Literary Criticism - General

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of G ttingen (Philosophische Fakult t), course: Theorizing Film Remakes, language: English, abstract: Roald Dahl's 1964 novel "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" has been voted the most popular...

Twentieth-century narratology fostered the assumption, which distinguishes narratology from previous narrative theories, that all narratives have a narrator. Since the first formulations of this assumption, however, voices have come forward to denounce oversimplifications and dangerous confusions of issues. Optional-Narrator Theory is the first collection...

Typically we think of power as economic, political, or military, but fictional narratives attached to kings, empires, religious founders, and societies have been used to create and enhance power and authority since the beginning of civilization. Invented History, Fabricated Power presents evidence from cultures...

First published in 1837, Carlyle initially was asked to write this account by his overworked friend John Stuart Mill. Taking the commission to heart, Carlyle proceeded to write a historical masterpiece, combining a scrupulous consideration for facts with a unique style of writing. Rather...

The B-minor Mass has always represented a fascinating challenge to musical scholarship. Composed over the course of the composer's life, it is considered by many to be Johann Sebastian Bach's greatest and most complex work. The fourteen essays assembled in this volume originate from...

In The Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames, a view of two people enjoying a picnic zooms up and away to show their surroundings, moving progressively farther into space, then zooms back in for a close-up of the hand of the picnicker,...

In a cultural landscape dominated by hot takes and petty polemics, The Point stands for something different. Informed by the conviction that humanistic thinking has relevance for everyday life, the magazine has long maintained a rare space for thoughtful dialogue between a wide range...

On the tangled web of occult mystical alchemy and high tech Transhumanist chemistry.For many a reason, the Golem, as a concept, has been fascinating in part because it combines occult mystical magick, high tech (in a manner of speaking), weaponization of what was originally...

Focusing on key members of the Pisan Circle, Byron, the Shelleys, and Leigh Hunt, Maria Schoina explores configurations of identity and the acculturating practices of British expatriates in post-Napoleonic Italy. The problems involved in British Romanticism's relations to its European 'others' are her point...

Contains letters from Francis Jeffrey (1773-1850) to Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) and Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801-1866). The letters in this title present a personal and intellectual narrative of nineteenth-century Britain.Author: William ChristieISBN-10: 0367876175ISBN-13: 9780367876173Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/12/2019Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.20d

When Jane Austen represented the ideal subject for a novel as "three or four families in a country village", rather than encouraging a narrow range of reference she may have meant that a tight focus was the best way of understanding the wider world....

The importance of personal storytelling in contemporary culture and politics In an age where our experiences are processed and filtered through a wide variety of mediums, both digital and physical, how do we tell our own story? How do we "get a life," make...

Published in 1988: The Story of Meriadoc, King of Cambria is about a prince of the kingdom of Cambria (pre-Saxon Wales) who after surviving an attempted assassination by his uncle, fights as a young Knight in the cause of royal justice.Author: Mildred Leake DayISBN-10:...

First published in 1894, this book consists of essays by professors Jowett and Campbell about the classic Greek philosopher Plato, and his famous and widely read dialogue The Republic, which is considered one the world's most influential works. Plato is believed to be the...

Published in 1994: The period surveyed in this anthology extends from the eve of Christianity's triumph, in the third century, to the new age of expansion in the fifteenth century, an age marked by the advent of printing pressed, the European discovery of the...

Originally published in 1986, this translated version of Giovanni Boccaccio's Il Filostrato is of particular interest as the principal source for Chaucer's great work, the Troilus. This edition includes the original Italian alongside the translation, so that even the English reader with no knowledge...

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...

Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Didactics - English - History of Literature, Eras, language: English, abstract: This term paper investigates Blakean elements in William S.Burrough's work "Naked Lunch" and Blake's influence on the 1950s Beat Movement in the USA. One of...

Every artist has a dream project an enterprise that he or she has continuously taken up but never completed. Via archived notes and drafts, a retrospective reconstitution of such projects can serve as a key for better understanding the authors artistic corpus. The present...

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica By H. G. Evelyn-White Greek oral poet, often identified as the first economist. The Homeric Hymns are a collection of thirty-three ancient Greek hymns celebrating individual gods. The hymns are "Homeric" in the sense that they employ the same...

Forgetfulness is a book about modern culture and its profound rejection of the past. It traces the emergence in recent history of the idea that what is important in human life and work is what will happen in the future. Francis O'Gorman asks what...

An inspirational classic, in which a self-made billionaire reveals his secrets to success in business and life. CONTENTS CAN THERE REALLY BE A SYSTEM FOR SUCCESS? Part I THE SEARCH BEGINS Chapter 1: A YOUNG BOY BEGINS THE SEARCH Chapter 2: GET READY FOR...

An inspirational classic, in which a self-made billionaire reveals his secrets to success in business and life. CONTENTS CAN THERE REALLY BE A SYSTEM FOR SUCCESS? Part I THE SEARCH BEGINS Chapter 1: A YOUNG BOY BEGINS THE SEARCH Chapter 2: GET READY FOR...

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. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks...

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. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks...

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. We havent used any OCR or photocopy to produce this book. The whole book has been typeset...

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. We havent used any OCR or photocopy to produce this book. The whole book has been typeset...

Guru, an end-stage cancer patient, comes to a quiet medical campus and quickly befriends his hosts friends and neighbours, his warmth and sympathetic manner encouraging them to confide in him. Out of these conversations emerges a name Prabhakar Tambe which spreads a pall of...

Aus dem Buch: "Aber soll nicht etwa die poetische Gerechtigkeit etwas ganz anderes sein als die sonstige Gerechtigkeit? Gewi , h ren wir sagen, ist sie etwas anderes. Was sie auszeichnet, ist, da sie nicht blo e u ere Gerechtigkeit ist, sich nicht lediglich...

Essays that forge a path to a truly radical "bad" modernism in art and literature.What, exactly, constitutes the "bad"? Can one consciously produce in the name of "badness," or is badness a value judgment that comes after the fact, from an Other? How does...

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a...

The poets and poetry of Munster - a selection of Irish songs by the poets of the last century. Third Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1860. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as...

Compendium of Irish Grammar is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1882. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we...

Protestant fiction - Second Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we...

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,2, University of Stuttgart, language: English, abstract: As almost in all of William Faulkner's novels in "Light in August" the past determines the present like nothing else...

Pre-University Paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, language: English, abstract: Arthur Miller, one of the most important sociocritical dramatists of the 20th century, treats in his famous play The Crucible the witch hunts...

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Tubingen, language: English, abstract: "K nig Artus lebt " As the title of Stefan Zimmer's book illustrates, the fame of the English myth around...

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Frankfurt (Main), language: English, abstract: The supernatural has always had a strong appeal with human mankind. In the folklore of nearly every society, tales...

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of W rzburg, language: English, abstract: The Road, Cormac McCarthy's tenth and Pulitzer Prize winning novel, tells the story of an unnamed man and his...

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,7, University of Heidelberg, language: English, abstract: This essay is intended to compare both novels regarding their attempt to criticize patriarchy and conducts of the time...

This book applies linguistic analysis to the poetry of Emeritus Professor Edwin Thumboo, a Singaporean poet and leading figure in Commonwealth literature. The work explores how the poet combines grammar and metaphor to make meaning, making the reader aware of the linguistic resources developed...

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Institut f r Fremdsprachliche Philologien), course: Imagining the Nation: From the British Empire to Multicultural Britain, language: English, abstract: One...

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 2,7, http: //www.uni-jena.de/ (Anglistisch/Amerikanistisches Institut), course: Hauptseminar: King Arthur, language: English, abstract: David Lodge was born 1935 in South London as the child of a Jewish...

Master's Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: A, Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University, language: English, abstract: The purpose of the present work is to investigate the neologisms in the lexical system of the...

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,7, RWTH Aachen University (Institut f? Anglistik), course: Utopian and Dystopian Novels, SS 2008, language: English, abstract: Margaret Atwood needs no longer an introduction in the common...

Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,8, University of Hannover, language: English, abstract: The Victorian period (1835-1903) describes an important time span in English history in social, political and cultural matters. Terms like...

The Smartphone Paradox is a critical examination of our everyday mobile technologies and the effects that they have on our thoughts and behaviors. Alan J. Reid presents a comprehensive view of smartphones: the research behind the uses and gratifications of smartphones, the obstacles they...

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...

The volume "Visualizing Law and Authority. Essays on Legal Aesthetics" brings together revised papers from the international conference "Law and the Image", held in Stockholm, 24-25 September, 2010. The participants/contributors belong to the disciplines of Art history, Cultural studies, Literary and Media studies, and...

The two volumes of Reviewing Dante's Theology bring together work by a range of internationally prominent Dante scholars to assess current research on Dante's theology and to suggest future directions for research. Volume 1 considers some of the key theological influences on Dante.Author: Claire...