Literary Criticism - General

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""Under The Gaslight"" is a dramatic play written by Augustin Daly in 1867. Set in the 19th century, the play explores themes of love, betrayal, and redemption amidst the hustle and bustle of New York City. The story follows the lives of a group...

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This volume is a comprehensive overview of scholarship on this play. It includes chapters on criticism, sources and background, textual studies, bibliographies, editions, and translations. Also covered are the stage history and major productions of the play, and films, music, television, and adaptations and...

This critical text examines the ways in which Vladimir Nabokov, one of the twentieth century's great writers, structured his works to encapsulate his metaphysical beliefs. It draws examples from Nabokov's novels, stories and nonfiction, revealing a startling consistency in his beliefs over the course...

Interest in the middle ages is at an all time high at the moment, thanks in part to "The Da Vinci Code." Never has there been a moment more propitious for a study of our misconceptions of the Middle Ages than now. Ranging across...

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.Author: Andrew RutherfordISBN-10: 0415604540ISBN-13: 9780415604543Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/20/2010Pages: 532Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.35lbsSize:...

Author: Archie MafejeISBN-10: 1870784081ISBN-13: 9781870784085Publisher: CodesriaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2002Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d

Victorian Ethical Optics asks how artists and authors in the Victorian period answer the ethical question of how one should live with others by turning to a more specific one: how should one look at others? Looking would seem to necessarily lead to interpretation...

Author: Dana HuntleyISBN-10: 1956452702ISBN-13: 9781956452709Publisher: Central Park South PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/06/2024Pages: 228Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d

This book is a new study of the ancient Egyptian poem known in English as The Man Who Was Tired of Life or The Dialogue of a Man and His Ba (or Soul). The composition is universally regarded as one of the masterpieces of...

The essays in this volume represent a cross-section of current scholarship examining the implications of the concept of ?ffentlichkeit (the public sphere), originally conceived by the German philosopher J?rgen Habermas in the early 1960s, in his socio-historical study Strukturwandel der ?ffentlichkeit (The Structural Transformation...

The Nabokov Effect attends to the 'lettrocalamity' that occurs when literature and cinema collide in Vladimir Nabokov's work. Sigi Jöttkandt suspends the long-held critical investment in Nabokov's authorial control to focus on another principle of representational agency making incursions into his books. Tracing the...

The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose is a full-length essay collection devoted entirely to British Romantic nonfiction prose. Organized into eight parts, each containing between five and nine chapters arranged alphabetically, the Handbook weaves together familiar and unfamiliar texts, events, and authors, and...

In The Politics of Collecting, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptual art forms. Investigating historical legal and property claims, she argues that regimes of expropriation--rather than merit or good taste--are responsible for popular...

Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose is a carefully curated collection of insightful and thought-provoking excerpts from a wide range of authors, from Shakespeare to Milton to Bacon. This comprehensive volume is a must-read for anyone interested in English literature and...

This is a collection of religious hymns and spiritual songs written by renowned hymn writer Isaac Watts. The book is regarded as one of the most influential hymnals in English literature. It includes timeless classics such as "When I survey the wondrous cross" and...

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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 Bores: A Comedy in Three Acts "", 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...

Samuel Smiles, (born Dec. 23, 1812, Haddington, Berwickshire, Scot.--died April 16, 1904, London), Scottish author best known for his didactic work Self-Help (1859), which, with its successors, Character (1871), Thrift (1875), and Duty (1880), enshrined the basic Victorian values associated with the "gospel of...

Are we being played? Is our understanding of the traditionally fixed and static concepts of philosophy based on an oversimplification? This book explores some of the theories of the self since Descartes, together with the rationalism and the empiricism that sustain these ideas, and...

With over 900 biographical entries, more than 600 novels synopsized, and a wealth of background material on the publishers, reviewers and readers of the age the Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction is the fullest account of the period's fiction ever published. Now in a...

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Reading-Literature, Sixth Reader: Adapted And Graded (1915) is a book edited by Harriette Taylor Treadwell. The book is a collection of classic literary works that have been adapted and graded to suit the reading level of sixth-grade students. The book includes stories, poems, and...

The Tempest is one of the most suggestive, yet most elusive of all Shakespeare's plays, and has provoked a wide range of critical interpretations. It is a magical romance, yet deeply and problematically embedded in seventeenth-century debates about authority and power. In this updated...

The present volume covers 30 Pre-Revolutionary French women, providing a representative sampling of their manifold and varied contributions to intellectual and cultural history. This volume is unique in its grouping of essentially French writers from the Pre-Revolutionary period. The authors included here range from...

To paraphrase silent movie queen Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder's classic 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, "The epic miniseries are big! It's television that got small!" This is especially true when one compares such iconic epic miniseries as Rich Man, Poor Man (1976), Roots (1977),...

In this study Karen Lawrence presents Joyce's Ulysses as it evolves through radical changes of style. She traces the abandonment of a narrative norm for a series of rhetorical masks, regarded as conscious aesthetic experiments, and considers the theoretical implication of this process, for...

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Author: Sven WahlroosISBN-10: 0595138071ISBN-13: 9780595138074Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2001Pages: 664Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.13lbsSize: 9.22h x 6.02w x 1.61d

English is increasingly becoming the world's lingua franca. If we are not native speakers of one of the many varieties of English, then we may be students of English, or use English regularly for academic or business purposes. The English Language series, which is...

A reissue of a controversial analysis of the literature profession.When it first appeared in 1976, this groundbreaking exploration of the influences of capitalism on the profession of English touched a nerve among educators and inspired Library Journal to declare, "This book should be read...

This book explores one of the richest dialect families in the world: Chinese dialects. It covers all aspects of Chinese dialectology, from descriptive investigations, to dialect geography and philology, history, variation, language contact and sociolinguistics, and also includes a unique bibliography of dialect works...

A cultural history of disability, performance, and work in the modern United States In 1967, the US government funded the National Theatre of the Deaf, a groundbreaking rehabilitation initiative employing deaf actors. This project aligned with the postwar belief that transforming bodies, minds, aesthetics,...

The Contradictoriness of Sin: A Reading of Paradise Lost is a case study in how to engage in literary analysis to uncover timeless insights regarding human nature. Through the use of a concrete particular-Milton's Satan-a depiction of the nature of sin emerges in a...

Welcome to the 46th issue of Reader's House magazine! We are thrilled to bring you another edition filled with literary treasures, insightful interviews, and a celebration of storytelling in all its forms. This issue is particularly special as we feature the remarkable Jesse Sutanto...

Signs of Being is a collection of poetry, prose, and commentary born from the insights, observations, and experiences of C.T. Perez to understand the realms of CHamoru cultural identity. This work aims to articulate the mindscape of an indigenous CHamoru consciousness through ec(h)o literature:...

The outcome of the first international conference on David Mitchell's writing, this collection of critical essays, focuses on his first three novels - Ghostwritten (1999), number9dream (2001) and Cloud Atlas (2004) - to provide a sustained analysis of Mitchell's complex narrative techniques and the...

Asks how we can better understand a politics of refusal Writing a new story of Black politics, Jump emerges from the practice of enslaved Africans jumping overboard off their slavers' ships. Reading against the narrative that depoliticizes and denigrates the leaps of the enslaved...

This is a timeless collection of John Milton's remarkable poems that includes classics such as Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. Milton's poetry is known for its grandeur, emotional depth, and philosophical insights. This edition also includes a detailed introduction and annotations that...

This book is a poetic exploration of the theme of gardens, both literal and metaphorical. Through a series of lyrical prose poems, the author meditates on the beauty and meaning of gardens, drawing on personal experience and a deep knowledge of literary and cultural...

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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,...

Hamlet is the most often produced play in the western literary canon, and a fertile global source for film adaptation. Samuel Crowl, a noted scholar of Shakespeare on film, unpacks the process of adapting from text to screen through concentrating on two sharply contrasting...

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A century after his birth and fifty years after the composition of Mimesis, Auerbach still stands as a touchstone for contemporary academic debates on the place of historical criticism in the construction of literary history, on the relations between intellectual activity and political action,...

Following the 1912 publication of his wildly successful Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs authored four bestselling sequels in quick succession. In 1916, he decided to go back and recount selected adventures from Tarzan's teenage years. The result was Jungle Tales of Tarzan,...

William Weaks Morris was a writer defined in large measure by his Southern roots. A seventh generation Mississippian, he grew up in Yazoo City frequently reminded of his heritage. Spending his college years at the University of Texas and at Oxford University in England...

The accepted canon of war poetry usually includes only those underlining patriotic or nationalistic views. This study opens up the view of war poetry with the inclusion of such material as Nazi poetry and song, and the poetry of the atomic bomb.Author: Brian MurdochISBN-10:...