Literary Criticism - General

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Offering a multifaceted approach to the Mexican-born director Guillermo del Toro, this volume examines his wide-ranging oeuvre and traces the connections between his Spanish language and English language commercial and art film projects.Author: A. DaviesISBN-10: 1137407832ISBN-13: 9781137407832Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/02/2014Pages: 210Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.80lbsSize:...

Monte Cristo: A Drama, In Five Acts is a play written by Charles Albert Fechter in 1868. The play is based on the classic novel, The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas. The story follows the journey of Edmond Dant�����s, a man who...

Lost Coast Review is a quarterly intellectual review which includes short stories, book reviews, film reviews, poetry, art, and commentary.Author: Jonathan SimkinsISBN-10: 0692550976ISBN-13: 9780692550977Publisher: Avignon PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/16/2015Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.22d

Walter J. Ong's classic work provides a fascinating insight into the social effects of oral, written, printed and electronic technologies, and their impact on philosophical, theological, scientific and literary thought.This thirtieth anniversary edition - coinciding with Ong's centenary year - reproduces his best-known and...

An engaging series of reflections on the literary landscape of our time-from the writings of Roland Barthes to those of Stephen King-Wood explores such issues as the shift of interest from novel to story, the blurring of the line between fiction and criticism, the...

Keane carefully leads us through five books of Juvenal's Satires, giving consideration both to how these Satires are all connected and to the different ways in which each Satire performs emotion. She deftly pulls together passions, satiric behavior, the speaking I, Quellen, bodies, and...

This groundbreaking cultural biography of Srinatha, arguably the most creative figure in the thousand-year history of Telugu literature., shows how the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century poet revolutionized the classical tradition and effectively created the classical genre of sustained, thematically focused, coherent large-scale compositions. Some of...

Reading John through Johannine Lenses demonstrates that the model an interpreter chooses for examining the Gospel of John significantly impacts the resulting interpretation. The Fourth Evangelist uses key words in the prologue in order to guide the reader toward key moments in the gospel....

Assuming the voices of psychoanalyst, scholar, and postmodern polemicist, Julia Kristeva discusses both the conflicts and commonalities among the Greek, Christian, Roman, and contemporary discourses on love, desire, and self. Her analysis deals with the role of narcissism and idealization in the formation of...

Thanks to writers like Mario Puzo, filmmakers like Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, and actors like Al Pacino and James Gandolfini, American and Sicilian Mafia characters are well-known figures in contemporary popular culture. Other powerful organized crime groups appearing in popular media include...

This collection compiles essays by medievalist scholars that examine the variety of ways authors have fictionalized the medieval period while meeting the challenge of creating engaging literature. More significantly, this project seeks to explore the importance of authenticity in these works of medievalism. The...

A sensational success when first published in 1893, the violent hatreds Degeneration roused among younger artists followed the author for the rest of his life. The book pursues a medicalised examination of some of the literary and artistic movements of the period. However, though...

Throne and Altar is a blog, part of the Orthosphere, defending the legitimate authority of God, tradition, fathers, and kings against the diabolical partisans of freedom and equality. Its author, Bonald, is an actual Catholic monarchist who: reviews books on the topics of history,...

Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds investigates the peculiar absence of Islam and Muslims from Shakespeare's canon. While many of Shakespeare's plays were set in the Mediterranean, a geography occupied by Muslim empires and cultures, his work eschews direct engagement with the religion and its people....

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Choice is the defining issue of the twenty-first century. As the #MeToo movement extends its legal, social, and political reach around the world, the topic of consent has come under particular scrutiny. Shakespeare on Consent examines crises of consent on the early modern stage...

The book "" Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country, 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...

Bits about Home Matters, is many of the old books which have been considered important throughout the human history. They are now extremely scarce and very expensive antique. So that this work is never forgotten we republish these books in high quality, using the...

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1, University of Vienna, language: English, abstract: The following paper gives an in-depth analysis of Flannery O'Connor's acclaimed short story A Good Man Is Hard To Find....

G.K. Chesterton was born on May 29, 1874 in London. He was known for writing academic commentary, poetry and short stories. His interest in theology and conversion to Catholicism led him to write religious fiction. In 1908, he wrote the novel The Man Who...

Imagining this or that future as a way of generating hope and "hopeful action", far from moving us towards any desired outcome, is simply occluding our eyes from the reality that is right in front of us, daily. Our time is incredibly uncertain and...

Cultural Genealogy explores the popularization in the Renaissance of the still pervasive myth that later cultures are the hereditary descendants of ancient or older cultures. Through examples ranging from Petrarch to Columbus, Maffeo Vegio to the Hapsburgs, Falco shows how the new techne of...

Aristophanes, the acclaimed comic playwright of ancient Athens, observed that producing comedies was the most difficult work of all. Aristophanes wrote tens of plays, but only eleven survived. These plays are usually published in 2 books, but in this edition you will find them...

Summary Alice Walker's Influence on Womanist Theology: A Minority Response by Gladys J. Willis, Ph. D. This short book consists of five chapters. Chapter I, "The Origin of the Idea," introduces the womanist theology idea as having its origin in Alice Walker's definitions of...

A guide to constructing a novel for budding writers by one of Scotland's finest poets. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in...

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Frankenstein's Science contextualizes this widely taught novel in contemporary scientific and literary debates, providing new historical scholarship into areas of science and pseudo-science that generated fierce controversy in Mary Shelley's time: anatomy, electricity, medicine, teratology, Mesmerism, quackery, and proto-evolutionary biology. The collection will be...

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...

The study of Paul and his letters can be exciting, challenging, and life-changing, but only if it is done well and only if students achieve more than a basic familiarity with the subject. This is exactly what Pauline experts Bruce W. Longenecker and Todd...

In Living in Language, David Bosworth makes a compelling case for the power and relevance of the literary imagination throughout history. In a series of essays both lyrical and analytical, he examines how certain works have engaged the most pressing problems of their authors'...

Feliks Volkhovskii (1846-1914) was a significant figure in the Russian revolutionary movement of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He lived through pivotal changes ranging from the rise of 'nihilism' in the 1860s and the growth of populism in the 1870s, through to the...

This commentary offers the reader a set of letters (or letter parts) written by Cicero, Paul, and Seneca, which have been selected against the Transformational Leadership categories of 'idealised influence', 'inspirational motivation', 'intellectual stimulation', and 'individualised consideration'. Chapter 1 offers introduction into authors and...

Motion Picture Operation, Stage Electrics and Illusions; A Practical Hand-book and Guide for Theater Electricians, Motion Picture Operators and Managers of Theaters and Productions, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this...

Transplant practices are discussed in the medical realm, in fictional texts and in popular advertisement. Yet how do these sectors intersect and influence each other? How can the accounts of surgeons invested in transplant practice be brought into conversation with fictional voices? Future T/Issues...

The power of Colette's work comes from its modernist storytelling. Colette was a pioneering, ground-breaking modernist writer, but has not always had her originality and worth recognized in Britain. Her work provocatively uses unstable narratives, gaps, silences, fairytale, mythical tropes, and sensual evocations of...

'The Apennines are Italy' exclaimed The Examiner two centuries ago, yet this unique region and its striking literary and cultural connections are underappreciated in the English-speaking world. Apennine Crossings: Travellers on the Edge of Tuscany links a twenty-first century journey in the mountains of...

What Twenty-First-Leadership Can Learn from Nineteenth-Century American Literature aims to narrow the gap between leadership theory and practice, offering an account of how leaders in organizations can improve their practice by drawing on the literary imagination. Eastman analyses how business students can use literary...

A fascinating look at the life and work of William Cowper, one of England's greatest poets. Featuring extensive selections from Cowper's own writing, as well as commentary and analysis from RB Seeley, this book offers a comprehensive portrait of a complex and influential figure...

A collection of witty and insightful aphorisms from the famous 18th century lexicographer, Dr. Samuel Johnson, selected and arranged by his biographer, James Boswell. Covering a wide range of topics from life and love to politics and religion, this book is a must-read for...

In German spoken theatre, prompt books used to be written by multiple participants engaging in diverse manuscript practices which continually revise the unfixed literary text within its theatrical context. Based on examples of the vast Hamburg Theatre-Library from the 1770s to 1820s, this study...

Torquato Tasso's epic poem tells the story of the First Crusade and the capture of Jerusalem by Christian forces. Written in the late 16th century, Befreites Jerusalem is considered one of the great works of Italian literature and has been widely translated into other...

This collection of lyrical and inspirational poems by Edwin Markham, one of America's most beloved poets of the early 20th century, celebrates the beauty, diversity, and dignity of human experience. Markham's poetry blends a deep appreciation for nature, art, and spirituality with a compassionate...

The Alps have exerted a hold over the German cultural imagination throughout the modern period, enthralling writers, artists, philosophers, scientists, and tourists alike. The Draw of the Alps interrogates the dynamics of this fascination. Though philosophical and aesthetic responses to Alpine space have shifted...

Situated at the intersection between medical humanities, aging studies, autobiographical studies, disability studies and ethic studies, this book explores the fascination of centenarians' autobiographies for humanites research. It can be argued that the growing presence of centenarians' autobiographies on book markets across the globe...

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,...

The volume develops the concepts of the self and its reflexive nature as they are linked to modern thought from Hegel to Luhmann. The moderns are reflexive in a double sense: they create themselves by self-reflexivity and make their world - society - in...

Coleridge's greatest work, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, is utterly unique, unlike any other ballad. No narrative poem has rivaled it in combining scenes of terror with scenes of incomparable beauty. Although enormously popular in the nineteenth century, it is seldom read or...