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In "Morals Versus Art," Anthony Comstock embarks on a provocative exploration of the complicated interplay between artistic expression and moral accountability. Written at the turn of the 20th centu……続きを見る

Reconstruction-era literature helped shape an ongoing national debate about proper remedies to racial wrongs. In this powerful book, Brook Thomas revisits the contested era of Reconstruction. He evo……続きを見る

Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) and in the end of book include a bonus link to the free audiobook. The Prince is the most controversial book about winning power - and holding on to it - eve……続きを見る

In "Essays Literary, Critical and Historical," Thomas O'Hagan presents a meticulous exploration of various literary phenomena, spanning critical theory, historical context, and stylistic nuances. Th……続きを見る

In 'The Ethics of George Eliot's Works' by John Crombie Brown, the author delves into the moral and ethical themes prevalent throughout the works of the renowned 19th-century novelist, George Eliot.……続きを見る

In "An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times," Thomas Hill Green critically examines the role of fiction within the socio-political landscape of the late 19th centu……続きを見る

The historical novel is an enduringly popular genre that raises crucial questions about key literary concepts, fact and fiction, identity, history, reading, and writing. In this comprehensive, focus……続きを見る

In this study of the study of the linguistic approach to narrative structures, the author examines the question of point of view in fiction, drawing examples from Czech literature. He applies the me……続きを見る

Elements of Criticism the view of static or subjective tenets in literary composition, and endeavors to create a novel hypothesis based on the principles of human nature. The late eighteenth-century……続きを見る

An updated edition of a major work in trauma studies. Trauma and its aftermath pose acute problems for historical representation and understanding. In Writing History, Writing Trauma, Dominick LaCap……続きを見る

Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage provides the first sustained reading of Restoration plays through a performance theory lens. This approach shows that an analysis of the conjoin……続きを見る

This book examines the relationship between nihilism and postmodernism in relation to the sublime, and is divided into three parts: history, theory, and praxis. Arguing against the simplistic divisi……続きを見る

Holden Caulfield, the beat writers, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and James Deanーthese and other avatars of youthful rebellion were much more than entertainment. As Leerom Medovoi shows, they were of……続きを見る

Knowing a second language entails some unease; it requires a willingness to make mistakes and work through misunderstandings. The renowned literary scholar Doris Sommer argues that feeling funny is ……続きを見る

How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficients? The essays in Distant Reading led to a new and often contested paradigm……続きを見る

Becoming a father was the main way that an individual in the English Renaissance could be treated as a full member of the community. Yet patriarchal identity was by no means as secure as is often as……続きを見る

Europe (in Theory) is an innovative analysis of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ideas about Europe that continue to inform thinking about culture, politics, and identity today. Drawing on insight……続きを見る

This book takes a new look at the place occupied by medieval Spanish epic within European folk and literary tradition. Thomas Montgomery traces the origins of key parts of most known medieval Spanis……続きを見る

The topos of the journey is one of the oldest in literature, and even in this age of packaged tours and mediated experience, it still remains one of the most compelling. This volume examines the way……続きを見る

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's conception of "the willing suspension of disbelief" marks a pivotal moment in the history of literary theory. Returning to Coleridge's thought and Shakespeare criticism to ……続きを見る

Jane Austen the Reader explains Austen's excellence and endurance by showing how her writing developed as a response to the writing of others: as parody, satire, criticism and even, on occasion, hom……続きを見る

Today’s film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectivesーthey’re just as likely to cite philosopher Gilles Deleuze as they are to quote classic film theorist André Bazin. To stu……続きを見る

The Renaissance and the Postmodern reconsiders postmodern readings of Renaissance texts by engaging in a dialectics the authors call comparative critical values. Rather than concede the contemporary……続きを見る

In this new book Zygmunt Bauman and Riccardo Mazzeo examine the contentious issue of the relation between literature (and the arts in general) and sociology (or, more generally, a branch of the huma……続きを見る

The rise of modern science stirred up a mix of unease and exhilaration that profoundly influenced early modern English literature. During the scientific revolution, the dominant Aristotelian picture……続きを見る

Contemporary criticism of Donne has tended to ignore the historical culture and ideology that conditioned his writings, reinforcing the traditionally accepted model of the poet as a humanist of ethi……続きを見る

Analysis of improvisation as a compositional practice in the Commedia dell'Arte and related traditions from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Domenic Pietropaolo takes textual material from the s……続きを見る

John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination reassesses Thelwall's eclectic body of work from the perspective of his heterodox materialist arguments about the imagination, political reform, and the……続きを見る

Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism offers a typology of alien encounters and addresses a range of texts including classic novels of alien encounter by H.G. Wells and R……続きを見る

This is a methodical study of the material and mental limits and possibilities of transferring information and media traits among dissimilar media. Elleström proposes a model for pinpointing the mos……続きを見る