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...

They say everyone has a book inside them-and that may be true. But too many would-be writers get lost somewhere between inspiration and publication. Packed with hard truths and insider tips, Secrets Most Writers and Publishers Will Never Tell You is exactly the advice...

It is with immense joy and pride that we present the 57th issue of Reader's House Magazine. As we celebrate yet another milestone, we dedicate this issue to the transformative power of storytelling-a force that connects us across cultures, generations, and experiences.Our cover star...

Synopsis: The works in Pieces of Mind contain tributes to those who have had or continue to have a profound impact on my life. There are also many takes on the tumultuous world we now live in, including politics, media, and general societal behaviors....

The Goncourt Brothers and the Language of Etching reassesses Edmond and Jules de Goncourts' work as both authors and etchers, arguing that their firsthand experience with printmaking fundamentally shaped their prose. Known as novelists, diarists, art historians, and collectors, the Goncourt brothers were also...

This book locates Harold Pinter's controversial anti-fascism, overtly political plays not as revolutionary works designed to mobilize the masses, but as cries of moral outrage against the authoritarian forces of oppression.Displaying on stage the plight of political prisoners facing illegal detainment, brutal interrogation, and...

This collection of essays was written while attending a course on Canadian Poetry, taught by Professor Robert Lecker, at McGill University. Since a small selection of these essays were made available on Academia.edu in 2018, they have gained a following among researchers in the...

Love, Honour and God tells about the talented and determined people who challenged the dominance of the Persophone written culture and created literature in their mother tongue, Pashto. Offering insights into the lives and literary accomplishments of many acclaimed and less known Pashtun authors...

This book discusses Douglas Coupland's first four full-length novels: Generation X, Shampoo Planet, Microserfs, and Girlfriend in a Coma. In each of these novels, Coupland contemplates the fraught relationship between Generation X and postmodern irony. Coup-land's characters struggle to find meaning and sincerity in...

The Critical Review On Major English Poets And Poems is written for the students concerning B.A English Honors and Master Degree in English .The author Subrata Ray here strictly follows the latest syllabus of the University of Kolkata -Part-I poetry paper .Discussions on university...

This book analyses the cultural and social subordination of women in American society as represented in the American novelistic tradition in the context of sociological, psychological, and historical perspectives peculiar to the period. The selection of the novels has been based on a wide...

The Return of Ulysses is a five-act drama written by Robert Bridges. The play is based on the classic Greek epic, The Odyssey, and follows the journey of Ulysses, a hero who returns home after being away for twenty years. The play is written...

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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...

Title: Memoirs of General William T. Sherman.Author: William T ShermanPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery...

Title: A general history and collection of voyages and travels, arranged in systematic order: forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time.Author: Robert KerrPublisher: Gale, Sabin...

This is the first collection of critical essays devoted exclusively to Shakespeare's first published work, his long narrative poem Venus and Adonis which established his reputation as the literary darling of London and the heir of Ovid. Particularly important is the book's coverage of...

Virginia Woolf's "The Common Reader" offers a captivating collection of literary essays, showcasing her insightful and influential perspectives on literature. A cornerstone of modern literary criticism, this volume explores a diverse range of authors and works, reflecting Woolf's profound understanding of the written word....

I. A. Richards' "Principles of Literary Criticism" remains a cornerstone of literary study, offering a foundational exploration of aesthetics and interpretation. This seminal work delves into the core principles that govern effective literary analysis and criticism. Richards examines the essential elements of style and...

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,...

Animating Film Theory provides an enriched understanding of the relationship between two of the most unwieldy and unstable organizing concepts in cinema and media studies: animation and film theory. For the most part, animation has been excluded from the purview of film theory. The...

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...

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 Routledge Companion to Literature and Class offers a comprehensive and fresh assessment of the cultural impact of class in literature, analyzing various innovative, interdisciplinary approaches of textual analysis and intersections of literature, including class subjectivities, mental health, gender and queer studies, critical race...

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,...

Although Flannery O'Connor is famously known as the "hillbilly Thomist," her love of the medieval did not take the form of a nostalgic refuge from the modern. O'Connor's vision of modernity relied heavily on three twentieth century thinkers who had a profound influence on...

This book offers scholars in the humanities a way to think critically about generative AI and the impact of technocaptialism on foundational, and essentially human, crafts such as reading and writing. The target audience includes educators and scholars in higher education and K-12, as...

The Discerning Mollusk's Guide to Arts and Ideas. Contributions by Emily Adams, Stephen Bett, Laurie Blauner, P.J. Blumenthal, Christopher Boucher, Marvin Cohen, Kevin Davey, W.J. Davies, R.J. Dent, Noah Drauschak, Gregory Feeley, Tom Formaro, Ron Ginzler, Jake Goldsmith, Paul Griffiths, Michael Hampton, Ernest Hilbert,...

Arguing that contemporary culture uses Shakespeare to re-think these same issues today as we experience a post-modern crisis in 'childness', Shakespeare and Child's Play first locates ideas of childhood in early modern theorisations and performances then analyses a range of recent performances on stage...

Welcome to this month's exciting issue of Novelist Post! Our focus remains steadfast: celebrating the art of storytelling and the authors behind some of the most captivating narratives of our time. With this in mind, we could not be prouder to spotlight J.D. Barker,...

The Routledge Handbook of Star Trek offers a synoptic overview of Star Trek, its history, its influence, and the scholarly response to the franchise, as well as possibilities for further study. Author: Leimar Garcia-SiinoISBN-10: 1032247428ISBN-13: 9781032247427Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/30/2025Pages: 490Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.94lbsSize: 10.00h x...

Over the last two decades, the study of graffiti has emerged as a bustling field, invigorated by increased appreciation for their historical, linguistic, sociological, and anthropological value and propelled by ambitious documentation projects. The growing understanding of graffiti as a perennial, universal phenomenon is...

This study examines how literature and its interlingual circulation changed under the conditions of international legal agreements. Until the 19th century, translation into other languages was dominated by the so-called target culture and took place independently of the source culture (freedom of translation). By...

If Capitalism has a gospel, it must be Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, the robust defense of the entrepreneur as the engine of human progress. Like any great gospel, it deserves a comprehensive commentary that delves deeply into the text, extracting fascinating insights and overlooked...

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...

World Literature and Dissent reconsiders the role of dissent in the contemporary aesthetics of globalisation. Author: Lorna BurnsISBN-10: 1138561851ISBN-13: 9781138561854Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/03/2019Pages: 194Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d

This Memorial Volume is being published to mark the centenary year of George Saintbury's birth. It contains essays, hitherto uncollected in book form, on authors such as Dryden, Herrick, Ben Jonson, Browning, Coleridge; studies of Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Shelley, Disraeli; and papers on...

Evolutions of Jewish Character in British Fiction examines how the contradictory nature of Jewish stereotypes, combined with the Jews' complicated entanglement of religion, race, and nationality, presented an opportunity for writers to think about the gap between representations and individuals.Author: Aaron KaisermanISBN-10: 1138549835ISBN-13: 9781138549838Publisher:...

Travel, Tourism and Identity addresses the psychological and social adjustments that occur when people make contact with others outside their social, cultural, or linguistic groupsAuthor: Gabriel R. RicciISBN-10: 1138539902ISBN-13: 9781138539907Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2017Pages: 308Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.66lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.75d

The development of literature between 1800 and 1860 in the United States was heavily influenced by two warsAuthor: Vernon Louis ParringtonISBN-10: 1138538345ISBN-13: 9781138538344Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/20/2017Pages: 540Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.95lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.19d

Jacques Riviere knew how to accept art emotionally. No French critic was ever less a traditional pedagogue. Rivibre was an intelligent French writer, who knew that the summit of the intellect is to admit aff ective knowledge, instinct, and intuition. The "heart," or taste,...

This volume makes available to English readers the best known and most frequently quoted study of industrial combination from the German point of view.Author: Edith KurzweilISBN-10: 1138534137ISBN-13: 9781138534131Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/29/2018Pages: 280Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Psychology helps us to talk about what the novelist knows, but fiction helps us to know what the psychologist is talking aboutAuthor: Bernard J. ParisISBN-10: 1138518484ISBN-13: 9781138518483Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/02/2017Pages: 326Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.34lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

This book is an introduction to, and structured survey of, the attempts that have been made to take the measure of the Anthropocene, and explores some of the paradigmatic problems which it raises. Author: Eva Horn, Hannes BergthallerISBN-10: 1138342467ISBN-13: 9781138342460Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2019Pages: 180Format:...

Contributions to this book analyse material from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, including biography, auto/biographical memoirs, letters, diaries, sermons, maps and directories, and the book closes with reflections and poems by contemporary life writers. It was originally published as a special...

'Chaucers Dream Poetry' is the first volume to provide texts of all Chaucer's four dream poems together with a full critical guide to the genre of dream poetry, and introductions to the individual poems. The texts have been newly edited by Helen Phillips and...