Literary Criticism - General

Clarice Lispector was one of the most important Brazilian writers in Portuguese of the 20th century, and her work continues to receive critical attention. This reference provides a detailed record of her life and career. The book begins with introductory material on the difficulties...

Decades of Western Cold War propaganda were designed to depict socialism as inimical to genuine aesthetic acheivement. Now, in the wake of the Cold War, it is becoming possible to reassess the past and present cultural productions of artists with socialist inclinations. The essays...

The complexity of African society entering the 21st century necessitates an interdisciplinary examination of Africa's political, social, and cultural developments and challenges. Focusing on Social Movements and Literature, Social Change and Culture, the book brings together a wide range of essays by committed scholars,...

An anarchist by temperament, the beautiful and talented Ding Ling attempted to find her way in the world alone. She had a few female friends and a few significant male others, but she rebelled against her family. Most importantly, she rebelled against the Chinese...

Christopher Collins introduces an exciting new field of research traversing evolutionary biology, anthropology, archaeology, cognitive psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, and literary study. Paleopoetics maps the selective processes that originally shaped the human genus millions of years ago and prepared the human brain to play, imagine,...

The Chronicles of Japan--or The Nihon Shoki--compiled in 720 CE, is the oldest official history of the Japanese state. Following a 672 coup, the state of Wa renamed itself Japan and produced this dynastic historical text, legitimizing its hegemony of the archipelago. The first...

These essays, written over a number of decades, are intended to throw light on the central problems of the work of Thomas Mann whom Lukács describes as 'the last great bourgeois writer'. Lukács was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, aesthetician, literary historian and critic. His...

This book gives advice on writing and successful publication following completion of the research project and features real-life case studies and interviews throughout. It explains how to build and maintain a relationship with the research partner, thereby assisting future research.Author: Abby Day PetersISBN-10: 0566084597ISBN-13:...

Fire!! A Quarterly Devoted to the Younger Negro Artists (Volume 1, Number 1) was a groundbreaking literary magazine created by Wallace Thurman and other members of the Harlem Renaissance. First published in 1926, this single-issue publication gave voice to a new generation of Black...

In 1983 de Beauvoir published Sartre's letters, maintaining that her own to him had been lost. They were found by de Beauvoir's adopted daughter, and published to a storm of controversy in France. Tracing the emotional and triangular complications of her life with Sartre,...

Introduction, The new Director, His origin, Influences on his development, His aims and principles, His materials, His resources, His production, Forthcoming Reinhardt productions, His contribution to the contemporary stage and his influence, Limitation of the culture movement in the theatre, Recent development in englandAuthor:...

The authors consider new views of the classical versus vernacular dichotomy that are especially central to the new historiography of China and East Asian languages. Based on recent debates initiated by Sheldon Pollock's findings for South Asia, we examine alternative frameworks for understanding East...

Leading scholars combine here a sustained attempt to trace the growth of socialist fiction in the crucial period of the formation of the modern British labour movement. While the importance of the long-neglected literary tradition is now recognised, no other studies have been as...

This book analyzes the notion of travel writing as a genre, while tracing significant examples of Mediterranean travel writing that return us to Ancient Greece, to French artistic journeys in North Africa and to contemporary narratives of privileged resettlement, death, and dislocation.Author: Noreen HumbleISBN-10:...

This collection is based on the premise that apocalyptic imagery and themes pervade not only cultural products that employ specifically biblical imagery but are also found in media that do not purport to impart biblical or even religious messages. Comic books and graphic novels...

Translated fiction has largely been under-theorized, if not altogether ignored, in literary studies. Though widely consumed, translated novels are still considered secondary versions of foreign masterpieces. Readers, Reading and Reception of Translated Fiction in Chinese recognizes that translated novels are distinct from non-translated novels,...

Translation and the Manipulation of Difference explores the question of difference in translation and offers an extended critique of the advocacy of foreignizing translation as a practice that does not minimize the alterity of the foreign text, and could therefore serve as an antidote...

Author: T. J. Dadson,Simposio Internacional de Poes-A de la UISBN-10: 1902459466ISBN-13: 9781902459462Publisher: Continnuum-3PLLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/08/2003Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.42d

The publication of the 44-volume Works of Daniel Defoe continues with this collection of Defoe's satirical poetry and fantasy writings, and writings on the supernatural.Author: P. N. FurbankISBN-10: 1851967338ISBN-13: 9781851967339Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/15/2004Pages: 1600Format: Hardcover

"The meadow, it is pretty, With flowers so fair to see;I gather them, but no oneWill take the flowers from me."--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sheperd's Lament in Poems of GoetheThe Works of J.W. von Goethe, Vol. IX--Poems of Goethe by Johann Wolfgang von...

Jesus and Menachem places Jesus (Jeshua) in the historical context of the Roman occupation of Judea Second Temple period The fictional character of Menachem is introduced to deepen and clarify the relationship between Jesus, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the Zealots, and Rome. In a1949...

The goal of this book is to define and explain the archetypal pattern of redemption that underlies our whole notion of resolution in literature and to demonstrate, through multiple examples, that successful literature--poems and stories that have shown endurance or popularity--uses this pattern in...

Mapping the Landscape, Remapping the Text: Spanish Poetry from Antonio Machado's Campos de Castilla to the First Avant-Garde (1909-1925) explores the mapping of identity and memory in Antonio Machado's (1875-1939) Campos de Castilla (1912, 1917) before studying its disruption by the avant-garde movements Ultraísmo...

Although many indexes to the vocabulary of the plays of Terence have been published, for centuries there was none that was adequate for present-day requirements. Here is a complete alphabetical list of all references to every word in the edition of Kauer and Lindsay,...

This early work by Ford Madox Ford was originally published in 1937 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. Ford Madox Ford was born Ford Madox Hueffer in Merton, Surrey, England on 17th December 1873. The creative arts ran in...

Most of Andre Gide's richly-varied literary output has long been available to American readers. Only one aspect of his protean career has been lacking in translation: the essays, the publication of which will go far to explain why Gide holds in France such high...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

This book traces the influences of the Gernet School on Vernant of Levi-Strauss and Roland Barthes and on Detienne, Vidal-Naquet, and Loraux of Vernant and Levi-Strauss. It also considers the influence on Vernant and in turn on the others of the pre-structuralists Gernet and...

Tragedy: The Basics is an accessible and up-to-date introduction to dramatic tragedy. A comprehensive guide for anyone undertaking a study of the genre, it provides a chronological overview and history of tragic theory. Covering tragedy from the classics to the present day, it explains...

This collection of Daniel Defoe's travel and historical writings reveal the range of his intellectual interests. His "Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain", which came out between 1724 and 1726, drew on Defoe's travels throughout England and Scotland - often as a...

This collection of Daniel Defoe's travel and historical writings reveal the range of his intellectual interests. His "Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain", which came out between 1724 and 1726, drew on Defoe's travels throughout England and Scotland - often as a...

Unlocking the Poetry of W.B. Yeats undertakes a thorough re-reading of Yeats' oeuvre as an extended meditation on the image and theme of the heart as it is evident within the poetry. It places the heart at the centre of a complex web of...

Shakespeare's great tragedies portray through their richly imagined worlds the inescapable fact of human mortality. As the work of a great creative genius, they are so diverse that critical formulas used to describe their overall impact tend to be somewhat suspect. Their impact follows...

There has been a growing awareness that ambiguity is not just a necessary evil of the language system resulting, for instance, from its need for economy or, by contrast, a blessing that allows writers to involve readers in endless games of assigning meaning to...

Explore the fascinating intersection of medicine, literature, and social history with William Andrews' "The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc." This meticulously prepared edition delves into the multifaceted role of doctors and physicians throughout history, examining their portrayal in literature and their presence in...

Winds of Doctrine is a collection of essays by philosopher George Santayana. In this book, Santayana offers insightful reflections on a wide range of topics, from the nature of art and religion to the role of reason in human experience. His writing is both...

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...

This book is an illustrated guide to the Linnaean system of classification for plants, with explanations and examples provided by Thomas Martyn. It includes thirty-eight plates depicting various types of flora and fauna, as well as detailed descriptions of each species and its characteristics.This...

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,...

Wrestling with the Angel addresses the human struggle to cope with death, dying, grief, and bereavement. The book includes essays, a one-act play, a short story, and poetry, including shape poems, rhyming, structured verse, and free verse. In the one-act play, an angel of...

Author: Thomas FosterISBN-10: 087580134XISBN-13: 9780875801346Publisher: Northern Illinois University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/1988Pages: 215Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.70h x 5.70w x 0.80d

A concise and close reading of the imagery in the work of the vital German poet whose comic-poetic survey of the world is as alive today as when he made it.Author: Barker FairleyISBN-10: 0837193389ISBN-13: 9780837193380Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/24/1977Pages: 186Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w...

Surveying the development of medieval scholarship through biography, this volume contains 23 original essays on scholars whose work shaped medieval historiography for the past 300 years. Their subject was Europe between 500 and 1500, and they labored to define that protean and multinational culture....

Written by Sophocles around 425 BCE, Oedipus Rex is a classic Greek tragedy that depicts the struggle between man and fate. Oedipus' story forms the foundation for the symbolic conflict between sons and fathers. Part of the Bloom's Guides, this title offers its readers...

Focusing on a period (c.1577-1594) that is often neglected in Elizabethan theater histories, this study considers Shakespeare's involvement with the various London acting companies before his membership in the Lord Chamberlain's Men in 1594. Locating Shakespeare in the confusing records of the early London...

Looking at late medieval Scottish poetic narratives which incorporate exploration of the amorousness of kings, this study places these poems in the context of Scotland's repeated experience of minority kings and a consequent instability in governance. The focus of this study is the presence...

In the first full-length study of the English dancer-actress Hester Santlow, Moira Goff focuses on her unusual career at Drury Lane between 1706 and 1733. Goff charts Santlow's repertoire and makes extensive use of archival resources to investigate both her dancing and acting skills....

This book examines Shakespeare's fascination with the art of narrative and the visuality of language. Richard Meek complicates our conception of Shakespeare as either a 'man of the theatre' or a 'literary dramatist', suggesting ways in which his works themselves debate the question of...