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What does the word "quest" conjure up? A journey in the hope of fulfillment, an exploration of identities, questions, the nature of research itself, or the darker side of quest in the form of conquest, colonisation and displacement? These are some of the threads taken up and developed in this collection of essays by established and emerging scholars. Germaine Greer, Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, Serge Doubrovsky, A. S. Byatt, Novalis, Melville, Valéry, Beckett, Stanislao Nievo, Victor Segalen, Sibilla Aleramo, Dacia Maraini, Defoe, Tournier, Coetzee, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Cintio Vitier, Domingo del Monte, Ramón de Palma, Pablo Armando Fernández, Hubert Aquin, Anne Hébert , Homer, Proust, Balzac and Robbe-Grillet provide the literary voices that invite these scholars to embark on their own quests into subjects as diverse as the relationships between texts, authors and readers, the initiatic journey, spirituality and enlightenment, female autobiography and identity, oppression, imperialism and postcolonial discourses, not to mention the history of the quest itself. The result is a rich tapestry of thought-provoking insights into the inexhaustible connections between literature and quest.

Quests (Expeditions) in literature.

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Long before books were mass produced, those made of reeds from along the Nile were worth fighting and dying for. Journeying along the battlefields of Alexander the Great, beneath the eruptions of Mount Vesuvius, at Cleopatra's palaces and the scene of Hypatia's murder, award-winning author Irene Vallejo chronicles the excitement of literary culture in the ancient world, and the heroic efforts that ensured this impressive tradition would continue. Weaved throughout are fascinating stories about the spies, scribes, illuminators, librarians, booksellers, authors, and statesmen whose rich and sometimes complicated engagement with the written word bears remarkable similarities to the world today: Aristophanes and the censorship of the humourists, Sappho and the empowerment of women's voices, Seneca and the problem of a post-truth world. Vallejo takes us to mountainous landscapes and the roaring sea, to the capitals where culture flourished and the furthest reaches where knowledge found refuge in chaotic times. In this sweeping tour of the history of books, the wonder of the ancient world comes alive and along the way we discover the singular power of the written word.

Books --- Quests (Expeditions) --- History

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This new edition brings to life Tobias Smollett's fourth novel, The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves . No annotated edition of the work existed before the second half of the twentieth century, and this comprehensive edition by Robert Folkenflik and Barbara Laning Fitzpatrick features more accurate text as well as scrupulous textual and critical information. Also included in the detailed introduction is a unique examination of Sir Launcelot Greaves, the first illustrated serial novel, in relation to the engravings by Anthony Walker. Sir Launcelot Greaves was a groundbreaking novel f

Mentally ill --- Quests (Expeditions) --- Knights and knighthood

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American literature --- Painters --- Painting --- Quests (Expeditions) --- West Indians

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La thématique du crime, de l'enquête ou du suspect, en termes de vraies et de fausses pistes, suffit-elle encore pour faire avancer la recherche sur les frontières entre le roman policier et les autres formes du récit ? Cette question est au centre des réflexions de ce livre. Cet ouvrage explore les zones opaques de l'écriture romanesque et ses voiles identitaires et imaginaires. Il aide à mieux décrire la production de sens dans le roman par le biais des modèles issus de la linguistique, de la pragmatique, de la sémiologie, de la poétique et de la narratologie, qui ouvrent plusieurs perspectives sur l'aspect mystérieux du récit romanesque dont l'œil narratif accompagne le silence des personnages et engage le lecteur dans une vaste entreprise d'élucidation. Il exploite les ressorts épistémologiques et esthétiques d'un type de narration fondée sur le manque et l'inadaptation.

Quests (Expeditions) in literature. --- French literature --- History and criticism.