Literary Criticism

This book examines representations of war throughout American literary history, providing a firm grounding in established criticism and opening up new lines of inquiry. Readers will find accessible yet sophisticated essays that lay out key questions and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910996621Author Paul McDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd

This collection reappraises and retheorizes Marie Corelli's diverse fictional writings and locates them in their contemporary literary and social context.Marie Corelli (1855-1924) was a fabulously popular novelist in the late-nineteenth and...

Ballads and songs of Peterloo is an edited collection of poems and songs written following the Peterloo Massacre in 1819. This collection, which includes over seventy poems, were published either as broadsides or in radical periodicals and newspapers...

Arjun Appadurai's 1996 collection of essays Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization helped reshape how anthropologists, geographers and philosophers saw and understood the key topic of our times: globalization.Globalization has long been...

E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) was a Native advocate of part-Mohawk ancestry, an independent woman during the period of first-wave feminism, a Canadian nationalist who also advocated strengthening the link to imperial England, a popular and versatile...

Eve of the Festival is a study of Homeric myth-making in the first and longest dialogue of Penelope and Odysseus (Odyssey 19). This study makes a case for seeing virtuoso myth-making as an essential part of this conversation, a register of communication...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948877612Author Moira BurgessFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary...

An examination of how The Book of Psalms shaped medieval thought and helped develop the medieval English literary canon. The Book of Psalms had a profound impact on English literature from the Anglo-Saxon to the late medieval period. This collection...

The Emotional Life of the Great Depression documents how Americans responded emotionally to the crisis of the Great Depression. Unlike most books about the 1930s, which focus almost exclusively on the despair of the American people during the decade,...

Jayyusi presents in English translation a Palestinian world view characterized by intensity, paradox, aspiration, and eloquence. Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature will certainly become indispensable to anyone with a serious interest in...

A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction offers an authoritative overview of contemporary British fiction in its social, political, and economic contexts. Focuses on the fiction that has emerged since the late 1970s, roughly since the start of...

Exploring the relationship between visual art and literature in the Romantic period, this book makes a claim for a sister-arts 'moment' when the relationship between painting, sculpture, pottery and poetry held special potential for visual artists,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957348974Author John HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Alchemy PressPublisher Alchemy PressWeight(grams) 336g

Aims to provide an accessible introduction to the study of contemporary literary theories and their applications to a range of literary texts. This is an elementary introduction where the emphasis is on practice, and in this respect it complements A...

The Grapes of Wrath is generally considered Steinbeck's masterpiece, but the short novel was the form he most frequently turned to and most consciously theorized about, and with constant experimentation he made the form his own. Much of the best-and the...

The most familiar fairy tales call to mind certain images: Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, Snow White, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty. Yet these visions often merely reflect illustrations encountered in classic tellings of the tales. The...

The dozen essays brought together here, alongside a newly-written introduction, contextualise and exemplify the recent "empirical turn" in Beckett studies. Characterised, above all, by recourse to manuscript materials in constructing revisionist...

Launching a much-needed new series discussing each comedy that survives from the ancient world, this volume is a vital companion to Terence's earliest comedy, Andria, highlighting its context, themes, staging and legacy. Ideal for students it assumes no...

Links acting traditions with cultural milieu.. No other book on Hamlet on the stage covers as much theoretical ground.. Covers a number of foreign productions and pays much attention to the role of scenography .About the AuthorAnthony B. Dawson is...

Nortrop Frye differed from other theorists of myth in tracing all of the major literary genres--romance, comedy, satire, not just tragedy--to myth and ritual. This volume is the most thorough presentation of his thinking on the subject.Reviews"...this...

George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) remains a book of the moment. This Companion builds on successive waves of generational inheritance and debate in the novel's reception by asking new questions about how and why Nineteen Eighty-Four was...

An eye-opening exploration of the toxic masculinity and sexism that pervades the superhero genre.Superheroes have been exciting and inspirational cultural icons for decades, dating back to the debut of Superman in the 1930s. The earliest tales have been...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780757580345Author John P EliaFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

This Companion is both an alphabetically arranged reference work and, in its sum, a history, a map of modern poetry in English. From the last decade of the century, it offers a survey of the terrain, from 1900 to the present, and from Britain and America...

This study of the action of discovery as plot device, visual motif, and thematic trope on the early modern stage considers an important and popular performance convention in its cultural and religious contexts. Through close examination of a number of...

Speculative fiction - both science fiction and fantasy - reflects, among other things, the fears of the culture that created it, contributing (perhaps unconsciously) to our efforts to prevent our fears from coming true. While the names and media change...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425778309Author Olatunde AdepojuFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781393754534Author Laura GreenwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Drowlgon PressPublisher Drowlgon PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977475421Author Carl McMurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Spiritbuilding.comPublisher Spiritbuilding.comWeight(grams) 345g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783903535Author Anni LlynFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Canolfan PeniarthPublisher Canolfan PeniarthWeight(grams) 297g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988168616Author Brigette DePapeFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint At Bay PressPublisher At Bay PressWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629378299Author Jake RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Triumph BooksPublisher Triumph BooksWeight(grams) 0g

In this richly imagined fantasy novel, young Lucas has the power to save two medieval kingdoms from destruction . . . but will he discover this ultimate secret before it's too late? Ten-year-old Lucas has been raised as a blacksmith's son; an outsider...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989754146Author Jay BulckaertFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Renegade Arts Canmore LtdPublisher Renegade Arts Canmore Ltd

Salome, the haunting one-act tragedy that marks Wilde's first great success in the theatre, retells the Biblical story in which the stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas demands the head of John the Baptist on a silver platter as a reward for her...

The world has a way of getting into you; these poems document the process of prying it out. Whether that be from an ash tree's trunk or a rabbit's warren, or behind an abandoned shipping container on the way to work, or in a dusty noiseshow basement,...