Literary Criticism - General

The book "" Clear the Track'; A Story of To-day, 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...

The book "" Dürer Masterpieces in Colour Series, 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....

The book "" Facing the German Foe, 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...

The book "" The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror , 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...

The book "" The Angel of Terror , 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....

The book "" The Drummer Boy, 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...

The book "" Drolls From Shadowland, 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...

This book has been deemed as a classic and has stood the test of time. The 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.Author: Archibald LampmanISBN-10:...

The contributors to this volume explore the intertwined relationship of imagining and practicing from different fields of study (sociology, philosophy, literary and cultural studies), complementing practice and theoretical approaches with interdisciplinary insights into the entanglements of doings and imaginations. They build a bridge between...

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,7, University of Tubingen, course: Irish Drama, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this paper is to analyze various comedic elements and their function in the drama...

Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: keine, University of Duisburg-Essen, language: English, abstract: The seminar "Language and Literature in the New South Africa" familiarized students with a range of contemporary and antecedent...

The Discerning Mollusk's Guide to Arts and Ideas. Contributions by Stephen Baily, P.J. Blumenthal, Christopher Boucher, Marvin Cohen, Kyle Coma-Thompson, Bradley David, W.J. Davies, Matt Dennison, Richard Dinges, Scott Edwards, Giorgio Ferretti, Jack Foley, Mike Fox, Avital Gad-Cykman, Jake Goldsmith, Charles Holdefer, Amber Isaac,...

Inspiring women form the integral threads in the vast and intricate tapestry of life. Each thread is woven with purpose, strength, and resilience, contributing to the creation of a world rich in opportunity and possibility. These remarkable women do not simply navigate through life;...

What is there in language that is so dreadful that, most often, man assents to it only in order to chatter rather than to speak? This book proposes a radically novel approach to the enigma of the superego, one of the most relevant and...

Despite recent calls to explore the full potential of digital text, digital scholarly editing and publishing remain rooted in the cultural and structural logics of print. This volume provides a wide range of perspectives on the current state and future of the field in...

Haraway's 'Cyborg Manifesto' is a key postmodern text and is widely taught in many disciplines as one of the first texts to embrace technology from a leftist and feminist perspective using the metaphor of the cyborg to champion a socialist, postmodern, and anti-identitarian politics....

Anthropology's keen interest in fiction can be traced to the discipline's so-called 'literary turn' in the 1980s and 90s, instigated by James Clifford and George Marcus' groundbreaking anthology Writing Culture (1986). But theclose connection between anthropology and literature goes back to pioneer anthropologists like...

Anscombe's 1958 paper challenged the very foundations of moral philosophy, the discipline that tries to understand and differentiate between actions, right and wrong. It argues that moral philosophy should not be explored until a philosophy of psychology is already in place, and that, without...

In writings about travel, the Balkans appear most often as a place travelled to. Western accounts of the Balkans revel in the different and the exotic, the violent and the primitive - traits that serve (according to many commentators) as a foil to self-congratulatory...

This illuminating study provides a comprehensive reassessment of Deborah Kerr's career, highlighting lesser-known aspects of her star persona. Sarah Street traces the specific qualities of Kerr's screen performances, paying close attention to facial expression, gesture, voice and costume. Covering many iconic films, including The...

A serious, yet entertaining, look at the impediments in current thought which prevent certain forms of understanding between people. The title story was made into an award-winning film with script by Idries Shah, and chosen as an Outstanding Film of the Year.The Dermis Probe...

Standard Hollywood narrative movies prescribe linear narratives that cue the viewer to expect predictable outcomes and adopt a closed state of mind. There are, however, a small number of movies that, through the presentation of alternate narrative paths, open the mind to thoughts of...

We are thrilled to announce the release of the 50th issue of Reader's House magazine, a significant milestone that celebrates our journey as the voice of exceptional authors and their inspiring stories. Our magazine has always been more than just a publication; it serves...

The flamboyant and irascible Edward Dahlberg (1900-1977) wrote twenty books including, most notably, Because I Was Flesh, his autobiographical masterpiece, which Alfred Kazin called "A work of extraordinary honesty, eloquence, and power." According to Sir Herbert Read: "A great achievement. The magnificent portrait of...

This book is helpful especially for the researchers of postcolonial literature. It will also help the readers of historiographic meta fiction.Author: Abdul Karim RumanISBN-10: 1517477948ISBN-13: 9781517477943Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/22/2015Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.17d

Mireille: Poeme Provencal is a book written by Frederic Mistral and published in 1859. It is a poetic work that tells the story of a young woman named Mireille who lives in the region of Provence in France. The book is written in the...

Reprint of the original, first published in 1865.Author: Matthew ArnoldISBN-10: 1410200841ISBN-13: 9781410200846Publisher: University Press of the PacificLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/26/2002Pages: 396Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.98d

Causes Amusantes Et Connues est un livre �����crit par Robert Estienne et publi����� en 1770. Il s'agit d'un recueil de devinettes, de charades et d'�����nigmes amusantes et connues de l'�����poque. Le livre est divis����� en plusieurs chapitres, chacun consacr����� ������ un th�����me diff�����rent, tels...

Ollanta: An Ancient Ynca Drama is a play written by Clements R. Markham and first published in 1871. The play is based on the ancient Incan legend of Ollanta, a warrior who falls in love with the princess Cusi Coyllur and defies the laws...

This dynamic multidisciplinary collection of essays examines the uncanny, eerie, wondrous, and dreaded dimensions of oceans, seas, waterways, and watery forms of the oceanic South, a haunted global precinct stretching across the Pacific, Southern and Indian Oceans, and around Australasia, Oceania, Aotearoa New Zealand,...

Step back in time with "The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904," a captivating window into early 20th-century English literature and culture. This meticulously reproduced periodical offers a diverse collection of short stories, thought-provoking essays, and compelling fiction, capturing the spirit 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 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,...

A panorama of past and contemporary southern society are captured in Bridging Southern Cultures by some of the South's leading historians, anthropologists, literary critics, musicologists, and folklorists. Crossing the chasms of demographics, academic disciplines, art forms, and culture, this exciting collection reaches aspects of...

Texture represents the latest advance in cognitive poetics. The book builds feeling and embodied experience on to the insights into meaningfulness which the cognitive approach to literature has achieved in recent years. Taking key familiar concepts such as characterisation, tone, empathy, and identification, the...

Love's memories, love recalling itself in letters lost and found over an interval of forty years: Cixous's writer-narrator advances here far into a labyrinth of passions long ago delivered and yet still arriving through the mail, through letters and literature, in other words, the...

St Anton's university college is a cradle for privileged young men and women. With its Elysian lush green lawns and buildings of golden sandstone, it seems like a place where nothing bad could ever happen. One weekend, members of the college cricket team go...

Donald Low's collection contains Byron's most subversive, spirited and playful poetry as well as his outspoken prose. With helpful and informative annotation and a full bibliography this is an essential study aid for students.Author: George Gordon 1788- ByronISBN-10: 0415073170ISBN-13: 9780415073172Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1995Pages: 408Format:...

This book is a one-volume introduction to both Jewish history and literature from its earliest times up to the present, covering many major aspects of Jewish studies from the Bible through modern Judaism. It is designed to serve undergraduate and graduate courses in Judaism.Author:...

The romance genre was a popular literary form among writers and readers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but since then it has often been dismissed as juvenile, unmodern, improper, or subversive. In this study, William J. Scheick seeks to recover the place...

"If I May" by A. A. Milne is a collection of witty essays offering humorous observations and insightful reflections on everyday life. As a master of British wit and literary criticism, Milne infuses each essay with his unique blend of humor and social commentary....

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of emotions of a poet's heart. Gitanjali is the essence of innermost thoughts of Rabindranath Tagore and it is such a delight to flip through the pages, walking barefoot in history and feeling the warm grains of sand slip...

The rubric, 'Bohemian Bolsheviks, ' captures Alan Wald's sustained fascination with persistent contradictions between the image of Left political commitment and the actuality of experience, especially in relation to cultural work and cultural workers. Marxist political alignment engages a welter of intimate and biographical...

In recent decades, the relation between Egyptian and Greek praises of the goddess Isis has received much scholarly attention. The present study, however, focuses on six Demotic hymns and praises directed to this goddess: P. Heidelberg dem. 736 verso, O. Hor 10, Theban Graffiti...

"Invention ... does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos"--Mary Shelley In the two hundred years since its first publication, the story of Frankenstein's creation during stormy days and nights at Byron's Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva has become literary...

"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship The Works of J.W. von Goethe,...

"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Wilhelm Meister's ApprenticeshipThe Works of J.W. von Goethe, Vol....

This book examines the treatment of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his work in twentieth and twenty-first century fiction, drama, music, and film, specifically since 1950. The author uses these genres to examine how text, music, performance, and visual images work as a system of...

Faced with intolerable congestion and noxious pollution, cities around the world are rethinking their reliance on automobiles. In the United States a loosely organized livability movement seeks to reduce car use by reconfiguring urban space into denser, transit-oriented, walkable forms, a development pattern also...