Literary Criticism - General

The Paris Psalter and the Meters of Boethius (1932) contains the texts and comprehensive notes on the Paris Psalter (the most extensive collection of Anglo-Saxon metrical translations of the Psalms) and the Meters of Boethius (the surviving Anglo-Saxon versions of De Consolatione Philosophiae of...

Great Men of Literature by Will Durant is a comprehensive exploration of the lives and works of some of the most influential literary figures of all time. The book delves into the biographies of notable writers such as Shakespeare, Goethe, Tolstoy, and Dickens, providing...

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Originally published in 1993. This book explores the process by which individuals reconstruct the meaning and significance of past experience. Drawing on the lives of such notable figures as St Augustine, Helen Keller and Philip Roth as well as on the combined insights of...

This is the first in-depth, English-language history of modern Serbia in nearly half a century. It covers the period from the Serbian state's revolutionary rebirth in the early nineteenth century, under the rebel leaders Karadorde Petrovic and Milos Obrenovic; its turbulent history of wars,...

Experience the beauty and power of Patrick Hannay's poetry with this stunning collection. From love songs to religious hymns, Hannay's work captures the spirit of his age and continues to inspire readers centuries later. With a memoir of the author by D. Laing, this...

An introduction to the burgeoning field of food studiesPopular and intellectual interest in food is on the rise. The breadth of concerns surrounding food ranges from animal welfare and climate change's impact on food production to debates on the healthfulness of carbohydrates and fats,...

First published in 1911, this groundbreaking book explores the connection between mental health and physical well-being. Written by Anne Payson Call, a pioneering physician of the early 20th century, the book argues that many physical ailments are caused by stress and other psychological factors...

Published in the late 1700s, this book is an anthology of significant English poetic works from Geoffrey Chaucer to William Cowper. The collection includes works from prominent poets of the era such as Alexander Pope, John Milton, and William Wordsworth.This work has been selected...

Want Do Get is a comprehensive guide to writing better screenplays. It contains many useful tools and techniques that will help any writer to produce more entertaining and well-structured scripts. Readers will also find it a useful guide for other types of storytelling, such...

Voltaire's "Philosophical Dictionary" stands as a huge work that encapsulates the Enlightenment thinker's wit, skepticism, and intellectual prowess. Composed within the 18th century, Voltaire, a key figure of the Enlightenment, provides a complete collection of essays, reflections, and critiques that discover a myriad of...

Jazz can be uplifting, stimulating, sensual, and spiritual. Yet when writers turn to this form of music, they almost always imagine it in terms of loneliness. In Blue Notes: Jazz, Literature, and Loneliness, Sam V. H. Reese investigates literary representations of jazz and the...

Immortalized in death by The Clash, Pablo Neruda, Salvador Dalí, Dmitri Shostakovich and Lindsay Kemp, Federico García Lorca's spectre haunts both contemporary Spain and the cultural landscape beyond. This study offers a fresh examination of one of the Spanish language's most resonant voices; exploring...

This collection builds on the assumption that our understanding of the nonhuman world is bound up with the experience of space: thinking about and with nonhuman spaces destabilizes human-scale assumptions.Author: Marco CaraccioloISBN-10: 1032021047ISBN-13: 9781032021041Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/31/2023Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

Christmas Eve, 1919 After fighting on the battlefields of France in the First World War, Prescott Freeman returns home to the family farm in Kingston, Georgia, only to find another war - a bitter conflict between families - a conflict fueled by greed and...

The projected thirty-volume Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) is intended to serve as a comprehensive guide to the current state of knowledge on the background, origins, and development of the canonical texts of the Bible as they were accepted in Judaism...

Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-73), founder of the Mevlevi Sufi order of "Whirling Dervishes," is the best-selling poet in America today. The wide-ranging appeal of his work is such that UNESCO declared 2007 to be "International Rumi Year." However, his writings represent much more than...

The Defence of Poesy is the first major piece of literary criticism in English. Taking aim at classical authors who disparaged poetry, and contemporary critics who saw literature as a corrupting influence, Sidney foregrounds the moral force of poetry. Sidney considers the real life...

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 burgeoning field of food studiesPopular and intellectual interest in food is on the rise. The breadth of concerns surrounding food ranges from animal welfare and climate change's impact on food production to debates on the healthfulness of carbohydrates and fats,...

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, the second volume of the new Oxford Edition of Charles Dickens, is Dickens's third novel, originally published in monthly parts between March 1838 and September 1839. Brilliantly comic, the novel quickly developed a strong strand of social...

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Marburg (Institut f? Anglistik und Amerikanistik, FB 10), course: Preparatory Seminar to the Shakespeare Excursion to London, language: English, abstract: This paper expatiates on...

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ALERT - This book is a summary of the book "Go Set A Watchman", it is not the original. You can use THIS book to... Make reading better with Go Set a Watchman - Reviewed Go Set a Watchman became an instant "Classic" that...

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: H. E. PalmerISBN-10: 140675272XISBN-13: 9781406752724Publisher:...

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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,...

First Published in 1966. In experience of many years in conducting a course in Goethe's Faust, trying to present to students of varied types and training the background out of which the drama grew, the compilers of this text have constantly felt the need...

This is the first book of its kind to address Shakespeare's relationship with Rome's authoritative myth, archaeologically, by taking as a point of departure a chronological reversal, namely the vision of the 'eternal' city as a ruinous scenario.Author: Maria del Sapio GarberoISBN-10: 1032195428ISBN-13: 9781032195421Publisher:...

Written by two celebrated Irish authors, this book offers a detailed and engaging account of the history of Ireland from the earliest times through the present day. It covers a range of topics including Irish mythology, the country's rich literary tradition, and its struggles...

Shattering Minds is the first broad study on representations of mental illness in modernist Finnish literature. Through four case studies, it shows how in modernist texts mental suffering is not understood as something that is "inside" a person's mind. Rather, experiences of illness are...

An elegant reissue of a classic book from one of the twentieth century's greatest garden writers. This landmark work on creating a garden was first published in 1956 and has rarely been out of print since. We Made a Garden is the story of...

The present volume brings together contributions which explore artworks - including literature, visual arts, film and performances - as dynamic sites of worlding. It puts emphasis on the processes of creating or doing worlds, implying movement as opposed to the boundary drawing of area...

Jacques Derrida wrote in Glas that "The glue of chance creates sense" and he was almost correct. It is, in fact, the toothpick of reading and writing - taken in their most expansive senses - that connects one chance event to another, that binds...

The opening lines of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri launched Rod Dreher on a journey that rescued him from exile and saved his life. Dreher found that the medieval poem offered him a surprisingly practical way of solving modern problems. Following the death...

This work analyzes dramatic structures, from Sophocles to Orson Welles and the 21st century cinema, all from the viewpoint of Hegelian dialectic. Utilizing this dialectical process the author demonstrates its particular application to the writing of a screenplay, which should not be considered a...

This collection opens with marginalized responses to the highly politicized Cinderella traditions in the Anglophone world. In the United States, Cinderella was incorporated into the gendered narrative of the American Dream and narratives of empire in the colonial world, particularly in the mid-1800s. Marginalized...

This collection contains the most famous novels written by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One, Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Anti-Christ: A...

Jāmī in Regional Contexts: The Reception of ʿAbd Al-Raḥmān Jāmī's Works in the Islamicate World is the first attempt to present in a comprehensive manner how ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 898/1492), a most influential figure in the Persian-speaking world, reshaped the canons of Islamic...

Examines how young Jewish Americans' fundamentally Jewish values have led them to organize in solidarity with Palestinians Unsettled digs into the experiences of young Jewish Americans who engage with the Palestine solidarity movement and challenge the staunch pro-Israel stance of mainstream Jewish American institutions....

J.G. Farrell's Empire Trilogy (1970-78) was one of the major achievements of post-war fiction and inspired new generation of writers keen to explore the legacy of the Empire and the emerging postcolonial spaces created in its wake. This new, invigorating and accessible study excitingly...

First published in 1987, this is a critical edition of the 1647 text by the Scottish author Alexander Ross which offered the Renaissance reader not only a wealth of factual information concerning the gods, goddesses, heroes and monsters of ancient myth and legend, but...

First published in 1996, this volume asked the question: who - and what - was Christopher Marlowe? Dramatist, poet, atheist and possible spy, he was a man in contrast with his time. The authors here gather to explore Marlowe on the four hundredth anniversary...

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The Potentials of Spaces interrogates the relationship between scenography and performance in contemporary dramatic activities. The book provides an illuminating platform for discussion concerning the interrelations between theatrical movement and gesture in physical space. In exploring territories of performance, the author equally combines theoretical...

Glossator 8 (2013)Kafka's Zurau Aphorisms -- Michael CiscoSensuous and Scholarly Reading in Keats's 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer' -- Thomas DayNotes to Stephen Rodefer's Four Lectures (1982) -- Ian HeamesOrnate and Explosive Grief: A Comparative Commentary on Frank O'Hara's "In Memory of My...

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: Dudley FittsISBN-10: 140675210XISBN-13: 9781406752106Publisher: Fitts...

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Milton and Music is the first study to juxtapose John Milton's poetry on music with later musical adaptations of his work. In Part I: Milton on Music, Seth Herbst shows that writing about music galvanized Milton's intellectual development towards animist materialism, the belief that...