Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He LovedRaymond Chandler was among the most original and enduring crime novelists of the twentieth century. Yet much of his pre-writing life, including his unconventional marriage, has remained shrouded in mystery. In this compelling, wholly original book, Judith Freeman sets out to solve the puzzle...
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The Modern Arabic Bible: Translation, Dissemination and Literary ImpactThis innovative study compares nineteenth-century Arabic translations of the Bible to determine how it emerged as a foundational text of Arab modernity. Bible translation gained global traction through the work of Anglophone Christian missionaries, who made an attempt at synchronising translated Bibles in world...
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Ageing in the Modern Arabic NovelAuthor: Samira AghacyPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublished: 08/25/2022Pages: 200Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.42dISBN: 9781474466769
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The Edinburgh Companion to Romanticism and the ArtsFrom the birth of the museum to the explosion of mass-produced illustrated books, the Romantic period (c. 1770-1840) was a moment of rapid change and fruitful experimentation in the fields of art and literature alike. New advances in print production encouraged a wider range...
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The Gothic Forms of Victorian PoetryA lonely damsel imprisoned within a castle or convent cell. The eavesdropping of a prisoner next door. The framed image of a woman with a sinister past. These familiar tropes from 1790s novels and tales exploded onto the English literary scene in 'low-brow' titles...
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Prudentius, >PsychomachiaDie Psychomachia des Prudentius stellt das erste vollkommen allegorische Epos des Abendlandes dar. Es ist insbesondere in der Kunst und Literatur des Mittelalters vielfältig rezipiert worden. Magnus Frisch legt nun erstmals einen Gesamtkommentar zu diesem Werk aus der Spätantike vor, der lange ein Desiderat...
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Reform Und Liturgie Im Nürnberger Katharinenkloster: Die Sterbe- Und Begräbnisliturgie Des 15. Jahrhunderts. Edition Und KommentarHerausgegeben von Elias H. Füllenbach OP (federführender Herausgeber), Ulrich Engel OP, Paul Dominikus Hellmeier OP, Ulrich Horst OP und Klaus-Bernward Springer. Mit neuen Methoden und Fragestellungen ist in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Erforschung der Geschichte der Bettelorden vorangetrieben und ihre über die engere Ordens-...
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2022/2023Das Stefan-George-Jahrbuch erscheint seit 1996 im zweijährigen Rhythmus. Es versteht sich als offenes, der sachlichen Diskussion verpflichtetes Organ der George-Forschung. Platz finden Vorträge, Aufsätze, kleinere Editionen und Rezensionen zu Stefan George (1868-1933), seinem Werk, seinem Kreis, zur Rezeptionsgeschichte, aber auch Beiträge zu Epochenproblemen, zu...
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Dynamiken historischer SchreibszenenDie Bedingungen der Kulturtechnik des Schreibens unterliegen vielfältigen historischen Veränderungen. Nicht nur Technologien und Schreibwerkzeuge ändern sich, sondern auch kulturelle Semantiken von Selbst und Selbstbezüglichkeit, Autorschaft, Geheimnis, Sozialität wandeln sich im Laufe der Jahrhunderte. Konzepte von Raum, Medialität, Produktion, aber auch Praktiken sind keine...
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Geschichte der altgermanistischen EditionDer Beginn der germanistischen Editionstätigkeit im frühen 19. Jahrhundert ist wesentlich von Arbeiten zur älteren deutschen Literatur geprägt. Anhand von hervorgehobenen Editionen und Persönlichkeiten, begonnen mit Karl Lachmann, den Brüdern Grimm und Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen, wird in diesem Band die Entwicklung der...
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Der Anthropos im AnthropozänMit dem Begriff des Anthropozäns kehrt der in der Folge des Poststrukturalismus lange verrufene Begriff des Menschen wieder in die Geisteswissenschaften zurück. Der Band betrachtet den Beitrag der philosophischen Anthropologie zur Anthropozändebatte, diskutiert das Verhältnis der Kategorie Mensch zu jener des Anthropos und der...
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Reconciling Ancient and Modern Philosophies of HistoryThe distinction between ancient and modern modes of historical thought is characterized by the growing complexity of the discipline of history in modernity. Consequently, the epistemological and methodological standard of ancient historiography is typically held as inferior against the modern ideal. This book serves...
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Activity book for kids ages 4-8: Mazes, Dot-to-Dots, Coloring, Word Search, Crossword PuzzlesAuthor: Melany BergPublisher: Melany BergPublished: 05/09/2022Pages: 68Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.14dISBN: 9783982438238
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Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz BoochaniOver six years of imprisonment in Australia's offshore migrant detention centre, the Kurdish-Iranian journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani bore personal witness to the suffering and degradation inflicted on him and his fellow refugees, culminating eventually in his prize-winning book - No Friend but the...
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The Edinburgh Companion to Critical TheoryFeaturing an international team of specialists on the subject, The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Theory provides a comprehensive analysis of the changing role of critical theory in the new century.Author: Stuart SimPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublished: 08/31/2022Pages: 592Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.05lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x...
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Reading Elizabeth Bishop: An Edinburgh CompanionProvides a comprehensive and original guide to Elizabeth Bishop's poetry and other writing, including literary criticism and prose fiction.Author: Jonathan EllisPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublished: 08/25/2022Pages: 360Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.75dISBN: 9781399505260
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The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-WritingThis comprehensive study by leading scholars in an important new field--the history of letters and letter writing--is essential reading for anyone interested in nineteenth-century American politics, history or literature.Author: Celeste-Marie Bernier, Judie Newman, PethersPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublished: 08/31/2022Pages: 752Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.60lbsSize: 9.61h x...
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Deleuze in Children's LiteratureJane Newland explores how Deleuzian concepts can enhance and invigorate our readings of this literature, whose implied readership masks much paradox. She focuses on children's texts by some of the authors who fascinate Deleuze, including Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Lewis Carroll, André Dhôtel, Jean-Marie...
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Geological MeltsVolume 87 of Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry covers fundamental aspects of the nature of silicate melts and the implications for the systems in which they participate, both technological and natural. The contents of this volume may perhaps best be summarized as structure -...
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Evolution of Direct Discourse Marking from Classical to Late LatinChanges in the marking of direct discourse show us the vitality of Latin and the creativity of Late Latin authors, who were able to integrate two potentially conflicting traditions - "classical" and "biblical".Author: Jana MikulováPublisher: BrillPublished: 09/22/2022Pages: 172Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9789004524996This title is not...
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