Literary category: 117525 books
A Hundred Flowers Blossoming
A Collection of Literary Essays Written by Chinese Scholars
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
A Hundred Flowers Blossoming is a collection of literary essays written by faculty members of Xi'an International Studies University, China with two distinctive features. The first one is a Chinese perspective on Western literary works, which is normally not found in the scholarship in the West. The...
Literary Theories
A Case Study in Critical Performance
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 1996
Every student of literature needs to understand how to use literary theory to analyse and interpret the text. Literary Theories challenges the out-dated notion that theory is something separable from the act of reading and interpretation and, believing that the best way to learn is through practical...
The Great Tower of Elfland
The Mythopoeic Worldview of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, and George MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Beginning in the mid-1950s, scholars proposed that the Inklings were a unified group centered on fantasy, imagination, and Christianity.
Scholars and a few Inklings themselves supported the premise until 1978, when Humphrey Carpenter wrote the first major biography of the group, disputing a...
by Fred Lewis Pattee
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
A History of American Literature Since 1870
It has been our object to determine this new period and to study its distinguishing characteristics. We have divided the literary history of the century into three periods, denominating them as the Knickerbocker Period, the New England Period, and...
Left in the West
Literature, Culture, and Progressive Politics in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
In this edited collection, Gioia Woods and her contributors bring together histories, biographies, close readings, and theories about the literary and cultural Left in the American West—as it is distinct from the more often-theorized literary left in major eastern metropolitan centers. Left in...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
It is all but inevitable for literary history to be divided into periods. "Early American," "antebellum," "modern," "post-1945"—such designations organize our knowledge of the past and shape the ways we discuss that past today. These periods tend to align...
A Hundred Acres of America
The Geography of Jewish American Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Jewish writers have long had a sense of place in the United States, and interpretations of American geography have appeared in Jewish American literature from the colonial era forward. But troublingly, scholarship on Jewish American literary history often limits itself to an immigrant model, situating...
Scribal Correction and Literary Craft
English Manuscripts 1375–1510
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
This extensive survey of scribal correction in English manuscripts explores what correcting reveals about attitudes to books, language and literature in late medieval England. Daniel Wakelin surveys a range of manuscripts and genres, but focuses especially on poems by Chaucer, Hoccleve and Lydgate,...
Literary Intellectuals
East and West
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
The modernist movement, in literature as well as in criticism, provides a very instructive case of iconoclastic canon-change and subsequent canon-formation, and modern British literary criticism has been remarkably canon-forming in its basic tendency. This is particularly true of the line in British...
The One Mind
C. G. Jung and the future of literary criticism
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The One Mind: C. G. Jung and the Future of Literary Criticism explores the implications of C. G. Jung's unus mundus by applying his writings on the metaphysical, the paranormal, and the quantum to literature. As Jung knew, everything is connected because of its participation in universal consciousness,...
by Javed Akhtar
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: Samuel Beckett was the most eminent dramatist of the absurdist movement of the twentieth century. Samuel Beckett was born on Good Friday, April 13, 1906, at Fox rock...
The Wallace Effect
David Foster Wallace and the Contemporary Literary Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
The Wallace Effect explores David Foster Wallace's contested space at the forefront of 21st-century American fiction. Pioneering Wallace scholar Marshall Boswell does this by illuminating "The Wallace Effect†?-the aura of literary competition that Wallace routinely summoned in his fiction and...
Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies
Fences, Boundaries, and Fields
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
In Ecocritical Explorations, Patrick D. Murphy explores environmental literature and environmental cultural issues through both theoretical and applied criticism. He engages with the concepts of referentiality, simplicity, the nation state, and virtual reality in the first section of the book, and...
by Alessandra Zanobi
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Pantomime was arguably the most popular dramatic genre during the Roman Empire, but has been relatively neglected by literary critics.
Seneca's Tragedies and the Aesthetics of Pantomime adds to our understanding of Seneca's tragic art by demonstrating that elements which have long puzzled scholars...