Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Exemplary Violence: Rewriting History in Colonial ColombiaExemplary Violence explores the violent colonial history of the New Kingdom of Granada (modern-day Colombia and Venezuela) by examining three seventeenth-century historical accounts--Pedro Simón's Noticias historiales, Juan Rodríguez Freile's El carnero, and Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita's Historia general--each of which reveals the colonizer's reliance...
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Biopoéticas para las biopolíticas: El pensamiento literario latinoamericano ante la cuestión animalEste libro aborda el estado de las investigaciones que vinculan a la literatura y a la cr tica literaria latinoamericanas recientes con la corriente de pensamiento posthumanista. Para ello, pone a prueba la noci n de biopo tica, un dispositivo de lectura que apunta...
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In Another Place: With and Without My Father, Norman MailerNorman Mailer, Susan Mailer's father, was among the most celebrated, talented, and controversial writers of the 20th Century. The Naked and the Dead (1948), inspired by his experience in World War II, was a bestseller and made him famous at the age of 25....
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Italians in AmericaLiterary Nonfiction. Italian American Studies. Translated by Mark Pietralunga. Since its first publication in 1937, ITALIANS IN AMERICA has been recognized as one of the most important studies on the Italian immigrant community in North America of its time.Author: Amerigo RuggieroPublisher: Bordighera PressPublished: 11/10/2020Pages:...
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Timelessness: Conversations on Life, Literature, Spirituality, and CultureNear the end of his life, novelist, essayist and poet James Cowan joined fellow author Arthur Versluis in five remarkable conversations on how his journeys into the Australian Outback and his years spent among the Aborigines are indelibly linked with his vision for the...
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Goethes "Faust", der Freimaurer-Code und die Vorbilder aus den antiken Geheimkulten wie den Mysterien von Isis und Eleusis: Goethes "Faust"-Dichtung bW hrend es kaum mehr ein gro es Geheimnis ist, dass Mozarts "Zauberfl te" zahlreiche versteckte freimaurerische Botschaften enth lt, so scheint dagegen der Freimaurer-Code in Goethes "Faust"-Dichtung seine Geheimnisse in gro en und wesentlichen Teilen sogar vor den achtsamen Augen der Literaturwissenschaft wahren...
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Ideas and Realities in Russian Literature: With an Excerpt from Comrade Kropotkin by Victor Robinson"Ideas and Realities in Russian Literature" is a 1906 work by Russian historian and anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin. Within it, Kropotkin presents a broad, general idea of the subject by examining modern literature and its most notable contributors. This volume will appeal to those...
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Gold, Grit, Guns: Miners on Bc's Fraser River in 1858The first book to reveal the 1858 mining milieu by those who witnessed it firsthand."An extraordinary book." - The TyeeOnly four extensive miners' journals are known to have survived from 1858. Quoting generously from the diaries, Alexander Globe focuses on the miners' actual words...
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Emotional Settings in Early Modern Pedagogical Culture: Hamlet, the Faerie Queene, and Arcadia1. Chapter One: Discipline and Resistance in the Schoolroom: Emotional Possibilities.- 2. Chapter Two: Paternal Authority in the Home: Emotional Negotiations.- 3. Chapter Three: Sidney and Heroic Paideia.- 4. Chapter Four: Learning and Loss in Spenser's The Faerie Queene.- 5. Chapters Five: Familial Feeling...
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Faust, Part One: A New Translation with IllustrationsThis luminous, timely new translation by renowned co-translators Zsuzsanna Ozsváth and Frederick Turner, accompanied by original illustrations, brings Goethe's timeless classic to greater heights than ever before in the English language. Author: Johann Wolfgang Van GoethePublisher: Deep Vellum PublishingPublished: 01/19/2021Pages: 264Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize:...
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The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British EnlightenmentChallenging the "two cultures" debate, The Experimental Imagination tells the story of how literariness came to be distinguished from its epistemological sibling, science, as a source of truth about the natural and social worlds in the British Enlightenment. Tita Chico shows that early science...
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Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyNow in audiobook for the first time ever Read by Neil Gaiman and Simon Jones, the original "Arthur Dent," and written by #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, Don't Panic is the definitive chronicle of all things Hitchhiker.First published in 1986 and...
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Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern SpainAn interdisciplinary exploration of white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater from the 1500s through the 1700s.Author: Nicholas R. JonesPublisher: Penn State University PressPublished: 07/16/2020Pages: 248Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56dISBN: 9780271083476About the Author Nicholas R. Jones is Assistant...
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El libro perdido de los origenistasComo buen celador de museo me interesan menos las obras que su disposici n. As que ejerzo menos la cr tica literaria que la biograf a. Evito as , ante la obra literaria, el comentario deportivo de televisi n que narra la jugada como...
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Die Literarisierung Des Unbewussten: Studien Zu Den Phantastischen Erzaehlungen Von Oliver Onions Und Vernon LeeVorliegende Studie zum Phantastischen in der Literatur versucht am Beispiel der Autoren Vernon Lee und Oliver Onions einen Inter- pretationsansatz zu entwickeln, in dem die strukturale Analyse des Textaufbaus mit einem metapsychologischen und tiefen- hermeneutischen Verfahren der Deutung verknupft wird. Die Inter- pretationen zeigen,...
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Narcissism and Selfhood in Medieval French Literature: Wounds of DesireThis book offers analyses of texts from medieval France influenced by Ovid's myth of Narcissus including the Lay of Narcissus, Alain de Lille's Plaint of Nature, René d'Anjou's Love-Smitten Heart, Chrétien de Troyes's Story of the Grail and Guillaume de Machaut's Fountain of Love....
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Eschine, Discours: Tome I: Contre Timarque. - Sur l'Ambassade InfideleDans ce discours, Eschine riposte a l'attaque de Timarque, associe de Demosthene, qu'il accuse d'indignite. Demosthene et Eschine ayant pris part a la negociation du traite de paix de -346, le premier accusa Eschine d'infidelite a l'instruction afin de bouleverser l'equilibre fragile de la...
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Existen Est Un HumaAuthor: Jean-Paul SartrePublisher: Gallimard EducationPublished: 01/01/1996Pages: 108Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 6.80h x 4.20w x 0.50dISBN: 9782070329137Language: FrenchThis title is only available via back order
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The Wit, Whimsy, and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton, Volume 6: The Defendant, Varied Types, a Miscellany of Men, Other StoriesThis volume includes the classic G. K. Chesterton essay collections The Defendant, Varied Types, and A Miscellany of Men. It also includes six additional short stories, "The Taming of the Nightmare," "A Picture of Tuesday," "A Crazy Tale," "The Curious Englishman," "The Sword of...
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Cathay: Translations and TransformationsKim Man-jungLi PoSu Tung-p'oTu FuWang WeiWei ChuangAuthor: Heinz Insu FenklPublisher: Distribution PartnersPublished: 08/31/2010Pages: 93Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.30dISBN: 9781930337251This title is only available via back order
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