Literary Criticism - General

Thomas Mann's "Three essays" presents a profound exploration of towering figures and enduring ideas. This meticulously prepared print edition collects Mann's incisive critiques and historical analyses, offering readers access to his unparalleled intellectual breadth. Delve into Mann's celebrated literary criticism as he turns his...

First published in 1901 and this English translation in 1970, Footprints in the Snow is one of the most popular novels in modern Japan. It is the story of the struggle of a penniless Japanese boy Shintaro Kikuchi, for education and emancipation.Author: Kenjiro TokutomiISBN-10:...

Author: Katja HausteinISBN-10: 1009363271ISBN-13: 9781009363273Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/04/2025Pages: 180Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

Stéphane Mallarmé's early modernist, ur-visual poem Un Coup de dés, with its indeterminacy and chains of association, has inspired numerous translations, versions, imitations, and artistic extrapolations. "Shipwrecked on the shoals of contingency", poets from so-called Australia seem particularly haunted by Un Coup de dés....

This volume contains three of John Ruskin's most influential works: "Sesame and Lilies," "The Two Paths," and "The King of the Golden River." "Sesame and Lilies" comprises two essays, "Of Kings' Treasuries" and "Of Queens' Gardens," exploring the importance of reading and the role...

This comprehensive volume, "The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling," offers a rich collection of the works of the celebrated 17th-century English poet and playwright. Compiled and annotated by Alfred Inigo Suckling, this edition provides readers with a thorough account of...

This book offers the first book-length study of user-generated, social media-based true crime content. The book considers the large and varied true crime community, outlining their at times contradictory needs and desires, from those who wish to partake in acts of sleuthing and fannish...

Books That Made History highlights twenty-five books published in Leiden or written by a Leiden scholar or alumnus, that have a strong connection to Leiden's academic history, from the founding of Leiden University in 1575 to the present day. These books have a lasting,...

Winner of the 2023 Menno Hertzberger Encouragement Prize (Book History) In Early Modern Thesis Prints in the Southern Netherlands, Gwendoline de Mûelenaere offers an account of the practice of producing illustrated thesis prints in the seventeenth-century Southern Low Countries. She argues that the evolution...

Since 1984, Parkett has been an important source of literature on international contemporary art. Each biannual issue is a collaboration with four artists, in which their work is explored in fully illustrated essays by leading writers and critics. In addition, each artist creates an...

Is it possible to create a community where everyone lives according to their own rhythm, and yet respects the individual rhythms of others? This volume contains new essays which investigate and actualize the concepts that Roland Barthes discussed in his famous 1977 lecture series,...

Ballads and Other Poems - Original and translated is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1868. 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....

Uppingham School Songs and Borth Lyrics is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1887. 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. As a...

The Hope of the World - And Other Poems is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other...

Author: Corinne AndersenISBN-10: 3639081684ISBN-13: 9783639081688Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Language: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2008Pages: 168Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d

Most critics accept that the genre of horror is quite similar to fairy tales. However, few explain the direct correlation between horror films and folk-fairy tales. Girls, Wolves, and Madmen demonstrates that contemporary horror films serve a similar purpose for audiences that folk-fairy tales...

The essays in this volume engage with questions concerning the relationships between fictional texts and environmental issues in their various articulations, and offer critical readings that display the theoretical diversity in the current reconsiderations of the place of human in relation to nature and...

Elflora of the Susquehanna is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1879. 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. As a publisher we...

An Index to Dibdin's Edition of the Typographical Antiquities is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other...

A Manual of religious Belief is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1875. 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. As a publisher...

Philosophy and Philosophical Authors of the Jews - A Historical Sketch with Explanatory Notes is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1881. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking...

The Shade of Alexander Pope on the Banks of the Thames is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1799. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine,...

This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to locative media, concentrating on specific authors and practitioners whose works exist in print and digital manifestations. The book shapes the discourse for an extensive theorization of locative media works from a narrative perspective. It investigates how different...

This book examines the prominent place a commitment to social justice and equity has occupied in the global history of literary journalism. With international case studies, it explores and theorizes the way literary journalists have addressed inequality and its consequences in their practice. In...

What is the human being duty and what is the source of my restlessness, of my metaphysical impatience? Could it be that exile has made me a woman of no fixed abode? These questions are coming from a woman with hybrid origins who lived...

Los Angeles Review of Books is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and disseminating rigorous, incisive, and engaging writing on every aspect of literature, culture, and the arts. Since its founding in 2011, LARB has quickly established itself as a thriving institution for writers...

Literary Nonfiction. A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF SILICON VALLEY follows the history of the people exploited, displaced, and made obsolete by the tech industry, from the colonization of the Bay Area to the present day. From the first Macintosh to the rise of social media,...

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE: HIS LIFEBy Théophile GautierWith poems translated by Guy ThorneCharles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a celebrated 19th century French poet, author of the famous Flowers of Evil poetic sequence, first published in 1857. Baudelaire is a poet's poet par excellence, a brilliant craftsman who...

CHARLES BAUDELAIRETHE POEMS AND THE PROSE POEMSIntroduced by James Huneker. Edited by Jeremy Mark RobinsonCharles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a celebrated 19th century French poet, author of the famous Flowers of Evil poetic sequence, first published in 1857. Baudelaire is a poet's poet par excellence,...

Women Moving Forward: Narratives of Identity, Migration, Resilience, and Hope is an excellent example of ethnographic inquiry, revealing the normative behavior of women within specific cultural boundaries, while also illuminating the individual transcendence of norms in the quest for self-realization. The stories in Women...

The hybrid novels of Ben Okri, B. Kojo Laing, and Yvonne Vera address contemporary African politics in contrasting styles but complementary religious, cultural, and feminist approaches. Responding to many of the same neo-colonial concerns as earlier African writers, Ben Okri, B. Kojo Laing and...

Book World Magazine: Issue 4 - A Celebration of Books, Authors & the Reading CommunityDiscover the Stories Behind the Stories!Book World Magazine isn't just another book magazine-it's a celebration of the authors, book clubs, indie writers, and literary voices shaping the reading world today....

Sir William Kirkcaldy of Grange was the son of Sir James Kirkcaldy, Lord High Treasurer under James V. His mother was Janet Melville sister of the five Melville brother who played such a prominent part as civil servants and diplomats during the reign of...

A THOROUGH STUDY OF A MOVIE GENRE THAT REACHED ITS CULTURAL ZENITH IN THE 1970S BUT REMAINS INFLUENTIAL TODAY Hearths of Darkness traces the origins of the 1970s family horror subgenre to certain aspects of American culture and classical Hollywood cinema. Far from being...

This book explores the enduring European and American interest in literary works portraying Eastern themes and perspectives. It examines how literary Easternization, termed "Logoteunison", manifests in Western literary works that reflect, embody, or deploy Eastern values or concepts; or else ape, mimic, parody, or...

Transatlantic Mysteries presents a comparative study that brings together authors Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Manuel Váaacute;zquez Montalbán -from two specific political contexts: post-1968 Mexico and post-Franco Spain- who both work in one specific genre-"noir" detective fiction.Author: William J. NicholsISBN-10: 161148040XISBN-13: 9781611480405Publisher: Bucknell University...

This collection of essays is impressive in its breadth, ranging over English (Shakespeare, Stoppard, Churchill, Ravenhill, Penhall), Irish (MacNamara, Johnston), American (O'Neill, Stein, Kushner, Lynn), and Continental (Beckett, Weiss, Jelinek) dramatists; furthermore, many of the plays given extended treatment--King Lear, The Emperor Jones, Waiting...

The British East India Company and the Asiatic Society employed a well-planned, three-pronged missionary, historical, and academic assault on Indian education and culture to subjugate and fleece India. Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900) was a missionary sent to India, masquerading as a Sanskrit scholar while...

In this suite of dramatic monologues, David Denny reimagines the ancient folktale of Jonah by listening to the voices of its many characters. Jonah and God, of course, remain the two principal players, to be sure. But in Man Overboard we also hear from...

In November 2010, Republican Scott Walker was elected Governor of Wisconsin. In something of a Tea Party sweep, the iconic Russ Feingold lost his seat in the U.S. Senate and the Wisconsin legislature became Republican in both chambers. In early 2011, Governor Walker announced...

This book is for Christian readers of fiction who might experience difficulty trying to make an informed choice beyond what is being published by evangelical presses. Marketed to a specific target audience, evangelical fiction oftentimes leaves a reader with a strong emotional response but...

This book is written as a memoir of 40-plus years of working with human experiences of death, grief, and bereavement. The stories are all similar but uniquely different; similar in the sense that they all relate to varying issues embedded in loss. They are...

Harold J. Recinos is the son of a Guatemalan father and Puerto Rican mother who at age twelve was abandoned to New York City streets. After living on the streets between the ages of twelve and sixteen, Recinos met a Presbyterian minister who had...

"If this book moves, I hope it moves in the way pop songs do. There will be a lot of talk about songs, but inasmuch as this is a book about listening to music, it's also about how listening to music makes us who...

While it is impossible to know how or when a unified view of the self and the universe became divided in our Western view of things, Gary D. Swaim's poems contend that our world is not dualistic. Should we look to Saint Paul or...

The Sage of Time and Chance is a work of fiction based on Ecclesiastes, the most skeptical book in the Bible. Ecclesiastes was written by a Hebrew sage called Koheleth who had the courage to wonder whether human beings were different from animals, and...

Lucy Scott has faced many challenges in her life, but the one that surfaces on her eighty-fifth birthday may be the greatest of all. As she looks to her future as an independent, energetic woman, her son and daughter take a very different view....

As with archaeology, traditio-historical research of Old Testament literature proceeds backwards from the received text, travelling through the earlier stages of compositions to the probable origins. The canonical structure of the Hebrew Bible has therefore been taken as the point of departure in the...

"I have known Nagindas for more than 32 years. When I first met him in the early 1980s I was a newly qualified accountant, and Nagindas had already been in practice for more than 15 years. At the time he had just returned from...

Author: Sam BluefarbISBN-10: 1479755273ISBN-13: 9781479755271Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/30/2012Pages: 178Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d