Literary Criticism - General

This volume presents a close-reading of instances of Shakespearean quotations, allusions, imagery, and rhetoric found in Karl Marx's collected works and letters which provides evidence that Shakespeare's writings exerted a formative influence on Marx and the development of his work.Author: Christian A. SmithISBN-10: 0367559307ISBN-13:...

Encompassing a broad definition of the topic, this Companion provides a survey of the literary magazine from its earliest days to the contemporary moment. It offers a comprehensive theorization of the literary magazine in the wake of developments in periodical studies in the last...

This handbook offers new ways to read the audiovisual. In the media landscapes of today, conglomerates jockey for primacy and the internet increasingly places media in the hands of individuals-producing the range of phenomena from movie blockbuster to YouTube aesthetics. Media forms and genres...

Step back in time with "The Strand Magazine, Volume VII, Issue 38, February, 1894," a meticulously reproduced edition of the celebrated illustrated monthly. This fascinating periodical offers a glimpse into the literary landscape of late 19th-century England. Dive into a diverse collection of short...

Step back in time with "The Strand Magazine, Vol. VII, Issue 39, March 1894," a captivating window into late 19th-century English literature. This meticulously reproduced issue of the celebrated "Illustrated Monthly" offers a diverse collection of short stories and articles, capturing the literary and...

Step back in time with "The Strand Magazine, Vol. 1 - No. 1, - January 1891," an authentic reproduction of the inaugural issue of this landmark periodical. This illustrated monthly offers a fascinating glimpse into the literary tastes of the late Victorian era. Dive...

Despite recent calls to explore the full potential of digital text, digital scholarly editing and publishing remain rooted in the cultural and structural logics of print. This volume provides a wide range of perspectives on the current state and future of the field in...

By the mid-nineteenth century, geologists and palaeontologists had reconstructed an authoritative narrative of Earth's deep history, from the planet's molten origins to the rise of humanity. Many figures in transatlantic science across subsequent decades, however, had problems with this narrative: it was too secular,...

The study and teaching of English literature is generally regarded as one of the central disciplines in the modern university, yet for much of its history it struggled to gain academic legitimacy and was frequently derided as 'a soft option'. Its early professors responded...

How is food portrayed in Arabic novels? Offering perspectives that reach beyond literature, this book provides a nuanced view of Arab culture and society, inviting readers to explore the multiple significations of food.Author: Tania Al SaadiISBN-10: 9004727361ISBN-13: 9789004727366Publisher: BrillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2025Pages: 208Format: Hardcover

Bringing together twenty-seven established and emerging scholars, The Routledge Companion to Queer Literary Studies discusses the historical development, current state, future directions, and political stakes of queer literary studies as a field of research and pedagogy.Author: Melissa E. SanchezISBN-10: 036744528XISBN-13: 9780367445287Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/28/2025Pages:...

Hildegarde Flanner was a prolific poet celebrated for her unique voice and frank exploration of life and love. This collection includes some of her most powerful and enduring works, and is a testament to her artistry and vision.This work has been selected by scholars...

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice is a comprehensive and multi-purpose collection on this important topic. With contributors working in various fields, the Companion provides in-depth analyses of both the cumulative and emergent issues, obstacles, praxes, propositions, and theories of social justice.Author:...

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,...

What did the ten commandments have to teach? Using the commentaries of a group of scholars from c. 1150-1350, such as Peter Lombard, Robert Grosseteste, and Bonaventure, along with confessors' manuals, mystery plays and sermon material, this book investigates the place of the Decalogue...

"Characters of Shakespeare's Plays" from William Hazlitt. English writer, remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism (1778-1830).Author: William HazlittISBN-10: 1515032582ISBN-13: 9781515032588Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/11/2015Pages: 246Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.52d

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...

French concert music and jazz often enjoyed a special creative exchange across the period 1900-65. French modernist composers were particularly receptive to early African-American jazz during the interwar years, and American jazz musicians, especially those concerned with modal jazz in the 1950s and early...

Author: Lawrence H. SchiffmanISBN-10: 0891305696ISBN-13: 9780891305699Publisher: Brown Judaic StudiesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1983Pages: 296Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d

Faust has been called the fundamental icon of Western culture, and Goethe's inexhaustible poetic drama is the centerpiece of its tradition in literature, music and art. In recent years, this play has experienced something of a renaissance, with a surge of studies, theater productions,...

In this volume, the author argues that literacy is a complex combination of various skills, not just the ability to read and write: the technology of writing, the encoding and decoding of text symbols, the interpretation of meaning, the retrieval and display systems which...

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: Ester SchoefbergerISBN-10: 3640753259ISBN-13: 9783640753253Publisher: Grin VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/02/2010Pages: 26Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.10lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.06d

Step back in time with "The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904," a captivating window into English literature and culture of the early 20th century. This carefully reproduced edition offers a glimpse into the popular fiction, literary criticism, and even comics and...

In Not for Ambition or Bread, Theodore Dalrymple continues his recent series of books that capture the thoughts inspired by his reading. As with the previous works in the series, one gets the impression that Dalrymple has an inexhaustible library of books already in...

As we continue on this exciting journey of discovery, creativity, and innovation, we are thrilled to present a publication that celebrates the richness and diversity of ideas across literature, art, business, wellbeing, and more. Our mission at *Mosaic Digest* has always been to embrace...

This book presents original archival findings concerning Wilde's membership of a Liberal Party club and his views on Irish Home Rule. The findings have significant implications for our understanding of his attitude to Irish nationalism and British politics, and help us interpret political allusions...

This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to the teaching of academic writing and information literacy in a new digital dimension, drawing on recent trends towards project-based writing, digital writing and multimodal writing in Education, and synthesising theory with practice to provide a handy toolkit...

A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French of M. De Voltaire is a comprehensive philosophical work by French writer Voltaire. The book covers a wide range of topics, from religion and politics to science and morality, and is an essential read for those interested in...

No detailed description available for "Models of Simultaneity and Sequentiality in Human Cognition".Author: Marshall DurbinISBN-10: 3112327551ISBN-13: 9783112327555Publisher: de GruyterLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/31/1975Pages: 27Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.25d

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...

More than any other early modern text, Montaigne's Essais have come to be associated with the emergence of a distinctively modern subjectivity, defined in opposition to the artifices of language and social performance. Felicity Green challenges this interpretation with a compelling revisionist reading of...

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Corianton, An Aztec Romance: A Romantic Spectacular Drama In Four Acts is a play written by Orestes U. Bean. The story is set in ancient Aztec times and follows the titular character, Corianton, a prince who falls in love with a priestess named Isabel....

The influence on Ovid of Hesiod, the most important archaic Greek poet after Homer, has been underestimated. Yet, as this book shows, a profound engagement with Hesiod's themes is central to Ovid's poetic world. As a poet who praised women instead of men and...

For years critics have held that literary modernism was both apolitical and solipsistic. While the former charge began to give way with the recession of New Criticism, the latter has grown in strength as a lead-in to the claim that postmodernism is apolitical and...

Why Reading Literature in School Still Matters: Imagination, Interpretation, Insight explains how a reader's involvement with literary texts can create conditions for developing deep insight into human experience, and how teachers can develop these interpretive possibilities in school contexts. Developed from the author's many...

The film director or auteur' has been central in film theory and criticism over the past thirty years. Theories of Authorship documents the major stages in the debate about film authorship, and introduces recent writing on film to suggest important ways in which the...

From Anthony Trollop to Sinclair Lewis, and from Jane Austen to James Joyce and John Steinbeck, many important novels touch on fundamental questions about the role of money in human affairs. These questions are explored in this volume through the lens of law and...

This book deals with mnemonic migration understood as the movement of memories across linguistic, cultural and mnemonic borders via the medium of literature. In contemporary literature, there is a growing number of authors with migration experience, some of whom write not in native tongue,...

For decades, Classical Myth has been one of the most popular and best-selling texts for the study of classical myth. Oxford University Press is proud to publish this essential book in a vibrant new ninth edition, complemented by digital learning resources that further enhance...

"You're always looking for what you can learn from everybody. I've learned something from every writer I've ever read. The strongest influences are certainly Joyce, the blind man who saw, and Ezra Pound, the crazy man who understood." - Robert Anton Wilson, Beyond Chaos...

Author: H. L. (Henry Louis) MenckenISBN-10: 1022995723ISBN-13: 9781022995727Publisher: Anson Street PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/28/2025Pages: 114Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.24d

Author: Christopher D. AbbottISBN-13: 9798316751600Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/04/2025Pages: 156Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.33d

This book concerns why the writers featured sought to exile themselves from mainstream society, not least by embracing the 'natural' world and an ascetic lifestyle. With the help of generous references from the 30-plus vagabond writers featured (plus many more contributions from secondary texts),...

In Translation Stories from Modern China, Professor Bonnie S. McDougall gives readers a rare firsthand account of not just the career but the international life of a trailblazing translator. From the unexpected beginnings of her passion for modern Chinese literature when she accidentally enrolled...

Song in the Novel investigates the variety of types of songs present in novels, from French romances, ballads, folk songs, opera, and op?ra-comique, to caf?-concert music, blues and jazz, and more recent popular music. Throughout, literary scholars, musicologists, and cultural historians analyse novels written...

This book, first published in 1868, is a collection of the poetry of John and Charles Wesley, co-founders of the Methodist movement. The poems are reprinted from the originals with the last corrections of the authors, and also includes the poems of Charles Wesley...

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,...

Literary Nonfiction. Art. LOCKDOWN, WITH CATS is a book of artwork created by Yeju Kwon with the hope of comforting contemporary people who deal with stress and anxiety. The theme of this book is centred around living in lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic and...