readers of fiction photo of their mind's eye those characters and scenes. This booklet investigates either varieties of ‘picturing’, exploring the foundations and difficulties involved, and sheds mild at the workings of fiction — reassessing a few recognized novels within the strategy.

New PDF release: Women Writing the Home Tour, 1682–1812

Among the past due 17th and the early 19th century, the probabilities for traveling inside of Britain grew to become more and more numerous due to more advantageous shipping structures and the popularization of various vacationer spots. ladies Writing the house travel, 1682-1812 examines women's participation in that burgeoning touristic culture, contemplating the ways that the altering face of British go back and forth and its writing may be traced in the course of the money owed produced by way of the ladies who journeyed England, Scotland, and Wales in this vital interval.

New PDF release: German Culture and the Uncomfortable Past: Representations

Starting with the query of the function of the previous within the shaping of a modern identification, this volumes spans 3 generations of German and Austrian writers and explores alterations and shifts within the aesthetics of Vergangenheitsbewältigung (coming to phrases with the past). the aim of the e-book is to evaluate modern German literary representations of nationwide Socialism in a much wider context of those present debates.