Literary Criticism - General

Examines Gombrowicz's modernist aesthetics in the context of his critique of nationalism, his exploration of queer eroticism, and his interest in hybrid and subaltern identities.This timely and much needed critical study is devoted to the writing of Witold Gombrowicz, one of the most important...

This response to Derrida's critique of the spoken uses dozens of examples in four languages to explore the voice that is in writing.Jacques Derrida has ably analyzed the writing that is in speaking, but this reply to his work analyzes the speaking that is...

Traces the early German Romantic origins of Joyce's modern and postmodern innovation of the novel.This is the first book to extensively study Joyce's work in the context of Germanic Romantic literary theory. It illustrates how Joyce's modern and postmodern innovation of the novel finds...

The Golden Mean reappraises the relationship among the three forms of good that exist in modern Western thought: the good of aesthetic beauty and performance, the good of right and wrong, and the forces of social resentment that shape the public debate about what...

Speaking Memory evokes the complex "language-scapes" that form at the crossroads of culture and history in cities. While engaging with current debates on the nature and role of translation in globalized urban landscapes, the contributors offer a series of detailed and nuanced readings of...

By critically analysing Deleuze's methods, principles and arguments, James Williams helps readers to engage with the revolutionary core of Deleuze's philosophy and take up positions for or against its most innovative and controversial ideas. This second edition includes a new chapter on questions of...

George Moore was all one could ask for in a man of letters and is considered a literary giant. An Irish Catholic absentee landlord, self-educated within the Parisian cafe culture of the 1870s, Moore was a friend to the Impressionists, a disciple to Zola,...

Examines how the intertwining paths of avant-garde theater and mainstream drama work to produce provocative new formsAuthor: Michael Vanden HeuvelISBN-10: 0472082485ISBN-13: 9780472082483Publisher: University of Michigan PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/28/1993Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary repsonses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.Author: David Farley-HillsISBN-10: 0415756677ISBN-13: 9780415756679Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/19/2014Pages: 288Format: Paperback

Originally published in 2000, this book highlights the interst Sedaine's life and work is now, belatedly, provoking in many scholarly disciplines. If Sedaine speaks today to literary history, theatre history and opera studies, it is because he possessed a multivalent vision, one which accounts...

This in-depth study of the works of major Francophone writers Assia Djebar and Leïla Sebbar redefines postcolonial literature by focusing on three characteristics. Donadey understands postcolonial literature as being both oppositional to and complicit with a variety of power structures. This literature also reclaims...

War affects life writing and lives affect war writing. The traditional forms of life writing - memoir, biography, letters, diaries - buckle under the strain of war. War writing has fewer traditional forms but exists at a similar extreme. The eight chapters in this...

Originally published in 1979, this volume includes the full, edited, 1661 play of Robert Davenport, 'The City Night-Cap', alongside textual notes, including an introduction on the man and his works, theatrical history, characterization, theme and structure, and setting.Author: Robert DavenportISBN-10: 0367144018ISBN-13: 9780367144012Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Author: William HarmonISBN-10: 0321945913ISBN-13: 9780321945914Publisher: PearsonLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/23/2015Pages: 672Format: Loose LeafWeight: 3.30lbsSize: 10.80h x 8.50w x 1.40d

This collection takes a new approach to understanding religious plurality in the Iberian Peninsula and its Mediterranean and northern European contexts. Focusing on polemics--works that attack or refute the beliefs of religious Others--this volume aims to challenge the problematic characterization of Iberian Jews, Muslims,...

Of all the senses, touch is the most ineffable--and the most neglected in Western culture, all but ignored by philosophers and artists over millennia. Yet it is also the sense that links us most intimately to the world around us, from our mother's caress...

Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice is a provocative analysis of the pornographic poetry written in patrician poet Domenico Venier's social circle. While Venier and his salon were renowned for elegant love sonnets featuring unattainable female beloveds, among themselves they...

Author: H L MenckenISBN-10: 9377466237ISBN-13: 9789377466237Publisher: DD Sales and DistributorsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2026Pages: 236Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.54d

Named a Best Book of 2025 by The New Yorker, TIME, Vanity Fair, and Kirkus Reviews - One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2025 "Smart, somber . . . There's pleasure in watching a novelist wired to see all sides at once wrangle...

Critical Classicality in Vietnam and the Diaspora offers the first major study of Vietnamese engagements with the Greco-Roman classical tradition. Drawing from decolonial theory, critical refugee studies, and queer of color critique, Kelly Nguyen examines how Vietnamese writers have appropriated, reimagined, and contested "classical"...

This XpressRead Cram Edition of Prose Fancies pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic. Dive into the insightful world of "Prose Fancies," a collection of essays by Richard Le Gallienne. This volume offers a...

The Western is more than a genre-It's a code. Keep your word. Stand your ground. Guard your own. The West we watched, read about, and remembered was built by storytellers who lived by one rule-never let the truth get in the way of a...

A Most pleasant and excellent conceited Comedie, of Syr John Falstaffe, and the merrie Wives of Windsor is the full title of a Shakespeare comedy first published in a 1602 Pamphlet edition, a title shortened here to Falstaffe and the merrie Wives. The play...

Author: Thomas N. CornsISBN-10: 0198931956ISBN-13: 9780198931959Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/19/2026Format: OtherNot available to be shipped via Media Mail

Die Reihe Cinepoetics Essay erkundet poetische Logiken audiovisueller Bilder, wobei die behandelten Gegenstände thematisch eng gefasst, aus persönlicher Perspektive beleuchtet oder unter einem bestimmten ästhetischen, kulturhistorischen oder theoretischen Gesichtspunkt betrachtet werden. Die Reihe bietet einer breiten Leserschaft in kompakter Form Zugänge zu Figurationen medialer...

Good Lord Deliver Us!An Owen Hatteras Readerby Owen HatterasOwen Hatteras (a.k.a. Major Owen Hatteras, a.k.a. Major Owen Hatteras, D. S. O.) was a pseudonymous byline that appeared primarily in The Smart Set magazine, a popular and influential literary monthly published in New York during...

This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic. Dive into the rich landscape of 19th-century English literature with "The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson,"...

"The Lion and His Den: A Series of Discussions of Books and Life" is an evocative collection of essays and dialogues that explores the profound intersection between the world of literature and the intricacies of human existence. Written by the intellectual and theologian Lynn...

bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b Letters are one of the oldest and most versatile forms of writing. Unlike other genres of writing, they consistently resist categorisation. A letter can be as short as a sentence or as long as a novel. It...

Tamil poet avvaiyar is known as an extraordinary poet endowed with abundant poetic talents since her childhood. Her poems are didactic in nature teaching universal values and serving as a guide toead virtuous and successfulife. Her best poems are aathi choodi (Garland of flowers),...

How resisting empathy may lead to more thoughtful reading and better writing Empathy has traditionally been understood as a bridge between the self and others. In composition studies, it is often used as a foundation for effective reading, allowing students to connect with authors,...

The Discerning Mollusk's Guide to Arts and Ideas: THE DADA ISSUE. Contributions by Liza Achilles, Terena Elizabeth Bell, Greg Bem, Eric Bies, Christopher Boucher, Ian Boulton, James Brophy, Niamh Mac Cabe, Marvin Cohen, Norman Conquest, Vincent Czyz, W.J. Davies, Laura Davis, Matt Dennison, RJ...

Cultural Studies in India: Diversity and Dynamics, delves into the complex field of Cultural Studies within the Indian context, exploring the ways in which culture intersects with power, history, and identity.Through a critical and interdisciplinary lens, the essays in this collection examine the ways...

some men don't want you to be seen nor being known. all what they dream is to reign in the world of dead human living beings, that was the reason why I was given such a hush punishment by my headmaster by telling the...

People typically base their decisions on a variety of recent and past experiences that have shaped their mental framework.Age-related thought patterns are being influenced by historical events and happenings.Because of this, societal behavioral patterns alter as generations evolve.from Baby Boomers to Millennials to Generation...

Author: Ekundayo OruamenISBN-13: 9798353375265Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/17/2022Pages: 264Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d

The book "" Animal Chums: True Tales about Four-footed Friends, 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 for present and...

Anniversary book dedicated to Stanislaw Stachowski on the occasion of his 80th birthday.Author: Elżbieta Mańczak-WohlfeldISBN-10: 8323330158ISBN-13: 9788323330158Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/22/2010Pages: 268Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.28lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.60w x 0.80d

This collection of essays deals with various issues related to the history of aesthetics from antiquity to the modern day, with a view to focusing on scholarly research through a specific aesthetic lens. The highly original approach of the analysis combines philological and philosophical...

First Poems is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1895. 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 focus on...

The Satires of Dryden - Absalom and Achitophel, The Medal, Mac Flecknoe is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition,...

The Courtly Poets from Raleigh to Montrose is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1870. 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...

Dante - Six sermons is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1890. 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 focus...

Moriah's Mourning, and other Half-Hour Sketches 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 genres.As a publisher...

Ballads of New England is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1870. 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 focus...

Burns' Clarinda - Brief Papers Concerning the Poet's Renowned Correspondent is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and...

Two Essays upon Matthew Arnold with some of His Letters to the Author is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and...

The Last Hundred Years of English Literature is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1866. 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...

An Outline Sketch of English Literature is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1886. 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 Pursuits of Literature - A Satirical Poem in Four Dialogues. Third Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1797. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and...