Edith Wharton in Context (Literature in Context) by Laura Rattray

Don Quixote and the Brilliant Name of Fire : Qabalah, Tarot and Shakespeare in the Greatest Novel

"Don Quixote and the bright identify of fireside unearths for the 1st time the genuine volume of the esoteric size of the vintage Spanish paintings. References to playing cards of the Tarot deck, a method of development at the internal trip, have lengthy been famous in it; yet Don Quixote and the intense identify of fireside will exhibit their complete quantity, in addition to demonstrating incredible visible representations of Hebrew letters of the Qabalah, and the stern allegory of psychic transformation—in the best way of the Shakespeare plays—in which those symbols have their position.

Sexuality in Charlotte Brontë’s "Jane Eyre"

Seminar paper from the 12 months 2005 within the topic English Language and Literature reviews - Literature, grade: 2,7, college of Trier, language: English, summary: anywhere you allow your eye shuttle nowadays you come back throughout sexuality and nakedness. 3 appealing ladies are nakedly smiling at you from an important advertisements poster for a solarium, within the ad holiday on television a lady tears an enticing man’s outfits simply because she is mesmerized by means of his new smell, and within the yellow pages it's also possible to discover a voucher which promises you a bottle of champagne at no cost when you booklet a one hour-service in a undeniable brothel .

The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

Myth is a construction of the Enlightenment, and the popularity that pleasure and sweetness are available in imagining most unlikely issues. From the ghost tales of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century renowned literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the glorious has been well liked by readers.

Ellipsis in English Literature: Signs of Omission

Anne Toner presents an unique account of the historical past of ellipsis marks - dots, dashes and asterisks - in English literary writing. Highlighting ever-renewing curiosity in those kinds of non-completion in literature, Toner demonstrates how writers have striven to catch up with to the hesitancies and interruptions of spoken language, the indeterminacies of idea, and the successive or fragmented nature of expertise by way of those textual symbols.