Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British EnlightenmentChallenging the "two cultures" debate, The Experimental Imagination tells the story of how literariness came to be distinguished from its epistemological sibling, science, as a source of truth about the natural and social worlds in the British Enlightenment. Tita Chico shows that early science...
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Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyNow in audiobook for the first time ever Read by Neil Gaiman and Simon Jones, the original "Arthur Dent," and written by #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, Don't Panic is the definitive chronicle of all things Hitchhiker.First published in 1986 and...
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Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern SpainAn interdisciplinary exploration of white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater from the 1500s through the 1700s.Author: Nicholas R. JonesPublisher: Penn State University PressPublished: 07/16/2020Pages: 248Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56dISBN: 9780271083476About the Author Nicholas R. Jones is Assistant...
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El libro perdido de los origenistasComo buen celador de museo me interesan menos las obras que su disposici n. As que ejerzo menos la cr tica literaria que la biograf a. Evito as , ante la obra literaria, el comentario deportivo de televisi n que narra la jugada como...
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Die Literarisierung Des Unbewussten: Studien Zu Den Phantastischen Erzaehlungen Von Oliver Onions Und Vernon LeeVorliegende Studie zum Phantastischen in der Literatur versucht am Beispiel der Autoren Vernon Lee und Oliver Onions einen Inter- pretationsansatz zu entwickeln, in dem die strukturale Analyse des Textaufbaus mit einem metapsychologischen und tiefen- hermeneutischen Verfahren der Deutung verknupft wird. Die Inter- pretationen zeigen,...
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Narcissism and Selfhood in Medieval French Literature: Wounds of DesireThis book offers analyses of texts from medieval France influenced by Ovid's myth of Narcissus including the Lay of Narcissus, Alain de Lille's Plaint of Nature, René d'Anjou's Love-Smitten Heart, Chrétien de Troyes's Story of the Grail and Guillaume de Machaut's Fountain of Love....
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Eschine, Discours: Tome I: Contre Timarque. - Sur l'Ambassade InfideleDans ce discours, Eschine riposte a l'attaque de Timarque, associe de Demosthene, qu'il accuse d'indignite. Demosthene et Eschine ayant pris part a la negociation du traite de paix de -346, le premier accusa Eschine d'infidelite a l'instruction afin de bouleverser l'equilibre fragile de la...
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Existen Est Un HumaAuthor: Jean-Paul SartrePublisher: Gallimard EducationPublished: 01/01/1996Pages: 108Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 6.80h x 4.20w x 0.50dISBN: 9782070329137Language: FrenchThis title is only available via back order
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The Wit, Whimsy, and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton, Volume 6: The Defendant, Varied Types, a Miscellany of Men, Other StoriesThis volume includes the classic G. K. Chesterton essay collections The Defendant, Varied Types, and A Miscellany of Men. It also includes six additional short stories, "The Taming of the Nightmare," "A Picture of Tuesday," "A Crazy Tale," "The Curious Englishman," "The Sword of...
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Cathay: Translations and TransformationsKim Man-jungLi PoSu Tung-p'oTu FuWang WeiWei ChuangAuthor: Heinz Insu FenklPublisher: Distribution PartnersPublished: 08/31/2010Pages: 93Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.30dISBN: 9781930337251This title is only available via back order
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Sherlock Holmes's London: Discover the City from the West End to WappingEnjoy this portable guide to the London of Sherlock Holmes, then and now. Packed with fascinating information about London past and present, and in a handy pocket-sized format, this new edition of Sherlock Holmes's London will take you on a journey of discovery Walk...
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The Harlem Renaissance and the Idea of a New Negro ReaderMany scholars have written about the white readers and patrons of the Harlem Renaissance, but during the period many black writers, publishers, and editors worked to foster a cadre of African American readers, or in the poet Sterling Brown's words, a reading folk. Black...
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Weird Talers: Essays on Robert E. Howard and OthersFor more than a decade, Bobby Derie has written insightful and penetrating essays on some of the leading authors of pulp fiction in the 1920s and 1930s, especially Robert E. Howard and his friends, colleagues, and fellow-writers. In this collection of twenty-six essays, Derie...
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The Nearest Thing to LifeIn this remarkable blend of memoir and criticism, James Wood, the noted contributor to the New Yorker, has written a master class on the connections between fiction and life. He argues that of all the arts, fiction has a unique ability to describe the...
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A Family and Nation Under Fire: The Civil War Letters and Journals of William and Joseph MedillThis collection of previously unpublished diaries and correspondence between Maj. William Medill and older brother Joseph, one of the influential owners of the Chicago Tribune, illuminates the Republican politics of the Civil War era. The brothers correct newspaper coverage of the war, disagree with...
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From a Tiny Corner in the House of FictionFrom a Tiny Corner in the House of Fiction gathers into a single volume twenty-three interviews with the British novelist and philosopher Dame Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) by some of the last half-century's foremost critics, academics, and journalists. Distinguished interviewers--including the renowned scholar Sir Frank...
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A History of Reading in the WestBooks and other texts have not always been read in the way that we read them today. The modern practice of reading--privately, silently, with the eyes alone--is only one way of reading, which for many centuries existed alongside other forms. In the ancient world,...
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They Also Write for Kids: Cross-Writing, Activism, and Children's LiteratureOutside the world of children's literature studies, children's books by authors of well-known texts "for adults" are often forgotten or marginalized. Although many adults today read contemporary children's and young adult fiction for pleasure, others continue to see such texts as unsuitable for older...
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Companion to Early Modern Womens WritingThis timely volume represents one of the first comprehensive, student-oriented guides to the under-published field of early modern women's writing. Brings together more than twenty leading international scholars to provide the definitive survey volume to the field of early modern women's writing Examines individual...
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At the Strangers' Gate: Arrivals in New YorkFrom The New York Times best-selling author of Paris to the Moon and beloved New Yorker writer, a memoir that captures the romance of New York City in the 1980s. When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife, Martha, first arrived in 1980, New York City...
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