Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Sacrament an Alter / The Sacrament of the Altar: A Critical Edition with Translation'Sacrament an Alter' (The Sacrament of the Altar) is a Cornish patristic catena selected and translated from Foxe's Book of Martyrs, which is attached to the translation of Bishop Bonner's Homilies in the Tregear Manuscript (BL Add. MS 46397). No complete critical edition of...
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Reacher: The Stories Behind the StoriesAfter making his debut in 1997's The Killing Floor, Jack Reacher has quickly become one of the most popular--and most enduring--fictional heroes to emerge in the past half century. Now, his creator tells the stories behind the stories. These are the origin tales of...
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Poetics of Disturbances: Narratives of Non-Normative Bodies and MindsThis volume calls for a Narratology of Diversity by investigating narratives of non-normative bodies and minds. It explores mental health representations in literature, including neurodiversity, the body-mind nexus, and embodied non-normativities, therein emphasizing the importance of understanding diverse psychological conditions as represented in narratives....
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Poe's Fiction: Romantic Irony in the Gothic TalesThis 50th anniversary reissue of G.R. Thompson's Poe's Fiction makes available for Poe scholars, students, and aficionados the groundbreaking work that changed the course of Poe studies. Written in highly accessible prose, the book reads as fresh today as when it first appeared. Poe's...
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Oxford Bookworms Library: The Prisoner of Zenda: Level 3: 1000-Word VocabularyThis award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during,...
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Ost-Westlicher Kulturtransfer in Der Deutschsprachigen Kinder- Und JugendliteraturThe volume explores the cultural transfer in German Children's and Young Adult Literature with Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe. So far, this process has received little attention. The volume therefore aims to provide insight into the complex circulation of literature on the book market...
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On BooksHenri II Estienne (1531-98) was the most outstanding member of his family's long-lived publishing dynasty. He continued the work of his father, Robert, by publishing many unedited Greek texts and completing the Thesaurus linguae Graecae (1572), an expensive venture from which his business never...
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Oeuvres d'OssianThe myth of Ossian, the Scottish bard whose works James Macpherson claimed to have translated, is a founding myth of modern European literature. This edition offers the main Ossian texts in a new translation, charting their literary controversies and analyzing their influence on cultural...
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OeuvresThis volume pays tribute to the different facets of Boileau's work. The reader will find the satirist disciple of Horace, the "Regent of Parnassus," paying homage to Moliere and Racine, the theorist of Classicism, as well as the court poet.Author: Nicolas BoileauPublisher: Classiques GarnierPublished:...
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O Canada: An American's Notes on Canadian CultureThis book, made up of studies of Canadian writers and books, represents perhaps the first attempt on the part of an American critic to deal at the same time with the literatures of both French and English Canada. Among the authors discussed are Morley...
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Not Macht Erfinderisch - Organmangel in Den Medical HumanitiesRomanautor*innen greifen gern auf die Biomedizin als Motiv in ihren Werken zuruck. Die Moglichkeit der Organtransplantation und die aktuell damit einhergehende Diskrepanz zwischen der Anzahl zur Verfugung stehender Organe und potenzieller Organempfanger*innen regt Autor*innen dazu an, mogliche Losungsansatze zu verhandeln, die dem Organmangel entgegenwirken....
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New Perspectives on Tawriya: Theory and Practice of AmbiguityOne of the hallmarks of the Arabic literature of the Mamluk era is the very frequent use of semantic ambiguity, a rhetorical tool that saw its final theorisation in this period and the emergence of the canonical form that still appears in rhetorical treatises...
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New Approaches for Digital Literary MappingThis Element reconsiders what the focus of digital literary mapping should be for a subject like English Literature, what digital tools should be employed and to what interpretative ends. How we can harness the digital to find new ways of understanding spatial meaning in...
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Neoliberalism and Young Adult Fiction: Exceptionalism, Exploitation, and ErasureIn the twenty-first century, the influence of neoliberalism, the belief that society benefits when both individuals and corporations are free to maximize their talents in the service of responding to social needs and problems, resonates through all domains of human life. And yet, little...
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Neoliberalism and Young Adult Fiction: Exceptionalism, Exploitation, and ErasureIn the twenty-first century, the influence of neoliberalism, the belief that society benefits when both individuals and corporations are free to maximize their talents in the service of responding to social needs and problems, resonates through all domains of human life. And yet, little...
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Narrative Der Grenze: Die Etablierung Und Uberschreitung Von GrenzenThis volume features contributions addressing the issues of borders and their manifestations in literary texts. Border narratives refer to different aspects of the border - its historical and territorial form, its relativity and the very nature of this construct. At the centre there are...
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Mythocracy: How Stories Shape Our WorldsHarnessing the power of storytelling for political progress Mythocracy examines the narrative mechanisms that script our lives through the stories we tell one another. Digging beneath common anxieties about fake news, Yves Citton looks at the attention economy, which organises our political perceptions around...
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Migration and Return in Modern African Literature: Black Bodies in White SpacesUsing close readings of nine novels by African or African-descended novelists, this book examines three phases of African migration: departure, disillusionment and the impulse to return. The experiences of African migrants in the diaspora are deeply inflected by the condition of living as Black...
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Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction: Micro-Modernism from Hardy to BeckettExploring how modernism registered shock experiences of the microscopic and extended vision in prose fiction through the work of four modernist writers - D. H. Lawrence, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Samuel Beckett - this book is the first substantial study of the interrelations...
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Meditations: The Assorted Prose of Barbara GuestSix decades of writing on literature and art by one of the most significant poets of our timeMeditations gathers together in one volume for the first time an extensive collection of the prose work of Barbara Guest (1920-2006), one of the major voices of...
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