Literary Criticism - General

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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...

Author: Harold BillingsISBN-10: 1614984921ISBN-13: 9781614984924Publisher: Hippocampus PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/26/2026Pages: 504Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.47lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.01d

Author: Barbara LagerISBN-13: 9798295814099Publisher: Barbara LagerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/30/2026Pages: 82Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.22d

What happens when the dream you chase takes you far from everything you know?Anike leaves the warm streets of Ibadan for a new life in America. The red roofs, the voices, the rhythm of home all fade behind her as she faces long nights,...

Reflecting on The Bell Jar (first published in 1991) acknowledges the repressive post-war regime of social hygiene. Pat Macpherson's reading takes into account the fundamental rearrangement of the social contract between citizen and state, built on the newly made connections between national security and...

Author: Jacqueline T. LynchISBN-13: 9798330314133Publisher: Jacqueline T. LynchLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/18/2024Pages: 386Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.95lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.88dReview Citation(s): PW Booklife Reviews 05/12/2025

The Invasion of Books in Peripheral Literary Fields. Transmitting Preferences and Images in Media, Networks and Translation, focuses on the period between 1950 and the present day. It considers the function and appreciation of the literature transmitted in the media, as well as the...

"Gone to Earth" is an ancient romance drama story book written by Mary Gladys Meredith Webb. Located in the picturesque Shropshire region of the United Kingdom, the story follows the lifestyles of Hazel Woodus, an appealing and carefree extra more youthful female with a...

In the 1990's, South Africa surprised the world with a peaceful, negotiated transition from armed conflict to an inclusive democracy. This was followed by the ground-breaking Truth and Reconciliation Commission, established to confront and work through a troubled past. The search for truth and...

Comic Vision of Self-Government begins with the political ideas of Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, and Paul Johnson and relates them to narrative examples from wisdom literature. Both books credit Wisdom (why not personify her, as the Bible does) for helping a teacher to survivein...

Literary Nonfiction. A lyric exploration of addiction. "McClure and Schmeltzer have concocted a compelling, lilting whisper of a work that defies genre. The blending of their words reminds me of a hushed table in the corner of a small café toward closing hours, where...

A labyrinth is an ancient circular diagram found in cultures around the world. Since antiquity, stories of the labyrinth--closely associated with the ancient sages of the Minotaur, Theseus and Ariadne, and Daedalus and Icarus--have caught the Western imagination. In fact, the labyrinth as an...

In a London of the future, the drudgery of capitalism and bureaucracy have worn the human spirit down to the point where it can barely stand. When a pint-sized clerk named Auberon Quinn is randomly selected as head of state, he decides to turn...

Author: Edward VarnumISBN-10: 146917863XISBN-13: 9781469178639Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/06/2012Pages: 86Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.21d

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An elegant piece of pulsating prose and probing poetry, offering insight into the anthropological condition of an effulgent America that needs to be spangled with the shimmering effects of Total Liberty; specifically, a psychotic yet altruistic account of Gayness in these here States of...

This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works.Author: Nephi AndersonISBN-10: 1461072166ISBN-13: 9781461072164Publisher:...

Author: Karl V. Sr. FarmerISBN-10: 1456871625ISBN-13: 9781456871628Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/21/2011Pages: 66Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.16d

In his magnum opus, David Hume asserts that a person is nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. (Treatise 252) Hume is clearly proud of his...

Henry Fielding is a figure of great significance in English literature and in the history of his own time. A hard-working Justice of the Peace in London, he was involved in establishing England's first police force, the Bow Street Runners, and worked tirelessly to...

The main purpose of The Ghost of Cinema Past: Contemporary Reflections on Classic Film Art is to reinvestigate and reevaluate classic films, films of yesterday, from the point of view of today, taking into account such factors as time, memory, history, and subjectivity; perspective,...

Author: Randy Lewis TownesISBN-10: 1441549021ISBN-13: 9781441549020Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/16/2009Pages: 50Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.12d

Author: Sanjay SaxenaISBN-10: 1436373670ISBN-13: 9781436373678Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/06/2008Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.15d

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Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. This is...

The Critique of Regression presents the most in-depth critique of regression available in the psychoanalytic literature, whilst presenting the first psychoanalytic theory of irreversible lifespan development. The clinical implications are amply demonstrated in three chapter-length psychoanalytic cases.Author: Gregory S. RizzoloISBN-10: 113862439XISBN-13: 9781138624399Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

This is an irresistible and unique anthology of fairy tales written by some of the most notable writers of the Victorian period, including Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling and Edith Nesbitt.Author: Jack ZipesISBN-10: 1138173479ISBN-13: 9781138173477Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/11/2016Pages: 412Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.37lbsSize:...

This book covers the various models of cultural studies and serves as a guide for its theory and practice. It discusses its trajectory and growth as a discipline since the 1960s and analyses various core concepts like popular culture, multiculturalism, identity politics, race, and...

Now in its fourth edition, this popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize post-colonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial part it plays in debates about race, gender, politics, language and identity.Author: Bill Ashcroft,Gareth...

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,...

Contains previously uncollected writings, including articles about Witkacy's doubles, historical and medical simulations, the Battleship Potemkin, comédie rosse at the Grand Guignol, Polish theater, Grotowski and Kantor, Mrozek and Rózewicz, Polish and Russian symbolists, and erotic French puppets.Author: Daniel GerouldISBN-10: 0979057094ISBN-13: 9780979057090Publisher: Martin E....

The "Twayne Companion to Contemporary World Literature" is a reference anthology of literary criticism on world literature, with a focus on the last quarter century. Twayne Publishers has collaborated with the second oldest literary journal in the United States, "World Literature Today." This title...

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This index compensates for the loss of bibliographic control that occurred when the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature decided to discontinue the indexing of poetry and supplements other poetry indexes which did not cover or covered incompletely periodical poetry. The volume contains title, first-line,...

Beyond Alexandria aims to provide a better understanding of Seleucid literature, covering the period from Seleucus I to Antiochus III. Despite the historical importance of the Seleucid Empire during the long third century BCE, little attention has been devoted to its literature. The works...

Across humanities disciplines, public scholarship brings academics and community members and organizations together in mutually-beneficial partnership for research, teaching, and programming. While the field of publicly engaged humanities scholarship has been growing for some time, there are few volumes that have attempted to define...

Is the book always better than the film? Yes, book lovers cry! Hollywood never gets it right - they gloss over crucial moments, the dialogue sounds bizarre and the characters never look like they're supposed to. But then what about Jaws or The Godfather?...

'The pang of the bite, the sudden spurting of blood, and the monstrous horror of the act.' This collection, edited by Nick Groom, explores the extraordinary variety and range of the vampire in English literature prior to the publication of Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897):...

The Hikayat Indraputra, or adventures of Indraputra, is a fine example of traditional Malay story-telling, in the form of the prose hikayat. It follows the hero through the fantastic realms of jinns and demigods where he wins the hands of beautiful princesses and obtains...

This volume explores literary negotiations of and challenges to this powerful myth of monolingualism in various, mostly West-European cultural contexts. Author: Liesbeth MinnaardISBN-10: 904203856XISBN-13: 9789042038561Publisher: BrillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/22/2014Pages: 204Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

This volume presents a systematic overview of current research on the issues that arise when recreating and translating dialogue in works of fiction (including narrative, drama and film scripts). The central concept is that of fictive orality, a situational linguistic variety differing from spontaneous...

Author: Michael C. FrankISBN-10: 904203498XISBN-13: 9789042034983Publisher: BrillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2012Pages: 276Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.10w x 0.64d

In light of recent social discord, unrest and racial tension experienced throughout the nation, The Iceman Experience offers a historical and cultural depiction that provides an analysis and inside look into urban realities that affect high school, collegiate and professional athletes today. The Harlem...

Arcs of Mind attempts to outline a theory by which a literary piece is conceived, developed in stages by the intuition, published, and responded to and valued by the pubic. The source of the theory is primarily the Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson.Author: Wendell...

A book for anyone associated with schools and schooling, this guide helps parents make one of the most important decisions in a child's life: choosing the right school. The choice of school can have a lifelong impact on a child's growth and personality.Encouraging readers...

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...

From Tottel's Miscellany (1557) to the last twentieth-century Oxford Book of English Verse (1999), anthologies have been a prime institution for the preservation and mediation of poetry. The importance of anthologies for creating and re-creating the canon of English poetry, for introducing 'new' programmes...

This book about the work of actor director John Bell is essential reading for anyone interested in Australian theatre and in Shakespearean performance. Adrian Kiernander lucidly explains how, for over five decades, Bell has revived and reinvented theatre in Australia with his interpretations of...