Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Tolkien's Library: An Annotated Checklist"A combination of circumstances means that we know more about J.R.R. Tolkien than about almost any other author, from any period. Nevertheless, in spite of all the efforts, there remains a certain opacity about Tolkien, both professionally and personally.As this book shows, there is...
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Tolkien's Library: An Annotated Checklist"A combination of circumstances means that we know more about J.R.R. Tolkien than about almost any other author, from any period. Nevertheless, in spite of all the efforts, there remains a certain opacity about Tolkien, both professionally and personally.As this book shows, there is...
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Lives of the DeadHanoch Levin's poetry stands alone as a single volume in his collected works, which run to fifteen volumes of drama and prose. Levin's poetic voice - mordant, witty, irreverent, erotic and highly satirical, yet also whimsical and delicate - is arresting, distinctive and unusual....
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The Book of Melusine of Lusignan: In History, Legend and RomanceConsiderable interest in faery tradition has grown up in recent years and not least in the story of Melusine of Lusignan, the subject of a prose romance by Jean d'Arras at the end of the 14th century, swiftly followed by one in verse by...
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The Chronicles of the SidheFor a thirteen-year period, the reclusive Scottish writer Fiona Macleod enthralled the Victorian reading public with a deluge of stories, novels, poems and essays drawn from the wildly romantic Highland and Island landscape. Although it was later revealed that these works had issued from...
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Laya, 'L'ami Des Lois'Janvier 1793: Alors que se d chaine le conflit entre les radicaux et les mod r s, une pi ce de th tre fait scandale, provoquant une vive querelle qui divise les plus hautes instances du gouvernement, l'arm e nationale et des dizaines de...
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Dark of the MoonDark of the Moon was first published in 1926. It is another inspiring collection of poems by Sara Teasdale.Author: Sara TeasdalePublisher: Tigmor BooksPublished: 02/22/2016Pages: 90Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.24w x 0.22dISBN: 9781907119354This title is not returnable
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My Ladys Soul: The Poems of Elizabeth Eleanor SiddallElizabeth Siddall is best known as the muse and model for many Pre-Raphaelite artists and as the wife of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. However, she was also an artist and a poet. This book publishes all her extant poetry in a single volume for the...
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Sensibility, Reading and Illustration: Spectacles and Signs in Graffigny, Marivaux and RousseauSensibility, Reading and Illustration: Spectacles and Signs in Graffigny, Marivaux and RousseauAuthor: Ann LewisPublisher: RoutledgePublished: 08/01/2009Pages: 310Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.70lbsSize: 9.80h x 6.80w x 0.80dISBN: 9781905981960Review Citation(s): Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2010 pg. 273This title is not returnableThis title is only available via...
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Pro Eto = That's WhatVladimir Mayakovsky was one of the towering literary figures of pre- and post-revolutionary Russia, speaking as much to the working man (he often employed the rough talk of the streets and revolutionary rhetoric in his poetry) as to other poets (his creative fascination with...
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Pericles: Third SeriesSuzanne Gossett offers a full and critical performance history, with an introduction showing how the play's performance history has paralled the criticism. It then gives an interpretation of this two-generation romance, with its successive male and female central characters, based on a reading 'through...
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Writing in the Time of Nationalism: From Two Solitudes to Blue MetropolisMontreal was the literary centre of Canada in the 1940s, a hotbed of literary activity in both English and French crowned by the international success of Hugh MacLennan's Two Solitudes and Gabrielle Roy's The Tin Flute. With the rise of nationalism in both English...
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Stephen King: Uncollected, UnpublishedMajor Updates in this Revised and Expanded Edition of Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished and this updates are only found in this edition. There are a multitude of interesting updates in the revised edition of the classic book about Kings hidden work Stephen King: Uncollected,...
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Where the Shadows Lie: A Jungian Interpretation of Tolkiens the Lord of the RingsWhere the Shadows Lie takes the reader on a journey through Tolkien's Middle-earth, following the hobbits, their companions, and the characters they encounter on their quest. Along the way, Skogemann reveals the deep symbolic layers that are the source of joy and enchantment that...
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Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J. R. R. TolkienSince the earliest scholarship on The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, critics have discussed how the works of J. R. R. Tolkien seem either to ignore women or to place them on unattainable pedestals. To remedy such claims that Tolkien's fiction has...
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Hymns to the Night and Spiritual SongsNOVALIS: HYMNS TO THE NIGHT A new edition of Novalis' Hymns To the Night, and Spiritual Songs, translated by George Macdonald, with an introduction and notes by Carol Appleby. Includes the German text. Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg, 1772-1801) is the most mystical of the...
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Maurice Sendak and the Art of Children's Book IllustrationMAURICE SENDAK Maurice Sendak is the widely acclaimed American children's book author and illustrator. This critical study focusses on his famous trilogy, Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen and Outside Over There, as well as the early works and Sendak's superb...
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Walking in CornwallURSULA LE GUIN This is a new edition of a poetry book by the American author Ursula Le Guin published in the mid-1970s, Walking In Cornwall. The poems are about a visit to Cornwall in the West of England. Walking In Cornwall is illustrated...
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Charles Lamb Selected Writings: Charles LambThis thematic selection of Lamb's writings not only demonstrates his literary achievements; it forms a self-portrait of the writer: generous, amused, and gregarious, finding imaginative escape from grim circumstances in the teeming life of London and the theatre.Author: Charles LambPublisher: Carcanet PressPublished: 09/25/2003Pages: 290Binding...
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A Doll's HouseAuthor: Henrik IbsenPublisher: Nick Hern BooksPublished: 04/01/1995Pages: 128Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 6.33h x 4.17w x 0.30dISBN: 9781854592361Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 5.9Point Value: 4Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 10028 / Doll's House
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