Literary Criticism - General

The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy: Perspectives Across the Humanities is an interdisciplinary study of the abiding quarrel to which poet-philosopher Plato referred centuries ago in the Republic. The book presents eight chapters by four humanities scholars that historically contextualize and cross-interpret aspects of...

Current studies in disciplinarity range widely across philosophical and literary contexts, producing heated debate and entrenched divergences. Yet, despite their manifest significance for us today seldom have those studies engaged with the Victorian origins of modern disciplinarity. Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines...

Saba Mahmood's 2005 Politics of Piety is an excellent example of evaluation in action. Mahmood's book is a study of women's participation in the Islamic revival across the Middle East. Mahmood - a feminist social anthropologist with left-wing, secular political values - wanted to...

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William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 - 24 December 1863) was a British novelist and author. He is known for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society.Author: William Makepeace ThackerayISBN-10: 1727369637ISBN-13: 9781727369632Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/14/2018Pages: 246Format:...

Author: Robert C. TannehillISBN-10: 1589835905ISBN-13: 9781589835900Publisher: Society of Biblical LiteratureLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1981Pages: 146Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d

Julius Solin: Polyhistor (1847) est un livre �����crit par Solinus, C. Julius. Il s'agit d'un ouvrage historique qui pr�����sente une compilation de connaissances sur les merveilles du monde antique, telles que les animaux, les plantes, les min�����raux, les ph�����nom�����nes naturels, les monuments et les...

Starting with the first essay, this collection makes the case for liberal arts learning and demonstrates the wisdom of Samuel Johnson's claim that "we have art in order to better enjoy our lives or better to endure them." Robert Pack is emeritus professor from...

In this expansive and searching work, M. Allen Cunningham traverses landscapes of memory, history, and imagination - from 1769 California to the melee of the Internet in the 2020s - as he questions himself and the reader about our experience of time in an...

This book further develops Professor Seaford's innovative work on the study of ritual and money in the developing Greek polis. It employs the concept of the chronotope, which refers to the phenomenon whereby the spatial and temporal frameworks explicit or implicit in a text...

This classic work, published in 1832, explores the relationship between technology, productivity, and economic progress. Babbage was one of the pioneers of modern computing, and his insights into the nature of machinery are still relevant today. This book is essential reading for anyone interested...

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While Howard Phillips Lovecraft was closing the final chapter of his writing career, Fritz Reuter Leiber was only beginning to open his own. The year was 1936 and Jonquil Leiber, Fritz's first wife, sent a letter on her own initiative to Lovecraft, knowing that...

Making use of archival resources in the United Kingdom and the United States, Regina B. Oost examines advertisements, promotional materials, and programs, as well as letters, diaries, and account books, to reconstruct the ways in which Richard D'Oyly Carte, W.S. Gilbert, and Arthur Sullivan...

Although their settings span a wide geographical area, from the South Pacific to India, Maugham's exotic short stories, novels, and travelogues all, ultimately, focus on the creation of a masculine British identity. In this first book to address Maugham's fiction in light of recent...