Literary Criticism - General

The Hekhalot literature is a motley collection of textually fluid and often textually corrupt documents in Hebrew and Aramaic which deal with mystical themes pertaining especially to God's throne-chariot (the Merkavah). They were composed between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, with roots...

For decades, Classical Myth has been one of the most popular and best-selling texts for the study of classical myth. Oxford University Press is proud to publish this essential book in a vibrant new ninth edition, complemented by digital learning resources that further enhance...

"You're always looking for what you can learn from everybody. I've learned something from every writer I've ever read. The strongest influences are certainly Joyce, the blind man who saw, and Ezra Pound, the crazy man who understood." - Robert Anton Wilson, Beyond Chaos...

Author: H. L. (Henry Louis) MenckenISBN-10: 1022995723ISBN-13: 9781022995727Publisher: Anson Street PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/28/2025Pages: 114Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.24d

Author: Christopher D. AbbottISBN-13: 9798316751600Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/04/2025Pages: 156Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.33d

This book concerns why the writers featured sought to exile themselves from mainstream society, not least by embracing the 'natural' world and an ascetic lifestyle. With the help of generous references from the 30-plus vagabond writers featured (plus many more contributions from secondary texts),...

In Translation Stories from Modern China, Professor Bonnie S. McDougall gives readers a rare firsthand account of not just the career but the international life of a trailblazing translator. From the unexpected beginnings of her passion for modern Chinese literature when she accidentally enrolled...

Song in the Novel investigates the variety of types of songs present in novels, from French romances, ballads, folk songs, opera, and op?ra-comique, to caf?-concert music, blues and jazz, and more recent popular music. Throughout, literary scholars, musicologists, and cultural historians analyse novels written...

This book, first published in 1868, is a collection of the poetry of John and Charles Wesley, co-founders of the Methodist movement. The poems are reprinted from the originals with the last corrections of the authors, and also includes the poems of Charles Wesley...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Literary Nonfiction. Art. LOCKDOWN, WITH CATS is a book of artwork created by Yeju Kwon with the hope of comforting contemporary people who deal with stress and anxiety. The theme of this book is centred around living in lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic and...

This is the first translation and commentary of Aristotle's work that assumes the Northern Greek from Stagira employs the sense of poiēsis given by Diotima in Plato's Symposium, mousikē kai metra ("music-dance and verse"), rather than the sense coined by the sophist Gorgias around...

Here, Nathana l engages the catastrophal--photographic, translative, architectural--calling to the scene a discrepant combinatory of voices including Ingeborg Bachmann, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Dmitri Shostakovich, to insist on the relational and seismic state of language and the image.Author: NathanaëlISBN-10: 1937658058ISBN-13: 9781937658052Publisher: Nightboat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/08/2012Pages:...

In the early days of the American experiment, as the states spread across the continent and the young nation was reshaped by the Industrial Revolution, no intellectual held more power than Ralph Waldo Emerson. The leading light of the Transcendentalists, Emerson spent his life...

The Flowering of a Tradition, which describes the development of technical, or practical, writing in England during the seventeenth century, from 1641 to 1700, follows Emergence of a Tradition, which tracks the emergence of English technical writing from 1475 to 1640, during the English...

Race offers a compelling introduction to the study of ideas related to race throughout history. Its breadth of coverage, both geographically and temporally, provides readers with an expansive, global understanding of the term from the classical period onwards. This concise guide offers an overview...

Author: Havelock EllisISBN-10: 1434468232ISBN-13: 9781434468239Publisher: Wildside PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/13/2024Pages: 292Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,7, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, language: English, abstract: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville is an epic tale of the voyage of the Pequod and the ship's captain, Ahab, who...

Writing with Research offers readers practical guidance for managing writing and research as combined tasks. Kristen B. Neuschel and Ann Marie Rasmussen bring expert advice from their extensive experience as writers, researchers, and teachers, making this an indispensable, user-friendly guide to research-based writing.This book...

For centuries, scribes and users have left notes in the margins of manuscripts, paraphrasing, explaining, criticising, and supplementing the main text. This volume sheds light on such scribal practices in Arabic manuscripts, investigating diverse techniques and approaches across the vast geographical and temporal range...

A profound and unparalleled literary voice, Zadie Smith returns with a resounding collection of essays In the past two decades, few writers have been able to master the craft and art of the essay in the way that Zadie Smith has. Her discerning eye...

The Number Sense of Nineteenth-Century British Literature considers how the avalanche of printed numbers characterizing the period affected its literature. It looks at the influence of a variety of cultural and historical movements, such as the rise of statistics and of democratic Liberalism and...

Author: Steve AylettISBN-10: 183654927XISBN-13: 9781836549277Publisher: Scar Garden PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/25/2025Pages: 170Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.46d

'I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.' Charles Lamb was employed full-time as a clerk in the City of London for most of his adult life, hence his literary output is relatively small when compared...

How is poetry a living art? This is the question at the heart of Poetry's Nature. Although it is common to speak of "nature poetry," Stewart contends that the essential nature of poetry is bound up with the natural world: by looking to nature,...

This book contains Charles Burney's letters from the age of 74 to 80, a period during which he retired from teaching but, far from slowing down despite frequent bouts of illness, continued to write, publishing his last book, Memoirs of the Life and Writings...

This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861), one of the most distinctive writers of the Victorian period. The first selection to place Clough's poetry alongside his prose, it allows readers...

The Gothic and Twenty-First-Century American Popular Culture examines the gothic mode deployed in a variety of texts that touch upon inherently US American themes, demonstrating its versatility and ubiquity across genres and popular media. The volume is divided into four main thematic sections, spanning...

This book collects some of the most famous allegories from literature, including works from Aesop, John Bunyan, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. A must-read for those who appreciate allegory and its use in literature.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is...

This book is a comprehensive biography of Andrew Marvel, the celebrated poet and politician of the 17th century. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, Hartley Coleridge paints a vivid portrait of Marvel's achievements and struggles, offering insights into the wider...

Designed as an introduction to the study of English literature, this work by literary scholars Geoffrey Chaucer and Stephen Haskins Carpenter explores the grammar and philology of 14th century English, using Chaucer's own texts as a guide. With detailed notes and clear explanations, this...

Performative literary culture emerged as a set of practices that shaped production and distribution of learning in late medieval and early modern Western Europe, both in Latin and the vernacular. Performative literary culture encompasses the plays, songs, and poetry performed for live audiences in...

A prominent novelist, social activist, journalist, and nationalist, Halide Adivar Edib (1882-1964) was one of Turkey's leading feminists in the Young Turk and early Republican period. Memoirs is the first book in her two volume English-language autobiography, published in 1926, whilst she and her...

To write about your contemporaries, whose work is enmeshed in the stuff of your life, is risky business. But as Susan Suleiman demonstrates in this lively and personal book, that risk is what makes such a critical encounter worthwhile. "Risking Who One Is" shows...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

The Exemplary Theatre is a book written by Harley Granville-Barker and originally published in 1922. This book is a collection of essays and lectures given by the author on the subject of theatre, its history, and its future. Granville-Barker was a prominent figure in...

The School of Abuse is a book written by Stephen Gosson in 1579, during the Elizabethan era. The book is a scathing critique of the theater of the time, which Gosson believed was corrupting the morals of the people. The book is divided into...

As critic for the Soho Weekly News and the Village Voice during the 1970s and 1980s, Sally Banes enjoyed an incomparable perspective on the development of what she describes as "the mongrel, elusive, indefinable genre of performance art." In fact, Banes was present during...

Author: A. N. WilsonISBN-10: 0393332098ISBN-13: 9780393332094Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1988Pages: 292Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d

Cultures invest great efforts into creating a long-term memory on the basis of oral transmission, media technology, and institutional frameworks. This book provides an introduction to the concept of cultural memory, focusing on the "arts" of its construction, particularly various media such as writing,...

Follow the Migliore family as they flee the devastation and corruption of Italy after WWII and seek a better life in distant Argentina. Told in first person as the memories of a 14 year old girl, the adult Julietta recounts in Departing War's Despair,...

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). Polish born, learnt English from scratch when he arrived in Britain. Writings include: Heart of Darkness, The Secret Agent, Nostromo. Volume covers the period 1895 - 1993. Includes Conrad's responses to his critics.Author: Normand SherryISBN-10: 0415846749ISBN-13: 9780415846745Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2013Pages: 412Format:...

Third Camp Socialism collects Phyllis and Julius Jacobson's major writings on civil rights, Stalinism, the Cold War, and the New York Intellectuals. It makes a powerful case for revisiting the Jacobsons' contributions to socialist thought. The Jacobsons advanced a militant, small-d democratic perspective on...

Trips to the Moon, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and...

This is the real danger, folks. Because after that AI gets your job - and people, don't delude yourselves, AI will get ALL OF YOUR JOBS sooner or later - then it will be coming after your girlfriend. And it will be able to...

This scholarly yet provocative work critically examines the persistent and evolving stereotypes of Native Americans in popular literature, spanning from the 19th to the 21st centuries. The book meticulously traces the roots of these portrayals, exploring their proliferation and their lasting impact on public...

This volume offers an elaborate translation of Homer's epic poems, The Iliad. It is accompanied by commentary on the most noteworthy passages in the text. It is a literary masterpiece that captures the essence of ancient Greek language and culture. This work has been...

Clay Meredith Greene brings to life the story of John of Nepomuk, a revered patron saint of Bohemia. This comprehensive biography delves into John's life, his achievement, and the legacy he left behind, inspiring readers to learn more about this deeply respected figure.This work...

While the strength of contemporary Latin American cinema is recognized worldwide, less is known of the cinema of Indigenous communities in the region, a territorial expanse known as Abya Yala. Even so, and even as these Indigenous filmmakers face ongoing challenges--including persecution, state violence,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...