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...

How deviant materials figure resistance Yeast ferments, gelatin jiggles, drugs and alcohol froth and bubble, and flesh from animals and plants actively molds and rots. These materials morph through multiple states and phases, and their movement is imbued with a liveliness that is suggestive...

From their founding in 1540 to this day, Jesuits have been controversial. Their centuries of missionary work have taken them to all corners of the world. They have been accused of killing Kings and Presidents and contributing to colonization and destruction of cultures-even participating...

Welcome to the First Church of Non Confrontation: A Satirical Look at Modern Faith and ComplacencyComfort over courage, silence over action. This is the creed of the First Church of Non-Confrontation, a church where the congregation sings, eats well, and avoids the thorny issues...

Author: T. E. FranklinosISBN-10: 0198940238ISBN-13: 9780198940234Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/28/2025Format: Hardcover

For millennia, literature across the globe has captured the essence of life, survival, and human relationships - how we come together and how we fall apart. These stories, born from diverse cultures and perspectives, transcend time and space to resonate with audiences far beyond...

Global Encounters: An Interdisciplinary Approach to World Literature and Cultures provides students with a curated collection of readings, cultural artifacts, and narratives from across the globe. It examines a variety of creations over time ranging from early Nigerian myths and Sumerian epics to fully...

John Bascom's An Historical Interpretation of Philosophy is a classic text in the field of philosophy. In this groundbreaking work, Bascom offers a detailed analysis of the history of philosophy, from ancient Greece to the modern era. With its rigorous scholarship and insightful commentary,...

This book is a comprehensive collection of the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of the most influential poets of the Romantic era. It includes his most famous works such as 'Ozymandias' and 'To a Skylark'.This work has been selected by scholars as being...

This volume presents a selection from the American and British fiction of the nineteenth century which was evolving into what we now know as science fiction. The sources are accompanied by editorial commentary, and will be of great interest to students and researchers of...

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,...

This book offers the first sustained argument against the philosophy of Walter Benjamin and his readings of Charles Baudelaire. Drawing upon the existential insights of Baudelaire it is also a critique of politicized aesthetics, and cultural Marxism, of which Benjamin is a pioneering and...

Jeju is an island steeped in ritual and legend. Outside of Korea, it remains a mystery largely because so little has been written about it in English. This book seeks to share the wonders of Jeju with the world.Author: Anne HiltyISBN-10: 8991913830ISBN-13: 9788991913837Publisher: Seoul...

The essay for which The Sacred Wood is primarily remembered is one of the most famous pieces of criticism in English: "Tradition and the Individual Talent" helped to re-orientate arguments about the study of literature and its production by redefining the nature of tradition...

Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser about a young country girl who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream by first becoming a mistress to men that she perceives as superior and later as a...

The theme for this issue is politics and the journal includes the following articles: "World Citizen: How Politics Shaped the Travels of Allen Ginsberg, and How Travel Shaped his Politics" by David S. Wills"The Flying Dutchman: An Overview of LeRoi Jones' Greatest Commentary on...

About the Author- Johan August Strindberg (About this sound pronounced (help-info); 22 January 1849 - 14 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during...

The Teaching of Poetry in the High School is a book written by Arthur Henry Rolph Fairchild and published in 1914. It is a comprehensive guide for teachers on how to teach poetry to high school students. The book covers various aspects of teaching...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have...

Not suitable for die-hard Potter fans, Destiny Unfulfilled is fundamentally critical of the Potter series, examining such issues as the role of a protagonist, the writer's contract with her readers, characterization, and shaggy dog resolutions. In Stein on Writing, Sol Stein tells us of...

What is the fascination that decollation holds for us, as individuals and as a culture? Why does the idea make us laugh and the act make us close our eyes? Losing Our Heads explores in both artistic and cultural contexts the role of the...

Throughout her career, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Maxine Kumin has been at the vanguard of discussions about feminism and sexism, the state of poetry, and our place in the natural world. The Roots of Things gathers into one volume her best essays on the issues...

The Fear of French Negroes is an interdisciplinary study that explores how people of African descent responded to the collapse and reconsolidation of colonial life in the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1845). Using visual culture, popular music and dance, periodical literature, historical memoirs,...

Imaginary Existences: A psychoanalytic exploration of phantasy, fiction, dreams and daydreams interweaves scholarly psychoanalytic knowledge and extensive clinical experience with insights derived from close readings of great literature in a uniquely imaginative and creative manner, convincingly demonstrating how these two ways of thinking -...

David Lindley re-examines the murder trials of Frances Howard and the historical representations of her as wife, a witch, a murderess and a whore', challenging the assumptions that have constructed her as a model of female villainy.Author: David LindleyISBN-10: 0415144248ISBN-13: 9780415144247Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/13/1996Pages:...

When Alice steps through the mirror in Lewis Caroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she removes herself from the centre of vision and perspective, restoring the autonomy of everything else that lies "beyond" the mirror. Similarly, the philosopher who wishes to engage with the contemporary...

"George Stevens could do anything," said veteran Hollywood producer Pandro S. Berman, "break your heart or make you laugh." Winner of two Best Director Oscars--for A Place in the Sun (1951) and Giant (1956)--Stevens excelled in a range of genres, gave luster to some...

"Barton Rakewell's Puzzling World Presents Literary Quote Cryptograms" is a curated selection of cryptogram puzzles featuring 100 quotes in various forms of literary works spanning genres, the globe, and several centuries! Follow Barton in this unique puzzle collection as he invites you to decipher...

A masterpiece epic poem that presents the fall of humanity through the lens of Satan's rebellion and temptation of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. It explores profound theological questions of the nature of sin, free will, and the justice of God....

This work presents a case for engagement between the sciences and the humanities - focusing particularly on literature- and an empirical, non-theory-based approach thereto. Author: Jay a. LabingerISBN-10: 1032129123ISBN-13: 9781032129129Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/31/2023Pages: 238Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d

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,...

This volume presents a selection from the American and British fiction of the nineteenth century which was evolving into what we now know as science fiction. Author: David SeedISBN-10: 0367520826ISBN-13: 9780367520823Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/18/2023Pages: 356Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.51lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d

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,...

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,...

Thomas Paine's 1791 Rights of Man is an impassioned political tract showing how the critical thinking skills of evaluation and reasoning can, and must, be applied to contentious issues. Divided into two parts, Rights of Man is, first, a response to Edmund Burke's arguments...

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...

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...

Tapestries of Life proposes a way of putting women at the center of our thinking by structuring it out of the dailiness of women's lives. The focus is on women of diverse races, classes, ages, and geographic regions in the United States. Aptheker draws...

The Right to Narcissism: A Case for an Im-possible Self-love argues for a rethinking of the concept of narcissism and aims to wrest it from its common and pejorative meanings, egoism and vanity, by revealing the complexity and importance of this notion. In a...

Didactic Epic was enormously popular in the ancient world. It was used to teach Greeks and Romans technical and scientific subjects, but in verse. Epic Lessons shows how this scientific poetry was intended not just to instruct but also to entertain. Praise for its...

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Author: Brian VickersISBN-10: 0415487269ISBN-13: 9780415487269Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/10/2008Pages: 460Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.42lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94d

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Author: Brian VickersISBN-10: 0415487277ISBN-13: 9780415487276Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/10/2008Pages: 562Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.72lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.14d

Author: Randall TrembaISBN-13: 9798218550936Publisher: Randall TrembaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/20/2024Pages: 194Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d

The Truths That Strengthen Me is the latest inspiring work from J.M. Preston, the author behind the beloved The Gift of Healing. In this heartfelt book, Preston explores the invaluable lessons forged through the trials of pain, betrayal, and mistreatment. With every page, readers...

"I invent the most hopeless sounding plots; very often they are based on something I've read in a newspaper. And people say, 'Oh, this is all nonsense'--and then the Russians come along in Germany and shoot people with potassium cyanide pistols." Between them, Ian...

Author: Michael HoganISBN-13: 9798218524777Publisher: Sinn Fein EditionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/05/2024Pages: 262Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d

This edited book explores the practice of transcreation in a variety of contexts, from audiovisual material to digital and marketing material. Drawing on the latest developments in translation and media studies, the volume promotes an understanding of the transcreation process and the way it...

A major introductory language/linguistics textbook written specifically for English and Education majors, this book is an engaging introduction to the structure of English, general theories in linguistics, and important issues in sociolinguistics. This accessible text provides more extensive coverage of issues of particular interest...

What are the different contours of defining a subject? How does a subject form in the act of resilience? This multi-author book explores the concept of a wandering subject, especially in the context of resilience. The wandering subject can be understood as an ever-forming...

What happens if we reconsider the literature of the Civil War North in light of the transformation of the federal state's power? While literary scholarship about the Civil War has more generally focused on the rise of wartime nationalism, Philip Gould looks particularly at...