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• Covers all the essentials students need when starting out on a
literary studies degree – ideal for first year, introductory
courses • A comprehensive glossary (with terms in bold) and clear
text mean it is accessible to beginners as well as non-native
English readers • Sections on researching and writing papers and
citation information mean students will refer to the book
throughout their studies – it has a long life • New edition is
in a larger format and contains 20 new illustrations, making the
book more user-friendly for students and helping to enhance their
understanding through images
• Covers all the essentials students need when starting out on a
literary studies degree – ideal for first year, introductory
courses • A comprehensive glossary (with terms in bold) and clear
text mean it is accessible to beginners as well as non-native
English readers • Sections on researching and writing papers and
citation information mean students will refer to the book
throughout their studies – it has a long life • New edition is
in a larger format and contains 20 new illustrations, making the
book more user-friendly for students and helping to enhance their
understanding through images
Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean explores the early modern
genre of European Barbary Coast captivity narratives from the
sixteenth to the nineteenth century. During this period, the
Mediterranean Sea was the setting of large-scale corsairing that
resulted in the capture or enslavement of Europeans and Americans
by North African pirates, as well as of North Africans by European
forces, turning the Barbary Coast into the nemesis of any who went
to sea. Through a variety of specifically selected narrative case
studies, this book displays the blend of both authentic eye witness
accounts and literary fictions that emerged against the backdrop of
the tumultuous Mediterranean Sea. A wide range of other primary
sources, from letters to ransom lists and newspaper articles to
scientific texts, highlights the impact of piracy and captivity
across key European regions, including France, Italy, Germany, the
Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Scandinavia, and Britain, as well as
the United States and North Africa. Divided into four parts and
offering a variety of national and cultural vantage points, Piracy
and Captivity in the Mediterranean addresses both the background
from which captivity narratives were born and the narratives
themselves. It is essential reading for scholars and students of
early modern slavery and piracy.
Mediterranean Slavery and World Literature is a collection of
selected essays about the transformations of captivity experiences
in major early modern texts of world literature and popular media,
including works by Cervantes, de Vega, Defoe, Rousseau, and Mozart.
Where most studies of Mediterranean slavery, until now, have been
limited to historical and autobiographical accounts, this volume
looks specifically at literary adaptations from a multicultural
perspective.
Mediterranean Slavery and World Literature is a collection of
selected essays about the transformations of captivity experiences
in major early modern texts of world literature and popular media,
including works by Cervantes, de Vega, Defoe, Rousseau, and Mozart.
Where most studies of Mediterranean slavery, until now, have been
limited to historical and autobiographical accounts, this volume
looks specifically at literary adaptations from a multicultural
perspective.
A Short Literary History of the United States offers an
introduction to American Literature for students who want to
acquaint themselves with the most important periods, authors, and
works of American literary history. Comprehensive yet concise, it
provides an essential overview of the different currents in
American literature in an accessible, engaging style. This book
features: the pre-colonial era to the present, including new media
formats the evolution of literary traditions, themes, and
aesthetics readings of individual texts, contextualized within
American cultural history literary theory in the United States a
core reading list in American Literature an extended glossary and
study aid. This book is ideal as a companion to courses in American
Literature and American Studies, or as a study aid for exams.
In this classic beginner's guide to English literature, Mario
Klarer offers a concise and accessible discussion of central issues
in the study of literary texts, looking at: definitions of key
terms such as literature and text the genres of fiction, poetry,
drama, and film periods and classifications of literature
theoretical approaches to texts the use of secondary resources
guidelines for writing research essays The new and expanded edition
is fully updated to include: a wider range of textual examples from
world literature additional references to contemporary cinema, a
section on comparative literature an extended survey of literary
periods and genres recent changes in MLA guidelines information on
state-of-the-art citation management software the use and abuse of
online resources. The book also features suggestions for further
reading as well as an extensive glossary of key terms.
In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans,
both male and female, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave
market, and enslaved in North Africa. Between the sixteenth and the
early nineteenth centuries, pirates from Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli,
and Morocco not only attacked sailors and merchants in the
Mediterranean but also roved as far as Iceland. A substantial
number of the European captives who later returned home from the
Barbary Coast, as maritime North Africa was then called, wrote and
published accounts of their experiences. These popular narratives
greatly influenced the development of the modern novel and
autobiography, and they also shaped European perceptions of slavery
as well as of the Muslim world. Barbary Captives brings together a
selection of early modern slave narratives in English translation
for the first time. It features accounts written by men and women
across three centuries and in nine different languages that recount
the experience of capture and servitude in North Africa. These
texts tell the stories of Christian pirates, Christian rowers on
Muslim galleys, house slaves in the palaces of rulers, domestic
servants, agricultural slaves, renegades, and social climbers in
captivity. They also depict liberation through ransom, escape, or
religious conversion. This book sheds new light on the social
history of Mediterranean slavery and piracy, early modern concepts
of unfree labor, and the evolution of the Barbary captivity
narrative as a literary and historical genre.
In this classic beginner's guide to English literature, Mario
Klarer offers a concise and accessible discussion of central issues
in the study of literary texts, looking at: definitions of key
terms such as literature and text the genres of fiction, poetry,
drama, and film periods and classifications of literature
theoretical approaches to texts the use of secondary resources
guidelines for writing research essays The new and expanded edition
is fully updated to include: a wider range of textual examples from
world literature additional references to contemporary cinema, a
section on comparative literature an extended survey of literary
periods and genres recent changes in MLA guidelines information on
state-of-the-art citation management software the use and abuse of
online resources. The book also features suggestions for further
reading as well as an extensive glossary of key terms.
Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean explores the early modern
genre of European Barbary Coast captivity narratives from the
sixteenth to the nineteenth century. During this period, the
Mediterranean Sea was the setting of large-scale corsairing that
resulted in the capture or enslavement of Europeans and Americans
by North African pirates, as well as of North Africans by European
forces, turning the Barbary Coast into the nemesis of any who went
to sea. Through a variety of specifically selected narrative case
studies, this book displays the blend of both authentic eye witness
accounts and literary fictions that emerged against the backdrop of
the tumultuous Mediterranean Sea. A wide range of other primary
sources, from letters to ransom lists and newspaper articles to
scientific texts, highlights the impact of piracy and captivity
across key European regions, including France, Italy, Germany, the
Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Scandinavia, and Britain, as well as
the United States and North Africa. Divided into four parts and
offering a variety of national and cultural vantage points, Piracy
and Captivity in the Mediterranean addresses both the background
from which captivity narratives were born and the narratives
themselves. It is essential reading for scholars and students of
early modern slavery and piracy.
In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans,
both male and female, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave
market, and enslaved in North Africa. Between the sixteenth and the
early nineteenth centuries, pirates from Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli,
and Morocco not only attacked sailors and merchants in the
Mediterranean but also roved as far as Iceland. A substantial
number of the European captives who later returned home from the
Barbary Coast, as maritime North Africa was then called, wrote and
published accounts of their experiences. These popular narratives
greatly influenced the development of the modern novel and
autobiography, and they also shaped European perceptions of slavery
as well as of the Muslim world. Barbary Captives brings together a
selection of early modern slave narratives in English translation
for the first time. It features accounts written by men and women
across three centuries and in nine different languages that recount
the experience of capture and servitude in North Africa. These
texts tell the stories of Christian pirates, Christian rowers on
Muslim galleys, house slaves in the palaces of rulers, domestic
servants, agricultural slaves, renegades, and social climbers in
captivity. They also depict liberation through ransom, escape, or
religious conversion. This book sheds new light on the social
history of Mediterranean slavery and piracy, early modern concepts
of unfree labor, and the evolution of the Barbary captivity
narrative as a literary and historical genre.
This volume examines instances of ecphrasis (literary descriptions
of pictures) in the works of English Renaissance authors against
the background of Elizabethan theory formation on the problem of
representation. References to (usually fictional) works of art in
the works of Sidney, Spenser, Lyly and Shakespeare serve as a
starting-point for a reconstruction of the prevalent theoretical
climate in connection with the question of representation in late
16th century England. The working hypothesis here is that because
of their dual representation structure (verbal representation of
what is already a visual representation) literary descriptions of
pictorial works reflect the issues and problems addressed by
theories of representation in their respective epochs.
A Short Literary History of the United States offers an
introduction to American Literature for students wanting to
acquaint themselves with the most important periods, authors and
works of American literary history. Comprehensive yet concise, it
provides an essential overview of the different currents in
American literature in an accessible, engaging style. This book
offers:
- Coverage from the pre-colonial era to the present, including
new media formats
- Coverage of the evolution of literary traditions, themes, and
aesthetics
- Historical background, visiting the origins of content and
form
- Overviews and comparisons of individual authors
- Readings of individual texts, contextualized within American
cultural history
- A list of secondary readings, a glossary and links to
open-access versions of essential texts.
This book is the ideal companion to primary sources for courses
in American Literature, American Studies, and others, or as a study
aid for exams.
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