Literary Criticism - General

Author: James QuinaISBN-10: 1524556130ISBN-13: 9781524556136Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/29/2016Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.30d

Libro de crítica literaria de Héctor Ivan GonzálezAuthor: Hector Ivan GonzalezISBN-10: 1507550723ISBN-13: 9781507550724Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2015Pages: 206Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.47d

The Ten Heavens of My Literary Paradise A deep-time illustration of Franz Kafka's remark that "a book must be the ax for the frozen sea inside us," Sally Chappell's brief book on the connection between her personal growth and the books she has read...

Culture Shock for Asians in U.S. Academia: Breaking the Model Minority Myth discusses the unique cultural challenges that Asians face in U.S. academia. The issues facing Asians in academia are worthy of our attention for two major reasons: the numerical significance of Asians in...

What if the women of the Bible told their own stories? Lady Midrash: Poems Reclaiming the Voices of Biblical Women brings to life alternative interpretations and forgotten female perspectives from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament. Following in the footsteps of Jewish midrash, a...

"Duende is that place in us where the two halves of our life are conjoined. It is the place where we go down into the self and gather up that opposing force to our immediate nature. It involves the undoing of the 'pretending-everything-is-okay-mechanism' in...

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...

All of the glory that had broken on me Surrounded me and saw me through and through Although I had no idea how to name A power that engulfed me totally And turned my soul onto another road. --Book XVI, lines 700-704 Preludes is...

In Rising, poet Jane Beal goes in search of America. She sings the Cherokee Creation story, imagining dialogue between Sky-Woman and First Man. She remembers being a child and exchanging her blood with a Cherokee friend, and then, years later, the birth of that...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1881 Edition.Author: Washington IrvingISBN-10: 1498191029ISBN-13: 9781498191029Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2014Pages: 226Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.48d

The Visual Spectacle of Witchcraft in Jacobean Plays: Blackfriars Theatre is an ideal reference for early modern scholars and lecturers who seek a thorough and practical guide to stage directions in print and performance, and paying particular attention to the early texts as evidence...

Magic and Gender in Early Modern England surveys the history of male and female magic in early modern England and the factors that influenced what writers include in their work regarding magic and witchcraft. The book includes the following: ?Three chapters that focus on...

A collection of essays on literature and film covering Peter Carey's 'Jack Maggs' read through Marx's critique of capitalism, John Fowles's 'A Maggot', Andrea Levy's 'Small Island', Ursula Le Guin's 'The Left Hand of Darkness' in relation to Taoism, Gillian Armstrong's film 'My Brilliant...

Unlike many traditional books on Shakespeare's play Hamlet, this book explores themes and issues which have received very little or no critical attention but they are crucial in understanding the play as a whole. Though in every literary period great philosophers and critics inevitably...

In this scholarly book Dr. Rohidas Nitonde examines Manju Kapur's novels with a feminist perspective. This study offers an in depth analysis of all the five novels by Kapur. It is for the first time that all her works are illustrated with a single...

This book is a selection of ten poems by Robert Burns. The selection criteria I used was purely personal and was based upon my ability to connect with the story and create a visual response. Robert Burns is a world renown poet and his...

Pearl S. Buck is a humanitarian writer and her writings are of moral issues that deal with many aspects of the sordid atmosphere of the modern world and the inner torments of mankind. Her novels are about problems exist in the real society where...

Don Quixote Explained focuses on seven topics: how Sancho Panza refines into a good governor through a series of jokes that turn earnest; how Cervantes satirizes religious extremism in Don Quixote by taking aim at the Holy Roman Catholic Church; how Don Quixote and...

Author: Constance Colon-JonesISBN-10: 1479769266ISBN-13: 9781479769261Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/29/2012Pages: 204Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

If the present alienation of mind from nature, i.e., the Cartesian reality principle, is to be overcome, there "surely must be a climate of extreme depression amounting in many quarters to despair... One way or another there is an opportunity here for a good...

In the year of 1924, George N. Randolph, a US Army captain stationed at Camp Gaillard in the Panama Canal Zone, sat at his desk and began writing his first love letter to Ruth Morrison, a woman he had fallen in love with at...

Salman Rushdie's writing is engaged with translation in many ways: translator-figures tell and retell stories in his novels, while acts of translation are catalysts for climactic events. Covering his major novels as well as his often-neglected short stories and writing for children, Salman Rushdie...

Author: Leonard GreenbergISBN-10: 1469159120ISBN-13: 9781469159126Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/08/2012Pages: 136Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

Author: Debbie SpingarnISBN-10: 146915918XISBN-13: 9781469159188Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2012Pages: 284Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d

Author: Ornella RotaISBN-10: 1469135264ISBN-13: 9781469135267Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/17/2012Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d

Stieg Larsson Man, Myth & Mistress who created the Millennium Trilogy of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The Girl Who Played with Fire The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest Is Lisbeth Salander a feminist - or a comic book avenger? Is her...

Looking ahead to the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth's birth, this small book challenges fresh questions about where Wordsworth stood in his poetic production in the great years of creative ferment between 1798 and 1806. Numerous poems are covered from this period, but especially does...

Author: Jayne L. BlairISBN-10: 1456863045ISBN-13: 9781456863043Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/04/2011Pages: 74Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18d

Author: George CampbellISBN-10: 1456804669ISBN-13: 9781456804664Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/30/2010Pages: 342Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.76d

Examining the impact of poststructuralist theories on the writings of four of the most eminent contemporary novelists, this book argues that the postmodern approach to language has given rise to fiction's ongoing exploration of ethics and the relation to the Other. In a globalised...

Author: William HarrisonISBN-10: 1453556257ISBN-13: 9781453556252Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/27/2010Pages: 122Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

Author: Charles E. IV MillerISBN-10: 1453512632ISBN-13: 9781453512630Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/08/2010Pages: 496Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.11d

Author: Beverly CardozoISBN-10: 1453507752ISBN-13: 9781453507759Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/16/2010Pages: 320Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.38lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d

Author: James Everette III HughesISBN-10: 1450053912ISBN-13: 9781450053914Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/04/2010Pages: 104Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d

Poetry, the Geometry of the Living Substance is the first serious and sustained study in English of one of the most important Hungarian writers of the 20th century, the modernist poet Agnes Nemes Nagy. The book captures the dual nature of poetry, as a...

Recounting past events is intrinsic to the storytelling function, as most fiction assumes the past tense as the natural means of narrating a story. Few narratives draw attention to this process, yet others make the act of remembering a primary part of the narrative...

Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber (1782-1871), the most amiable French composer of the 19th century, came to his abilities late in life. After a stalled commercial career, he studied with Cherubini. His first works were not a success, but La Bergere Chateleine (1820), written at the age...

Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber (1782-1871), the most amiable French composer of the 19th century, came to his abilities late in life. After a stalled commercial career, he studied with Cherubini. His first works were not a success, but La Bergere Chateleine (1820), written at the age...

Byron and Bob is the first book ever to be dedicated to the most important literary relationship in Byron's career - that with the Poet Laureate, Robert Southey, whom he hated, and to whom he dedicated his most important poem, Don Juan. Drawing on...

As early as the 1850s, when Samuel L. Clemens (before he became Mark Twain), as a teenager, traveled from his hometown of Hannibal, Missouri, to the east (Philadelphia, Washington, DC, and New York City) and south (St, Louis). In the 1860s, he traveled west...

As reflected in its title, the central question that drives this book is â oewhatâ (TM)s in a balcony scene?⠝, particularly that which appears in Shakespeareâ (TM)s Romeo and Juliet. Exploring its representation in a number of adaptations of Shakespeareâ (TM)s play, this...

Author: Grace Ann Hovet,Theodore R. Sr. HovetISBN-10: 1441534539ISBN-13: 9781441534538Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/27/2009Pages: 222Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Dance Class offers an extraordinary collection of student essays about Anthony Powell's great comic novel A Dance to the Music of Time. The young authors not only discuss issues of character, plot, and theme, but they also investigate historical background, chart personal relevance, parody...

A fascinating comparison of the work of Heinrich von Kleist and Herman Melville.Figures of Simplicity explores a unique constellation of figures from philosophy and literature-Heinrich von Kleist, Herman Melville, G. W. Leibniz, and Alexander Baumgarten-in an attempt to recover alternative conceptions of aesthetics and...

The Cambridge Dramatic Album (1868) is a book compiled by Henry Thomas Hall, featuring a collection of dramatic scenes and monologues from various plays. The book is divided into three sections, each containing a different type of dramatic piece. The first section focuses on...

Collected Verses by Violet Fane is a book of poetry that was originally published in 1880. Violet Fane, also known as Lady Mary Montgomerie Currie, was a British poet and writer who lived during the Victorian era. Her poetry is characterized by its romantic...

Author: Raj G. RajanISBN-10: 1436352126ISBN-13: 9781436352123Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/19/2008Pages: 184Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d

Author: Chloe LompreyISBN-10: 143633263XISBN-13: 9781436332637Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2008Pages: 76Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18d

Japanese Lyrics is a collection of poetry written by Lafcadio Hearn, a renowned writer and journalist who spent much of his life in Japan. The book features a selection of Hearn's most beautiful and evocative poems, written in both English and Japanese, and explores...

El surrealismo en la novela hispanoamericana: Luis Rafael Sánchez y La Guaracha del Macho Camacho, presenta los rasgos característicos del movimiento surrealista dentro de un contexto latinoamericano y europeo como fundamento de la narrativa hispanoamericana actual. A partir de una exhaustiva muestra, la autora...