23 títulos para "Universitas Press"

My Own Land's Sins

*Versatile selection of 90 poets in 200 pages *More poets in fewer pages than any other anthology * Prepared for an undergraduate course of Victorian poetry or Victorian literature * Poems arranged in a chronological order, covering the entire reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) * Includes a wide ra...

À la Recherche de l'Intelligence Perdue

Brunet, Guillaume / Gaudreau, Lorraine / Riverin, Agathe

Vivre un conflit…et le régler avec intelligence. Un défi réalisable si les deux parties en conflits sont intelligentes et qu’elles ont un intérêt commun.Qui n’a pas vécu de conflits avec un collègue, un client, un patron, un partenai...

Dracula

Stoker, Bram

This is the first postcolonial edition of Bram Stoker's gothic classic. For scholars interested in decolonization in literary studies this is a prime example. Jonathan Harker's colonial adventure and Bram Stoker's imperialist discourse are restored to their original context of British economic and p...

Reaching for Intelligence Past

Brunet, Guillaume / Gaudreau, Lorraine / Riverin, Agathe

Live through a conflict…and resolve it with intelligence. An achievable goal if both parties remain intelligent and share a common interest Who hasn’t lived a conflict with a colleague, a client, a boss, a business partner? Obviously, remaining in conflict, not achieving one’s ob...

Dracula

Artenie, Cristina

Dracula: A Study of Editorial Practices focuses on deconstructing sanctioned Dracula criticism which, for decades, has constructed Transylvania as the land of the vampires. The present study is an unforgiving close look at scholarly editions of Stoker's novel and shows that the scholarship and the e...

Introduction to Literature

Hunt, Sylvia / Parr, Cynthia

The introductory course can be used as a catch-all for nearly everything first-year students may need to learn as they begin academic study.There is a difference between streamlining an approach to an Introduction to Literature course and dumbing down the material. Practical considerations are impor...

Monsters and Monstrosity in 21st-Century Film and Television

onsters seem to be here to stay. Though we have left belief in the supernatural and "realness" of monsters in the past, we continue to craft monstrous narratives which delve into the depths of the human subconscious. In certain cases, we love to love the monster. In others, we bo...

Dracula Invades England

Artenie, Cristina

*A long overdue study of the social, political and cultural context of Bram Stoker's Dracula * A welcome addition to Dracula studies, using British and Romanian sources * A postcolonial look at Dracula * The book argues that Stoker was at least in part inspired by the marriage of Vlad Tepes' descend...

Goody Two-Shoes and other 18th-century British stories

The first collection of its kind: 18th-century British short stories. Connoisseurs will partake in Humour, Mores, and Adventures of Gentlemen and Gentleladies in London and where so e’er in England and North Britain.47 stories, some of them never before anthologized. Authors include: Ned Ward,...

These Immortal Creations

The Romantic poet is both man and myth. He inherits an ancient birthright and creates a new heritage. He is prophet, seer, priest, bard, creator of (imaginative) worlds, hero, and myth-maker. He is also a man speaking to other men. Poets are, according to Shelley, the vehicles for the spirit of the...

Gothic and Racism

Gothic is a culture of alterity: it explores the Other and it posits itself as an Other. It found its roots in the concerted efforts of eighteenth-century authors who longed for the simple and exciting plotlines of mediaeval romances. At the same time, they were careful to populate other countries a...

Queering Visual Cultures

The contemporary popular cultural space has leveraged the queer in the same format of representation as its presentation in the 1990s. Although the queer is portrayed in a less perverse light than a decade ago, popular cultural representations of the queer in the visual culture genres are still on t...