Literary Criticism - General

Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no being or species has been specifically created; all are locked into a pitiless struggle for existence, with extinction looming for those not fitted for the task.Yet (1859) is also...

This book traces the historical development of the American ghost story from its Indigenous, Puritan, and Enlightenment origins to its heyday in the nineteenth century and continued vibrancy in modern literary and visual culture. It explores the main tropes, thematic preoccupations, principal settings, and...

Daniel Defoe's account of his travels through the west of England, from London to Land's End. Defoe describes the towns, villages, and countryside he encounters, as well as the people he meets along the way, offering a colorful and engaging portrait of life in...

Digital spaces are saturated with metaphor: we have pages, sites, mice, and windows. Yet, in the world of digital textuality, these metaphors no longer function as we might expect. Martin Paul Eve calls attention to the digital-textual metaphors that condition our experience of digital...

This book is based on a longitudinal study involving learners of English as a foreign language from their first year in primary education to their last year in compulsory secondary education. Some of the chapters report on the whole sample initially drawn from five...

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 Galleries of the Exposition, 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 book of poetry is the second part of 5 books of poem series collection. It was written with the intention to show my daughter a part of her from my point of view and the experiences she has shown me in just a...

Published in 1994: In The Perilous Cemetery adventure, Gawain is required to fight the devil himself. In repayment for having cured a young woman of madness, the devil keeps her entombed in a grave by day and requires her by night to fulfil his...

Religious and secular communities ritualize some books in one, two, or three dimensions. They ritualize the dimension of semantic interpretation through teaching, preaching, and scholarly commentary. This dimension receives almost all the attention of academic scholars. Communities also ritualize a text's expressive dimension through...

Paints a complex portrait of East German film art and representation through examining eighteen key DEFA films following the fall of the Berlin Wall. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, East Germany's DEFA filmmakers had a brief window in which to critique GDR...

The Writing Dead features original interviews with the writers of today's most frightening and fascinating shows. They include some of television's biggest names--Carlton Cuse (Lost and Bates Motel), Bryan Fuller (Hannibal, Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls, and Pushing Daisies), David Greenwalt (Angel and Grimm), Gale...

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...

Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) rose from poverty in the foothills of the Andes to become the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945. This volume provides both a detailed biography of the author and...

Author: B. J. Odoki, Benjamin OdokiISBN-10: 9970024914ISBN-13: 9789970024919Publisher: Fountain PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2005Pages: 396Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.28lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d

Author: Martin AmisISBN-10: 0679757937ISBN-13: 9780679757931Publisher: VintageLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/02/1995Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 8.41h x 5.60w x 0.70dReview Citation(s): New York Times 09/24/1995 pg. 40Publishers Weekly 04/24/1995

Paid critics are an endangered species, and good criticism is a dying art. Editors are culling many, and frequently all, of their best critics. In the academic world, balanced criticism is being driven out, in favour of weird and wacky, hard-left dogma. Especially on...

Gaston Bachelard, master dreamer of the elements, animates the waters of the soul with his stirring, fluid imagination. With the subtlety of a poet, he ranges from the surface of water with its reflective narcissism to the very depths where water flows into death....

Put simply, The Enchaf?d Flood is an "attempt to understand the nature of Romanticism through an examination of its treatment of a single theme, the sea." Auden focuses his Christian existentialist eye especially on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, though he draws widely from works as...

Laguna Beach, 1970s, a time when being gay began to be celebrated and for many, a time when relationships bloomed, sometimes faded, and bloomed again. Hal's has faded and he finds himself alone in his rented house on shadow Lane, wondering where his life...

This book compares Trump and Hitler as political performance artists. It explores their populist self-staging and rhetorical strategies and explains how they connected with their respective audiences. It also analyses the two men's character, work ethic, and management style. In addition, the book addresses...

Dana Gioia's The Catholic Writer Today confronts the paradoxical fact that though Catholicism constitutes the largest religious and cultural group in the United States, Catholic writers are currently almost invisible in American public culture. After establishing a lucid definition of Catholic literature, Gioia examines...

Baker, one of the most engaging and highly praised examiners of the microscopic matter of daily life (The Mezzanine, Room Temperature), finally takes on a subject his own size--fellow novelist and omnipresent influence John Updike. "Willfully outrageous and often very funny".--The New York Times.Author:...

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Elizabeth Barrett BrowningISBN-10: 1512215155ISBN-13: 9781512215151Publisher: Createspace Independent...

Some academics beguile you with a few interesting ideas while other academics shake your world. Ren? Girard belongs in the second camp. He demonstrates the uniqueness and indispensability of Christian revelation to a culture that is skeptical of the Gospel, and does so in...

A tiny girl child with the soul of a Bengal tigress emerges from a rose garden after failing to locate her parents. The emperor names her Princess Rose. The story encompasses love, loss, friendship, and rebirth.Author: Lloyd E. BatemanISBN-13: 9798330244751Publisher: Kinectic Digital PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

The Discerning Mollusk's Guide to Arts and Ideas. Contributions by Iv?n Arg?elles, Stephen Bett, P.J. Blumenthal, Tori Bond, Christopher Boucher, Samson Bulkley, Marvin Cohen, Bradley David, T.K. Edmond, Andrew Farkas, Fred Ferraris, S.C. Flynn, Jack Foley, Olivia Gallo, Jake Goldsmith, Tyler C. Gore, AN...

Originally published in 1955, this book discusses Romantic principles and their interpretation in literary practice, supported by the documentation (with translations) of numerous quotations from the writings of the romantic authors themselves. The emphasis lies on the evolution of Romantic ideas and practices in...

You gotta make a line before you weave a big dream.Who are you when the moon is out?Come Into a new world..A strange world.Oh, you know you're gonna see a new version Of it all in your mind.Oh, the mind plays tricks on you,...

Struggling to Write Authentic Characters with Communication Challenges?Unspoken Volumes: Writing Characters with Communication Challenges equips you to create characters that leap off the page and resonate with readers!Tired of Clich?s? Explore a range of communication differences, from stuttering to Apraxia of Speech and swallowing....

A wide-ranging intellectual history of the Critical Legal Studies Movement, drawing from personal accounts, academic works, and the media. The Rise and Fall of Critical Legal Studies unpacks Critical Legal Studies (CLS) to address what CLS was, how it came about, and what its...

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,...

Memoirs of General William T. Sherman V1 is a book written by William T. Sherman, an American soldier, businessman, and educator who served as a Union general during the American Civil War. The book, published in 1875, is the first volume of Sherman's memoirs...

Raymond Lully's Great Elixir: A Dramatic Poem (1869) is a literary work that tells the story of the alchemist Raymond Lully's quest to create the philosopher's stone, a mythical substance that was believed to have the power to turn base metals into gold and...

J. D. Salinger's 1951 novel, The Catcher in the Rye, is the definitive coming-of-age novel and Holden Caulfield remains one of the most famous characters in modern literature. This jargon-free guide to the text sets The Catcher in the Rye in its historical, intellectual...

Laguna Beach, 1970s, a time when being gay began to be celebrated and for many, a time when relationships bloomed, sometimes faded, and bloomed again. Hal's has faded and he finds himself alone in his rented house on shadow Lane, wondering where his life...

Laguna Beach, California -- 1978The house on Myrtle Street-not quite like the old and beloved one on Shadow Lane-but the family resumes its comfortable gatherings around the dining table there with Hal and Simon. The guest cottage in the back yard-is it the ghosts...

Author: Ann VickeryISBN-10: 1009470205ISBN-13: 9781009470209Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/13/2024Pages: 408Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.31lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.91d

Discovering the historic origins of a Hispanic amulet to prevent disease, analyzing scientific discoveries made during dreams, and observing the sudden disappearance of the entire staff of an emergency room one spring evening: these are some of the fascinating accounts in this collection of...

Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made...

Depersonalization is a distressing symptom in which sufferers feel detached from their own selves and the world. Beginning with a first-hand account of the experience, this volume argues that many well-known literary texts evoke a similar psychological state.Author: Matthew FrancisISBN-10: 0367530694ISBN-13: 9780367530693Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

'If our love is a sin, then heaven must be full of such tender and selfless sinning as ours.' The Well of Loneliness is among the most famous banned books in history. A pioneering work of literature, Radclyffe Hall's novel charts the development of...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring J.R.R. Tolkien was the author of two of the most extraordinary, most original, and most popular books of the twentieth century: The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings. The encounter with his works has had profound and...

'I spring from the pages into your arms' Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass stands as one of the most influential and innovative literary works of the last two hundred years. Widely credited as the originator of free verse in English, Whitman abandoned the rules...

Unique cross-cultural and multimedial approach to class identity and precarity in literature, theatre, and filmContemporary culture not merely reflects ongoing societal transformations, it shapes our understanding of rapidly evolving class realities. Literature, theatre, and film urge us to put the question of class back...

Gitanjali (Song offering) is a collection of Bengali poems by the poet Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature, largely for the book. And is part of the Collection from the UNESCO of Representative Works. The original Bengali collection of 103/157 poems...

This accessibly-written textbook uses the intrinsic appeal of a story to engage students with language, and provides teachers with the background knowledge and the skills to use literature to construct lessons for their classes which integrate all four skills plus language awareness in an...

Mediating Historical Responsibility brings together leading scholars and new voices in the interdisciplinary fields of memory studies, history, and cultural studies to explore the ways culture, and cultural representations, have been at the forefront of bringing the memory of past injustices to the attention...

Perverse Feelings: Poe and American Masculinity examines white masculinity in Poe's fiction and the culture it represents. Poe's men are tormented by chronic illness, deviant attachments, and ugly emotions. As it analyzes these afflictions, this book illuminates the pathologies of American masculinity that emerged...

This book provides an in-depth historical discussion on the evolution and relation of the mind and body of man and animals. It covers the different theories that have been proposed over the years and analyzes their validity. The author argues that the mind and...