Literary Criticism

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...

Images of crosses, the Virgin Mary, and Christ, among other devotional objects, pervaded nearly every aspect of public and private life in early modern Spain, but they were also a point of contention between Christian and Muslim cultures. Writers of...

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...

This work argues that although "The Waste Land" demands close reading, the spirit of the old New Criticism works with inappropriate assumptions about unity and closed form. Many critics have tried to fix the text, to find hidden narratives and plots,...

This comprehensive study of author, Thomas Harris' popular works focuses particularly on Harris' internationally known antihero Hannibal ""The Cannibal"" Lecter in the classic novels ""Red Dragon"", ""Silence of the Lambs"", and ""Hannibal"". In 12...

James Salter's exalted place in American letters is based largely on the intense admiration of other writers, but his work resonates far beyond the realm of fellow craftsmen, addressing themes--youth, war, erotic love, marriage, life abroad,...

Ezra Pound is one of the most significant poets of the twentieth century, a writer whose poetry is particularly notable for the intensity of its linguistic qualities. Indeed, from the principles of Imagism to the polyphony of his Cantos, Pound is central...

From the trauma of September 11th, through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to the aftermath of the Arab Spring and the environmental warning signs of climate change, this book reflects on the crises and terrifying events of the early 21st century...

Aristotle, a student of Plato, wrote Nicomachean Ethics in 350 BCE, in a time of extraordinary intellectual development. Over two millennia later, his thorough exploration of virtue, reason, and the ultimate human good still forms the basis of the values...

This book is a descriptive account of English as it is used in India. Indian English is a second language to most of its speakers. In its 400-year history it has acquired its own character, yet still looks to native varieties of English for norms. The...

There are few better examples of analysis - the critical thinking skill of understanding how an argument is built - than Robert Dahl's Democracy and its Critics. In this work, the American political theorist closely analyzes the democratic political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760991302Author Dianne WolferFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Fremantle PressPublisher Fremantle PressWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 177mm *...

These exhuberant stories of intrigue and scandal paint a vivid and colourful picture of society life.Book InformationISBN 9781138766174Author Amy CulleyFormat HardbackPage Count 452Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 453g

Letters played a foundational role in facilitating the rise of print and popularizing new modes of writing in the long eighteenth century.In Writing to the World, Rachael Scarborough King examines the shift from manuscript to print media culture in the...

This study offers a critical examination of the work of Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, Mexican-American brothers whose graphic novels are highly influential. The Hernandez brothers started in the alt-comics scene, where their 'Love and Rockets' series...

This book investigates the productive crosscurrents between visual culture and literary texts in the Romantic period, focusing on the construction and manipulation of the visual, the impact of new visual media on the literary and historical imagination,...

It has often been held that scholasticism destroyed the literary theory that was emerging during the twelfth-century Renaissance, and hence discussion of late medieval literary works has tended to derive its critical vocabulary from modern, not medieval,...

One of the most famous passages in modern literature reimagined in a graphic novel adaptation. Two acclaimed Russian artists have collaborated to create an original graphic novel adaptation of the most famous chapters of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The...

This study charts the evolution of Bishop's poetry, aided by newly discovered diaries, previously unpublished work and early drafts. It focuses on the poet's 20-year residence in Brazil, and attempts to provide a new understanding of Bishop's treatment...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is arguably the best known work of the English Romantic period. First published in 1996, this edition of The Frankenstein Notebooks contains not only facsimiles and transcriptions of all of surviving manuscripts related to the...

This edition of Ben Jonson's four middle comedies places the works in the popular history and culture of the times, 1605-1614, and surveys the influences, both classical and contemporary, on Jonson as a playwright. On-the-page annotations recreate the...

'Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition' is a timely study of the 'sentimental' in Dickens's novels, which places them in the context of the tradition of Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Goldsmith, Sheridan and Lamb. This study re-evaluates Dickens's...

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909), dramatist, novelist and critic, was late Victorian England's unofficial Poet Laureate. Swinburne was admired by his contemporaries for his technical brilliance, his facility with classical and medieval forms, and...

This critical text offers a behind-the-scenes look at fifteen of the most important American war films of the last 60 years. Based on original interviews and archival research and featuring rare photographs, this book covers films considered unusually...

World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth recovers a genealogy of anticolonial thought that advocated collective inexpertise, unknowing, and unrecognizability. Early-twentieth-century anticolonial thinkers endeavored to imagine a world emancipated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641894715Author Jean AbbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press

In one of the most startling literary discoveries of recent years, Jack Zipes has uncovered this neglected treasure trove of Sicilian folk and fairy tales. Like the Grimm brothers before her, Laura Gonzenbach, a talented Swiss-German born in Sicily, set...

In this first book to study Portuguese texts about Africa, Moorings brings an important but little-known body of European writings to bear on contemporary colonial thought. Images of Africa as monstrous, dangerous, and lush were created in early...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884481928Author E. B. WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Atlantic BooksPublisher Atlantic Books