Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry & Prose (Loa #96)"Undoubtedly, the single finest collection of Wallace Stevens ever produced." -- Library Journal Wallace Stevens's unique voice combined meditative speculation and what he called "the essential gaudiness of poetry" in a body of work of astonishing profusion and exuberance, poems that have remained an...
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History and Chronicle of the SongbookEssays. Criticism. Memoir. Translated from the Italian with a translator's foreword and notes by Stephen Sartarelli. This odd and engaging volume consists primarily of essays written between 1900 and 1944, in which the Italian poet Umberto Saba writes of himself in the third person,...
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A Short History of English Renaissance DramaShakespeare is a towering presence in English and indeed global culture. Yet considered alongside his contemporaries he was not an isolated phenomenon, but the product of a period of astonishing creative fertility. This was an age when new media - popular drama and print...
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The Miraculous Parish / An Paroiste Mioruilteach Selected Poems / Rogha DantaMaire Mhac an tSaoi is one of the greatest living Irish language poet. The first ever translations of her work into English, overseen by Louis de Paor, who has also written a comprehensive introduction, make this book an unmissable event for all lovers of...
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A Literary Tour of ItalyAn acclaimed author of novels and short stories, Tim Parks--who was described in a recent review as "one of the best living writers of English"--has delighted audiences around the world with his finely observed writings on all aspects of Italian life and customs. This...
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On Contemporaneity, After Agamben: The Concept and Its TimesWho are our contemporaries today? Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy, or Giorgio Agamben, or the already neglected Althusser or Lacoue-Labarthe? From among the thinkers of the last great generation of the past century, who are the precursors whose voice is strong enough to speak to...
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Derek Jarman's Medieval ModernFirst exploration of Jarman's engagement with the medieval, revealing its importance to his work. FINALIST IN THE HISTORIANS OF BRITISH ART BOOK AWARDS 2020 The artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman (1942-1994) had a lifelong appreciation of medieval culture. But with the possible exception of...
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Medieval English Lyrics and CarolsA new and comprehensive anthology of medieval lyrics and carols, in new editions, with introduction and commentary. Lyrics and carols are two of the most important types of medieval literature. This anthology provides a generous and wide-ranging selection, beginning with the first lyrics in...
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A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail CycleArthur and the grail stories appeared in this French prose cycle together for the first time; scholars explore its social, historical, literary and manuscript contexts and account for its enduring interest. The early thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle (or Vulgate Cycle) brings together the...
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Troubadour Poems from the South of FranceModern English translations of a wide selection of troubadour poems. The poetry of the troubadours was famous throughout the middle ages, but the difficulty and diversity of the original languages have been obstacles to its appreciation by a wider audience. This collection aims to...
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Lancelot-Grail: 8. the Post Vulgate Cycle. the Merlin Continuation: The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in TranslationThe Post-Vulgate Cycle reworks the Vulgate Cycle from the end of The Story of Merlin. The sequel opens with Arthur's unwitting incest with his sister, and his establishment, with Merlin's help, of his title to the kingdom. The story of the events leading up...
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Hyperion, or the Hermit in GreeceFriedrich H lderlin's only novel, Hyperion (1797-99), is a fictional epistolary autobiography that juxtaposes narration with critical reflection. Returning to Greece after German exile, following his part in the abortive uprising against the occupying Turks (1770), and his failure as both a lover and...
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Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth after PostmodernismMetamodernism: Historicity, Affect, Depth brings together many of the most influential voices in the scholarly and critical debate about post-postmodernism and twenty-first century aesthetics, arts and culture. By relating cutting-edge analyses of contemporary literature, the visual arts and film and television to recent social,...
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The Antinomies of RealismThe Antinomies of Realism is a history ofthe nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achievements that the movement of history makes it impossible to recreate. The works of Zola, Tolstoy, P rez Gald s, and George...
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Stray Birds"Stray Birds," by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, contains ideas on nature, man, and his environment as may be entertained by a man sitting by a window where the stray birds of summer sing and fly away. These very short poems are often just an...
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G K Chesterton's Christian Writings (Unabridged): Everlasting Man, Orthodoxy, Heretics, St Francis of Assisi, St. Thomas Aquinas and the Man Who Was TThis Omnibus edition of g K Chesterton's writings includes the following complete and unabridged classic books: The Everlasting Man. What makes the human uniquely human? This is the question that G.K. Chesterton starts with in this exploration of human history. Chesterton responds to H.G....
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Readying Rilla: L.M. Montgomery's Reworking of Rilla of InglesideL.M. Montgomery began writing Rilla of Ingleside shortly after the end of World War I. Her story of the war was not about soldiers fighting and dying on Flanders Fields, but about Canadians struggling to "keep the home fires burning." It is a novel...
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The Videofag BookLonglisted for the 2018 Toronto Book Awards In October 2012, lovers William Ellis and Jordan Tannahill moved into a former barbershop in Toronto's Kensington Market neighbourhood and turned it into an art space called Videofag. Over the next four years Videofag became a hub...
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FBI Myths and Misconceptions: A Manual for Armchair DetectivesHow much do you really know about the FBI? Do you know who the FBI is? Do you know what the FBI does? This manual debunks FBI myths and misconceptions for those who read, watch, and write crime dramas about the FBI or have...
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North and SouthAuthor: Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellPublisher: Simon & BrownPublished: 10/30/2018Pages: 336Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.46lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88dISBN: 9781731701657This title is not returnable
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