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Man Poems: From Beer And Gears To Grills And Girls, Christopher Ward

Christopher Ward

Man Poems: From Beer and Gears to Grills and Girls is a collection of poetry aimed at males between the ages of 20-40. From casual observation, including the spectacular wonders of alcohol and the female body, to the humorous: re-visiting the classic heavy rock hits of the 1980s, the varied works of Man Poems offer an interesting look into the mind and surroundings of author Christopher Ward.

Metrical Melville: The Career Of An Obscure Poet, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

No abstract provided.

Rev. Of Early Modern Poetics In Melville And Poe: Memory, Melancholy, And The Emblematic Tradition, By William E. Engel In Review 19, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

No abstract provided.

Melville's Mirrors: Literary Criticism And America's Most Elusive Author, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

Herman Melville is among the most thoroughly canonized authors in American literature, and the body of criticism dealing with his writing is immense. There is, however, no standard volume on the history of Melville criticism. That a volume on this subject is timely and important is shown by the number of introductions and companions to Melville's work that have been published during the last few years (none of which focuses on the critical reception of Melville's works), as well as the steady stream of critical monographs and scholarly biographies that have been published on Melville since the 1920s. Melville's Mirrors …

Selected Journals Of Media And Communication Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven & Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven

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History Of Ricl: Research Institute For Comparative Literature, University Of Alberta 1985-1999, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven & Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven

No abstract provided.

Selected And Annotated Bibliography Of German-Canadian Literature And Criticism, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven & Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven

No abstract provided.

Selected Bibliography Of Theory And Criticism In Postcolonial Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek, Slaney Ross

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven & Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven

No abstract provided.

The Study Of Literature And Culture Online (Theory And Application), Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven & Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven

No abstract provided.

Towards The History Of Hungarians In Alberta, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven & Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven

No abstract provided.

History Of Clcweb: Comparative Literature And Culture, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven & Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven

No abstract provided.

Diasporic Realisms, Hybrid Genres: The Social Texture Of Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

Abstract published in the South Asian Literary Association Newseletter, Winter 2010

Associate Editor, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

I have been an Associate Editor at Melville's Marginalia Online since 2011. I have been a contributing scholar to MMO since 2006.

Introduction To Melville's Marginalia In The New Testament And The Book Of Psalms, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

No abstract provided.

Series Editor, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

I have been series editor for Camden House Press's Literary Criticism in Perspective series since December 2011.

Co-Editor Of The Travel Section, With Wyn Kelley, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

I have been co-editor of the travel section of the Melville Electronic Library since 2011.

'Desert Of The Blest': Poe's Anti-Representational Invocations Of The Near East, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

Poe's poetry and fiction are full of cultural and religious references to the Near East. This essay suggests that Poe's invocations of the Near East are part of a deliberately anti-representational strategy for dealing with cultural difference that constitutes part of Poe's understanding of one of his most central concepts, the 'arabesque'. This anti-representational strategy is built on Poe's sympathetic reading of texts associated with the Near East, Islam, and Arab and Persian cultures.

Poe's Poetry Of The Exotic, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

This essay examines Edgar Allan Poe's poetry in relation to popular nineteenth-century American travel writing. The link takes you to a description of the book on the publisher's website.

Crack'd Archangel: Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici, The Bible, And Religious Difference In Melville's Fiction And Poetry, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

Abstract for December 28, 2009 MLA Paper published in March 2010 Leviathan

Melville And Religious Experience, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

Abstract for Melville Society panel at ALA 2010 on Melville and Religious Experience (I was the organizer and chair) published in October 2010 Leviathan

Historic Photos Of Ernest Hemingway, James Plath

James Plath

Introduction: South Asia And The Americas, Brian Yothers, Pramod Nayar

Brian Yothers

No abstract provided.

Facing East, Facing West: Mark Twain's Following The Equator And Pandita Ramabai's The Peoples Of The United States, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

Mark Twain's Following the Equator (1897), a narrative of a journey to the South Pacific, Australia, South Asia, and South Africa, has occupied a small but significant space in the consideration of Twain's wider career as both a travel writer and social critic. Twain's work has not, however, been considered in conjunction with the works of later nineteenth-century South Asian travelers in North America. The present article puts Twain's discussion of India and Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) in dialogue with Indian scholar and women's rights activist Pandita Ramabai's 1889 travelogue The Peoples of the United States.

Reading/Photography: Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins’S Four Girls At Cottage City, Victoria Earle Matthews And The Woman’S Era, P. Foreman

P. Gabrielle Foreman

No abstract provided.

Review Of Timothy Marr, The Cultural Roots Of American Islamicism, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

The link will allow you to view a PDF of this review if you have an institutional subscription to Leviathan.

The Romance Of The Holy Land In American Travel Writing, 1790-1876, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

This book is the first to engage with the full range of American travel writing about nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine, and the first to acknowledge the influence of the late-eighteenth-century Barbary captivity narrative on nineteenth-century travel writing about the Middle East. Brian Yothers argues that American travel writing about the Holy Land forms a coherent, if greatly varied, tradition, which can only be fully understood when works by major writers such as Twain and Melville are studied alongside missionary accounts, captivity narratives, chronicles of religious pilgrimages, and travel writing in the genteel tradition. Yothers also examines works by lesser-known authors such …

Once More, With Feeling, James Plath

James Plath

Professor Plath's presentation at Honors Convocation as the winner of the 2004 Pantagraph Award for Teaching Excellence.

Walt Whitman And The Question Of Copyright, Martin Buinicki

Martin T. Buinicki

(excerpt) Walt Whitman is not the first author who comes to mind when one considers the question of copyright in nineteenth-century America. Despite careful consideration of Whitman's publishing career, little has been said regarding his views on the subject and the apparent contradiction between the poet's now-famous declaration of 1855, "I celebrate myself, / And what I assume you shall assume, / For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you" ( Walt Whitman: Poetry and Prose 1 27), and his staunch defense of his literary property rights. 2 The omission is most glaring when we consider how …

The Wandering Bachelor: Irving, Masculinity And Authorship, Bryce Traister

Bryce Traister

No abstract provided.

This Promiscuous Housekeeping': Death, Transgression, And Homoeroticism In Uncle Tom's Cabin, P. Foreman

P. Gabrielle Foreman

No abstract provided.