Literary Criticism - General

The Ecophobia Hypothesis grows out of the sense that while the theory of biophilia has productively addressed ideal human affinities with nature, the capacity of "the biophilia hypothesis" as an explanatory model of human/ environment relations is limited. The biophilia hypothesis cannot adequately account...

The Handbook to Literary Research is a practical guide for students embarking on postgraduate work in Literary Studies. It introduces and explains research techniques, methodologies and approaches to information resources, paying careful attention to the differences between countries and institutions, and providing a range...

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Passau, language: English, abstract: Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes's most acclaimed novel worldwide, poses and playfully elaborates on questions about traditional(ist) understandings of history and...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1889 Edition. In Reed And Kelloggs Graded Lessons In English, And Higher Lessons In English.Author: Alonzo Reed, Brainerd KelloggISBN-10: 1498183417ISBN-13: 9781498183413Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2014Pages: 140Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.30d

The Drama of the Soul is a philosophical and spiritual book written by James Morgan Pryse. The book explores the nature of the soul, its relationship to the body, and the purpose of human existence. The author argues that the soul is a divine...

In this vigorous response to recent trends in theory and criticism, David H. Richter asks how we can again learn to practice literary history. Despite the watchword "always historicize," comparatively few monographs attempt genuine historical explanations of literary phenomena. Richter theorizes that the contemporary...

For many years novelist William Gaddis, despite having won two National Book Critics Circle Awards and a MacArthur Foundation's "genius award," suffered from commercial and critical neglect. However, Gaddis has more recently experienced a resurgence in his popularity among both groups and is now...

As the horror subgenre du jour, found footage horror's amateur filmmaking look has made it available to a range of budgets. Surviving by adapting to technological and cultural shifts and popular trends, found footage horror is a successful and surprisingly complex experiment in blurring...

From his earliest shorts to his recent feature films The Departed and Shutter Island, this book offers an in-depth analysis of the deepest archetypal themes, symbols, and structures in Martin Scorsese's entire body of work. It examines each of Scorsese's films as a mythological...

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...

The Mongols' Middle East: Continuity and Transformation in Ilkhanid Iran offers a collection of academic articles that investigate different aspects of Mongol rule in 13th- and 14th-century Iran. Sometimes treated only as part of the larger Mongol Empire, the volume focuses on the Ilkhanate...

"Catharsis of the Soul," delves into the profound aspects of the human experience. Through this collection of heartfelt poetry, the book explores loss, grief, heartbreak, and the ever-enigmatic emotion of love. Each piece serves as a poignant tribute to the complexities of life, celebrating...

Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no being or species has been specifically created; all are locked into a pitiless struggle for existence, with extinction looming for those not fitted for the task.Yet (1859) is also...

"History in English Words" by Owen Barfield is a groundbreaking work of linguistic and literary criticism that delves into the intricate evolution of the English language. Owen Barfield, renowned for his profound insights into language and culture, explores the fascinating journey of English words,...

EDITOR'S LETTERWelcome to the 44th issue of Reader's House magazine, a testament to our ongoing commitment to showcasing the finest voices in literature today. We are delighted to feature bestselling, award-winning, and critically acclaimed indie authors who continue to enrich our literary landscape.This issue,...

Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no being or species has been specifically created; all are locked into a pitiless struggle for existence, with extinction looming for those not fitted for the task.Yet (1859) is also...

This book traces the historical development of the American ghost story from its Indigenous, Puritan, and Enlightenment origins to its heyday in the nineteenth century and continued vibrancy in modern literary and visual culture. It explores the main tropes, thematic preoccupations, principal settings, and...

Daniel Defoe's account of his travels through the west of England, from London to Land's End. Defoe describes the towns, villages, and countryside he encounters, as well as the people he meets along the way, offering a colorful and engaging portrait of life in...

Digital spaces are saturated with metaphor: we have pages, sites, mice, and windows. Yet, in the world of digital textuality, these metaphors no longer function as we might expect. Martin Paul Eve calls attention to the digital-textual metaphors that condition our experience of digital...

This book is based on a longitudinal study involving learners of English as a foreign language from their first year in primary education to their last year in compulsory secondary education. Some of the chapters report on the whole sample initially drawn from five...

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 book "" The Galleries of the Exposition, 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 book of poetry is the second part of 5 books of poem series collection. It was written with the intention to show my daughter a part of her from my point of view and the experiences she has shown me in just a...

Published in 1994: In The Perilous Cemetery adventure, Gawain is required to fight the devil himself. In repayment for having cured a young woman of madness, the devil keeps her entombed in a grave by day and requires her by night to fulfil his...

Religious and secular communities ritualize some books in one, two, or three dimensions. They ritualize the dimension of semantic interpretation through teaching, preaching, and scholarly commentary. This dimension receives almost all the attention of academic scholars. Communities also ritualize a text's expressive dimension through...

Paints a complex portrait of East German film art and representation through examining eighteen key DEFA films following the fall of the Berlin Wall. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, East Germany's DEFA filmmakers had a brief window in which to critique GDR...

The Writing Dead features original interviews with the writers of today's most frightening and fascinating shows. They include some of television's biggest names--Carlton Cuse (Lost and Bates Motel), Bryan Fuller (Hannibal, Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls, and Pushing Daisies), David Greenwalt (Angel and Grimm), Gale...

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...

Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) rose from poverty in the foothills of the Andes to become the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945. This volume provides both a detailed biography of the author and...

Author: B. J. Odoki, Benjamin OdokiISBN-10: 9970024914ISBN-13: 9789970024919Publisher: Fountain PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2005Pages: 396Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.28lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d

Author: Martin AmisISBN-10: 0679757937ISBN-13: 9780679757931Publisher: VintageLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/02/1995Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 8.41h x 5.60w x 0.70dReview Citation(s): New York Times 09/24/1995 pg. 40Publishers Weekly 04/24/1995

Paid critics are an endangered species, and good criticism is a dying art. Editors are culling many, and frequently all, of their best critics. In the academic world, balanced criticism is being driven out, in favour of weird and wacky, hard-left dogma. Especially on...

Gaston Bachelard, master dreamer of the elements, animates the waters of the soul with his stirring, fluid imagination. With the subtlety of a poet, he ranges from the surface of water with its reflective narcissism to the very depths where water flows into death....

Put simply, The Enchaf?d Flood is an "attempt to understand the nature of Romanticism through an examination of its treatment of a single theme, the sea." Auden focuses his Christian existentialist eye especially on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, though he draws widely from works as...

Laguna Beach, 1970s, a time when being gay began to be celebrated and for many, a time when relationships bloomed, sometimes faded, and bloomed again. Hal's has faded and he finds himself alone in his rented house on shadow Lane, wondering where his life...

This book compares Trump and Hitler as political performance artists. It explores their populist self-staging and rhetorical strategies and explains how they connected with their respective audiences. It also analyses the two men's character, work ethic, and management style. In addition, the book addresses...

Dana Gioia's The Catholic Writer Today confronts the paradoxical fact that though Catholicism constitutes the largest religious and cultural group in the United States, Catholic writers are currently almost invisible in American public culture. After establishing a lucid definition of Catholic literature, Gioia examines...

Baker, one of the most engaging and highly praised examiners of the microscopic matter of daily life (The Mezzanine, Room Temperature), finally takes on a subject his own size--fellow novelist and omnipresent influence John Updike. "Willfully outrageous and often very funny".--The New York Times.Author:...

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Elizabeth Barrett BrowningISBN-10: 1512215155ISBN-13: 9781512215151Publisher: Createspace Independent...

Some academics beguile you with a few interesting ideas while other academics shake your world. Ren? Girard belongs in the second camp. He demonstrates the uniqueness and indispensability of Christian revelation to a culture that is skeptical of the Gospel, and does so in...

A tiny girl child with the soul of a Bengal tigress emerges from a rose garden after failing to locate her parents. The emperor names her Princess Rose. The story encompasses love, loss, friendship, and rebirth.Author: Lloyd E. BatemanISBN-13: 9798330244751Publisher: Kinectic Digital PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

The Discerning Mollusk's Guide to Arts and Ideas. Contributions by Iv?n Arg?elles, Stephen Bett, P.J. Blumenthal, Tori Bond, Christopher Boucher, Samson Bulkley, Marvin Cohen, Bradley David, T.K. Edmond, Andrew Farkas, Fred Ferraris, S.C. Flynn, Jack Foley, Olivia Gallo, Jake Goldsmith, Tyler C. Gore, AN...

Originally published in 1955, this book discusses Romantic principles and their interpretation in literary practice, supported by the documentation (with translations) of numerous quotations from the writings of the romantic authors themselves. The emphasis lies on the evolution of Romantic ideas and practices in...

You gotta make a line before you weave a big dream.Who are you when the moon is out?Come Into a new world..A strange world.Oh, you know you're gonna see a new version Of it all in your mind.Oh, the mind plays tricks on you,...

Struggling to Write Authentic Characters with Communication Challenges?Unspoken Volumes: Writing Characters with Communication Challenges equips you to create characters that leap off the page and resonate with readers!Tired of Clich?s? Explore a range of communication differences, from stuttering to Apraxia of Speech and swallowing....

A wide-ranging intellectual history of the Critical Legal Studies Movement, drawing from personal accounts, academic works, and the media. The Rise and Fall of Critical Legal Studies unpacks Critical Legal Studies (CLS) to address what CLS was, how it came about, and what its...

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,...

Memoirs of General William T. Sherman V1 is a book written by William T. Sherman, an American soldier, businessman, and educator who served as a Union general during the American Civil War. The book, published in 1875, is the first volume of Sherman's memoirs...

Raymond Lully's Great Elixir: A Dramatic Poem (1869) is a literary work that tells the story of the alchemist Raymond Lully's quest to create the philosopher's stone, a mythical substance that was believed to have the power to turn base metals into gold and...

J. D. Salinger's 1951 novel, The Catcher in the Rye, is the definitive coming-of-age novel and Holden Caulfield remains one of the most famous characters in modern literature. This jargon-free guide to the text sets The Catcher in the Rye in its historical, intellectual...