Literary Criticism - General

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Taper Tilman's interfering ways caused trouble. When he is strangled on the Cumberland River at TUG'S ICE FISHING, there are many suspects. Investigating detectives Lt. Eli James and Sgt. Tori Calhoun track the killer to Cumberland Bluffs, a mountain where the culprit plans to...

Originally translated and published in 1987, this volume contains a full text and translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's Eclogues, alongside textual and historical notes including an explanation of Boccaccio's life, his artistic achievement, and the sources and influences.Author: Boccaccio GiovanniISBN-10: 0367174278ISBN-13: 9780367174279Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/07/2020Pages:...

The Temple - sacred poems and private ejaculations is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1876. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres....

AUTODAFE is a collection of reports, interviews, correspondence, narratives, and stories from around the world. The review aims to be a place for debate and experimentation, a place where writers, silenced by censorship join voices with world-renowned writers. The contributors are all members of...

Excerpt: ... spirits) are sacred. 'Yet their father i.e. the father of each actual family is far before all others when they worship the Amatongo.... They do not know the ancients who are dead, nor their laud-giving names, nor their names.'8 Thus, each new...

With the early growth of monarchal absolutism in England, professional acting troupes established themselves. These dramatists of a 'new secular seriousness' act in the shadow of waning Catholic cycle plays controlled by the church. By Shakespeare's time, professional acting troupes are forces of economic...

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Eliza Hamilton Dunlop (1796-1880) arrived in Sydney in 1838 and became almost immediately notorious for her poem "The Aboriginal Mother," written in response to the infamous Myall Creek massacre. She published more poetry in colonial newspapers during her lifetime, but for the century following...

Author: Vijay MishraISBN-10: 1009433865ISBN-13: 9781009433860Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/08/2024Pages: 272Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's comedy Love's Cure, or The Martial Maid (1615) is an innovative and provocative play that explores the struggle of two transgender siblings, Lucio and Clara, who have been brought up as members of their opposite genders. After twenty years...

This is a complete collection of all the novels written by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Anti-Christ, The Gay Science, The Birth of Tragedy, Ecce Homo, Human All Too Human,...

The haunted house of American fiction is an iconic union of setting and theme with an enduring presence in popular culture that traces its lineage to the early English Gothic novels. Blurring the boundaries between past and present, the living and the dead, the...

Reconstructing the way Plato presented himself to his original audience as the creator of an alternative drama, Nikos Charalabopoulos explains the 'paradox' of the dialogue form as an appropriation of the discourse of theatre, the dominant public mode of communication of the time. Reviewing...

Greek lyric poetry encompassed a wide range of types of poem, from elegy to iambos and dithyramb to epinician. It particularly flourished in the Archaic and Classical periods, and some of its practitioners, such as Sappho and Pindar, had significant cultural influence in subsequent...

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Richard Bradford provides a definitive introductory guide to modern critical ideas on literary style and stylistics. It will provide students with a basic grasp of stylistics and literary analysis.This comprehensive and accessible guidebook for undergraduates examines: * the terminology of literary form* how literary...

Over many decades, "contagion" has been a metaphor of choice for everything from global terrorism, suicide bombings, poverty, immigration, global financial crises, human rights, fast food, obesity, divorce, and homosexuality. Essays examine the language of epidemiology used in the war on terror, the repressive...

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This book contains the wisdom of Ralph Waldo Emerson in extracts from his prose and verse. Compiled by William Belmont Parker, this book showcases Emerson's philosophy about nature, society, and the human condition- making it an essential read for anyone interested in self-improvement and...

This groundbreaking work of literary criticism explores the representation of black people in American literature and art throughout history. Brawley argues that these representations have often been stereotypical and limiting, but he also highlights examples of powerful and meaningful representation by black artists. A...

The book, "" Le Cocu (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XVIII) "", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format...

A critical introduction to the work of the English novelist Elizabeth Taylor tracing some of her recurrent preoccupations - with memory, dispossession and bereavement, and with her generation's experience of wartime as both disruption and opportunity - and to highlight the ruthless wit with...

Literary Nonfiction. While many people find hope and a new identity behind prison walls, they lose it a few steps past the prison gate when faced with seemingly insurmountable barriers that prevent them from fulfilling their potential. In effect, these men and women are...

Author: David YoungISBN-10: 1462852033ISBN-13: 9781462852031Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/08/2011Pages: 100Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d

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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...

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe...

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,...

Recent efforts to diversify and decentre the literary canon taught at universities have been moderately successful. Yet this expansion of our reading lists is only the start of a broader decolonization of literary studies as a discipline; there is much left to be done....

The Poems of Paul Verlaine is a collection of works by the French poet Paul Verlaine. The book includes a wide range of Verlaine's poetry, including his famous collections such as Romances sans paroles, Sagesse, and F������tes galantes. The poems are written in French...

This collection of readings on the concept of ideology is brought together by the Marxist critic, Terry Eagleton. His introduction traces the historical evolution of ideology and examines in a more theoretical style the various meanings of the word and their significance. The readings...

Specialised translation has received very little attention from academic researchers, but in fact accounts for the bulk of professional translation on a global scale and is taught in a growing number of university-level translation programmes. This book aims to provide three things. Firstly, it...

The Sacred Fount by Henry James has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both...

Asks how we can better understand a politics of refusal Writing a new story of Black politics, Jump emerges from the practice of enslaved Africans jumping overboard off their slavers' ships. Reading against the narrative that depoliticizes and denigrates the leaps of the enslaved...

This exquisite collection brings together the lyrical voices of two towering figures in American poetry. With their distinctive styles and powerful imagery, Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman create a beautiful tapestry of human experience in all its beauty and complexity.This work has been selected...

Literary Nonfiction. Edited with an introduction by Jenny Penberthy, and an afterword by August Kleinzahler. This volume gathers twenty-four essays by the English critic Kenneth Cox (1916-2005) on various writers, including James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Basil Bunting, Louis Zukofsky, and Lorine Niedecker. In each...

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A Commentary on Cicero, De Divinatione I, is the first English-language commentary on the Latin text of Marcus Tullius Cicero's dialogue in almost one hundred years. The defense of divination (the science of predicting the future) offered in Book 1 is illustrated with many...

Several hundred A-Z entries cover Achebe's major works, important characters and settings, key concepts and issues, and more. Though best known as a novelist, Achebe is also a critic, activist, and spokesman for African culture. This reference is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to...

Things Fall Apart is the most widely read and influential African novel. Published in 1958, it has sold more than eight million copies and been translated into fifty languages. African culture is not familiar to most American readers however, and this casebook provides a...

In Stupidity Avital Ronell explores the fading empire of cognition, modulating stupidity into idiocy, puerility, and the figure of the ridiculous philosopher instituted by Kant. Drawing on a range of writers including Dostoevsky, Schlegel, Musil, and Wordsworth, Stupidity investigates ignorance, dumbfounded-ness, and the limits...

Presents original poems and their English translations of twenty-three modern-day poets, including Vega, Matos, and Julia de Burgos, who explore the culture of Puerto Rico.Author: Julio Marz疣ISBN-10: 0231050100ISBN-13: 9780231050104Publisher: Columbia University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/22/1980Pages: 184Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Fiction. Within the pages of OFF BOULDER HIGHWAY--a hybrid work of poetry, memoir, and surrealistic prose--we encounter Vegas landmarks that act as characters, Reagan era disasters, the loss of a father. Jennifer Battisti--an '80s latchkey kid, now mother--transforms narrative into a...

Nietzsche and Adorno on Philosophical Praxis, Language, and Reconciliation: Towards an Ethics of Thinking offers a philosophical notion of an "ethics of thinking," a kind of thinking that is receptive to the non-identical character of the world of human and non-human objects. Paolo A....

The world is flooded with novels about secret messages or hidden texts. They all pretend to reveal the ultimate truth of Jesus. In this book, Geert Van Oyen goes back to the oldest gospel and explores its story as a challenging and revolutionary message...

A collection of over 80 poems from China encompassing the years 200 BC to 1100 AD, this book serves as an excellent introduction to Chinese poetry in all its myriad forms over the span of 13 centuries. Showcasing the poetry of Li Peh, Chang...

Focusing on the overarching theme of religious satire in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, this study reveals the novel's hidden motive, moral and plot. The author considers generations of criticism spanning the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, along with new textual evidence showing how Twain's...