Literary Criticism - General

This volume brings together some of the most well-known and highly respected commentators on the work of Jacques Derrida from Britain and America in a series of essays written to commemorate the life and come to terms with the death of one of the...

Philip Armstrong examines the function of animals and animal representations in four classic narratives: Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, Frankenstein and Moby-Dick and explores how these stories have been re-worked, in ways that reflect shifting social and environmental forces, by later novelists.Author: Philip ArmstrongISBN-10: 0415358388ISBN-13:...

An invaluable collection of primary sources on women and femininity in early modern England, including medical documents, political pamphlets, sermons and literary sources. Sources are accompanied by a clear introduction and notes.Author: Kate AughtersonISBN-10: 0415120454ISBN-13: 9780415120456Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/14/1995Pages: 340Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.57lbsSize: 8.22h x...

A comprehensive record of the history and progress of English poetry. It collects together writings by all the major and some of the lesser-known figures from Chaucer to Yeats, demonstrating their vivid responses to each other.Author: David HopkinsISBN-10: 0415118476ISBN-13: 9780415118477Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/03/1994Pages: 288Format:...

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: 0415085039ISBN-13: 9780415085038Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/28/1993Pages: 164Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.50h x 6.36w...

The Language of Gender and Class challenges widely-held assumptions about the study of the Victorian novel. Lucid, multilayered and cogently argued, this volume will provoke debate and encourage students and scholars to rethink their views on ninteenth-century literature. Examining six novels, Patricia Ingham demonstrates...

Examines how and why women earned a living publishing material, tracing the pattern of growth of women's fiction, occupation stucture, payment, and access to women's fiction. With comprehensive indexes this book is an invaluable resource.Author: Cheryl TurnerISBN-10: 0415044111ISBN-13: 9780415044110Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/1992Pages: 272Format: HardcoverWeight:...

This seminal edition includes comprehensive annotation, the 1712 version of the poem as well as the 1714 version, and substantial critical material in appendices. No student of Pope can afford to be without this classic edition.Author: Alexander PopeISBN-10: 0415039991ISBN-13: 9780415039994Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1971Pages: 116Format:...

This book examines the dynamic landscape of creative educations in Asia, exploring the intersection of post-coloniality, translation, and creative educations in one of the world's most vibrant landscapes to epitomize STEM versus STEAM educational debates.Author: Darryl WhetterISBN-10: 0367621142ISBN-13: 9780367621148Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/27/2021Pages: 212Format: HardcoverWeight:...

Perhaps no concept has become dominant in so many fields as rapidly as the Anthropocene. This collection provides truly innovative arguments regarding how and why the Anthropocene concept is important to literature and the humanities.Author: Seth T. RenoISBN-10: 0367558394ISBN-13: 9780367558390Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/23/2021Pages: 184Format:...

Digital Narrative Spaces brings together essays by prominent scholars in electronic literature and other forms of digital authorship, to explore the relationship between story and space across these disciplines.Author: Daniel PundayISBN-10: 0367514443ISBN-13: 9780367514440Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/31/2021Pages: 178Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Literary Urban Studies and How to Practice It is the first textbook in literary urban studies (LUS). The book introduces city literature, urban methods of reading, classics in LUS, and new directions in the field.Author: Jason FinchISBN-10: 0367514494ISBN-13: 9780367514495Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/23/2021Pages: 258Format: HardcoverWeight:...

This collection of specially commissioned essays offers a wide array of new psychoanalytic approaches impacted by Lacanian theory, queer studies, post-colonial studies, feminism, and deconstruction in the domains of film and literature.Author: Jean Michel RabateISBN-10: 0367433702ISBN-13: 9780367433703Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/11/2019Pages: 266Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.10h...

Victorian Contagion: Risk and Social Control in the Victorian Literary Imagination examines the literary and cultural production of contagion in the Victorian era and the way that production participated in a moral economy of surveillance and control.Author: Chung-Jen ChenISBN-10: 0367360640ISBN-13: 9780367360641Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/04/2019Pages:...

Spectrums of Representation in Shakespearean Crossdressing examines the varied types of female characters in English Renaissance drama, drawing from a range of play texts themselves in order to investigate if evidence exists for varying performance practices for male-to-female crossdressing.Author: Courtney Bailey ParkerISBN-10: 0367333414ISBN-13: 9780367333416Publisher:...

Originaly published in 1991, this volume contains the full text of Richard Brathwait's 'Whimzies, ' alongside textual notes including chapters on the character as a literary genre, the overburian characters and an annotation of the text.Author: Allen H. LannerISBN-10: 0367254794ISBN-13: 9780367254797Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/18/2020Pages:...

Originally published in 1992, Margery Kempe looks at Margery Kempe, and her book The Book of Margery Kempe. Original essays in the book examines Kempe's spirituality, cultural context, and the autobiography itself. Author: Sandra J. McEntireISBN-10: 0367209713ISBN-13: 9780367209711Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/10/2019Pages: 274Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.95lbsSize:...

Originally published in 1975, The Writer as Liar examines the Decameron and argues that Boccaccio's story telling depends for its success not on the combinative assemblage of narrative blocks, which are manipulated by a craftsman who lies and cheats with raw material in to...

Focusing on their conception and use of the notion of the mother, Modernism, Self-Creation, and the Maternal　proposes a new interpretation of literature by modernist authors like Rousseau, Baudelaire, Poe, Rimbaud, Rilke, Joyce, and Beckett. Author: James MartellISBN-10: 0367191695ISBN-13: 9780367191696Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/04/2019Pages: 186Format: HardcoverWeight:...

This book was originally published in 1978 and presents a brief history of one of the best literary periodicals of the nineteenth century alongside the index.Author: Frank P. Riga,Claude A. PranceISBN-10: 0367137925ISBN-13: 9780367137922Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/21/2020Pages: 324Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.78d

Composition studies is a rapidly growing and constantly changing field. At present, however, graduate students new to the field and writing teachers who want to make new connections between theory and practice have little choice of current reference works that define key terms in...

Bringing together a variety of critical approaches and interdisciplinary perspectives, this work reflects the continuing vitality and breadth of George Sand scholarship around the world. It contains twenty-eight papers and a keynote address presented at the Seventh International George Sand Conference. Contributors include leading...

Hunter Vaughan interweaves phenomenology and semiotics to analyze cinema's ability to challenge conventional modes of thought. Merging Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception with Gilles Deleuze's image-philosophy, Vaughan applies a rich theoretical framework to a comparative analysis of Jean-Luc Godard's films, which critique the audio-visual...

Iris Murdoch is a celebrated philosopher and novelist. Was she a political theorist? Many say that she focused upon the personal and the moral at the expense of the social and the political. However, this book argues the contrary. Murdoch had lifelong interests in...

Author: Bill BufordISBN-10: 0140140506ISBN-13: 9780140140507Publisher: Granta MagazineLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/07/2008Pages: 252Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.55dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 06/21/1993

Beryl Bainbridge is one of Britain's major post-war novelists. This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past...

Narrative and Genre presents exciting new debates in an emerging field, where international academics from a plethora of disciplines examine the conventions and restrictions of language and genre and how they influence our communication.Author: Mary ChamberlainISBN-10: 0415151988ISBN-13: 9780415151986Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/18/1997Pages: 218Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.06lbsSize:...

The Inklings were, to be sure, the most important literary group of the twentieth-century, rivaling and surpassing the much touted Bloomsbury Group. They influenced not just the direction of literature--especially through fantasy, science fiction, and biography--but the very direction of western civilization itself. It...

Author: Adina ZemanekISBN-10: 3111436896ISBN-13: 9783111436890Publisher: de GruyterLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/02/2026Pages: 358Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d

Author: Sheema KalbasiISBN-10: 1997742233ISBN-13: 9781997742234Publisher: Daraja PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/19/2026Pages: 148Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.32d

Following three volumes devoted to Jean Racine's earlier theatre, this volume examines his two late tragedies inspired by Greek myth, Iphigénie (1674) and Phèdre (1677). This international collection of essays by experts in the field covers a wide range of themes and approaches, including...

This book tells the material and intellectual history of several translations of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, from Lorenzo Valla's first Latin rendering in 1452, to the publication of Thomas Hobbes' English version in 1629. As Valla's manuscript passed through the hands of...

"The Rambler, Volume 2" presents a collection of essays by Samuel Johnson, originally published in his periodical of the same name. This volume showcases Johnson's profound moral and literary insights, offering readers a glimpse into 18th-century thought and manners. Johnson's essays cover a diverse...

A Critique of Cardinal Newman's Exposition of the Illative Sense offers a detailed examination and response to Cardinal John Henry Newman's theory of the illative sense, a concept central to his philosophy of religious belief and epistemology. This volume includes the original exposition by...

This volume explores two fundamental questions. The first concerns the essence of the hero and the nature of heroic action. The second question has to do with the cultural role of the hero. This is an issue worth discussing, inasmuch as heroes often represent...

Comprised of leading international scholars, The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry incorporates political, cultural, and theoretical paradigms that help place poetic projects in their socio-political contexts as well as illuminate connections across the continuum of the Arabic tradition.Author: Huda FakhreddineISBN-10: 0367562421ISBN-13: 9780367562427Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Whenever literate baseball fans gather, one question invariably arises: "What are the best baseball books?" This volume offers an answer from an expert who has spent a lifetime reading, evaluating, and honoring great baseball books. Here are thoughtful essays on 68 more "Diamond Classics,"...

Thomasine Gyllembourg's capstone novella Two Ages received high praise from S ren Kierkegaard in his book A Literary Review. With this original translation of Two Ages, readers of English can explore the novella's influence on the socio-political philosophy of Kierkegaard's Review.Author: Troy Wellington SmithISBN-10:...

This edited book analyses how artists, authors, and cultural practitioners have responded to and represented episodes of epidemics/pandemics through history. Covering a broad range of notable epidemics/pandemics (black death, cholera, Influenza, AIDS, Ebola, COVID-19), the chapters examine the cultural representations of epidemics and pandemics...

This collection considers new phenomena emerging in a convergence environment from the perspective of adaptation studies. It expands the horizons of both adaptation and transmedia studies, providing reassessments of frequently discussed (BBC's Sherlock or the LEGO franchise) and the previously largely ignored.Author: Johannes FehrleISBN-10:...

This newest volume in a long-running work of mapping the sources of Anglo-Saxon literary culture in England from 500 to 1100 CE takes up one of the most important authors of the period, the eighth-century monk-scholar known as the Venerable Bede. Bede is best...

The Mimic Stage; A Series of Dramas, Comedies, Burlesques, and Farces for Public Exhibitions and Private Theatricals by George M. Baker has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken...

The book "Ireland in the New Century", 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...

The book, "" Born in Exile "", 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...

First published in 1999. Each volume in the Lit Book Series will contain a wide range of essays on a particular author, theme or genre. By offering a forum for oftentimes competing, but equally compelling, theoretical points of view within each volume, the editors...

In the inter-war years there was much debate in Britain as to whether the best path to post-World War I regeneration would be found in the promises of science and technology, in continued and increased efficiency, in specialization and professionalization or whether the future...

Alongside annals, chronicles were the main genre of historical writing in the Middle Ages. Their significance as sources for the study of medieval history and culture is today widely recognised not only by historians, but also by students of medieval literature and linguistics and...

Humans have been described as "meaning-making animals." At the threshold of the Anthropocene, how might humans artistically envision their place in the world? Do humans possess cultural tools, which will allow us to imagine new possibilities and relationships with the natural environment at a...

The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World connects the fascinating field of contemporary written Arabic with the central sociolinguistic notions of language ideology and diglossia. Focusing on Egypt and Morocco, the authors combine large-scale survey data on language attitudes with in-depth analyses...

In Narratives of Kingship in Eurasian Empires, 1300-1800 Richard van Leeuwen analyses representations and constructions of the idea of kingship in fictional texts of various genres, especially belonging to the intermediate layer between popular and official literature. The analysis shows how ideologies of power...