Literary Criticism - General

'Retro' is not only a pervading phenomenon in today's Western culture but has informed cultural history for some centuries and thus gives momentousness to the subject of the present volume, namely literary texts and musical compositions which, for various reasons and with multiple functions,...

Which were the mechanisms by which certain groups were positioned at the margins of national narratives during the nineteenth century, either via their exclusion from these narratives of through their incorporation into them as 'others'? By engaging with shifting ideas of exclusion and difference,...

During much of China's tumultuous 20th century, May 4th and Maoist iconoclasts regarded their classical literary heritage as a burden to be dislodged in the quest for modernization. This volume demonstrates how the traditions that had deeply impressed earlier generations of Western writers like...

This volume presents the culmination of research on an almost ignored literary corpus: the translations into literary Italian of classical Hebrew texts made by Jews between 1550 and 1650. It includes poetry, philosophy and wisdom literature, as well as dictionaries and biblical translations produced...

Early African Caribbean Newspapers as Archipelagic Media in the Emancipation Age shows how two Black-edited periodical publications in the early decades of the nineteenth century worked towards emancipation through medium-specific interventions across material and immaterial lines. More concretely, this book proposes an archipelagic framework...

F. Scott Fitzgerald on Silent Film recalibrates the celebrated author's early career and brings fresh understanding to the life of one of America's truly great literary figures. Scholars have previously focused on Fitzgerald's connection with Hollywood when he worked in Tinseltown as a screenwriter...

Literary Invention and the Cartographic Imagination: Early Modern to Late Modern is a wide-ranging, inter- and transdisciplinary approach grounded in the twin rigors of theory and history, which, through close readings of authors from Edmund Spenser to Olga Tokarczuk, and through considered discussions of...

What is the ocean's role in human and planetary history? How have writers, sailors, painters, scientists, historians, and philosophers from across time and space poetically envisioned the oceans and depicted human entanglements with the sea? In order to answer these questions, S ren Frank...

Intermediality, figurability, iconotext, visual exegesis: these are some of the many new ways in which the relationship between text and image has been explored in recent decades. Scholars have benefited from theoretical work in the fields of anthropology, psychoanalysis, and semiotics, alongside more traditional...

This edited book examines silence and silencing in and out of discourse, as viewed through a variety of contexts such as historical archives, day-to-day conversations, modern poetry, creative writing clubs, and visual novels, among others. The contributions engage with the historical shifts in how...

This edited book focuses on the certifiers of scientific knowledge, bringing together experts in a variety of areas in Applied Linguistics to address the complex topic of editing and reviewing in writing for scholarly publication. Drawing on insider perspectives, the authors bring to the...

This volume celebrates the contribution of Professor Colin Williams, an immensely important and influential scholar in the field of language policy for more than forty years. Eighteen chapters by former students, colleagues and collaborators address a range of topics involving different aspects of language...

This book examines the prominent place a commitment to social justice and equity has occupied in the global history of literary journalism. With international case studies, it explores and theorizes the way literary journalists have addressed inequality and its consequences in their practice. In...

This book critically analyses Eminem's studio album releases from his first commercial album release The Slim Shady LP in 1999, to 2020's Music To Be Murdered By, through the lens of storytelling, truth and rhetoric, narrative structure, rhyme scheme and type, perspective, and celebrity...

Help your children develop moral character with this updated, 30th anniversary edition of the perennial classic The Book of Virtues. Almost 3 million copies of the Book of Virtues have been sold since it was published in 1993. It is one of the most...

Cabbages and Kings is a rather whimsical title (borrowed from Lewis Carroll) for a collection of what are, for the most part, learned essays on serious subjects. But the collection has a somewhat whimsical spirit as it brings together writings on many things, such...

Thoughtful young people will enjoy this story, partly because of its accurate pictures of Florence in the days of Savonarola, and partly because of its description of the tragic decline of a lovable but weak character.Author: George EliotISBN-10: 1731701489ISBN-13: 9781731701480Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

This stylish and practical Book Reading Log has been beautifully designed as a special gift, as a birthday present or for personal use. The design is ideal for recording all the books that you have read: Whether you read short stories, poetry, crime, mystery...

The Task by William Cowper After the publication of his "Table Talk" and other poems in March, 1782, William Cowper, in his quiet retirement at Olney, under Mrs. Unwin's care, found a new friend in Lady Austen. She was a baronet's widow who had...

Suspense, fear and the supernatural provide the center for this tale by the master prose writer.Author: Edgar Allan PoeISBN-10: 1717066348ISBN-13: 9781717066343Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/17/2018Pages: 28Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.08lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.06d

What is a canon and why does it matter? In Confronting Our Canons: Spanish and Latin American Studies in the 21st Century, Joan L. Brown shows that a canon has the power to define a field and determine what is taught. She argues that...

Like many young Christians, Kevin Brown had what he believed to be a strong faith, one that provided answers to all the questions he had and might encounter. He even attended a Christian college and considered becoming a youth minister. While there, though, he...

Many remember The Scarlet Letter as required reading for reluctant sixteen year olds. The unnamed, elusive narrator of Hawthorne's "tale of human frailty and sorrow" is--some readers might say maddeningly--indirect, ambiguous, and inconsistent. Readers who hope to arrive at satisfying judgments about the book's...

The works of Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo) played a critical role in introducing his adopted Japan to a worldwide audience. In Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life, he writes, "The papers composing this volume treat of the inner rather than of the...

The Gambler is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian General. The novella reflects Dostoevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than one the inspiration for the book: Dostoevsky completed the...

The reflections that are here published represent the synthesis of ILICA's mission: 'More reality and less rhetoric.' Civilization and culture flourish in well-defined cycles, and Italians have a unique history, a symbol in this world which is always more global. The essays are the...

Barone, a professor of English and director of the American Studies Program at Saint Joseph College, presents a study of Italian-American narrative.Author: Dennis BaroneISBN-10: 1599540185ISBN-13: 9781599540184Publisher: Bordighera PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/12/2011Pages: 212Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d

Torquato Tasso, at the age of eighteen, composed his first epic poem, "Rinaldo." It combines romantic epic -- a form popularized by Italian masters like Boiardo and Ariosto -- with classical influences from Virgil and Aristotle. Despite Tasso's youth, his "Rinaldo" was a remarkably...

Author: Stephen D. MooreISBN-10: 1589835069ISBN-13: 9781589835061Publisher: Society of Biblical LiteratureLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2010Pages: 480Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.54lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.07dReview Citation(s): Reference and Research Bk News 04/01/2011 pg. 18

Description: This volume contains several of Zwingli's pre-Reformation writings and his earliest Reformation treatises, which defended the freedom of Christians by attacking such issues as regulations governing Lenten fasts, clerical marriage and clerical celibacy.Author: Ulrich ZwingliISBN-10: 1579102972ISBN-13: 9781579102975Publisher: Wipf & Stock PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/13/1999Pages:...

The Provincial letters are a series of eighteen letters written by French philosopher and theologian Blaise Pascal. Written in the midst of the formulary controversy between the Jansenists and the Jesuits, they are a defense of the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld from Port-Royal-des-Champs, a friend...

"Religion," this book begins, "is a mistrusted word now," and Nicholas Mosley, in this engaging meditation, seeks to repair that trust. Rather than trying to convince or compel the reader to accept his beliefs, he describes how religion functions in the modern world. Elsewhere,...

This is a collection of 46 essays by specialists in Asian literature, who offer a wide range of possibilities for introducing Asian literature to English-speaking students. It is intended to help in promoting multicultural education.Author: Barbara Stoler MillerISBN-10: 1563242583ISBN-13: 9781563242588Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/31/1993Pages: 576Format:...

Motivate middle school students to become more involved in literature! Introducing hundreds of sophisticated and thought-provoking picture books on a variety of topics, this book shows you how to connect students to literature through picture books. Each title was carefully chosen, using as criteria...

"Machiavellianism" is a widely used negative term to characterize unscrupulous politicians of the sort Machiavelli described most famously in The Prince. Machiavelli described immoral behavior, such as dishonesty and killing innocents, as being normal and effective in politics.Author: Nicollo MachiavelliISBN-10: 1523706279ISBN-13: 9781523706273Publisher: Createspace Independent...

The Discourses on Livy (Italian: Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio, literally "Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livy") is a work of political history and philosophy written in the early 16th century (ca. 1517) by the Italian writer and political...

Vladimir Grigoryevich Chertkov (also transliterated as Chertkoff, Tchertkoff or Tschertkow (3 November O.S. 22 October] 1854 - November 9, 1936) was the editor of the works of Leo Tolstoy, and one of the most prominent Tolstoyans.Author: Hollybook, Leo TolstoiISBN-10: 1523301503ISBN-13: 9781523301508Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...

The SeersThere was a time, between the two Wars of European Suicide, when four men of learning and action maintained a primal view of the world and saw though the veil of politics and the fog of war to the other side, a global...

It is not impossible that in the minds of some persons the idea of employing gentle measures in the management and training of children may seem to imply the abandonment of the principle of authority, as the basis of the parental government, and the...

Excerpt from Helen With the High Hand: An Idyllic Diversion In the Five Towns human nature is reported to be so hard that you can break stones on it. Yet sometimes it softens, and then we have one of our rare idylls of which...

Byron, by John Nichol, is a classic and definitive biography of the great English poet, Lord Byron. Byron's life was passed under the fierce light that beats upon an intellectual throne. He succeeded in making himself--what he wished to be--the most notorious personality in...

"Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln" from Abraham Lincoln. The 16th President of the United States (1809-1865).Author: The Perfect Library, Abraham LincolnISBN-10: 1515019896ISBN-13: 9781515019893Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/10/2015Pages: 296Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.62d

Lyrics of Earth is a classic collection of nature poems by Archibald Lampman. In the depth and the bloom of the meadows I lay on the earth's quiet breast, The poplar fanned me with shadows, And the veery sang me to rest.Author: Archibald LampmanISBN-10:...

"Views and Reviews" from William Ernest Henley. English poet, critic and editor (1849-1903).Author: The Perfect Library, William Ernest HenleyISBN-10: 1511875003ISBN-13: 9781511875004Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/23/2015Pages: 158Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.34d

The Homeric Hymns is a collection of Homer's translated hymns. Illustrations are included.Author: Andrew LangISBN-10: 1511606517ISBN-13: 9781511606516Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/06/2015Pages: 94Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.19d

Electronic Literature considers new forms and genres of writing that exploit the capabilities of computers and networks - literature that would not be possible without the contemporary digital context. In this book, Rettberg places the most significant genres of electronic literature in historical, technological,...

"For in emigration the young men enter direct by the shipload on their heritage of work; empty continents swarm, as at the bosun's whistle, with industrious hands, and whole hew empires are domesticated to the service of man." -Robert Louis Stevenson, The Amateur Emigrant...

This is a critical handbook on T. S. Eliot's poetical works and verse dramas with their text and critical interpretation for students of Asian and African countries. An exhaustive discussion is made through critical analysis of Eliot's literary personality as a poet and theorist....

Examines the contested expansion of the Western United States through the perspective of two important historical figures. It is the story of a time when open land, resources, and wealth west of the Mississippi captured the imagination of everyone in nineteenth century America. The...

The essays in this collection explore the diverse character of emerging Christian narratives. From priestly beginnings at the temple in Luke to the enigmatic figure of the cross of light in Acts of John, early Christians found a variety of ways to interpret and...