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The annual French XX Bibliography provides the most complete listing available of books, articles, and book reviews concerned with French literature since 1885. This issue contains more than 6,800 entries.

An international journal committed to the publication of essays and reviews relevant to drama and theatre history to 1642. This issue includes eight new articles, a review essay, and reviews of nine new important books.

Susan Howatch began to take her loyal following of gothic and family-saga readers into unexpected psychological and theological depths in the 1980s. This book provides a way into Howatch's new world by presenting many of her own considerations of her work, and by allowing a group of scholars to engage in a wide-ranging discussion of Howatch's art.

Using a multidisciplinary approach, this book argues that the operation of art-as-mirror is the key to the hidden unity of Huysmans' fiction. The author claims that only the elimination of Huysmans' stylistic distortions enabled his art finally to become faithful and clear.

Essays on various aspects of the work of the French poet Stephane Mallarme on the centenary of his death (1998).

Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2001.

Theatre of Crisis, part of The Apple-Zimmerman Series in Early Modern Culture, investigates how soldiers, statesmen, printers, and playwrights attempted to define Ireland's history and the identity of its inhabitants during a period of rapid and dynamic change. From the Restoration to the end of the Jacobite rebellion the kingdom's subjects suffered the consequences of war, confiscation, and religious persecution. Its leaders dramatized the most important of these events in printed materials that promoted different versions of the past. They also staged theatrical displays to communicate their narratives to the kingdom's diverse population. This book explains how different groups performed their identity in response to changing circumstances. It identifies how the productions at Dublin's Smock Alley Theatre and other dramatic displays of power, including state-sponsored pageants, civic rituals, religious ceremonies, and school dramas, articulated Ireland's social structure. Each chapter details how these public performances worked alongside the products of other media to reinforce or contest the colonial discourse that supported the kingdom's Protestant establishment. Patrick Tuite heads the Master of Arts Program in Theatre History and Criticism at The Catholic University of America.

The essays in this volume represent multiple perspectives on Lawrence Durrell's sojourn in the Hellenic diaspora and his art's connection to the Greek world.

To praise Jane Austen's novels only as stylistic masterpieces is to strip them of the historical, cultural, and literary contexts that might otherwise illuminate them. By focusing on the text of "Persuasion", this title seeks to reconcile the so-called insignificance of her content with her high canonical status.