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I used this book for my last english class. Although it is not the newest edition, it has all of the same stuff. The difference is the page numbers.

Robert Louis Stevenson's cinematic legacy is studied in-depth here, with a look at his life and his body of work. From The Sire De Maletroit's Door (1877) to St. Ives (1896), each adapted story and all relevant film versions are examined, including exhaustive analyses of the 1931 adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the 1945 version of The Body Snatcher. A discussion of the process of adapting literature for the movies, demonstrating how Stevenson's stories have been misrepresented for more than 80 years, is also provided.

This study aims to assess Robert Musil's contribution to the praxis and poetics of drama by placing his dramatic efforts in the context of the development of modern drama. Musil's involvement in the dramatic genre coincides with a period marked by a profound reorientation of drama, delimited by the realism of Ibsen, Strindberg, and Hauptmann on the one hand, and the radical redefinition of the nature and function of drama in Brecht's 'epic theater' on the other. Close readings of Musil's published plays as well as a discussion of his numerous unfinished dramatic projects and his theoretical reflections on drama show how Musil participated in the intense quest for dramatic forms appropriate to the experience of modernity. offering responses to what Peter Szondi has described as the 'crisis of modern drama.'A central concern of Musil's 'implied dramaturgy' is the question of whether modern drama is capable of offering its audience a kind of collective aesthetic experience that could be a modern equivalent of the cathartic effect that Aristotle has ascribed to tragedy.

Offering a refreshing combination of accessibility and intellectual rigor, How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies presents an up-to-date, concise, and wide-ranging historicist survey of contemporary thinking in critical theory. Ideal for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in literary and critical theory, this is the only book of its kind that thoroughly merges literary studies with cultural studies, including film. Robert Dale Parker provides a critical look at the major movements in literary studies since the 1930s, including those often omitted from other texts. He includes chapters on New Criticism, Structuralism, Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Feminism, Queer Studies, Marxism, Historicism and Cultural Studies, Postcolonial and Race Studies, and Reader Response. Parker weaves connections among chapters, showing how these different ways of thinking respond to and build upon each other. Through these exchanges, he prepares students to join contemporary dialogues in literary and cultural studies. Parker's engaging writing style relates directly to today's students and their daily lives. He underscores the connections between critical theory and students' other coursework, as well as its links to their technologically filled lives. The text is enhanced by charts, text boxes that address frequently asked questions, photos, and a bibliography. Intellectually challenging yet remarkably readable--and devoted to the interpretation of both literary and cultural studies--How to Interpret Literature stands out from other surveys of critical theory. Its flexible format makes this volume ideal as either a stand-alone text or in conjunction with an anthology of primary readings.

This collection of specially commissioned essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Robert Frost's poetry and life. Frost remains one of the most memorable and beguiling of modern poets. The essays in this volume enable readers to explore Frost's art and thought, from the controversies of his biography to his subtle reinvention of poetic and metric traditions. This volume will bring fresh perspectives to the poetry of an American master, and its chronology and guide to further reading will prove valuable to scholars and students alike.

The novel, Mister Roberts, was an instant hit after being published in 1946 and was quickly adapted for the stage and screen. The title character, a Lieutenant Junior Grade naval officer, defends his crew against the petty tyranny of the ship's commanding officer during World War II. Nearly all action takes place on a backwater cargo ship, the USS Reluctant, that sails, as written in the play, "from apathy to tedium with occasional side trips to monotony and ennui." This irreverent, often hilarious story about the crew of the Reluctant has enjoyed wide and enduring popularity. Heggen based his novel on his experiences aboard the USS Virgo in the South Pacific during World War II, and began as a collection of short stories. It was subsequently adapted as a play, a feature film, a television series, and a television movie. The film version with Henry Fonda, James Cagney and Jack Lemmon is one of the most well-known movies of WWII.

This is a collection of Robert Graves' essays, written between 1922 and 1972, on areas of culture which engaged him. They are organized around the thematic categories of literature, history and religion. The collection chronicles Graves' intellectual development by presenting the essays chronologically to show how ideas begin and evolve over half a century. At the same time, the essays demonstrate his eclectic knowledge over a vast range of topics and confirm not only his insights, but also his humour and famous leaps of logic.

In this critical introduction to the major works of Austrian modernist writer Robert Musil (1880–1942), Allen Thiher offers deft analysis of Musil’s short fiction, theater, and essays, and his major novel, The Man without Qualities. Thiher maps Musil’s development as a writer, illustrating how his work evolved in response to catastrophic historical events such as World War I, the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Hitler’s seizure of power. From this historical context, Thiher traces how Musil began his career by writing a prescient first novel about ideological developments in German culture and, at the same time, a doctoral thesis on scientific epistemology. Following his service in World War I, Musil began to view writing as his vocation and, during this early period in his literary career, he produced short fiction, plays, and some of the most interesting essays on politics, ethics, and literature to be published during the Weimar era. In exploring these writings as well as The Man without Qualities, a work left unfinished upon Musil’s death in exile during World War II, Thiher’s study plumbs the depths of Musil’s ambition and accomplishments and presents a concise interpretation of the lasting significance of the writer’s interrogations of the foundations of modern European culture.

The popular First Lieutenant of a cargo ship leads the otherwise idle crew in a fight against boredom and the captain.

This introduction to Browning includes biographical information, social and historical contexts, an overview of the range of his work, and a survey of the major critical debates surrounding him and his work.

Robert Louis Stevenson's cinematic legacy is studied in-depth here, with a look at his life and his body of work. From The Sire De Maletroit's Door (1877) to St. Ives (1896), each adapted story and all relevant film versions are examined, including exhaustive analyses of the 1931 adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the 1945 version of The Body Snatcher. A discussion of the process of adapting literature for the movies, demonstrating how Stevenson's stories have been misrepresented for more than 80 years, is also provided.

Disguising and unveiling, only to disguise again, Heinrich von Kleist creates characters whose definition of self and of others depends on their own ability to generate, present, and regenerate convincing masks of personal and interpersonal realities. This study focuses on the network of private and public identities in Kleist's works, how those identities function on and between transformative levels of human interaction (role-playing, creative naming, word-dreams, and manipulative games of illusion and delusion), and how those identities in the imaginative consciousness fabricate new universes which become part of and, at the same time, are separated from the temporal and spatial norms we assign to external realities.

While discussing the life of the poet Robert Frost, examines the works written during certain periods of his life, such as "Stopping by Woods," "The Gift Outright," and "Mending Wall."

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This is a collection of Robert Graves' essays, written between 1922 and 1972, on areas of culture which engaged him. They are organized around the thematic categories of literature, history and religion. The collection chronicles Graves' intellectual development by presenting the essays chronologically to show how ideas begin and evolve over half a century. At the same time, the essays demonstrate his eclectic knowledge over a vast range of topics and confirm not only his insights, but also his humour and famous leaps of logic.

This study aims to assess Robert Musil's contribution to the praxis and poetics of drama by placing his dramatic efforts in the context of the development of modern drama. Musil's involvement in the dramatic genre coincides with a period marked by a profound reorientation of drama, delimited by the realism of Ibsen, Strindberg, and Hauptmann on the one hand, and the radical redefinition of the nature and function of drama in Brecht's 'epic theater' on the other. Close readings of Musil's published plays as well as a discussion of his numerous unfinished dramatic projects and his theoretical reflections on drama show how Musil participated in the intense quest for dramatic forms appropriate to the experience of modernity. offering responses to what Peter Szondi has described as the 'crisis of modern drama.'A central concern of Musil's 'implied dramaturgy' is the question of whether modern drama is capable of offering its audience a kind of collective aesthetic experience that could be a modern equivalent of the cathartic effect that Aristotle has ascribed to tragedy.

The ninth in a series of books which present great literature in comics and heavily-illustrated format by some of the best artists working today in the fields of comics, book illustration and fine arts. This volume includes comics adaptations of "The Suicide Club,” "The Bottle Imp," and a unique two-part interpretation of "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" by Simon Gane and Michael Slack. Plus a story by Fannie Van de Grift Stevenson and a collection of R.L. Stevenson's short fables and poems, with art by Hunt Emerson, Lance Tooks, Maxon Crumb, Shary Flenniken, Johnny Ryan, Michael Manning and more.

One of the acknowledged giants of twentieth-century American literature, Robert Frost was a public figure much celebrated in his day. Although his poetry reached a wide audience, the private Frost―pensive, mercurial, and often very funny―remains less appreciated. Following upon the publication of Frost’s notebooks and collected prose, The Letters of Robert Frost is the first major edition of the poet’s written correspondence. The hundreds of previously unpublished letters in these annotated volumes deepen our understanding and appreciation of this most complex and subtle of verbal artists.Volume One traverses the years of Frost’s earliest poems to the acclaimed collections North of Boston and Mountain Interval that cemented his reputation as one of the leading lights of his era. The drama of his personal life―as well as the growth of the audacious mind that produced his poetry―unfolds before us in Frost’s day-to-day missives. These rhetorical performances are at once revealing and tantalizingly evasive about relationships with family and close friends, including the poet Edward Thomas. We listen in as Frost defines himself against contemporaries Ezra Pound and William Butler Yeats, and we witness the evolution of his thoughts about prosody, sound, style, and other aspects of poetic craft.In its literary interest and sheer display of personality, Frost’s correspondence is on a par with the letters of Emily Dickinson, Robert Lowell, and Samuel Beckett. The Letters of Robert Frost holds hours of pleasurable reading for lovers of Frost and modern American poetry.

Selections of Frost's poetry are accompanied by a brief account of his life, a description of the critical reception of his work, and an assessment of his place in American literature

Fifth revised edition of the dictionary which offers coverage of vocabulary from every area of modern life: business, computing, medicine, the environment, sport and literature. It features thousands of new words in French and English and new to this edition are entries on aspects of French life and culture and treatment of the more complex words.