Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Selected Poems of Thomas HardyThomas Hardy abandoned the novel form at the turn of the century, probably after public reaction to Jude the Obscure, but continued to write verse displaying a wide variety of metrical styles and stanza forms and a broad scope of tone and attitude. This...
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Russian Verbs of Motion: Going, Carrying, LeadingAuthor: Leon StilmanPublisher: Columbia University PressPublished: 12/22/1953Pages: 78Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 9.49h x 6.50w x 0.25dISBN: 9780231099318
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Robert Frost: Sixteen Poems to Learn by HeartCelebrate Robert Frost's 150th birthday with a deluxe keepsake edition featuring 16 of his greatest poems--with brilliant essays highlighting his special genius and the power of memorization to unlock the magic of his language During a public reading Robert Frost was once asked why...
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Reforming Modernity: Ethics and the New Human in the Philosophy of Abdurrahman TahaReforming Modernity is a sweeping intellectual history and philosophical reflection built around the work of the Morocco-based philosopher Abdurrahman Taha, one of the most significant philosophers in the Islamic world since the colonial era. Wael B. Hallaq contends that Taha is at the forefront...
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Raat Pashmine Ki (Hindi)The book is a compilation of some of Gulzar's poetry. Gulzar's songs, Gulzar's dialogues, Gulzar's films, all have one quality-they carry the "rasa" of poetry because basically he remains a poet. Author: GulzarPublisher: Rupa Publications IndiaPublished: 01/01/2002Pages: 216Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...
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Preface to PlatoPlato's frontal attack on poetry has always been a problem for sympathetic students, who have often minimized or avoided it. Beginning with the premise that the attack must be taken seriously, Eric Havelock shows that Plato's hostility is explained by the continued domination of...
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Persecution and the Art of WritingThe essays collected in Persecution and the Art of Writing all deal with one problem--the relation between philosophy and politics. Here, Strauss sets forth the thesis that many philosophers, especially political philosophers, have reacted to the threat of persecution by disguising their most controversial...
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Novel Palestine: Nation Through the Works of Ibrahim Nasrallah Volume 7A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Palestinian writing imagines the nation, not as a nation-in-waiting but as a living, changing structure that joins people, place, and...
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Masculine Pregnancies: Modernist Conceptions of Creativity and Legitimacy, 1918-1939Examines literary depictions of "mannish" pregnant women and metaphors of male pregnancy to reframe the relationship between creativity and gender in modernism.Author: Aimee Armande WilsonPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 12/01/2023Pages: 224Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63dISBN: 9781438495590This title is...
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Manuscript Poetics: Materiality and Textuality in Medieval Italian LiteratureManuscript Poetics explores the interrelationship between the material features of textual artifacts and the literary aspects of the medieval Italian texts they preserve.This original study is both an investigation into the material foundations of literature and a reflection on notions of textuality, writing, and...
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Manuscript Poetics: Materiality and Textuality in Medieval Italian LiteratureManuscript Poetics explores the interrelationship between the material features of textual artifacts and the literary aspects of the medieval Italian texts they preserve.This original study is both an investigation into the material foundations of literature and a reflection on notions of textuality, writing, and...
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Lysistrata: (Translated with Annotations by The Athenian Society)Greek playwright, Aristophanes, lived during the 5th and 4th century BC and is considered one of the principal authors of the Greek classical period. Of the nearly thirty plays he wrote during his career, eleven are extant. Amongst the most famous of these is...
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Love's Silence and Other PoemsYong-un Han (1879-1944) is recognized as Korea's finest Buddhist poet of the twentieth century and also one of the country's most influential political activists in the struggle against Japanese imperialism. Yong-un Han's Buddhist insights and political passion combine to give his poetry great spiritual...
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Iris Murdoch: A Centenary CelebrationIris Murdoch is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.This collection brings together friends, colleagues, fellow and past students, and those who worked with her to celebrate Iris Murdoch's life, and mark the centenary of her birth. All contributors...
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Intersecting Aesthetics: Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of BlacknessContributions by Cynthia Baron, Elizabeth Binggeli, Kimberly Nichele Brown, Priscilla Layne, Eric Pierson, Charlene Regester, Ellen C. Scott, Tanya L. Shields, and Judith E. Smith Intersecting Aesthetics: Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of Blackness illuminates cultural and material trends that shaped Black film adaptations...
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How to Reread a NovelA novel is among the most intricate of human creations, the result of thousands of choices and decisions. In How to Reread a Novel, Matthew Clark explicates the intricacies of fiction writing through practical analysis of the resources of narration, demystifying some of the...
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How to Reread a NovelA novel is among the most intricate of human creations, the result of thousands of choices and decisions. In How to Reread a Novel, Matthew Clark explicates the intricacies of fiction writing through practical analysis of the resources of narration, demystifying some of the...
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Hook, Lyin' & Sinker: A Tangle of Fishing Humor"You can't learn anything from fishing books and videos, but once you had to buy a lot of them to find that out. Now all you need to buy is this one book!"--Brian R. PetersonA collection of the best and funniest jokes and cartoons...
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Holy Fools and Funny Gods: The Hidden Link Between Religion and HumorA god and a fool walk into a bar... In Holy Fools and Funny Gods, philosopher and cartoonist Izar Lunacek explores the surprising intersections between religion and comedy. Many view religion as a monument to eternal truth. Comedy, on the other hand, is the...
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Glitch Theory: Art and SemioticsWhat do glitches reveal about the normally invisible processes behind our interpretations? Glitches and Glitch Art illuminate the unseen assumptions, ideology of dialectical thinking, and role of established knowledge that shapes as well as determines our engagement with the world. Betancourt builds on the...
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