Literary Criticism - General

"We Moderns: Enigmas and Guesses" by Edwin Muir and H. L. Mencken is a compelling exploration of modern life, society, and culture through the lens of early 20th-century modernism. This thought-provoking work offers a sharp criticism of societal norms and delves into the philosophical...

This book is a comprehensive edition of Geoffrey Chaucer's works, including translations and commentaries that provide insight into the language and cultural context of Chaucer's time. The editor, Walter W. Skeat, is an expert in Middle English studies, and his notes and annotations provide...

This exquisite collection brings together the lyrical voices of two towering figures in American poetry. With their distinctive styles and powerful imagery, Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman create a beautiful tapestry of human experience in all its beauty and complexity.This work has been selected...

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,...

A good writer is a good reader. But of all the things a writer reads, nothing is more moving, more soul-wrenching than a slip of paper (or an email) reading "Rejected!" It's a life-changing thing. Stephen Wade's life has thus been changed many times....

"I loved this luminous and searingly honest story of love, loss, life and hope; and I loved how a horse served as metaphor for all of this. The lesson I came away with is that in its best and purest form, love can only...

This work charts the author's intellectual journey during the last ten years as an academic teaching Postcolonial literature in a Canadian university. The essays critique the dominant models of Postcolonial theory that emerge from metropolitan centres and ignore the specifics of time and place....

Examining various cultural products-music, cartoons, travel guides, ideographic treaties, film, and especially the literary arts-the contributors of these thirteen essays invite readers to conceptualize citizenship as a narrative construct, both in Canada and beyond. Focusing on indigenous and diasporic works, along with mass media...

The changes in representation, participation, and ongoing reforms in the local government of New Zealand over the past two decades are discussed in this book. Contributors include both observers and participants in local government--from academics and people involved in policy development to advocates for...

Henry James, the American-born writer who chose to live in Europe, settled in London and Rye, becoming a British subject in 1915. He occupies a major position as a dedicated artist and cultural historian who combined the strengths of American, English and French nineteenth-century...

In her groundbreaking Affective Intellectuals and the Space of Catastrophe in the Americas, Judith Sierra-Rivera studies five different contexts of crisis: natural disasters in Mexico, forced displacements between Central America and the United States, a whitewashed transition to democracy in Chile, colonialism and wars...

Assuming the burden of reading imposed by the correlation of the order of language and the order of events, this book argues that the possibility of reading and writing history is tied to the endurance of traces of the past and their coming to...

Provocative, inventive, and at times outrageous essays on literary theory, philosophy, and cultural criticism.These provocative, inventive, and at times outrageous essays on literary theory, philosophy, and cultural criticism describe, in their form and content, the end of criticism, even while performing the endlessness of...

Lesbians and gays have gone from "coming out," to "acting up," to "outing," meanwhile radically redefining society's views on sexuality and gender. The essays in Inside/Out employ a variety of approaches (psychoanalysis, deconstruction, semiotics, and discourse theory) to investigate representations of sex and sexual...

An essential addition to the postcolonial debate which offers a challenging mode of reading resistance' which destroys the stereotyped and sensationalised humanist image of the third world woman' as victim.Author: Rajeswari Sunder RajanISBN-10: 0415085047ISBN-13: 9780415085045Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/28/1993Pages: 164Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 9.26h x 6.18w...

What does the name Trump stand for? If branding now rules over the production of value, as the coauthors of Sovereignty, Inc. argue, then Trump assumes the status of a master brand whose primary activity is the compulsive work of self-branding--such is the new...

"Late style" is a critical term routinely deployed to characterise the work of selected authors, composers, and creative artists as they enter their last phase of production--often, but not only, in old age. Taken at face value, this terminology merely points to a chronological...

The caste system is supposed to be inescapable-you cannot change the caste into which you are born. But are there ways to elude the system? Concealing Caste tells the stories of women and men in India who, though born into communities stigmatized as 'untouchable,...

The present translation of the kakawin Arjunawijaya appeared earlier as the author's Pd.D. thesis for the Australian National University in 1971. The poem under study only became better known to Western scholars in 1849, when R. Friederich described it. Although many scholars in the...

Author: Alicia LeighISBN-10: 0645371106ISBN-13: 9780645371109Publisher: A.K. LeighLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/07/2021Pages: 204Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d

Painting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction focuses on the interrelationship between eighteenth-century theories of the novel and the art of painting - a subject which has not yet been undertaken in a book-length study. This volume argues that throughout the century...

Explore the rich tapestry of 19th-century English literature with Volume 3 of "Works" by Richard Bentley. This carefully curated collection offers readers a diverse selection of writings, showcasing the literary landscape of the era. Bentley's editorial expertise brings together a range of voices and...

"English and American Literature: Studies in Literary Criticism, Interpretation and History, Volume 5" by Charles Herbert Sylvester offers a comprehensive exploration of key themes and movements within English and American literary traditions. This volume provides insightful analyses of significant works, delving into the historical...

Lex Talionis, or, A Declamation Against Mr. Challener is a scathing political pamphlet from 1647. This work, subtitled "The Crimes of The Times and The Manners of you Know Whom," delivers a fierce and satirical attack on a figure known only as Mr. Challener....

Author: Newyox MediaISBN-10: 164226444XISBN-13: 9781642264449Publisher: Newyox MediaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/06/2026Pages: 84Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.25w x 0.23d

This is not your professor's Nietzsche.Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Mountain Overture - Translated as Dynamite is a poetic, rhythmic, and symbolically charged translation of Friedrich Nietzsche's most iconic philosophical work. Designed for readers who want to feel the force of Zarathustra-not just analyze it-this...

"Modern English Prose First Series" is a curated collection of essays showcasing the diversity and richness of English prose from the modern era. Compiled by Guy Boas, this volume offers readers a selection of thought-provoking and stylistically significant works. The collection provides insight into...

This collection extracts and organizes the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions found within Samuel Richardson's renowned novels, "Pamela," "Clarissa," and "Sir Charles Grandison." Digested under proper headings and with specific references to the volumes in which they appear, this book serves...

This volume focuses on the convergence between journalism and literature in the 1960s. The sixties is shorthand for a ubiquitous social, political and cultural upheaval in the Western world with its culmination point in 1968. The changes in society were so encompassing and impressive...

This collection offers an in-depth study of music's narrative functions in radio drama, whether original or adapted, alongside speech and sound. It features a range of historical perspectives as well as case studies from Australia, Europe and North America, highlighting broadcasting institutions such as...

Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines offers a compelling reflection on what the notion of legibility entails in a machinic world in which any form of cultural expression - from literary texts, films, artworks and museum exhibits to archives, laws, computer programs...

Exercises vpon the first Psalme is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1882. 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 and Lyrics is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1891. 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...

Poems Grave and Gay is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1891. 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...

Musa Proterva - Love-Poems of the Restoration is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1889. 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...

The Complete Poems of Jean Ingelow is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1863. 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...

Morning Songs in the Night - Poems 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 other genres. As...

Poems - Original and Translated is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1794. 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...

The March of Man - And Other Poems. Second Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and...

A Lowden Sabbath Morn 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 we focus...

The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson - Gareth and Lynette is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1872. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and...

The battle of the bays is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. 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...

The Afternoon Landscape is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1889. 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...

A Guide to the Choice of Books for Students and General Readers is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1891. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition,...

A Contribution to the Comparative Study of the Medieval Visions of Heaven and Hell 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...

The Year of Christ in Song - Advent and Christmastide. Second Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1876. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition,...

The Ober-Ammerga Passion Play is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1880. 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...

Sermons - 1550 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...