Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century: Language and Literature Between Old and Middle English"A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century offers a new narrative of what happened to English language writing in the long twelfth century, the period that saw the end of the Old English tradition and the beginning of Middle English writing. It...
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Barock en miniature - Kleine literarische Formen in Barock und ModerneDie Buchreihe stellt die Funktion kleiner Textsorten in publizistischen, wissenschaftlichen und administrativen Kontexten in den Mittelpunkt. Sie reagiert damit auf die Aktualität und Schlagkraft kurzer Formen vor dem Hintergrund medialer Mobilitätsschübe, knapper Aufmerksamkeitsressourcen und neuer Kommunikationsökonomien. Die Einzeluntersuchungen sind zudem von der Frage geleitet,...
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Tractatus mythologicusProgrammatischer Auftakt der Reihe MythoS: Die vom Autor entwickelten Methoden der Hylemanalyse und der Stratifikationsanalyse stecken den Rahmen einer neuen Mythosforschung ab. Auf der Grundlage eines präzisierten Stoffbegriffs, der Stoffe als Sequenzen kleinster Stoffbausteine (Hyleme) begreift, die nicht auf bestimmte mediale Konkretionen festgelegt sind,...
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Die Variationskunst im MinnesangDie grundlegende Beobachtung, dass es sich bei der mittelhochdeutschen Liebeslyrik um eine Kunst der Variation handelt, ist in der Forschung bisher nur partiell für eine konkrete Anwendung in der interpretatorischen Praxis konzeptualisiert worden. Alexander Rudolph begegnet diesem Desiderat mit einer methodischen Neubewertung der Variationskunst...
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New Orleans: A Writer's CityThe neighborhoods of New Orleans have given rise to an extraordinary outpouring of important writing. Over the last century and a half or so, these stories and songs have given the city its singular place in the human imagination. This book leads the reader...
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Understanding the Lived Experiences of Autistic AdultsResearch related to transition and support needs for autistic adults remains limited. The purpose of this study was to understand the hopes, dreams, aspirations, challenges, and lived experiences of autistic adults. Academic literature has largely emphasized autism as a medical deficit, and use of...
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Understanding David Mamet: With a New PrefaceA new preface covers Mamet's most recent plays and nonfiction writingUnderstanding David Mamet analyzes the broad range of his plays and places them in the context of his career as a prolific writer of fiction and nonfiction prose, as well as drama. In addition...
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The Art of Being Human: What Old Books Can Tell Us (And Warn Us) About Living in the 21st CenturyFake news, genetic engineering, designer babies, Big Pharma, incipient totalitarian rule, the destruction of books, transhumanism, the desire to play God, and the serial misuse of the word "science"-it may sound a lot like America in the 2020s, but these politically charged modern concerns...
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History of the Arabic Written Tradition Supplement Volume 3 - IIThe present English translation reproduces the original German of Carl Brockelmann's Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL) as accurately as possible. In the interest of user-friendliness the following emendations have been made in the translation: Personal names are written out in full, except b. for...
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The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, and the Year That Changed LiteratureA revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of revered authors Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernismThe World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual and personal...
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The Stephen King Companion: Four Decades of Fear from the Master of HorrorThe Stephen King Companion is an authoritative look at King's personal life and professional career, from Carrie to The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. King expert George Beahm, who has published extensively about Maine's main writer, is your seasoned guide to the imaginative world of...
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Advances in Brand Semiotics & Discourse AnalysisThis volume addresses some of the most important conceptual, methodological, and empirical challenges and opportunities with which the sister disciplines of semiotics and discourse analysis are mutually confronted in the context of considering new avenues of cross-disciplinary application to distinctive branding research streams. In...
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ACTA Germanica: German Studies in AfricaDie Schwerpunkte des 50. Bandes sind vielfältig und reichen von der Analyse einer Reihe literarischer Texte aus unterschiedlichen theoretischen Perspektiven über die Bewertung des Sprachgebrauchs in verschiedenen soziopolitischen Kontexten bis hin zu Untersuchungen des DaF-Unterrichts und der DaF-Theorie in Südafrika und anderswo. Literarische Werke...
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Negotiating Culture: Writings from MizoramIn these phenomenal essays, 14 scholars take stock of the effects and response to identity, and culture studies within Mizo literary narratives. The essays address issues that contextualize the development of subaltern and postcolonial studies and the quest for identity within the Mizo perspective....
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The Man With The Broken EarThe Man With The Broken Ear has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both...
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The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English HistoryThe Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary...
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Maria; Or, The Wrongs of WomanMaria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both...
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The Man Who Played to LoseThe Man Who Played to Lose has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both...
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Gespräche im ZwielichtGespräche im Zwielicht wurde in der gesamten Menschheitsgeschichte als bedeutendes Werk angesehen, und um sicherzustellen, dass dieses Werk niemals verloren geht, haben wir Schritte unternommen, um seine Erhaltung zu gewährleisten, indem wir dieses Buch in einem zeitgemä en Format für aktuelle und zukünftige Generationen...
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Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids BriggeDie Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge wurde in der gesamten Menschheitsgeschichte als bedeutendes Werk angesehen, und um sicherzustellen, dass dieses Werk niemals verloren geht, haben wir Schritte unternommen, um seine Erhaltung zu gewährleisten, indem wir dieses Buch in einem zeitgemä en Format für aktuelle...
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