Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Taking Stock - Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary ResearchRead an interview with Norbert Bachleitner. In this 200th volume of Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft the editors Norbert Bachleitner, Achim H. Hölter and John A. McCarthy 'take stock' of the discipline. It focuses on recurrent questions in the field of Comparative...
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Lily and Mittens: A Tale of Adventure, Kindness, and LoyaltyDo you have trouble putting your kids to bed, and are you looking for a fun way to do it? Inside this story, your child will meet various friends in fun and different adventures! The earliest years of life are the best opportunity to...
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J. F. Gonzalez's Shadows in the AtticAn Unfinished History of HorrorCome and dig beneath the cobwebs, under the dust and through the forgotten boxes with horror historian J. F. Gonzalez.Collecting non-fiction works from J.F. Gonzalez, Shadows in the Attic takes the reader from Ancient times to the mid-40's weaving a...
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Shakespeare's First Folio Ultimate: The most accurate transcription of the First Folio ever published, formatted as a typographic emulation of the oriThe First Folio, published in 1623 by Shakespeare's colleagues, was the first complete and faithful publication of plays by the Bard. As the pages were printed, they were checked for errors, and if any were found, they were corrected. But the pages with errors...
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Being Ugly: Southern Women Writers and Social RebellionIn the South, one notion of "being ugly" implies inappropriate or coarse behavior that transgresses social norms of courtesy. While popular stereotypes of the region often highlight southern belles as the epitome of feminine power, women writers from the South frequently stray from this...
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Graphic Novels and Comics in the Classroom: Essays on the Educational Power of Sequential ArtSequential art combines the visual and the narrative in a way that readers have to interpret the images with the writing. Comics make a good fit with education because students are using a format that provides active engagement. This collection of essays is a...
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The Road to Wigan PierIt is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are. The Road to Wigan Pier is George Orwell's 1937 study of poverty and working-class life in northern England. It is...
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Poetry of the Earth: Mapuche Trilingual AnthologyMapuche poetry has flourished in recent decades and is now one of the most compelling neighbourhoods of contemporary Latin American literature. Incredibly, however, much of it remains untranslated into English. Not only does this anthology correct the situation, it goes far beyond the scale...
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Like a Captive Bird: Gender and Virtue in PlutarchThe full extent of Plutarch's moral educational program remains largely understudied, at least in those aspects pertaining to women and the gendered other. As a result, scholarship on his views on women have differed significantly in their conclusions, with some scholars suggesting that he...
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The Discerning Narrator: Conrad, Aristotle, and ModernityThis book examines the letters, essays, and fiction of Joseph Conrad through an Aristotelian lens. Author: Alexia HannisPublisher: University of Toronto PressPublished: 11/18/2022Pages: 158Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.70dISBN: 9781442649071
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Photographic Memories: Selected Essays, Playlets, and StoriesPhotographic Memories is an anthology of essays, playlets, and short fiction by writer and photographer Willy Conley. The pieces in this collection are grounded in Deaf experiences, a hallmark of Conley's work. Written from the unique perspective of a Deaf artist who navigates between...
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Lillian Morris, and Other StoriesLillian Morris, and Other Stories, 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 retyped,...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 7Life on the Mississippi, Part 7, 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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Ink TrailsBorn and raised in hell, JJ chose to leave. She believed there was a happier life waiting for her beyond her parents crippling control. The only way out was to silence her emotions and the only way to heal after she left was to...
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In the Face of Adversity: Translating difference and dissentIn the Face of Adversity explores translation as a project of making available and preserving a corpus of texts that would otherwise be in danger of becoming censored, misperceived or ignored. Author: Thomas NoldenPublisher: UCL PressPublished: 02/20/2023Pages: 272Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9781800083714About the AuthorThomas Nolden...
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The Poems of Alexander Lawrence Posey"He was a poet of the first order, a humorist, a philosopher, a man of affairs. He achieved fame as an English-Indian dialect writer and journalist. He was the leading man of the Creeks and the one great man produced by the Confederacy known...
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How to Scan a Poem: A Poetry Witch WorkbookPoet Annie Finch shares her lifelong passion for meter and scansion with poetry lovers and poets in this uniquely useful book. From the basic tools and fundamental 3 steps of scansion to the most complex metrical delights, How to Scan a Poem covers it...
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Virginia Woolf:: Art, Education, and InternationalismVirginia Woolf: Art, Education, and Internationalism is a wide-ranging collection of essays. Contributors include Jane de Gay, Patricia Laurence, Judith Allen, Suzanne Bellamy, Diane F. Gillespie, Elisa Kay Sparks, and Diana L. Swanson. These and other Woolf scholars address topics as diverse as Woolf's...
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Terence: AndriaAs the first play of the Terentian corpus, Andria has always attracted a special level of attention. It was the first Roman comedy produced after antiquity (at Florence in 1476) and the first translated into English, and it has inspired writers from Jonson and...
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Equal Natures: Popular Brain Science and Victorian Women's WritingExplores how Victorian women writers used the popular science of phrenology to challenge socially constructed forms of power.Author: Shalyn ClaggettPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 05/01/2023Pages: 272Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75dISBN: 9781438493152About the AuthorShalyn Claggett is Associate Professor of...
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