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...

Tara K Howe is a Canadian/American writercurrently living in Moscow, Idaho. She speaks manylanguages - English. French. Science. Earth. Womb.Death. Birth. Body. Drum. - to explore the nature ofsomatic consciousness. "She Says It This Way: " beganas an experiment in allowing form to serve...

In her haunting new poetry collection, Hovering, Carol V. Davis explores how disease steals what makes us human. These poems explore what it means when language and memory uncouple like merry-go-round animals that break free and gallop off. Drawing on texts and traditions, the...

"No writer, I suspect, is altogether free of the hope that what he writes - or even only a sentence or phrase of it - will survive him. A bon mot remembered in a hundred years' time might justify an entire life." In The...

First published in 1970, Dictionary of World Literary Terms brings together in one volume authoritative definitions of literary terms, forms and techniques, figures of speech and detailed notes on the history and development of the literatures and literary movements of the world. Arranged in...

A life of thought can transform how you see the world and Philip Gilbert Hamerton shows you how to begin. The Intellectual Life is a luminous collection of essays that maps the discipline, delights, and practical habits of sustained thinking. Hamerton one of the...

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Author: F. R. BridgeISBN-10: 0415273706ISBN-13: 9780415273701Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/20/2001Pages: 506Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.62lbsSize: 8.80h x 5.54w x 1.58d

This comprehensive collection, "The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift," offers a deep dive into the writings of one of the greatest satirists in the English language. Spanning a range of topics from politics and society to religion and personal reflection, Swift's sharp wit and...

"George Buchanan and His Times" by Peter Hume Brown offers a detailed biographical account of the life and career of George Buchanan (1506-1582), a prominent Scottish humanist scholar, educator, and political theorist. This comprehensive study delves into Buchanan's significant contributions to literature, education, and...

Stories of Exile, 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 future...

The Theory of the Theatre, and Other Principles of Dramatic Criticism, is a classical and a rare book, that 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...

A century of voices, a century of ideas, gathered to illuminate how England thought, debated, and shaped its world. This is more than an anthology-it is a conversation across time, inviting readers to hear the manners, reforms, and inquiries that rippled from Caxton to...

A timeless doorway to a wilder, wiser world. The fables whisper through centuries, and now they speak again. Bewick's Select Fables Of sop And Others; In Three Parts offers a refined, expanded look at a beloved fable collection. It gathers the best-loved tales from...

The essays collected in this volume explore how and by what means, from antiquity to the present day, the notion of 'the right moment' has been defined, visualized, and experienced. The authors approach the subject from a range of disciplines and often work at...

Mpu Monaguṇa's early thirteenth century epic poem Sumanasāntaka is a vernacular rendering of Kālidāsa's story of Prince Aja and Princess Indumatī told in the Raghuvaṃśa. In it the poet exploits his source narrative to describe and comment on the Javanese world of his times.In...

Forgeries are an omnipresent part of our culture. They are closely related to historically and culturally informed ideas of authenticity, legality, authorship, creativity, tradition, and innovation. Based on the concept of mimesis, this volume illustrates that forgeries are thus not to be understood as...

This collection of essays demonstrates how novels are not only comparable, but often superior to the case histories used in business education. As many novelists have had personal experience of working in organizations, their work combines introspective insight with analytical skill.Author: B. Czarniawska-JoergesISBN-10: 3718656477ISBN-13:...

Examining the significance and uses of written documents in medieval Serbian society, for the very first time the manifestations of everyday literacy are revealed in the area where the East and the West intersect in southeastern Europe. The interweaving of Latin and Byzantine influences...

What are myths? Are there 'correct' and 'incorrect' versions? And where do they come from? These and many other related questions are addressed in Writing Down the Myths, a collection of critical studies of the contents of some of the most famous mythographic works...

A frenzy of misbehavior and misjudgment currently threatens the American polity. Donald Trump is the center of the storm. His words, deeds and basic instincts are fundamentally at odds with America's long-held essential ideals. But Trump isn't the only problem. Many of his friends,...

How does the fact that we live in information societies reflect on the nature of penal discourse and practice? Applying media and communication studies to sentencing and penal culture, Kate Franko Aas offers a lucid and innovative account of how punishment is adjusting to...

A.C. Crombie sees the history of Western Science as the history of a vision and an argument, initiated by the ancient Greeks in their search for principles at once of nature and of argument itself. This scientific vision explored and controlled by argument, and...

Sung closely examines William Blake's extant engraved copper plates and arrives at a new interpretation of his working process. Sung suggests that Blake revised and corrected his work more than was previously thought. This belies the Romantic ideal that the acts of conception and...

John Toland was notorious. A pamphleteer, a polemicist and a prankster of the first order, modern scholarship has struggled to position his writings within the debates of his day. This study is the first to fully recount his remarkable biography, situating his writings within...

This is the first study to assess the entire career of Alexander Pope (1688-1744) in relation to the political issues of his time. Author: Pat RogersISBN-10: 1851968466ISBN-13: 9781851968466Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2010Pages: 288Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.23lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d

Offers a variety of approaches to incorporating discussions of book history or print culture into graduate and undergraduate classrooms. This work considers the book as a literary, historical, cultural, and aesthetic object. These essays are of interest to university teachers incorporating textual studies and...

Fundamentals of the Art of Poetry takes the reader on a journey that sets out with a consideration of the various arts humankind has created, and then focuses on the special art of poetry: what poetry is, what it does and must do in...

The poetic nightingale is so familiar it seems hardly to merit serious attention. Yet its ubiquity is significant, suggesting associations with erotic love, pathos and art that cross culture and history. This book examines the different nightingales of European literature, starting with the Greek...

Recession is a time for asking fundamental questions about value. At a time when governments are being forced to make swingeing savings in public expenditure, why should they continue to invest public money funding research into ancient Greek tragedy, literary value, philosophical conundrums or...

It seems a long way from Moliere to Ray Cooney. There are immense distances between the worlds of Aristophanes, Plautus, Georges Feydeau, Ben Travers, Joe Orton and Basil Fawlty. But as one of the oldest genres in the history of the theatre, farce bridges...

The essays in this collection examine women in diverse roles; mother, socialite, prostitute, celebrity, medical practitioner and patient. The wide range of commentators allows a diverse picture of women's health in this period.Author: Ji Won ChungISBN-10: 1848934246ISBN-13: 9781848934245Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2014Pages: 222Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.08lbsSize:...

Focusing on several distinct genres of eighteenth-century Irish song, Henigan demonstrates in each case that the interaction between the elite and vernacular, the written and oral, is pervasive and characteristic of the Irish song tradition to the present day.Author: Julie HeniganISBN-10: 1848933428ISBN-13: 9781848933422Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage:...

While Hume remains one of the most central figures in modern philosophy his place within Enlightenment thinking is much less clearly defined. Taking recent work on Hume as a starting point, this volume of original essays aims to re-examine and clarify Hume's influence on...

In this essay collection, established experts and new researchers, reassess the performances and cultural significance of Ellen Terry, her daughter Edith Craig (1869-1947) and her son Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966), as well as Bram Stoker, Lewis Carroll and some less familiar figures.Author: Katharine CockinISBN-10:...

William King (1650-1729) was perhaps the dominant Irish intellect of the period from 1688 until his death in 1729. An Anglican (Church of Ireland) by conversion, King was a strident critic of John Toland and the clerical superior of Jonathan Swift.Author: Christopher FauskeISBN-10: 1848930100ISBN-13:...

When something called theory first broke onto the seemingly stagnant scene of literary studies, it offered bright new ways and fields for critical reading: new methods and subjects, and also new words to speak them. The syllabus and the styles would never be the...

This eclectic collection interrogates boundaries with reference to nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, performance, music and film from a diverse range of critical and theoretical perspectives. The authors probe the issue of negotiating boundaries in their innovative and imaginative investigations of science in Dickens, Eliot...

Offering an ambitious study of the aesthetics of violence across art, literature, film and theatre, this volume brings together traditional German aesthetic and social theory with the modern problem of violence in art. Written in an engaging style, the book includes examples ranging from...

"All extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever been decried by the world as drunken or insane." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in FaustThe Works of J.W. von Goethe, Vol. VII--Faust Vol. I by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is part of...

The original versions of an American master's best-known tales Though it highlights just one year of writing, this third volume of The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury represents a crucial moment at the midpoint of his first full decade as a professional writer. The...

Without robbing boyhood days of their naturalness and reality, we may be sure that long before Jesus knew how and why he differed from his fellows he felt more or less clearly that they were not like him. The resulting sense of isolation was...

In what can only be called a genuine intellectual adventure, Russell Berman raises fundamental questions long ignored by literary scholars; Why does literature command our attention at all? Why would society want to cultivate a sphere of activity devoted to the careful study of...

This volume collects and reprints many of Delbert R. Hillers's most important published essays and articles, his long out-of-print Treaty-Curses and the Old Testament Prophets, and three previously unpublished essays, including the aforementioned "'Poets Before Homer' Archaeology and the Western Literary Tradition". Hillers gave...

In 1976, Trent Batson and Eugene Bergman released their classic Angels and Outcasts: An Anthology of Deaf Characters in Literature. In it, they featured works from the 19th and 20th centuries by well-known authors such as Charles Dickens and Eudora Welty. They also presented...

This work is an analytic bibliography of the writings of Jonathan Swift, containing a listing of every known edition or issue of Swift's work down to the year 1814 (except for the section "Biography and Criticism" which extends from 1709 to 1895). In this...

Do we need to be a "people," populus, in order to embrace democracy and live together in peace? If so, what is a populus? Is it by definition a nation? What exactly do we mean by nationality? In this book, Davide Tarizzo takes up...

The Tales of the Crusaders was determined upon as the title of the following series of the Novels, rather by the advice of the few friends whom, death has now rendered still fewer, than by the author's own taste. Not but that he saw...

Grabo, while not attempting to explain "Prometheus Unbound" entirely in terms of science, shows the extent to which Shelley used the science of his day, particularly the phenomenon of light and electricity, in his greatest poem. Far from belittling Shelley's creative imagination, this aspect...

This play, previously unknown, is here printed with an introduction and textual and illustrative notes by Bowers, who has made a very strong case for the Randolph authorship. The play is of unique interest because of the light that it throws on certain Randolph...

A great Prussian dramatist is viewed in the light of his times, in his relation to his contemporaries and to the important events of his day. Much of the conflicting criticism of this enigmatic character is reviewed, and his eight dramas are analyzed in...