Literary Criticism - General

The Foundations of Complex Evolving Economies seeks to offer an integrated analysis of the anatomy and physiology of the capitalist engine of generation and exploitation of technological organizational and institutional innovations - from the drivers of knowledge accumulation, to the modes in which such...

This book is an investigation of the role of creative labor and the five senses in Rainer Maria Rilke's prose works, including his "Primal Sound" essay, the Stories of God, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, and his monograph on Auguste Rodin. It is...

What if James T. Kirk and Spock had a baby, left the Enterprise and moved to New Vulcan to live happily ever after?Fan fiction plots like this are a strong testament of fans' endless creativity. Not only do the authors invent their own storylines...

What makes up a public, what governs dominant discourses, and in which ways can counterpublics be created through narrative? This edited collection brings together essays on affect and narrative theory with a focus on the topics of gender and sexuality. It explores the power...

Excerpt from Philothea: A Grecian Romance This volume is purely romance; and most read ers will consider it romance of the wildest kind. A few kindred spirits, prone to people space with life and mystical predominance, will perceive a light within the Grecian Temple....

Jacob Abbott was a prolific author, writing juvenile fiction, brief histories, biographies, religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science. From 1825 to 1829 he was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Amherst College; was licensed to preach...

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless 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: VariousISBN-10: 1500523194ISBN-13: 9781500523190Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...

Contents Include: Queen Mab The Demon of the World Alastor or, The Spirit of Solitude The Revolt of Islam Rosalind and Helen Prometheus Unbound The Cenci Epipsychidion Adonis Hellas The Witch of Atlas Julian and Maddalo: A Conversation Satires Early Poems Miscellaneous Poems Sonnets...

The Realm of Essence is a philosophical book written by George Santayana, which is the first book in the Realms of Being series. It was first published in 1924 and explores the concept of essence and its role in understanding reality. The book is...

The Unspeakable Gentleman is a novel written by John P. Marquand. The story is set in the early 20th century and revolves around the life of a wealthy and mysterious man named Charley Yang. Charley is a Chinese-American who has been living in the...

Creative Imagination: Studies In The Psychology Of Literature by June E. Downey is a book that explores the relationship between psychology and literature. The author delves into the workings of the human mind and how it relates to the creative process of writing and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Poems of John Byrom is a collection of works by the English poet, John Byrom. Byrom lived from 1692 to 1763 and was known for his skill in both poetry and shorthand. This collection includes a variety of poems, including religious works, love...

Indian Dances, Medicine Men And Prophets is a book written by William R. Draper that provides a vivid and dramatic account of the self-torturing ceremonialists of Native American tribes. The book explores the wild exhibitionism of these individuals, who engage in dangerous and often...

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...

Dieses Buch mit dem Titel ""Beschreibung der Merkw�����rdigkeiten, welche er in einer 1742 (1743)"" wurde von Johann Georg Sulzer geschrieben. Es handelt sich um eine detaillierte Beschreibung der Reise, die der Autor im Jahr 1742 unternommen hat. Sulzer berichtet von den Orten, die er...

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...

This practical, innovative guide book is directed to trained professional personnel who want to publish in the technical and trade press. It outlines a dynamic approach to translating non-verbal thought into written information, including an empirical method to classify thoughts for organizing and developing...

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 collection of the poems of one of the French Symbolist poets.Author: Patricia TerryISBN-10: 0313252106ISBN-13: 9780313252105Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/10/1986Pages: 222Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d

Eliot wrote in his introduction: I hope that this volume will demonstrate that Pound's literary criticism is the most important contemporary criticism of its kind...perhaps the kind we can least afford to do without...the refreshment, the revitalization and making new' of literature in our...

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...

It can be hard for busy professionals to find the time to read the latest books. Stay up to date in a fraction of the time with this concise guide. As its name suggests, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind seeks to trace the...

There is increasing pressure on the humanities to justify their value and on criminology to undertake interdisciplinary research. In this book, Rafe McGregor establishes a new interdisciplinary methodology, 'criminological criticism', harnessing the synergy between literary studies and critical criminology to produce genuine interventions in...

The Love Books of Ovid is a collection of four works by the ancient Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso, commonly known as Ovid. The four works included in this collection are Amores, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris, and Medicamina Faciei Femineae. Amores is a series...

Beginning with the dim prehistory of the mythical gods and their descendants, Heimskringla recounts the history of the kings of Norway through the reign of Olaf Haraldsson, who became Norway's patron saint. Once found in most homes and schools and still regarded as a...

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction...

Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction is one of the first works to focus specifically on fiction's engagements with human driven extinction. Drawing together a diverse group of scholars and approaches, this volume pairs established voices in the field with emerging scholars and traditionally...

Baudelaire's prose poems were written over many years and published in magazines between 1855 and his death in 1867. Francis Scarfe's translations reflect a lifetime's passion for Baudelaire's work and a deep understanding of it. The appeal of this beautiful book', he says in...

Twenty years after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, we can now see that the War on Terror profoundly affected Western self-understanding and the secular liberal image it sought to project onto a global canvas at what was widely assumed...

Both the special sciences and ordinary experience suggest that there are metaphysically emergent entities and features: macroscopic goings-on (including mountains, trees, humans, and sculptures, and their characteristic features) which depend on, yet are distinct from and distinctively efficacious with respect to, lower-level physical configurations...

Shakespeare's Mystery Play: A Study of The Tempest by Colin Still is a comprehensive analysis of one of Shakespeare's most enigmatic and intriguing plays. The book delves into the themes, characters, and symbolism of The Tempest, exploring the play's many layers of meaning and...

Why is there such a striking difference between English spelling and English pronunciation? How did our seemingly relatively simple grammar rules develop? What are the origins of regional dialect, literary language, and everyday speech, and what do they have to do with you? Seth...

Publishing monthly without interruption, Poetry has become America's most distinguished magazine of verse, presenting, often for the very first time, virtually every notable poet of the last nine decades-an unprecedented record.Author: Joseph Parisi, Stephen YoungISBN-10: 1566636043ISBN-13: 9781566636049Publisher: Ivan R. Dee PublisherLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2004Pages: 509Format:...

This edition of Lilith: The Legend of the First Woman contains illustrated depictions of the mythic Lilith, in her role within the garden of Eden. Collier uses poetry to detail an account of Lilith as an alternative narrative of the Book of Genesis. Originating...

In India, kingdoms and dynasties have come and gone, religious sects have formed and dissolved, schools of philosophy have come together and subsequently been replaced by others, yet the Mahabharata has never ceased to excite the Indian imagination. The sheer volume of commentaries on...

To the Teacher The review questions and tests in this booklet are designed to be used in conjunction with How to Teach Literature: Introductory Course. All questions and tests are included in the teaching guide and reproduced in this booklet with answers omitted.Author: Elizabeth...

Born in 1572 in London England, John Donne was an English Jacobean poet of exceptional skill, whose poetry was known for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor. While Donne was well educated and his poetic talents considerable he struggled for much 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

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...

The book titled ""The Apology, Phaedo and Crito of Plato; Golden Sayings of Epictetus; Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: V2 Harvard Classics"" is a collection of philosophical works by three renowned ancient Greek philosophers - Plato, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius. The book is a part...

This collection engages the work of Michael Oakeshott predominantly on the themes of his skepticism, politics, and aesthetics. An international set of authors engages and expands the analysis of Oakeshott's writings in often neglected areas and topics and in ways that brings Oakeshott into...

Every age has characteristic inventions that change the world. In the 19th century it was the steam engine and the train. For the 20th, electric and gasoline power, aircraft, nuclear weapons, even ventures into space. Today, the planet is awash with electronic business, chatter...

EDMUND SPENSER: AMORETTI The Amoretti by Edmund Spenser is one of the great Elizabethan cycles of love poetry. The Amoretti cycle of poems is printed here in full, with each sonnet on its own on a page. This is beautiful poetry, poems of love,...

Arms and the Man was George Bernard Shaw's first commercially successful play. It is a comedy about idealized love versus true love. A young Serbian woman idealizes her war-hero fiance and thinks the Swiss soldier who begs her to hide him a terrible coward....

Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir was born into a wealthy Scottish family on April 1, 1848 in Glasgow. He was encouraged through his upbringing in an interest in the natural sciences, and focused on chemistry. He did indeed become a chemistry professor at Gonville and...

Elements of Debating: A Manual for Use in High Schools and Academies By Leverett S. Lyon Contents I-What Argumentation Is II-What Debate Is III-The Requirements of Successful Debating IV-Determining the Issues V-How to Prove the Issues VI-The Brief. The Choice and Use of Evidence...