Literary Criticism - General

""Angelic Mysteries of the Nine Heavens: A Drama of Interior Initiation"" is a book written by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie in 1926. The book is a mystical and spiritual drama that explores the concept of interior initiation through the nine heavens. The main character, a...

The Romaunt of the Rose is a medieval poem written by the famous English poet, Geoffrey Chaucer. The poem is an allegory that tells the story of a young man, who falls in love with a beautiful rose, which he sees in a dream....

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These twenty-five interviews with Joyce Carol Oates from early in her career to the present are the first such collection to be published. In these conversations from sources as diverse as major news magazines and small scholarly journals, Oates candidly talks about her work,...

A Stanford University Press classic.Author: Shira WoloskyISBN-10: 0804723877ISBN-13: 9780804723879Publisher: Stanford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1995Pages: 340Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 8.80h x 5.50w x 1.00d

Bicycles have more cultural identities than many realize, functioning not only as literal vehicles in a text but also as "vehicles" for that text's themes, ideas, and critiques. In the late nineteenth century the bicycle was seen as a way for the wealthy urban...

The legend of Doc Holliday is now well past a century old. While his time on earth was brief, troubled and filled with pain, his legend took wings and flew. Beginning with his part in the now famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Denver...

Reading Sankofa, Daughters of the Dust, & Eve's Bayou as HistoriesAuthor: Sandra M. GraysonISBN-10: 0761817271ISBN-13: 9780761817277Publisher: University Press of AmericaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/26/2000Pages: 112Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.04w x 0.33d

Over a period of over forty years, Geoffrey Leech has made notable contributions to the field of literary stylistics, using the interplay between linguistic form and literary function as a key to the mystery of how a text comes to be invested with artistic...

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This volume presents the first complete translation of Fichte Studies, a critique of Fichtean philosophy by the young philosopher-poet Friedrich von Hardenberg. Under the pen-name Novalis, von Hardenberg became the most well-known and beloved of the early German Romantic writers. Those interested in the...

The Cambridge History of American Music is the first study of music in the United States to be written by a team of scholars. The volume begins with a survey of the music of Native Americans and then explores the historical and cultural events...

In the increasingly multi-racial and multi-ethnic American landscape of the present, understanding and bridging dynamic cross-cultural conversations about social and political concerns becomes a complicated humanistic project. How do everyday embodied experiences transform from being anecdotal to having social and political significance? What can...

What happens to traditional stories when they are retold in another time and cultural context and for a different audience? This first-of-its-kind study discusses Bible stories, classical myths, heroic legends, Arthurian romances, Robin Hood lore, folk tales, 'oriental' tales, and other stories derived from...

In an innovative sequence of topics, Ken Dowden explores the uses Greeks made of myth and the uses to which we can put myth in recovering the richness of their culture. Most aspects of Greek life and history - including war, religion and sexuality...

Nephi Anderson's classic novel concerns man inhabiting heaven prior to arriving on the Earth, and humanity's spiritual destiny. A treasured and historic storytelling from a Mormon perspective on life, Added Upon offers a spiritual journey which reflects upon the very nature of our reality...

Author: Eleanor DarkISBN-10: 0732296927ISBN-13: 9780732296926Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers Australia Pty LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2013Pages: 638Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 1.41d

This hugely popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize post-colonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial part it plays in debates about race, gender, politics, language and identity. For this third edition over thirty...

Author: Douglas RobinsonISBN-10: 0875802095ISBN-13: 9780875802091Publisher: Northern Illinois University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1996Pages: 254Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.28lbsSize: 9.24h x 6.17w x 0.88d

Martin Luther King's policy of non-violent protest in the struggle for civil rights in the United States during the second half of the twentieth century led to fundamental shifts in American government policy relating to segregation, and a cultural shift in the treatment of...

Presents the most important statements on the translation of literature from Roman times to the 1920s. Topics covered: power, poetics, universe of of discourse, language, education. It contains many texts previously unavailable in English.Author: André LefevereISBN-10: 1138006645ISBN-13: 9781138006645Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/10/2014Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize:...

This book explores the uses of translation, translators, and interpreters in fiction as a gateway to introduce issues related to Translation Studies. The volume follows recent scholarship on Transfiction, a term used to describe the portrayal of translation (both a topic and a motif),...

"Embodied Testimonies, Gendered Memories, and the Poetics of Trauma" is a collection of academic essays that uses mainstream and postcolonial trauma theory in the analysis of literary and artistic representations of traumatic history. This collection prioritizes historical and personal accounts from the perspectives of...

"The Book of God: In the Light of the Higher Criticism" is a work by George William Foote, an English secularist and journalist who lived in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The book was first published in 1892. George William Foote was a...

This edited volume explores how digital humanities can address critical societal challenges in social media, health, education, archives, heritage, and the arts. It features contributions from leading scholars and practitioners in various fields, offering a comprehensive overview of the role of digital humanities in...

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--is responsible for popular...

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the tariff problem in the late 19th century. The author offers a historical overview of tariffs and trade policies, and examines the impact of tariffs on various industries and sectors of the economy. The book also contains...

Just as soon as it had got rolling, rock music had a problem: it wanted to be art. A mere four years separate the Beatles as mere kiddy culture from the artful geniuses of Sergeant Pepper's, meaning the very same bandwho represents the mass-consumed,...

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Originally published in 1991, Reflecting on Miss Marple looks at the incongruous combination of violence, murder and a sweet, white-haired old lady, and examines why this makes such a potent but unlikely formula. The book is an astute and engaging account which reveals Miss...

One of the first edited volumes to encompass transdisciplinary approaches to a number of cultural forms, including fiction, non-fiction, oral expression and digital media. Environmental and animal studies are rapidly growing areas of interest across a number of disciplines. Natures of Africa is one...

Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) is a project funded by the European Research Council under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No. 677758), and based in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.Understanding Relations Between...

The poems in Marjorie Stelmach's Falter attempt to comprehend what Soren Kierkegaard in Fear and Trembling deems our ""highest passion"" faith--a task that he claims has remained the same for each generation and ""is always adequate for a person's lifetime."" In the opening section,...

A study of the classic pulp magazine "Adventure." Starmont Pulp and Dime Novel Studies #4.Author: Robert Kenneth JonesISBN-10: 1434496171ISBN-13: 9781434496171Publisher: Wildside PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/05/2007Pages: 92Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.22d

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""Lithuania: A Drama In One Act"" is a play written by Rupert Brooke in 1915. The play is set in Lithuania during World War I and revolves around the character of Juozas, a Lithuanian farmer who is caught between his loyalty to his country...

This book explores how the creations of great authors result from the same operations as our everyday counterfactual and hypothetical imaginations, which cognitive scientists refer to as "simulations." Drawing on detailed literary analyses as well as recent research in neuroscience and related fields, Patrick...

"The novel, Brink argues, is not about representation but the self-conscious play of language. From its inception, he suggests, the genre has been about the act of writing and self-reflection. This thesis is not new but is part of the currency of postmodern literary...

This annotated bibliography covers approximately 400 novels published from 1838 through 2007. A substantial introduction to the history and development of the genre precedes the chronologically arranged entries, which provide bibliographic details and extensive annotations on plot, themes, and compositional strengths and weaknesses. Mainstream...

A glorious treasury of literary curiosities for every night of the year.Bedside Companion for Book Lovers contains an eclectic mix of fact and fiction, letters, diaries, essays and dedications, all suffused with the joys of books and reading. The perfect gift for the bibliophile...

Equally literary analysis and a deep dive into the timeless ingredients of our collective humanity-love and greed, fear and malice, cowardice, loyalty, treachery, and courage-Lament for Siavash is considered Shahrokh Meskoob's best work on the eleventh-century Iranian national epic, the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi. It...

Golden Handcuffs Review #34 collectible edition from 2024 features art by Andrea Augé, John Goodby and Erica Van Horn. Fiction and poetry by Joel Chace, Lee Duggan, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Norman Fischer, Nancy Gaffield, Jesse Glass, Peter Hughes, Doug Jones, James Keating, Hank Lazer,...

Are you ready for one heckuva ride? Those who have read The Da Vinci Code know that Dan Brown has led his readers on a wild, improbable, and thrilling adventure. He wants you to question what you've been told all these years. And sure-that's...

Originally published in 1970 as part of a series entitled 'Ethnic Groups in Comparative Perspective, ' 'White Southerners' is considered a classic in the sociology and history of the American South. This revised edition contains a new preface and a final additional chapter covering...

Originally published in 1983, D.H. Lawrence is an annotated bibliographic collection of works by and about D.H. Lawrence. Consisting of three parts, the primary bibliography contains separate bibliographies of Lawrence's major publications, of collection editions of his works, of his letters, and of concordances...