Literary Criticism - General

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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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

" In a land where FEELINGS shared is a transgression, we get propelled onward! If Elizabeth Murray's promise that the subconscious is what we paint about, then Maureen Owen's promise is by the poems. Always there first, as Freud said, ' Where I go...

The empty force is one of the most difficult and revered Chinese martial arts that utilizes the mysterious power of chi, a circulating life force energy. This text reveals the secret of this extraordinary technique and explains how it can be used in both...

A bibliography of McAllister's writings.Author: David Ray BourquinISBN-10: 089370394XISBN-13: 9780893703943Publisher: Wildside PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/30/2008Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.12d

Jeanette Winterson: A contemporary critical guide is a comprehensive introduction to Winterson's writing. It brings together new essays by leading critics writing on key topics across her work from early successes like Oranges are Not the Only Fruit to recent works like Lighthousekeeping. The...

Author: Joel A. JohnsonISBN-10: 0826265790ISBN-13: 9780826265791Publisher: University of Missouri PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/22/2007Pages: 208Format: Hardcover

This book analyzes, through easy-to-follow play synopses, the strengths and weaknesses of the female protagonists as they impact not only the plot of Shakespeare's plays but the male protagonist. Selected, condensed one-act versions of the plays are provided in order to enrich the discussion...

Called one of the best magazines in America by Nan Talese and "the roots" in Esquire's garden of contemporary literature, and named one of Writer's Digest's "Nineteen Magazines That Matter," Prairie Schooner--one of the oldest and most prestigious literary journals in the country--celebrates seventy-five...

The nature of scientific activity has changed dramatically over the last half century, and the objectivity and rigorous search for evidence that once defined it are being abandoned. Increasingly, this text argues, dogma has taken the place of authentic science. This study examines how...

One of the most admired and influential authors to work in and write about Appalachia, James Still excelled in every genre of literature in which he worked, from novels and short stories to poetry, children's books, and folklore collections. This book is intended to...

When Hermes handed over to Apollo his finest invention, the lyre, in exchange for promotion to the status of messenger of the gods, he relinquished the creativity that gave life to his words. The trade-off proved frustrating: Hermes chafed under the obligation to deliver...

The thread running through this collection of essays is the inviolate marriage between philosophy and psychology. This book explores the connections made between the two disciplines by famous thinkers such as Aristotle, Albert Camus, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Lawrence Kohlberg, John Robert Coles, and...

The ladies dictionary, being a general entertainment for the fair-sex was published in 1694 and offers around 1950 lexical and encyclopaedic entries, the great majority excerpted either verbatim or with some degree of abridgement or adaptation from other published books. It was the first...

Between 1540 and 1654, The Byrth of Mankynde was a huge commercial success. Offering information on fertility, pregnancy, birth, and infant care, and written in a chatty, colloquial style, it influenced most other literary works of the period bearing on sex, reproduction, and childcare....

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...

Mikhail Zoshchenko, 1895-1958, was a great Soviet humorist. His works give a unique picture of Russian life in the Soviet period - a picture which, though satirically distorted and camouflaged by deliberate ambiguities, presents a shrewd commentary on the times. Lyudi first appeared in...

Luigi Russolo (1885-1947)--painter, composer, builder of musical instruments, and first-hour member of the Italian Futurist movement--was a crucial figure in the evolution of twentieth-century aesthetics. As creator of the first systematic poetics of noise and inventor of what has been considered the first mechanical...

The attempt by the George W. Bush administration to reshape world order, especially but not exclusively after September 11, 2001, increasingly appears to have resulted in a catastrophic "misshaping" of geopolitics in the wake of bungled campaigns in the Middle East and their many...

The essays in this collection explore various physical and conceptual spaces, moving from physical environments to the two-dimensional spaces of paintings, illustrations, and photographs, to chart similarities, differences, and complex nuanced relationships between environments, fashion, identities, and visuality.Author: John PotvinISBN-10: 0415873827ISBN-13: 9780415873826Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

The first comparative study of the women's sensation novel of the 1860s and the New Woman fiction of the 1890s, two genres which undermined the ideal of the proper feminine' and dangerously put female sexuality on the literary agenda.Author: Lyn PykettISBN-10: 041586206XISBN-13: 9780415862066Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage:...

This book offers an interpretation of seven of Shakespeare's plays in the light of pressures exerted by his major contemporary rivals, showing how he responded to the commercial and artistic pressures of his time.Author: David Farley-HillsISBN-10: 0415755352ISBN-13: 9780415755351Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/24/2014Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize:...

Explaining the origins and key institutions, this book provides an assessment of the European Union's leadership role in international climate change politics, with case studies on Britain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, businesses and environmental NGOs. Author: Rüdiger WurzelISBN-10: 041564013XISBN-13: 9780415640138Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Adult comics are part of the cultural landscape in a way that would have been unimaginable a decade ago. In this first survey of its kind, Roger Sabin traces the history of comics for older readers from the end of the nineteenth century to...

First Published in 2001. Looking at German Foreign Policy between 1847 to 1914 this Volume IX of the Foreign Policies of Great Powers collection. It includes the general framework of the Reich and European diplomacy, the second German empire's history and social structure, and...

First published in 2001. This is Volume X of the Foreign Policies of the Great Powers eleven part series and focuses on the policies of the United States. From 1776 to 1914. It includes sections demonstrating the U.S. journey from Internationalistic Nationalism to Nationalistic...

Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity. In the twentieth century, new forms of narrative have represented cultural modernity, political idealism and architectural innovation. This book explores the diverse...

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions...

Engaging closely with the work of Richard Francis Burton--the iconic nineteenth century imperial spy, explorer and translator--this book sheds new light on the White Man's 'imperial fantasies' and the ways in which metropolitan discourses drew upon and reinforced an intimate connection between fantasy and...

Claire Laubier brings together documentary and statistical material; extracts from newspapers and journals, literary texts, advertisements, manifestos, and personal testimonies. Each extract relates to the different experiences of women in France at work, in politics, at home and in the family. Together they offer...

The essays in this collection examine women in diverse roles; mother, socialite, prostitute, celebrity, medical practitioner and patient. The wide range of commentators allows a diverse picture of women's health in this period.Author: Ji Won ChungISBN-10: 0367875950ISBN-13: 9780367875954Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/12/2019Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize:...

The main focus of Literary Subterfuge and Contemporary Persian Fiction is to identify components and elements which define Persian modernist fiction, placing an emphasis on literary concepts and devices which provide the dynamics of the evolutionary trajectory of this modernism. 　The question of 'who...

This volume brings together some of the lost important essays written over the last two decades by one of India's most distinguished social scientists. They focus upon the relationship between various forms of inequality and distinction (race, caste, tribe, ethnicity and gender) and on...

Jane Austen and Literary Theory proceeds reveals how Austen anticipated the ideas of formidable literary thinkers of the twentieth-century, and will enable both her devotees and her detractors to appreciate her genius in unusual ways. Author: Shawn NormandinISBN-10: 0367696452ISBN-13: 9780367696450Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/26/2022Pages: 168Format:...

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Walter Pater's first book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), is a landmark in Victorian intellectual and cultural history. The first book-length study of the Renaissance by a British writer, it was also described as the 'golden book' of British aestheticism by...

Harinet's world has always been defined by family, tradition, and the quiet rhythms of daily life. But when long-buried secrets begin to surface, her life is thrown into chaos. Betrayal, vengeance, and dark truths rise from the shadows, leaving her to navigate a path...

Author: Sandor HitesISBN-10: 1009654934ISBN-13: 9781009654937Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/19/2026Pages: 294Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

"To have lived to the full, to have loved, to have fought, to have killed: that is a man's life. And even though the price be death, it would be cheap at that." As chronicled in this extraordinary memoir, André Spada (1897 - 1935),...

There are several reasons why the chronicle is particularly suited as the topic of a yearbook. In the first place there is its ubiquity: all over Europe and throughout the Middle Ages chronicles were written, both in Latin and in the vernacular, and not...

Examines how young Jewish Americans' fundamentally Jewish values have led them to organize in solidarity with Palestinians Unsettled digs into the experiences of young Jewish Americans who engage with the Palestine solidarity movement and challenge the staunch pro-Israel stance of mainstream Jewish American institutions....

Adorned with garlands of flowers and gold embellishments, this cover design reflects the sophisticated beauty of the original 1898 binding, which contained Prue & I by George William Curtis. Written during the height of the Gilded Age period, the work was a sentimental, tender,...

A majestic literary history, revealing the power and possibilities of silence found in literary works. Silence: A Literary History traces silences over twelve centuries of English literature, from the solitary states of exile on icy seas described in Anglo-Saxon poems to searches for silence...

Ce volume explore les manifestations énigmatiques du sacré dans le symbolisme franco-belge, en mettant en lumière un imaginaire poétique où poésie, art et mysticisme s'entrelacent pour évoquer une spiritualité moderne affranchie des dogmes religieux.This volume explores the elusive manifestations of the sacred in French...

Critique of Pure Passion was largely written in Mozambique in 1997 and first published the following year in Uruguay. It is composed of 358 compacts, each of which is a unit in itself. However, this collection of essays revolves around a few basic themes:...

Rednecks come in all shapes, sizes, races, male and female, and now live in all regions of the United States. They are an American grassroots compilation of people, and their lingo is fascinating to those who don't speak "redneck." Redneck Sayin's & Terms presents...

We belong to a generation in urban India that really is unable to fathom the need to agonize about the foreign-ness of the West as we have normalized the presence of many aspects of western civilization in our lives; it is cool to speak...

The concept of the "human" has been broadly re-visited and changed, as well as the "posthuman" has become a term of continuous inquiry. Gender (representations) play(s) a critical/decisive role in the works of literature, culture, and art, and focusing on gender is crucial to...

This volume showcases the variety of topics discussed in North-American Turkish Studies, such as the influence of Jewish immigrants in Turkey, the role of European Film Funding in Turkey, Islamic relegious education in Germany, the Turkish literary movement "Ikinci Yeni" and New World Literature...