Literary Criticism - General

The Hekhalot literature is a motley collection of textually fluid and often textually corrupt documents in Hebrew and Aramaic which deal with mystical themes pertaining especially to God's throne-chariot (the Merkavah). They were composed between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, with roots...

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Author: Ester SchoefbergerISBN-10: 3640753259ISBN-13: 9783640753253Publisher: Grin VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/02/2010Pages: 26Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.10lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.06d

Step back in time with "The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904," a captivating window into English literature and culture of the early 20th century. This carefully reproduced edition offers a glimpse into the popular fiction, literary criticism, and even comics and...

In Not for Ambition or Bread, Theodore Dalrymple continues his recent series of books that capture the thoughts inspired by his reading. As with the previous works in the series, one gets the impression that Dalrymple has an inexhaustible library of books already in...

As we continue on this exciting journey of discovery, creativity, and innovation, we are thrilled to present a publication that celebrates the richness and diversity of ideas across literature, art, business, wellbeing, and more. Our mission at *Mosaic Digest* has always been to embrace...

This book presents original archival findings concerning Wilde's membership of a Liberal Party club and his views on Irish Home Rule. The findings have significant implications for our understanding of his attitude to Irish nationalism and British politics, and help us interpret political allusions...

This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to the teaching of academic writing and information literacy in a new digital dimension, drawing on recent trends towards project-based writing, digital writing and multimodal writing in Education, and synthesising theory with practice to provide a handy toolkit...

A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French of M. De Voltaire is a comprehensive philosophical work by French writer Voltaire. The book covers a wide range of topics, from religion and politics to science and morality, and is an essential read for those interested in...

No detailed description available for "Models of Simultaneity and Sequentiality in Human Cognition".Author: Marshall DurbinISBN-10: 3112327551ISBN-13: 9783112327555Publisher: de GruyterLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/31/1975Pages: 27Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.25d

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as...

More than any other early modern text, Montaigne's Essais have come to be associated with the emergence of a distinctively modern subjectivity, defined in opposition to the artifices of language and social performance. Felicity Green challenges this interpretation with a compelling revisionist reading of...

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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

Corianton, An Aztec Romance: A Romantic Spectacular Drama In Four Acts is a play written by Orestes U. Bean. The story is set in ancient Aztec times and follows the titular character, Corianton, a prince who falls in love with a priestess named Isabel....

The influence on Ovid of Hesiod, the most important archaic Greek poet after Homer, has been underestimated. Yet, as this book shows, a profound engagement with Hesiod's themes is central to Ovid's poetic world. As a poet who praised women instead of men and...

For years critics have held that literary modernism was both apolitical and solipsistic. While the former charge began to give way with the recession of New Criticism, the latter has grown in strength as a lead-in to the claim that postmodernism is apolitical and...

Why Reading Literature in School Still Matters: Imagination, Interpretation, Insight explains how a reader's involvement with literary texts can create conditions for developing deep insight into human experience, and how teachers can develop these interpretive possibilities in school contexts. Developed from the author's many...

The film director or auteur' has been central in film theory and criticism over the past thirty years. Theories of Authorship documents the major stages in the debate about film authorship, and introduces recent writing on film to suggest important ways in which the...

From Anthony Trollop to Sinclair Lewis, and from Jane Austen to James Joyce and John Steinbeck, many important novels touch on fundamental questions about the role of money in human affairs. These questions are explored in this volume through the lens of law and...

This book deals with mnemonic migration understood as the movement of memories across linguistic, cultural and mnemonic borders via the medium of literature. In contemporary literature, there is a growing number of authors with migration experience, some of whom write not in native tongue,...

For decades, Classical Myth has been one of the most popular and best-selling texts for the study of classical myth. Oxford University Press is proud to publish this essential book in a vibrant new ninth edition, complemented by digital learning resources that further enhance...

"You're always looking for what you can learn from everybody. I've learned something from every writer I've ever read. The strongest influences are certainly Joyce, the blind man who saw, and Ezra Pound, the crazy man who understood." - Robert Anton Wilson, Beyond Chaos...

Author: H. L. (Henry Louis) MenckenISBN-10: 1022995723ISBN-13: 9781022995727Publisher: Anson Street PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/28/2025Pages: 114Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.24d

Author: Christopher D. AbbottISBN-13: 9798316751600Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/04/2025Pages: 156Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.33d

This book concerns why the writers featured sought to exile themselves from mainstream society, not least by embracing the 'natural' world and an ascetic lifestyle. With the help of generous references from the 30-plus vagabond writers featured (plus many more contributions from secondary texts),...

In Translation Stories from Modern China, Professor Bonnie S. McDougall gives readers a rare firsthand account of not just the career but the international life of a trailblazing translator. From the unexpected beginnings of her passion for modern Chinese literature when she accidentally enrolled...

Song in the Novel investigates the variety of types of songs present in novels, from French romances, ballads, folk songs, opera, and op?ra-comique, to caf?-concert music, blues and jazz, and more recent popular music. Throughout, literary scholars, musicologists, and cultural historians analyse novels written...

This book, first published in 1868, is a collection of the poetry of John and Charles Wesley, co-founders of the Methodist movement. The poems are reprinted from the originals with the last corrections of the authors, and also includes the poems of Charles Wesley...

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,...

Literary Nonfiction. Art. LOCKDOWN, WITH CATS is a book of artwork created by Yeju Kwon with the hope of comforting contemporary people who deal with stress and anxiety. The theme of this book is centred around living in lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic and...

This is the first translation and commentary of Aristotle's work that assumes the Northern Greek from Stagira employs the sense of poiēsis given by Diotima in Plato's Symposium, mousikē kai metra ("music-dance and verse"), rather than the sense coined by the sophist Gorgias around...

Here, Nathana l engages the catastrophal--photographic, translative, architectural--calling to the scene a discrepant combinatory of voices including Ingeborg Bachmann, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Dmitri Shostakovich, to insist on the relational and seismic state of language and the image.Author: NathanaëlISBN-10: 1937658058ISBN-13: 9781937658052Publisher: Nightboat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/08/2012Pages:...

In the early days of the American experiment, as the states spread across the continent and the young nation was reshaped by the Industrial Revolution, no intellectual held more power than Ralph Waldo Emerson. The leading light of the Transcendentalists, Emerson spent his life...

The Flowering of a Tradition, which describes the development of technical, or practical, writing in England during the seventeenth century, from 1641 to 1700, follows Emergence of a Tradition, which tracks the emergence of English technical writing from 1475 to 1640, during the English...

Race offers a compelling introduction to the study of ideas related to race throughout history. Its breadth of coverage, both geographically and temporally, provides readers with an expansive, global understanding of the term from the classical period onwards. This concise guide offers an overview...

Author: Havelock EllisISBN-10: 1434468232ISBN-13: 9781434468239Publisher: Wildside PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/13/2024Pages: 292Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,7, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, language: English, abstract: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville is an epic tale of the voyage of the Pequod and the ship's captain, Ahab, who...

Writing with Research offers readers practical guidance for managing writing and research as combined tasks. Kristen B. Neuschel and Ann Marie Rasmussen bring expert advice from their extensive experience as writers, researchers, and teachers, making this an indispensable, user-friendly guide to research-based writing.This book...

For centuries, scribes and users have left notes in the margins of manuscripts, paraphrasing, explaining, criticising, and supplementing the main text. This volume sheds light on such scribal practices in Arabic manuscripts, investigating diverse techniques and approaches across the vast geographical and temporal range...

A profound and unparalleled literary voice, Zadie Smith returns with a resounding collection of essays In the past two decades, few writers have been able to master the craft and art of the essay in the way that Zadie Smith has. Her discerning eye...

The Number Sense of Nineteenth-Century British Literature considers how the avalanche of printed numbers characterizing the period affected its literature. It looks at the influence of a variety of cultural and historical movements, such as the rise of statistics and of democratic Liberalism and...

Author: Steve AylettISBN-10: 183654927XISBN-13: 9781836549277Publisher: Scar Garden PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/25/2025Pages: 170Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.46d

'I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.' Charles Lamb was employed full-time as a clerk in the City of London for most of his adult life, hence his literary output is relatively small when compared...

How is poetry a living art? This is the question at the heart of Poetry's Nature. Although it is common to speak of "nature poetry," Stewart contends that the essential nature of poetry is bound up with the natural world: by looking to nature,...

This book contains Charles Burney's letters from the age of 74 to 80, a period during which he retired from teaching but, far from slowing down despite frequent bouts of illness, continued to write, publishing his last book, Memoirs of the Life and Writings...

This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861), one of the most distinctive writers of the Victorian period. The first selection to place Clough's poetry alongside his prose, it allows readers...

The Gothic and Twenty-First-Century American Popular Culture examines the gothic mode deployed in a variety of texts that touch upon inherently US American themes, demonstrating its versatility and ubiquity across genres and popular media. The volume is divided into four main thematic sections, spanning...

This book collects some of the most famous allegories from literature, including works from Aesop, John Bunyan, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. A must-read for those who appreciate allegory and its use in literature.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is...

This book is a comprehensive biography of Andrew Marvel, the celebrated poet and politician of the 17th century. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, Hartley Coleridge paints a vivid portrait of Marvel's achievements and struggles, offering insights into the wider...

Designed as an introduction to the study of English literature, this work by literary scholars Geoffrey Chaucer and Stephen Haskins Carpenter explores the grammar and philology of 14th century English, using Chaucer's own texts as a guide. With detailed notes and clear explanations, this...