Literary Criticism - General

HR has sought to reposition itself as a strategic contributor to organizations. To facilitate this, it has restructured, bringing in shared services, business partners and centres of expertise, simplifying, automating and rationalising processes, and devolving some activities to managers, whilst outsourcing others. HR has...

Hobbes is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of ideas and political thought, and his seminal text Leviathan is widely recognised as one of the greatest works of political philosophy ever written.The Routledge Guidebook to Hobbes' Leviathan introduces...

Eighteenth-century England saw an explosion of writings about deviance. In literature, in the law, and in the press, writers returned again and again to the question of crime and criminals.While the extension of the legal system formalised the power of the state to categorise...

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the state of political institutions, the military establishment and political parties in Pakistan. It provides a nuanced understanding of the practices of disenfranchisement by theocratic governments in the country which has relegated the people to the margins...

This project approaches four of E. L. Doctorow's novels--Welcome to Hard Times (1960), The Book of Daniel (1971), Ragtime (1975), and City of God (2000)--from the perspectives of feminist criticism and trauma theory. The study springs from the assumption that Doctorow's literary project is...

Published in 1926: The author tells the story of the Consumers' League from the genesis of the idea through the days of its development to its present days of power.Author: Maud NathanISBN-10: 0367194783ISBN-13: 9780367194789Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/05/2019Pages: 245Format: Hardcover

Originally published in 1951 Middle English Literature applies methods of literary evaluation to certain Middle English works. Arguing that previous literary criticism has largely focused on the commentary of their historical, social, philological and religious content, the book suggests that it has led to...

Originally compiled and published in 1988, this volume contains the text and translation of 'The Pilgrimmage of Charlemagne' and 'Aucassin and Nicolette, ' alongisde textual notes and a bibliography for both.Author: Glyn S. BurgessISBN-10: 0367183528ISBN-13: 9780367183523Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/05/2019Pages: 184Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.60h x...

Writing a New Environmental Era first considers and then rejects back-to-nature thinking and its proponents like Henry David Thoreau, arguing that human beings have never lived at peace with nature. Consequently, we need to stop thinking about going back to what never was and...

Originally published in 1903. Samuel Edward Winbolt (1868-1944) spent his entire working life from 1892 to 1926 teaching classics at his old school, Christ's Hospital. In his later years, he was best known for his work on Romano-British history and archaeology; but Latin Hexameter...

In this thought-provoking book Lambert Wiesing asks simply: What is luxury? Drawing on a fascinating range of examples, he argues that luxury is an aesthetic experience. Unlike experience gained via the senses, such as seeing, hearing or tasting, he argues that luxury is achieved...

This reference volume serves as a companion to Third World women's literatures in English and in English translation by presenting entries on works, writers, and themes. Entries are chosen to present a balance of well-known writers and emerging ones, contemporary as well as historical...

Science and poetry, rationalism and rhetoric--these polarities form both division and unity in an age which ushered in the New Science and led to destruction of the concepts which had given poetry its rational character.Author: K. G. Hamilton,Kenneth Gordon Hamilton,UnknownISBN-10: 0313201803ISBN-13: 9780313201806Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

In this extraordinary new collection by distinguished poet Christopher Howell, the opening poem presents us with a spiritual paradox that will echo throughout its pages. The speaker remembers an earlier time of happiness, freedom, and a certain innocence. The poem closes with: And if...

Author: Abdul HaqqISBN-10: 1736827669ISBN-13: 9781736827666Publisher: Evaluation PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/28/2025Pages: 296Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d

Sensational Deviance: Disability in Nineteenth-Century Sensation Fiction investigates the representation of disability in fictional works by the leading Victorian sensation novelists Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, exploring how disability acts as a major element in the shaping of the sensation novel genre and...

This rich volume of essays restores meaning itself as the focal point of one of our most thoughtful modern writers, Herman Melville. Melville and the Question of Meaning thinks about thinking in Melville. For if Melville's concerns with interpretation (the contributors to one recent...

In early modern culture, eating and reading were entangled acts. Our dead metaphors (swallowed stories, overcooked narratives, digested information) are all that now remains of a rich interplay between text and food, in which every element of dining, from preparation to purgation, had its...

Working with processes of translocation enabled Edward Said to point out interdependence and complementarity across geographical borders and disciplinary boundaries while recognizing cultural difference and the distinct historical experiences of colonizer and colonized. This book brings into focus Said's politics of reading, from his...

Why do we laugh? What does comedy reveal about human nature, society, and the mind's strange elasticity? In this classic 1900 essay, philosopher Henri Bergson anatomises the comic impulse with surgical clarity and lyrical wit. For Bergson, laughter is no mere reflex. It is...

The Reparative Impulse of Queer Young Adult Literature is a provocative meditation on emotion, mood, history, and futurism in the critique of queer texts created for younger audiences. Given critical demands to distance queer youth culture from narratives of violence, sadness, and hurt that...

Bibliophobia is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damaged, throughout the 5000-year history of writing from Sumeria to the smartphone. Its starting point is the contemporary idea of 'the death of the book' implied by the...

I am sharing my personal experience as a Christian living in Sydney who opposed Antisemitism in my Islam indoctrinated and non-biblically oriented Christian community during the October 7 Hamas atrocities. I wrote this book to explain their false assumptions and biases about their deeply...

Veteran critic Nicolas Tredell has been conversing with fellow critics for over three decades. This revised and expanded volume contains twenty interviews with Britain's leading intellectuals, academics, and exploratory novelists and poets, covering the period between 1990-2004. From conversations ranging from the seismic shift...

Composed between the sixth and ninth centuries, penitentials were little books of penance that address a wide range of human fallibility. But they are far more than mere registers of sin and penance: rather, by revealing the multiple contexts in which their authors anticipated...

- The Fugitive - I. - Kacha And Devayani - Translations - The Fugitive - II. - Ama And Vinayaka - The Mother's Prayer - Translations - The Fugitive - III. - Somaka And Ritvik - Karna And Kunti - TranslationsAuthor: Rabindranath TagoreISBN-10: 9387488098ISBN-13:...

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A taut, living record of a city and a nation in flux. December 1668 opens a window into Restoration London through the intimate and unflinching voice of Samuel Pepys, preserving private diary records that feel both personal and universally legible. This is more than...

A fresh flame for a quiet classic: a critical compass from Victorian Britain and Ireland that still speaks with clarity and charm. This is not merely a republication but a thoughtfully curated critical essay collection that maps the emergence of literary criticism as a...

A family tale that glows with snow-kissed virtue and quiet courage. A gentle vision of what kindness can awaken in a curious heart. Bertha's Christmas Vision: An Autumn Sheaf reintroduces a late Victorian juvenile fiction classic for today's readers. This engaging, morally focused narrative...

A piercing, must-read reawakening of a fin de siecle obsession with mind and myth. Delusion And Dream invites you to step into a world where dream meaning, memory, and the uncanny collide with modern psychology. This classic novella, reframed through a psychoanalytic lens, offers...

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The question of the political relevance of philosophy, and of the role which the philosopher should play in the government of his state, was often discussed in antiquity. Plato's ideal of the philosopher-king is well-known, but his failure to realize his political ideal in...

How did women in early modern England protect their investments in copyrights and realize profits from them? This new study explores the ways that women who owned copyright sought to turn manuscripts into money and protect their investments in intellectual property for themselves and...

This collection investigates Queen Elizabeth I as an accomplished writer in her own right as well as the subject of authors who celebrated her. With innovative essays from Brenda M. Hosington, Carole Levin, and other established and emerging experts, it reappraises Elizabeth's translations, letters,...

This book is the first study of writers who are both Victorian and indigenous, who have been educated in and write in terms of Victorian literary conventions, but whose indigenous affiliation is part of their literary personae and subject matter. What happens when the...

At a time when migration is mostly discussed in terms of "conflict" and "crisis", it is decidedly important to acknowledge the discursive traditions, narrative patterns, and conceptual categories that continue to inform how migration is represented, analyzed and theorized in contemporary Europe. This volume...

This volume explores the rich, evolving body of contemporary cultural practices that reflect on a European project of diversity, new dynamics between and across cultures in Europe, and its interactions with the world. There have been calls across Europe for both traditional national identities...