Literary Criticism - General

Bartleby the Scrivener is one of the most highly regarded short stories of American fiction. Dealing with themes of depression, apathy, loss and curiosity it is one Herman Melville's finest works. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and...

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: Richard Francis BurtonISBN-10: 1446063208ISBN-13: 9781446063200Publisher:...

French is without doubt the foreign language most frequently studied in English-speaking countries today, a fact which may be accounted for in several ways. First, the history of France has in past centuries been closely interwoven with that of England, revealing, here, the spirit...

America has a rich history of creating unique sayings and phrases, here are collected some of the finest. 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...

These two volumes of The New Testament and Greek Literature are the magnum opus of biblical scholar Dennis R. MacDonald, outlining the profound connections between the New Testament and classical Greek poetry. MacDonald argues that the Gospel writers borrowed from established literary sources to...

The 'serial killer' has become increasingly prevalent in popular culture since the term was coined by Robert Ressler at the FBI in the mid-1970s. Murders and Acquisitions explores the social and political implications of this cultural figure. The collection argues that the often blood-chilling...

That Borges is one of the key figures in 20th-century literature is beyond debate. The reasons behind this claim, however, are a matter of contention. In Latin America he is read as someone who reorganized the canon, questioned literary hierarchies, and redefined the role...

Mapping World Literature explores the study of literature and literary history in light of global changes, looking at what defines world literature in the 21st century. Surveying ideas of literature from Goethe to the present, Thomsen devises a compelling concept of literary constellations. He...

Lola Ridge (1873 - 1941) was an anarchist poet and an influential editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publications best remembered for her long poems and poetic sequences. Her first book, The Ghetto and Other Poems was published in 1918. The title poem portrays...

Author: Stanley G. RobertsonISBN-10: 1436324637ISBN-13: 9781436324632Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/13/2008Pages: 100Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d

Paperback Quarterly, journal of mass-market paperback history, Volume 5 Number 4, 1982, contains: The Career of David Goodis by Geoffrey O'Brien; T.R.U.S.H.'s Insidious Weapons or "What Will They Think of Next?" by Bruce Barnes; The Paperback Hall of Fame of Miscellaneous Curiosities, Part III:...

From London to Land's End - By Daniel Defoe. In the earlier part of this account of the "Journey from London to the Land's End," there is interest in the fresh memories of the rebuilding and planting at Hampton Court by William III. and...

H.P. Lovecraft: New England Decadent was first published in 1979, a date that marks the halfway point between Lovecraft's death and the present day. This corrected publication offers a unique insight into the history of Lovecraft scholarship and describes Lovecraft's roots in the decadent...

Here's a thing. How could John Donne, one of our greatest poets, be equally, and often simultaneously, obsessed with those two radical three-letter words and things, Sex and God? This book addresses the whole of Donne's life and works, from the early Songs and...

The Gospel of Matthew is the first book in the New Testament. It truly is a "teaching" Gospel. It serves as an important resource for learning about the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The Apostles needed this teaching so that they could effectively...

A critical introduction to "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen is suitable for students from high school up to university level as well as for the general reader. The book places the novel in the context of Austen's other works, analyzes the narrative voices,...

Author: Jascha KesslerISBN-10: 1483643492ISBN-13: 9781483643496Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/16/2013Pages: 478Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.88lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.19d

Author: Jascha KesslerISBN-10: 1483643484ISBN-13: 9781483643489Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/16/2013Pages: 478Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.53lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d

Dr. Anshu KG Goil has made an attempt to introduce the life and works of J āneshwara. Her approach to the subject is unique because it reveals the Sage and practicing philosopher aspect of the Yogi. According to the Upanishads, knowledge is the knowledge...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe...

This book is a testimony of our time. This volume one is a chronicle of the thoughts, ideas, and the pulse of this era. It tackles questions about relationships, and questions about men and women's hidden agenda. Questions like why men cheat, or why...

Focusing on the ten most influential baseball books of all time, this volume explores how these landmark works changed the game itself and made waves in American society at large. Satchel Paige's Pitchin' Man informed the dialog surrounding integration. Ring Lardner's You Know Me...

The origins of the vampire can be traced through oral traditions, ancient texts and archaeological discoveries, its nature varying from one culture to the next up until the 20th century. Three 19th century Irish writers--Charles Robert Maturin, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker--used...

This early work by Ring Lardner was originally published in 1924 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'How to Write Short Stories' is a non-fiction, educational work on the art of creative writing. Ring Lardner was born in...

"O'Meara's work is the perfect supplement to [Ted] Hughes's "Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being", shedding further illumination into those areas where Hughes's penetrating lens finally appears to dim. [This work] shines utterly clear light on the path of understanding we may re-win...

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes the full-text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles. The collection is sourced from the remarkable library of Victor Amadeus, whose Castle Corvey collection was one of the most spectacular discoveries...

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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

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...

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...

Title: A general history and collection of voyages and travels, arranged in systematic order: forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time.Author: Robert KerrPublisher: Gale, Sabin...

This book collects essays and talks about Robert Burns by the Burns scholar G. Ross Roy (1924-2013). Along with introductions to such well-known Burns poems as "Tam o' Shanter" and "Auld Lang Syne," it includes essays discussing Burns's attitudes to the French Revolution, politics,...

In attempting to answer the question posed by this book's title, Giorgio Agamben does not address the idea of philosophy itself. Rather, he turns to the apparently most insignificant of its components: the phonemes, letters, syllables, and words that come together to make up...

Nevill Forbes' The Balkans: A History of Bulgaria and Serbia is an expansive look at one of the world's geopolitical hotspots, the Balkans, with a focus on some of the background history that brought about the tensions of World War I.Author: Nevill ForbesISBN-10: 1500885843ISBN-13:...

During World War I, acclaimed author Rudyard Kipling visited the Western Front as a reporter and wrote about his experiences in "France at War." The stories and verse that Kipling wrote at the turn of the century did much to shape public attitudes towards...

Warfare in the 21st century is far different than warfare throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Conventional warfare was about kinetic force and bending an adversary by might and strength. Skills valued were those related to mastery of weapons and placing ordnance on target....

The development of new sexualities and gender identities has become a crucial issue in the field of literary and cultural studies in the first years of the twenty-first century. The roles of gender and sexual identities in the struggle for equality have become a...

The 1940s is a lost decade in horror cinema, undervalued and written out of most horror scholarship. This collection revises, reframes, and deconstructs persistent critical binaries that have been put in place by scholarly discourse to label 1940s horror as somehow inferior to a...

Becoming a doctor requires years of formal education, but one learns the practice of medicine only through direct encounters with the fragile others called ""patients."" Pediatrician Brian Volck recounts his own education in the mysteries of suffering bodies, powerful words, and natural beauty. It's...

The Operation of Grace collects a decade's worth of essays by Gregory Wolfe taken from the pages of Image, the literary journal he founded more than a quarter century ago. As he notes in the preface, his Image editorials, while they cover a wide...

What if the women of the Bible told their own stories? Lady Midrash: Poems Reclaiming the Voices of Biblical Women brings to life alternative interpretations and forgotten female perspectives from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament. Following in the footsteps of Jewish midrash, a...

These Intricacies is a book of poems traversing the intersection of family, fatherhood, and faith. Set in shifting, vibrant spaces of a rich Kentucky landscape, and wrought with metaphysical crisis, this collection charts the slow, seismic shifts of growth bound up in understanding the...

In various voices and with a range of strategies, these poems speak of and into the collisions we experience day in and day out--collisions with nature, art, language, religion, family, imagination, new and old ways of seeing and navigating the world--collisions that result in...

These poems--selected from the award-winning poet's output over four decades--more explicitly than any of his prior volumes address the centrality of Christian vision to his aims and aspirations. Lea looks unflinchingly at all that may challenge his faith: the cruelties of both natural and...

Collage of Seoul is a book of poetry tracing the spiritual journey of a man who, unnamed at birth, looks to both Eastern and Western cultures to form an identity through a love story that culminates with the decisive act of naming his two...

Modern humans are given lots of labels. Some see humans as consumers: consumers of goods, services, and entertainment for the Economy. Some see humans as souls to be saved. Some say humans are destructive animals that must not think too highly of themselves at...

Lobela is the first volume of poetry written by Justo Bolekia Boleka, poet, author, and linguist. In these poems, Boleka expresses his connection to his native land, Equatorial Guinea, the only nation in Sub-Saharan Africa whose language of colonization is Spanish. Gods, goddesses, adoration...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1849 Edition.Author: John William DonaldsonISBN-10: 1498085091ISBN-13: 9781498085090Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 450Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.32lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.91d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1915 Edition.Author: BhavabhutiISBN-10: 1497978297ISBN-13: 9781497978294Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 194Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.41d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.Author: Smith Ely Jelliffe, Louise BrinkISBN-10: 1497970768ISBN-13: 9781497970762Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 172Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.37d