Literary Criticism - General

Author: Vicki MistaccoISBN-10: 0198988311ISBN-13: 9780198988311Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/04/2026Format: Hardcover

Die Schriftenreihe der Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule für literaturwissenschaftliche Studien an der Freien Universität Berlin steht für eine theoretisch avancierte und global orientierte Literaturwissenschaft. Sie fasst das gesamte Spektrum philologischer Disziplinen - von der Germanistik bis zur Japanologie - in den Blick und setzt zu...

In the New Testament, the "gospel" and its proclamation are rooted in Old Greek translation of passages promising exaltation for the people of Judah upon their return from Babylonian exile (Isa 40:9; 52:7; 61:1). That expectation languished until the coming of Jesus, according to...

MidAmerica is a peer-reviewed academic journal published annually by The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature. Contents of issue LII (2025): "Of Copper" -- Lynn Domina "Locked Out" -- Caitlin Horrocks " 'How to Survive': The 'Little Black City' and Columbus's Elastic Redevelopment...

Philological Investigations explores topics ranging from the cultural significance of aging in early China to the hallucinogenic properties of plants in ancient Chinese poetry; from historical attempts at identifying the location of a famous tidal bore, to a new translation of a recently- excavated...

Adorned with garlands of flowers and gold embellishments, this cover design reflects the sophisticated beauty of the original 1898 binding, which contained Prue & I by George William Curtis. Written during the height of the Gilded Age period, the work was a sentimental, tender,...

The General Theory of Social Relativity is a theoretical monograph that presents a radically innovative framework for thinking about social processes. In the early twentieth century, theories of quantum physics and general relativity exposed the limits of Newton's classical, mechanical, approach to explaining the...

According to the Christian Church, Mary Magdalene was a prostitute who was healed of demonic possession by Jesus of Nazareth, and Judas Iscariot was a thief who betrayed the whereabouts of Jesus in exchange for a certain amount of money. In contrast, the Gospel...

MidAmerica is a peer-reviewed academic journal published annually by The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature. Contents of issue LI (2024): "Can Technical College Students 'Think Like a Mountain'?" -- Gretchen Lida "Anderson, Trilling, and the Influence of Powerful Critics: Score One for...

What is a language? What is the definition of writing? Is it possible that writing is much older than the proto-cuneiform system known from Mesopotamia? In the past four decades, much debate has been focused on a set of markings known as the "Old...

We know from the contents of Charles Darwin's Note Book of 1837 that he was at that time a convinced Evolutionist. Nor can there be any doubt that, when he started on board the Beagle, such opinions as he had were on the side...

Ikujiro Nonaka's A Dynamic Theory of Organisational Knowledge Creation outlines the creation of organisational knowledge through the constant conversion of the two types of knowledge, tacit and explicit, which Nonaka believes has the potential to guide managers' knowledge creation strategies. This argument is centred...

Ludwig Von Mises's 1912 contribution to the theory of monetary policy and the current prevailing consensus in modern economic liberalism, The Theory of Money and Credit, was a milestone achievement. The author's familiarity with the historical literature on banking and credit allows him to...

Exploration and Exploitation is a key text for scholars and business practitioners interested in promoting economic well-being and sustainable growth. March's work promotes the preservation of companies' competitiveness and sustainability in the fluctuating market environment by maintaining a balance between exploration and exploitation processes....

Ways of Seeing is a key art-historical work that continues to provoke widespread debate. It is comprised of seven different essays, three of which are pictorial and the other containing texts and images. Berger first examines the relationship between seeing and knowing, discussing how...

Febvre asked this core question in The Problem of Unbelief: "Could sixteenth-century people hold religious views that were not those of official, Church-sanctioned Christianity, or could they simply not believe at all?" The answer informed a wider debate on modern history, particularly modern French...

Burton Malkiel's 1973 A Random Walk Down Wall Street was an explosive contribution to debates about how to reap a good return on investing in stocks and shares. Reissued and updated many times since, Malkiel's text remains an indispensable contribution to the world of...

Joan Scott's work has influenced several generations of historians and helped make the topic of gender central to the way in which the discipline is taught and studied today. At root a new way of conceptualizing capitalist societies, Scott's theories suggest that gender is...

A critical analysis of Centuries of Childhood, in which the French historian Philippe Aries offers a fundamentally fresh interpretation of what childhood is and what the institution means for society at large. Aries's core idea is that 'childhood, ' as we understand it today...

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing was published in 1917 (and republished in 1922) as a result of an adaptation by Asa Don Dickinson of Neltje Blanchan's earlier work Nature's Garden (1900). It covers mostly North American species, with a sprinkling of cosmopolitans, and includes a...

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Spectrums of Representation in Shakespearean Crossdressing examines the varied types of female characters in English Renaissance drama, drawing from a range of play texts themselves in order to investigate if evidence exists for varying performance practices for male-to-female crossdressing.Author: Courtney Bailey ParkerISBN-10: 1032087420ISBN-13: 9781032087429Publisher:...

Virginia Woolf's "The Common Reader" offers a captivating collection of literary essays, showcasing her insightful and influential perspectives on literature. A cornerstone of modern literary criticism, this volume explores a diverse range of authors and works, reflecting Woolf's profound understanding of the written word....

Jean Ingelow was a popular poet in the 19th century and her work is still enjoyed today. This collection includes all of her published poems, showcasing her romantic and lyrical style, as well as her exploration of social issues and religious themes.This work has...

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,...

Essays and Lectures is wonderful collection of non-fiction prose pieces by Oscar Wilde. It contains the following preface: HISTORICAL criticism nowhere occurs as an isolated fact in the civilisation or literature of any people. It is part of that complex working towards freedom which...

The Gardener is a tremendous poetry collection of Bengali poetry by the great Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. This volume contains the following passage: "Most of the lyrics of love and life, the translations of which from Bengali are published in this book, were written...

This book is the first to examine in depth the contributions of major British authors such as W. H. Auden and E. M. Forster, as critics and librettists, to the rise of British opera in the twentieth century. The perceived literary values of British...

In spite of the importance of the idea of the 'tale' within Romantic-era literature, short fiction of the period has received little attention from critics. Contextualizing British short fiction within the broader framework of early nineteenth-century print culture, Tim Killick argues that authors and...

Moving beyond traditional studies of sources and influence, Shakespeare's Marlowe analyzes the uncommonly powerful aesthetic bond between Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare. Not only does this study take into account recent ideas about intertextuality, but it also shows how the process of tracking Marlowe's...

Royalist polemic and a sophisticated use of classical allusion are at the heart of the two 1648 volumes which are the focus of this study, yet there are striking differences in their politics and in the ways they represent their relation to poetry of...

Before Emotion: The Language of Feeling, 400-1800 advances current interdisciplinary research in the history of emotions through in-depth studies of the European language of emotion from late antiquity to the modern period. Focusing specifically on the premodern cognates of 'affect' or 'affection' (such as...

Girish Karnad is one of India's foremost dramatists and actors. This play, first staged at the Leicester Haymarket Theatre, is based on a tenth-century Jain myth about a king who finds his queen involved with an elephant-keeper.Author: Girish KarnadISBN-10: 0195664760ISBN-13: 9780195664768Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage:...

This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Common Reader pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic. Virginia Woolf's "The Common Reader" offers a captivating collection of literary essays, showcasing her insightful and influential perspectives on...

"Narrative Structure and Style" is a comprehensive exploration of the fundamental mechanics behind storytelling and prose. Theodore Goodman delves into the intricacies of how stories are constructed, examining the vital relationship between the arrangement of events and the linguistic flair that brings them to...

Adorned with garlands of flowers and gold embellishments, this cover design reflects the sophisticated beauty of the original 1898 binding, which contained Prue & I by George William Curtis. Written during the height of the Gilded Age period, the work was a sentimental, tender,...

Adorned with garlands of flowers and gold embellishments, this cover design reflects the sophisticated beauty of the original 1898 binding, which contained Prue & I by George William Curtis. Written during the height of the Gilded Age period, the work was a sentimental, tender,...

"The Rambler, Volume 2" presents a collection of essays by Samuel Johnson, originally published in his periodical of the same name. This volume showcases Johnson's profound moral and literary insights, offering readers a glimpse into 18th-century thought and manners. Johnson's essays cover a diverse...

This work attempts to follow the changes that have continued to reshape the image of Delphi in literature, from Homer to the most contemporary authors. It examines the poetry and scholarly writing of Antiquity, then literature and music from the nineteenth century to today.Author:...

Homi K. Bhabha's 1994 The Location of Culture is one of the founding texts of the branch of literary theory called postcolonialism. While postcolonialism has many strands, at its heart lies the question of interpreting and understanding encounters between the western colonial powers and...

Few works of scholarship have so comprehensively recast an existing debate as Chinua Achebe's essay on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Achebe - a highly distinguished Nigerian novelist and university teacher - looked with fresh eyes at a novel that was set in Africa,...

Readers received a refreshing introduction to the Sims and Catts families in Owens' first novel, My Brother Michael, narrated by the inimitable Gabriel Catts. Here to tell her side is Myra Sims, the apex of a love triangle that includes Gabe and his brother,...

Mapping the transformative personal journeys of the displacedThe travel writing genre has long been associated with a certain kind of privileged and autonomous journey, encouraged by society and geared toward individual growth. Presenting an important counterpoint to this tradition, Invisible Exile considers a diverse...

Though Aristotle is universally acknowledged as having a mighty influence on the history of philosophy, large parts of his writings are often thought to be interesting to nobody except the historian. This includes those treatises known as the theoretical works (preeminently the Metaphysics, Physics,...

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First published in 1949, this book presents the collected works of Christopher Smart, the eighteenth-century poet whose life has an attraction for the curioso of literature. There is the early marriage with Anne Vane, his secret marriage, eighteenth-century Cambridge life, the intrigues of Grub...

Explore the insightful observations of Ben Jonson in "Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter, and Some Poems," a collection of essays, poetry, and aphorisms offering a window into the literary and philosophical landscape of a bygone era. This miscellany delves into a wide range...

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: Charles R. EmbryISBN-10: 0826266320ISBN-13: 9780826266323Publisher: University of Missouri PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/22/2008Pages: 208Format: Hardcover