Literary Criticism - General

The Routledge Companion to Migration Literature offers a comprehensive survey of an increasingly important field. It demonstrates the influence of the "age of migration" on literature and showcases the role of literature in shaping socio-political debates and creating knowledge about the migratory trajectories, lives,...

Warsaw Tales is an anthology of short stories and non-fiction set in the Polish capital. Beginning in 1911 with Boleslaw Prus' Apparitions, the collected stories provide a chronological account of the city's tumultuous and dramatic history. Each story captures a phase of Warsaw's past,...

The pandemic, climate change, rising populism, geo-political unrest - just a few of the issues causing turbulence in today's world. We are living and working in times that are complex and fast changing. If complexity theory is good for anything, it must be able...

The English first edition of Dramatis Person was published in May 1864, with the American first edition appearing hard on its heels in the following September. This was the second of the two great collections of Robert Browning's middle years--the first, Men and Women,...

The Seven Lively Arts, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a...

Meleager is one of the greatest poets of the ancient world, and in this beautiful volume, Headlam presents fifty of his most inspiring and timeless works. With translations that capture the spirit and power of the original text, this book is a true treasure...

One of the founding works of Latin literature, Aetna is a poem written in 40 hexameters that describes the eruption of Mount Etna. While the poem was widely popular in ancient times, its authorship is still debated today. Nevertheless, Aetna remains an important work...

This book is an insightful and thought-provoking collection of essays on the philosophy of life by Schopenhauer, one of the most influential thinkers of the 19th century. Drawing on his vast knowledge of literature, art, and science, Schopenhauer delves into topics such as happiness,...

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,...

The book "" The Book of Old English Ballads, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future...

As language generating AI grows more sophisticated, new questions arise (and old questions take on new significance) about the nature of originality, authorship, influence, truth, knowledge, freedom, the human and the machine.Ghosts, Robots, Automatic Writing: an AI Level Study Guide is the result of...

In Shouting Softly, literary lawyer and proud Southerner Allen Mendenhall provides valuable insights into perennial questions about the fundamental features of civil society. His expansive commentaries and criticism on law, literature, and culture reveal an abiding commitment to ordered liberty, the decentralization and diffusion...

Research on Portuguese orientalism has been mostly centred on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and has focused on missionary work and Catholic orientalism. In contrast, reflection on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is scarce and has relied on individual case studies, notwithstanding the TECOP...

Drawing upon his Welsh and Jewish heritage, Dannie Abse presents a rich autobiography that chronicles his life as both a doctor and an author. Humorous and poignant, this new edition not only includes the acclaimed first volume A Poet in the Family, but also...

This is a new release of the original 1939 edition.Author: Robert Hunter WestISBN-10: 1494074508ISBN-13: 9781494074500Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 292Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.61d

Contemplating Shostakovich marks an important new stage in the understanding of Shostakovich and his working environment. Each chapter covers aspects of the composer's output in the context of his life and cultural milieu. The contributions uncover 'outside' stimuli behind Shostakovich's works, allowing the reader...

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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

Great Dames is a collection of biographical sketches, memoirs, and essays about twentieth-century Canadian women from all walks of life. While attempting to capture the meaning of the ordinary lives of extraordinary women, it also explores the possibility of challenging, even subverting, the traditional...

Jane Austen's novels are loved because they possess a comedic power that is often conveyed through the singular voice of the narrators. Film adaptations, however, have often been unsatisfactory because they lack or awkwardly render features, particularly the voice of the narrators. This work...

The Creative Writing Compass presents a dynamic navigational instrument for creative writers and those learning to be creative writers, providing a method for developing and advancing knowledge of creative writing. Award-winning novelist Graeme Harper explores the many fluid interactions of the imagination and the...

An incisive and erudite survey of Machiavelli, the catastrophes of his times and ours, and his counsel for responding to an era of constant crises Catastrophe looms. Political, environmental, epidemic, and military crises arrive with increasing frequency. In The Way to Hell, Nathan Crick...

Highlights the importance of considering contemporary public culture through the lens of fan studies The Gamergate harassment campaign of women in video games, the "Unite the Right" rally where hundreds of Confederate monument supporters cried out racist and antisemitic slurs in Charlottesville, and the...

Sketches and Scholarly Studies: Part II, Musical Settings and Sketches brings together two crucial aspects of Gerard Manley Hopkins's insatiable drive to create: drawing, predominantly (but not exclusively) from the early part of his life, when he had ambitions to be a painter; and...

Author: Taylor Arnold, Lauren TiltonISBN-10: 303162565XISBN-13: 9783031625657Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/23/2024Pages: 284Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.31lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d

The works of Titus Flavius Josephus ben Matthias on biblical history and the Jewish war were read and studied throughout the Latin west during the Middle Ages. Each generation of Christian scholars had to contend with the Jewish writer's text, reputation, and content. This...

Sounds Sensesis about what happens to the francophone postcolonial condition when sound is taken as a point of departure for engaging cultural production. Offering a synthetic overview of sound studies, it dismantles the retinal paradigms and oculocentrism of francophone postcolonial studies. By shifting the...

An incisive and erudite survey of Machiavelli, the catastrophes of his times and ours, and his counsel for responding to an era of constant crises Catastrophe looms. Political, environmental, epidemic, and military crises arrive with increasing frequency. In The Way to Hell, Nathan Crick...

Scandinavia's foremost living auteur and the catalyst of the Dogme95 movement, Lars von Trier is arguably world cinema's most confrontational and polarizing figure. Willfully devastating audiences, he takes risks few filmmakers would conceive, mounting projects that somehow transcend the grand follies they narrowly miss...

This book examines deployments of mixed emotion in the literary and pictorial arts of early modern Europe. It consists of two parts, the first focusing on portrayals of mixed emotion in theatre, poetry, and prose, the second on forms and functions of mixed emotion...

In this edited volume, an authoritative collective work produced by the intellectual efforts of more than forty scholars gathered at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan in September 2022 for the international conference Dystopian Worlds Beyond Storytelling, the reader will find a...

In the book MILLION MAN MARCH, the author travels through recent decades of American History and through daily experiences with racism on his way to the transforming experience of the Million Man March.After having sought equality through the civil rights movement, the author concludes,...

Fantasy novels are products of popular culture. They owe their popularity also to the visualization of medievalist artifacts on book covers and designs, illustrations, maps, and marketing: Castles on towering cliffs, cathedral-like architecture, armored heroes and enchanting fairies, fierce dragons and mages follow mythical...

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,...

The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century English Women explores the vital and unexplored ways in which women's life writings acted to undergird, guide, and indeed shape religious communities. Through an exploration of various significant but understudied personal relationships- including mentorship by older...

This book collects some of the most famous allegories from literature, including works from Aesop, John Bunyan, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. A must-read for those who appreciate allegory and its use in literature.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is...

In this comprehensive guide to reading, Charles H. Moore offers practical advice for developing effective reading habits and maximizing the benefits of reading. From choosing the right books to improving reading comprehension and speed, this book covers all the essential skills and strategies needed...

Arthur Quiller Couch was one of the foremost literary critics of the early 20th century, and his book On the Art of Reading remains a classic exploration of the pleasures and pitfalls of reading. Drawing on his own experience as a reader and writer,...

A collection of poetry from some of the most famous poets of the early 20th century, including Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Carlos Williams, and Robert Frost. The poems cover a wide range of themes and styles.This work has been selected by scholars as...

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,...

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,...

Continuity and change have been major concerns of the social and behavioral sciences -- in the study of human development and in the study of processes that unfold in various ways across time. There has been a veritable explosion of techniques for studying change...

'You have given a faithful portrait of a Thug's life, his ceremonies, and his acts' Often overshadowed by Kipling's Kim or Forster's A Passage to India, Philip Meadows Taylor's forgotten classic, Confessions of a Thug (1839), is nevertheless the most influential novel of early...

For so long figured in European discourses as the antithesis of modernity, the Pacific Islands have remained all but absent from the modernist studies' critical map. Yet, as the chapters of New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific collectively show, Pacific artists and...

Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Fachbereich Translations-, Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft), course: The Frontier in U.S. Fiction and Film: From Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly (1799) to Cormac McCarthy's The Road...

"Distance Still Matters" is an influential Harvard Business Review article. In this work, Ghemawat proposes the CAGE distance framework that allows firms to consider four dimensions of international distance (cultural, administrative, geographic, and economic) when planning global expansion. Then, he demonstrates the usefulness of...

Historical fiction has surged in popularity in recent years, with new subgenres emerging (e.g. Viking romance, religious thrillers) and reader interest showing no signs of slowing down. This follow-up to Johnson's critically acclaimed guide published in 2005 covers new territory by focusing on English-language...

When I say that during most of my conscious life I have been a prey to fears I take it for granted that I am expressing the case of the majority of people. I cannot remember the time when a dread of one kind...

English Literature by Stopford Brooke. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1882 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.Author: Stopford BrookeISBN-10: 1532789289ISBN-13: 9781532789281Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/16/2016Pages: 230Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w...