Literary Criticism - General

Writing a new page in the surprisingly long history of literary deceit, Impostors examines a series of literary hoaxes, deceptions that involved flagrant acts of cultural appropriation. This book looks at authors who posed as people they were not, in order to claim a...

Of all the senses, touch is the most ineffable--and the most neglected in Western culture, all but ignored by philosophers and artists over millennia. Yet it is also the sense that links us most intimately to the world around us, from our mother's caress...

How does literature imagine its own powers of representation? Françoise Meltzer attempts to answer this question by looking at how the portrait--the painted portrait, framed--appears in various literary texts. Alien to the verbal system of the text yet mimetic of the gesture of writing,...

If you attend a contemporary art exhibition today, you're unlikely to see much traditional painting or sculpture. Indeed, artists today are preoccupied with what happens when you leave behind assumptions about particular media--such as painting, or woodcuts--and instead focus on collisions between them, and...

Some books start at point A, take you by the hand, and carefully walk you to point B, and on and on. This is not one of those books. This book is about mood, and how it works in and with us as complicated,...

The term "network" is now applied to everything from the Internet to terrorist-cell systems. But the word's ubiquity has also made it a cliché, a concept at once recognizable yet hard to explain. Network Aesthetics, in exploring how popular culture mediates our experience with...

In this bracing and original book, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that today's humanities are an invention of the American academy in the years following World War II, when they were first conceived as an expression of American culture and an instrument of American national...

The puppet creates delight and fear. It may evoke the innocent play of childhood, or become a tool of ritual magic, able to negotiate with ghosts and gods. Puppets can be creepy things, secretive, inanimate while also full of spirit, alive with gesture and...

We are living through a boom in autobiographical writing. Every half-famous celebrity, every politician, every sports hero--even the non-famous, nowadays, pour out pages and pages, Facebook post after Facebook post, about themselves. Literary theorists have noticed, as the genres of "creative nonfiction" and "life...

In the digital age, photography confronts its future under the competing signs of ubiquity and obsolescence. While technology has allowed amateurs and experts alike to create high-quality photographs in the blink of an eye, new electronic formats have severed the original photochemical link between...

Few virtues are as celebrated in contemporary culture as openness. Rooted in software culture and carrying more than a whiff of Silicon Valley technical utopianism, openness--of decision-making, data, and organizational structure--is seen as the cure for many problems in politics and business. But what...

What was the Enlightenment? Though many scholars have attempted to solve this riddle, none has made as much use of contemporary answers as Dan Edelstein does here. In seeking to recover where, when, and how the concept of "the Enlightenment" first emerged, Edelstein departs...

The triumph of avant-gardes in the 1920s tends to dominate our discussions of the music, art, and literature of the period. But the broader current of modernism encompassed many movements, and one of the most distinct and influential was a turn to classicism. In...

The digital humanities is a rapidly growing field that is transforming humanities research through digital tools and resources. Researchers can now quickly trace every one of Issac Newton's annotations, use social media to engage academic and public audiences in the interpretation of cultural texts,...

The chorus of the Christian hymn "Amazing Grace" reads, "I once was lost, but now am found, / Was blind but now I see." Composed by a minister who formerly worked as a slave trader, the song expresses his experience of divine intervention that...

When Mieke Bal reread the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife as an adult, she was struck by differences between her childhood memories of a moral tale and what she read today. In Loving Yusuf, Bal seeks to resolve this clash between memory and...

Mieke Bal has had a significant impact on every field she has touched, from Old Testament scholarship and narratology to critical methods and visual culture. This brilliant and controversial intellectual invariably performs a high-wire act at the point where critical issues and methods intersect--or...

Print Letters in Seventeenth-Century England investigates how and why letters were printed in the interrelated spheres of political contestation, religious controversy, and news culture--those published as pamphlets, as broadsides, and in newsbooks in the interests of ideological disputes and as political and religious propaganda....

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Author: NereISBN-10: 0415273714ISBN-13: 9780415273718Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/13/2001Pages: 378Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 8.80h x 6.08w x 1.25d

The purpose of Point of View, first published in 1990, is twofold: from the perspective of linguistics, to analyse the discourse structure of texts; from the perspective of literary studies, to explain certain non-linguistic aspects of the texts in terms of linguistic form. This...

"I put my hopes for the future in such practice because it plants seeds of a life-attuned thinking into the world that can help us to act in more life-engendering ways." --Craig Holdrege (from the foreword)In this groundbreaking book, Nigel Hoffmann shows that understanding...

In her timely contribution to revisionist approaches in modernist studies, Lorraine Sim offers a reading of Virginia Woolf's conception of ordinary experience as revealed in her fiction and nonfiction. Contending that Woolf's representations of everyday life both acknowledge and provide a challenge to characterizations...

By examining the motif of ruination in a variety of late-eighteenth-century domains, this book portrays the moral aesthetic of the culture of sensibility in Europe, particularly its negotiation of the demands of tradition and pragmatism alongside utopian longings for authenticity, natural goodness, self-governance, mutual...

This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical...

Tara K Howe is a Canadian/American writercurrently living in Moscow, Idaho. She speaks manylanguages - English. French. Science. Earth. Womb.Death. Birth. Body. Drum. - to explore the nature ofsomatic consciousness. "She Says It This Way: " beganas an experiment in allowing form to serve...

In her haunting new poetry collection, Hovering, Carol V. Davis explores how disease steals what makes us human. These poems explore what it means when language and memory uncouple like merry-go-round animals that break free and gallop off. Drawing on texts and traditions, the...

"No writer, I suspect, is altogether free of the hope that what he writes - or even only a sentence or phrase of it - will survive him. A bon mot remembered in a hundred years' time might justify an entire life." In The...

First published in 1970, Dictionary of World Literary Terms brings together in one volume authoritative definitions of literary terms, forms and techniques, figures of speech and detailed notes on the history and development of the literatures and literary movements of the world. Arranged in...

A life of thought can transform how you see the world and Philip Gilbert Hamerton shows you how to begin. The Intellectual Life is a luminous collection of essays that maps the discipline, delights, and practical habits of sustained thinking. Hamerton one of the...

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Author: F. R. BridgeISBN-10: 0415273706ISBN-13: 9780415273701Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/20/2001Pages: 506Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.62lbsSize: 8.80h x 5.54w x 1.58d

This comprehensive collection, "The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift," offers a deep dive into the writings of one of the greatest satirists in the English language. Spanning a range of topics from politics and society to religion and personal reflection, Swift's sharp wit and...

"George Buchanan and His Times" by Peter Hume Brown offers a detailed biographical account of the life and career of George Buchanan (1506-1582), a prominent Scottish humanist scholar, educator, and political theorist. This comprehensive study delves into Buchanan's significant contributions to literature, education, and...

Stories of Exile, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future...

The Theory of the Theatre, and Other Principles of Dramatic Criticism, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its...

A century of voices, a century of ideas, gathered to illuminate how England thought, debated, and shaped its world. This is more than an anthology-it is a conversation across time, inviting readers to hear the manners, reforms, and inquiries that rippled from Caxton to...

A timeless doorway to a wilder, wiser world. The fables whisper through centuries, and now they speak again. Bewick's Select Fables Of sop And Others; In Three Parts offers a refined, expanded look at a beloved fable collection. It gathers the best-loved tales from...

The essays collected in this volume explore how and by what means, from antiquity to the present day, the notion of 'the right moment' has been defined, visualized, and experienced. The authors approach the subject from a range of disciplines and often work at...

Mpu Monaguṇa's early thirteenth century epic poem Sumanasāntaka is a vernacular rendering of Kālidāsa's story of Prince Aja and Princess Indumatī told in the Raghuvaṃśa. In it the poet exploits his source narrative to describe and comment on the Javanese world of his times.In...

Forgeries are an omnipresent part of our culture. They are closely related to historically and culturally informed ideas of authenticity, legality, authorship, creativity, tradition, and innovation. Based on the concept of mimesis, this volume illustrates that forgeries are thus not to be understood as...

This collection of essays demonstrates how novels are not only comparable, but often superior to the case histories used in business education. As many novelists have had personal experience of working in organizations, their work combines introspective insight with analytical skill.Author: B. Czarniawska-JoergesISBN-10: 3718656477ISBN-13:...

Examining the significance and uses of written documents in medieval Serbian society, for the very first time the manifestations of everyday literacy are revealed in the area where the East and the West intersect in southeastern Europe. The interweaving of Latin and Byzantine influences...

What are myths? Are there 'correct' and 'incorrect' versions? And where do they come from? These and many other related questions are addressed in Writing Down the Myths, a collection of critical studies of the contents of some of the most famous mythographic works...

How does the fact that we live in information societies reflect on the nature of penal discourse and practice? Applying media and communication studies to sentencing and penal culture, Kate Franko Aas offers a lucid and innovative account of how punishment is adjusting to...

A.C. Crombie sees the history of Western Science as the history of a vision and an argument, initiated by the ancient Greeks in their search for principles at once of nature and of argument itself. This scientific vision explored and controlled by argument, and...

Sung closely examines William Blake's extant engraved copper plates and arrives at a new interpretation of his working process. Sung suggests that Blake revised and corrected his work more than was previously thought. This belies the Romantic ideal that the acts of conception and...

John Toland was notorious. A pamphleteer, a polemicist and a prankster of the first order, modern scholarship has struggled to position his writings within the debates of his day. This study is the first to fully recount his remarkable biography, situating his writings within...

This is the first study to assess the entire career of Alexander Pope (1688-1744) in relation to the political issues of his time. Author: Pat RogersISBN-10: 1851968466ISBN-13: 9781851968466Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2010Pages: 288Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.23lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d

Offers a variety of approaches to incorporating discussions of book history or print culture into graduate and undergraduate classrooms. This work considers the book as a literary, historical, cultural, and aesthetic object. These essays are of interest to university teachers incorporating textual studies and...

Fundamentals of the Art of Poetry takes the reader on a journey that sets out with a consideration of the various arts humankind has created, and then focuses on the special art of poetry: what poetry is, what it does and must do in...

The poetic nightingale is so familiar it seems hardly to merit serious attention. Yet its ubiquity is significant, suggesting associations with erotic love, pathos and art that cross culture and history. This book examines the different nightingales of European literature, starting with the Greek...