Another Asia: Rabindranath Tagore and Okakura Tenshin by Rustom Bharucha

William Empson: The Man and His Work: Volume 26 (Routledge Library Editions: Literary Theory)

This quantity of commemorative and celebratory essays, first released in 1974, concentrates on William Empson – the critic, the poet and pal. The papers diversity from the biographical to the educational, yet what each one indicates is the impossibility of setting apart the fellow from his paintings and the ‘life’ from the ‘thought’.

Teaching 21st Century Genres (Teaching the New English)

This e-book is the 1st ever assortment approximately twenty-first century style fiction. It bargains obtainable but rigorous serious interventions in a starting to be box of pop culture and educational examine, proposing new genres as a desirable and robust technique of examining modern tradition. the gathering explores the heritage and makes use of of style so far, analyses key examples of ideas and advancements within the box and displays on how those texts were mobilised in educating because the 12 months 2000.

Demons and Spirits of the Land: Ancestral Lore and Practices

An exploration of the wild spirits that when roamed the lands and inhabited the waters and the pagan rites used to realize their strong will • Explores medieval tales and folks traditions of muffins, fairies, giants, dragons, will-o’-the-wisps, and demons • Explains the categorical rites played to barter with the neighborhood spirits and make sure their permission ahead of development on new land • exhibits how those ideals carried via to fashionable instances, in particular in structure Our pagan ancestors knew that each wooded area has muffins and fairies, each spring its girl, and each river malevolent beings in its depths.

American Literature and the New Puritan Studies

This e-book includes 13 unique essays approximately Puritan tradition in colonial New England. triggered by means of the growing to be curiosity in secular reports, in addition to postnational, transnational, and postcolonial critique within the humanities, American Literature and the recent Puritan stories seeks to symbolize and boost modern curiosity in a box lengthy famous, notwithstanding problematically, as foundational to the research of yankee literature.