A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature, Sixth Edition, offers a valuable combination of theory and practice, introducing and applying the most useful contemporary approaches. Thoroughly updated and revised for this edition, the text presents a variety of ways to interpret a work, ranging from historical/biographical and moral/philosophical to feminisms and cultural stu...(展开全部)

The Handbook surveys the whole of Pali Theravada Buddhist literature (Ceylon, South East Asia). It reviews previous research in the field, and then concentrates on new methodological approaches and a treatment of later Pali literature (after the twelfth century).

This major new introduction to comparative literature is for the students coming to the subject for the first time. Through an examination of a series of case studies and new theoretical developments, Bassnett reviews the current state of comparative literature world--wide in the 1990s. In the past twenty years of a range of new developments in critical theory have changed patt...(展开全部)

李利安·H.史密斯（Lillian H.Smith, 1887—1983） 加拿大学者，1912年起担任多伦多公立图书馆儿童部主任，终生投入发展儿童文学的事业中。她对儿童书籍的要求十分严格，为儿童选书也极审慎，毫不吝啬对优秀作品的赞扬，对拙劣之作则不予评论介绍。她不遗余力地培养新生力量，并在多伦多大学教育学院开设儿童文学讲座。在她的坚持与努力下，加拿大的儿童图书馆事业和儿童文学推广事业取得了飞速的发展。1953年，美国图书馆协会出版其著作《欢欣岁月》。为了表彰史密斯“鼓励热爱书籍与阅读的杰出工作”，1962年，美国图书馆协会为她颁发了最高荣誉“克拉伦斯·戴”奖。

How does reading fiction affect young people? How can they transfer fictional experience into real life? Why do they care about fictional characters? How does fiction enhance young people's sense of self-hood? Supported by cognitive psychology and brain research, this ground-breaking book is the first study of young readers' cognitive and emotional engagement with fiction. It e...(展开全部)

Sociological Approaches to Theories of Law applies empirical insights to examine theories of law proffered by analytical jurisprudents. The topics covered include artifact legal theory, law as a social construction, idealized accounts of the function of law, the dis-embeddeness of legal systems, the purported guidance function of law, the false social efficacy thesis, missteps ...(展开全部)