Literary Criticism - General

Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both...

The author opted not to provide the About the Book information.Author: Father Erno DiazISBN-10: 1669863565ISBN-13: 9781669863564Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/25/2023Pages: 164Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

A further new title in this series on East African oral literature, considering East African-Indian genres of oral literature and cultures, which developed as people from India/Asia migrated to East Africa. The authors discuss how these literatures have been a source of creativity and...

"Simply Austen is simply a must for anyone just starting off their Janeite journey or for those wanting a quick refresher course. Jam-packed with biographical facts and contexts, this smart pocket tutorial offers a fast-paced and accessible distillation of what scholars and biographers have...

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,...

Continuing his project of critical analysis of the scriptural formation of culture, Vincent L. Wimbush has gathered in this book essays by scholars of various backgrounds and orientations who focus in different registers on the theme of masquerade as the "play-element" in modern culture....

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the writers of the Beat Generation revolutionized American literature with their iconoclastic approach to language and their angry assault on the conformity and conservatism of postwar society. They and their followers took aim at the hypocrisy and...

China in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century African Literature unpacks the long-standing complexity of exchanges between Africans and Chinese as far back as the Cold War and beyond. This scope encompasses how China, which emerged as a main engine of the world economy by the...

First published in 1983, Dean Swift is the concluding book in a series of three volumes providing a detailed exploration of the events of Swift's life. The third volume follows Swift's life and career from 1714 to 1745 and sets it against the public...

Could a bug from a space shuttle really turn America into a third world country? It could, and, in this eco -thriller, journalist Graham Mole tells how. Nematodes that escaped from the crashed shuttle are killing trees and the world is facing a rude...

Theodore Dalrymple finds deep satisfaction in books, and in this work he captures the thoughts occasioned by his recent reading. Inspired by a great and varied group of writers and touching on subjects of eternal interest, Dalrymple's observations here are carefully considered and beautifully...

This project began as a writing experiment for Jef Harris Poems' Facebook page in October 2015. Jef Harris sought to create micro poems, with as few words as possible, that substantiated realities in his life circumstances. Seven words were the lowest applicable number chosen...

Winner of the 2016 Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award and the 2016 Lillian Smith Book Award Americans tend to imagine their public libraries as time-honored advocates of equitable access to information for all. Through much of the twentieth century, however, many black Americans were...

This book brings together a diverse range of contemporary scholarship around both Anthony Burgess's novel (1962) and Stanley Kubrick's film, A Clockwork Orange (US 1971; UK 1972). This is the first book to deal with both together offering a range of groundbreaking perspectives that...

This book makes the case for Bertolt Brecht's continued importance at a time when events of the 21st century cry out for a studied means of producing theatre for social change. Here is a unique step-by-step process for realizing Brecht's ways of working onstage...

This book is an insight of me, my thoughts, my love, my life, my relationships it's all about me. Experiences and obstacles I had to overcome, if I didn't find this talent and a way to channel my emotions I don't know where I'd...

R.E. Allen's superb new translations of four Socratic dialogues--Ion, Hippias Minor, Laches, and Protagoras--bring these classic texts to life for modern readers. Allen introduces and comments on the dialogues in an accessible way, inviting the reader to reexamine the issues continually raised in Plato's...

Although they are among the most important sources of the history of the American Southwest, the lives of ordinary immigrants from Mexico have rarely been recorded. Educated and hardworking, Luis G. Gez came to Texas from Mexico as a young man in the mid-1880s....

Operating in every state in the union for eight turbulent years, the New Deal's Federal Writers' Project provided needed jobs for more than 10,000 writers and would-be writers (among them Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright) and produced some 1,200 published books and...

A Stanford University Press classic.Author: Cliff EisenISBN-10: 0804719551ISBN-13: 9780804719551Publisher: Stanford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/1991Pages: 212Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.80d

'Voices From the Wreckage: Young Adult Voices in the #MeToo Movement' is an edited collection by Kimberly Greenfield Karshner (Lorain County Community College). This collection focuses on situating young adult voices in the #MeToo movement, and into American culture and identity. Children's and young...

The author has written a book combining elements of sociology, religion, philosophy, and mathematics, in a demonstration of how the sub-disciplines are connected through the lexicon of language. His purpose has been to present in everyday terms an exposition for understanding specific aspects of...

Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellISBN-10: 1731701659ISBN-13: 9781731701657Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/30/2018Pages: 336Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.46lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d

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,...

Author: J. L. StyanISBN-10: 1258202077ISBN-13: 9781258202071Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2011Pages: 314Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.66d

This book examines the history of translation under European communism, bringing together studies on the Soviet Union, including Russia and Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Poland. In any totalitarian regime maintaining control over cultural exchange is strategically important, so studying these...

This book provides an analysis of the symbolist poetry of Edith Covensky and literary criticism by Yair Mazor, who has written 30 scholarly books and more than 250 articles on literary analysis. Author: Yair MazorISBN-10: 1595989358ISBN-13: 9781595989352Publisher: Henschelhaus Publishing, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 12/10/2022Pages: 142Format: PaperbackWeight:...

This book explores poems, novels, legends, operas and other genres of writing from the Ming Dynasty. It is composed of two parts: the literary history; and comprehensive reference materials based on the compilation of several chronologies. By studying individual literary works, the book analyzes...

Academic style and its standards are often unclear to students and scholars. This book aims to unpack the concept of academic style proofreading using methodologies including terminology, corpus stylistics and error analysis, presenting common errors and possible proofreading solutions. For research, professional and educational...

Haar zeichnet sich durch seine widerspenstige Materialit舩 aus, die konventionelle Dichotomien von Passivit舩 und Aktivit舩 aufhebt. Kopf- und Kperbehaarung figurieren als diskursiv ?erladener Ort poetologischer Reflexion, narrativer Komposition und literarischer Experimente. Sie bilden eine Schnittstelle zwischen Kper舖thetik, Plot und narrativer Synthese durch s舫berlich 'frisierte'...

Prepare to meet the man of the hour, King Charles III, who is set to ascend the throne after the passing of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. The introductory section of this book delves into both the historical significance of the United Kingdom and...

In Women's Cinema, World Cinema, Patricia White explores the dynamic intersection of feminism and film in the twenty-first century by highlighting the work of a new generation of women directors from around the world: Samira and Hana Makhmalbaf, Nadine Labaki, Zero Chou, Jasmila Zbanic,...

As we come to the beginning of a new century, we find that the entire vista of modern poetry has dramatically changed. Poems for the Millennium captures the essence of that change, and unlike any anthology available today it reveals the revolutionary concepts at...

The Internet has fundamentally altered our perceptions of narrative and its core components, including authorship, setting, characterization, reader reception and more. With new trends, tropes and conventions emerging at the speed of cyberspace, digital media like web comics, video games and fan fiction have...

It is important for women to know why the attacks come at their heart, the very seat of their emotions and feelings. God made a woman from the rib over the heart of man. The rib was designed to protect the heart. I believe...

Sonora Pass, located north of the famous Tioga Pass that leads to Yosemite, is not well known. Extremely steep, and carved into granite, like much of the Sierra, the pass is a hidden jewel. A community unto itself, Sonora Pass has a rich history,...

Mary Douglas is an outstanding example of an evaluative thinker at work. In Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo, she delves in great detail into existing arguments that portray traditional societies as "evolving" from "savage" beliefs in magic, to...

Author: Edmund WhiteISBN-10: 1564780996ISBN-13: 9781564780997Publisher: Dalkey Archive PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/1996Pages: 250Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 8.94h x 5.95w x 0.54d

Author: Rachel HillISBN-10: 1479733350ISBN-13: 9781479733354Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/04/2017Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.12d

1. Introduction2. Conservatism and Social Criticism: Pascal on Faith, Reason, and Politics3. Giambattista Vico and Democratic Pluralism: Lessons for Deliberative Democracy4. A Modest Spinozist: George Eliot and the Limits of Rationalism5. Projections Upon the Void: Irving Babbitt's Critique of Naturalism6. Carl Schmitt's Exceptional Critique...

Featured here is a modern translation of a medieval herbal, with a study showing how this technical treatise on herbs was turned into a literary curiosity in the nineteenth century. The contours of this second edition replicate the first; however, it has been revised...

What can psychoanalysis contribute to the interpretation and understanding of cultural products, in particular, literary works? What, on the other hand, can novels and plays offer to widen the conceptual and theoretical perspectives in psychology and psychoanalysis? The interpretative strategies offered by psychoanalysis, often...

This book studies the relationship of popular culture to older formations of political economic thought, which have made their way into a range of fictions as a fabulous, though feasible, source of resistance to the hegemony of neoclassical economics. Author: Thomas StrychaczISBN-10: 1793633967ISBN-13: 9781793633965Publisher:...

This edited volume rethinks Masculinity Studies by breaking away from the notion of the perpetual crisis of masculinity. It argues that not enough has been done to distinguish patriarchy from masculinity and proposes to detox masculinity by offering a collection of positive representations 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 volume historicizes the study of life-writing and egodocuments, focusing on early modern European reflections on the self, self-fashioning, and identity. Life-writing and the study of egodocuments currently tend to be viewed as separate fields, yet the individual as a purposive social actor provides...

First published in 1967, Dr Swift is the second of three volumes providing a detailed exploration of the events of Swift's life. This volume begins by assessing Swift's character, hopes and ambitions in 1699. It then traces his life and career up to 1714...

This work is a general anthology of essayed columns written throughout 2022. One reoccurring theme featured in this work is centered on nuclear disarmament & world federation. Inquiries raised in this area include: how can the supranational integration of the continents lead to greater...