Literary Criticism - General

The American Nightmare: Don DeLillo's Falling Man and Cormac McCarthy's The Road presents an extensive analysis of two novels by the two most prominent contemporary American writers.The book searches into the stylistic and linguistic complexities of those two post-9/11 novels and explores the ways...

Malice Aforethought is the story of murder-one-the premeditated, cold-blooded killing and obliteration of the name and life-story of the world's greatest writing genius, William Shakespeare. This shameful tale has finally been unraveled, slowly but inexorably, piece by dramatic piece, during the last century. Whom...

In J. R. R. Tolkien's desire to create a mythology for his homeland, he actually made one for every person, every land, and every age. The Lordof the Rings is a catechism of spiritual warfare cleverly disguised as a fantasy. The struggle against evil...

This early work by Ford Madox Ford was originally published in 1929 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. Ford Madox Ford was born Ford Madox Hueffer in Merton, Surrey, England on 17th December 1873. The creative arts ran in...

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: Dante AlighieriISBN-10: 1444697013ISBN-13: 9781444697018Publisher: Stubbe...

The great poets of the past, we find in this book, deliver more wisdom about love and marriage than anyone writing today: Christian love without any Puritan undertow, love closer to the Romans than to the Victorians, love still represented by Eros - what...

Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( 30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936)was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his tales and poems ofBritish soldiers in India, and his tales for children. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. He...

Thomas Hooker, graduate and fellow of Cambridge, England, and practically founder of Connecticut, was born in 1586. He was dedicated to the ministry, and began his activities in 1620 by taking a small parish in Surrey. He did not, however, attract much notice for...

Beginning with the structural features of design and play, this book explores video games as both compelling examples of story-telling and important cultural artifacts. The author analyzes fundamentals like immersion, world building and player agency and their role in crafting narratives in the Mass...

The United States, the only country to have dropped the bomb, and Japan, the only one to have suffered its devastation, understandably portray the nuclear threat differently on film. American science fiction movies of the 1950s and 1960s generally proclaim that it is possible...

Focusing on the decade following 9/11, this critical analysis examines the various portrayals of Muslims in American cinema. Comparison of pre- and post-9/11 films indicates a stereotype shift, influenced by factors other than just politics. The evolving definitions of male, female and child characters...

Established in 1971, Nass el-Ghiwane is a legendary musical group that transformed the Moroccan music scene in the last decades of the 20th century. The charismatic founding member Larbi Batma (1948-1997) through his lyrics brought to light Moroccan folklore and obscure poetry. His autobiography...

This book contains a fictionalised account of the day-to-day experiences of soldiers in Kitchener's Army, the voluntary section of the British Army formed following the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Although the characters are a work of fiction, the incidents described...

This anthology of William Ernest Henley's poetry features some of the most beautiful and deeply moving pieces in the Victorian writer's collection. First published in 1898, this collection includes the poems William Ernest Henley wrote during and inspired by his time spent in hospital...

This early work by Eva March Tappan was originally published in 1921 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'A Short History of England's and America's Literature' is an educational work that contains details on Chaucer, Shakespeare, the development...

Drawing on recent theories of digital media and on the materiality of words and images, this fascinating study makes three original claims about the work of William Blake. First, Blake offers a critique of digital media. His poetry and method of illuminated printing is...

On Monday, the 2nd of March, 1752, a bill of indictment was found by the grand inquest for the county of Oxford against Mary Blandy, spinster, for the murder of Francis Blandy, late of the parish of Henley-upon-Thames, in the said county, gentleman. On...

Author: Fahmi Muhsen RashidISBN-10: 1469137968ISBN-13: 9781469137964Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/19/2011Pages: 294Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.29lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

The Story of Geographical Discovery-How the World Became Known is a earth science history classic by Joseph Jacobs. In attempting to get what is little less than a history of the world, from a special point of view, into a couple of hundred duodecimo...

In compiling the following pages I have had access to certain sources of official information, the nature of which I am not at liberty to specify further. I have used these freely in such chapters of this book as deal with recent and contemporary...

Ideas of Good and Evil is a classic essay collection by William Butler Yeats including the following titles: What is 'Popular Poetry'?, Speaking to the Psaltery, Magic, The Happiest of the Poets, The Philosophy of Shelley's Poetry, At Stratford-On-Avon, and many others.Author: William Butler...

THIS book is the outcome of a collection of material that has been slowly accumulating over the past thirty years or so, since the time when, under the guidance of the late Dr. Frank H. Vizetelly, I began to work as his associate in...

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: Hugh Percy JonesISBN-10: 1443730130ISBN-13: 9781443730136Publisher:...

In Momigliano and Antiquarianism, Peter N. Miller brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to provide the first serious study of Momigliano's history of historical scholarship.Author: Peter N. MillerISBN-10: 1442629010ISBN-13: 9781442629011Publisher: University of Toronto PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/16/2014Pages: 416Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 8.90h x...

Comics Versus Art examines the relationship between comics and the most important institutions of the art world; including museums, auction houses, and the art press.Author: Bart BeatyISBN-10: 1442612045ISBN-13: 9781442612044Publisher: University of Toronto PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/06/2012Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80dReview Citation(s):...

Author: Larry ''L Black'' HillISBN-10: 1441587535ISBN-13: 9781441587534Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/26/2010Pages: 236Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.54d

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...

Now in its second edition, How to Read Texts introduces students to key critical approaches to literary texts and offers a practical introduction for students developing their own critical and close-reading skills. Written in a lively, jargon-free style, it explains critical concepts, approaches and...

Bringing together an international team of scholars, this book charts and analyzes the ways in which comic book history and new forms of graphic narrative have been impacted by aesthetic, social, political, economic, and cultural interactions that reach across national borders in an increasingly...

Since its first publication in 1948, one of Vladimir Nabokov's shortest short stories, "Signs and Symbols," has generated perhaps more interpretations and critical appraisal than any other that he wrote. It has been called "one of the greatest short stories ever written" and "a...

Equally interested in what is and what could be, Cybertext Poetics combines ludology and cybertext theory to solve persistent problems and introduce paradigm changes in the fields of literary theory, narratology, game studies, and digital media. The book first integrates theories of print and...

The Spectralities Reader is the first volume to collect the rich scholarship produced in the wake of the "spectral turn+? of the early 1990s, which saw ghosts and haunting conjured as compelling analytical and methodological tools across the humanities and social sciences. Surveying the...

This book presents an in-depth view of the extraordinary revisionist language Shakespeare gives to his most royal of all kings, from the time Richard falls dramatically out of favor with God. Readers will find this book most useful in seeking to disentangle the play's...

Some of the most influential and interesting people in the world are fictional. Sherlock Holmes, Huck Finn, Pinocchio, Anna Karenina, Genji, and Superman, to name a few, may not have walked the Earth (or flown, in Superman's case), but they certainly stride through our...

The Shakespeare authorship hoax foisted on a gullible world four hundred years ago by England's most powerful politicians, William and Robert Cecil, is the most successful and longest-lasting ruse in the Western World. Destroying available documents pertaining to the life of Edward de Vere,...

Paperback Quarterly, journal of mass-market paperback history, Volume 4 Number 3, Fall 1981, contains: "Norman Daniels -- the Writer as Assembly Line," by Michael S. Barson, "An Interview with Norman Daniels," by Michael S. Barson, "Dashiell Hammett in the Dell Mapbacks," by William Lyles,...

Paperback Quarterly, journal of mass-market paperback history, Volume 4 Number 2, Summer 1981, contains: "Fires That Create -- The Versatility and Craft of Harry Whittington," by Michael S. Barson, "Interview with Harry Whittington," by Michael S. Barson, "Modern Age Books and the John Esteven...

Is the American era about to end? The Demise of America includes: -A historical overview of the economic events that transpired during the financial crisis of 2008. -An analysis of our economic system since 1980, and why our reliance on debt to generate growth...

Psychometric Analysis by Max Freedom Long is a comprehensive guide to understanding and utilizing psychometric testing. The book provides an in-depth exploration of the theory and practice of psychometrics, including the different types of tests, their uses, and their limitations. Long offers practical advice...

Doctor Freud: An Analysis And A Warning is a book written by the Austrian psychoanalyst, Emil Ludwig. The book is a critical analysis of the life and work of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. Ludwig examines Freud's theories and methods, and questions their...

"A Midsummer Night's Dream", one of Shakespeare's earliest comedies is a spectacular tale of fantasy. The story revolves around two couples (Hermia and Lysander and Helena and Demetrius) who escape to a fairyland forest ruled by Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of...

Herbert Read was one of the most influential art and literary theorists of modernism active in the first half of the twentieth century. He is frequently credited with bringing modern art and modernism to a wide public and was dubbed by friends and foes...

Wittgenstein said that philosophers should greet each other, not by saying "hello," but rather "take your time." But what is time? Time is money, but this points to an even better answer to this basic question for our modern epoch: time is acceleration. In...

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Science. By a singular ruse, the author of this account obtained entrance to the most exclusive party in the scientific world of the 20th century: The Einstein Centennial Symposium at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, on March...

Literary Nonfiction. Fiction. Hilary Plum's WATCHFIRES is an intimate account of public and private life during the long years of the war on terror. This remarkable essay begins in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing and illuminates the relationships among cancer, autoimmune disease,...

First Love: A Phenomenology of the One explodes two great myths that remain unquestioned in psychoanalysis and contemporary philosophy: that first love is a love of the mother and, in French philosopher Alain Badiou's phrasing, 'the One is not'. The bold, central argument of...

The elusive wild boys, the magical Zimbu, the embattled Johnsons... They are all here in this revised and expanded reincarnation of Ashé Journal #2.3. In these pages magicians, poets, and academicians explore the magical dimensions of William Burroughs' mythology for the space age. Contributors...

At 17 Marguerite Buckby tried to kill herself. Her adopted mother had long since stopped answering her phone calls, her glib father's new girlfriend was evil, and all of her "friends" were nasty retards. Sensing her depression, the powers sent Matthew Arnold (1822 -...

This is the second edition of Russian Futurism through Its Manifestoes 1912-1928, originally published by Cornell University Press (1988). Futurism as a world movement profoundly affected the course of twentieth-century art and culture. This collection made available for the first time in English the...

Daniela Hodrova shares her unique perception of Prague, through playful poetic prose, and by imaginatively blending historical and cultural motifs with autobiographical moments. A Kingdom of Souls is the first volume of this author's literary journey - aAuthor: Daniela HodrovaISBN-10: 0956889050ISBN-13: 9780956889058Publisher: Jantar PublishingLanguage:...