Literary Criticism

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Report copyright infringementby Matthew Wright (Author)"Orestes" was one of Euripides' most popular plays in antiquity. Its plot, which centres on Orestes' murder of his mother Clytemnestra and its aftermath, is exciting as well as morally complex; its presentation of madness is unusually intense and disturbing; it deals with politics in a way which has resonances for both ancient and modern democracies; and, it has a brilliantly unexpected and ironic ending. Nevertheless, "Orestes" is not mu...

Le Philosophe sans le savoir by Michel-Jean Sedaine

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Report copyright infringementby Derek Connon (Translator)In May 1760 the Comédie-Française performed a play by Charles Palissot de Montenoy entitled Les Philosophes (The Philosophes), an attack on the group of writers known by that name. In the audience was Michel-Jean Sedaine, who, although not a member of the group himself, was sufficiently shocked by this attack on serious authors and thinkers to decide that he should write a reply to Palissot's work. At least in part because the use of th...

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Report copyright infringementby Kelsey Ridge (Author)Kelsey Ridge provides a thorough overview of how we can use trauma theory to understand Shakespeare through its intellectual and practical application. Ridge covers the history of trauma theory from Freud and shell shock to Holocaust studies and PTSD, drawing on psychoanalytic theory, feminist theory, post-colonial theory and disability studies. She also looks at the expansive and growing history of trauma-informed Shakespeare productions a...

Synge, Connolly, and Socialist Provocation

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Report copyright infringementby Nelson O. Ritschel (Author)"With great skill, Nelson O Ceallaigh Ritschel has constructed a gripping intellectual narrative out of the Irish national debate over socialism that led to the Easter Uprising of 1916."--John A. Bertolini, author of The Playwriting Self of Bernard Shaw "Ritschel's reputation as one of the most insightful writers on the interplay of early Irish theatre and the broader culture within which it operated is confirmed again by Shaw, Synge,...

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Report copyright infringementby Harold Bloom (Author)Harold Bloom on The Merchant of Venice "Shylock's prose is Shakespeare's best before Falstaff's...His utterances manifest a spirit so potent, malign, and negative as to be unforgettable."Author BiographyHarold Bloom is a Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His more than forty books include The Anxiety of Influence, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, The Western C...

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Report copyright infringementby August Strindberg (Author)Drama. Translated from the Swedish by Paul Walsh. THE CHAMBER PLAYS OF AUGUST STRINDBERG are five short plays written by Strindberg at the end of his career for the Intimate Theater, a small 150 seat theater in Stockholm: Storm, Burned House, The Ghost Sonata, The Pelican, and The Black Glove.The plays experiment with style in bold and exciting ways and show Strindberg to be one of the fathers of avant garde theater.THE CHAMBER PLAYS O...

Who's Afraid of Bernard Shaw?: Some Personalities in Shaw's Plays

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Report copyright infringementby Stanley Weintraub (Author)"Splendid. This book continually surprises and entertains with its revelations about Shaw's engagement with an impressive array of historical and contemporary figures, ranging from Jesus to Virginia Woolf. This is a virtuoso performance by a maestro of Shaw studies."--A. M. Gibbs, author of Bernard Shaw: A Life "Ur-Shavian Stanley Weintraub's great virtues as a writer are stunning erudition and a consistently high level of readability....

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Report copyright infringementby Stanley W. Wells (Editor), Jonathan Bate (Editor), Michael Dobson (Editor)Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of the previous year's textual and critical studies and of major Bri...

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Report copyright infringementby Judith Fletcher (Author), Simon Shepherd (Editor)Classical Greek Tragedy offers a comprehensive survey of the development of classical Greek tragedy combined with close readings of exemplary texts. Reconstructing how audiences in fifth-century BCE Athens created meaning from the performance of tragedy at the dramatic festivals sponsored by the city-state and its wealthiest citizens, it considers the context of Athenian political and legal structures, gender ide...

Shakespeare's Comic Changes: The Time-Lapse Metaphor as Plot Device

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Report copyright infringementby Roger L. Cox (Author)Perhaps the central question about Shakespeare's comedies is whether they form a single group we can meaningfully call "Shakespearean comedy." The problem arises in locating a unifying principle that is not so broad as to lack interpretive value. In Shakespeare's Comic Changes, Roger L. Cox argues that the thread connecting almost all of Shakespeare's comedies is a plot in which character change is presented metaphorically instead of realis...

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Report copyright infringementby Wilfred E. Major (Author)The Court of Comedy: Aristophanes, Rhetoric, and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens, by Wilfred E. Major, analyzes how writers of comedy in Classical Greece satirized the emerging art of rhetoric and its role in political life. In the fifth century BCE, the development of rhetoric proceeded hand in hand with the growth of democracy both on Sicily and at Athens. In turn, comic playwrights in Athens, most notably Aristophanes, lampooned o...

The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Queen Mary

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Report copyright infringementby Alfred Tennyson (Author), William J. Rolfe (Author)Tennyson's poetic drama portrays the life and reign of Mary Tudor with lyrical gravity and historical depth. Set during England's fraught transition from Protestant to Catholic rule, the play explores themes of power, persecution, and personal anguish. With richly drawn characters and tragic pacing, it offers a meditation on leadership, legacy, and the high cost of political conviction.Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baro...

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author)Othello is one of Shakespeare's four major tragedies. With its varied and enduring themes of love, jealousy, betrayal, racism, sexism, revenge and repentance, Othello is perhaps Shakespeare's most accessible tragedy. It is frequently performed in professional and community theatre, and has been the source for numerous operatic, film, and literary adaptations. Number of Pages: 298 Dimensions: 0.62 x 9.02 x 5....

Valentio Di'buondelmonte: A Tragedy in Five Acts

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Report copyright infringementby Haig A. Khatchadourian (Author), Roy Arthur Swanson (Foreword by)Valentio Di' Buondelmonte is a Tragedy in Five Acts, in two Parts, based on tragic historical events in Florence, Italy, in 1215 A.D. Part I consists of the Tragedy in Elizabethan English, in blank verse; Part II consists of the Tragedy in modern English, in free verse.Author BiographyHaig Khatchadourian is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the author...

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Report copyright infringementby William Boyd (Editor)In 1979, a young American graduate revived an old Cambridge University magazine and created a home for good writing of all kinds - reportage, fiction, memoir, biography - as well as photography, and occasionally, poetry. This special issue celebrates Granta's 100th issue. Number of Pages: 256 Dimensions: 0.74 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN Publication Date: January 07, 2008

A History of Theatrical Art in Ancient and Modern Times: Molière and His Times: The Theatre in France in the 17Th Century

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Report copyright infringementby Karl Mantzius (Author)This comprehensive history of theatrical art spans from ancient Greece to the 17th century in France. Featuring detailed analyses of plays and productions, as well as biographical information on key figures in the theater, this book provides a valuable resource for students and scholars of theater history. With a focus on the work of the great French playwright Molière and the theater scene in 17th century France, this volume offers a uniq...

Associate Professor Akira Takatsuki's Conjecture Ex: Volume 1

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Report copyright infringementby Mikage Sawamura (Author), Katelyn Smith (Translator)FORGOTTEN TALES FROM THE DESK OF PROFESSOR TAKATSUKI!Professor Mitani, a specialist in modern Japanese history, shows up at Takatsuki's office clutching a mysterious doll. After Mitani posted a photo of it to his blog, someone claiming to be the granddaughter of the doll's original owner reached out, describing how it used to grow hair and move around on its own. Takatsuki's ghost-story sensors start tingling,...

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Report copyright infringementby Yuri Yumemi (Author), Wata (Artist), Andrew Cunningham (Translator)A DEDICATED, DETERMINED DETECTIVE...COMPLICIT?!Detective Rogue Macabesta of the Magic Crimes Bureau got the promotion he never wanted! He's been saddled with the Sixth Precinct--a covert operation fighting fire with fire. His career of locking up perpetrators of magic crimes has been flipped on its head, and he must now work alongside witches to solve high-profile cases. He warmed up to Miseria,...

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Callanan (Author), Robert Spoo (Foreword by)A major new biography that reveals how politics profoundly shaped Joyce's life, thought and writings The young James Joyce (1882-1941) was forged in the smithy of Irish political controversies, and he took into his European exile a depth of political insight unrivalled among his fellow modernists. In this biography of Joyce in his youth and early exile, acclaimed Irish historian and biographer Frank Callanan rev...

A/Moral Economics: Classical Political Economy and Cultural Authority in Nineteenthth-Century England

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Report copyright infringementby Claudia C. Klaver (Author)A/Moral Economics is an interdisciplinary historical study that examines the ways which social "science" of economics emerged through the discourse of the literary, namely the dominant moral and fictional narrative genres of early and mid-Victorian England. In particular, this book argues that the classical economic theory of early-nineteenth-century England gained its broad cultural authority not directly, through the well- known text...

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Report copyright infringementby T. Wemyss Reid (Author)"Charlotte Brontë - A Monograph" is an 1877 treatise on the life and work of Charlotte Brontë by English biographer Reid T. Wemyss. Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, and the oldest sister in the world-famous trio of literary sisters. Along with her sisters', her novels have become classics of English literature still read and enjoyed by people of all ages the world over. Contents include: "The Story...

A Windfall Homestead: The Life and Times of Henry Buckberry, with Two Introductions by Efrazima Fiddlehead Plus an Afterword and Henry Buckb

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Report copyright infringementby Seedy Buckberry (Author)In volume one of Henry Buckberry's stories (Get Poor Now, Avoid the Rush), we followed Henry from his early childhood in central North Dakota to the dark, dangerous woods of northern Wisconsin. Get Poor Now concluded in September of 1933, with Henry about to survey the devastation of a forest fire that almost burned up his log shack. A Windfall Homestead takes us into the next two decades of Henry's productive, energetic life, as he logs...

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by Richard Higgins (Author)Meditative reflections on the great spiritual seeker's deeply felt experience of the divine. Henry David Thoreau's spiritual life is a riddle. Thoreau's passionate critique of formal religion is matched only by his rapturous descriptions of encounters with the divine in nature. He fled the church only to pursue a deeper communion with a presence he felt at the heart of the universe. He called this illimitable presence many names, but he often called it God. In Tho...

Assessing Communication. Integrated Approaches in Political, Social and Business Context

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Report copyright infringementby Michele Sorice (Editor)What are the relationships between news media and public relations? What happens when a negative event seems to destroy many years of corporation's good reputation? Is credibility really a transferable value? Are public relation activities social and intangible issues? How to use media management and public relations to reverse a corporate and/or personal image tarnished by the media? What is the "mud machine" in political communication a...

Ditch Vision: Essays on Poetry, Nature, and Place

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Report copyright infringementby Jeremy Hooker (Author)Ditch Vision is a book of essays on poetry, nature, and place that extends Jeremy Hooker's thinking on subjects that, as a distinguished critic and poet, he has made his life's work. The writers he considers include Edward Thomas, Robert Frost, Robinson Jeffers, Richard Jefferies, John Cowper Powys, Mary Butts, and Frances Bellerby. Through sensitive readings of these and other writers, he discusses differences between British and American...

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Report copyright infringementby Albert Bigelow Paine (Compiled by)In his own incomparable voice, America's greatest humorist reveals the man behind the legend.Mark Twain spent the final years of his life dictating his autobiography, speaking freely and without constraint about his triumphs, his tragedies, and everything in between. The result is a work unlike any other-rambling, brilliant, hilarious, and heartbreaking by turns.From his boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri, to his adventures out West...

So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading

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Report copyright infringementby Sara Nelson (Author)"Will make many readers smile with recognition."--The New Yorker "Readaholics, meet your new best friend."--People "This book is bliss."--The Boston Globe Sometimes subtle, sometimes striking, the interplay between our lives and our books is the subject of this unique memoir by well-known publishing correspondent and self-described "readaholic" Sara Nelson. The project began as an experiment with a simple plan--fifty-two weeks, fifty-two boo...

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Report copyright infringementby Bruce McCulloch (Author) Number of Pages: 304 Dimensions: 0.76 x 8 x 5.31 IN Publication Date: April 30, 2024

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by James Joyce (Author)The Gabler edition of Ulysses, the greatest 20th-century novel written in English, contains corrections to more than 5,000 errors in earlier editions. Almost as soon as Ulysses first appeared, in Paris in 1922, James Joyce began to compile a list of errata, and publishers have continued the process ever since, often inadvertently adding to the list. In 1974, an international team of scholars headed by Professor Hans Walter Gabler began to study manuscript evidence, type...

English Literature and the Crusades - Hardcover

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by Marcel Elias (Author)An essential resource for anyone interested in crusade culture and Christian-Muslim relations, building on insights from postcolonialism and emotion studies to reinterpret late medieval crusade culture. This title is part of the Flip it Open programme and may also be available open access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details. Number of Pages: 252 Dimensions: 0.63 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: October 31, 2024

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by Roland Barthes (Author), Richard Howard (Translator)With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography--in short, both the sign-oriented realities and fantasies--of Japan itself.Author BiographyRoland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and the classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at universities in Romania and Egypt, he joined the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, w...

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Report copyright infringementby Roy Fisher (Author), Tony Frazer (Editor)This volume contains excerpts from several interviews conducted throughout the author's career and spliced together to form a coherent narrative of his development and his aesthetic. The book closes with two full-length interviews, conducted by Peter Robinson and John Kerrigan. Essential to an understanding of Roy Fisher's work as a poet. Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.34 x 9 x 6 IN ...