Literary Criticism

A middle-aged man with a guilty taste for schoolgirls looks for a way to end his shame; a hotel receptionist begins a sexual adventure with shattering consequences; a young man is troubled by a persistent itch behind his shoulder-blades; a young African...

WINNER OF SPECIAL BOOK AWARD OF CHINA 2021 In 1318, the Irish Franciscan friar and explorer James of Ireland accompanied Friar Odoric of Pordenone to the Far East, thus becoming the first Irish person in China. Since then, encounters between the Irish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912224029Author David PierceFormat HardbackImprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root

Described by Katherine Mansfield in 1921 as 'a great cold sword between you and your dear love Adventure', in the early twentieth century the English Channel, or 'La Manche' in French, represented both a political and an intellectual barrier between...

This book marks Kenneth Burke's breakthrough in criticism from the literary and aesthetic into social theory and the philosophy of history. In this volume we find Burke's first entry into what he calls his theory of Dramatism; and, here also is an...

American Literature Before 1880 attempts to place its subject in the broadest possible international perspective. It begins with Homer looking westward, and ends with Henry James crossing the Atlantic eastwards. In between, the book examines the...

A practical and comprehensive reference work, the Oxford Handbook provides the best single-volume source of original scholarship on all aspects of Coleridge's diverse writings. Thirty-seven chapters, bringing together the wisdome of experts from across...

Benito Perez Galdos has been described as 'the greatest Spanish novelist since Cervantes.' His work constitutes a major contribution to the nineteenth-century novel, rivalling that of Dickens of Balzac and making him an essential candidate for any course...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814250112Author Thomas A. PrendergastFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press

This deluxe edition of Virgil's epic poems, recounting the wanderings of Aeneas and his companions after the fall of Troy, contains an introduction by Allen Mandelbaum and fourteen powerful renderings created by Barry Moser to illustrate this volume...

This research level text documents the latest advances in odonate biology and relates these to a broader ecological and evolutionary research agenda. Despite being one of the smallest insect orders, dragonflies offer a number of advantages for both...

Although the reputation of the great German scholar Ernst Robert Curtius was firmly established for English and American readers by the translation of European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, much of his work is still unknown to them. These...

Offers profiles of ancient Greek writers, including Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, and Plutarch, and traces the development of Greek literature.Book InformationISBN 9780226143125Author Jacqueline de RomillyFormat PaperbackPage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375758591Author Alan FurstFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

States of Fantasy is Jacqueline Rose's much-praised contribution to the current controversy over the limits of English Studies. Arguing for an expansion of the new boundaries of `English', and for the importance of psychoanalysis to the understanding of...

Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion, and in the centuries that followed the golden age of archaic...

Since World War II, the story of the trauma hero--the noble white man psychologically wounded by his encounter with violence--has become omnipresent in America's narratives of war, an imaginary solution to the contradictions of American political...

Poetry and Bondage is a groundbreaking and comprehensive study of the history of poetic constraint. For millennia, poets have compared verse to bondage - chains, fetters, cells, or slavery. Tracing this metaphor from Ovid through the present, Andrea...

Katherine Philips (1632-1664) is widely regarded as a pioneering figure within English-language women's literary history. Best known as a poet, she was also a skilled translator, letter writer and literary critic whose subjects ranged from friendship and...

Though it is difficult enough to write well in one's native tongue, an extraordinary group of authors has written enduring poetry and prose in a second, third, or even fourth language. Switching Languages is the first anthology in which translingual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788763543958Author George HingeFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams)...

At the height of Maria de Zayas' popularity in the mid-eighteenth century, the number of editions in print of her work was exceeded only by the novels of Cervantes. But by the end of the nineteenth century, Zayas had been excluded from the Spanish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943208180Author Marta L WernerFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Amherst CollegePublisher Amherst CollegeWeight(grams) 839gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

This book draws on the distinct phases of Jacques Lacan's career to show his way of thinking in and beyond his lifetime. It is an examination of the past, present, and futures of psychoanalysis, as these are developed in the dimensions of language,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908980106Author Christopher MacLachlanFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Scottish Literature InternationalPublisher Association for Scottish Literary...

This book explores the influence of literacy on eleventh and twelfth-century life and though on social organization, on the criticism of ritual and symbol, on the rise of empirical attitudes, on the relationship between language and reality, and on the...

Phantom Communities reconsiders the status of the simulacrum-sometimes defined as a copy of a copy, but more rigorously defined as a copy that subverts the legitimacy and authority of its model-in light of recent debates in literature, art, philosophy,...

In the Western imagination, Spain often evokes the colorful culture of al-Andalus, the Iberian region once ruled by Muslims. Tourist brochures inviting visitors to sunny and romantic Andalusia, home of the ingenious gardens and intricate arabesques of...

While American gay fiction has received considerable scholarly attention, little has been given to developments in other English-speaking countries. This survey catalogs 254 novels and novellas by some 173 British, Irish and Commonwealth authors in...

This book examines current trends in scholarly thinking about the new field of the Environmental Humanities, focusing in particular on how the history of globalization and imperialism represents a special challenge to the representation of environmental...

'Late style' is a critical term routinely deployed to characterise the work of selected authors, composers, and creative artists as they enter their last phase of production--often, but not only, in old age. Taken at face value, this terminology merely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333026151Author Jonas A. BarishFormat PaperbackPage Count 245Imprint Red Globe PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 331g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399502412Author Tyrus MillerFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932595789Author Mel GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 183Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 567g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906613389Author Yvonne GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop BooksWeight(grams) 150g

The Roman statesman, orator, and author Marcus Tullius Cicero is the embodiment of a classic: his works have been read continuously from antiquity to the present, his style is considered the model for classical Latin, and his influence on Western ideas...

An exploration of the modern European novel from a renowned English literature scholar Reading the Modern European Novel since 1900 is an engaging, in-depth examination of the evolution of the modern European novel. Written in Daniel R. Schwarz's precise...

Here Stephen Tracy offers a vivid, fast-paced narrative that serves as a reading guide to Homer's monumental epic. He not only provides translations of key passages and traces the evolution of major themes in the Odyssey, but also helps new readers to...

This volume of ten essays discusses the pivotal role that letters have played in social, economic and political history from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The recent scholarly interest in the history of reading has as yet yielded few studies...

This book elucidates the poetics of Philodemus of Gadara, a first century BCE Epicurean philosopher and poet, whose On Poems survives in extensive fragments among the Herculaneum papyri. Although his treatise was primarily polemical and lacks positive...