Encyclopedia of African Literature by Simon Gikandi

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

"Don Quixote and the intense 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 way of development at the internal trip, have lengthy been famous in it; yet Don Quixote and the bright identify of fireplace will express their complete quantity, in addition to demonstrating fantastic visible representations of Hebrew letters of the Qabalah, and the stern allegory of psychic transformation—in the way in which 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 stories - Literature, grade: 2,7, collage of Trier, language: English, summary: at any place you permit your eye go back and forth nowadays you return throughout sexuality and nakedness. 3 attractive ladies are nakedly smiling at you from an incredible advertisements poster for a solarium, within the ad holiday on television a girl tears an enticing man’s outfits simply because she is mesmerized via his new smell, and within the telephone book you can also discover a voucher which promises you a bottle of champagne at no cost when you publication a one hour-service in a definite brothel .

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

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

Ellipsis in English Literature: Signs of Omission

Anne Toner offers an unique account of the background of ellipsis marks - dots, dashes and asterisks - in English literary writing. Highlighting ever-renewing curiosity in those sorts 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 proposal, and the successive or fragmented nature of expertise by way of those textual symbols.