Literary Criticism - General

This publication explores the integrative narratives of historical costume in the novel universal perspective of literature, leisure, ornamentation, customs/traditions, and theoretical contexts. The adaptation, mutation, and transformation of attire are the result of complex interactions between many factors, such as economic conditions, political conditions,...

The age-old question that enters the minds of most people from time to time happens to be, 'Is there any meaning to life, or am I merely part of an elaborate accident that occurred millions of years ago?' Science gives us a very plausible...

Author: Nicholas McDowellISBN-10: 0198746849ISBN-13: 9780198746843Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/28/2025Format: Hardcover

The Drama of Love and Desire examines 11 of Shakespeare's most familiar plays to illuminate their increasingly complex view of the heart's deepest needs. Intended for anyone looking to understand these works and the man who wrote them, the chapters never allow the evident...

This volume offers unique, interdisciplinary perspectives by evaluating, analyzing, and interpreting how the past, the present, and potential futures may be affected by pandemic storytelling. The chapters analyze the interplay between various disciplines that explore COVID-19 narratives and study the influence of pandemics on...

Offering a thorough introduction to notions of gender in contemporary global literature, Global Literature and Gender uses postcolonial theories alongside theories of space and place, theories of globalization, and reference to the Posthuman and the Anthropocene as competing narratives of the contemporary.This book argues...

The collection Art's Visionary Moment: Personal Encounters with Works That Last a Lifetime was inspired by T. S. Eliot's observation in his Dante (1929): "The experience of a poem is the experience both of a moment and of a lifetime. ... There is a...

This book is a long narrative poem that tells the story of the author's struggle with depression and his eventual recovery. It is a deeply personal and moving work, filled with vivid descriptions of nature and contemplative reflections on life. It is a classic...

What is the ocean's role in human and planetary history? How have writers, sailors, painters, scientists, historians, and philosophers from across time and space poetically envisioned the oceans and depicted human entanglements with the sea? In order to answer these questions, S ren Frank...

This book 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 present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...

This book 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 present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...

Published in 1995: The author of at least two noteworthy romances of the early thirteenth century, Le Roman de la Rose or Guillaume de Dole and L'Escoufle (The Kite), as well as Le Lai de l'Ombre, Jean Renart is today recognized as the most...

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1.0, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, course: The Victorian Afterlife, language: English, abstract: Bertha Mason in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is a character without...

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Walter Kellogg TowersISBN-10: 1545207534ISBN-13: 9781545207536Publisher: Createspace Independent...

This book is written as a memoir of 40-plus years of working with human experiences of death, grief, and bereavement. The stories are all similar but uniquely different; similar in the sense that they all relate to varying issues embedded in loss. They are...

The Jie people of northern Uganda and the Turkana of northern Kenya have a genesis myth about Nayeche, a Jie woman who followed the footprints of a gray bull across the waterless plateau and who founded a "cradle land" in the plains of Turkana....

Every Life A Delight is a book written by James Henry Potts and published in 1914. The book is a collection of essays and reflections on the joys and pleasures of life. Potts explores the idea that every life is filled with moments of...

Memoirs of King Richard the Third and Some of His Contemporaries V2: With an Historical Drama on the Battle of Bosworth (1894) is a historical book written by John Heneage Jesse. The book is a detailed account of the life of King Richard III...

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...

Fairies fascinate young and old alike. To some they offer tantalizing glimpses of other worlds, to others a subversive counterpoint to human arrogance and weakness. Like no other author, Katharine Briggs throughout her work communicated the thrill and delight of the world of fairies,...

The most glamorous and powerful NATO Supreme Commander of the Cold War, General Lauris Norstad was both a 'nuclear' general and an 'international' general. His primary goal was to keep the Alliance together as he accommodated British and French nuclear ambitions while forestalling the...

" . . . discusses the complex connections between gender and technology . . . an intriguing and enlightening book, the latest in an outstanding . . . series by Indiana University Press." --Bruce Hilton, Scripps Howard News ServiceHow does technology influence gender roles?...

Our era is defined by the model. From Victoria's Secret and America's Next Top Model to the snapshots we post on Facebook and Twitter, our culture is fixated on the pose, the state of existing simultaneously as artifice and the real thing.In this bold...

A collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, set in different periods, around the West End of London at Christmas. The Boy Behind the Scenes The Case of the Enigmatic Sentinel Nine ladies Dancing Includes exclusive preview of Sherlock Holmes The Lost Heirloom coming March 2025.Author:...

This book provides guidance for improving primary classroom reading instruction. As education stakeholders now recognise, there is an urgent need for policy and practice beyond phonics and for improved reading outcomes. This timely text supports a well-balanced, effective and affective classroom reading programme. The...

This volume's aim is to shed new light on cultural misunderstanding, examining both the obstacles and outcomes it can entail. In the field of literary and song translation in particular, cultural misunderstanding can engender compound and wide-ranging effects. Occurrences can lead to ambiguity, the...

The COVID-19 pandemic hit the world as a (purportedly) novel situation with which people struggled to come to terms. The contributors to this volume show how various actors reacted to this pandemic through specific forms of representation and storytelling in popular culture, public discourse,...

Robert Lynd's collection of memories, "The Book of This and That," is a deliberate compilation of his numerous essay thoughts, skillfully condensed right into a single on hand volume, designed to be low cost for readers of every age. The memories within this anthology...

The anthology consists of essays authored by scholars of different nationalities from diverse cultures, nations and primary languages. They cover Conrad's presence across multiple media (fiction, films, comics, and graphic novels). The collection is unique because the contributors focused on Conrad's presence in contemporary...

One of the foremost pediatricians of the nineteenth century, Dr. A. Jacobi was also a celebrated author and essayist. This collection brings together his most important works, including his pioneering research on the impact of nutrition on child health, and his thoughtful reflections on...

This splendid collection of Chinese poetry, accompanied by delightful introductory and descriptive essays, spans more than 1000 years. It brings to life the timeless poetry of many of the well known Chinese poets that have lived throughout the ages.Arthur Waley is the most famous...

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,...

These are exciting times for creative writing. In a digital age, the ability to move between types of writing and technologies - often at speed - is increasingly essential for writers. Yet, such flexibility can be difficult to achieve, and, how to develop it...

Few characters were as ubiquitous in the collective consciousness of early modern Spain as the Virgin Mary. By the 1600s, the cult of the Immaculate Conception had become so popularized that the Hapsburg monarchy issued a decree in defense of the Virgin's purity. In...

This book explores the crossroads between autobiographical narratives and musical composition in Alban Berg's Lulu, unveiling aspects of encoded social customs, gender identity, and personal experiences within musical structures. Exploring the crossroads between autobiographical narrative and musical composition, this book examines Berg's transformation of...

"The Pocket George Borrow" from George Borrow. English author who wrote novels and travelogues based on his experiences traveling around Europe (1803 - 1881).Author: The Perfect Library, George BorrowISBN-10: 1519665814ISBN-13: 9781519665812Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/03/2015Pages: 86Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.Author: P. W. BridgmanISBN-10: 1498181295ISBN-13: 9781498181297Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2014Pages: 116Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.24d

French is without doubt the foreign language most frequently studied in English-speaking countries today, a fact which may be accounted for in several ways. First, the history of France has in past centuries been closely interwoven with that of England, revealing, here, the spirit...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe...

Originally published in 1901, this book contains the second half of the catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the collection of the University Library, Cambridge. Each record includes the provenance of the manuscript in question, where possible. This book will be of value to anyone...

This is a collection of essays on the life and writing of W.D. Ehrhart, poet, essayist, memoirist and teacher. The twenty contributors--scholars, publishers, poets--are from the U.S., France, Britain, the Netherlands, Austria, India and Japan. Some are Vietnam or Iraq war veterans. The collection...

This book brings together a collection of essays on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the arrival of the first man on the moon - a time when tourist journeys to the moon, now a real possibility, were no more than a fantasy....

As indicated in the book, no changes have been made to my original account. I served the airline from 1979 to 1995, leaving when the work environment, particularly within Human Resources, became unbearable. While working as an Administrative Officer in the Motor Transport section,...

Have first-time dad jitters? Here's how you can gain confidence and feel empowered to be the best partner and dad you can ever be.Are you anxious and doubtful about your ability to raise a healthy kid?Are you worried about how your partner feels during...

"Embodied Testimonies, Gendered Memories, and the Poetics of Trauma" is a collection of academic essays that uses mainstream and postcolonial trauma theory in the analysis of literary and artistic representations of traumatic history. This collection prioritizes historical and personal accounts from the perspectives of...

Author: Priyanka Anne JacobISBN-10: 0198917937ISBN-13: 9780198917939Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/08/2025Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 8.63h x 5.80w x 0.74d

First published in 1659, Pharonnida is an epic poem written by the English poet William Chamberlayne. The poem tells the story of the queen Pharonnida and her quest for love and power, and features many vivid and imaginative scenes. A classic of 17th century...

This classic epic poem has captivated readers for centuries with its tale of adventure, courage, and perseverance. Follow the hero Odysseus as he navigates the challenges of the ancient Mediterranean world, seeking his way home while battling monsters, gods, and mortal enemies.This work has...

This collection of essays aims at showing Crete as a cultural centre that bridges two close and, at the same time, distant worlds and traditions, Byzantium and Western Europe (Venice), during a pivotal "Renaissance" period for the island, between the 15th and 16th c....

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,...