Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Augustine: Confessions Books V-IXBooks V-IX of the Confessions trace five crucial years in the life of Augustine, from his debut as a teacher of rhetoric in North Africa to his baptism as a Christian and the renunciation of a worldly career in Milan. This commentary will be...
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Anthology of Modern American Poetry, Volume OneAnthology of Modern American Poetry, Second Edition, contains poems by more than ninety American poets born before 1910, including many who have not been anthologized before. Editor Cary Nelson introduces students to a diverse selection of vital poetry, presenting both canonical and lesser-known selections...
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Anna Kavan: Mid-Century Experimental FictionThis first book-length study of Anna Kavan's writing contradicts earlier critical approaches that have figured her writing as sui generis by reading her comparatively alongside her contemporaries, especially Jean Rhys, Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark and Doris Lessing. Taking Kavan's fiction as pivotal to understanding...
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An Introduction to the Blue HumanitiesAn Introduction to the Blue Humanities is the first textbook to explore the many ways humans engage with water, utilizing literary, cultural, historical, and theoretical connections and ecologies to introduce students to the history and theory of water-centric thinking. Comprised of multinational texts and...
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A Dybbuk: Or Between Two WorldsConsidered by many to be the greatest Yiddish drama, A DYBBUK recounts the tale of a wealthy man's daughter possessed by the spirit of her dead beloved. "The translation of Joachim Neugroschel, savvily adapted by Tony Kushner, and now further revised by him as...
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A Chance Meeting: American EncountersWeaving a tapestry of creativity and circumstance, this lauded chronicle of the many links and serendipitous meetings between giants of American culture--from Henry James to Gertrude Stein to Zora Neale Hurston to Marcel Duchamp--now includes a new introduction by the author."They met in ordinary...
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Women and Medieval Literary Culture: From the Early Middle Ages to the Fifteenth CenturyAuthor: Corinne SaundersPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 08/17/2023Pages: 500Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.10lbsSize: 9.06h x 5.98w x 1.18dISBN: 9781108835916
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Why Plato WroteWhy Plato Wrote argues that Plato was not only the world's first systematic political philosopher, but also the western world's first think-tank activist and message man. Shows that Plato wrote to change Athenian society and thereby transform Athenian politics Offers accessible discussions of Plato's...
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Verfahren literarischer WetterdarstellungDer Band deckt literarische Thematisierungsweisen des Wetters auf. Diese erfüllen eine Vielzahl von Funktionen, die über reine Staffage und Effekt hinausführen. Der komparatistische Zugang entwickelt möglichst verallgemeinerbare Kategorien zu ästhetischer Praxis sowie poetologischer Reflexion und trägt den Entwicklungen in unterschiedlichen Literaturen Rechnung. Author: Urs...
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USMLE Step 3 Triage 2nd EditionAuthor: SchwechtenPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 10/25/2023Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9780190858261
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Under the Sign of the I Ching: Essays on Richard Berengarten's 'Changing'In this book, eighteen authors from a dozen countries interpret Richard Berengarten's Changing (2016), a large-scale poetic mosaic written in honour of the I Ching, the first of the Confucian classics of ancient China.Changing is a work hewn out of the accrual of presence...
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Transkription Arabischer Schriften: Vorschläge Für Eine Einheitliche Umschrift Arabischer BezeichnungenThe series Islamkundliche Untersuchungen was founded in 1969 by the Klaus Schwarz Verlag. Since then, it has become one of the most important venues for publications in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. Its more than 350 volumes cover a wide range of topics from...
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The Yiddish Stage as a Temporary Home: Dzigan and Shumacher's Satirical Theater (1927-1980)The Yiddish Theater Stage as a Temporary Home takes us through the fascinating life and career of the most important comic duo in Yiddish Theater, Shimen Dzigan and Isroel Shumacher. Spanning over the course of half a century - from the beginning of their...
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The Written and the Spoken: Literacy and Oral Transmission Among the UyghurANOR is an open access, peer reviewed book series edited by Manja Stephan-Emmrich and Jeanine Dağyeli who took over in Autumn 2021 from the previous editorial team Ingeborg Baldauf and Jürgen Paul. The series features original research in the Humanities and Social Sciences on...
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The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A MemoirA brilliant debut memoir about a young writer--struggling with depression, family issues, and addiction--and his life-changing decade working for Joan DidionAs an aspiring novelist in his early twenties, Cory Leadbeater was presented with an opportunity to work for a well-known writer whose identity was...
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The Secret History of Marvel Comics: Jack Kirby and the Moonlighting Artists at Martin Goodman's EmpireMarvel Comics is home to such legendary super-heroes as Spider-Man, Hulk, Thor, Captain America, and Iron Man, all of whom have spun box office gold in the 21st century. But Marvel Comics has a secret history hidden in the shadows of these well-known franchises....
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The Portable Roman ReaderThe Romans conquered most of the known world and detailed their conquests in calm, unapologetic histories. They were a supremely urbane people who longed poetically for the farming life. Valuing toughness and practicality in all things, they turned the love poem into a cynical...
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The Poetry of Li HeLi He (790-816) holds a place in China's poetic history somewhat outside the mainstream, but in every generation of readers there have been those who have found his intense and often cryptic lyrical visions irresistibly fascinating and utterly without parallel. He is renowned particularly...
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The Poetry and Prose of Wang Wei: Volume IWang Wei has traditionally been considered one of the greatest of Tang dynasty poets, together with Li Bo and Du Fu. This is the first complete translation into English of all of his poems, and also the first substantial translation of a selection of...
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The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and FantasyFeaturing a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin's first full-length collection of essays covers her background as a writer and educator, on fantasy and science fiction, on writing, and on the future of literary science fiction. "We...
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