Literary Criticism - General

Who were and who are the European Other(s), and how have their socio-cultural circumstances been aesthetically expressed and discussed in works of literature and art in European history? Members of the interdisciplinary group of researchers "The Borders of Europe" address these questions and shed...

The village of Reykholt in Borgarfjörðr, Iceland, is probably best known for its thirteenth-century occupant, Snorri Sturluson--historian, scholar, and much-acclaimed author of the Heimskringla and Edda sagas. But Reykholt was already an important site before Snorri's arrival, serving as the seat of chieftains and...

Author: ArcheobooksISBN-10: 8376761021ISBN-13: 9788376761022Publisher: ArcheobooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/31/2011Pages: 119Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbs

Gitanjali, or Song Offerings, is a collection of poems translated by the author, Rabindranath Tagore, from the original Bengali. This collection won Tagore the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. He was the first Asian to win the honour. These poems are primarily devotional,...

The contentious discourse around world literature tends to stress the 'world' in the phrase. This volume, in contrast, asks what it means to approach world literature by inflecting the question of the literary. Debates for, against, and around 'world literature' have brought renewed attention...

This volume seeks to extend our understanding of how knowledge about the past was and is being produced in central and northern Eurasia. Its authors use the methods of several disciplines -- literary studies, history, anthropology, area studies -- in an attempt to seize...

This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural...

Glorious Vulgarity: Marie Corelli's Feminine Sublime in a Popular Context re-evaluates the work of Marie Corelli (1855-1924), the first English bestselling author of the one-volume novel. Until now critics have discussed Corelli in a socio-historical context, but have dismissed her novels as popular fiction...

Transnational American Studies have been developed by international and internationally minded scholars to address the need for border-crossing awareness, knowledge and consciousness of difference. In a decisive change from the comparativist pattern of investigation between two or more assumed units, the transnational approach intends...

Despite its popularity, the newest wave of dystopian narratives is often viewed as derivative and deficient. This collection proposes a different, more nuanced viewpoint, arguing that contemporary dystopian fiction changes and updates genre conventions to tackle controversial and contemporary issues in complex ways, such...

The book examines the literary representation of the myth of Orestes in ancient Greek tragedy and in modern French literature. The treatment of Orestes in the Oresteia of Aes-chylus is interpreted as the offspring of what is supposed to be the Orestes complex. Sartres...

In the Victorian sensation novel, things that bear witness to secrets, guilt, and past crimes proliferate. These pieces of evidence often belong to the category of the keepsake and come in the shape of jewels, textiles, or conserved fragments of cloth, hair, or paper,...

(Mis-)readings of the stars and our place in the cosmos have long been used as a metaphor for reading fictional worlds: to speak of 'reading into the stars' is to acknowledge that the stargazer instils the otherwise empty sidereal text with meaning of their...

The essay has constituted an important prose form since the sixteenth century and opens up an intriguing field for interdisciplinary study. Applied to such heterogeneous writings as maxims, aphorisms, proverbs, letters, and treatises, it has always eluded a clear definition. Not surprisingly, literary and...

Until recently, the critical reception of historical fiction was dominated by two theoretical paradigms: Gyorgy Lukacs's Marxist view and Linda Hutcheon's concept of 'historiographic metafiction'. We are now entering a new phase as the discussion of the historical novel is rapidly becoming more inclusive,...

In what way can we look today at the fairy tale and its tradition? The fairy tale, born as an oral process based upon formulaic repetitions, becomes in contemporary writers a typically literary process founded upon the play with tradition and the recovering of...

Since the classical myths of Pegasus and the centaurs, mankind in the Western world has shared a deep relationship with horses, and it is small wonder that the good-nature quadrupeds have also found their representations in innumerable literary texts. Rather than keeping to the...

Based on a wide range of mainly unknown novels published during the first half of the 20th century, this book presents a survey of the changing image of the Victorians in historical middlebrow fiction in the course of the first half of the twentieth...

This work explores the dynamics of the metamorphosis that the classical fairy tales have undergone throughout the centuries. Such analysis is conducted from a literary and from a memetic point of view, through an investigation that aims at outlining the role of the fairy...

Lives in precarious conditions are on the edge and out of balance. They call for recognition and reaction, but they also cause discomfort for those who regard them. This collection of articles focuses on how such lives can - or cannot - be represented,...

Ever since the publication of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein', in which the protagonist desires to "pour a torrent of light into our dark world" by assuming the role of creator, writers have been fascinated with the motif of the scientist as God - that is,...

The author is dead; long live the author. In a time when discourses, words and structures determine the discussion about literary texts, paradoxically, the figure of the artist looms large in novels, short stories, movies and plays. In a "post-Barthesian age" (Scherzinger) the figure...

Representations of the human life cycle in literature have varied with time, social conditions and value systems and may be seen as projections of, or deviations from, an 'ideal life'. The cult of childhood, the focus on initiation or conversely aging, life extension and...

Autobiographies and self portraits can be understood as figures of image control that try to express and secure a person's reputation for contemporary and future generations. However, there have always been competing perspectives between self-descriptions and descriptions of oneself by others. It is this...

Miscellaneous Poems, Songs and Rhymes is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher...

Village sermons, and town and country sermons is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1890. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As...

The Poetical Works of Alexander Craig of Rose-Craig - 1604-1631 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1873. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and...

The Eclipse of Faith - Or a Visit to a Religious Sceptic is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1861. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition,...

The Life and Times of Goethe is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1880. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher...

Author: Gabriella Di SandriISBN-10: 3639005880ISBN-13: 9783639005882Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Language: EnglishPublished: 05/21/2008Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d

Hawthornes Werk ist über die Jahrhunderte hinweg kontinuierlich rezipiert worden. Seine zentrale Bedeutung für den amerikanischen Roman ist nach wie vor unbestritten. Die Arbeit beleuchtet die Verknüpfung von literarischer Ethik und romantischer Religiosität und unternimmt eine umfassende Neubewertung von Hawthornes Erzählungen und Romanen im...

Archivum Ottomanicum concerns itself primarily with Ottoman history and Ottoman philology. However, the editors also welcome articles on subjects related to Ottoman studies in the history and culture of Europe, including Danubian Europe, the Black Sea area and the Caucasus, and in the history...

The emergence of Turkey as a nation-state at the beginning of the twentieth century was accompanied by a radical alienation from the multinational Ottoman Empire and its multicultural heritage. This break resulted in a gap in the collective memory of Turkey reflected as well...

Poetical Works - Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1887. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher...

A History of Spanish Literature is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher...

New Studies in Literature is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1895. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we...

The Story of Ireland - With some Additions by Mrs. Arthur Bronson is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1888. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition,...

Essays on religion and literature is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1871. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher...

Village Sermons and Town and Country Sermons is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1879. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As...

Shakespeare's tragedy of Julius Caesar is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher...

This book examines the argumentation strategies employed by linguists in voicing criticism, looks for explanations for confrontation in academic discourse, and evaluates the positive and/or negative effects it has on international academic communication. Issues such as the role of intertextuality, cross-cultural variations, and the...

This book constitutes the thoroughly revised selected papers from the 18th International Symposium, FACS 2022, which was held online in November 2022.The 12 full papers and 1 short paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. FACS 2021 is focusing on the areas...

This book introduces the principles of place and time by discussing the main roles they play in argumentation, unpacking the multifarious meanings of spatiality and temporality. Definitions of kairos are explored to yield suggestions as to how this concept, and that of 'place', can...

This study examines, from the West to the Indian Ocean, myths and literary and cinematographic representations of the celestial voyage by way of a little-known corpus, made up of tales of adventure, short stories, stage productions, and imaginary journeys.Author: Francoise SylvosISBN-10: 2812447354ISBN-13: 9782812447358Publisher: Classiques...

Contributeurs: Felix Bettems, Jehanne Denogent, Fabien Dubosson, Jacilene Felix de Moura, Anastasia Gladoshchuk, Jean-Carlo Fluckiger, Thierry Jugan, Christine Le Quellec Cottier, Claude Leroy, Antonio Rodriguez, Bacary Sarr, Emilien Sermier, Vincent YersinAuthor: Classiques GarnierISBN-10: 2406122808ISBN-13: 9782406122807Publisher: Classiques GarnierLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2021Pages: 158Format: PaperbackWeight: 14.88lbs

Contributeurs: Nehmetallah Abi-Rached, Guy Achard-Bayle, Jean-Claude Anscombre, Nancy Balard, Laurence Denooz, Salam Diab Duranton, Georges Kleiber, Marie-France Merger, Souad Moudian, Randa Saliba Chidiac et Zahra Zaid.Author: Classiques GarnierISBN-10: 2406103846ISBN-13: 9782406103844Publisher: Classiques GarnierLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/10/2020Pages: 211Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbs

"Aleksandr Sukonik never glides on the surface of things; he burrows himself into his subject, digs his own channel in search of the ever elusive truth. He shakes the very foundation of Russian tradition of literary criticism itself." -- Marietta Chudakova, literary critic and...

From MARY to LOLITA to THE ORIGINAL OF LAURA and more, this book mines Nabokov's oeuvre for example of nymphets, nympholepts, and nympholepsy.Author: Mo IbrahimISBN-10: 1973517930ISBN-13: 9781973517931Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/10/2017Pages: 106Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.25d

"All Kids go to Heaven" Is a psychological thriller mystery. It is about a displaced family who was helped by a church congregation, two children killed, and their mother arrested for the crime of murder. Jenny, the surviving daughter, is determined that her mother...

In this new collaboration between artist Simon Carr and poet Leonard Schwartz, risk, beauty, mortality and relation seek out some equation by way of the delirium that accompanies the presence of a certain creature. Following on their earlier book, Salamander: A Bestiary, also from...