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Complete Essays, Literary Criticism, Cryptography, Autography, Translations & Letters
The Philosophy of Composition, The Rationale of Verse, The Poetic Principle, Old English Poetry, Maelzel's Chess Player, Eureka, The Literati of New York, Fifty Suggestions, Exordium, Marginalia…
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created collection of Po's complete nonfiction works. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Poe's writing reflected his literary theories, which he presented in his criticism...
Anthropocene Reading
Literary History in Geologic Times
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Few terms have garnered more attention recently in the sciences, humanities, and public sphere than the Anthropocene, the proposed epoch in which a human “signature” appears in the lithostratigraphic record. Anthropocene Reading considers the implications of this concept for literary history and...
by John R.W. Speller
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Bourdieu and Literature is a wide-ranging, rigorous and accessible introduction to the relationship between Pierre Bourdieu's work and literary studies. It provides a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of his contributions to literary theory and his thinking about authors and literary...
by I.A. Richards
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Ivor Armstrong Richards was one of the founders of modern literary criticism. He enthused a generation of writers and readers and was an influential supporter of the young T.S. Eliot. Principles of Literary Criticism was the text that first established his reputation and pioneered the movement that...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
What is experimental literature? How has experimentation affected the course of literary history, and how is it shaping literary expression today? Literary experiment has always been diverse and challenging, but never more so than in our age of digital media and social networking, when the very category...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
A Reader Friendly Look at the Schools of Thought That Shaped the Books We Love
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
From Plato to Freud to ecocriticism, the book illustrates dozens of stimulating-and sometimes notoriously complex-perspectives for approaching literature and film. The book offers authoritative, clear, and easy-to-follow explanations of theories that range from established classics to the controversies...
Postmodern Counternarratives
Irony and Audience in the Novels of Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Charles Johnson, and Tim O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2005
This book provides a wide-ranging discussion of realism, postmodernism, literary theory and popular fiction before focusing on the careers of four prominent novelists. Despite wildly contrasting ambitions and agendas, all four grow progressively more sympathetic to the expectations of a mainstream...
Literary Wonderlands
A Journey Through the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
A glorious collection that delves deep into the inception, influences, and literary and historical underpinnings of nearly 100 of our most beloved fictional realms.
Literary Wonderlands is a thoroughly researched, wonderfully written, and beautifully produced book that spans four thousand years...
by Barbara Fuchs
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2004
Often derided as an inferior form of literature, 'romance' as a literary mode or genre defies satisfactory definition, dividing critics, scholars and readers alike. This useful guidebook traces the myriad transformations of 'romance' from medieval courtly love to Mills and Boon, and claims that its...
by Robert T. Tally Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Spatiality has risen to become a key concept in literary and cultural studies, with critical focus on the ‘spatial turn’ presenting a new approach to the traditional literary analyses of time and history.
Robert T. Tally Jr. explores differing aspects of the spatial in literary studies...
Out of the Line of Fire
Text Classics
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Winner, 1988 Barbara Ramsden Award
Winner, 1989 NBC Qantas New Writers Award
Winner, 1994 ACT Literary Award
When Wolfi, a brilliant young philosophy student, begins recounting his life - from his inquisitorial father and passionate mother, to his eccentric grandmother who paid for his sexual...
The Literary History of Saskatchewan
Volume 2 ~ Progressions
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Progressions presents another batch of erudite and entertainingessays on a variety of topics covering Saskatchewan’s literarydevelopment, as well as tributes to some of the major con-tributors to that history, and a pictorial glimpse into the past.Writers stopped using typewriters, and even moved...
by Richard Bradford
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Richard Bradford provides a definitive introductory guide to modern critical ideas on literary style and stylistics. It will provide students with a basic grasp of stylistics and literary analysis.
This comprehensive and accessible guidebook for undergraduates examines:
* the terminology of literary...
by Adelaide Books Publishers
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Adelaide Literary Magazine is an independent international quarterly publication, based in New York and Lisbon. Founded by Stevan V. Nikolic and Adelaide Franco Nikolic in 2015, the magazine’s aim is to publish quality poetry, fiction, nonfiction, artwork, and photography, as well as interviews,...