Literary Criticism - General

The poems in Marjorie Stelmach's Falter attempt to comprehend what Soren Kierkegaard in Fear and Trembling deems our ""highest passion"" faith--a task that he claims has remained the same for each generation and ""is always adequate for a person's lifetime."" In the opening section,...

A study of the classic pulp magazine "Adventure." Starmont Pulp and Dime Novel Studies #4.Author: Robert Kenneth JonesISBN-10: 1434496171ISBN-13: 9781434496171Publisher: Wildside PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/05/2007Pages: 92Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.22d

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""Lithuania: A Drama In One Act"" is a play written by Rupert Brooke in 1915. The play is set in Lithuania during World War I and revolves around the character of Juozas, a Lithuanian farmer who is caught between his loyalty to his country...

This book explores how the creations of great authors result from the same operations as our everyday counterfactual and hypothetical imaginations, which cognitive scientists refer to as "simulations." Drawing on detailed literary analyses as well as recent research in neuroscience and related fields, Patrick...

"The novel, Brink argues, is not about representation but the self-conscious play of language. From its inception, he suggests, the genre has been about the act of writing and self-reflection. This thesis is not new but is part of the currency of postmodern literary...

This annotated bibliography covers approximately 400 novels published from 1838 through 2007. A substantial introduction to the history and development of the genre precedes the chronologically arranged entries, which provide bibliographic details and extensive annotations on plot, themes, and compositional strengths and weaknesses. Mainstream...

A glorious treasury of literary curiosities for every night of the year.Bedside Companion for Book Lovers contains an eclectic mix of fact and fiction, letters, diaries, essays and dedications, all suffused with the joys of books and reading. The perfect gift for the bibliophile...

Equally literary analysis and a deep dive into the timeless ingredients of our collective humanity-love and greed, fear and malice, cowardice, loyalty, treachery, and courage-Lament for Siavash is considered Shahrokh Meskoob's best work on the eleventh-century Iranian national epic, the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi. It...

Golden Handcuffs Review #34 collectible edition from 2024 features art by Andrea Augé, John Goodby and Erica Van Horn. Fiction and poetry by Joel Chace, Lee Duggan, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Norman Fischer, Nancy Gaffield, Jesse Glass, Peter Hughes, Doug Jones, James Keating, Hank Lazer,...

Are you ready for one heckuva ride? Those who have read The Da Vinci Code know that Dan Brown has led his readers on a wild, improbable, and thrilling adventure. He wants you to question what you've been told all these years. And sure-that's...

Originally published in 1970 as part of a series entitled 'Ethnic Groups in Comparative Perspective, ' 'White Southerners' is considered a classic in the sociology and history of the American South. This revised edition contains a new preface and a final additional chapter covering...

Originally published in 1983, D.H. Lawrence is an annotated bibliographic collection of works by and about D.H. Lawrence. Consisting of three parts, the primary bibliography contains separate bibliographies of Lawrence's major publications, of collection editions of his works, of his letters, and of concordances...

Mungo Park (11 September 1771 - 1806) was a Scottish explorer of West Africa. He was the first Westerner known to have travelled to the central portion of the Niger River, and his account of his travels is still in print. This book has...

Literary Nonfiction. History & Politics. A few months ago, few had heard much about mild-mannered backbench MP Jeremy Corbyn. Now he is the surprise leader of the Labour Party, after winning a grassroots campaign. But who is this man who divides his own party,...

Anna Akhmatova on Osip Mandelstam - Virgil Thomson on Gertrude Stein - Jonathan Miller on Lenny Bruce - Robert Lowell on John Berryman - Stephen Spender on W. H. Auden - Mary McCarthy on Hannah Arendt - John Thompson on Robert Lowell - James...

Now in paperback Many of the illustrious contributors to The New York Review of Books have had deep and abiding relationships-both personal and intellectual-with other poets, writers, artists, composers, and scientists of equal stature. The Company They Kept is a collection of twenty-seven accounts...

While Kierkegaard is primarily known as a philosopher or religious thinker, his writings have also been used extensively by literary writers, critics and artists worldwide who have been attracted to his creative mixing of genres, his complex use of pseudonyms, his rhetoric and literary...

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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 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,...

Julian of Norwich in Her Phenomenology engages Julian's primordial religious experience of May 1373 as was given to her initially; as Julian subsequently gave definition to its revelation within her spiritual texts; and in the hermeneutics made manifest from centuries of historical context.Author: Edward...

Missing Link by Frank Herbert has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current...

Many films and novels defy our ability to make sense of the plot. While puzzling storytelling, strange incongruities, inviting enigmas and persistent ambiguities have been central to the effects of many literary and cinematic traditions, a great deal of contemporary films and television series...

A Caribbean Poetics of Spirit offers a rare and penetrativeexploration into Caribbean literary articulations of non-material and numinouspresences. The study incorporates representations of African-Caribbean and Indigenousmythologies, syncretic spirituality, and magico-religious practices. From textsby ten writers, Hannah Regis extracts thematic and poetic references toCaribbean spectrality,...

Since 1992, the Dia Center for the Arts has presented the Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art--an example of Dia's ongoing commitment to cross-disciplinary critical discourse. This fourth volume of collected theoretical and critical essays focuses on Dia's exhibitions from 2001 through 2002, with...

Literary Nonfiction. James Pate examines Gothic poetry and poetics by bringing the dream world, the material world, history, and critical theory into a vibrant discussion. Pate resists the traps of discourse that the Gothic aesthetic have fallen into by arguing for a new development...

From The Prisoner in the 1960s to the more recent Heroes and Lost, a group of television series with strong elements of fantasy have achieved cult status. Focusing on eight such series, this work analyzes their respective innovations and influences. Assessing the strategies used...

The exploitation film industry of Italy, Spain and France during the height of its popularity from 1960 to 1980 is the focus of this entertaining history. With subject matter running the gamut from Italian zombies to Spanish werewolves to French lesbian vampires, the shocking...

This volume explores boredom as a possible force for good in the Victorian novel. In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1847), George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871-72), and Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady (1881), boredom is an important means through which female characters are able...

No detailed description available for "Emily Dickinson's Reading, 1836-1886".Author: Jack L. CappsISBN-10: 0674732073ISBN-13: 9780674732070Publisher: Harvard University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/05/1966Pages: 239Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

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Among the elementary human stories, parenthood has tended to go without saying. Compared to the spectacular attachments of romantic love, it is only the predictable sequel. Compared to the passions of childhood, it is just a background. But in recent decades, far-reaching changes in...

The theory of Northern Courage was J.R.R. Tolkien's designation for the heroic ethos found in 'Germanic' or Northern heroic lays and epics. Tolkien admired the nobility of the old heroes, such as Beowulf, but wrestled with the inherent cruelty of the Welands, Ingelds, and...

From the internationally acclaimed author of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony comes one of the most significant books in recent years on a writer of perennial interest-a virtuoso interpretation of the work of Franz Kafka. What are Kafka's fictions about? Are they dreams?...

Susanna Kaysen, who wrote about her teenage depression in the bestseller Girl, Interrupted, now takes on another taboo: her vagina-which suddenly and inexplicably starts to hurt. And neither Kaysen's cheery gynecologist, nor her internist, nor a laconic "vulvologist" has the cure. An alternative health...

This Open Access book explores the concept of digital epistemology. In this context, the digital will not be understood as merely something that is linked to specific tools and objects, but rather as different modes of thought. For example, the digital within the humanities...

A beautifully illustrated account of the letters and correspondence of Jane Austen. It has been said that Jane Austen the woman and Jane Austen the author are all of a piece, and nowhere is this more evident to the lovers of her novels than...

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM, PREMATURE BURIAL, TALES OF TERROR, THE HAUNTED PALACE, THE RAVEN, MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, THE TOMB OF LIGEIA... Produced on modest budgets for American International Pictures, Roger Corman's adaptations of Edgar...

This text contains chapters about born-digital archives and their preservation using born-digital primary records in the humanities. This book is a result of the collaboration between Gábor Palkó, Co-Director of the Centre for Digital Humanities at the Eötvös University, who is interested in the...

At the outset of Marx for Cats, Leigh Claire La Berge declares that "all history is the history of cat struggle." Revising the medieval bestiary form to meet Marxist critique, La Berge follows feline footprints through Western economic history to reveal an animality at...

The Alexandreis is an extraordinarily layered and subtle epic poem on the life of Alexander the Great. Author: Walter ChatillonISBN-10: 1551116766ISBN-13: 9781551116761Publisher: Broadview Press IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/16/2006Pages: 284Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d

This Skeleton Key Study Guide to Joseph Campbell's Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor lets you read Campbell alongside a Campbell expert, and discover deeper meanings of religious narrative and symbols. In this helpful guide, you'll find chapter summaries, notable quotes, reading suggestions, essay...

Dublin is one of the world's great literary cities, immortalized in works by some of the most celebrated international authors. It is a city of warmth and character, which combines the richest of histories with a vibrant contemporary edge, and which welcomes millions of...

Chapter 4 (Symbolism)The most important secrets that have been kept from the general public will now be exposed in this book. In this publication, I uncover a myriad of mysteries and uncomfortable truths about the world we live in. It's time to get up...

This volume historicizes the study of life-writing and egodocuments, focusing on early modern European reflections on the self, self-fashioning, and identity. Life-writing and the study of egodocuments currently tend to be viewed as separate fields, yet the individual as a purposive social actor provides...

From the point of view of a child, the classic of Russia-German literature Hugo Wormsbecher depicts the hopeless struggle for survival of a Volga-German family during the deprived years of the Second World War. The loss of the homeland on the Volga and the...

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