Product Description: From Pride and Prejudice to The Color Purple, the English novel has transcended generations as one of the most enduring literary forms. The Realist Novel provides a readable and straightforward guide to analyzing this distinct and popular genre.
Utilizing such well-known works as Frankenstein, Great Expectations, and Fathers and Sons, this book shows how writers utilized this format to reach very different goals. While Jane Austen and Charles Dickens used the realist novel to tell profoundly moral tales in a popular way, Mary Shelley used realism to render a story of myth and horror.
The Realist Novel is one of the first books in the Approaching Literature series which is designed to offer a range of different but current appoaches to the study of literature.
Middle English is a student guide to the most influential critical writing on Middle English literature.
* A student guide to the most influential critical writing on Middle English literature. * Brings together extracts from some of the major authorities in the field. * Introduces readers to different critical approaches to key Middle English texts. * Treats a wide range of Middle English texts, including The Owl and the Nightingale, The Canterbury Tales and Morte d'Arthur. * Organized around key critical concerns, such as authorship, genre, and textual form. * Each critical concern can be used as the basis for one week's work in a semester-long course. * Enables readers to forge new connections between different approaches.
The history of European drama began at the festivals of Dionysus in ancient Athens, where tragedy, satyr-drama and comedy were performed. Understanding this background is vital for students of classical, literary and theatrical subjects, and Alan H. Sommerstein's accessible study is the ideal introduction. The book begins by looking at the social and theatrical contexts and different characteristics of the three genres of ancient Greek drama. It then examines the five main dramatists whose works survive - Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes and Menander - discussing their styles, techniques and ideas, and giving short synopses of all their extant plays.
This book is the story of how four busy executives, from different backgrounds and different perspectives, were surprised to find themselves converging on the idea of narrative as an extraordinarily valuable lens for understanding and managing organizations in the twenty-first century. The idea that narrative and storytelling could be so powerful a tool in the world of organizations was initially counter-intuitive. But in their own words, John Seely Brown, Steve Denning, Katalina Groh, and Larry Prusak describe how they came to see the power of narrative and storytelling in their own experience working on knowledge management, change management, and innovation strategies in organizations such as Xerox, the World Bank, and IBM.
IRONCLAW is a bold new direction in fantasy role-playing games, designed with both the novice and the experienced gamer in mind ... simple enough that one can start playing in only 15 minutes, yet richly developed, clearly presented, and lavishly illustrated. With two dozen races ... over 60 careers than can be mixed and matched without restrictions ... plus rules for making your own races and careers ... plus over four different kinds of magic with more than 150 spells; plus unique powers and abilities, from the primal to the technological. The role you assume is limited only by your imagination.
