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by Andrew Milner
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Locating Science Fiction is a ground breaking and potentially paradigm-shifting book, a major intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about SF. Academic literary criticism has tended to locate SF primarily in relation to the older genre of utopia; fan criticism primarily in relation to...
Communicating Terror
The Rhetorical Dimensions of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
The only book to examine terrorism as a rhetorical act
*"This is an excellent text in furthering our understanding of the web of language and how it creates our mediated realities – which reflect our culture, politics, religion, economics, etc. Students really like the case studies and...
Berit Olam: The Twelve Prophets
Volume 1: Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
There is generally no common material that binds together the works of the individual prophets that comprise the Twelve, but through Sweeney's commentary they stand together as a single, clearly defined book among the other prophetic books of the Bible.
The Book of the Twelve Prophets is a...
A Student's Guide to Understanding Jesus and the Gospels
Navigating Your Journey Through Critical Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
A synthesis of academic and scholarly subjects that will assist students in studying Jesus and the Gospels and/or The Life of Christ. This book makes clear what others make confusing. Written by a passionate professor who wants students to learn as much as possible as quickly as possible. This guide...
The Nostalgic Imagination
History in English Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
This unusual book explores the historical assumptions at work in the style of literary criticism that came to dominate English studies in the twentieth century. Stefan Collini shows how the work of critics renowned for their close attention to 'the words on the page' was in practice bound up with...
K.V. Dominic Criticism and Commentary
Essential Readings Companion
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Peek inside the mind one of Contemporary India's most influential poets
Inside this book you'll find Dr. Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya, one of the most erudite philosopher-critics of India, brilliantly evaluating his compatriot English poet K.V. Dominic. Among the contemporary English poets of India,...
Pigmalion’S Reverie: a Korean’S Misreading of Major American and British Poetry
Sharing Reading English Poetry with the Global Nomads
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Reading is not an unusual or unfamiliar thing. It must be the first condition of life. Though illiterate or literate, humans should read things, letters, incidents, and situations according to each level of recognition so that they can survive surroundings under the brutal principle of natural selection....
Re-Visioning Lear's Daughters
Testing Feminist Criticism and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
King Lear is believed by many feminists to be irretrievably sexist. Through detailed line readings supported by a wealth of critical commentary, Re-Visioning Lear s Daughters reconceives Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia as full characters, not stereotypes of good and evil. These new feminist interpretations...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Freiburg (Englisches Seminar), 8 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: When Willy Loman is heard racing off with his car at the end of Arthur Millers...
by Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘Hawthorne’.
Hawthorne is a book of literary criticism by Henry James published in 1879. The book was an insightful study of James' great predecessor, Nathaniel Hawthorne. James gave extended consideration to each of...
by Amy Muse, Patrick Lonergan, Kevin J. Wetmore
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Sarah Ruhl is one of the most highly-acclaimed and frequently-produced American playwrights of the 21st century. Author of eighteen plays and the essay collection 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write, she has won a MacArthur "Genius†? Grant and the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award,...
Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Canon
Critical Limitations and Textual Liberations
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
‘This book makes an important intervention into debates about influence and contemporary Irish poetry. Supported throughout by incisive reflections upon allusion, word choice, and formal structure, Keating brings to the discussion a range of new and lesser known voices which decisively complicate...
by Keith Green, Jill LeBihan
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
Critical Teory and Practice answers lots of questions, but also stimulates new ones. Its tailor-made combination of survey, reader and workbook is ideal for the beginning - perhaps even bewildered - student of literary theory.
The work is divided into seven chapters, each of which contains guiding...
by Nick Bentley
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This essential guide provides a comprehensive survey of the most important debates in the criticism and research of contemporary British fiction. Nick Bentley analyses the criticism surrounding a range of British novelists including Monica Ali, Martin Amis, Pat Barker, Alan Hollinghurst, Kazuo Ishiguro,...