Literary Criticism - General

The seven essays in this volume address some of the critical issues underlining the process of Hong Kong's reintegration with China. In reviewing the drastic changes in Hong Kong since the mid-1980s, the authors provide multi-disciplinary perspectives to articulate the major institutions and forces...

Travelling Ideas in the Long Nineteenth Century is about how ideas travel on the waves of cultural transfer. The volume focuses in particular on the exchange of ideas, knowledge and culture between the Nordic countries and continental Europe. It includes reflections on traveling and...

Battles and Borders. Perspectives on Cultural Transmission and Literature in Minor Language Areas is about literature on the fringes of Europe. The authors all discuss the often unique ways in which literary history and cultural transfer function in peripheral and central regions against the...

In the rustic village of Hayslope, George Eliot weaves a tale of love, betrayal, and redemption in "Adam Bede." Young carpenter Adam finds his heart torn between the beautiful but naive Hetty Sorrel and the compassionate preacher Dinah Morris. Set against the backdrop of...

This book comprises six essays by prominent scholars of medieval Insular manuscripts. The main emphasis is on the physical appearance of books, though writing on and in other objects is also discussed. The essays highlight, in different ways, the tight relationship between the palaeographical...

In a historical moment when cinema is definitively abandoning analogue production, the cinematographic work of Paolo Gioli occupies an important and meaningful place in the academic and artistic debate related to the present and future position of cinema and media art in the digital...

The relationship between the Bible and literature continues to fascinate many scholars working in both fields. In this book, as the Gospels and the work of four Scottish writers are read together, their correspondences become manifest. The four writers, James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson,...

A collection of vivid fragments engaging with ethical and sceptical themes by means of an engagement with several major European thinkers, including Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Levinas and Wittgenstein.Author: Matthew Alun RayISBN-10: 1782799273ISBN-13: 9781782799276Publisher: Iff BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/30/2015Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.10d

In a sense, the idea of an afterlife can be a great source of comfort to those whose death is imminent, as well as to their loved ones. If such an afterlife does exist, then there is no reason to avoid or fear death....

The Roman poet Ovid (43 B.C.-A.D. 17) was a rock star of the newly-founded empire ruled by Caesar Augustus. A sensitive, artistic soul, his verse, focused on the art of love, attracted the Roman youth of his day and made him a celebrity in...

William Morrisey unravels Melville's "loomings" of the great whale, showing them to be important threads of politics and theories of governance. The Young America of Melville's day valorized popular sovereignty such that moral law suppressed by the majority rule was bringing America to state...

The World's Great Sermons is a religious studies classic by Grenville Kleiser which includes the following titles: The creation of the world / Basil -- Excessive grief at the death of friends / Chrysostom -- The recovery of sight by the blind / Augustine...

In African American culture the preacher has traditionally held many roles: minister of faith, orator, politician, idealist, and most importantly, leader. But the preacher was also traditionally male, and in many ways this advanced the perception that African American women were incapable of questioning...

Paperback Quarterly, Fall 1982, Volume 5 Number 3, contains: "Remembering Ellery Queen," by Angela Andrews, "The Paperback Hall of Fame of Miscellaneous Curiosities, Part II: Cover/Printing Variations," by Daniel G. Roberts, "Vardis Fisher and His Books," by M. C. Hill, "Reprints/Reprints: The Hound of...

Paperback Quarterly, A Journal for Paperback Collectors, Volume 1 Number 1, Spring 1978, contains: "Paperback Originals," by Bill Crider, "The PQ Interview with Harry Whittington," "A Conversation with the de Camps," by Charlotte Laughlin, "New Book Released About Robert E Howard," reviewed by Tevis...

Paperback Quarterly, A Journal for Paperback Collectors, Volume 1 Number 2, Summer 1978, contains: "P. Q. Interview with Elmer Kelton," "Collecting Armed Service Editions," by Charlotte Laughlin, "The Green Door Mystery," by Howard Waterhouse, "P. Q. Interview with Jada Davis," and "Almuric or 'Edgar...

Paperback Quarterly, the Journal of Mass-Market Paperback History, Volume 4, Number 4, Winter 1981, contains: "Leon Skimin -- Paperback Pioneer," by Michael S. Barson, "Interview with Leon Shimkin," by Michael S. Barson, "Ace Science Fiction Special Series," by Bill Crider, "The Destroyer Series," by...

Living in a landscape dominated by mining.Deep mining ended decades ago in Pennsylvania's Lackawanna Valley. The barons who made their fortunes have moved on. Low wages and high unemployment haunt the area, and the people left behind wonder whether to stay or seek their...

The first edited volume to examine philosopher Slavoj Zizek's influence on, and his relevance for, theatre and performance studies. Featuring a brand new essay from Zizek himself, this is an indispensable contribution to the emerging field of Performance Philosophy.Author: B. ChowISBN-10: 1349489131ISBN-13: 9781349489138Publisher: Palgrave...

Little known as a poet in his own time, Andrew Marvell (1621 - 78) was a patriotic politician and champion of religious toleration during the Restoration. Although long celebrated for the great love lyric, To His Coy Mistress, the last century has seen his...

Professor Mahood's book has established itself as a classic in the field, not so much because of the ingenuity with which she reads Shakespeare's quibbles, but because her elucidation of pun and wordplay is intelligently related both to textual readings and dramatic significance.' -...

Delve into the life and times of one of Britain's most celebrated literary figures with this definitive biography. James Boswell draws on his personal experiences and extensive research to provide a compelling portrait of Samuel Johnson, offering insight into his personality, work, and legacy....

Algernon Charles Swinburne was one of the leading poets of the Victorian era, known for his sensual and decadent style. This collection brings together some of his best-known works, including 'Hymn to Proserpine' and 'Dolores'. Swinburne's poetry is both beautiful and controversial, and continues...

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: Bobby J. ChamberlainISBN-10: 087352957XISBN-13: 9780873529570Publisher: Modern Language Association of AmericaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1989Pages: 95Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 8.48h x 5.46w x 0.38d

The poetic movement that was Spanish American modernismo ran from the early 1880s to 1916: it expressed the desire both to join universal literature--aesthetic modernity--and to break colonial ties with Spanish belles lettres. The new translations in this bilingual anthology, many of them first...

Writing Against God approaches O'Connor's fiction through linguistic analysis and with reader response perceptions. It examines her grammatical and stylistic choices and addresses the inconsistencies her readers encounter and the conflict this engenders.Author: Joanne Halleran McMullenISBN-10: 0865546207ISBN-13: 9780865546202Publisher: Mercer University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/1998Pages: 164Format:...

This book argues that during the Cold War modern political imagination was held captive by the split between two visions of universality--freedom in the West versus social justice in the East--and by a culture of secrecy that tied national identity to national security. Examining...

Reading eight major contemporary authors through the lens of chaos theory, Conte offers new and original interpretations of works that have been the subject of much critical debateDesign and Debris discusses the relationship between order and disorder in the works of John Hawkes, Harry...

As part of the sixteenth century's intellectual "triumvirate," which included Joseph Scaliger and Isaac Casaubon, Justus Lipsius formulated a humanist scholarship aimed ultimately at practical application in both public and personal affairs.Justus Lipsius distinguished himself as a student of the classics, first at the...

In groundbreaking readings linking works of Descartes, Shakespeare, and Cervantes with contemporary revisions of Freud and Nietzsche, Unspeakable Subjects argues that the concepts and discourses that have come to define European modernity--the subject's extension and responsibility, genealogies of intention and of freedom, the literary,...

A comprehensive reexamination of the question of realism in literature, reviewing major critical approaches in Spanish, French, German, and Anglo-American literary tradition, and offering original reader-response-based theory and readings.Realism has not only shaped important schools and periods in literary history, but has also been...

This collection of new essays examines the "transnational turn" in cultural studies between Asia and the West. Drawing on literature, history, culture, film and media studies, scholars from a range of disciplines explore the constructs of "Asia" and "the West" and their cultural collision....

In the new edition of her highly regarded study, Laura Marcus examines a wide range of Virginia Woolf's novels, short stories, essays and autobiographical writings in the context of themes and topics of central contemporary relevance and interest: time, history and narrative; modernism 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...

Today and Tomorrow Volume 10 Science and Medicine reprints The Mongol in Our Midst, Prometheus or Biology and the Advancement of Man, Metanthropos or the Body of the Future, Pygmalion or the Doctor of the Future, and The Conquest of Cancer. Very much products...

The unconscious is a term which is central to the understanding of psychoanalysis, and, indeed everyday life. In this introductory guide, Antony Easthope provides a witty and accessible overview of the subject showing the reality of the unconscious with a startling variety of examples.Author:...

Author: Edward M. WhiteISBN-10: 0393099695ISBN-13: 9780393099690Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1972Pages: 212Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 8.38h x 5.14w x 0.59d

This issue of Yale French Studies on "Surrealism and Its Others"examines the works and theories of writers, artists, and thinkers who positioned themselves and their productions in dialogue with Breton's surrealism. Although surrealism always sought to distinguish itself from other movements and ideologies, its...

Dismantling Glory presents the most personal and powerful words ever written about the horrors of battle, by the very soldiers who put their lives on the line. Focusing on American and English poetry from World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War,...

This juxtaposition of Virginia Woolf and Christa Wolf, writers of two distinct cultures, countries and generations, focuses on the strategies the two authors share in creating their female characters. Hermann looks at each author within the social and historical conditions that produced them, employAuthor:...

A practical and current overview of the entire field of allergy.Allergic disease, which frequently affects children, adolescents, and young adults, has seen an alarming increase in recent years. At the same time, an explosion of clinical and scientific advances in immunology and allergology have...

Using a range of 'case studies' from Critical Theory to Candy Crush, 'Gangnam Style' to Game of Thrones and Football Manager to Hieronymus Bosch, this book argues that we need to rethink our enjoyment. Inspired by psychoanalysis, the book offers a new way of...

This study argues against vague interpretations of fantasy as mere escapism and seeks to define it as a distinct kind of narrative. A general theoretical section introduces recent work on fantasy, notably Tzventan Todorov's The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (1973)....

Bringing together diverse scholars to represent the full historical breadth of the early modern period, and a wide range of disciplines (literature, women's studies, folklore, ethnomusicology, art history, media studies, the history of science, and history), Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800 offers an...

"The book flinches like a school of fish, a murmuration, a murder nation, my colonizer's baby handprint on a paneled wall in a farmhouse in Ovid, Michigan. The book unearths burial mounds and flattens them into fields. My ancestors removed the bones, and I...

Highly accessible introduction to the concept of ideology through the cultural products of our timesAuthor: Mike CormackISBN-10: 0472064916ISBN-13: 9780472064915Publisher: University of Michigan PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/09/1992Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.05w x 0.38d

James Joyce and Nationalism comprehensively revises our understanding of Joyce by re-examining his writing against Irish Nationalism. In this exciting and provocative book, Emer Nolan looks at the relationship between modernism and nationalism, tracing the applicability of alternative notions of nationalism to the various...

This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage...