Literary Criticism - General

Delve into the wisdom and wit of the 18th century with "The Rambler, Volume I," part of the monumental "The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D." This collection showcases Johnson's masterful essays, offering insightful observations on life, literature, and society. As a cornerstone of English...

A collection of evocative and lyrical verse from the talented poet John Finley. These poems capture the spirit and character of the American Midwest in the late 19th century, reflecting on love, nature, and the human condition with grace and insight.This work has been...

A quarterly publication featuring articles and essays on a wide range of topics, including literature, politics, and religion. The review provides a platform for intellectuals and writers to express their opinions and debate issues of the day. The publication has been a platform for...

George Berkeley was an influential philosopher of the 18th century. This collection of his works includes his most important writings as well as his posthumous works. Alexander Campbell Fraser's scholarly introduction and footnotes provide valuable context and analysis of the ideas presented in the...

This collection of Italian poetry is a must-read for lovers of literature. Featuring works by Dante Alighieri and others, this book provides readers with a glimpse into the rich history of Italian poetry. The addition of Dante's Vita Nuova, translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti,...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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,...

Going against the tendency to 'read history backwards' from Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933, this book rescues from obscurity the forgotten phenomenon of left-wing patriotism in Weimar Germany. It takes as a case study 'Die Weltbühne', a weekly political journal that evolved...

Archetypal symbols in ancient myths as well as the folktales, nursery stories, and fairytales of the Middle Ages are the blueprints of modern fantasy literature. This book explores the modern dreamscape of present-day fantasy, using the ancient myths and traditional fairytales as guides and...

The short story is one of the most difficult types of prose to write and one of the most pleasurable to read. From Boccaccio's Decameron to The Collected Stories of Reynolds Price, Charles May gives us an understanding of the history and structure of...

Originally published in 1965, this study examines the concealed meanings in the second part of Faust. The book gives a psychological interpretation of elements of Goethe's personal life and work, which succeeds in making the man and the veiled references in his most profound...

Counter-Modernities in Nineteenth-Century French Literature explores a counterview of modernity in late nineteenth-century French literature (1848-1891). The principal claim of this book is that what we find in the works of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Flaubert is a form of 'writing against the grain' of...

Uncovers the transatlantic editorial friendship that shaped Mary Lavin's finest stories for The New Yorker.Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish American writer Mary Lavin had sixteen stories published in The New Yorker, after J. D. Salinger introduced her to the magazine. It was a...

Ken Fontenot's The Forests of Autumn celebrates a life lived in poetry. Exploring his Cajun heritage, his struggles with existential angst, as well as his love of classical music, philosophy, the German language, and other writers, Fontenot's poems are "not so much a creation...

It is with great pleasure that we present to you the 54th issue of Reader's House, a celebration of literary excellence and the extraordinary authors who bring these stories to life. In this edition, we continue our tradition of showcasing works that not only...

This book collects the 25 most important articles written by Professor Tang since the 1980s, dealing extensively with issues of Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity and Chinese culture. In these articles, Professor Tang proves his value as a worthy successor to the Chinese philosophical tradition,...

This book explores a wide range of twentieth and twenty-first century international fiction that engages with the Holocaust and its historical legacy. It examines the use of tropes of crime and detection in the representation of historical atrocity in both explicit crime fiction and...

This volume examines how young creators learn, create, and share their visual art online. Drawing from a robust set of case studies gathered locally, nationally, and internationally over three years with young adults 16-24, this work comes together as a crucial resource for understanding...

In his exciting new book of poems and retrospective reflection, West Coast poet and devout philhellene Joe Safdie engages compellingly with various Hellenic myths, and by doing so offers the reader a fresh and creative way of approaching Greek antiquity. Though most characters in...

If we examine the world very closely, a recurrent phenomenon of events bearing the nature of immense civilization turned upside down will undeniably be evident to our discernment. Everything is misery, as a sea of suffering and pain endures... Some people appear to have...

Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. Technology/Hacking. The War on Privacy is lost, and states and corporations now collect more of our data than even they know what to do with. No one person or group can understand the implications of this, but we do know...

For the first time in paperback, an acclaimed look at the American South through the lenses of its most acclaimed storytellers and their tales. Rarely does a nonfiction work come along that is as original and refreshing as Sitting Up with the Dead. Here,...

In As If!, Chase Gregory explores the stylistically strategic, often campy, and productively fraught cross-identifications of early queer criticism. Gregory calls this form of aids-era criticism as if!--a mode of writing in which authors struggle to read, write, and identify with and across categories...

Matthew Arnold (1822 -1888) was an English poet, and cultural critic. Arnold was a sage writer chastising his reader on various social issues. When Arnold wanted to marry he took the job of school inspector. He described this job as drudgery. Because of his...

Allegations of "Satanic abuse" became fashionable in the late twentieth century, but such episodes actually date back many centuries. Well-known critic and historian Brian Stableford provides a thorough history of Satanism, from its earliest times to the modern period, and also examines the appearance...

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...

The Common Pursuit is a thought-provoking work of literary criticism by F.R. Leavis. Drawing on a lifetime of reading and teaching, Leavis offers insights into some of the greatest works of English literature, from Shakespeare to T.S. Eliot.This work has been selected by scholars...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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,...

Winner of the 2017 CSU Poetry Center Essay Collection Competition, Selected by Renee Gladman. Winner of CLMP's 2019 Firecracker Award for Creative Nonfiction. Both a response to and a continuation of The Dinner Party, the iconic 1979 installation produced by feminist artist Judy Chicago,...

Inheriting the tradition of Hugh Miller, the nineteenth century folklorist and stonemason (whose own haunted life is the subject of the opening chapter), James Robertson has, where possible, researched the original or oldest written source and visited the site of each story to compile...

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How do the spaces of the past stay with us through representations-whether literary or photographic? How has the Holocaust registered in our increasingly globally connected consciousness? What does it mean that this European event is often used as an interpretive or representational touchstone for...

Adaptation constitutes the driving force of contemporary culture, with stories adapted across an array of media formats. However, adaptation studies has been concerned almost exclusively with textual analysis, in particular with compare-and-contrast studies of individual novel and film pairings. This has left almost completely...

Sacrifice and Sharing in the Philippine HighlandsAuthor: Thomas P. GibsonISBN-10: 0367717077ISBN-13: 9780367717070Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/13/2021Pages: 274Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.58d

Propaganda others the enemy as brutish, brutal, and lacking in humanity. By contrast, a wealth of literary and first-hand writings present switches in which the enemy becomes, as Wilfred Owen famously put it, a 'strange friend'. This book focuses on moments of intimacy and...

In this trenchant and lively study Brian McHale undertakes to construct a version of postmodernist fiction which encompasses forms as wide-ranging as North American metafiction, Latin American magic realism, the French New New Novel, concrete prose and science fiction.Author: Brian McHaleISBN-10: 0415045134ISBN-13: 9780415045131Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage:...

Author: Ken FaigISBN-10: 1614984395ISBN-13: 9781614984399Publisher: Hippocampus PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/15/2025Pages: 344Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d

Author: Massimo ScaligeroISBN-13: 9798987442975Publisher: Alkion PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/23/2025Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.35d

Liberating Our Imaginations demonstrates the possibilities for liberation produced by reading biblical texts alongside works of contemporary literature by minoritized authors. While contemporary examples of oppression are not identical, the process of reading ancient and contemporary texts together can nonetheless open up imaginative and...

The book, "" Anthem "", 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 future generations. This whole book...