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The Gothic Wanderer
From Transgression to Redemption; Gothic Literature from 1794 - present
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The Gothic Wanderer Rises Eternal in Popular Literature
From the horrors of sixteenth century Italian castles to twenty-first century plagues, from the French Revolution to the liberation of Libya, Tyler R. Tichelaar takes readers on far more than a journey through literary history. The Gothic Wanderer...
by Paul Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This book examines the institutional history and disciplinary future of creative writing in the contemporary academy, looking well beyond the perennial questions 'can writing be taught?' and 'should writing be taught?'.
Paul Dawson traces the emergence of creative writing alongside the new criticism...
Audio Drama Reviews: Three Years 100 Reviews
Audio Drama Review Collections, #1
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2015
Audio Drama Reviews was founded on the principle of helping small audio drama companies get the word out about their audio fiction works. Rather than simply promote them, founder Michael L. Bergonzi took a different route. Reviews.
Three Years and 100 reviews later, this ebook was released,...
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...
Shakespeare's Festive Comedy
A Study of Dramatic Form and Its Relation to Social Custom
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
In this classic work, acclaimed Shakespeare critic C. L. Barber argues that Elizabethan seasonal festivals such as May Day and Twelfth Night are the key to understanding Shakespeare's comedies. Brilliantly interweaving anthropology, social history, and literary criticism, Barber traces the inward...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2001
This book offers a comprehensive, readable and authoritative introduction to the study of Shakespeare, by means of nineteen newly commissioned essays. An international team of prominent scholars provide a broadly cultural approach to the chief literary, performative and historical aspects of Shakespeare's...
by James Kincaid
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
What happens when bad criticism happens to good people? Annoying the Victorians sets the tradition of critical discourse and literary criticism on its ear, as well as a few other areas. James Kincaid brings his witty, erudite and thoroughly cynical self to the Victorians, and they will never read (or be read) quite the same.
The Undiscovered Country
Poetry in the Age of Tin
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2008
William Logan has been called both the "preeminent poet-critic of his generation" and the "most hated man in American poetry." For more than a quarter century, in the keen-witted and bare-knuckled reviews that have graced the New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement...
A Way of Happening
Observations of Contemporary Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
One of our most acclaimed and versatile authors, Fred Chappell is comfortably at home in fiction, poetry, and literary criticism. A Way of Happening gathers his essays and reviews of contemporary poetry. Chappell consider new writers as well as more established authors, including Alfred Corn, William...
by Henry Louis Gates
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 1988
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s original, groundbreaking study explores the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature, elaborating a new critical approach located within this tradition that allows the black voice to speak for itself. Examining the ancient...
Envisioning Black Feminist Voodoo Aesthetics
African Spirituality in American Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
In the twenty-first century, American popular culture increasingly makes visible the performance of African spirituality by black women. Disney’s Princess and the Frog and Pirates of the Caribbean franchise are two notable examples. The reliance on the black priestess of African-derived religion...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
The imaginative literature of African and Afro-American authors writing in Western languages has long been seen as standing outside the Western literary canon. In fact, however, black literature not only has a complex formal relation to that canon, but tends to revise and reflect Western rhetorical...
by Eric Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Eric Griffiths delivered hundreds of lectures at the Faculty of English in Cambridge, yet his lectures were never turned into books. If Not Critical brings together ten lectures, published here for the first time, that offer a representative selection of Dr Griffiths' original, fully-argued, and richly...
by William H. Race
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
First published in 1988, this study explains how certain genres created by Classical poets were adapted and sometimes transformed by the poets of the modern world, beginning with the Tudor poets’ rediscovery of the Classical heritage. Most of the long-lived poetic genres are discussed, from familiar...