Literary Criticism - General

Carl Zuckmayer, a renowned German dramatist, claimed for the legend the distinction of being the world's most celebrated saga. 1 Be that as it may, what is certain is the fact that of all sagas it is the most enigmatic and in some ways...

The Summaries of 150 Classic Fairy Tales Collected and Edited by B. K. De Fabris Created as a much needed and vital resource guide for children, parents and teachers, the book contains summaries on a number of classic fairy tales collected from various sources....

The Emerging Contours of the Medium explores a crucial aspect of media thinking, focusing particularly on the 'mediality' of literature, a medium that remains today on the margins of the theoretical discussion of media. The book was written by a collective of authors based...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1915 Edition.Author: Thomas H. DickinsonISBN-10: 1498128424ISBN-13: 9781498128421Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 688Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.99lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.38d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.Author: John DrinkwaterISBN-10: 1498106358ISBN-13: 9781498106351Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 520Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.97lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.01w x 1.05d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.Author: AeschylusISBN-10: 1498082890ISBN-13: 9781498082891Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 442Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.29lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.90d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1909 Edition.Author: Alex DrydenISBN-10: 1498084133ISBN-13: 9781498084130Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 448Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.31lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.91d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1912 Edition.Author: Arnold BennettISBN-10: 1498074324ISBN-13: 9781498074322Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 422Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.86d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1897 Edition.Author: Andrew LangISBN-10: 1497993253ISBN-13: 9781497993259Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 238Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.50d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1900 Edition.Author: Charles Grosvenor OsgoodISBN-10: 1497979579ISBN-13: 9781497979574Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.42d

This is a new release of the original 1934 edition.Author: Rudolph W. ChamberlainISBN-10: 1494116340ISBN-13: 9781494116347Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 518Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.51lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.04d

This is a new release of the original 1956 edition.Author: David DaichesISBN-10: 1494105942ISBN-13: 9781494105945Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 418Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.23lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.85d

How does a culture respond when the limits of childhood become uncertain? The emergence of pre-adolescence in the 1980s, which is signified by the new PG-13 rating for film, disrupted the established boundaries between childhood and adulthood. The concept of pre-adolescence affected not only...

Writers and alcohol have long been associated--for some, the association becomes unmanageable. Drawing on rare sources, this collection of brief biographies traces the lives of 13 well known literary drinkers, examining how their relationship with alcohol developed and how it affected their work, for...

Since 9/11, war literature has become a key element in American popular culture, spurring critical debate about depictions of combat--Who can write war literature? When can they do it? This book presents a new way to closely read war narratives, questioning the idea of...

Modern readers can sometimes be unsure about the language and the literary conventions of medieval and Renaissance verse--lyrical works written at a time before poetry was assumed to be about personal expression. This readers' guide introduces to a 21st century audience some of the...

Ghost stories have played a prominent role in childhood. Circulated around playgrounds and whispered in slumber parties, their history in American literature is little known and seldom discussed by scholars. This book explores the fascinating origins and development of these tales, focusing on the...

The simplicity of children's picture books--stories told with illustrations and a few well chosen words or none at all--makes them powerful tools for teaching morals and personal integrity. Children follow the story and see the characters' behaviors on the page and interpret them in...

Winifred Black worked in journalism from 1888 to 1936, often writing under the pseudonym Annie Laurie. Her work appeared in the Hearst papers--especially the San Francisco Examiner--and in fifty additional newspapers weekly through syndication. Black wrote 10,000 short pieces, as well as three books,...

Richard Cardwell was given the Elma Dangerfield Award of the International Byron Society for the best book on Byron in 2005-06Byron, arguably, was and remains the most famous and infamous English poet in the modern period in Continental Europe. From Portugal in the West...

This volume is the sesquicentennial issue of the journal Studies in Philology, published by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This journal established a national reputation for the university as a center for sound humanistic scholarship, and it is now recognized internationally...

Author: Henry BenderISBN-10: 1462874088ISBN-13: 9781462874088Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2011Pages: 306Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.33lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

The Eagle That Refused to Dance with Chickens is a metaphor that is traditionally narrated in two African languages, Kiswahili and Kikuyu. It is an Oral literature genre that communicates strength of self-determination in spite of gross failures. This story in particular, although has...

Author: Arthur KahnISBN-10: 1453537473ISBN-13: 9781453537473Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/18/2010Pages: 242Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

NOAH'S CHILDREN tells the story of an individual who awakens to the many environmental crises threatening our ways of life. While global warming, visible and documented in countless cases, is the one great challenge to human existence as we have known it, a number...

The femme fatale appears with unceasing regularity in the texts of major poets of the nineteenth century. She symbolises an intractable mystery, a refusal to be defined and a fierce attempt to exist outside the established gender system. Soft-Shed Kisses: Re-visioning the Femme Fatale...

The year of 1832 marked a turning point in France as the country struggled to find its way in the wake of the French Revolution. Following the Revolution of 1830, Legitimists, supporters of the recently ousted Bourbon dynasty's claim to the throne, continued to...

Christianity and the Detective Story is the first book to gather together academic criticism on this particular connection between religion and popular culture. The articles cover the origin of this relationship in the works of G. K. Chesterton, examine its development through the Golden...

Factual Fictions: Narrative Truth and the Contemporary American Documentary Novel focuses on contemporary American documentary narratives, specifically the documentary novel, as it re-emerged in the 1960s and later developed into various other forms. The book explores the connections between the documentary novel and the...

The essays in this volume focus on the text-world dichotomy that has been a pivotal problem since Plato, implicating notions of mimesis and representation and raising a series of debatable issues. Do literary texts relate only to the fictional world and not to the...

Detached from Shakespeare's English, Hamlet has been rewritten numerous times in European languages, the various translations into any one language jostling with each other for dominance and spawning new Hamlets that depart decisively from Shakespeare as a source. This book focuses on the rich...

The aim of the book is twofold: first, to provide an overview of the critical history of eccentricity; and secondly to conceptualise a notion that is often presented as a defining feature of the English character. It addresses the key issues raised by eccentricity...

In recent years, the interest in the house has grown irresistibly, to the point that in many ways houses seem to be situated at the very core of the creative, artistic and cultural domains of contemporaneity. Their presence sprawls across the media, from magazines...

Earthly Honest Things brings together the complete shorter writings of a leading international authority on William Langland. Of A. V. C. Schmidt's recent two-volume Piers Plowman: A Parallel Text Edition, Derek Pearsall has said in Speculum that 'By any standards, it is a monumental...

Byron and Italy tackles a subject to which no book has been devoted exclusively since the early 1940s. Peter Cochran writes not just about Byron's relationships with Italian literature, not just about his relationships with Italian women, and not just about his relationship with...

In part a sequel to his earlier Death and Fantasy, William Gray's Fantasy, Art and Life: Essays on George MacDonald, Robert Louis Stevenson and Other Fantasy Writers examines the ways in which Life in its various senses is affirmed, explored and enhanced through the...

This book examines the changing roles of fathers in the nineteenth century as seen in the lives and fiction of Victorian authors. Fatherhood underwent unprecedented change during this period. The Industrial Revolution moved work out of the home for many men, diminishing contact between...

Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber (1782-1871) was long considered one of the most typically French as well as one of the most successful of the opera composers of the 19th century. Although musically gifted, he initially chose commerce as a career, but soon realized that his future...

Juliusz Slowacki is one of Poland's most important writers, but his poetry and plays are little known in the West. This book provides a long-overdo, much-needed introduction to him. It contains his popular play Balladina, his meditative poem Agamemnon's Tomb, and his hilarious mock-epic...

This book presents a vivid overview of linguistic, literary and educational issues in a multicultural context from various perspectives. These range from large-scale surveys to specific analyses on aspects of language, literature and education. Contributions are very original and based on a common denominator:...

This volume brings together nine papers written by researchers from all over Europe working within the realms of political science, the humanities, theology and religion, as well as business, economics, and management. They offer unique perspectives to provide a truly multifaceted take on the...

Author: Sharon WorleyISBN-10: 1443801275ISBN-13: 9781443801270Publisher: Cambridge Scholars PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2016Pages: 165Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.90w x 0.80d

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: H. E. PalmerISBN-10: 1443727954ISBN-13: 9781443727952Publisher:...

The familiar stories of the good Samaritan, the prodigal son, and Lazarus and the rich man were part of the cultural currency in the nineteenth century, and Victorian authors drew upon the figures and plots of biblical parables for a variety of authoritative, interpretive,...

Wagner's Music Dramas Analyzed: With The Leading Motives is a book written by Gustav Kobbe and first published in 1904. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of the music dramas of the renowned German composer Richard Wagner. Kobbe delves into the musical structure and...

""Methods And Aims In The Study Of Literature: A Series Of Extracts And Illustrations"" is a book written by Lane Cooper and published in 1915. The book is a collection of essays and articles that discuss various approaches and goals in the study of...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

Author: Laura JacobsenISBN-10: 1436351774ISBN-13: 9781436351775Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/31/2008Pages: 364Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.51lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d