Literary Criticism - General

Writes of Passage explores the interplay between a system of "othering" which travelers bring to a place, and the "real" geographical difference they discover upon arrival. Exposing the tensions between the imaginary and real, Duncan and Gregory and a team of leading internationa contributors...

This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th 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 Heritage...

This set comprises 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 Heritage...

This set comprises 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 Heritage...

T.S. Elliot (1888-1965). Writings include: Prufrock and other Observations, Poems, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.Author: Michael GrantISBN-10: 0415159474ISBN-13: 9780415159470Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/06/1997Pages: 408Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.37lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.94d

This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th 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 Heritage...

This set comprises 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 Heritage...

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). Polish born, learnt English from scratch when he arrived in Britain. Writings include: Heart of Darkness, The Secret Agent, Nostromo. Volume covers the period 1895 - 1993. Includes Conrad's responses to his critics.Author: Normand SherryISBN-10: 0415159075ISBN-13: 9780415159074Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/06/1997Pages: 412Format:...

This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th 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 Heritage...

This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th 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 complements the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage...

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions...

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions...

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the work themselves.Author: Lionel KellyISBN-10: 0415134269ISBN-13: 9780415134262Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/09/1995Pages: 400Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.34lbsSize:...

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses on a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.Author: Don D. MooreISBN-10: 0415134188ISBN-13: 9780415134187Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/09/1995Pages: 170Format: HardcoverWeight:...

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions...

First published in 1995. The Critical Heritage series collects together a large body of criticism on major figures in literature. Each volume presents the contemporary responses to a particular writer, enabling the student to follow the formation of critical attitudes to the writer's work...

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions...

Auto/biography is currently one of the most popular literary genres, widely supposed to illuminate the study of the individual and his or her personal circumstances. Missing Persons suggests that auto/biography is, in fact, based on fictions, both about the person and about what it...

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read these sources direct.Author: Martin GarrettISBN-10: 0415089344ISBN-13: 9780415089340Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/19/1996Pages: 384Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.49lbsSize:...

Written by teachers who are also at the forefront of the development of critical theory, The State of Theory offers a diversity of perspectives, both practical and theoretical, on the current state of literary studies in education.Author: Richard BradfordISBN-10: 0415073235ISBN-13: 9780415073233Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/21/1993Pages:...

The women's sensation novel of the 1860s and the New Woman fiction of the 1890s were two major examples of a perceived feminine invasion of fiction which caused a critical furore in their day. Both genres, with their shocking, fast' heroines, fired the popular...

Martin Garrett's comprehensive collection presents and explains the history of the critical reception to Massinger's work from the early seventeenth to the late nineteenth century. The volume includes extensive selections from the writings of Pepys, Goldsmith, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Lamb and Swinburne, as well as...

This broad and comprehensive book also speaks volumes to the value of the humanities, and the significance of South Asian contexts. It will be of particular interest to those working on postcolonial studies, literary studies, Asian Studies and more.Author: Waseem AnwarISBN-10: 0367483718ISBN-13: 9780367483715Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage:...

The Buffalo Century is a keen exploration of satire and its role in society and politics. Written in praise of a buffalo, Vāñcheśvara Dīkṣita's Mahiṣaśatakam is timeless in its treatment of power, and its subversion. In resurrecting eighteenth-century Tanjore for the modern reader, Kesavan...

All Along Bob Dylan: America and the World offers an important contribution to thinking about the artist and his work. Adding European and non-English speaking contexts to the vibrant field of Dylan studies, the volume covers a wide range of topics and methodologies while...

Guido Cavalcanti, Dante's intellectual mentor, is widely considered among the greatest Italian lyric poets; his famous and notoriously difficult philosophical canzone Donna me prega is often characterized as the most studied lyric poem in Italian literature. This book situates Cavalcanti's poetry in the context...

Published in 1987: This edition seeks to make available, for the scholar and the student of Elizabethan literature, an accurate text of an Heptameron of Civill Discourses.Author: George WhetstoneISBN-10: 0367197588ISBN-13: 9780367197582Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2019Pages: 592Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.10lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.25d

W.H. Auden famously claimed "poetry makes nothing happen." That may or may not be the case, but the idea that poetry makes nothing happen has, itself, been extremely influential, and has made a great deal happen in the world. This book examines several of...

Originally published in 1993, The Medieval Charlemagne Legend is a selective bibliography for the literary scholar, of historical and literary material relating to Charlemagne. The book provides a chronological listing of sources on the legend and man is split into three distinct sections, covering...

As a study of color in the Victorian novel, this volume notices and analyzes a peculiar literary phenomenon in which Victorian authors who were also trained as artists dream up fantastically colored characters for their fiction. These strange and eccentric characters include the purple...

Shakespeare's poetic-dramatic worlds are inescapably limited. There is always, in his poems and plays, a force (a contingent drive, a pre-textual undertow, a rational-critical momentum, an ironic stance, the deflections of error) coercing plot and meaning to their end. By examining the work of...

From Longman's new Cultural Edition series, Hamlet, edited by Constance Jordan, includes the play and contextual materials from the era of Shakespeare. This edition represents Shakespeare's text as it appears in the most authoritative of early editions, the Folio, published in 1623, and it...

As the author of such classic American short stories as A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Everything That Rises Must Converge, and Revelation, Flannery O'Connor has always been recognized as a distinctive voice in American literature. A devoutly Catholic, Southern author with serious...

In a follow-up to his previous Homeric studies, noted classicist Paolo Vivante explores Homer's verse, highlighting rhythm rather than metre. Rhythmical qualities, he argues, constitute the force of the verse--for example, in the way the words take position and in the way each pause...

Monteath examines the international literature of the Spanish Civil War across the entire range of the political spectrum, from anarchism to nazism. Utilizing this approach he is able to highlight the extraordinary creative potential of a period in which political and aesthetic practice were...

While the short story has long been treated seriously by scholars in both Europe and America, in Africa the genre has been all but ignored by critics. Despite its popularity on the continent, the African short story has never been the subject of a...

Product information not available.Author: Mike AshleyISBN-10: 0313239894ISBN-13: 9780313239892Publisher: GreenwoodLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/27/1985Pages: 602Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.31lbsSize: 9.58h x 6.44w x 1.36d

Author: Gustav Bergmann,UnknownISBN-10: 0313202354ISBN-13: 9780313202353Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/18/1978Pages: 354Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.41lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

The current academic milieu displays a deep ambivalence about the teaching of Western culture and traditional subject matter. This ambivalence, the product of a unique historical convergence of theory and diversity, opens up new opportunities for what Pamela Caughie calls "passing" recognizing and accounting...

A Hollywood director who blends substance with the mainstream Steven Soderbergh's feature films present a diverse range of subject matter and formal styles: from the self-absorption of his breakthrough hit Sex, Lies, and Videotape to populist social problem films such as Erin Brockovich, and...

"Nobody who has not taken one can imagine the beauty of a walk through Rome by full moon," wrote Goethe in 1787. Sadly, the imagination is all we have today: in Rome, as in every other modern city, moonlight has been banished, replaced by...

Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice, 5/e presents the thirteen basic schools of twentieth-century literary theory and criticism in their historical and philosophical contexts. Unlike other introductions to literary criticism, this book explores the philosophical assumptions of each school of criticism and...

Early Daoist Hagiographies offers an engaging new translation of six key Daoist texts that illuminate the interplay between religion and literature in medieval China. Five of the texts are hagiographies from the fourth-century Supreme Purity (Shangqing) tradition, attributed to Yang Xi, who claimed to...

First published in 1975. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Author: Harry RujaISBN-10: 0041900073ISBN-13: 9780041900071Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1975Pages: 176Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d

The eleventh volume in this ground-breaking series pays special attention to politically engaged poetry, written during a turbulent period which saw the Constitutional Revolution in Iran as well as the rise to power of Reza Shah and his attempts to implement reform. Throughout this...

This first volume of Ecocide and Inscription: Black Ops outlines new methods for reading in the "After-times" - our current moment when tipping points have passed and cascade effects accelerate. Bold and wide-ranging, this study charts new territory at the intersection of literary theory,...

What if the easiest way forward was to stop pushing so hard?In just eighty-one short chapters, Lao Tzu offers a blueprint for living in harmony with yourself, others, and the universe. This fresh adaptation keeps the original's lyrical cadence yet speaks in clear, accessible...

Rediscover the power of storytelling that shapes our past and our understanding of it. In The Historical Novel: An Essay, Herbert Butterfield offers a clear, provocative exploration of the delicate dance between history and imagination. This seminal Herbert Butterfield essay probes how novelists reconstruct...

Researches in African poetries have approached it on many perspectives, but on the other side the stylistics of these art forms have raised less interest. Metre is an example of this. In the Swahili and Wolof poetic traditions, the existence of metrical patterns is...

In Mind Wars, Dr. David Alan Binder delves into the shadowy world of psychological manipulation, exposing the tactics used by individuals and institutions to control minds and influence behavior. From subtle persuasion techniques to full-blown mind control, Binder unpacks the science behind how these...