Literary Criticism - General

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Cologne (Englisches Seminar), course: The London Stage, language: English, abstract: A main objective of The Simpsons series seems to be to take every day...

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject German Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 1.3, University of Flensburg, language: English, abstract: Throughout the history both the Eastern and the Western parts of the world had a certain image of each other as of...

Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 5.0, language: English, abstract: Peter Ackroyd was born in London in 1949 and educated at St. Benedict's School, Ealing. He graduated from Clare College, Cambridge and then...

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, grade: 100, language: English, abstract: The Last Song is written by #1 New York Times Bestselling author Nicholas Sparks and released on [1]September 8, 2009 by Grand Central Publishing ....

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,0, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, language: English, abstract: In 2009, the debut book "Say You're One of Them" by the Nigerian author Uwem Akpan...

Literature Review from the year 2007 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1, University of Innsbruck, language: English, abstract: In this paper I will look at the film Twelve Angry Men (1957) by Sidney Lumet. In short the film is about a...

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,7, University of Hannover (Philosophisch Fakultaet), language: English, abstract: Men find themselves searching for their position in a world in which gender conceptions are drastically changed...

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Paderborn (Institut f r Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Hauptseminar: The Bachelor in British and American Literature and Culture, language: English, abstract: 'But love is an emotional...

Scientific Study from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: none, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (Department of English), course: English Literature, ENG-423, language: English, abstract: This paper explores Camus' Meursault's brusque mannerisms that lead to...

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2006 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, grade: NONE, course: M.Phil in English, language: English, abstract: ABSTRACT REPRESENTATION OF FOOD: A STUDY OF MARGARET ATWOOD'S THE EDIBLE WOMAN AND ANITA DESAI'S FASTING, FEASTING The...

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Paderborn (Institut f r Kulturwissenschaften), language: English, abstract: Who am I? What makes me me? These are questions of daily importance to every individual...

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Hamburg (Insitut f? Anglistik), course: "Alternate Worlds" Utopian and Counterfictional English Fiction from the late 19th Century to the 1990's, language: English, abstract: 1....

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Kassel (Fachbereich f r Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften), course: Schakespeare, language: English, abstract: Female characters play an important role for the dramatic run of events...

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Augsburg (Lehrstuhl f r Englische Sprachwissenschaft), language: English, abstract: Every day new things happen. With modern technology, news can be distributed all over the...

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Trier, course: The American Films of Alfred Hitchcock, language: English, abstract: In 1946 the director and "Master of Suspense" Alfred Hitchcock published a film...

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,0, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Anglistik/ Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: Table of contents 1 Why do we have to teach literature? 1.1 Tasks of literature: Cultural...

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1, University of Gtingen (Englisches Seminar), course: Gender and Intertextuality in Contemporary Retellings of Fairy Tales, language: English, abstract: The British female author A.S Byatt has always...

The 200-year-old war epic Dewrese Evdi (Dewresh, son of Evdi) is a highlight of the singing tradition of the Berazi Kurds, a tale of intertribal conflict and tragic love. This bilingual edition is based on a 1987 performance by the famous singer Baqi Xido...

Introduction.- Chapter 1: Capitalism as Religion.- Chapter 2: Organizing Pessimism.- Chapter 3: Nietzsche: Work's editions and interpretations.- Chapter 4: The Cry of Marsyas. History as place of permanent catastrophe.- Chapter 5: Hidden Refusal.- Chapter 6: The Dream Space.- Chapter 7: Baudelaire.- Chapter 8: The...

Author: Miloslav RechciglISBN-10: 3111243176ISBN-13: 9783111243177Publisher: Walter de GruyterLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1968Pages: 878Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.50lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 1.81d

Although fictional characters have long dominated the reception of literature, films, television programs, comics, and other media products, only recently have they begun to attract their due attention in literary and media theory. The book systematically surveys today s diverse and at times conflicting...

Modernist and contemporary literature are marked by a preoccupation with time, specifically with the passage of time characterized by starts and stops and suspended states of waiting. Acclaimed novelist Tom McCarthy brings out a temporal pattern, a subliminal convention of a certain fringe of...

This book examines how science fiction's portrayal of humanity's desire for robotic companions influences and reflects changes in our actual desires. It begins by taking the reader on a journey that outlines basic human desires--in short, we are storytellers, and we need the objects...

Author: Artur SkweresISBN-10: 3030041034ISBN-13: 9783030041038Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/30/2019Pages: 110Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.38d

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralised by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the...

An Essay on Criticism was the first major poem written by the English writer Alexander Pope (1688-1744). However, despite the title, the poem is not as much an original analysis as it is a compilation of Pope's various literary opinions. A reading of the...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced...

It was in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty-four, that I, Gill Davis to command, His Mark, having then the honour to be a private in the Royal Marines, stood a-leaning over the bulwarks of the armed sloop Christopher...

Aestheticism and the Femme Fatale charts the development of a figure that came to dominate the nineteenth century aesthetic imagination: that of the cruel and beautiful woman, the femme fatale. This study documents the rise of a "masochist aesthetic," one that enabled several generations...

The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation is a nonfiction book, first published in 1917, by the American novelist and muck-raking journalist Upton Sinclair. It is a snapshot of the religious movements in the U.S. before its entry into World War I....

As we fare forward-and the driving force of time will push us forward whether we like it or not-literature can light our paths. Reading literature will not automatically bring wisdom. But it promises to reinforce and expand what wisdom we have by illuminating our...

Literary Nonfiction. Music. Memoir. Essays. Not all ghosts exact revenge or induce terror. Some emerge from a miasma of grief; sad themselves, they spread sorrow. Or perhaps those left behind--daughters and sons--create the ghost of a father, trying to find what's surely been lost....

Creator of the YouTube channel and persona--Vernaculis--Justin Little has brought his acerbic wit and engaging storytelling to print. His collection of journalism, literary and cultural criticism, and opinion pieces show why he has emerged as an original new voice of New Journalism for the...

The story begins with the childhood and exceptional and accomplished youth of Prince Stepan Kasatsky. The young man is destined for great things. He discovers on the eve of his wedding that his fianc e Countess Mary Korotkova has had an affair with his...

Preface Most of the lyrics of love and life, the translations of which from Bengali are published in this book, were written much earlier than the series of religious poems contained in the book named Gitanjali. The translations are not always literal-the originals being...

It is usually supposed to be necessary to go far into the country to find wild birds and animals in sufficient numbers to be pleasantly studied. Such was certainly my own impression till circumstances led me, for the convenience of access to London, to...

No man since Washington has become to Americans so familiar or so beloved a figure as Abraham Lincoln. He is to them the representative and typical American, the man who best embodies the political ideals of the nation. He is typical in the fact...

The book was produced at the moment when controversy with regard to the internal evidence of composition in the writings attributed to Shakespeare was raging high, and the amusing appendices were added at the last moment that they might infuriate the pedants of the...

"English Literature For Boys And Girls" from Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall. British author, particularly well known for her works of popular national history for children (1867-1941).Author: The Perfect Library, Henrietta Elizabeth MarshallISBN-10: 1515021750ISBN-13: 9781515021759Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/10/2015Pages: 552Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.61lbsSize: 9.02h x...

Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning is a classic poetry collection by the great English poet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. I plant a tree whose leaf The yew-tree leaf will suit: But when its shade is o'er you laid, Turn round and pluck the fruit....

Hecate is the Greek goddess of sorcery, and Edmund Wilson's Hecate County is the bewitched center of the American Dream, a sleepy bedroom community where drinks flow endlessly and sexual fantasies fill the air. Memoirs of Hecate County, Wilson's favorite among his many books,...

Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)Author: Gerald O. WestISBN-10: 1589832736ISBN-13: 9781589832732Publisher: Society of Biblical LiteratureLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/15/2007Pages: 180Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41dReview Citation(s): Christian Century 10/21/2008 pg. 26

The human presence that animates the personal essay is surely one of the most beguiling of literary phenomena, for it comes across in so familiar a voice that it's easy to believe we are listening to the author rather than a textual stand-in. But...

A definitive look at the life and work of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, by a leading scholar of the fantasy and horror field.Author: Darrell SchweitzerISBN-10: 1587154714ISBN-13: 9781587154713Publisher: Borgo PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2001Pages: 172Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.06w x 0.45d

Author: Darrell SchweitzerISBN-10: 1587150026ISBN-13: 9781587150029Publisher: Borgo PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1992Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 8.38h x 5.48w x 0.56d

In this first comprehensive examination of the music of the most prolific Bach son, David Schulenberg offers new perspectives on the career, style, and originality of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Of Bach's four sons who became composers, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-88) was the...

Crosses conventional theoretical, temporal, and geographical boundaries to show how the Ndau of southeast Africa actively shaped their own identity over a four-hundred-year period. With this first comprehensive history of the Ndau of eastern Zimbabwe and central Mozambique, Elizabeth MacGonagle moves beyond national borders...

There is a generally accepted notion in biblical scholarship that the Bible as we know it today is the product of editing from its earliest stages of composition through to its final, definitive and "canonical" textual form. So persistent has been this idea since...

An aesthetic perspective on the short fiction of Chekhov, Joyce, Hemingway, O'Connor, and CarverTaking a distinctively aesthetic approach to the genre of realist short fiction, Kerry McSweeney clusters the work of five masters--Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, and Raymond Carver--to offer...

These first two volumes of a projected five, in preparation for several years, begin a major publishing venture, collecting the complete essays of one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time. The first two volumes span the...