Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Dead Reckonings No. 31 (Spring 2022)Table of Contents A Swordly and Sorcerous Chronicle ........... Darrell SchweitzerBrian Murphy, Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery. One Pure Writer's Will ........... Michael D. MillerFarah Rose Smith, Of One Pure Will. A Laudable Gem ........... Géza A. G. ReillyAlex Houstoun, Copyright Questions...
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Carson McCullers: A Centenary CollectionA collection of essays celebrating the centenary of Carson McCullers by an international collaboration of scholars and writers. The essays bring to light multiple themes across McCullers's works and seek to bring readers along on a journey through some of McCullers's most well-loved pieces...
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The Genres of Late Antique Christian PoetryClassicizing Christian poetry has largely been neglected by literary scholars, but has recently been receiving growing attention, especially the poetry written in Latin. One of the objectives of this volume is to redress the balance by allowing more space to discussions of Greek Christian...
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The Edinburgh Companion to Children's LiteratureThis collection takes informed and scholarly readers to the utmost frontier of children's literature criticism, from the intricate worlds of children's poetry, picturebooks and video games to the new theoretical constellations of critical plant studies, non-fiction studies and big data analyses of literature.Author: Clémentine...
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Early African Caribbean Newspapers as Archipelagic Media in the Emancipation AgeEarly African Caribbean Newspapers as Archipelagic Media in the Emancipation Age shows how two Black-edited periodical publications in the early decades of the nineteenth century worked towards emancipation through medium-specific interventions across material and immaterial lines. More concretely, this book proposes an archipelagic framework...
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Researching Protest Literacies: Literacy as Protest in the Favelas of Rio de JaneiroBy focusing on the textually mediated reactions of local residents, social movements, and media producers to policy changes implemented in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, this book studies the development of literacy as a tool to mobilize, perform, and disseminate protest.Researching Protest Literacies...
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Zola's PaintersAs the author of the twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart series, Émile Zola enjoys a reputation as one of the greatest novelists of the 19th century: but his essays on painting, and in particular his early championing of Manet, mark him out also as one of the...
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Maneuvering Time and Place: The Poetry of Manuel Maples ArceManuel Maples Arce was a driving force in the modernization of Mexican poetry in the 1920s. His Estridentismo was an energetic avant-garde movement that brought the Mexican Revolution to the arts, and the Mexican literary community into the 20th century. Maples' poetry, spanning more...
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Pound and Pasolini: Poetics of CrisisIntroduction: Pound and/or Pasolini Chapter 1: Family Portraits Chapter 2: Creatures Facing Backwards Chapter 3: Exposition Chapter 4: An Economy of Signs Chapter 5: Failure Coda: Afterlives Appendix A. The Pasolini-Pound Interview B. The Ronsisvalle-Pound Interview Author: Sean MarkPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublished: 11/18/2022Pages: 392Binding Type:...
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Anthony Burgess, Stanley Kubrick and a Clockwork OrangeIntroduction. By Matt Melia and Georgina Orgill.- Part 1: Authorship and A Clockwork Orange.- Chapter 1: Dangerous arts: the clash between Anthony Burgess, Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange and the World. By Filippo Ulivieri.- Chapter 2: Fresh Juice From A Clockwork Orange: Anthony Burgess's...
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Natur Und Kunst Bei Claudian: Poetische >Concordia DiscorsMillennium transcends boundaries - between epochs and regions, and between disciplines. Like the Millennium-Jahrbuch, the journal Millennium-Studien pursues an international, interdisciplinary approach that cuts across historical eras. Composed of scholars from various disciplines, the editorial and advisory boards welcome submissions from a range of...
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Stifled Laughter: One Woman's Story about Fighting CensorshipPulitzer Prize Nominated Winner of the 1993 PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award for Claudia Johnson's extraordinary efforts to restore banned literary classics from Florida classrooms. Part memoir, part courtroom drama, and part primer for advocates fighting assaults on free speech, Stifled Laughter is the...
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In Search of Singularity: Poetry in Poland and China Since 1989In Search of Singularity offers a new methodological approach to literary comparison in tracing the intertwined political, discursive, artistic, and conceptual trajectories of Polish and Chinese poetry since 1989.Author: Joanna KrenzPublisher: BrillPublished: 08/26/2022Pages: 644Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9789004506398This title is not returnableThis title is only...
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Renaissance Papers 2021Essays on a wide range of topics including the role of early modern chess in upholding Aristotelian virtue; readings of Sidney, Wroth, Spenser, and Shakespeare; and several topics involving the New World. Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the...
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Surendra Mohantynka Khyudragalpa: Bhababastu O Shilpakalaଓଡ଼ିଆ ସାହିତ୍ୟରେ କଥାଶିଳ୍ପୀ ସୁରେନ୍ଦ୍ର ମହାନ୍ତିଙ୍କର ସ୍ଥାନ ସ୍ବତନ୍ତ୍ର। ତାଙ୍କର ବିଷୟବସ୍ତୁ ନିର୍ବାଚନ, ଚରିତ୍ର ଚିତ୍ରଣ ଏବଂ ଶବ୍ଦ ଚୟନ ସମସାମୟିକ ସାହିତ୍ୟିକମାନଙ୍କ ଠାରୁ ଭିନ୍ନ। ଶ୍ରୀଜଗନ୍ନାଥଙ୍କୁ ନେଇ ସେ ଲେଖିଥିବା 'ନୀଳଶୈଳ', 'ନୀଳାଦ୍ରି ବିଜୟ', 'କୃଷ୍ଣାବେଣୀରେ ସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା', ଉତ୍କଳ ଗୌରବ ମଧୁସୂଦନ ଦାସଙ୍କୁ ନେଇ ଲେଖିଥିବା 'କୁଳବୃଦ୍ଧ' ଓ 'ଶତାବ୍ଦୀର ସୂର୍ଯ୍ୟ' ଏବଂ ଗୌତମ ବୁଦ୍ଧଙ୍କ ଦର୍ଶନର ଭିନ୍ନ ଭିନ୍ନ...
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Liberties Journal of Culture and PoliticsLiberties, a Journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues of our time. In this issue of Liberties: Michael Ignatieff - The Mind's Emancipation; Mary Gaitskill - The Trials of the Young; Sergei Lebedev -...
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The Reception of Vergil in Renaissance RomeRoman humanists appropriated Vergilian themes and language to articulate a vision for Rome in the early Cinquecento. This particular brand of Vergilianism became the language of the discourse of papal Rome, demonstrating Vergilian interpretation and application varied based on locale.Author: Jeffrey A. GlodzikPublisher: BrillPublished:...
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Reading the Juggler of Notre Dame: Medieval Miracles and Modern RemakingsIn this two-part anthology, Jan M. Ziolkowski builds on themes uncovered in his earlier The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Here he focuses particularly on the performing arts.Part one contextualises Our Lady's Tumbler, a French poem of the late 1230s,...
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Our Troth: Heathen LifeOur Troth is the single most comprehensive book ever published on the religious traditions of Heathenry: the pre-Christian religions of the Germanic-speaking peoples, revitalized as a living tradition for today. The third edition has been completely revised and updated from the book's original edition...
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Grimhild's Vengeance: Three BalladsThis 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,...
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