Literary Criticism - General

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The Poems of John Byrom is a collection of works by the English poet, John Byrom. Byrom lived from 1692 to 1763 and was known for his skill in both poetry and shorthand. This collection includes a variety of poems, including religious works, love...

Indian Dances, Medicine Men And Prophets is a book written by William R. Draper that provides a vivid and dramatic account of the self-torturing ceremonialists of Native American tribes. The book explores the wild exhibitionism of these individuals, who engage in dangerous and often...

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Dieses Buch mit dem Titel ""Beschreibung der Merkw�����rdigkeiten, welche er in einer 1742 (1743)"" wurde von Johann Georg Sulzer geschrieben. Es handelt sich um eine detaillierte Beschreibung der Reise, die der Autor im Jahr 1742 unternommen hat. Sulzer berichtet von den Orten, die er...

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This practical, innovative guide book is directed to trained professional personnel who want to publish in the technical and trade press. It outlines a dynamic approach to translating non-verbal thought into written information, including an empirical method to classify thoughts for organizing and developing...

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A collection of the poems of one of the French Symbolist poets.Author: Patricia TerryISBN-10: 0313252106ISBN-13: 9780313252105Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/10/1986Pages: 222Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d

Eliot wrote in his introduction: I hope that this volume will demonstrate that Pound's literary criticism is the most important contemporary criticism of its kind...perhaps the kind we can least afford to do without...the refreshment, the revitalization and making new' of literature in our...

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It can be hard for busy professionals to find the time to read the latest books. Stay up to date in a fraction of the time with this concise guide. As its name suggests, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind seeks to trace the...

There is increasing pressure on the humanities to justify their value and on criminology to undertake interdisciplinary research. In this book, Rafe McGregor establishes a new interdisciplinary methodology, 'criminological criticism', harnessing the synergy between literary studies and critical criminology to produce genuine interventions in...

The Love Books of Ovid is a collection of four works by the ancient Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso, commonly known as Ovid. The four works included in this collection are Amores, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris, and Medicamina Faciei Femineae. Amores is a series...

No detailed description available for "Blake's Night".Author: David WagenknechtISBN-10: 0674366387ISBN-13: 9780674366381Publisher: Harvard University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/05/1973Pages: 331Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.42lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d

Beginning with the dim prehistory of the mythical gods and their descendants, Heimskringla recounts the history of the kings of Norway through the reign of Olaf Haraldsson, who became Norway's patron saint. Once found in most homes and schools and still regarded as a...

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction...

Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction is one of the first works to focus specifically on fiction's engagements with human driven extinction. Drawing together a diverse group of scholars and approaches, this volume pairs established voices in the field with emerging scholars and traditionally...

Baudelaire's prose poems were written over many years and published in magazines between 1855 and his death in 1867. Francis Scarfe's translations reflect a lifetime's passion for Baudelaire's work and a deep understanding of it. The appeal of this beautiful book', he says in...

Twenty years after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, we can now see that the War on Terror profoundly affected Western self-understanding and the secular liberal image it sought to project onto a global canvas at what was widely assumed...

Both the special sciences and ordinary experience suggest that there are metaphysically emergent entities and features: macroscopic goings-on (including mountains, trees, humans, and sculptures, and their characteristic features) which depend on, yet are distinct from and distinctively efficacious with respect to, lower-level physical configurations...

Shakespeare's Mystery Play: A Study of The Tempest by Colin Still is a comprehensive analysis of one of Shakespeare's most enigmatic and intriguing plays. The book delves into the themes, characters, and symbolism of The Tempest, exploring the play's many layers of meaning and...

Why is there such a striking difference between English spelling and English pronunciation? How did our seemingly relatively simple grammar rules develop? What are the origins of regional dialect, literary language, and everyday speech, and what do they have to do with you? Seth...

Publishing monthly without interruption, Poetry has become America's most distinguished magazine of verse, presenting, often for the very first time, virtually every notable poet of the last nine decades-an unprecedented record.Author: Joseph Parisi, Stephen YoungISBN-10: 1566636043ISBN-13: 9781566636049Publisher: Ivan R. Dee PublisherLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2004Pages: 509Format:...

This edition of Lilith: The Legend of the First Woman contains illustrated depictions of the mythic Lilith, in her role within the garden of Eden. Collier uses poetry to detail an account of Lilith as an alternative narrative of the Book of Genesis. Originating...

In India, kingdoms and dynasties have come and gone, religious sects have formed and dissolved, schools of philosophy have come together and subsequently been replaced by others, yet the Mahabharata has never ceased to excite the Indian imagination. The sheer volume of commentaries on...

To the Teacher The review questions and tests in this booklet are designed to be used in conjunction with How to Teach Literature: Introductory Course. All questions and tests are included in the teaching guide and reproduced in this booklet with answers omitted.Author: Elizabeth...

Born in 1572 in London England, John Donne was an English Jacobean poet of exceptional skill, whose poetry was known for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor. While Donne was well educated and his poetic talents considerable he struggled for much of...

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The book titled ""The Apology, Phaedo and Crito of Plato; Golden Sayings of Epictetus; Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: V2 Harvard Classics"" is a collection of philosophical works by three renowned ancient Greek philosophers - Plato, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius. The book is a part...

This collection engages the work of Michael Oakeshott predominantly on the themes of his skepticism, politics, and aesthetics. An international set of authors engages and expands the analysis of Oakeshott's writings in often neglected areas and topics and in ways that brings Oakeshott into...

Every age has characteristic inventions that change the world. In the 19th century it was the steam engine and the train. For the 20th, electric and gasoline power, aircraft, nuclear weapons, even ventures into space. Today, the planet is awash with electronic business, chatter...

EDMUND SPENSER: AMORETTI The Amoretti by Edmund Spenser is one of the great Elizabethan cycles of love poetry. The Amoretti cycle of poems is printed here in full, with each sonnet on its own on a page. This is beautiful poetry, poems of love,...

Arms and the Man was George Bernard Shaw's first commercially successful play. It is a comedy about idealized love versus true love. A young Serbian woman idealizes her war-hero fiance and thinks the Swiss soldier who begs her to hide him a terrible coward....

Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir was born into a wealthy Scottish family on April 1, 1848 in Glasgow. He was encouraged through his upbringing in an interest in the natural sciences, and focused on chemistry. He did indeed become a chemistry professor at Gonville and...

Elements of Debating: A Manual for Use in High Schools and Academies By Leverett S. Lyon Contents I-What Argumentation Is II-What Debate Is III-The Requirements of Successful Debating IV-Determining the Issues V-How to Prove the Issues VI-The Brief. The Choice and Use of Evidence...

This unique volume features case studies and examples of diverse esoteric interpretive approaches and methodologies focusing on Genesis 13 and covering different periods from early Christian discourse through zoharic, kabbalistic and alchemical literature to modern and post-postmodern approaches.Author: Caroline Vander SticheleISBN-10: 1628370122ISBN-13: 9781628370126Publisher: SBL...

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Y Gododin is a historical Welsh poem, believed to have been written by the poet Aneirin in the 6th century. The poem tells the story of the Battle of Catraeth, which took place in the early 6th century between the Brythonic-speaking people of Gododdin...

Turandot is a lyric drama in three acts and five scenes written by Giuseppe Adami. The story is set in ancient China and revolves around the beautiful and cold-hearted Princess Turandot, who has sworn to never marry. Suitors who wish to win her hand...

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""Cain: A Dramatic Mystery in Three Acts"" by Lord Byron is a play that explores the biblical story of Cain and Abel. The play is divided into three acts and follows Cain's struggle with his own identity and morality after he murders his brother...

The Realm of Essence is the first book in the Realms of Being series, written by the renowned philosopher George Santayana. In this book, Santayana explores the concept of essence and its role in understanding the world around us. He argues that essence is...

Fairies have been revered and feared, sometimes simultaneously, throughout recorded history. This encyclopedia of concise entries, from the A-senee-ki-waku of northeastern North America to the Zips of Central America and Mexico, includes more than 2,500 individual beings and species of fairy and nature spirits...

In the past two decades, Othello has tried out for the basketball team, Macbeth has taken over a fast food joint and King Lear has moved to an Iowa farm--Shakespeare is everywhere in popular culture. This collection of essays addresses the use of Shakespearean...

The fifth and most popular book of the Ramayana of Valmiki, the Sundarakanda, recounts the adventures of the monkey hero Hanuman in leaping across the ocean to the island citadel of Lanka. Once there, he scours the city for the abducted Princess Sita. The...

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