Literary Criticism

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by Virginia Woolf (Author), Urmila Seshagiri (Editor)'What do we seek through millions of pages? Still hopefully turning the pages -- oh, here is Jacob's room.' Who is Jacob Flanders? Virginia Woolf's third novel, published in 1922 alongside James Joyce's Ulysses and T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, follows this elusive title character from a sunlit childhood on the Cornwall coast to adventures in Cambridge, London, and Athens. Women fall in love with Jacob; young men desire his company and conve...

The Library of Greek Mythology - Paperback

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by Apollodorus (Author), Robin Hard (Translator)The only work of its kind to survive from classical antiquity, the Library of Apollodorus is a unique guide to Greek mythology, from the origins of the universe to the Trojan War. Apollodorus' Library has been used as a source book by classicists from the time of its compilation in the 1st-2nd century BC to the present, influencing writers from antiquity to Robert Graves. It provides a complete history of Greek myth, telling the story of each of...

Florilegio De Las Letras En Español En Los Estados Unidos - Paperback

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by Víctor Fuentes (Editor)Properly named "Florilegio" (flower picking), in this work Professor Víctor Fuentes collects literary texts written in Spanish within the territory of the United States of America.Presenting them along details of the cultural historical context, and how that literary world and its publications developed through the centuries, this "florilegio" aims to "sow the seeds of a History of the Spanish Language Literature in the United States, waiting to be written", in Profe...

The Teachers & Writers Guide to Classic American Literature

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Report copyright infringementby Gary Lenhart (Editor)Published by Teachers & Writers Collaborative in association with The Library of America, The T&W Guide to Classic American Literature is an anthology of essays that provides rich and diverse approaches and insights to writers and teachers of writing at all levels. These include introducing third graders to Gertrude Stein, teaching Emily Dickinson's poetry to prisoners, and using the model of Henry David Thoreau's journals in the co...

The Spirit of Controversy: And Other Essays - Paperback

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by William Hazlitt (Author), Jon Mee (Editor), James Grande (Editor)William Hazlitt (1778-1830) is among the most brilliant critics and essayists to have ever written in the English language. Combative and insightful, he was close to two generations of romantic poets. His early friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth as a young man inspired him to a literary career, but he became disillusioned with them as apostates from the cause of liberty he associated with the Frenc...

The Christian Mission of Jesus - Paperback

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by Don Wesley Davis (Author)The Gospel of Mark begins with the author telling his readers that Jesus came proclaiming the Kingdom of God and that he had something very specific to say about his upcoming ministry in Galilee. Mark gives his readers the exact wording of Jesus' mission statement in Mark 1:15, which are words that Jesus would have spoken almost four decades prior to Mark's time of writing. Scholars have treated the quote as a mix of possible 'authentic' remembrances of Jesus, on t...

Moving Diorama in Play: William Dunlap's Comedy A Trip to Niagara (1828)

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Report copyright infringementby Dorothy B. Richardson (Author)A Trip to Niagara; or, Travellers in America, a three-act comedy, opened at New York's Bowery Theatre on November 28, 1828, for a long run. Scripted and later published by William Dunlap (1766-1839), the so-called "father of the American stage," this play offers a bounty to theater historians, dramatic critics, and all those interested in the American culture during Dunlap's lifetime. This study explores the Bowery, the play's movi...

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Report copyright infringementby Viola Julia Davis (Author), Junior R. Campbell (Foreword by)A study of Caribbean literary Nobel laurete Derek Walcott's work as a playwright. This aspect of Walcott's literary output is typically neglected as his work as a poet is normally stressed. Author Viola Davis originally wrote the book for her doctoral thesis at the University of the West Indies. This is Davis' second book on Caribbean literature. Her first, "The Creative Use of Schizophrenia in Caribbe...

Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend

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Report copyright infringementby Rebecca Romney (Author)From rare book dealer and guest star of the hit show Pawn Stars, a page-turning literary adventure featuring "your favorite author's favorite authors" (Today)--the women who inspired Jane Austen--that's "a meditation on reading and writing, on honesty and self-discovery--and on what books can teach us, if we let them" (The Washington Post). Long before she was a rare book dealer, Rebecca Romney was a devoted reader of Jane Austen. She lov...

Reading Roman Declamation - Calpurnius Flaccus

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Report copyright infringementby Martin T. Dinter (Editor), Charles Guérin (Editor), Marcos Martinho (Editor)As a genre situated at the crossroad of rhetoric and fiction declamatio offers the freedom to experiment with new forms of discourse. Placing the literariness of declamatio into the spotlight, this volume showcases declamation as a realm of genuine literary creation with its own theoretical underpinning, literary technique and generic conventions. Focusing on the oeuvre of Calpurnius Fl...

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Report copyright infringementby Tony Jason Stafford (Author)Picture the young George Bernard Shaw spending long days in the Reading Room of the British Museum, pursuing a self-taught education, all the while longing for the green landscapes of his native Ireland. It is no coincidence that gardens and libraries often set the scene for Shaw's plays, yet scholars have seldom drawn attention to the fact until now.Exposing the subtle interplay of these two settings as a key pattern throughout Shaw...

In Sheep's Clothing: The Arcane, Profane and Subversive in Shakespeare

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Report copyright infringementby Sidney Wade Stout (Author)This book examines some of the readings that were available to Shakespeare. It exposes the reader to works not normally associated with this playwright and suggests ways on how philosophical ideas of the day may have influenced his writings. The works profiled include such renaissance philosophers as Ficino, Pico della Mirandola and Giordano Bruno. Shakespeare's incorporation of their ideas into his plays transforms the plays into much...

Pedro Calderón de La Barca, 'La Devoción de La Cruz'/ August Wilhelm Schlegel, 'Die Andacht Zum Kreuze'

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Report copyright infringementby Pedro Calderaon de la Barca (Author), Carol Tully (Editor)August Wilhelm Schlegel's translation of 'La devoción de la Cruz', part of a series of works by Calderón which he published between 1803 and 1809 under the title 'Spanisches Theater', was integral to the early German Romantic apotheosis of Golden Age Spain. The 1803 first edition of 'Die Andacht zum Kreuze' was warmly received by major writers including Goethe (who was privy to the manuscript prior to pu...

Angelo Beolco (il Ruzante), La prima oratione

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Report copyright infringementby Linda L. Carroll (Editor)This volume presents a full transcription of the three extant manuscripts of Angelo Beolco's Prima oratione, delivered to Cardinal Marco Cornaro in 1521 at his villa in Asolo subsequent to his entrance as bishop of Padua.Praising the new bishop on his accomplishment, the peasant orator expounds boisterously on the agricultural riches of the Paduan countryside and concludes with a request that the bishop enact a series of laws that will ...

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Fischlin (Editor), Andrew Bretz (Introduction by), Martha Burns (Introduction by)Human identities unravel under the light of the Midsummer moon . . . Shakespeare's popular comedy probes both the light and the dark side of desire, as unseen beings manipulate individual perceptions in the forest beyond the civilized world. Andrew Bretz's thought-provoking introduction to the play reminds us of the early modern concept of fairies: far from the ethereal cre...

A Shavian Guide to the Intelligent Woman

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara Bellow Watson (Author) Number of Pages: 260 Dimensions: 0.59 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: September 22, 2008

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Report copyright infringementby Viola J. Davis (Author)Dr. Viola Davis' THE CREATIVE USE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA IN CARIBBEAN WRITING, (Revised Edition) focuses on the literary works of four of the Caribbean's most prominent writers: Edward 'Kamau' Brathwaite of Barbados, Wilson Harris of Guyana, VS. Naipaul of Trinidad and Tobago and Derek Walcott of St. Lucia. Both Naipaul and Walcott have since become Nobel Laureates in Literature. Dr. Davis uses the idea of the use of schizophrenia as the basis ...

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Report copyright infringementby Susan J. Owen (Author)Restoration Theatre and Crisis is a seminal study of the drama of the Restoration, in particular that of the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis. This was the time of unprecedented political partisanship in the theatre. This book considers all the known plays of this period, including works by Dryden and Behn, in their historical context. It examines the complex ways in which the drama both reflected and intervened in the political process, a...

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Report copyright infringementby Athol Fugard (Author)Aging farm laborer Nukain has spent his life transforming the rocks at Revolver Creek into a vibrant garden of painted flowers. Now the final unpainted rock as well as his young companion Bokkie has forced Nukain to confront his legacy as a painter a person and a black man in 1980s South Africa. When the landowner's wife arrives with demands about the painting the profound rifts of a country hurtling toward the end of apartheid are laid bar...

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Report copyright infringementby Victor L. Cahn (Author)Characters 1 male, 1 female Dramatic ComedyIn this play of letters, a young official in a college alumni off ce invites a celebrated but reclusive author to the thirty-fifth reunion of his class. When he declines, she charmingly prods him, and thereby begins a witty and revelatory correspondence that becomes part mystery, part memory, and part romance. Rich and revealing." - The New Yorker "Written beautifully as a series of letters, thi...

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Report copyright infringementby Friedrich Von Schiller (Author), Laurence Senelick (Translator)Ferdinand is an army major and son of President von Walter, a high-ranking noble in a German duke's court, while Luise Miller is the daughter of a middle-class musician. The couple fall in love with each other, but both their fathers tell them to end their affair. The President instead wants to expand his own influence by marrying Ferdinand to Lady Milford, the duke's mistress, but Ferdinand rebels ...

Durban Dialogues Dissected: An Analysis of Ashwin Singh's Plays

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Report copyright infringementby Felicity Hand (Editor)This volume provides an in-depth analysis of the work of Indian South African playwright Ashwin Singh, which, through the diversity of characters from all ethnic backgrounds, forges an inclusive South African identity. The essays in this volume show how Singh's plays bring South Africa's blatant prejudices and social ills to the forefront as only by confronting unpleasant realities can any far-reaching changes actually take place. The acad...

Ours as We Play It: Australia Plays Shakespeare

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Report copyright infringementby Kate Flaherty (Author)Shakespeare's plays are permeable to the contexts in which they are performed, taking on and speaking to local concerns. Early modern audiences would have experienced the humor and resonance of local identification with his plays. The same is true in present day Australia, where the content of that local identification with Shakespeare's plays is uniquely Australian. Ours As We Play It documents the use of Shakespeare's works to explore co...

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Report copyright infringementby Jerome K. Jerome (Author)Jerome K Jerome was born in 1859. He was an English humorist best known for this travelogue Three Men in A Boat. Jerome decided to try his hand at acting, under the stage name Harold Crichton. He joined a repertory troupe, which had little money. The actors often had to use their own money to purchase costumes. Essays in this collection include The Hero, The Villain, The Heroine, The Comic Man, The Lawyer, The Adventuress, The Servant G...

James Graham Plays: 1: A History of Falling Things, Tory Boyz, the Man, the Whisky Taster, Sons of York

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Report copyright infringementby James Graham (Author)This collection brings together four of Graham's most successful and entertaining plays, each representing a relationship with a theatre with which he has worked and introduced by the author. One of the plays, Sons of York, has never before been published, but earned James Graham a nomination for the Empty Space Mark Marvin Award. A History of Falling Things is a gentle love story about a young man and woman forced to confront their fears o...

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Report copyright infringementby Carol Chillington Rutter (Author)This book writes a performance history of Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare's most ambiguous play, from 1606 to the present. It observes the choices that actors, directors, designers, musicians and adapters have made each time they have brought the play's thoughts on power, race, masculinity, regime change, exoticism, love, dotage and delinquency into alignment with a new present. Informed by close attention to theatre records -...

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Report copyright infringementby George Greenwood (Author)Shakespeare's Signatures and Sir Thomas More by George Greenwood is a book that explores the authorship of the play Sir Thomas More, which is believed to have been written in part by William Shakespeare. The book delves into the historical context of the play, including the political and religious turmoil of the time, and examines the evidence that suggests Shakespeare's involvement in its creation. Greenwood analyzes the language and s...

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Report copyright infringementby Julia Lacey Broke (Author)Enter the Malcontent... a misfit, an outcast, a 'strayer from the drove', one who laughs at the follies of others from a distance, like Jacques, or who snarls and rails acerbically like Thersites or Timon. Sometimes, like Iago, he has murder in his heart. He might be an alienated intellectual, like Bosola or Flamineo, with an education he cannot use, or a cynical adventurer like Bussy, or a revenger, like Vindice, out to right wrongs; ...

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Report copyright infringementby Julia Lacey Brooke (Author)Enter the Malcontent... a misfit, an outcast, a 'strayer from the drove', one who laughs at the follies of others from a distance, like Jacques, or who snarls and rails acerbically like Thersites or Timon. Sometimes, like Iago, he has murder in his heart. He might be an alienated intellectual, like Bosola or Flamineo, with an education he cannot use, or a cynical adventurer like Bussy, or a revenger, like Vindice, out to right wrongs;...

An Ocean in My Soul: A One-Act Play by Charise Sowells

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Report copyright infringementby Charise Sowells (Author)A multiracial teen is torn between worlds spanning time and space, united by the waves of the Black Atlantic. Number of Pages: 38 Dimensions: 0.08 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: December 17, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Joyce H. Sexton (Author)Shakespeare's four plays on the theme of the slandered woman -- Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Cymbeline and The Winter's Tale -- reveal Shakespeare's lasting absorption with the theme of false accusation. Number of Pages: 106 Dimensions: 0.22 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: March 12, 2016

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Report copyright infringementby Gustave Flaubert (Author)The Temptation of St. Anthony, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and redesigned. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work, an...