Literary Criticism - General

Longer Description (for Xlibris book page) Haley Van Fleet's paintings are coded memories, childhood terrors that she has disguised for herself as beauty. The result is a potent magic that attracts an offer from a gallery, but her old fears are stronger than ambition....

The Cotter's Saturday Night is a poem written by Robert Burns, a Scottish poet, in 1785. The poem depicts the simple and humble life of a Scottish peasant family on a Saturday evening. The cotter, or the head of the family, is seen preparing...

This latest volume in the Culture & Civilization series gathers interdisciplinary voices to present a collection of essays on travel and travel narrativesAuthor: Gabriel R. RicciISBN-10: 1412852838ISBN-13: 9781412852838Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/30/2013Pages: 327Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.26lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.69d

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...

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes the full-text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles. The collection is sourced from the remarkable library of Victor Amadeus, whose Castle Corvey collection was one of the most spectacular discoveries...

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...

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel by Oscar Wilde, first published in 1890. It tells the story of a young and handsome man named Dorian Gray, who becomes the subject of a portrait painted by his friend Basil Hallward. Dorian is deeply...

"Elements of the Critical Philosophy" by Johann Christoph Adelung and Anthony Florian Madinger Willich, first published in 1798, offers a concise account of the origins and trajectory of critical philosophy. This historical work provides insight into the philosophical landscape of the late 18th century,...

Discover the early dramatic works of A.A. Milne in "First Plays," a collection showcasing the playwright's emerging talent. Before creating the beloved world of Winnie-the-Pooh, Milne established himself as a successful playwright, and this volume offers a glimpse into his initial forays into the...

The seventh conference of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in June 1987, continued the work of previous meetings to provide a forum for research and knowledge about menstrual cycle phenomena. Founded in 1978, The...

First published in 1998. This anthology coomprises a diverse range of historical treatises and tracts that discuss and debate gender and sexual relations in early modern England. Combining complete texts and extracts-many hitherto unavailable in modern editions-the collection focuses on prevailing conceptions of sexuality...

First published in 1992, Narrative Exchanges shows how a general model of communicative exchanges can be refined to deal with the complexities of narrative fiction. Going beyond the two-way structure of reciprocity, it gives particular attention to the processes of framing, substitution and dispossession...

An energetic woman, Inchbald achieved fame as an actress, novelist, playwright and criticAuthor: Ben P. RobertsonISBN-10: 1138759325ISBN-13: 9781138759329Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2007Pages: 414Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.66lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94d

Henry Irving (1838-1905), the first actor to be knighted, dominated the theatre in Britain and beyond for over a quarter of a century. As an actor, he was strikingly different with his idiosyncratic pronunciation, his somewhat ungainly physique, and his brilliant psychological portrayals of...

Conrad's fiction is characterized by an enduring recourse to the performing arts for metaphor, allegory, symbol, and subject matter; however, this aspect of Conrad's non-dramatic works has only recently begun to come into its own among literary critics. In response to this seminal moment,...

Towards a Theory of Life-Writing Genre Blending provides a look into the rules of life-writing genre blending proposing a theory to explain and illustrate the main regulations governing such genre play.Author: Marija KrstevaISBN-10: 1032356448ISBN-13: 9781032356440Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/27/2024Pages: 116Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w...

G.K. Chesterton's "Heretics" is a thought-provoking collection of essays dissecting the prevailing philosophies and intellectual figures of his time. Chesterton, known for his sharp wit and insightful observations, fearlessly confronts what he perceives as heresy - not necessarily in a strictly religious sense, but...

Discover the haunting beauty and powerful imagery of Emily Dickinson's poetry with this collection of her best works. Her unique style and voice capture the essence of the human condition like no other poet. This volume not only includes her poems, but also provides...

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,...

Author: Patricia HarkinISBN-10: 0873523881ISBN-13: 9780873523882Publisher: Modern Language Association of AmericaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1991Pages: 242Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d

Author: Ben W. McClellandISBN-10: 0873521455ISBN-13: 9780873521451Publisher: Modern Language Association of AmericaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1985Pages: 266Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.04h x 6.11w x 0.64d

This comprehensive anthology will be the standard source for thestudy of African American public address for years to come. For Americans of the 19th century, as W. E. B. Du Bois observed, eloquentspeeches were 'the shining lights of civilization' that both expressedand sought to...

Even though Edward Said's Orientalism inspired several generations of scholars to study the English novel's close involvement with colonialism, they have not considered how English novels themselves were radically altered by colonialism. In Educating Seeta, Shuchi Kapila argues that the paradoxes of indirect rule...

This volume was presented to Professor Engstrom in celebration of his sixty-fifth birthday. Its sixteen studies, contributed by colleagues, friends, and former students, move from the late Urban T. Holmes's article on the Middle Ages down to the nineteenth century, with articles encompassing various...

Published in France in 1943, Faux Pas is the first collection of Maurice Blanchot's essays on literature and language, consisting of fifty-four short pieces that were originally issued as reviews in literary journals, and one long introductory meditation that defines the trajectory of the...

Vic and Sade, an often absurd situation comedy written by the prolific Paul Rhymer, aired on America's radios from 1932 to 1944 (with short-lived revivals afterward). The title characters, known as "radio's home folks," were a married couple exploring the comedic side of ordinary...

This book applies modern psychological understanding to a historical person. This work focuses on one aspect - Francis' imagination - and an analysis of Francis' writings builds on a survey of modern views of the imagination and the approach of Object Relations Theory.Author: Andrew...

Middleton and his Collaborators explores the career of one of the most prominent and versatile writers of the early seventeenth century. Throughout his working life Thomas Middleton worked in collaboration with several contemporaries notably Thomas Dekker, William Shakespeare, and William Rowley. The book devotes...

'When I read Ian Parker's manuscript, I experienced an underlying solidarity: despite obvious differences, we share the same basic political concerns and visions. And this makes his critical remarks always pertinent!' Slavoj Zizek 'This is not simply the best critical introduction to Zizek -...

India is changing at a rapid pace as it continues to move from its colonial past to its globalised future. This Companion offers a framework for understanding that change, and how modern cultural forms have emerged out of very different histories and traditions. The...

In this survey of thirteenth-century codices in Old French verse that contain at least one saint's life, the author finds a great variety among combinations, in contrast to the corpus of medieval Latin hagiographic manuscripts. She interprets the combinations of texts in four collections,...

Why are some critical texts more compelling, memorable, or engaging than others? Can criticism be judged as a discourse of description, explanation, and analysis alone, or do our evaluations reflect other kinds of investments in it? In this book, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that...

This edited collection charts the development of contemporary dance in Central and Eastern Europe since the literal and symbolic revolutions of 1989. Central Europe and the former Soviet Bloc countries were a major presence in dance - particularly theatrical dance - throughout the twentieth...

Looks at the critical reception to this Jacobean playwright from the early 17th to the late 19th century. Includes extensive selections from Pepys, Goldsmith, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Lamb and Swinburne, with briefer comments from Scott, Byron and Keats.Author: Martin GarrettISBN-10: 0415755239ISBN-13: 9780415755238Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/15/2014Pages:...

First published in 2001. This is Volume VII of the Foreign Policies of the Great Powers eleven part series and focuses on on the policies of France from 1914 to 1945. It includes sections on French diplomacy of the War 1914 to 18, the...

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Author: Brian VickersISBN-10: 0415487293ISBN-13: 9780415487290Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/10/2008Pages: 598Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.83lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.21d

Originaly published in 1991, this volume contains the full text of Richard Brathwait's 'Whimzies, ' alongside textual notes including chapters on the character as a literary genre, the overburian characters and an annotation of the text.Author: Allen H. LannerISBN-10: 0367254859ISBN-13: 9780367254858Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2021Pages:...

All five of the epics discussed in this volume came to serve as the basis for an ethnic and national tradition of history, religion, and literature documenting, sometimes encyclopedically, the crucially formative events of a people's early collective experience. A sequential study of these...

In a similar mode to How to be a Kenyan, the author takes a comic look at what it takes to be an African lady and what an African lady should do when faced with certain situations. Thirty hilarious essays and some light hearted...

François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (1787-1874) was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot is famous for saying "Not to be a republican at 20 is proof of want of heart; to be one at 30 is proof of want of head"Author: F. GuizotISBN-10: 143441647XISBN-13:...

"An Address to the Oxfordshire Addressors and all Others of the Same Strain" is a compelling example of early 18th-century British political discourse. This tract offers a glimpse into the heated debates and ideological clashes of the period. Addressing the 'Oxfordshire Addressors, ' the...

CLEF MANIFESTO: A thirdway we key between "fiction" and "real" TREATISE UPON THE AUTONOMOUS INDIGENOUS: this holy input is not the derivative of any school but of devotion CONTENTS THE DUDES ORGANS TWO MARYS ARE BETTER THAN ONE ANGEL BOOTIE AND SWAGGER INTERVIEW"Author: T....

Book #2 of The Genesis Trilogy. This special reissue of a classic work of spirituality from the author of A Wrinkle in Time offers life-transforming insights on the rich heritage of the Bible and shows how the characters of this ancient text are relevant...

For over four decades, poet Stephen Wing has borne witness to U.S. military aggression abroad, inequity and injustice at home, and the stubborn resistance of generations of citizen activists. These poems reveal the human faces of poverty and prejudice, covert and conventional war, Pentagon...

This book is tight, focused, punchy, and actually finishable. Every word counts. No padding. Just explosive revelations, one after another.Every empire rewrites the past to justify the present. Conquerors burn the conquered's libraries. Institutions bury evidence that challenges their authority. Corporations suppress technologies (and...

From the very beginning, writing about the Holocaust has been shaped by considerations of form, the limits of language, and the (im)possibilities of conveying knowledge to future generations. In recent years, literary studies have undertaken various attempts to define >Holocaust literature,Author: Éva KovácsISBN-10: 3837678849ISBN-13:...