Literary Criticism - General

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Duty and Hypocrisy in Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Mind' combines a general discussion of Hegelian themes with the first loose commentary, explication, and testing of Hegel's discussion of morality in the Phenomenology of Mind. In this work Hegel analyses a life ordered around the idea...

This Skeleton Key Study Guide to Joseph Campbell's Pathways to Bliss offers you a chance to read Campbell alongside a Campbell expert, focusing on the psychological aspects of material selected from Campbell's lectures, interviews, and seminars. You'll find chapter summaries, notable quotes, reading suggestions,...

So the role of true leadership is to educate the people on the workings of society and their responsibility in it. There are always those who seek to rule over the masses either overtly or subliminally. We know this because God has placed within...

"A brilliant . . . analysis of the fragile hegemony and identities of colonial Virginia's elite men. . . . On the Sources of Patriarchal Rage compellingly illuminates the ragged edge where masculinity and colonial identity meet. . . . [the book] will undoubtedly...

Drawing on a wide range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English, French, American, and Russian novels, Marianna Torgovnick demonstrates the variety and complexity of the process by which a work reaches an appropriate conclusion. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest...

This text examines comics, graphic novels, and manga with a broad, international scope that reveals their conceptual origins in antiquity. Graphic narrative art is a fascinating phenomenon that emerged centuries ago with the expansion of literacy and the publication industry. The earliest example of...

Examination Thesis from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2.3, University of Wuppertal, language: English, abstract: Brian Friel is considered one of the most successful contemporary Irish dramatists. His works have achieved international reputation and are...

In this interdisciplinary study Henry Schogt explores the relations between linguistics, literary analysis, and literary translation. He offers an analysis of both theory and practice of literary translation and literary analysis in the light of contemporary linguistic theories. Various aspects of language are examined:...

This book provides a detailed overview of the approach by two of the leading philosophical theorists of myth.Author: William SchultzISBN-10: 1138969923ISBN-13: 9781138969926Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/20/2016Pages: 379Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.83d

Originally published in 1960. Is there an art of autobiography? What are its origins and how has it come to acquire the form we know today? For what does the autobiographer seek, and why should it be so popular? This study suggests some of...

Modernist movements radically transformed the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary establishment, and their effects are still felt today. Modernism introduces and analyzes what amounted to nothing less than a literary and cultural revolution. In this fully updated, expanded, and revised third edition, charting...

Climate change is an enormous and increasingly urgent issue. This important book highlights how humanities disciplines can mobilize the creative and critical power of students, teachers, and communities to confront climate change. The book is divided into four clear sections to help readers integrate...

Climate change is an enormous and increasingly urgent issue. This important book highlights how humanities disciplines can mobilize the creative and critical power of students, teachers, and communities to confront climate change. The book is divided into four clear sections to help readers integrate...

The Routledge AutoBiography Studies Reader collects together key theoretical essays in the field, creating a solid base for any critical study of autobiography, biography, or life writing. Beginning with a foreword by Sidonie Smith and a general introduction to the collection, the book is...

An anthology of poets responding to Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons in creative form, with room for the reader to join in. Each using a section of Stein's Tender Buttons as inspiration, a far-flung community of poets responds with experiments, interpretations, and imaginative imitations of...

A puzzle just for book lovers! You know you're a book nerd because you never once thought the movie was better. Your favorite mug says "I'd rather be reading." You have a minimum of five books on your nightstand, and your favorite activity is...

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Bamberg, course: Proseminar Samuel Beckett, language: English, abstract: Clowns and mimes have been accompanying theatrical work since the ancient world and they have not...

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, LMU Munich (Department f? Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Oscar Wilde, language: English, abstract: Introduction A poet is sitting in his room beside a Sphinx. Within the...

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Bayreuth, language: English, abstract: "There would be a day - there must be a day - when he would come back to Gramarye with...

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2, University of Kassel (Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaften), course: The Power of Reading Books, language: English, abstract: Reading as an intellectual competence opens the way to explore culture and...

This book is a translation of the History of Adyghe Literature, which was published in three volumes (1999, 2002, and 2006, respectively) by the Institute of Humanitarian Studies of the Republic of Adygea by the decision of its scientific council. It covers the history...

Contesting the idea that the study of Anglophone literature and literary studies is simply a foreign import in Asia, this collection addresses the genealogies of textual critique and institutionalized forms of teaching of English language and literature in Asia through the 19th and 20th...

Wisdom From the Edge describes what anthropologists can do to contribute to the social and cultural changes that shape a social future of wellbeing and viability. Paul Stoller shows how anthropologists can develop sensuously described ethnographic narratives to communicate powerfully their insights to a...

Wisdom From the Edge describes what anthropologists can do to contribute to the social and cultural changes that shape a social future of wellbeing and viability. Paul Stoller shows how anthropologists can develop sensuously described ethnographic narratives to communicate powerfully their insights to a...

A unique, illustrated introduction to astrology that explores the zodiac through a literary lens, drawing lessons from celebrated authors including Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, W.E.B. Du Bois, Nella Larsen, Oscar Wilde, and dozens more. AstroLit is a cosmic voyage through the lives and works...

This book is a collection of thematically related yet distinct research papers written over a period of twenty-two years. The book uses cross-stitches of "alienation-effect" of Brecht, themes of "emotional unconscious" in Shakespeare's finest tragedies, and the semiotic barriers of silence and broken language...

This study builds upon the radical reinterpretations of Christina Rossetti that have emerged in the last two decades. Using contemporary critical and feminist theory Kathryn Burlinson shows how Rossetti was a persistent critic of her culture and how she struggled throughout her life and...

Egyptian Literature; Comprising Egyptian Tales, Hymns, Litanies, Invocations, The Book Of The Dead, And Cuneiform Writings, 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...

This book explores current trends in the interdisciplinary study of literature and theology - an area of academic activity that has developed dramatically in the past twenty years. The field of study originated from the impetus to embrace the richness of imaginative resources in...

The playhouse at Newington Butts has long remained on the fringes of histories of Shakespeare's career and of the golden age of the theatre with which his name is associated. A mile outside London, and relatively disused by the time Shakespeare began his career...

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1, University of Vienna, language: English, abstract: The New York Times described Roth's novel Call it Sleep as "One of the few genuinely distinguished novels written by...

What is the human body? Both the most familiar and unfamiliar of things, the body is the centre of experience but also the site of a prehistory anterior to any experience. Alien and uncanny, this other side of the body has all too often...

Upton Sinclair won a Pulitzer Prize for his notorious 1906 novel *The Jungle, * a fictionalized account of the barbaric conditions of the men and women who worked in Chicago's meatpacking industry. And just as the horrific circumstances he exposed in that book more...

Now available in paperback, The intellectual culture of the English country house is a ground-breaking collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars, which uncovers the vibrant intellectual life of early modern provincial England. The essays explore architectural planning; libraries and book collecting; landscape...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: George RylandsISBN-10: 1406769606ISBN-13: 9781406769609Publisher: Smyth...

The Routledge Introduction to Gender and Sexuality in Literature in Canada charts the evolution of gender and sexuality, as they have been represented and performed in the literatures of Canada for more than three centuries. From early colonial texts by Frances Brooke, to settler...

The Life and Works of Korean Poet Kim Myŏng-sun offers an introduction to Korea's first modern woman writer to publish a collection of creative works, Kim Myŏng-sun (1896-ca. 1954). Despite attempts by male contemporaries to assassinate her character, Kim was an outspoken writer and...

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This Book "Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 " 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...

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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,...

An Introduction to the Blue Humanities is the first textbook to explore the many ways humans engage with water, utilizing literary, cultural, historical, and theoretical connections and ecologies to introduce students to the history and theory of water-centric thinking. Comprised of multinational texts and...

The Discerning Mollusk's Guide to Arts and Ideas. Contributions by Shahd Alshammari, Polly Atkin, Greg Bem, Jesi Bender, P.J. Blumenthal, Lynn Buckle, Jesi Buell, Marvin Cohen, Michael Collins, Mark DuCharme, William Erickson, Tom La Farge, Lauren Foley, Jack Foley, Cal Freeman, Jason Graff, John...

The Immortal Hour is a two-act drama written by Fiona Macleod and first published in 1908. The play is set in a mythical world of fairies and mortals, where the two worlds intersect and collide. The story revolves around the love triangle between the...

Launched in 1945, Commentary magazine became one of America's most celebrated periodicals. Under the editorship of Elliot E. Cohen, it developed into the premier postwar journal of Jewish affairs attracting a readership far wider than its Jewish community origin. This book is the first...

For three decades, no American filmmaker has been as prolific-or as paradoxical-as Woody Allen. From Play It Again, Sam (1972) through Celebrity (1998) and Sweet and Lowdown (1999), Allen has produced an average of one film a year, yet in many of these films...