Literary Criticism - General

Discover the flavours that shaped Ireland's history! This captivating book takes you on a journey through the key moments of Ireland's transformations, from the birth of the Irish Free State to its entry into the European Economic Community. Explore how food reflected and influenced...

The collection Imperial Middlebrow, edited by Christoph Ehland and Jana Gohrisch, takes middlebrow studies further in two ways. First, it focuses on the role middlebrow writing played in the popularisation and dissemination of imperial ideology. It combines the interest in the wider function of...

Biological Time, Historical Time presents a new approach to 19th century thought and literature: by focussing on the subject of time, it offers a new perspective on the exchanges between French and German literary texts on the one hand and scientific disciplines on the...

Marianne Werefkin and the Women Artists in Her Circle traces the relationships between the modernist artists in Werefkin's circle, including Erma Bossi, Elisabeth Epstein, Natalia Goncharova, Elizaveta Kruglikova, Else Lasker-Schüler, Marta Liepiņa-Skulme, Elena Luksch-Makowsky, and Maria Marc. The book demonstrates that their interactions were...

To better understand the phenomenon of Literature in the Second Degree - in Jewish and Biblical studies often characterized as parabiblical or Rewritten Bible - the current volume applies the theories of Gerard Genette to ancient and medieval literature from various cultures. Literature in...

The Māyājāla-sūtra is a unique Buddhist sūtra which is contained in the newly discovered manuscript of the Sanskrit Buddhist canonical collection called the Dīrgha-āgama (The Long Collection). The discovery of this Sanskrit manuscript in the 1990s was a major development in early Buddhist studies...

This is a post-Civil War Western centered in western Kansas and Indian Territory. It involves life on the very fringe of America in a world without laws or social structure. The main character is all-in-one a Southern draftee, a galvanized Yankee, and a deserter...

This study examines the interplay of Latin and English in a selection of John Milton's neo-Latin writings. It argues that this interplay is indicative of an inherent bilingualism that proceeds hand-in-hand with a self-fashioning that is bicultural in essence. Interlingual flexibility ultimately proved central...

"A glossary of words used in the neighbourhood of Sheffield" from Sidney Oldall Addy. English solicitor, folklore historian (1848-1933).Author: The Perfect Library,Sidney Oldall AddyISBN-10: 1514891263ISBN-13: 9781514891261Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/08/2015Pages: 150Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.32d

Many towns have their murderers, but are they also members of a church, a Boy Scout leader, or president of the congregation? Could they be trusted to bring a covered dish faithfully to church suppers? This novel takes the BTK murders in Wichita, Kansas,...

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One of the foremost pediatricians of the nineteenth century, Dr. A. Jacobi was also a celebrated author and essayist. This collection brings together his most important works, including his pioneering research on the impact of nutrition on child health, and his thoughtful reflections on...

In this charming book, William Skinner and William Thom take readers on a journey into the world of the hand-loom weaver. Through insightful poems and engaging recollections, they paint a vivid picture of a bygone era, offering readers a glimpse into the world of...

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 book features five plays from the English Renaissance that explore political questions and developments by telling stories about the erotic impulses of a ruler. The volume contains fully annotated and modernized versions of Marlowe's Edward II, Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Massinger's The Duke...

Through the lens of cognitive science, Jokes and the Linguistic Mind investigates jokes that play on some aspect of the structure and function of language. In so doing, Debra Aarons shows that these 'linguistic jokes' can evoke our tacit knowledge of the language we...

In the fifty years it's been on air, Four Corners has broken more stories, triggered more headlines, generated more controversy and aired more high quality investigative journalism than any other program in Australia. In today's world of 24-hour news cycles it is an anachronism,...

Welcome to the third issue of Novelist Post Magazine! It is both a privilege and a delight to share this journey through the fascinating and ever-evolving world of storytelling with you. This issue marks yet another milestone in our commitment to spotlighting exceptional authors...

If you haven't mastered the craft of writing scenes and sequels, you haven't mastered storytelling. Are your characters facing thrilling challenges, yet readers seem to disengage between the action?Have you ever faced writer's block because you couldn't figure out what your character should do-or...

Between the Thaw and the Prague Spring, Socialist Europe experienced a brief yet intense period of intellectual ferment. Intellectual Production in Socialist Europe 1956-1968 explores the shifting landscape of literature, philosophy, literary theory, and political thought in the wake of Stalinism and on the...

Rabindranath Tagore as a poet and a writer has been known for his legendary creations that have been a subject of study and research for so many people literary enthusiasts in the world. This mesmerising poem, The Gardener speaks about unrelenting love that one...

The book "The Sabbath in Puritan New England," authored by Alice Morse Earle, provides an insightful look at the religious and cultural significance of the Sabbath in early colonial America. Earle uses research and a sharp historical perspective to dive into the Sabbath's significance...

Shakespeare's treatment of love & marriage, and other essays, 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...

The book "" The Book of Wonder, 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 generations. This...

This is a collection of eight stories of Rabindranath Tagore including translations of Guptadhan, Samapti, Megha o Rudra, Tota Kahini etc. Translators include Jadunath Sarkar, C. F. Andrews and Surendranath Tagore.Author: Rabindranath TagoreISBN-10: 8171678467ISBN-13: 9788171678464Publisher: Rupa Publications IndiaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2007Pages: 148Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 7.00h...

Literary Nonfiction. A collection of lyrical verse, consoling prose, and personal meditations on American culture. "What if the art forms have so solidified as to be irrelevant to defy our political present? This question is one that so haunts David Matlin as to make...

Charles Dickens's experience and imagining of creativity is at the heart of his self-awareness, subject-matter and narrative. His intelligence works intuitively rather than conceptually and ideas about imagination often emerge informally in personal letters and implicitly through characters, language and story. His self-analysis and...

"I am repeatedly told that the people who have met me on my journey are little satisfied with me. I canreadily believe it, for neither has any one of them contributed to my satisfaction."--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Letters from SwitzerlandThe Works of J.W. von...

These novellas track three meaning-making, moral skirmishes: a thickening tennis pro on the Florida-New York teaching circuit grapples with weakening personal commitments and a fading serve; a dispirited short-term Coast Guard reservist struggles with the ambiguity of an accidental murder on an icebreaker heading...

Six-year-old Josef is tormented by bullies. He is rescued from his misery by an older boy, Mosche, who lives in the Jewish quarter of Worms, a city on the Rhein River. The two boys and Mosche's sister Miriam become friends, spending time together as...

In this suite of dramatic monologues, David Denny reimagines the ancient folktale of Jonah by listening to the voices of its many characters. Jonah and God, of course, remain the two principal players, to be sure. But in Man Overboard we also hear from...

Rector's assistant Owen Mathias, a young and average sensualist, gradually stumbles on the considerable connections his church in Kobe, Japan, has to atrocities committed by Unit 731, Japan's biological warfare research center in Harbin, Manchuria, during World War II. Mathias's discoveries toss him into...

This memoir invites readers to explore stages of their own spiritual journey. Bianchi graphically describes his path from an Italian immigrant family on the West Coast, through twenty years as a Jesuit, to being a professor of religious studies at Emory University. As he...

Part one of "Re-viewing Italian Americana" constitutes a look back at one of the two more popular fora of Italian Americana, especially part one, which rehearses a brief history of the representation of the Italian (read also, Italian American) in the United States film...

Collage of Seoul is a book of poetry tracing the spiritual journey of a man who, unnamed at birth, looks to both Eastern and Western cultures to form an identity through a love story that culminates with the decisive act of naming his two...

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In his discussion of clowns in nineteenth-century French painting from Jean-Léon Gérôme's 1857 La Sortie du bal masqué to Georges Rouault, art historian Francis Haskell wondered why they are so sad. The myth of the sad clown as an allegory for the unappreciated artist...

This beloved anthology of poetry by Christina Georgina Rossetti features some of her most famous works. With themes ranging from nature to love and loss, this collection is sure to resonate with readers of all ages.This work has been selected by scholars as being...

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,...

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,...

About the Book This is a collection of essays on fiction written in English, Spanish, and Bengali that has emerged recently. This fiction is seen to reflect biculturalism, that is the amalgam of two cultures that are both hegemonic in their own ways. This...

How does Toni Morrison use language to represent race? Answering this question through literary criticism and linguistic research, this book shows how Morrison's language reflects the souls of black folk in The Bluest Eye and Beloved. The book focuses on the way in which...

This thoroughly revised and augmented edition of Stevenson's Nimbus of Glory, originally published in softcover in 1983. This edition updates this scholarly and critical work, making it accessible to a new generation of scholars. It includes a new chapter entitled "The Case of Missing...