A comprehensive guide for teachers, parents, and anyone interested in children’s literature. Combining theory with practice, it offers practical strategies to inspire reading and creative writing. Includes supplementary audio of nursery rhymes, poems, and fables.
This book explores new research in English Studies, rethinking its relationship with other disciplines. The collection covers topics like memory, trauma, migration, identity, and posthumanism with a critical approach to biases related to race, gender, and sexual orientation.
A Shakespearean Reading of Pirandello’s Henry IV
This innovative comparative analysis of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Pirandello’s Enrico IV delves into the intertextual relationship between the two tragedies, presenting an original interpretation that connects concepts like original sin, farce, and simulacrum.
Glycoscience
This book presents compact data in glycoscience, a developing field linking biology, chemistry, and medicine. It covers the structure, biosynthesis, and biological roles of carbohydrates, highlighting their connection to cancer, hereditary disorders, and other human diseases.
Through an Irigarayan lens, this study explores how Carter, Atwood, and Byatt use genre transgression to forge a female subject position. It examines their distinct strategies for challenging a literary tradition that has historically denied women a voice.
Modern Messages from Green Gables on Loving, Living and Learning
Many know Anne of Green Gables, but few know its author, L.M. Montgomery—a feminist far ahead of her time. In this book, a revivified Anne and her husband Gilbert explore their creator’s life, revealing how her challenges and triumphs offer messages for our own lives today.
In one of the world’s least-visited nations, get to know the people, their families, and traditions. This book introduces North Korea through rarely seen photographs from the author’s travels, revealing Pyongyang’s skyscrapers, the Koryo Museum, and a royal eleven-course meal.
The contributions on Lee’s work here include new interpretations from diverse critical angles, including US literary and cultural history, Southern studies, sociological theory, gender studies, stylistic analysis, translation, and pedagogy.
Shakespeare, Our Personal Trainer
Experts from literary, theatre, and scientific fields present Shakespeare’s works from different perspectives. Deploying a range of filters such as nutrition, comics, and street art, they show how the Bard can still be relevant to our lives in the 21st century.
Abiteboul brings together a group of essays on 27 English or American writers contributing to the history of English and American literature, and offers a concise survey of the question of literary understanding.
This conference proceedings provides a starting point for understanding the issues of fracture and disruption within children’s and young adult literature. It includes chapters on violence, war, sexuality and politics, and hybrid literary forms as well as the issue of audience.
Teaching Literacy across Content Areas
This book answers teachers’ questions about implementing the Common Core State Standards. It contains practical teaching strategies, examples, and illustrations to prepare diverse students for college and career by helping them analyze complex texts and solve real-life problems.
Faulkner at Fifty
This collection focuses on teaching Faulkner and shows how he used other writers to shape his craft. It brings together new ways of reading his works, transforming his fiction into new meanings for the twenty-first century. A tribute to pioneers in Faulkner studies.
This book explores transgression as a literary theme in twentieth-century novels. Analyzing fictional acts from murder to adultery, it reveals how narrative strategies like “unreliable narrators” challenge readers to question social norms and moral values.
“Don’t Disturb my Masterpiece!”
This book explores a humanistic philosophy of learning where rational inquiry, emotions, and morality form a continuum. It proposes a holistic model that values learners’ genuine struggle to realize their humane masterpieces.
Narrative is the Essence of History
The historical novel was once admired, then disparaged by critics, though it always remained popular. Now, it is again receiving critical praise. What is the essence of historical fiction? Why is it such a resilient genre? What is its future?
New Conservative Explications
As interest in explicating classic poems has declined, many still puzzle readers. This book provides new explications for twelve poems by Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Yeats, and others, arguing that this practice can reveal their sense and conserve them.