Criticism category: 58377 books
Psyche and Symbol in the Theater of Federico Garcia Lorca
Perlimplin, Yerma, Blood Wedding
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Symbol and psyche are twin concepts in contemporary symbological studies, where the symbol is considered to be a "statement" by the psyche. The psyche is a manifold of conscious and unconscious contents, and the symbol is their mediator. Because Lorca's dramatic characters are psychic entities made up...
by Virginia Higginbotham
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
During the years since his death, Federico García Lorca, Spain's best-known twentieth-century poet and playwright, has generally been considered a writer of tragedy. Three of his major plays are fatalistic stories of suffering and death, and his poetry is filled with dread. Yet most of Lorca's dramatic...
Shakespearean Sensations
Experiencing Literature in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
This strong and timely collection provides fresh insights into how Shakespeare's plays and poems were understood to affect bodies, minds and emotions. Contemporary criticism has had surprisingly little to say about the early modern period's investment in imagining literature's impact on feeling. Shakespearean...
The Unimagined in the English Renaissance
Poetry and the Limits of Mimesis
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
When we read poetry, we tend to believe that we are getting a glimpse of the interior of the poet’s mind—pictures from the poet’s imagination relayed through the representative power of language. But poets themselves sometimes express doubt (usually indirectly) that poetic language has the capability...
Hemingway's The Garden of Eden
Twenty-five Years of Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The first book-length study of the novel that transformed Hemingway scholarship
When The Garden of Eden appeared in 1986, roughly twenty-five years after Ernest Hemingway's death, it was a watershed event that changed readers' and scholars' perceptions of the famous American author. Following...
by R. Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Via readings of novels by J.M. Coetzee, Timothy Mo and Salman Rushdie and the later poetry of W.B. Yeats, this book reveals how postcolonial writing can encourage the enlarged sense of moral and political responsibility needed to supplant ongoing forms of imperial violence with cosmopolitan institutions, relationships and ways of thinking.
by Mariam Konaté Deme
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
There exists a strong tendency within Western literary criticism to either deny the existence of epics in Africa or to see African literatures as exotic copies of European originals. In both cases, Western criticism has largely failed to acknowledge the distinctiveness of African literary aesthetics....
Celtic Shakespeare
The Bard and the Borderers
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Drawing together some of the leading academics in the field of Shakespeare studies, this volume examines the commonalities and differences in addressing a notionally 'Celtic' Shakespeare. Celtic contexts have been established for many of Shakespeare's plays, and there has been interest too in the...
Authority, Piracy, and Captivity in Colonial Spanish American Writing
Juan de Castellanos's Elegies of Illustrious Men of the Indies
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Authority, Piracy, and Captivity in Colonial Spanish American Writing examines the intricate bond between poetry and history writing that shaped the theory and practice of empire in early colonial Spanish-American society. The book explores from diverse perspectives how epic and heroic poetry served...
Re-reading Italian Americana
Specificities and Generalities on Literature and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
This book is divided into three sections. The first section deals with the general situation of Italian/American literature and its reception both in the United States and in Italy. It also discusses other social and cultural issues that pertain to Italian Americana. Section two consists of six chapters,...
The Voyageur Canadian Essays & Criticism 2-Book Bundle
Selected Writings, A.J.M. Smith / The Kindred of the Wild
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Voyageur Classics is a series of new versions of Canadian classics, with added material and special introductions. In this bundle we find two classic works of the art of the Canadian essay. Charles G.D. Roberts was a distinguished writer of his time who published more than forty volumes of poetry,...
The Dancer and the Dance
A Book of Distinctions
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Jack Foley’s The Dancer and the Dance: A Book of Distinctions deliberately challenges many conventional ways of thinking about poetry. Though extremely scholarly and aware of the “tradition,” Foley offers readings rooted in a consciousness which is simultaneously non academic and open to the...
by Niall W. Slater
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
In the Alcestis, the title character sacrifices her own life to save that of her husband, Admetus, when he is presented with the opportunity to have someone die in his place. Alcestis compresses within itself both tragedy and its apparent reversal, staging in the process fascinating questions about...
by Gabriele D'Annunzio
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Tra il luglio e l’agosto del 1893 sul quotidiano romano La Tribuna sotto il titolo Il caso Wagner appaiono tre articoli in cui Gabriele d’Annunzio prende le difese del grande compositore attaccato duramente da Nietzsche. Il pamphlet scritto dal filosofo contro l’amico di un tempo lo ha profondamente...