Literary Criticism - General

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,...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

No Permanent Scars reads how creative nonfiction should read: Like fiction. Like nonfiction. Like memoir. Like humor. Like literature. Like life. It's about childhood, adulthood, the neighborhood and what it means to be a kid, a parent, a teacher, a human. Michael Hemery illuminates...

This work is not literature or criticism, but a Hebridean satellite of both, likely to transform the conventional understanding of neither. The author himself declares his intention to "produce a discourse which the reader finds it hard to classify. Is it fiction? Is it...

From the Popol Vuh to postmodernism, imagery of the natural world has played an important role in Latin American literature. In contrast to the rise of ecocritical scholarship in Anglophone literary studies, Latin American literary ecocriticism has been slower to take root. This volume...

Prior to his death in 1985, Cratis Williams was a leading scholar of and spokesperson for Appalachian life and literature and a pioneer of the Appalachian studies movement. Williams was born in a log cabin on Caines Creek, Lawrence County, Kentucky, in 1911. To...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

Summaries and discussions of the works of Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and Henry James.Author: Darrel AbelISBN-10: 0595744885ISBN-13: 9780595744886Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/15/2002Pages: 380Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.64lbsSize: 9.34h x 6.66w x 1.17d

First published in 1988, this book offers a critical examination of William Rowley's 1632 play, A New Wonder, A Woman Never Vexed, including chapters on structure and technique, themes, critical history and staging.Author: Trudi Laura DarbyISBN-10: 0367110032ISBN-13: 9780367110031Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/07/2020Pages: 234Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize:...

James Fitzjames Stephen (1829-1894) is remembered as a judge, legal historian, and the author of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, a reply to J. S. Mill's late works. He is less well remembered for his journalism, though it earned him a reputation among his contemporaries as...

All interpretive systems deal with the author. Modern systems consider the text to be autonomous, so that it is disconnected from the author's interests. In Reading the Bible Ethically, Eric Douglass reconsiders this connection. His central argument is that the author is a subject...

A special course adoption price is available for an order of six or more copies from a university bookstore. Contact sales-us@brill.com>sales-us@brill.com or sales-nl@brill.com.International and Foreign Legal Research: A Coursebook, by Marci Hoffman and Mary Rumsey, now in a second, revised edition, is designed for...

This important contribution to the study of early modern Chinese fiction and representation of gender relations focuses on literary representations of the prostitute produced in the Ming and Qing periods. Following her heavily symbolic body, the present work maps this fictional heroine's journey from...

This volume of the "Edinburgh Review; or, Critical Journal" offers a fascinating glimpse into early 19th-century British intellectual life. A compendium of essays and reviews, the journal covers a diverse range of topics, from literature and science to politics and history. This edition provides...

When a missing necklace brings a troubled client to Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes expects a trivial domestic theft. Instead, he and Dr. Watson uncover a thief lying dead with a fresh surgical scar behind his ear - the first in a series of unexplained...

A Season of Life is a collection of Haiku-inspired poems that trace the full arc of human experience - from the shattering weight of grief to the tentative light of recovery. Each verse is a small, precise window into the landscape of the heart.Written...

In September of 1986, Stephen King published IT, a sprawling 1,138 page novel that he later dubbed in an interview his "final exam on horror." IT follows the lives of seven friends who battle an ageless evil in their small hometown of Derry, Maine....

From the mind that brought you Triangle Black: A Novel and The Mermaid Killer!These are not answers.These are fragments.Thoughts caught mid-collapse.Ideas dragged from the edge.Sketches that shouldn't exist-but do.This book lives somewhere between philosophy and erosion, where the mind turns on itself and refuses...

As in all other books in this series, I have nothing to propound, except that there is infinite interest to be found in books. Theodore Dalrymple reads a lot and thinks about everything he reads. In Not for the Proud Man Apart, the latest...

What makes this novel irresistible is not the easy promise of answering who wrote Don Quixote, but the suspicion that the question itself was always wrongly framed.Perhaps we should not have asked only for a name, but for a necessity, for an age, for...

How did survival become a defining framework for understanding personal hardship in contemporary USA? Maren Emde traces the evolution of the survival memoir - a genre born during the 1990s memoir boom. Through an analysis of bestselling memoirs about dysfunctional childhoods, addiction, and divorce...

H.G. Wells was one of the leading literary figures and public intellectuals of the twentieth century. Famous today as a pioneering science fiction writer, Wells was also a prominent social and political thinker, journalist, historian, and political activist. His writings helped shape the intellectual...

'Captioned Landscapes' is the first comprehensive monograph on intermedial combinations between writing and natural environments. Writing is traditionally considered as a distinctive sign of the human; interrogating its interactions with the world beyond the human means questioning its presumed centrality and separateness. The multiple...

This study attempts to connect two of the most important legal themes: guilt and punishment, by examining them in general terms and through their reflection in world literature. In particular, it explores the works of three authors who excel in these issues: Miguel de...

This book is a literary-historical narrative of the Iranian people's struggle against the occupying Islamic Republic regime, centered on the noble figures of the Lion and Sun Revolution and the sacrifice of the immortal martyrs of the path to freedom. Tracing the journey from...

Or: An Autobiography explores fluidities of self, body, and imagination. Its central long poem, 'The Or Tree', is a speculative version of the fictitious poem 'The Oak Tree', by Virginia Woolf's Orlando. 'The Oak Tree' takes Orlando over 300 years to write, in which...