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Course reserves have been created for the courses listed below.
The list of reserved documents, which can be consulted on site in the reading room only, can be found under the course reserves tab on swisscovery UNIGE. Use the search filters Course Instructor or Course Name to find your course.
Several titles are also available as ebooks, as indicated in the course lists below.
All of the titles for this course are available in paper format only.
The full list of books reserved for this course is available on swisscovery UNIGE.
The full list of books reserved for this course is available on swisscovery UNIGE.
The following titles are also available as ebooks:
- ebook: The Cambridge Companion to the Poem (Pryor)
- ebook: The Deed of Reading (Stewart)
- ebook: The End of the Poem: Studies in Poetics (Agamben)
- ebook: Forms of Poetic Attention (Alford)
- ebook: Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network (Levine)
- ebook: Hamlet (Thompson and Taylor)
- ebook: Hamlet: a Critical Reader (Thompson and Taylor)
- ebook: Hamlet : Fold on Fold (Josipovici)
- ebook: Hamlet in Purgatory (Greenblatt)
- ebook: Hamlet: Language and Writing (Callaghan)
- ebook: Lines and Lyrics: An Introduction to Poetry and Song (BaileyShea)
- ebook: Lyric Poetry: the Pain and the Pleasure of Words (Blasing)
- ebook: Mimesis: the Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Auerbach)
- ebook: Moving Words: Forms of English Poetry (Attridge)
- ebook: The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare (De Grazia)
- ebook: On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection (Stewart)
- ebook: Performing Hamlet: Actors in the Modern Age (Croall)
- ebook: Persons and Things (Johnson)
- ebook: The Poem : Lyric, Sign, Metre (Paterson)
- ebook: The Poet's Freedom: A Notebook on Making (Stewart)
- ebook: Poetry Unbound: Poems and New Media from the Magic Lantern to Instagram (Chasar)
- ebook: Poetry and Language: the Linguistics of Verse (Ferber)
- ebook: Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 4th ed.
- ebook: Shakespeare and Ecology (Martin)
- ebook: Shakespeare's Tragic Art (Lewis)
- ebook: Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth (Bradley)
- ebook: The Sound of Poetry, the Poetry of Sound (Perloff)
- ebook: Theory of the Lyric (Culler)
- ebook: To Be and Not to Be : Negation and Metadrama in "Hamlet" (Calderwood)
- ebook: Toni Morrison: Imagining Freedom (Balfour)
- ebook: The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison (Tally)
All of the titles are available as ebooks:
- ebook: A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture : c.1350-c.1500 (Brown)
- ebook: Chaucer and Medieval Estates Satire (Mann)
- ebook: An Introduction to the Gawain Poet (Putter)
- ebook: A Book of Middle English (Burrow)
- ebook: A Guide to Old English (Mitchell)
- ebook: Oral Tradition as History (Vansina)
- ebook: Handbook of Oral History (Charlton)
- ebook: Wiley Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England (Lapidge)
- ebook: A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature (Pulsiano)
- ebook: A Concise Companion to Middle English Literature (Corrie)
- ebook: The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature, 100-1500 (Scanlon)
- ebook: The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales
- ebook: The New Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance (Krueger)
- ebook: A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth (Smith and Henley)
- ebook: A New Companion to Chaucer (Brown)
- ebook: The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Akbari and Simpson)
- ebook: The Art and Thought of the Beowulf Poet (Neidorf)
- ebook: Essentials of Early English: An Introduction to Old, Middle and Early Modern English (Smith)
- ebook: The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature (Radulescu and Rikhardsdottir)
- ebook: The Arthurian World (Coldham-Fussell)
- ebook: The Cambridge Companion to the Canterbury Tales (Grady)
Several universities provide electronic versions of literary texts:
- METS Middle English Texts Series (University of Rochester)
- Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse (University of Michigan)
- Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Fordham University)
- Database of Middle English Romance (University of York)
The full list of books reserved for this course is available on swisscovery UNIGE.
The following titles are also available as ebooks:
- ebook: The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift (Fox)
- ebook: The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Richetti)
- ebook: Novel Beginnings : Experiments in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction (Spacks)
- ebook: Mock-Heroic from Butler to Cowper (Terry)
- ebook: Nobody's Story: the Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670-1820 (Gallagher)
- ebook: Petrarch's Canzoniere in the English Renaissance (Mortimer)
- ebook: Seductive Forms: Women's Amatory Fiction from 1648 to 1740 (Ballaster)
- ebook: Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays (Schiffer)
- ebook: The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740 (McKeon)
- ebook: The Cambridge Companion to Paradise Lost (Schwartz)
The full list of books reserved for this course is available on swisscovery UNIGE.
The full list of books reserved for this course is available on swisscovery UNIGE.
The following titles are also available as ebooks:
- ebook: In the Break: the Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (Moten)
The full list of books reserved for this course is available on swisscovery UNIGE.
The full list of books reserved for this course is available on swisscovery UNIGE.
The full list of books reserved for this course is available on swisscovery UNIGE.
The following titles are also available as ebooks:
The full list of books reserved for this course is available on swisscovery UNIGE.
The following titles are also available as ebooks:
- ebook: The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature
- ebook: American Covenant: a History of Civil Religion from the Puritans to the Present (Gorski)
- ebook: The Cambridge History of African American Literature (Graham). Temporary access.
- ebook: The Cambridge History of American Literature. 8 volumes (Bercovitch). Temporary access.
- ebook: The Cambridge History of American Women's Literature (Bauer). Temporary access.
- ebook: The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature (Gonzalez) Temporary access.
- ebook: The Cambridge History of the American Novel (Cassuto). Temporary access.
- ebook: Our Beloved Kin: a New History of King Philip's War (Brooks)
- ebook: Puritan Origins of the American Self (Bercovitch)
- ebook: Rites of Assent: Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America (Bercovitch)
- ebook: The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature (Madsen)
- ebook: A Short Literary History of the United States (Klarer)
- ebook: Writing America: Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee (Fishkin)
- ebook: The Dialectics of Our America : Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History (Saldívar)
- ebook: Exceptional State : Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism (Dawson)
- ebook: Native American Writers (Bloom)
- ebook: Red Ink : Native Americans Picking Up the Pen in the Colonial Period (Lopenzina)
- ebook: Revolutionary Writers : Literature and Authority in the New Republic, 1725-1810 (Elliott)
- ebook: American Renaissance : Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (Matthiessen)
- ebook: Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism : From the Revolution to World War II (Rowe)
- ebook: A Companion to American Literary Studies (Levander)
The full list of books reserved for this course is available on swisscovery UNIGE.
The following titles are also available as ebooks:
- ebook: The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry (Chandler and McLane)
- ebook: John Keats: A New Life (Roe)
- ebook: Open Secrets: The Literature of Uncounted Experience (François)
The full list of books reserved for this course is available on swisscovery UNIGE.
The following titles are also available as ebooks:
The full list of books reserved for this course is available on swisscovery UNIGE.
The following titles are also available as ebooks:
- ebook: The Language of Asian Gestures: Embodied Words through the Lens of Film (Kiaer and Kim)
- ebook: Chinese-Language Film: Historiography, Poetics, Politics (Lu and Yeh)
- ebook: Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen (Chion)
- ebook: Wong Kar-wai (Brunette)
- ebook: Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China (Li)
- ebook: The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa - Revised and Expanded Edition (Prince)
The full list of books reserved for this course is available on swisscovery UNIGE.
The following titles are available as ebooks:
- ebook The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Akbari)
- ebook Resistance to Love in Medieval English Romance (Piercy)
The full list of books reserved for this course is available on swisscovery UNIGE.
The following titles are also available as ebooks:
- ebook: Oil Fictions: World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere (Nandi)
- ebook: Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Nixon)
- ebook: The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment (Westling)
- ebook: Contemporary Fiction and Climate Uncertainty: Narrating Unstable Futures (Caracciolo)
- ebook: Climate Change Literacy (Hoydis)
- ebook: The Disposition of Nature : Environmental Crisis and World Literature (Wenzel)
- ebook: Futures of the Sun : The Struggle over Renewable Life (Szeman)
- ebook: Allegories of the Anthropocene (DeLoughrey)
- ebook: Break Up the Anthropocene (Mentz)
The full list of books reserved for this course is available on swisscovery UNIGE.
The following titles are also available as ebooks:
- ebook: Fanon, Psychoanalysis, and Critical Decolonial Psychology: The Mind of Apartheid (Hook)
- ebook: Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements (Singh)
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Definitions, etymologies, quotations and pronunciations of words. When relevant, entries in the OED link to articles in the Dictionary of Old English (DOE) and/or the Middle English Dictionary.
With ABELL (see below), MLAIB is one of the two key bibliographies in English studies, from medieval times to the present, to find quality critical scholarship (citations from books, articles, dissertations) on literature, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts (film, radio, television, theater), and folklore.
Like the MLAIB above, the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) is a key bibliography for English studies, with a similar coverage.
To access full-text journal articles online. If you have a specific journal title in mind, search for it by title or ISSN on swisscovery UNIGE.
With Project Muse (see below), JSTOR is one of the two key journal archives you can use to access full-text journal articles on social sciences and the humanities. It brings together peer‑reviewed journals, scholarly ebooks, primary sources, and millions of images on one platform. When you need to carry out a subject search, this is an essential tool.
A very useful complement to JSTOR. Please note that you must be a member of the UNIGE community with an ISIs account to access it. You first need to register with the BGE using this online form (which only needs to be completed once).