Literary Criticism - General

Going against the tendency to 'read history backwards' from Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933, this book rescues from obscurity the forgotten phenomenon of left-wing patriotism in Weimar Germany. It takes as a case study 'Die Weltbühne', a weekly political journal that evolved...

Archetypal symbols in ancient myths as well as the folktales, nursery stories, and fairytales of the Middle Ages are the blueprints of modern fantasy literature. This book explores the modern dreamscape of present-day fantasy, using the ancient myths and traditional fairytales as guides and...

The short story is one of the most difficult types of prose to write and one of the most pleasurable to read. From Boccaccio's Decameron to The Collected Stories of Reynolds Price, Charles May gives us an understanding of the history and structure of...

Originally published in 1965, this study examines the concealed meanings in the second part of Faust. The book gives a psychological interpretation of elements of Goethe's personal life and work, which succeeds in making the man and the veiled references in his most profound...

Counter-Modernities in Nineteenth-Century French Literature explores a counterview of modernity in late nineteenth-century French literature (1848-1891). The principal claim of this book is that what we find in the works of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Flaubert is a form of 'writing against the grain' of...

Uncovers the transatlantic editorial friendship that shaped Mary Lavin's finest stories for The New Yorker.Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish American writer Mary Lavin had sixteen stories published in The New Yorker, after J. D. Salinger introduced her to the magazine. It was a...

Ken Fontenot's The Forests of Autumn celebrates a life lived in poetry. Exploring his Cajun heritage, his struggles with existential angst, as well as his love of classical music, philosophy, the German language, and other writers, Fontenot's poems are "not so much a creation...

It is with great pleasure that we present to you the 54th issue of Reader's House, a celebration of literary excellence and the extraordinary authors who bring these stories to life. In this edition, we continue our tradition of showcasing works that not only...

This book collects the 25 most important articles written by Professor Tang since the 1980s, dealing extensively with issues of Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity and Chinese culture. In these articles, Professor Tang proves his value as a worthy successor to the Chinese philosophical tradition,...

This book explores a wide range of twentieth and twenty-first century international fiction that engages with the Holocaust and its historical legacy. It examines the use of tropes of crime and detection in the representation of historical atrocity in both explicit crime fiction and...

This volume examines how young creators learn, create, and share their visual art online. Drawing from a robust set of case studies gathered locally, nationally, and internationally over three years with young adults 16-24, this work comes together as a crucial resource for understanding...

In his exciting new book of poems and retrospective reflection, West Coast poet and devout philhellene Joe Safdie engages compellingly with various Hellenic myths, and by doing so offers the reader a fresh and creative way of approaching Greek antiquity. Though most characters in...

For the first time in paperback, an acclaimed look at the American South through the lenses of its most acclaimed storytellers and their tales. Rarely does a nonfiction work come along that is as original and refreshing as Sitting Up with the Dead. Here,...

In As If!, Chase Gregory explores the stylistically strategic, often campy, and productively fraught cross-identifications of early queer criticism. Gregory calls this form of aids-era criticism as if!--a mode of writing in which authors struggle to read, write, and identify with and across categories...

Matthew Arnold (1822 -1888) was an English poet, and cultural critic. Arnold was a sage writer chastising his reader on various social issues. When Arnold wanted to marry he took the job of school inspector. He described this job as drudgery. Because of his...

Allegations of "Satanic abuse" became fashionable in the late twentieth century, but such episodes actually date back many centuries. Well-known critic and historian Brian Stableford provides a thorough history of Satanism, from its earliest times to the modern period, and also examines the appearance...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

The Common Pursuit is a thought-provoking work of literary criticism by F.R. Leavis. Drawing on a lifetime of reading and teaching, Leavis offers insights into some of the greatest works of English literature, from Shakespeare to T.S. Eliot.This work has been selected by scholars...

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,...

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,...

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,...

Winner of the 2017 CSU Poetry Center Essay Collection Competition, Selected by Renee Gladman. Winner of CLMP's 2019 Firecracker Award for Creative Nonfiction. Both a response to and a continuation of The Dinner Party, the iconic 1979 installation produced by feminist artist Judy Chicago,...

Inheriting the tradition of Hugh Miller, the nineteenth century folklorist and stonemason (whose own haunted life is the subject of the opening chapter), James Robertson has, where possible, researched the original or oldest written source and visited the site of each story to compile...

How do the spaces of the past stay with us through representations-whether literary or photographic? How has the Holocaust registered in our increasingly globally connected consciousness? What does it mean that this European event is often used as an interpretive or representational touchstone for...

Adaptation constitutes the driving force of contemporary culture, with stories adapted across an array of media formats. However, adaptation studies has been concerned almost exclusively with textual analysis, in particular with compare-and-contrast studies of individual novel and film pairings. This has left almost completely...

Sacrifice and Sharing in the Philippine HighlandsAuthor: Thomas P. GibsonISBN-10: 0367717077ISBN-13: 9780367717070Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/13/2021Pages: 274Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.58d

Propaganda others the enemy as brutish, brutal, and lacking in humanity. By contrast, a wealth of literary and first-hand writings present switches in which the enemy becomes, as Wilfred Owen famously put it, a 'strange friend'. This book focuses on moments of intimacy and...

In this trenchant and lively study Brian McHale undertakes to construct a version of postmodernist fiction which encompasses forms as wide-ranging as North American metafiction, Latin American magic realism, the French New New Novel, concrete prose and science fiction.Author: Brian McHaleISBN-10: 0415045134ISBN-13: 9780415045131Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage:...

Author: Ken FaigISBN-10: 1614984395ISBN-13: 9781614984399Publisher: Hippocampus PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/15/2025Pages: 344Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d

Author: Massimo ScaligeroISBN-13: 9798987442975Publisher: Alkion PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/23/2025Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.35d

Liberating Our Imaginations demonstrates the possibilities for liberation produced by reading biblical texts alongside works of contemporary literature by minoritized authors. While contemporary examples of oppression are not identical, the process of reading ancient and contemporary texts together can nonetheless open up imaginative and...

The book, "" Anthem "", 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...

Joseph Lease' s Fire Season, composed in the heat of global and personal apocalypse, is one of the most intimate books I've ever encountered. " I'm writing inside death, I'm / in the room." Anyone who comes this close to death succumbs to its...

This literary autobiography will let you into the mind of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. You'll learn about his philosophy and how he developed his creed. You'll learn about his poetry. You'll learn about the man behind the words.Author: Samuel Taylor ColeridgeISBN-10: 1494489775ISBN-13: 9781494489779Publisher: Createspace Independent...

This a volume of collected poems by a man who is considered by some to rank among such notables as Conrad Aiken, MacLeish, Eliot, Spender, Auden, and Frost. As a poet he exhibits a fine eye and ear and a fine mind for an...

The Professor and Poems is a collection of works by the renowned English author Charlotte Bronte, originally published in 1857. The book includes two distinct parts: a novella titled The Professor and a collection of Bronte's poetry.The Professor tells the story of William Crimsworth,...

The Last Poems is a collection of poems written by A. E. Housman, a renowned English poet and scholar. The collection was published posthumously in 1922, a year after Housman's death. The Last Poems includes 33 poems, many of which were written in the...

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Florence Nightingale is famous as the heroine of the Crimean War and later as a campaigner for medical care founded on a clean environment and good nursing. Suggestions for Thought, which contains the novel Cassandra, is a central text in nineteenth-century history of feminist...

In this book, a sequel to Traditions and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace (Cambridge University Press, 2002), ten leading Latin scholars provide specially commissioned in-depth discussions of the poetry of Catullus, one of ancient Rome's most favourite and best loved poets. Some chapters...

The premise of this volume is that the ubiquity of lactation imagery in early modern visual culture and the discourse on breastfeeding in humanist, religious, medical, and literary writings is a distinct cultural phenomenon that deserves systematic study. Chapters by art historians, social and...

This collection of poems by William Wordsworth offers a glimpse into the Romantic poet's lyrical and philosophical vision. The two-volume work includes many of Wordsworth's most beloved works, such as 'Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey' and 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality'. With...

Explore the fascinating relationship between personality and literature with this insightful book by renowned critic Rolfe Arnold Scott-James. Drawing from a wide range of literary examples, from Shakespeare to Joyce, this book offers a thought-provoking analysis of how personality shapes the way we interpret...

This biography of Francesco Petrarca, better known as Petrarch, provides a vivid and well-researched account of his life and legacy. With twenty-four illustrations, including images of the poet's manuscript and artwork inspired by his works, this book is an engaging and illuminating read for...

This collection of poetry celebrates the natural beauty of Australia, with a particular focus on its flora and fauna. The poems are lyrical and evocative, and Richardson's love of the Australian landscape shines through in every line. It is a must-read for fans of...

This volume includes selections from the Metamorphoses, the Fasti, and the Amores, with grammatical notes to aid students of Latin. The book also includes a vocabulary section with Latin words and their English translations. Ovid's lively and poetic language is sure to delight readers...

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,...