Comparative Literature

The principal focus of the book is on English-language literary modernism and the period 1890-1939, yet many entries extend beyond those parameters to include important precursors and successors of the movement.

Published by Encyclopædia Universalis, 1990.

Contains entries for authors, titles, national literatures, themes, and motifs in literature and folklore,

Includes information on different types of sources, genres, theories, terminology, and how to find material.

"provides a conceptual and methodological toolbox for analysing novels, poems, and all sorts of other texts as they circulate in oral, print, and digital form."

" What makes a good research topic in a literature class? What does your professor mean by 'peer-reviewed' sources? What should you do if you can't find enough material? This approachable guide walks students through the process of research in literary studies, providing them with tools for responding successfully to course assignments."

Contents: Conducting research in an electronic environment -- Using library catalogs -- Searching bibliographic databases -- Searching the Web -- Finding reviews -- Using contextual primary sources -- Finding supplementary information : other reference sources -- One-stop shopping -- Managing citations -- Guides to research in literature

Set of handbooks by Routledge covering literature of many geographic areas and topics, including translation studies.

Alternative title: Oxford Handbooks Online : Literature: Scholarly Research Reviews

This title considers how the architecture that enables human cognitive processing interacts with cultural and historical contexts.

Brings together contributions by scholars working in the fields of literature, history, neuroscience, and disability studies to explore what we do when we read.

'World Authorship' brings together the real-world contexts of authorship and the literary worlds of fiction, and updates Michael Foucault's 'author function' by significantly expanding the network of people and practices involved in literature.

Assessing a wide variety of particular books, book-like objects, and book collections, and working with millennia of variable and conflicting definitions of the book and its purposes, The Unfinished Book surveys the many things that books have been, and uncovers why the book's grip on the cultural imagination remains so tenacious.

Presents a wide-ranging survey on biography in Antiquity from its earliest representations to Late Antiquity.

Brings together twenty-nine junior and senior scholars to discuss aspects of Hesiod's poetry and its milieu and to explore questions of reception over two and half millennia.

Featuring authoritative contributions by many of the top international experts on ancient monsters and the monstrous.

Online | Collection of essays covering literature in the Roman Empire

This volume, the first ever of its kind in English, introduces and surveys Greek literature in Byzantium (330 - 1453 CE).

The 28 challenging yet accessible essays in this handbook represent the best of current thinking in the study of Latin language and literature in the Middle Ages.

This handbook gives an accessible survey of the main genres, contexts and regions of neo-Latin, as we have come to call Latin writing composed in the wake of Petrarch (1304-74).

The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English brings together the insights of new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods of study, to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of medieval literature today.

The handbook integrates issue-oriented, thematic, topical, and cross-cultural approaches to the classical Chinese literary heritage with historical perspectives. Covers 1000 BCE to 900 CE.

This volume instead uses a series of strategic interventions to illustrate the structural conditions out of which modern Chinese literature has emerged, how it is viewed, and how it may be interpreted.

Compilation of scholarship on Indian literature from the 19th century to the present in a range of Indian languages.

This volume opens up, in new and innovative ways, a range of dimensions of late Victorian and modern literature and culture.

A team of leading experts surveys the poetry of the age in all its richness and diversity.

A omprehensive guide to the literature and thought of the Romantic period, and an overview of recent research.

A comprehensive and up-to-date collection of essays on Dickens's life and works.

This handbook addresses Chaucer's poetry in the context of several disciplines, including late medieval philosophy and science, Mediterranean culture, comparative European literature, vernacular theology and popular devotion.

This handbook offers the most comprehensive overview available of Defoe's life, times, writings, and reception.

Examines the entire canon of Spenser's work & the social & intellectual environments in which it was produced.

A guide to the different kinds of satire written in English during the 'long' 18th century. It focuses on texts that appeared between 1660 and 1789.

This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literature to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England.

Presents 44 groundbreaking chapters that explore Lord Byron's central position in Romantic traditions.

The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English brings together the insights of new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods of study, to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of medieval literature today.

The volume brings an impressive variety of critical perspectives to bear on the development of modern Irish fiction.

This handbook considers Burns's reception in his own time and beyond.

Organized into three sections that study Johnson's career, his major and lesser-known works, and the subjects that were most important to him as a writer, thinker, and moralist.

Offers critical, contemporary resources for studying Shakespeare's comic enterprises.

Povides a single source of reference for dance as both an integral feature of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century culture and as a means of translating Shakespearean text into movement.

Brings together 40 of the most important scholars writing on the subject today.

This volume showcases the latest international research into the subject of the many uses of music in relation to Shakespeare's plays and poems, extending from the Bard's own time to the present day.

This handbook presents current scholarship on race and racism in Shakespeare's works.

Offers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare tragedies as both works of literature and as performance texts.

This handbook presents a broad sampling of current historical scholarship on Shakespeare's period that it is hoped will prove useful to scholars of his poems and plays.

Surveys the development of the English novel during the 'long' eighteenth century.

The volume considers the production, reception, circulation, consumption, destruction, loss, modification, recycling, and conservation of books from different disciplinary perspectives.

This handbook offers three different ways of thinking about the book - in terms of its renaissance contexts, its vernacular translations, and its utopian legacies.

Brings together a team of international scholars to offer the most comprehensive interdisciplinary guide to Victorian studies available in print.

Six sections focus on Woolf's life, her texts, her experiments, her life as a professional, her contexts, and her afterlife.

Handbook devoted to the poet W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) that examines how his work as a poet, playwright, critic, and public figure in the late 19th through the mid-20th century continues to influence writing in English, Irish, and worldwide Anglophone literatures.

Creates a resource in English that provides a fully comprehensive overview of the life, works, and influences of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.

Containing 44 specially written chapters that provide a thorough and creative reading of Dante's oeuvre, this title encompasses diverse approaches and spans several disciplines.

Examines texts written by major writers in different European languages, then follows a second section elaborating the naturally interdisciplinary quality of Romanticism.

Overview of many areas and time periods of Italian literature.

Covering Borge's life, his representative work across the many decades of his writing, his work in collaboration, and his reception in literature and other disciplines, this handbook highlights current debates among Borges scholars.

Encompasses the genesis of the Arabic novel in the second half of the 19th century and its development to the present in every Arab country, as well as Arab immigrant writing in many languages around the world.

A ffers thirty-five original chapters with fresh interpretations of the artistic and political challenges of representing life accurately.

Handbook to the literature of Poe.

Essays about the poetry and life of Emily Dickinson.

Essays on the literature of author Jack London.

Collection of critical essays on Emerson, a survey that approaches Emerson from the vantages of climate change, racial justice, print culture, and more.

Brings together contemporary views of the literature of the region in a series of chapters employing critical tools not traditionally used in approaching Southern literature.

Reflects the best new work in the field on Whitman.