Literary category: 117525 books
Oliver Wendell Holmes
From 'Literary Friends and Acquaintances'
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885...
Confessions of Summer Colonist
From 'Literary Friends and Acquaintances'
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885...
Eliot and His Age
T. S. Eliot's Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Eliot and His Age remains the best introduction to T. S. Eliot’s life, ideas, and literary works. It is the essential starting place for anyone who would understand what Eliot was about. Russell Kirk’s view of his older friend is sympathetic but not adulatory. His insights into Eliot’s writings...
by Michel Beaujour
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1992
A serious and independent contribution to the literature of autobiography.
-- John SturrockFrench StudiesClearly a landmark study. It seems certain to provoke a great deal of productive debate among those concerned with any of the many issues it raises.
-- Comparative Literature
The literary self-portrait,...
Introducing Literary Criticism
A Graphic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
From Plato to Virginia Woolf, Structuralism to Practical Criticism, Introducing Literary Criticism charts the history and development of literary criticism into a rich and complex discipline. Tackling disputes over the value and meaning of literature, and exploring theoretical and practical approaches,...
by Terry Eagleton
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book, Terry Eagleton turns his attention to the questions we should ask about literature, but rarely do. What is literature? Can we even speak of "literature" at all? What do different literary theories tell us about what texts mean and do? In throwing...
The Philosopher and the Storyteller
Eric Voegelin and Twentieth-Century Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2008
Throughout his philosophical career, Eric Voegelin had much to say about literature in both his published work and his private letters. Many of his most trenchant comments regarding the analysis of literature appear in his correspondence with critic Robert Heilman, and, through his familiarity with...
by Delmarva Review
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Welcome to the ninth annual Delmarva Review, a literary journal publishing exceptional poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction, in print and digital editions.As a journal, our focus is on the voice and literary qualities of authors’ work to tell their stories. We do not preselect a theme....
Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran
Iconic Woman and Feminine Pioneer of New Persian Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation
Forugh Farrokhzad was a pioneering Iranian poet and filmmaker, whose reputation as a path-breaking female rebel made her an iconic figure from her own time. Both her unconventional personal life and her captivating creative trajectory...
Leigh Hunt and the London Literary Scene
A Reception History of his Major Works, 1805-1828
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Leigh Hunt’s contributions to English literature, although downplayed for several decades, are now acknowledged by scholars as key to our understanding of the Romantic period. He was not only a facilitator - in his support for the poetry of Shelley and Keats for example - but was also a major contributor...
The Letters of Henry James
Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘The Letters of Henry James: Volume Two’.
The Complete Letters of Henry James fills a crucial gap in modern literary studies by presenting in a scholarly edition the complete letters of one of the great novelists and...
Tangier
A Literary Guide for Travellers
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
An edge city, poised at the northernmost tip of Africa, just nine miles across the Strait of Gibraltar from Europe and overlooking both the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, Tangier is more than a destination, it is an escape, and the Interzone, as William Burroughs called it, has attracted spies, outlaws,...
Faithful Vision
Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
"This is a marvelous and sustained discussion of 'faithful vision' and its significant influence on African American literature." -- American Literature
In Faithful Vision, James W. Coleman places under his critical lens a wide array of African American novels written during the last half...
Poe and the Subversion of American Literature
Satire, Fantasy, Critique
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014
In Poe and the Subversion of American Literature, Robert T. Tally Jr. argues that Edgar Allan Poe is best understood, not merely as a talented artist or canny magazinist, but primarily as a practical joker who employs satire and fantasy to poke fun at...