Literary Criticism - General

Minor Dialogues, Together With the Dialogue on Clemency by Lucius Annaeus Seneca 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...

At the height of literary nationalisms in the twentieth century, leftist internationalists from Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, India, and the Soviet East bonded over their shared love of the classical Persian verses of Hafiz and Khayyam. At writers' congresses and in communist literary journals, they...

On the eve of the First World War, two iconoclastic young journalists, H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan, were offered the co-editorship of The Smart Set, a New-York based magazine with literary ambitions. During their nine years as co-editors, from 1914 until 1923,...

Tom Stoppard is widely considered to be one of the most important dramatists of contemporary theatre. In this Introduction, William Demastes provides an accessible overview of Stoppard's life and work, exploring all the complexity and variety that makes his drama so unique. Illustrated with...

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...

An instructional guide to writing poetry that is accessible to anyone, regardless of their technical knowledge or artistic ability. This book is an indispensable resource for aspiring poets and anyone who wants to develop a deeper appreciation for the art of poetry.This work has...

"Possible loves - are for fools - The wise have - impossible loves," reads a journal fragment from Christian mystic Simone Weil, whose life and works are examined here amid a seemingly unlikely assortment of topics. An argument for maintaining a reverence for commitment...

Shakspere's history plays are more than dramatized history lessons. They explore contemporary dangers inherent in royal succession at a time when Elizabeth I decreed that mere discussion of who would inherit the throne was treason. The plays were political and therefore dangerous. Yet William...

When reality becomes fantastic, what literary effects will render it credible or comprehensible? To respond meaningfully to the surreality of the Holocaust, writers must produce works of moral and emotional complexity. One way they have achieved this is through elements of fantasy. Covering a...

Though they were first written over 300 years ago, this is the first complete English translation of Jean de La Fontaine's comedic classic Contes et nouvelles en vers. Both sexually charged and wickedly funny, La Fontaine's Tales will surprise readers who know him only...

In Pink Beams of Light from the God in the Gutter, Gabriel McKee gives an overview of Dick's religious experiences and his attempts at communicating them in published works, drawing on Dick's fiction as well as his private journals and personal correspondenceAuthor: Gabriel McKeeISBN-10:...

The Collected Poems of the Nobel laureate and poet-statesman are here reissued with the posthumous Song for an Equinox, to form a complete edition of his poetic oeuvre, including also his I960 Nobel speech On Poetry" and his 1965 essay on Dante. Originally published...

'Zbigniew Cynkutis' writings constitute invaluable testimony of his work with Jerzy Grotowski during the 'theatre of productions' phase and beyond. Cynkutis' insights elucidate aspects of the Laboratory Theatre's praxis and provide a unique perspective on the questions most often asked about Grotowski. Authored by...

In the first volume of his extraordinary analysis of the death penalty, Jacques Derrida began a journey toward an ambitious end: the first truly philosophical argument against the death penalty. Exploring an impressive breadth of thought, he traced a deeply entrenched logic throughout the...

A History Of Sanskrit Literature 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 preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:...

Two Years Before The Mast: A Personal Narrative With A Supplement By The Author And Introduction And Additional Chapter By His Son, Richard Henry Dana This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and...

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 preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The...

While it is easy to assume that the system of criminal justice in nineteenth-century England was not unlike the modern one, in many ways it was very different, particularly before the series of Victorian reforms that gradually codified a system dependent on judge-made precedent....

Following the publication in 1557 of Tottel's Miscellany, a number of other anthologies or miscellanies appeared. Englands Helicon differs from its predecessors in representing a particular style of writing-the newly fashionable pastoral style, with its origins in the classics, and above all Virgil, but...

An unparalleled account of merchant men at sea in the early 19th century This is a well known book with a familiar title. Its contents are probably less known to many. It is the account of one young man's experiences serving on board a...

This biography examines the long life of the traveller and author Stephen Graham. Graham walked across large parts of the Tsarist Empire in the years before 1917, describing his adventures in a series of books and articles that helped to shape attitudes towards Russia...

Abraham Fraunce's The Shepherds' Logic (c. 1585) is one of the first English adaptations of Petrus Ramus's Dialecticae libri duo (1556). Preserved in a manuscript also containing two shorter essays on Ramist dialectic, the work was later modified and enlarged for publication as The...

A meandering journey through a selection of HP Lovecraft's writings, exploring the archetypal imagery, as well as a superficial attempt to interpret the Universe as seen through the eyes of Lovecraft himself. These essays were written during a 99 day Magical Working, invoking the...

"America is hard to see," observed Robert Frost, for America never stops moving, speeding always toward the promise of a future that is elusive, if not illusory. The American is a wayfarer who knows no rest, who is almost pathologically agitated. The American soul,...

Fresh from the twilight zone of Kafka's The Metamorphosis, this non-academic author treats on a line by line basis two of Kafka's last stories, stories written while he was wheezing with tuberculosis. Not surprisingly, these stories features pipes, just what Kafka was thinking about...

When the Eternal Can Be Met excavates the philosophy behind the theology of the twentieth century's most prominent Christian writers: C. S. Lewis, T. S. Eliot, and W. H. Auden. These three literary giants converted to Christianity within little more than a decade of...

In volume one of Henry Buckberry's stories (Get Poor Now, Avoid the Rush), we followed Henry from his early childhood in central North Dakota to the dark, dangerous woods of northern Wisconsin. Get Poor Now concluded in September of 1933, with Henry about to...

Literary Nonfiction. In his new collection of essays, PARTISANS, Joe Oestreich piles his readers into a tour van and barrels unflinchingly down the highway into subjects like guilt and murder, race, privilege, youth, music, marriage, work, and other deep territory of contemporary American life....

Nobody loves a father like his daughter. That truth comes through powerfully in this memoir. Sarah was enchanted by her father; she loved him with all her young heart. But when she turned five, her father began to do strange things. His bizarre behavior...

Upton Sinclair won a Pulitzer Prize for his notorious 1906 novel The Jungle, a fictionalized account of the barbaric conditions of the men and women who worked in Chicago's meatpacking industry. And just as the horrific circumstances he exposed in that book more than...

Author name not noted above: Marcus Aurelius. Translator names not noted above: Benjamin Jowett, Hastings Crossley, and George Long. Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and...

It's hard to say, exactly, what's meant by the ""modern world,"" but Henry Buckberry never really hooked into it. Born before the First World War and the oldest boy in a family of thirteen kids, he left the open, rolling, potholed prairie of North...

Author: R. A. Van MiddeldykISBN-10: 1605975087ISBN-13: 9781605975085Publisher: Book JungleLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/18/2008Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.49d

Please visit www.ArcManor.com for more books by this and other great authors.Author: Bernard Shaw, Bernard George ShawISBN-10: 1604501561ISBN-13: 9781604501568Publisher: ARC ManorLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/21/2008Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.30d

REFERENCE GUIDES TO RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION, edited by Charles Bazerman, Mary Jo Reiff, and Anis Bawarshi STYLE: AN INTRODUCTION TO HISTORY, THEORY, RESEARCH, AND PEDAGOGY conducts an in-depth investigation into the long and complex evolution of style in the study of rhetoric and writing....

This book contains the collected essays originating from a two-day conference at Stony Brook University. The conference aimed at charting various itineraries through little explored clusters of what we can rightly call "Italies," in the plural, and which have existed within and outside of...

This volume of collected essays explores the exegesis of the patristic School of Antioch, the Syriac Church Fathers, and the churches of the Antiochian-Syriac traditions. This exegetical tradition can be of use in today's historical-critical biblical scholarship with relation to theology.Author: Robert MillerISBN-10: 1593334877ISBN-13:...

Author: Andrew J. McKennaISBN-10: 1589835883ISBN-13: 9781589835887Publisher: Society of Biblical LiteratureLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1985Pages: 186Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d

Author: Darrell SchweitzerISBN-10: 1587150085ISBN-13: 9781587150081Publisher: Borgo PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1988Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 8.52h x 5.54w x 0.44d

Author: Jonathan AracISBN-10: 1583481125ISBN-13: 9781583481127Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1987Pages: 364Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.29lbsSize: 9.04h x 6.04w x 1.02d

Over the last 40 years, the study of word-order variation has become a prominent and fruitful field of research. Researchers of linguistic typology have found that every language permits a variety of word-order constructions, with subject, verb, and objects occupying varying positions relative to...

Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003), one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century French literature, produced a wide variety of essays and fictions that reflect on the complexities of literary work. His description of writing continually returns to a number of themes, such as solitude, passivity,...

The Review of Contemporary Fiction is a tri-quarterly journal that features critical essays on fiction writers whose work resists convention and easy categorization.Author: John O'BrienISBN-10: 1564784754ISBN-13: 9781564784759Publisher: Dalkey Archive PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2007Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d

Over the past twenty-five years, the Review of Contemporary Fiction has earned a reputation for being one of the most important journals covering contemporary literature. Through essays, excerpts, and an extensive book review section, the Review is dedicated to the discussion and celebration of...

In a series of comic vignettes and letters, Mordechai Schamz sets out to investigate himself, his world, and the language which makes them both intelligible. Dumbfounded at every turn and undiscouraged by -- perhaps even unaware of -- his failures, he confidently gets lost...

Jim Neilson, Dirtying Our Hands: An Introduction to the Fiction of Richard Powers/Jim Neilson, An Interview with Richard Powers/James Hurt, Narrative Powers: Richard Powers as Storyteller/Greg Dawes, The Storm of Progress: Richard Powers's Three Farmers/Joseph Dewey, Hooking the Nose of the Leviathan: Information, Knowledge,...

Author: Dalkey Archive PressISBN-10: 1564781917ISBN-13: 9781564781918Publisher: Dalkey Archive PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/1998Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d

Mary Campbell-Sposito, CANIS MAJOR: Introducing Raymond Queneau/Gilbert Sorrentino, Variations for Raymond Queneau/* Raymond Queneau, Interviews with Georges Charbonnier -- No. 5?/Raymond Queneau, Technique of the Novel/Raymond Queneau, From Children of Clay/Harry Mathews, Charity Begins at Home/Gilbert Pestureau, The Art of the Novel in Saint...

The Review's aesthetic focus has been called many things postmodern, experimental, avant-garde, metafictional, subversive but in bringing this aesthetic to a wider audience it also seeks to expose the artificial barriers that exist between and within cultures. To this end, The Review has a...

Altmann and de Vos are back with more great ideas for exploring contemporary reworkings of classic folk and fairy tales that appeal to teen readers. If you loved New Tales for Old (Libraries Unlimited, 1999), this new work will be sure to please. Following...