Literary Criticism - General

David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical classic that displays a powerful mastery of the critical thinking skills of reasoning and evaluation. Hume's subject, the question of the existence and possible nature of God, was, and still is, a persistent topic of...

This is a critical study of Junot Díaz 's work The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. It analyses the text from a narratological point of view and it also considers Latino identity in the book. It seeks to answer the questions "Who is...

The importance of Warton's Essay on Pope to the literary world of its day is indicated by the fact that within fifty years its first publication was reprinted five times. MacClintock traces the history of its growth and development, and he clears up a...

This book provides an in-depth analysis of Tennyson s renowned elegy, In Memoriam, exploring its themes, symbolism, and literary techniques. Key features: Comprehensive commentary on each canto. Examination of Tennyson s religious faith and doubts. Discussion of the poem s exploration of grief and...

This is a second and revised edition, but in black and white, of English-Arabic Dictionary of Literary Terms (2018).Author: Mohsen HamliISBN-10: 1098577450ISBN-13: 9781098577452Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/13/2019Pages: 230Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.52d

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,...

The German Library Series...Volume 89. Book Very Good in heavy card covers. This volume includes 'The Visit'....'Romulus the Great'.... 'Problems of the Theatre'....'The Judge and His Hangman'....and, for the first time in English, ' A Monster Lecture on Justice and Right.'Author: Victor LangeISBN-10: 082640264XISBN-13:...

Based on extensive interviews with authors, editors, and publishers in four countries, this book examines the economic, social, and literary effect of the end of communist domination and accompanying cultural subsidies in Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania. The end of the communist regime has...

Author: Barbara Smith ChalouISBN-10: 0773408592ISBN-13: 9780773408593Publisher: Em TextsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2002Pages: 162Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d

Are we either good or bad, and do we really know the difference? Why do we want what we cannot have, and even to be what we're not? Can we desire others without wanting to possess them? Can we open to others and not...

This volume demonstrates that many scholars and stage directors firmly believe Schiller is very much a writer for the twentieth century. The essays provide a scholarly perspective on Schiller's relevance as a role model for twentieth-century writers and offer in-depth discussions of his idealism,...

Polish literature has a long and rich history. But only in recent years, with the decline of communism and censorship, have scholars been able to give full and objective attention to all works and authors in Poland. As the first English-language dictionary of Polish...

In this 'literary companion, ' Kopper includes excellent chapters devoted to (1) brief biography and chronology, (2) Synge's prose, (3) each of his six plays, (4) poems, (5) use of Christian and pagan motifs, (6) use of Irish mythology, (7) literary influences on Synge,...

Mr. Loftis provides the first comprehensive account of the relationship of restoration drama to the Spanish drama of the Golden Age.Author: John Clyde Loftis,UnknownISBN-10: 0313251339ISBN-13: 9780313251337Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/23/1987Pages: 276Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d

The range and variety of the poetry of a 40-year period which took on a new coloring with the advent of the first World War.Author: C. Day Lewis,UnknownISBN-10: 0313200998ISBN-13: 9780313200991Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/21/1978Pages: 296Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d

The history of cinema, and notably that of post-war Italian cinema, can only be understood adequately in the context of other contiguous cultural disciplines. World literature, including that of France, Germany, and Russia, played a key role in the development of post-war Italian film...

This volume brings together all of Gianfranco Contini's essays on Dante. The collection opens with his Introduction to the Rime of Dante, a text he wrote in 1938 that has remained a point of reference for Dantean exegesis ever since. It is followed by...

Author: James OntraISBN-13: 9798218861933Publisher: Pragmatic PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/11/2025Pages: 194Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.41d

The 1908 Battle of Marrakech forms the narrative nucleus of Charles Beadle's first novel, now back in print for the first time since 1911. The battle resulted in the defeat of Sultan Aziz, who was deposed by his brother, the "Pretender" Sultan Moulay Hafid,...

The remarkable tale of how queer bookshops built communities, nourished minds, redefined literature - and changed the world For over a century, LGBTQ+ bookshops have been the unsung heroes of queer liberation Home not only to books but chaotic community noticeboards, vicious rescue cats...

THE WATSON CHRONICLES 5TH ANNIVERSARY STORY 5 years after the events of "A Scandalous Affair," Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson are reunited with Inspector Hargreaves as they investigate the apparent suicide of a Major Archibald Lane, found dead on the same garden bench Lieutenant...

Welcome to the 51st issue of Reader's House, a celebration of literature, art, and the stories that connect us all. We are thrilled to feature the immensely talented Karen White on our cover as our Star Interview. With nearly two million books in print...

The Crossroads of Music and Literature: New Essays on the Muse of Song brings together fourteen original essays from an international, intergenerational cohort of scholars, each taking a fresh approach to the manner in which music plays a crucial role in literary texts and...

Midwestern Miscellany is a peer-reviewed academic journal published twice a year by The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature. This double issue, no. LII (Spring-Fall 2024), is edited by John Rohrkemper. Contributions in this issue focus on the theme "Banned in the Heartland."...

""The object of my book is to interest the reader in Russia and Russian literature, and to enable him to make up his mind as to whether he wishes to seek after a more intimate knowledge of the subject. The authors whose work forms...

The book "" Clayhanger, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has...

Every third year, the members of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS) assemble for a week-long conference. Over the years, this event has evolved into the largest single conference in the field of Neo-Latin studies. The papers presented at these conferences offer, then,...

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Women's Studies. Politics. African Studies. The rise of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to become the president of Liberia and the first woman elected to lead an African nation is one of the most inspiring stories of our time. But Sirleaf could not...

Its lines and verses have become part of the western literary canon and his translation of this most famous of poems has been continuously in print in for almost a century and a half. But just who was Edward FitzGerald? Was he the eccentric...

"Duende is that place in us where the two halves of our life are conjoined. It is the place where we go down into the self and gather up that opposing force to our immediate nature. It involves the undoing of the 'pretending-everything-is-okay-mechanism' in...

Postmodern Ghosts: A Postmodern Analysis of Paul Auster s Ghosts In this essay we analyze Ghosts, the second book of The New York Trilogy, from a Postmodern perspective. This book was written by the American writer Paul Auster. In this essay we focus on...

Alfred Perkins was an ordinary young man who grew up in the small English village of Carlisle. When he was a boy his godfather, old Oliver Cyning, used to tell him stories about Elfland, the place where all the fairies, elves, gnomes, goblins, and...

Broad in scope--theological, ecological, and personal--and acutely particular in details--witnessed and lived--the affecting poems in Particular Scandals explore how one endures suffering, avoiding the cliches of both bitterness and transcendence. Thus, while Moore's poetry depicts the debilitating ruin illness wreaks, it also embraces the...

Seeking military distinction, the 22-year-old Winston S. Churchill talked his way into the Malakand Field Force as a war correspondent, reporting on the front line in a struggle against restless tribes on the Northwest Frontier. Churchill describes dramatic campaigns, his writing always rooted in...

A delightful collection of literary essays, Andrew Lang's "Letters to Dead Authors" offers a unique perspective on the lives and works of some of history's most celebrated writers. Through a series of imagined letters, Lang engages in witty and insightful literary criticism, exploring the...

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,...

Brown proposes a theory of poetic metaphor that attempts to account for literature's complex role in the discovery and creation of significant patterns within both language and life. He shows that while poetic and conceptual modes of discover are different, they are nevertheless mutually...

Renaissance Woman: A Sourcebook is an invaluable collection of accounts of women and femininity in early modern England. The volume is divided thematically into nine sections, each with an accessible introduction, notes on sources and an annotated bibliography. The sections are: * Theology *...

The 1990s have seen a renaissance in short fiction studies. Today's short story writers are testing the boundaries of short fiction through minimalist works; extended short story cycles; narrative nonfiction forms, such as histories, memoirs, and essays; and even stories created interactively with readers...

Although the mystery novel has been popular with women readers since the 19th century, until the late 1970s, fictional women detectives typically were portrayed as stereotypic and passive, and often overlooked by critics. Over the last two decades, however, women mystery writers have begun...

Why are so many fictional characters named Anna (or a variant), and what does this signify? The startling prevalence of Hannah/Anna/Anne moves from biblical literature (Old Testament Hannah and New Testament St. Anne) to classics (Anna Karenina and Anne Elliot) to popular fiction (Anna...

A fascinating contribution to the scholarship of both political science and literature, this book explores eight major genres of contemporary popular fiction generally assumed to be essentially devoid of political content--children's novels, Westerns, middle-class fiction, historical novels, small-town Americana, sports novels, American war fiction,...

This book is concerned with the analysis of various travel patterns in early-nineteenth-century verse. Examples are given to illustrate the main theme and its subsidiaries: the theme of wandering, in the first place, and then the topics of Time and Space, the archetypes, the...

Author: Marjorie Hope Nicolson,Marjorie Hope NicholsonISBN-10: 0313210446ISBN-13: 9780313210440Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/15/1979Pages: 190Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d

This book introduces readers to the Buddhist-based philosophy of education of Daisaku Ikeda. Ikeda's philosophy of education offers human revolution, value creation, and dialogue as counterweights to the violence lurking in today's classrooms. Where education becomes wisdom-based, it transforms learners into keen assessors of...

Make Forever Now: A Biography of Jean Garrigue is a critical biography about Jean Garrigue (1912-1972), one of the best poets of her generation. Born in Evansville, Indiana, she moved to Greenwich Village at age 27, and by the following fall her first poem...

In an era where organized religion gets a bad, but too-often deserved reputation, Elliott explores secular literature as a means for soul-searching. As a seasoned professor, she shares why these particular books mattered to herself and her students over the years, and how each...

Elements of General Knowledge, Volume 1, by Henry Kett, offers an introductory guide to the principal branches of literature and science. Published in 1815, this volume serves as a foundational text, aiming to provide readers with a comprehensive overview of essential subjects. Kett's work...