Literary category: 117525 books
Women Writers in the Romantic Age
The example of Mary Wollstonecraft
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, Ruhr-University of Bochum (Englisches Seminar), course: Romanticism in the Light of Cultural Studies, language: English, abstract: The time of Romanticism is historically regarded as a...
Literary Authors, Parliamentary Reporters
Johnson, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt and Charles Dickens all worked as parliamentary reporters, but their experiences in the press gallery have not received much scrutiny. Nikki Hessell's study is the first work to consider all four of these canonical writers as gallery reporters,...
The Andalusi Literary and Intellectual Tradition
The Role of Arabic in Judah ibn Tibbon's Ethical Will
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Beginning in 1172, Judah ibn Tibbon, who was called the father of Hebrew translators, wrote a letter to his son that was full of personal and professional guidance. The detailed letter, described as an ethical will, was revised through the years and offered a vivid picture of intellectual life among...
Towards a New Material Aesthetics
Bakhtin, Genre and the Fates of Literary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"Set in the context of the various materialist approaches to literary aesthetics that emerged in the twentieth century, Renfrew's study presents a new synthesis of the work of Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) and his circle, Russian Formalism, and elements of the 'official' ideology of the early Soviet...
May Sinclair
Moving Towards the Modern
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
May Sinclair was a central figure in the modernist movement, whose contribution has long been underacknowledged. A woman of both modern and Victorian impulses, a popular novelist who also embraced modernist narrative techniques, Sinclair embodied the contradictions of her era. The contributors to...
A Comparative Study of Korean Literature
Literary Migration
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
This study in comparative literature reinterprets and reevaluates literary texts and socio-historical transitions, moving between the Korean, East Asian, and European contexts (and with particular reference to the reception of Dante Alighieri in the East). In the process, it reexamines the universality...
Literary Radicalism in India
Gender, Nation and the Transition to Independence
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Literary Radicalism in India situates postcolonial Indian literature in relation to the hugely influential radical literary movements initiated by the Progressive Writers Association and the Indian People's Theatre Association. In so doing, it redresses a visible historical gap in studies of postcolonial...
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by FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
"NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND" - Popular Classic Novels included Free AudioBook Links, NEW illustrations, Clickable Table of Contents for both the list of included books and their respective chapters.The text and chapters are perfectly set up to match the layout and feel of a physical...
by Akram Najjar
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
These stories saw the light when the author was around 40 satisfying the writing urge he had always had. Having tried his hand at several literary genres, he settled on writing short stories.
Moving away from socio-psychological or pseudo auto-biographical fiction, he concentrated on writing...
by Donald Pizer
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
‘Frank Norris and American Naturalism’ brings together in one volume Donald Pizer’s lifelong exploration of Frank Norris’s work, ranging from his 1955 discussion of point of view in ‘The Octopus’ to his 2010 essay on the thematic unity of that novel. The essays as a whole seek to demonstrate...
Rewriting the Nation in Modern Kazakh Literature
Elites and Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
*Shortlisted for the 2018 Book Award in Social Sciences of the Central Eurasian Studies Society*
Rewriting the Nation in Modern Kazakh Literature is a book about cultural transformations and trajectories of national imagination in modern Kazakhstan. The book is a much-needed critical introduction...
Literary Research and American Postmodernism
Strategies and Sources
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Literary Research and American Postmodernism is a guide to scholarly research in the field of American postmodern literature, which this volume defines as the period between 1950 and 1990. This work aims to provide advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars of literature with...
by Francis Mulhern
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Marxism has had an enormous impact on literary and cultural studies, and all those interested in the field need to be aware of its achievements. This collection presents the very best of recent Marxist literary criticism in one single volume.
An international group of contributors provide an...
Morality and the Literary Imagination
Volume 36, Religion and Public Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
In a letter to Boccaccio, Petrarch extolled the virtue of poetry and letters for promoting an understanding of both human nature and morals. The letter was designed to console him after hearing a prediction that he was soon to die and that he ought to renounce poetry. The prophecy came from an elder...