Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Life of Thomas Wanless, PeasantThe Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 8Life on the Mississippi, Part 8, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 11Life on the Mississippi, Part 11, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely...
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Destructora de Espadas.: Destructora de Reinos 2ANDRY, EL QUE FUERA UN JOVEN ESCUDERO, LUCHA POR LA ESPERANZA EN MEDIO DE LA SANGRE Y EL CAOS. DOM, UN INMORTAL AFLIGIDO, PERSEVERA EN EL CUMPLIMIENTO DE UN JURAMENTO ROTO. SORASA, UNA ASESINA MARGINADA, SE ENFRENTA A SU PASADO AHORA QUE VIENE POR...
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Shakespeare and Lost PlaysAuthor: David McInnisPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 02/16/2023Pages: 237Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50dISBN: 9781108824156This title is not returnable
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Do Not Separate Her from Her Garden: Anne Spencer's EcopoeticsDo Not Separate Her from Her Garden demonstrates how Anne Spencer utilized the natural world in innovative ways to express her Black womanhood, feminist politics, spirituality, and singular worldview. Employing ecopoetics as an analytical framework, Carlyn Ferrari recenters Spencer's archive of ephemeral writings to...
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Mestiz@ Scripts, Digital Migrations, and the Territories of WritingConventional scholarship on written communication positions the Western alphabet as a precondition for literacy. Thus, pictographic, non-verbal writing practices of Mesoamerica remain obscured by representations of lettered speech. This book examines how contemporary Mestiz@ scripts challenge alphabetic dominance, thereby undermining the colonized territories of...
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Don't Forget to Live: Goethe and the Tradition of Spiritual ExercisesThe esteemed French philosopher Pierre Hadot's final work, now available in English. With a foreword by Arnold I. Davidson and Daniele Lorenzini. In his final book, renowned philosopher Pierre Hadot explores Goethe's relationship with ancient spiritual exercises--transformative acts of intellect, imagination, or will. Goethe...
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R. S. Thomas to Rowan Williams: The Spiritual Imagination in Modern Welsh PoetryA study of spirituality in modern Welsh poetry. R. S. Thomas and Rowan Williams's great religious poetry continued a well-established Welsh tradition. This book examines spiritual resonance in late-twentieth-century Welsh poetry, including writers as diverse as Saunders Lewis, Vernon Watkins, Waldo Williams, and Bobi...
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Hat of Candles: Essays 2008-2019Hat of Candles is a sparkling and trenchant collection of non-fiction ranging over qualities of mind that preoccupy most thinking people of our time. The political mysteries of China, Indonesia and India are featured in the Open Window section that begins the book. Portraits...
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Fukushima Fiction: The Literary Landscape of Japan's Triple DisasterFukushima Fiction introduces readers to the powerful literary works that have emerged out of Japan's triple disaster, now known as 3/11. The book provides a broad and nuanced picture of the varied literary responses to this ongoing tragedy, focusing on "serious fiction" (junbungaku), the...
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The Poem, the Garden, and the World: Poetry and Performativity in Elizabethan EnglandHow an early modern understanding of place and movement are embedded in a performative theory of literature How is a garden like a poem? Early modern writers frequently compared the two, and as Jim Ellis shows, the metaphor gained strength with the arrival of...
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Lucian's Laughing Gods: Religion, Philosophy, and Popular Culture in the Roman EastNo comic author from the ancient world features the gods as often as Lucian of Samosata, yet the meaning of his works remain contested. He is either seen as undermining the gods and criticizing religion through his humor, or as not engaging with religion...
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Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English RomanceAn examination of female same-sex desire in Chaucer and medieval romance. In both medieval and modern contexts, women who do not desire men invite awkward silences. Men's dissident sexual practices have been discussed energetically by writers of law and religion, medicine and morality; reams...
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A Diabolical Voice: Heresy and the Reception of the Latin Mirror of Simple Souls in Late Medieval EuropeIn A Diabolical Voice, Justine L. Trombley traces the afterlife of the Mirror of Simple Souls, which circulated anonymously for two centuries in four languages, though not without controversy or condemnation. Widely recognized as one of the most unusual and important mystical treatises of...
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Index, a History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital AgeMost of us give little thought to the back of the book--it's just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring...
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Kazuo IshiguroNewly commissioned essays from world-leading Kazuo Ishiguro scholars with chapters on the novels (including the first publication on Klara and the Sun (2021)), short fictions, and screenplays, this book offers a critical reappraisal of the 2017 Nobel Laureate while also uncovering important new thematic...
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A Bastard Kind of Reasoning: William Blake and GeometryRanges widely and deeply across William Blake's oeuvre to show how his post-Newtonian vision of space-time anticipates Einsteinian relativity.Author: Andrew M. CooperPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 05/01/2023Pages: 340Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.71dISBN: 9781438493220About the AuthorNow retired, Andrew M....
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Jalkut Schimoni zu EzechielDer Jalkut Schimoni ist ein Sammelwerk rabbinischer Auslegungen zur gesamten hebräischen Bibel. Unerforscht ist, nach welchen Kriterien die Auslegungen ausgewählt wurden und ob das Werk als umfassendes Nachschlagewerk für exegetische Fragen, zur Verbindung von Bibelauslegung in Talmud und Midrasch oder zur Reform der rabbinischen...
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Life's Progress Through the Passions; Or, The Adventures of NaturaLife's Progress Through the Passions; Or, The Adventures of Natura, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This...
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