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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Walter Jackson BateISBN-10: 144374008XISBN-13:...

A guide to constructing a novel for budding writers by one of Scotland's finest poets. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in...

Author: Paul BoeclerISBN-10: 1441589414ISBN-13: 9781441589415Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/30/2009Pages: 166Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

The Modernist God State seeks to overturn the traditional secularization approach to intellectual and political history and to replace it with a fuller understanding of the religious basis of modernist political movements. Lackey demonstrates that Christianity, instead of fading after the Enlightenment, actually increased...

How does contemporary fiction engage with the claims and ideas of Christian theology? Can 'secular fictions' accommodate transcendent experiences or encounters with the divine? Does belief continue to influence the shape of fiction in any meaningful way? This study argues against the idea that...

Ever since Ezra Pound's exhortation to 'make it new', experimentation has been a hallmark of contemporary literature. Ranging from the modernists, through the Beats to postmodernism and contemporary 'hyperfiction', this is a unique introduction to experimental fiction. Creative exercises throughout the book help students...

Author: Micajah Otis HallISBN-10: 1437101720ISBN-13: 9781437101720Publisher: Kessinger PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2008Pages: 284Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d

Lonely Lives: A Drama is a play written by Gerhart Hauptmann and first published in 1898. The story revolves around the lives of two sisters, Emma and Minna, who live in a small village in Germany. Emma is married to a wealthy farmer, but...

Author: Robert L. MooreISBN-10: 1436366186ISBN-13: 9781436366182Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/09/2009Pages: 52Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.12d

Sacontala or The Fatal Ring: An Indian Drama is a play written by Kalidasa, a renowned Indian poet and playwright. The story is based on an ancient Indian legend about a beautiful and virtuous woman named Sacontala, who falls in love with a king...

The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker V2 is a collection of plays written by Thomas Dekker, a prolific playwright from the Elizabethan era. This edition includes a comprehensive collection of his works, along with detailed explanatory notes and a memoir of the author. The...

Hieroglyphics: A Note Upon Ecstasy In Literature is a book written by Arthur Machen, a Welsh author and mystic. The book explores the concept of ecstasy in literature, particularly in the context of the supernatural and the mystical. Machen argues that literature has the...

Author: Diane FreemanISBN-10: 1425792863ISBN-13: 9781425792862Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/02/2009Pages: 120Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

The book ""The Transition From Ritual To Art: The Dromenon And The Drama"" by Jane Ellen Harrison explores the evolution of ancient Greek religious practices and their transformation into theatrical performances. The author argues that the transition from ritual to art was a gradual...

American essayist, lecturer, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement, Ralph Waldo Emerson was a champion of individualism and major critic of the prevailing society of his time. Emerson forwarded his ideology by publishing dozens of essays and giving over 1500 lectures in the...

Greenwich Village Vignettes is a collection of short stories, or vignettes, chronicling a boy's coming of age during the time period after the Second World War, to the close of the tumultuous and life-changing decade of the 1960's. The area was always known for...

Lev Yakimenko is a popular Soviet literary critic, and the author of well-known books about Nobel Prize winner Mikhail Sholokhov. In the present book, Lev Yakimenko gives a profound and comprehensive analysis of all Sholokhov's work, from his early Tales from the Don to...

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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: Joseph FreemanISBN-10: 1406751421ISBN-13: 9781406751420Publisher: Freeman...

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: Bonamy DobreeISBN-10: 1406738360ISBN-13: 9781406738360Publisher: Pickard...

Play-Making - A Manual of Craftsmanship is a guidebook which answers the essential question: "How do I write theatrical drama?" This book is a valuable resource for aspiring playwrights who wish to learn essential techniques of authoring a quality stage play. William Archer, an...

Sentient animals, machines, and robots abound in German literature and culture, but there has been surprisingly limited scholarship on non-human life forms in German studies. This volume extends interdisciplinary research in emotion studies to examine non-humans and the affective relationships between humans and non-humans...

ENTER DARKNESS collects interviews from 1984-1989, conducted and edited by SPWAO Award-nominated author/editor William Grabowski for THE HORROR SHOW, a World Fantasy Award-winning quarterly magazine. Included here are Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, Poppy Z. Brite, Dennis Etchison, Dean Koontz, Joe Lansdale, Bentley Little, Elizabeth...

The information about the book is not available as of this time.Author: Sam BarberISBN-10: 1669824519ISBN-13: 9781669824510Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/08/2022Pages: 48Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d

Re-orienting Modernism in Arabic and Persian Poetry is the first book to systematically study the parallel development of modernist poetry in Arabic and Persian. It presents a fresh line of comparative inquiry into minor literatures within the field of world literary studies. Focusing on...

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Many are the philosophers who have proposed ideas, explanations, and solutions to the riddles of the universe. Few are the ones who have left us definitive answers. I have chosen six philosophers because their ideas are so daring and yet well argued that remain...

Jane Austen's strength is, of course, that of the humorist. And this is not all. The foibles, illusions, self-contradictions, and absurdities of human nature are not just a joy to her for their own sakes, but also because through action they lead to results...

The novel Candide is today a timeless work of art and a classic. Candide, the eponymous hero, is perhaps the prototype of the antihero: gentle, timorous, and totally gullible. The secondary characters are quirky and most enjoyable. Who can forget Candide's tutor Panglos?The shorter...

Since the 1980s novels about childhood for adults have been a booming genre within the contemporary British literary market. Childhood in the Contemporary English Novel offers the first comprehensive study of this literary trend. Assembling analyses of key works by Ian McEwan, Doris Lessing,...

The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing forms a theoretical, comprehensive, and critically astute overview of the history and future of Pakistani literature in English. Dealing with key issues for global society today, from terrorism, religious extremism, fundamentalism, corruption, and intolerance, to matters of...

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This book is a convergence of heterogeneous insights (from languages and literature, history, music, media and communications, computer science and information studies) which previously went their separate ways; now unified under a single framework for the purpose of preserving a unique heritage, the language....

This book presents a critical reading of Kristapurāṇa, the first South Asian retelling of the Bible. In 1579, Thomas Stephens (1549-1619), a young Jesuit priest, arrived in Goa with the aim of preaching Christianity to the local subjects of the Portuguese colony. Kristapurāṇa (1616),...

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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...

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 book proposes a comprehensive discussion of the issue of linguistic feeling, the subject's metalinguistic capacity to intuitively apprehend the normative - lexical, syntactic, morphological, phonological... - dimensions of a definite language he or she is acquainted with. The volume's twelve contributions aim to...

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Scholars have long highlighted the links between translating and (re)writing, increasingly blurring the line between translations and so-called 'original' works. Less emphasis has been placed on the work of writers who translate, and the ways in which they conceptualize, or even fictionalize, the task...

Why have so many prominent literary authors-from Philip Pullman and José Saramago to Michèle Roberts and Colm Tóibím-recently rewritten the canonical story of Jesus Christ? What does that say about our supposedly secular age? In this insightful study, Magdalena Maczynska defines and examines the...

This book takes performance studies in exciting new directions, exploring the ways in which ethics can be used to understand the complex questions facing contemporary spectators. Engaging with five key performances, the book reflects on the emotional and intellectual impacts of politically inflected performance...

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