Literary Criticism - General

A 1-2 line hook: A timeless voice returns to illuminate faith and study alike, restored for today's reader and tomorrow's scholar. The Bible, King James Version, Book 47; 2 Corinthians gathers a legacy of resilience, exhortation, and human longing within a classic scripture compilation....

One can find it in the classics of experimental literature such as Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy or the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges, but also in the horror and fantasy fiction of Stephen King, in Mel Brooks's spoof films and Grant Morrison's superhero...

This book provides a survey of Yuan sanqu, with its principal sections focusing on fundamental theories, compositional features, and historical evolution. Its treatment of qu criticism and bibliography offers a comprehensive perspective on the defining characteristics of sanqu. Serving both as a general overview...

Protestant Periodicals in Transition: From the Twentieth Century to the Digital Age demarcates the field of religious periodical studies by offering a range of historical and contemporary case studies from different Protestant traditions drawn from various regions of the world. Taking religion, periodicals, and...

Theoretical Discussions of Biography: Approaches from History, Microhistory, and Life Writing offers comprehensive overviews by 14 academic scholars of the actual state of the field of Biography Studies. In the volume, edited by biography scholars Hans Renders and Binne de Haan, specifically the connections...

Over the last decades, Eusebius has been the focus of a great deal of attention. New light has been shed both on his writings and on his personality, which has led to a welcome re-assessment of his significance. As a result, he is no...

A detailed study of Scottish diplomacy and foreign affairs during the turbulent medieval centuries.Author: G. W. S. BarrowISBN-10: 1852850523ISBN-13: 9781852850524Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/02/2003Pages: 278Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 9.38h x 6.50w x 1.05d

Postcolonial Literatures in Context is a clear, accessible and concise introduction to postcolonial literatures in English (and English translation) and their wider contexts. It begins by introducing key issues involved in the study of postcolonial literature including old and new diasporas, postcolonial nationalisms, indigenous...

"Everything that occurs in the world, in every epoch, has something that corresponds to it in ancient times." -Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses, 1517 Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius (1517), by Italian philosopher and diplomat Machiavelli, is considered by many a foundational text...

There was a time in my youth when I would buy and read any and every book I discovered by C.S. Lewis. What I had found was that he wrote in a way that engaged my mind like no other writer. He was respected...

The Civil War, sometimes called "The American Iliad," is an epic of violence, rage, bravery, and love, whose echoes still can be heard. America's bloodiest day was September 17, 1862--the Battle of Antietam, or Sharpsburg, which enabled President Lincoln to issue a proclamation freeing...

In 1936, Samuel Beckett wrote a letter to the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein expressing a desire to work in the lost tradition of silent film. The production of Beckett's Film in 1964, on the cusp of his work as a director for stage...

Using the poet's autobiographical poem, "The Prelude," the author refutes the theory that the radical Wordsworth was completely lost in the conservative older man by showing a close relationship between his early pantheism and his later Christian beliefs. She sets forth a Wordsworth little...

This volume, a special issue of Studies in Philology, consists of research and critical studies in language and literature in memory of James Finch Royster (1880-1930). It has been edited by a committee of Professor Royster's former students and associates. The thirty-seven articles deal...

Author: Jay BynumISBN-10: 143631268XISBN-13: 9781436312684Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/17/2008Pages: 328Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d

A series of essays on the writing and ideas of Philip K. Dick presented in eight chapters. This in-depth look at the philosophies behind Dick's SF and mainstream novels is based on Barlow's 1988 doctoral dissertation at the University of Iowa.Author: Aaron BarlowISBN-10: 1411633490ISBN-13:...

The Poems of Robert Browning is a multi-volume edition of the poetry of Robert Browning (1812 -1889) resulting from a completely fresh appraisal of the canon, text and context of his work. The poems are presented in the order of their composition and in...

Greek tragedy is widely read and performed, but outside the commentary tradition detailed study of the poetic style and language of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides has been relatively neglected. This book seeks to fill that gap by providing an account of the poetics of...

What is a paratext, and where can we find it in a Roman text? What kind of space does a paratext occupy, and how does this space relate to the text and its contexts? How do we interpret Roman texts 'paratextually'? And what does...

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,...

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,...

How can teachers or library media specialists use their students' obvious interests in particular subjects as a motivating force for reading? The answer lies in the techniques, activities, and resources in Approaches to Literature through Subject. An introductory chapter discusses how students become interested...

Author: Osbert Sitwell,Robert SitwellISBN-10: 0837160421ISBN-13: 9780837160429Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/18/1972Pages: 410Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.37lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.94d

Concert was one of the last books published by a Jew in Germany before Hitler came to power. The work is autobiographical, a collection of essays and vignettes that both entertain and engage the reader at a deeper level. Like Robert Schumann's piano suites,...

Perhaps best known for the horror films it has spawned, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, published in 1818, is a tale that warns against the advancements of modern man and the Industrial Revolution. This title is part of the Bloom's Guides series. It includes a critical...

This companion covers Charles Wright's first two trilogies, Country Music (1982) and The World of the Ten Thousand Things (1990), providing biographical details, information on Wright's sources and influences, and historical notes. It pays special attention to the way that Wright's poems work together...

This study argues that esoteric ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche and James Frazer provide answers to ontological questions about the origin and substance of poets looking beyond the established rationalist codes of the industrial society. The ideas also give comprehensive critical insight into creative bases...

This comprehensive study interprets Paradise Lost as a rhetoric of literary forms, by attending to the broad spectrum of literary genres, modes, and exemplary works Milton incorporates within that poem. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to...

This volume showcases the explosive expansion of environmental criticism, which is transforming three areas of broad interest in contemporary literary and cultural studies: science, history, and scale. Visiting texts from the medieval period through the twenty-first century, it brings into focus recent ecocritical concern...

This volume showcases the explosive expansion of environmental criticism, which is transforming three areas of broad interest in contemporary literary and cultural studies: science, history, and scale. Visiting texts from the medieval period through the twenty-first century, it brings into focus recent ecocritical concern...

Published in 1987: Erec and Enide, the first of five surviving Arthurian romantic poems by a twelfth-century French poet, narrates a vivid chapter from the legend of King Arthur. Author: Chretien De TroyesISBN-10: 0367199424ISBN-13: 9780367199425Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2021Pages: 354Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w...

Through narrative and rhetorical strategies that subvert genre and challenge the discourse of race and gender, black South African woman writer Bessie Head creates alternative healing spaces that empower and enoble the marginalized, provide potential for transcendence and self-creation, and render ineffective the power...

Like its companion volume covering the period 1955 to 1959, this index provides listings of poems published in American periodicals that span a broad spectrum of popular interests ranging from current events, literature, and the arts, to religion, homemaking, hobbies, and health. The only...

A generous selection of diverse thought on the search for and collection of manuscripts and autograph letters, and their role in the history of ideas, has been culled from the first twenty years of Manuscripts, the Manuscript Society's quarterly publication. Priscilla S. Taylor has...

Product information not available.Author: Janet FyfeISBN-10: 0313239991ISBN-13: 9780313239991Publisher: GreenwoodLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/16/1986Pages: 351Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d

Product information not available.Author: Michael L. CookISBN-10: 0313231265ISBN-13: 9780313231261Publisher: GreenwoodLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/25/1982Pages: 1147Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.95lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 2.38d

Product information not available.Author: David William FosterISBN-10: 0313234191ISBN-13: 9780313234194Publisher: GreenwoodLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/28/1982Pages: 232Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.19lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d

While Kamau Brathwaite is renown for his achievements as a world literary, historical, and cultural critic, his Anglophone Caribbean poetry is the cornerstone of his legacy. His critically acclaimed trilogy, The Arrivants, which is composed of the individual volumes, Rights of Passage, Masks, and...

Elie Wiesel: Messenger to All Humanity is a call to both Christians and Jews to face the tragedy of the Holocaust and begin again.Robert McAfee Brown was a friend of Wiesel and wrote Elie Wiesel: Messenger to All Humanity to process his own thoughts,...

It is with great pleasure and pride that I welcome you to the 58th issue of Reader's House Magazine, London's Literary Gateway. This issue celebrates the transformative power of storytelling and the remarkable authors who breathe life into words. The spotlight of this special...

This book focuses on genre studies and examines Gothic's outstanding characteristics like loose plot, hidden crimes and ruined settings. Anne Bronte redefines Gothic by writing in a fragmentary way. This storytelling is further examined in Jane Eyre. The story resists closure because Jane cannot...

Since 2016, Review Tales Magazine has been a beacon for the writing community, celebrating exceptional authors from around the globe. Each monthly issue delivers a carefully curated selection of book reviews from thousands of submissions, featuring only the most remarkable works.This isn't just a...

Notes on my books is a reflective collection that offers commentary on several earlier literary works, focusing on the creative process, storytelling, and cultural contexts behind the novels. The text reveals the author s thoughts on the challenges of writing, including how key works...

Bama is a Tamil Dalit feminist writer and novelist. This book presents a dedicated study of Bama's work as a writer and activist and situates her in the context of Dalit literature in general and Tamil Dalit literature in particular.Author: Raj KumarISBN-10: 1032785713ISBN-13: 9781032785714Publisher:...

A Study of Poetry, stands as a beacon in the world of books, bridging the gap between past and present. Once considered among the old books, this classic work-like so many forgotten and ancient books-has shaped our understanding of culture and history. It's a...

A warm, intimate window into a vanished world of ideas and friendship. Cambridge Neighbors gathers William Dean Howells's incisive portraits of writers and circles that shaped a vibrant New England literary scene. This collection blends nineteenth century essays with keen social commentary, offering literary...

Author: A. TeeuwISBN-10: 9067652083ISBN-13: 9789067652087Publisher: BrillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1986Pages: 254Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.00w x 0.70d

The study of resistance developed here, by Dr Esther Rowlands, consists of a fresh interrogation of the notion of resistance discourse. Here, for the first time, this detailed study of selected, wartime texts produced by Francis Ponge, Benjamin Péret, Henri Michaux and Antonin Artaud,...

Configuring Romanticism focuses on the ways in which "Romanticism" continues to change shape in light of new discoveries, new readings, new approaches. To this end, some essays here gathered offer novel interpretations of Romantic "classics" such as Wordsworth, Blake, and Southey, or discuss the...