Literary Criticism - General

The supernova blaze of Adam Cornford's poetry fuses surrealism, science, politics, and eros to yield exotic particles of meaning rarely found on Earth. Cornford's vision, like that of Blake, overleaps the dark Satanic mills of commodity culture to discover a utopia that can only...

Io's Song is poem, energy field, myth, and autobiographical essay. It is " signatures' colors." As the author states near the end of the work, Myth is not a narrative applied, but discovered. The narrative that emanates against our will revealing ITSELF, A VIOLENT...

In a sentence, the phrase " for instance" follows an assertion or argument, and precedes a series of examples. Eli Goldblatt gives us myriad examples unconnected to a thesis, except insofar as the thesis asserts what is. This is a world composed of bombings,...

Karen Mac Cormack's new work, in a large page format, explores the limits of poetry's ability to visually stun, to go " as far as the eye can reach."Author: Karen Mac CormackISBN-10: 1946104132ISBN-13: 9781946104137Publisher: Chax PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2018Pages: 76Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 10.90h x 8.50w...

Sanguinetti takes on the archetype of the hero from every angle-- at times many simultaneously-- and in a language itself heroic in its leaps and shifts and its inventive riffs that tap into ambient legend, with its steaming horses, epic journeys, and, of course,...

To explore Mantis is to explore language as organic material in formation, information as material. The work is bitmined, one might say, from The Maintains by Clark Coolidge, taking as rudiment processes of jazz improvisation, particularly as practiced by musicians who may take a...

The title of Kit Robinson's latest is a nod to the Great Includer, and its pages share something of that earlier writer's peripatetic energy, his constant welcoming. Think also of Monk's sidewinding testaments, Saul Leiter's carefully sudden Manhattan kodachromes, Top 40 radio when it...

The Passing of the Storm, by Alfred Castner King, is an epic poem that takes the reader on a journey through the history of the American Civil War, The Crimean War in Russia, and life in the Rocky Mountains during the early 1900s. Through...

Beware the Roadbuilders: Literature as Resistance was born out of blogging as an act of social justice. Over a period of about two years, many posts built the case against market-based education reform and for a critical re-imagining of public education. This book presents...

Literary Nonfiction. In WAYS OF LOOKING AT A WOMAN, a book-length essay that interweaves memoir with film and literary history, Caroline Hagood assumes the role of detective to ask, what is a woman, mother, and writer? By turns smart, funny, and poignant, Ways of...

That Ezra Pound was the chief architect of Modernism in English and American poetry is well established. So, too, is the fact that in T. S. Eliot he discovered a peer, whose early career he fostered. Together, Pound and Eliot defined what Modern Poetry...

A series of attempted answers to a suitably challenging mock-examination paper probe the curious relations between various literary works and the specific procedures, problems, and dilemmas of the legal process, from the dubious status of evidence in the fiction of magistrate-novelist Henry Fielding, through...

Drama and democracy are critically entwined. This book considers some of the interconnections. A posthumous letter to Raymond Williams asks questions about his neglected television plays. The ambivalent politics of popular drama, from melodrama to TV, is analysed. And a highly ambitious and elliptical,...

This short book offers three accessible essays. Joyce's Boarding House shows how the use of language in Dubliners might justify his claim for the book as a chapter in the moral history of Ireland. Portrait of the Artist as an Undergraduate considers two very...

"If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England" Written shortly before Rupert Brooke's death in 1915, these words were to place him alongside Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon in the...

This richly annotated collection of previously unpublished verse by Thomas St Nicholas (1602-1668), an important puritan lawyer, parliamentarian and contemporary of John Milton, provides a memorable record of English life during the crucial middle decades of the seventeenth century.Author: H. N. DaviesISBN-10: 1902459326ISBN-13: 9781902459325Publisher:...

The subject of this collection of poems, the lagahoo, is a shapeshifting trickster figure in Trinidadian legend who, like the Native American coyote, operates at both divine and human levels as creator and interferer. As the narrative is written from the perspective of the...

Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Art. MUDFISH 22 is bursting with poems; prose and art; that are revelations; that grab you by the lapels; that defy forgetting. They are before and after visions and celebrations of our world today. Guest art editor John Yau...

In a series of trenchant case studies, this book examines that revolution that took place in literary criticism in the 1980s. Analzed are deconstruction and post-structuralism and the relationship between literature, society and politics. Discussed are Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Jean-Paul Sartre, Raymond Williams,...

Interviews, essays and conversations with or about Alan Garner, Russell Hoban, John Burnside, Iain Sinclair, David Toop, Nicholas Royle, Andrew Poppy, David Kennedy, Greg Bottoms, Ken Edwards, Robert Sheppard, David Miller, Steve Spence, Paul Sutton and Brian Louis Pearce.Author: Rupert M. LoydellISBN-10: 1848612990ISBN-13: 9781848612990Publisher:...

Culture and Anarchy is considered Arnold's masterpiece, a consideration of the idea of culture leading out to sweeping critiques of ninenteenth-century British social, political, ecclesiastical and educational issues. It is here coupled with his essay on Celtic Literature, which extends a principal concern with...

Whereas Thomas Hood has long been regarded as a minor comic poet, this book--the first to devote itself exclusively to his verse--provides a detailed analysis of two serious poems (Hero and Leander and The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies) so as to give a...

'This landmark contribution to Australian literary studies is the first collection of critical responses to the work of one of our most important novelists, Thea Astley. As well as essays from leading Australian and international critics, dating from 1967 to the present, it includes...

Awareness of the role that physical difference plays in an individual's ability to negotiate personal and cultural spaces has spread into a variety of disciplines within the past two decades. This collection of essays adds to the growing corpus of work exploring the body...

This collection offers a multi-faceted investigation of the critical issue of the creation and place of the Other in Ireland. The extraordinarily rapid recent economic development of Ireland has effected a profound transformation in the island's social and cultural life. In the process, old...

This collection of essays is devoted to last letters: letters sent - or not - to sever a relationship, to mark the end of a phase in one's life, or letters written by people about to be executed or commit suicide just before their...

Maurice Magnus's Memoirs of the Foreign Legion was published in 1924, several years after his death. In the introduction, D. H. Lawrence presents the author as a scoundrel and a cheat, an assessment that has had a lasting influence on Magnus's reputation. Maurice Magnus:...

Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles is a student-guide to Thomas Hardy's most enduring novel. Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of the great classics of the British novel tradition and one of the most beloved works of the nineteenth century. This lively, informed, and...

The social and political opinions of the author of Piers Plowman derive from, and reflect, a personal background significantly different from that of Chaucer, Gower, or the Pearl-poet. Langland and the Pearl-poet resemble each other in seeming, at first glance, more politically and aesthetically...

While I was writing 'The Anti-Hero, ' it was then that I made up my mind to write a summary of all eleven novels since I started on this endeavour back in 2009. As people read this summary they will see plenty of dialogue,...

Do you want to read Mansfield Park? If so then keep reading...Adopted into the household of her uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, Fanny Price grows up a meek outsider among her cousins in the unaccustomed elegance of Mansfield Park. Soon after Sir Thomas absents himself...

Do you want to read Mansfield Park? If so then keep reading...Adopted into the household of her uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, Fanny Price grows up a meek outsider among her cousins in the unaccustomed elegance of Mansfield Park. Soon after Sir Thomas absents himself...

This collection contains poems about my life: my feelings and happenings in my life, my family, my friends, and even my country. It also contains many poems I composed to the characters in my unfinished fictions and plays of the same theme.Author: Yan SongISBN-10:...

This collection contains poems about my life: my feelings and happenings in my life, my family, my friends, and even my country. It also contains many poems I composed to the characters in my unfinished fictions and plays of the same theme.Author: Yan SongISBN-10:...

In Japan, Thomas Wolfe's long narrative novels frequently inspired his readers to write a great number of haiku poems. However, Martin Wasserman, this book's author, discovered that it was not in Wolfe's novels but in his short stories where one could find endless inspiration....

Claims of Identity is a book of essays discussing relationships between archetypes and identities. Drawing on history, timeless tropes, and comparative literature, this book explores the activities of identification in a variety of ways, adding significance to representations of outsiders and the marginalized in...

Maria Stuart, described as Schiller's most perfect play, is a finely balanced, inventive account of the last day of the captive Queen of Scotland, caught up in a great contest for the throne of England after the death of Henry VIII and over the...

The Yearbook of English Studies 2013 is devoted to early English drama, ranging from what is generally understood as 'medieval' to plays of the early Tudor period, while also including chapters on modern theatrical responses to the surviving corpus of texts. The volume is...

This study focuses upon the work of the Catalan woman poet Maria-Mercè Marçal. It analyses the interaction between body and language in her first five books of poetry. Drawing on the Italian feminist thought of il pensiero della differenza sessuale, it examines the ways...

Those who are regular readers -- or those who are addicted to books -- may have their own favorite titles from years or decades past and they often go back to re-read their favorites. George Orwell said that there was never a year went...

Chapter One "On Becoming a Poet" SeriesAuthor: Geoffrey BrienISBN-10: 1732614113ISBN-13: 9781732614116Publisher: Marsh Hawk PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/02/2002Pages: 105Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.40d

Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellISBN-10: 1731701667ISBN-13: 9781731701664Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/30/2018Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

I can talk all day about film. To write about it, and to share what films inspire me, frighten me, and entice me is an honor. Film is my favorite form of literature. I've seen more movies than I can remember. 'Letterboxd' gave me...

"The aim of this book is to offer readers a comprehensive academic reference where specialists, students, and researchers in the literary and critical affairs can refer to the issues raised by the poet, and the strategies and rhetorical methods invoked by his writings." The...

This volume celebrates fifty years of NeMLA's important presence in the world of academia with a collection of essays that adopt a transnational critical lens. With the present selection, we intend to add our voices to the ongoing debate centered on the renegotiation of...

If novelist Paul Mark Scott (1920-1978) has secured a niche in English literature, it is on the merits of his Raj Quartet and its sequel, Staying On, for which he won the Booker Prize in 1977. Yet by the time he had published The...

This is the only extant play by the great Irish novelist andis of interest both for its autobiographical content and for formal reasons. In the characters and their circumstances details of Joyce's life are evident. The main character, Richard Rowan, the moody, tormented writer...

Author: Rudyard KiplingISBN-10: 1589630629ISBN-13: 9781589630628Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL)Language: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2001Pages: 172Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 7.64h x 5.06w x 0.45d

Discovering Modern Horror Fiction 1, edited by Darrell Schweitzer, is a significant anthology that delves into the evolution and nuances of modern horror fiction. Published in 1985, this book is part of a series that aims to explore and analyze the horror genre through...

In The Agony of Shopping and Other Plays, Vince takes us on a roller coaster ride of the soul where flashes of light, nobility, and hope are intermingled with shadows of decadence, greed, and despair.Author: Constantino Vincent RiccardiISBN-10: 153261733XISBN-13: 9781532617331Publisher: Wipf & Stock PublishersLanguage:...