Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Elements of Style: The Original Edition"The Elements of Style", was first written by William Strunk in 1918 for private use at Cornell University, where Strunk was a professor of English, and republished by Harcourt in 1920 for the public. The concise handbook remains one of the most important and...
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In MoroccoI stand in portico hung with gentian-blue ipomeas ... and look out on a land of mists and mysteries; a land of trailing silver veils through which domes and minarets, mighty towers and ramparts of flushed stone, hot palm groves and Atlas snows, peer...
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Food, Texts, and Cultures in Latin America and SpainThe fourteen essays in Food, Texts, and Cultures in Latin America and Spain showcase the eye-opening potential of a food lens within colonial studies, ethnic and racial studies, gender and sexuality studies, and studies of power dynamics, nationalisms and nation building, theories of embodiment,...
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The Maid's Tragedy: Beaumont and FletcherGenerally acknowledged to be the most powerful of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays and frequently performed by the best actors of the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, The Maid's Tragedy then disappeared from the stage (except in a much-altered and very successful Victorian adaptation) until...
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Lessons from Walden: Thoreau and the Crisis of American DemocracyThroughout this original and passionate book, Bob Pepperman Taylor presents a wide-ranging inquiry into the nature and implications of Henry David Thoreau's thought in Walden and Civil Disobedience. Taylor pursues this inquiry in three chapters, each focusing on a single theme: chapter 1 examines...
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The Limits of Orientalism: Seventeenth-Century Representations of IndiaThe Limits of Orientalism: Seventeenth-Century Representations of India challenges the recent postcolonial readings of European, predominantly English, representations of India in the seventeenth century. Following Edward Said's discourse of "Orientalism," most postcolonial analyses of the seventeenth-century representations of India argue that the natives are...
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The Manifestos of Aldo PalazzeschiLiterary Nonfiction. Essays. Art. Hybrid Genre. Italian & Italian American Studies. Edited by Katia Pansa and Nicholas Grosso. With acerbic wit and grand parodic visions, Aldo Palazzeschi challenges the status quo (whether they be institutions, norms, or conventions) and champions the odd balls, the...
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Tolkien, Mythology, Imagination and Spiritual Insight: The Enduring Power of the Lord of the RingsThere is no available information at this time. Author will provide once available.Author: Luigi MorelliPublisher: iUniversePublished: 08/22/2019Pages: 222Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47dISBN: 9781532080715This title is not returnable
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It Will Be Fun and Terrifying: Nationalism and Protest in Post-Soviet RussiaThe National Bolshevik Party, founded in the mid-1990s by Eduard Limonov and Aleksandr Dugin, began as an attempt to combine radically different ideologies. In the years that followed, Limonov, Dugin, and the movements they led underwent dramatic shifts. The two leaders eventually became political...
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CodependenceLiterary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Fearless, haunting, and transcendently honest, Amy Long's CODEPENDENCE is a memoir of pain and its paradoxes. Long documents her coming of age as an ambitious young writer plagued by chronic headache and entangled with a boyfriend's opioid addiction. The essays...
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Treasure in the Tales: Finding the Gospel in Fairy TalesWorld-famous fairy tales like Peter Pan, Snow White, and The Three Little Pigs have captured the hearts of generations as they share resonating stories about our desire for acceptance, love, happiness, justice, and security. By spinning epic narratives that grip the imagination and relay...
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The Typewriter Is HolyAnyone who cares to understand the cultural ferment of America in the later twentieth century must know of the writings and lives of those scruffy bohemians known as the Beats. In this highly entertaining work, Bill Morgan, the country's leading authority on the movement...
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Book Marks (Guided Journal): A Reading TrackerA customizable reading journal to track all things literary in your life Meet your new reading buddy: an all-in-one spot to record everything and anything book related. Inspired by bullet journaling, Book Marks offers ideas for setting up a multitude of book tracking pages...
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When Me Was a BoyWhat was it like to be a small boy growing up in Kingston, Jamaica in the 1930's? When Me Was a Boy tells exactly what it was like. Charles Hyatt remembers his boyhood in vivid detail, and is his own inimitable voice talked about...
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El Porvenir de la RevueltaAuthor: Julia KristevaPublisher: Fondo de Cultura Economica USAPublished: 10/01/2001Pages: 108Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 8.26h x 6.08w x 0.32dISBN: 9789505573332Language: SpanishThis title is not returnable
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In These Great Times: Selected Writings'People do not understand German, but I will not write for them in journalese ...' Karl Kraus (1874-1936) ranks as one the greatest twentieth-century satirists. His inventive, subversive and acutely insightful work remains as relevant today as it was a century ago. In 1899,...
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Companion to Neo-Latin Studies: History and Diffusion of Neo-Latin LiteratureFirst published in two parts in 1977, the first edition of the Companion to Neo-Latin Studies appeared, filling a long-felt lacuna in the study of Neo-Latin literature. Both parts were subsequently revised to take into account to the explosive growth of Neo-Latin studies in...
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Immediacy and Reflection in Kierkegaard's Thought"We live in a reflective age." That is Soren Kierkegaard's overall conclusion when evaluating the time he lives in. But his appraisal contains both approval and criticism. On the one hand reflection is a necessary category to deal with the dynamics and the qualities...
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A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1950-1975A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1950-1975 is the first publication to deal with the postwar avant-garde in the Nordic countries from a transnational perspective including all the arts and a broader cultural and political context.Author: ØRumPublisher: BrillPublished: 02/07/2019Pages: 880Binding...
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A Companion to Byzantine Illustrated ManuscriptsThis volume offers an overview of Byzantine manuscript illustration, a central branch of Byzantine art and culture. Just like written texts, illustrations bear witness to Byzantine material culture, imperial ideology and religious beliefs, as well as to the development and spread of Byzantine art....
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