Literary Criticism - General

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A new account of Elizabethan diplomacy with an original archival foundation, this book examines the world of letters underlying diplomacy and political administration by exploring a material text never before studied in its own right: the diplomatic letter-book. Author Elizabeth R. Williamson argues that...

This is a rich and path-breaking comparative study of reading tastes in the final years of old regime Europe. Based on extensive research in the account books of the Swiss publishers, the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel (STN), and related archives, it charts the dissemination...

From the Red Room in Twin Peaks to Club Silencio in Mulholland Drive, the work of David Lynch contains some of the most remarkable spaces in contemporary culture. Richard Martin's compelling study is the first sustained critical assessment of the role architecture and design...

This book focuses on the performance of oral epics and explores the significance of performance features for the interpretation of epic poetry. The leading question of the book is how the socio-cultural context of performance and the various performance elements contribute to the meaning...

Discussions and analyses of contemporary Catholic poets, including John Slater, Elizabeth Jennings, Sally Read, John Quenon and others. Books considered: Surpassing Pleasure, Lean, Amounting to Nothing, The Point of Splitting, The Day Hospital, Broken Sleep and Northern Light. Author: Gregory StephensonISBN-10: 8797156949ISBN-13: 9788797156940Publisher: Ober-Limbo...

Fiction. Poetry. The best of American, European, Asian literature in the spirit of Black Mountain College, The San Francisco Renaissance, and The New York School.Author: Lou RowanISBN-10: 173636930XISBN-13: 9781736369302Publisher: Golden Handcuffs ReviewLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2021Pages: 235Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d

In the nightstands of hotel rooms, kept under lock and key, in the poetry of a pre-apocalyptic environmental cult, and quoted by children, priests, and murderers alike-the Bible is omnipresent in the work of Margaret Atwood. The Bible is found not only in her...

In this concluding collection of the Spiritualist writings of Arthur Conan Doyle, the renowned Doyle biographer and Sherlock Holmes authority, Kelvin I Jones, looks at the impact of the author's obsession with psychic experiments, and his global attempts to prove the existence of an...

"Everything that occurs in the world, in every epoch, has something that corresponds to it in ancient times." -Niccol Machiavelli, Discourses, 1517 Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius (1517), by Italian philosopher and diplomat Machiavelli, is considered by many a foundational text...

Author: Merritt KopasISBN-10: 0990452840ISBN-13: 9780990452843Publisher: Instar BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/20/2015Pages: 576Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.81lbs

As the ruthless Ottoman and Russian empires clashed under the false banner of religion, the unsuspecting Armenian and Assyrian peasants of Albak were caught in a holocaust of burning, looting and massacre. Engulfed in the inescapable impact of these events, Raffi set aside everything...

The early theatrical form of the Italian bromance was the product of a particularly fruitful literary period in sixteenth-century Siena influenced by Renaissance humanism and the Age of Criticism. The focus on humanism led to Italian literary academies dedicated to the contemplation of man,...

"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 The Sorrows of Young WertherThe Works of J.W. von Goethe, Vol. VI--The Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities,...

As the first study of its kind, this book offers a new understanding of progressive women's poetry in Urdu and the legacy of postcolonial politics. It underlines Urdu's linguistic hybridities, the context of the zenana, reform, and rekhti to illustrate how the modernising impulse...

Edited by rising Tunisian literary scholar Hassen Zriba, Postmodernism and Narratives of Erasure in Culture, Literature, and Language is a collection of interdisciplinary essays arguing that the concept of "erasure" is an essential analytical tool/mode of thought in shaping conceptualizations of change and continuity...

Speaking of Wagner compiles in a new and highly accessible format celebrated author, lecturer, and Metropolitan Opera commentator William Berger's collection of talks and presentations about Richard Wagner, the most controversial, and perhaps the most widely influential, artist in history. These talks have been...

Jane Austen was not born a global icon. It took years for her to break into print. Her first publication came after almost a decade of ups and downs, and her first novel out was not the first she sent to a publisher. Up...

Originally published in 1994, The Short Lyric Poems of Jean Froissart is a meticulous reading of the important but generally neglected short lyric poems of Jean Froissart. The book situates Froissart within the cultural and literary context of fourteenth-century Europe and examines a representative...

The volume assembles fresh treatments on the fl neur in literature, film and culture from a variety of angles. Its individual contributions cover established as well as previously unnoticed textual and filmic source materials in a historical perspective ranging from the late nineteenth to...

New millennium collection of poetry that range from shamanistic nature observation to relationships to abstract thought. The title was chosen by inspiration by the book "Criticism" by Charles Kaplan, in which a description of a poet is someone who's creative ability transpires from God's...

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Edward Foster's poetry, always exacting and infinitely sweeping, comes to us like a whisper from behind our own ears. . . His poems suspend themselves just above language, connotative of some understanding--perhaps common to all of us--that recedes at the brink...

Literary Nonfiction. Art. Photography. Across the plains, in towns too small and scattered to field a full squad, high schools play six-man football. This book follows a single season of one such team, Prairie School, located in the vast Pawnee National Grassland, near New...

Anne Carson is one of North America's most successful poets, as well as being an essayist, translator, and professor of Classics. She calls herself a 'maker' in the ancient Greek sense. Originally from Canada, Carson has taught at Princeton University and Bard College. She...

Breakfast with Evil and Other Risky Ventures is a pre-emptive attempt to bring together the scattered writings of Ashis Nandy over his entire span of writing career and scan those scattered lectures, interviews, and writings including essays and columns for newspapers and journals for...

In 1992 when a Dalit woman left the convent and wrote her autobiography, the Tamil publishing industry found her language unacceptable. So Bama Faustina published her milestone work Karukku privately in 1992-a passionate and important mix of history, sociology, and the strength to remember....

Literary Nonfiction. Art. The art world and all the people it encompasses have daily lives that are structured in one way or another by art. But how is it structured? And how do they perceive any one slice of their art life? New York...

Starting in the Victorian Age, "Holmes" became a great name. First there was the best-selling essayist and poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Then, as the 19th century turned to the 20th, his son Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. rose to fame as a judge, and,...

For over sixty years, American guitarist John Fahey (1939-2001) has been a storied figure, first within the folk and blues revival of the long 1960s, later for fans of alternative music. Mythologizing himself as Blind Joe Death, Fahey crudely parodied white middle-class fascination with...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as...

In this book, Dr. Fram responds to the art of Dylan in the form of poetry and song. He interrogates the imagination, lyrics and even cover-art of Bob Dylan in terms of the ancient practice of ekphrasis and locates his achievement in that tradition....

George Reynolds is arguably the most prolific of all nineteenth-century English novelists, reaching an enormous audience through his thirty-six novels. Often selling in very large numbers in weekly one-penny installments, his works were known as by the most popular English novelist ever. Yet today,...

In The Vitality of Allegory Gary Johnson argues that the rumors of allegory's death have been greatly exaggerated. Surveying the broad landscape of modern and contemporary narrative fiction, including works from Europe, Africa, and North America, Johnson demonstrates that, although wholly allegorical narratives have...

Literary Nonfiction. Essays. In EXPERIMENTAL LITERATURE: A COLLECTION OF STATEMENTS thirty-four writers and critics reflect upon how literature puts itself to the test in an effort to make itself new. Those reflections assume very different shapes, and each approaches the question from a different...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...

The volume assembles fresh treatments on the fl neur in literature, film and culture from a variety of angles. Its individual contributions cover established as well as previously unnoticed textual and filmic source materials in a historical perspective ranging from the late nineteenth to...

Author: Leo BersaniISBN-10: 0520328957ISBN-13: 9780520328952Publisher: University of California PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2020Pages: 268Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.37d

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...

This volume draws on emerging scholarship at the intersection of two already vibrant fields: medieval material culture and medieval sensory experience. The rich potential of medieval matter (most obviously manuscripts and visual imagery, but also liturgical objects, coins, textiles, architecture, graves, etc.) to complement...

The late historian Marvin O'Connell left a legacy of brilliant prose and pictures of the past, and in this book the reader at long last has access to O'Connell's own story. Fr. Bill Miscamble, a noted historian and scholar in his own right, attributes...

This book invites us to approach friendship not as something that simply is, but as something performed in and through language. Roman friendship is read across the spectrum of Latin texts, from Catullus' poetry to Petronius' Satyricon to the philosophical writings of Cicero and...

Comfort is a prominent and highly loaded concept, as popular discourses on cozy environments, safe spaces, but also the importance of getting out of your comfort zone attest. This volume is the first to investigate comfort as a cultural narrative and emotional touchstone in...

This anthology comprises essays that study the form, aesthetics and representations of LGBTQ+ identities in an emerging subgenre of film and television that the editors dub "New Queer Horror." New Queer Horror designates horror that is crafted by directors or producers who identify as...

In these three studies, hinging on an unusual theme, Roger Sale examines three very different writers: an impassioned novelist, a wry and witty literary critic, and a donnish teller of apparently old-fashioned romances that have achieved a cult following today. Many people assume that...

An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and cultures Aphorisms--or short philosophical sayings--appear everywhere, from Confucius to Twitter, the Buddha to the Bible, Heraclitus to Nietzsche. Yet despite this ubiquity, the aphorism is the least studied literary form....

Postcolonial Locations seeks to clarify the meaning of 'the postcolonial' through close textual readings, and prioritises material and located readings over more abstract theoretical discussions; it seeks to re-orient the field by providing practical explorations of what the discipline is for. The book begins...

Narrative Retellings presents pioneering work at the intersection of stylistics and narrative study to provide new insights into the diverse forms of fictional and factual narratives and their retellings. Common types of retelling, such as translation, adaptation, textual intervention and reader responses are reconceptualised...

The influential and widely respected narrative theorist, H. Porter Abbott, breaks new ground in Real Mysteries: Narrative and the Unknowable. In it, he revisits the ancient theme of what we cannot know about ourselves and others. But in a sharp departure, he shifts the...

Ikujiro Nonaka's A Dynamic Theory of Organisational Knowledge Creation outlines the creation of organisational knowledge through the constant conversion of the two types of knowledge, tacit and explicit, which Nonaka believes has the potential to guide managers' knowledge creation strategies. This argument is centred...

Exploration and Exploitation is a key text for scholars and business practitioners interested in promoting economic well-being and sustainable growth. March's work promotes the preservation of companies' competitiveness and sustainability in the fluctuating market environment by maintaining a balance between exploration and exploitation processes....