Literary Criticism - General

Given the substantial impact of feminism on children's literature and culture during the last quarter century, it comes as no surprise that gender studies have focused predominantly on issues of female representation. The question of how the same patriarchal ideology structured representations of male...

A Byzantine chronicle is a retelling of history, usually beginning with the creation of the world, written in simple language and enriched by colourful anecdotes or tantalizing details on political intrigues. Though extremely popular in the Middle Ages, these texts were long disregarded by...

Sandra Beckett's book explores the contemporary retelling of the Red Riding Hood tale in Western children's literature.Author: Sandra BeckettISBN-10: 0415803675ISBN-13: 9780415803670Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2009Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d

This book guides healthcare professionals, hospital administrators, and medical interpreters in the United States (and internationally) in ways to better communicate with Deaf and Hard of Hearing (D/HH) patients and sign language interpreters in healthcare settings. It also provides an overview of the healthcare...

Pre-University Paper from the year 2012 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,0, language: English, abstract: This Seminararbeit shall deal with the short story 'The Tell-Tale Heart' by one of the most famous American writers, Edgar Allan Poe. In the following pages,...

American political theorist Robert Dahl's 1961 work of political theory exhibits deep levels of creative thinking. When Dahl wrote, the American system of liberal democracy was generally considered to be shaped by a small group of powerful individuals who dominate because they are wealthy...

D. H. Lawrence wrote in 1914, 'Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depths of my religious experience.' Although he had broken with the Congregationalist faith of his childhood by his early twenties, Lawrence remained throughout...

Bringing together 25 essential works of creative writing criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the key debates in creative writing today, from the ethics of appropriation to the politics of literary evaluation. Critical Creative Writing covers such topics as:...

Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. It demands the highest standards of scholarship from its contributors, all of whom are leading academics in their fields. It gives preference...

Many books have been written about the way business leaders manage their corporations, but little is known about how they have managed their own careers. Roads to the Top provides insights into how 18 business leaders of both the older and younger generations have...

In Doom Patterns, Maia Gil'Ad? takes up speculative fiction as a site for theorizing Latinx identity across national and ethnic borders and shows the vital role of historical trauma in its formation. Her analysis moves beyond reparative modes of reading to consider how literary...

In Doom Patterns, Maia Gil'Ad? takes up speculative fiction as a site for theorizing Latinx identity across national and ethnic borders and shows the vital role of historical trauma in its formation. Her analysis moves beyond reparative modes of reading to consider how literary...

The Indian state of Kerala is one of the largest blocs of migrants in the oil economies of the Arab Gulf. Looking closely at the cultural archives produced by and on the Gulf migrants in Malayalam -- the predominant language of Kerala -- this...

Author: Pavan Kumar MalreddyISBN-10: 1009443836ISBN-13: 9781009443838Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/28/2024Pages: 252Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Shares a heartfelt story inspired by her own journey as a young mother. Through vibrant illustrations and gentle prose, Selena teaches children the importance of safety and boundaries. This book tenderly explores the balance between nurturing affection and safeguarding our little ones, reminding children...

From disappearing coral reefs and ocean acidification to floating great garbage patches, the Pacific Ocean is an ever-present reminder of the Anthropocene. In Oceanic Becoming, Rob Wilson demonstrates that in the midst of the planetary crises the Pacific now faces, it must be understood...

From disappearing coral reefs and ocean acidification to floating great garbage patches, the Pacific Ocean is an ever-present reminder of the Anthropocene. In Oceanic Becoming, Rob Wilson demonstrates that in the midst of the planetary crises the Pacific now faces, it must be understood...

In this book, John Whitehead offers a detailed interpretation of the Book of Revelation, illuminating its many symbols and allegories. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of Christian theology and eschatology, Whitehead provides readers with a fascinating glimpse into the end of days, offering insights...

This influential work of Christian anarchism, first published in 1894, argues that the true meaning of Christianity is love, nonviolence, and social justice. Tolstoy criticizes the conventional church and state and calls for individual ethical living as the path to spiritual freedom.This work has...

This volume offers critical perspectives on memories of political and socioeconomic 'transitions' that took place between the 1970s and 1990s across the globe and that inaugurated the end of the Cold War. The essays respond to a wealth of recent works of literature, film,...

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,...

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,...

Born on 28 October 1903 to Arthur Waugh (1866-1943) and Catherine Charlotte Raban (1870-1954) Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (1903-1966), popularly known by his pen name Evelyn Waugh, wrote thirteen major novels apart from short stories, travelogues, essays, news stories and non-fiction. In the...

This pioneering translation of Plato's Phaedrus, with detailed summary and full philological and exegetical notes taking into consideration all commentaries since Hermias, followed by a painstaking dialogical analysis of the text that shows what we must think at every moment in order to understand...

Honor de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Com die Humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 Fall of Napoleon Bonaparte.Author: Minerva´s...

This book argues for a deconstructive approach to the past by looking at deconstruction's impact on American historians and then presenting an alternative hauntological theory and method of history influenced by, but not beholden to, the work of Jacques Derrida.Author: Ethan KleinbergISBN-10: 1503602370ISBN-13: 9781503602373Publisher:...

This book, from the series Primary Sources: Historical Books of the World (Asia and Far East Collection), represents an important historical artifact on Asian history and culture. Its contents come from the legions of academic literature and research on the subject produced over the...

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. 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...

Cicero in Letters is a guide to the first extensive correspondence that survives from the Greco-Roman world. The more than eight hundred letters of Cicero that are its core provided literary models for subsequent letter writers from Pliny to Petrarch to Samuel Johnson and...

The world$$$apos$$$s largest archipelago, Indonesia is home to hundreds of ethnic groups with diverse cultures and languages. Focusing on the rich heritage of the country, this latest addition to the highly acclaimed World Folklore Series presents 29 stories from across Indonesia, most of which...

This volume examines how Indigenous theatre and performance from Oceania has responded to the intensification of globalisation from the turn of the 20th to the 21st centuries. It foregrounds a relational approach to the study of Indigenous texts, thus echoing what scholars such as...

This volume, edited by Leyla Dakhli and Klaus Wieland, is an overview of the cultural memory of the Lebanese Civil War, as it has emerged and evolved over the last 30 years. These narratives represent a counter-memory to the non-existent national memory, undesired by...

This book argues that science fiction has been a key participant, along with anthropology and literary theory, in the interdisciplinary debates over "culture" and narrative form from the modernist period to the present. Both science fiction and the anthropological ethnography, in their modernist forms...

Global Encounters: An Interdisciplinary Approach to World Literature and Cultures provides students with a curated collection of readings, cultural artifacts, and narratives from across the globe. It examines a variety of creations over time ranging from early Nigerian myths and Sumerian epics to fully...

Author: Gordon RichiusaISBN-10: 0982992661ISBN-13: 9780982992661Publisher: Five Birds PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/12/2025Pages: 246Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.52d

A comprehensive collection of definitions, essays, and opinions on a wide range of topics by renowned philosopher Voltaire, all condensed into a convenient pocket-size format. Whether you're a philosophy enthusiast or just looking for some intellectual stimulation, this dictionary is sure to provide thought-provoking...

This three-volume collection of primary sources examines philosophy and literature in the nineteenth-century Britain. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of British Literature and Philosophy.Author: Monika ClassISBN-10: 1032548665ISBN-13: 9781032548661Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/31/2024Pages: 308Format: HardcoverWeight:...

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...

Virginia Woolf's Unwritten Histories explores the interrelatedness of Woolf's modernism, feminism, and her understanding of history as a site of knowledge and a writing practice that enabled her to negotiate her heritage, to find her place among the moderns as a female artist 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,...

Given the rise of new interdisciplinary and methodological approaches to African American and Black Atlantic studies, The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative will offer a fresh, wide-ranging assessment of this major American literary genre. The volume will begin with articles that...

Based on folklore, legends and myths, and backed by meticulous research, Citadel of Love is set in Odisha of the thirteenth-century-considered the state's golden age, when the Konark temple was being built under King Narasimha Deva's patronage. A modern-day foreigner, Charles, arrives with his...

In a London of the future, the drudgery of capitalism and bureaucracy have worn the human spirit down to the point where it can barely stand. When a pint-sized clerk named Auberon Quinn is randomly selected as head of state, he decides to turn...

"The Len p and their Legends" from Daniel Garrison Brinton. American archaeologist and ethnologist (1837 - 1899).Author: The Perfect Library, Daniel Garrison BrintonISBN-10: 1519709412ISBN-13: 9781519709417Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/05/2015Pages: 166Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.35d

The Rock of Arranmore is a narrative dramatic poem written by John O'Neill and published in 1902. The poem is divided into three scenes and is accompanied by an introduction. The story is set on the island of Arranmore, off the coast of Ireland,...

Although the origins of the western are as old as colonial westward expansion, it was Owen Wister's novel The Virginian, published in 1902, that established most of the now-familiar conventions of the genre. On the heels of the classic western's centennial, this collection of...

The long-awaited companion volume to Gail Coffler's first book, Melville's Classical Allusions, has finally arrived. In this new volume, thousands of references to Judeo-Christian and other religions in Herman Melville's books are references. The index includes references to all of his novels, short stories,...

Students reading English Literature are sometimes befuddled by the language. It's English, but 'British' is not quite the same English as it is for people from outside of Great Britain. English literature is among the best in the world, and worthy of study but...