Literary Criticism - General

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,...

Hailed by writers and critics alike as one of the most important American novels ever published, Mark Twain's quintessential coming-of-age story The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn gave a distinct voice to American literature. As the respected critics in this volume attest, Twain's novel sustains...

Mrs. Nevo assesses the entire scope of the "poems on affairs of state," throwing light on the political mind of the age and the evolution of style. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available...

Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures is the first book to collect manifestoes from the global history of cinema, providing the first historical and theoretical account of the role played by film manifestos in filmmaking and film culture. Focusing equally on political and aesthetic...

The discovery in 1936 of a complete MS, of Mātrceta's 'Hymn of 150 Verses', previously known only from fragments in Tibetan and Chinese translations, was an important addition to Sanskrit literature. The Hymn is one of the earliest of Buddhist Sanskrit poems; it was...

Harvey J. Satty and Curtis C. Smith have painstakingly assembled a complete bibliographic description of the literary career of an author they rank among the giants of twentieth-century science fiction. Following a biographical preface, they have recorded all of Stapledon's independent English language publications....

Author: Joe NovakISBN-13: 9798901243343Publisher: Citiofbooks, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 06/16/2026Pages: 276Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.05lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.69d

Author: Newyox MediaISBN-10: 1642264636ISBN-13: 9781642264630Publisher: Newyox MediaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/14/2026Pages: 72Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.25w x 0.20d

Author: Yung WingISBN-10: 9377469120ISBN-13: 9789377469122Publisher: DD Sales and DistributorsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2026Pages: 186Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.43d

"Essaying the Essay" is an insightful exploration into the nature and craft of the essay form. Written by Burges Johnson, a distinguished scholar and educator, this work serves as both an anthology and a pedagogical guide. It delves into the historical evolution of the...

Real and imagined versions of the island and the microbe come together to tell a new story about geopolitical relations between two successive Anglophone empires: the British and the American. Bassam Sidiki assembles a vast archive of literary, cultural, and medical documents to argue...

Responding to the question, "What can a multi-genre approach to historiography contribute to political inquiry?", the textual itineraries in the book's chapters juxtapose macropolitical narratives--official geopolitical, state-sponsored history--with the micropolitical expressions of those who have been subjected to a continuum running from neglect, through...

The Cambridge Companion to Modern Arabic Literature redefines how we engage with Arabic literary traditions in a global context. This comprehensive and accessible companion situates modern Arabic literature at the forefront of debates about time, language, geography, and media. Through incisive case studies and...

Author: Steven G. MedemaISBN-10: 1009679678ISBN-13: 9781009679671Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/19/2026Pages: 476Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d

This volume combines Samuel Taylor Coleridge's profound works, "Aids to Reflection" and "The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit," offering readers a deep dive into his theological and philosophical thought. Coleridge's exploration of faith, reason, and spiritual understanding is presented with his characteristic eloquence and...

This book offers a radically new theory and method for understanding Attic tragedy, drawing on Aristotle's theories of shock and horror while taking a new anthropological approach. Synn ve des Bouvrie argues that engagement with the prescribed sentiments of tragic drama mobilized the fifth-century...

This volume concerns premodern understandings of vegetal nature that encompass multiple semantics and perspectives. Scholars from the disparate fields of art history, literature, and religious studies present tantalizing studies of trees and plants in sacred and secular thought. Some discuss the concept of the...

Geological in origin, 'Pacific Rim' refers to a zone of high tectonic stresses along the margins of the Pacific Ocean, thus conceptually tying together the Americas, the islands of the South Pacific, Australia and New Zealand as well as Southeast and Northeast Asia. The...

Environmental approaches in ELT have gained momentum in recent years. There is a large body of eco-artefacts across a plethora of media which can be used to develop learners' critical environmental literacies by exploring environment-related issues. The contributions to this volume showcase how texts...

Fosco speaks as a member of Post-Christian Society that has emerged from the Great Walk-Out from established religion but as one who cannot subscribe to the Economic Myth of Rational Humanism. Fosco's text, which he dubs My Reality, is republished in this volume, accompanied...

In 1912, D. H. Lawrence left England for the first time visiting Germany, the Alps, and Italy. Although Twilight in Italy, about his experiences on his voyage, was his first travel book, Anais Nin said it 'cannot be read as an ordinary travel book,...

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...

A timeless exploration of the rich and colourful world of ancient mythology, offering an accessible and informative introduction to the legendary stories that have shaped Western culture and literature for centuries. H. A. Guerber provides detailed accounts of the pantheon of deities, such as...

The Poetry of Reincarnation in Western Literature by E. D. Walker is a comprehensive exploration of the theme of reincarnation in Western poetry. The book covers a wide range of poets, from ancient Greek and Roman writers to contemporary poets, and examines how they...

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...

A witty and insightful collection of essays and reviews by one of the most prominent literary critics of the mid-20th century. Ranging from Shakespeare to Hemingway, from Joyce to Faulkner, from Eliot to Pound, these pieces offer a fresh and erudite perspective on some...

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,...

Now celebrating seventy-five years of continuous publication, Prairie Schooner has been called one of the best magazines in America by Nan Talese, "the roots" in Esquire's garden of contemporary literature, and one of the best places for "fabulous fiction" by the Washington Post. One...

How does literature imagine its own powers of representation? Françoise Meltzer attempts to answer this question by looking at how the portrait--the painted portrait, framed--appears in various literary texts. Alien to the verbal system of the text yet mimetic of the gesture of writing,...

Author: Abigail SusikISBN-10: 9004737251ISBN-13: 9789004737259Publisher: BrillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2026Pages: 232Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.25h x 6.10w x 0.63d

Author: AesoprevISBN-13: 9798995792901Publisher: AesoprevLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/17/2026Pages: 430Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.87d

Author: Rudolf SteinerISBN-10: 9377469376ISBN-13: 9789377469375Publisher: DD Sales and DistributorsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2026Pages: 114Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.27d

Author: Charles a EastmanISBN-10: 9377468647ISBN-13: 9789377468644Publisher: DD Sales and DistributorsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2026Pages: 130Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.31d

Ineffable Bodies focuses on early modern heroism in drama through the notion of ineffability in order to define new dramatic forms. Drawing from Vladimir Jankélévitch's studies on the ineffable, the book focuses on heroic bodies on the early modern stage as the seat of...

This volume brings together articles on utopia and dystopia in a breadth of disciplines-history, literature, gender studies, political science, sociology, anthropology and Native American Studies.Utopia and dystopia are modes and resonances present in all parts of the world, not just Europe and white North...

"Realism in Literature and Art" is a thought-provoking essay by the renowned American lawyer and orator Clarence Darrow. In this work, Darrow explores the fundamental principles of the realist movement, arguing for a portrayal of life as it truly is, rather than an idealized...

Examines the relationship between the Enlightenment idea of improvement and eighteenth-century travel writings about Middle Eastern overland routes to India. As this book shows, different British responses to the material conditions of the Arab region and its inhabitants were mapped onto some British debates...

A book on the experience of reading Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea novels. What makes readers fall in love? You might want to start your answer by explaining Ursula Le Guin. She owned John Plotz at age eight, on the overlit and understaffed second floor...

Tynan addresses Deleuze's assertion, that 'literature is an enterprise of health', and shows how a concern of health and illness was a characteristic of his philosophy as a whole, from his earliest works to his collaborations with Guattari, to his final, enigmatic statements on...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, one of Western literature's most towering figures, presents his profound insights in "Goethe's literary essays: A selection in English." This essential print edition gathers a meticulously curated collection of his critical writings, offering readers a direct engagement with his thought...

Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Bury née Campbell (1775-1861) is one of the most influential and least understood women's rights activists of the nineteenth century. Her landmark text, The Divorced, has been out of circulation in the UK for almost two centuries; this new edition...

In Afroindigenization, Catherine A. John addresses the underbelly of spiritual resilience shaping a range of African diasporic institutions, traditions, and practices. John argues that repressed forms of indigenous African knowledge systems manifest in a myriad of culturally embodied ways in African diaspora spaces and...

In Afroindigenization, Catherine A. John addresses the underbelly of spiritual resilience shaping a range of African diasporic institutions, traditions, and practices. John argues that repressed forms of indigenous African knowledge systems manifest in a myriad of culturally embodied ways in African diaspora spaces and...

Studies and Reviews, 1864-1889 is volume five in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater. It brings together, for the first time, Pater's essays, reviews, and articles that were published in the press and not reprinted in their original form in his books. These...

Why have literary works and corpuses -- such as ancient Greek-Roman novels, Renaissance chivalric literature, early modern extraordinary voyages, classical French and English romances, or modern fantasy -- been rejected from the canon of high literature? This volume aims at introducing the concept of...