Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Emily Dickinson: A CompanionThe public is familiar with the Emily Dickinson stereotype--an eccentric spinster in a white dress flitting about her father's house, hiding from visitors. But these associations are misguided and should be dismantled. This work aims to remove some of the distorted myths about Dickinson...
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Harry, A HistoryThe Harry Potter Books Were Just The Beginning of the Story... During the brief span of just one decade, hundreds of millions of perfectly ordinary people made history: they became the only ones who would remember what it was like when the Harry Potter...
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Twenty-first Century Receptions of Tolkien: Peter Roe Series XXIHosted online, the Tolkien Society 2021 winter seminar sought to explore how J.R.R. Tolkien has been received in the twenty-first century. With a broad range of Tolkien's writings being published in the last twenty-two years, adaptions embellishing on Tolkien's stories, and new philosophies offering...
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Kartograph Der Dispositive: Zur Ethik Und Ästhetik Des Lebendigen Im Werk Italo CalvinosIn den 1960er Jahren intensivierte der Schriftsteller Italo Calvino seine ästhetischen Bemühungen, "die Landkarte des labyrinthischen Gefängnisses zu umrei en, in dem sich der Mensch des 20. Jahrhunderts bewegt." Es ging ihm darum, mithilfe seiner Poetik biopolitische Dispositive der Welt zu entwirren. Dabei stellt...
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Words from India in the West: A Critical Approach to Select Writings by the Diasporic Indian LitterateursPublisher: Ibidem PressPublished: 02/28/2023Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9783838217185
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Poems 1918-21: Including Three Portraits and Four CantosExcerpt from Poems 1918-21: Including Three Portraits and Four Cantos It is in your grove I would walk, I who come first from the clear font Bringing the Grecian orgies into Italy, and the dance into Italy. Who hath taught you so subtle a...
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Marco Paolini: A Deep MapMarco Paolini: A Deep Map breaks new ground in the field of Italian political theatre by outlining the unique approach of one of Italy's most celebrated playwrights, Marco Paolini, whose work has hitherto remained inaccessible to English-speaking audiences. This book is the first substantial...
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A Walk in the Night with Zhuangzi: Musings on an Ancient Chinese ManuscriptAt the heart of "All Things Flow into Form" (Fan wu liu xing), an ancient Chinese manuscript recently salvaged from the black market, is a concern with the process of self-cultivation, particularly the advancement through the incremental stages and the outcome that awaits one...
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The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and WarAn incisive demonstration of how Orwell's body of work was defined by the four major conflicts that punctuated his life: World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Cold War. Few English writers wielded a pen so sharply as George...
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The Enlightened Mind: Education in the Long Eighteenth CenturyThe rise of Enlightenment philosophical and scientific thought during the long eighteenth century in Europe and North America (c. 1688-1815) sparked artistic and political revolutions, reframed social, gender, and race relations, reshaped attitudes toward children and animals, and reconceptualized womanhood, marriage, and family life....
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اعتقال الحياة: Detaining Life: Stories from Exiles and Prisonsهذا الكتابلم تؤلف جمانة طه كتاباً آخر ينضم إلى ما تحفل به المكتبة العربية من كتب السجون والمعقلات، بل كتاباً امتاز عن غيره بالعمق والشمول من جهتين اتساع رقعة البحث التاريخي ليشمل القديم والحديث من تاريخ السجون والمعتقلات، والعدد الكبير من الأسماء الأدبية التي...
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Chronicles of a Liquid SocietyA posthumous collection of essays by internationally renowned essayist, literary critic, philosopher, and author of The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco. In this, Umberto Eco's final collection of works, the celebrated essayist and novelist observes the changing world around him with irrepressible curiosity...
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Tolkien, Europe, and Tradition: From Civilisation to the Dawn of Imagination'It is up to European man to know his modern mythology and the heroes related to it. Tolkien, like an "Anglo-Saxon bard", is one of those noble heralds who have brought our civilisational wealth to its pinnacle. May his work, as a new founding...
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Cinderella Didn't Live Happily Ever After: The Hidden Messages in Fairy TalesDid Cinderella live happily ever after? You might think so until you look more closely at the hidden messages in beloved fairy tales. In Cinderella Didn't Live Happily Ever After, fairy tales are analyzed in terms of the underlying messages about marriage, power, suffering,...
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Antisemitism: An Ancient Hatred in the Age of Identity PoliticsAuthor: Philip SlaytonPublisher: Sutherland House BooksPublished: 03/07/2023Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9781990823107
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Why Homer MattersComplex, personal, and profound ... a brash and brave piece of writing ... filled with the swords and spears that inflict the carnage of the Iliad. -The Wall Street Journal Why Homer Matters is a magical journey of discovery across wide stretches of the...
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Passenger to TeheranIn 1926 Vita Sackville-West wrote and published this travelogue after traveling to Iran to visit her husband, Harold Nicolson, who was serving as a diplomat in Teheran. Her route was deliberately slow-paced - she stopped in Egypt, where she sailed up the Nile to...
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Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and FriendsLetters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary...
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Marion Darche: A Story Without CommentMarion Darche: A Story Without Comment has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both...
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The New Morning PoemsThe New Morning Poems has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and...
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