Literary Criticism - General

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Arnold KettleISBN-10: 140671948XISBN-13: 9781406719482Publisher: Nord...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

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 Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account of the complex field of translation studies. Written by leading specialists from around the world, this volume brings together authoritative original articles on pressing issues including: the current status of the field and...

Upton Sinclair's "Mammonart: An Essay in Economic Interpretation" is a powerful work of social criticism exploring the intersection of capitalism, the arts, and society. This meticulously prepared print edition invites readers to delve into Sinclair's incisive analysis of economic forces shaping artistic expression. Through...

This book is a compilation of writings by John Fisher, a prominent English bishop who lived in the 15th and 16th centuries. Fisher was renowned for his defense of Catholic teachings and his opposition to King Henry VIII's attempts to establish the Church 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 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 book is primarily for students and is designed to be used in tandem with the ancient Greek text or with any of the dozens of available translations generally titled The Poetics that cost a few dollars each or that are free on the...

The difficulty in understanding the written word is not the vagueness of the composition, but the elusiveness of the author. A basic problem in understanding an author's words relates to the language and culture. When words or thoughts are translated from one language and...

The profiles of the thirteen southern writers in this book show how growing up in the South shaped their work and contributed to the estimable collection of literature we call "southern writing." For years, critics have attempted to analyze and define "southern" literature. The...

This book is an account of what happened to some of the best German writers and journalists after they fled the Nazi terror to find shelter in France. It is a tragic intellectual drama that unfolds over seven years, and features writers such as...

Author: Edward L. GalliganISBN-10: 0826260594ISBN-13: 9780826260598Publisher: University of Missouri PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/02/1998Pages: 208Format: Hardcover

Womb Fantasies examines the womb, an invisible and mysterious space invested with allegorical significance, as a metaphorical space in postwar cinematic and literary texts grappling with the trauma of post-holocaust, postmodern existence. In addition, it examines the representation of visible spaces in the texts...

Paradise & Method: Poetics and Praxis collects nearly two decades of work on poetics by one of the pioneers of the "language poetry" movement. Addressing poetics from a poet's perspective, Andrews focuses on the ways in which meaning is produced and challenged. His essays...

This is an attempt to bring together the large amount of published and unpublished information as to who wrote what during The Quarterly's first fifteen years. Of the 733 articles published in The Quarterly under Gifford's editorship, the authors of 616 have been identified....

Milton's early commentators--Henry Todd, Thomas Newton, Joseph Addison, and others--not only knew their classics well, they took them seriously as models of literary excellence and repositories of values. In the twentieth century, however, the classics have become mere "background." As a consequence, William M....

Much has been said about the relationship between globalization and culture and the political implications of that relationship. There has been little effort made, however, to investigate the effect of globalization on poetics or on the ethical moment of literature. World Writing is therefore...

Drawing on the works of Shakespeare and American screenwriter Joss Whedon, this study in narrative ethics contends that Whedon is the Shakespeare of our time. The Bard wrote before the influence of the modern moral philosophers, while Whedon is writing in the postmodern period....

This book closely examines the mother figure in six works by African American women at various times in American history: Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces, Nella Larsen's Passing, Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha, Alice Walker's The...

Kenneth Parker gives a historical and critical exposition of commentaries of the play. These are traced back to firmly held assumptions, about theories of literary production and consumption as well as political relations, not yet wholly shed in the present. Dominant traditions (of Cleopatra...

Wray argues that women participated in many kinds of literary discourse, such as poetry, drama, fiction, autobiography, advice books and religio-politico treatises. Covering the work of all the important women writers of the period it introduces readers to a range of women's writing across...

H.G. Wells was one of the most prolific writers in the English language. He published over one hundred books, yet he is recognized by only two or three of his popular novels including The Time Machine and War of the Worlds. Why has such...

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...

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...

John Shaw Neilson (1872-1942) is one of Australia's finest and best-loved lyric poets. This comprehensive selection of letters to, from and about him fills a long-felt need, providing a vivid personal and social history.The selection begins in 1906 when A. G. Stephens started up...

Wide-ranging in theme and context, it explores the imaginative effects of his writing. A tribute to Chris on the occasion of this eightieth birthday, and in many ways it suggests an alternative cultural history of Australia since the 1950s. Containing biographical and critical pieces,...

Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. It demands the highest standards of scholarship from its contributors, all of whom are leading academics in their fields. It gives preference...

The late 19th and early 20th century was a key period of cultural transition in Ireland. Fiction was used in a plainly partisan or polemical fashion to advance changes in Irish society. Murphy explores the outlook of certain important social classes during this time...

In 1904 a new journal, Archiv Fur Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik, was introduced in Germany. The journal, which included the writings of some of the foremost scholars of the day, as well as those who gained recognition and influence in later years, appeared regularly until...

A biographical study of Coleridge's character and personality.Author: E. K. ChambersISBN-10: 0313205396ISBN-13: 9780313205392Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/16/1978Pages: 390Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.31lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.88d

The Story of the Western Wing, one of China's most famous love operas, tells the story of Student Zhang and a teenage girl named Oriole who begin a passionate relationship in a Chinese monastery. The couple are promised to each other but only if...

Tourism is increasingly viewed by African governments and others as an economic sector which has great unexplored potential for earning foreign currency. It is also recognised that uncontrolled tourism development has the potential to affect the environment and local communities adversely. This book reports...

NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERS Brazilian Literature: With A Foreword By J. D. M. Ford This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of...

Aristotle On The Art Of Poetry: Translated By Ingram Bywater With A Preface By Gilbert Murray This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to...

A fierce, funny, unsentimental book about growing older, about grace and forgiveness, and about hope for a world we must too soon leave behind. His wild years behind him, Alfred Ashby, a celebrated photographer now in his late fifties, has returned to where he...

Say This Prayer into the Past reckons with cadavers in the family closet, a house lost to a wildfire, and the heartbreaking beauty of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California. Along the way, Paul Willis rekindles the delights of children, the kindness of...

Author: Eli ZaretskyISBN-10: 0197670032ISBN-13: 9780197670033Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2026Pages: 152Format: Paperback

Every couple has a love story. Wedding celebrants around the world know this, and have the pleasure and privilege of learning, writing and then sharing love stories at weddings. Write That Love Story is a generous guide to the art of creating compelling narrative...

In The Art of War, Sun Tzu delivers a concise yet profound blueprint for strategic mastery. His timeless philosophy teaches that success comes not from brute force, but from clarity, preparation, and knowing both yourself and your opponent.This modern translation preserves the original's poetic...

The end of the first quarter of the 21st century invites us to revisit what gender means in society and how it has shaped our literal and cultural landscapes. This volume seeks to explore these spaces from interdisciplinary perspectives. The contributions span both "highbrow"...

This interdisciplinary volume explores the phenomenon of spiritual intermediality in early modern Christian culture, offering new insights into the use of and reflection on devotional media, as well as the role of divine mediation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe.Author: Marlene DirschauerISBN-10: 9004746633ISBN-13: 9789004746633Publisher: BrillLanguage:...

Immersion is the common readerly feeling of being lost in a book, your consciousness transported elsewhere, so that fictional places and people can feel vivid and real. It rests on a familiar human capacity for being completely absorbed by the object - whether that...

The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature explores the interplay between the domination of nature and the oppression of women, as well as liberatory alternatives, bringing together essays from leading academics in the field to facilitate cutting-edge critical readings of literature.Author: Douglas A. VakochISBN-10:...

This book unearths a forgotten history of exchange and enlightenment between China and the West, told through vivid examples drawn from the world of poetry, the philosophy of culture and religion, and the realm of international communication. Across chapters that cover an extraordinary range...