Literary Criticism

Beyond the desolate moors and marshes is Hrothgar's lighted hall, holding out against the encroaching dark. A mead-hall revered by all Norsemen, until one night Grendel, the fen-demon, bursts through the door.Beowulf is an epic Anglo-Saxon poem which is...

Harold Pinter's debt to Samuel Beckett is not a matter of direct copying or replication, but a natural progression of the postmodem dramatic form. Both Pinter and Beckett examine human violence, companionship, game playing, religion, and philosophy,...

Aristotle was one of history's greatest philosophers and one of Ancient Greece's seminal thinkers, a student of Plato's and a tutor of Alexander the Great's. Aristotle's book on Poetics is the earliest surviving work on dramatic theory and the first...

William Shakespeare is almost universally considered the English language's most famous and greatest writer. In fact, the only people who might dispute that are those who think he didn't write the surviving 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative...

William Shakespeare is almost universally considered the English language's most famous and greatest writer. In fact, the only people who might dispute that are those who think he didn't write the surviving 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative...

Walt Whitman is oe of America's most celebrated poets, and he was famous among his contemporaries in the mid-19th century, but that wasn't necessarily a good thing. The essayist and journalist made waves with his anthology Leaves of Grass, a collection...

Florus is one of the most famous Roman historians, and lived between the first and second centuries A.D. His Epitome of Roman History traces the history of Rome from its founding to approximately 25 A.D. This edition is translated by J.S. WatsonAuthor:...

A book out of the box: A story that smells of Freedom in each page and that is imbued of poetry, biography and thoughts highlight the expressiveness of the author with a heart to heart reading, unconditioned and free from any literary tendencies.Hope,...

A comedy play by William Shakespeare, with elements of fantasy. This is one of Shakespeare's most popular and well-loved plays, and is performed often throughout the world.Author: William ShakespearePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...

Zephyr House is please to publish this beautiful edition of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" for its inaugural volume of one poem. One poem and its sister series, one prose re-edition classic literature, poetry, and plays in historically accurate and easy...

In 1988, Alan Moore and Brian Bolland's BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE offered a violent, literate, and controversial take on the Joker's origins and his relationship with Batman.Now, Dr. Julian Darius examines it in the context of the high-art ambitions of...

INFINITE CRISIS wasn't just a crossover mini-series; it was a sprawling network of multiple such mini-series, leading both in and out of the main one. It redefined not only the DC Universe but what a crossover could be. In its scale, it exaggerated both...

A Guided Tour Things may not be immediately discernible in what Hemingway writes in part because he seems so transparent. Where other twentieth-century "greats" can be exasperatingly opaque, Hemingway is a sheer pleasure to read. The prose is crisp,...

This book is a poetic anthology composed by noted Caribbean Author; Dennis E. Adonis. It contains twelve beautiful poems ranging from dramatic, to emotional, to confrontational, and which is certain to capture your interest. Unlike other poetry books,...

No other run divides Legion of Super-Hero fans like Keith Giffen's. To detractors, it dismantled everything good about the series.In this short book, Dr. Julian Darius argues that Giffen's run offered an ambitious and unprecedented response to the...

A guide to sharing three of Shakespeare's best comedies: Background information, quotes, notes, Character-line charts, word searches and more. And students and scripts and you are off on an adventure to enjoy Shakespeare!Author: Catherine McGrew...

Daredevil is perhaps the one super-hero not defined by his villains so much as his loves. His major love affairs -- Elektra, Karen Page, Typhoid Mary, the Black Widow, Milla Donovan -- tend to end badly, often in murder, insanity, and betrayal. They...

Everything you need to study these three classic Shakespeare tragedies: Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo & Juliet. For each play you will find: The play at a glance Quotes and notes Character-line Charts Word Searches and more... Just add readers and the...

Sharing Shakespeare with students intimidates many of us! But in this series, Catherine takes the fear out of unknown, and gives you the tools you need to study any or all of these classic Shakespeare comedies: Character-Line charts, Notes and Quotes,...

"A Defence of Poetry" is an essay by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1821 and first published posthumously in 1840 in Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments by Edward Moxon in London.Author: Percy Bysshe...

Title page of the first quarto (1598) Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s for a performance at the Inns of Court before Queen Elizabeth I. It follows the King of Navarre and...

A teenage boy from Nigeria travels to America to further his education but as soon as he got to America, he realize how far he was from home.Author: Jerry AyersPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: May 05, 2013Number of...

An?lisis innovador de los personajes femeninos de la Odisea, basado en su simbolismo y trascendencia.. Se hace especial hincapi? en la relevancia de Calipso como heredera de la Gran Diosa de la Antig?edad prehel?nica.Author: María Lourdes...

LA OBRA NUEVE CARTAS A PEN?LOPE Y DE REGRESO A ?TACA, es un poemario in?dito que pertenece a la d?cada de los a?os ochenta. En ?l, tambi?n a modo de Diario, fui describiendo una sucesi?n de emociones que en su momento tuve.Uno siempre desea volver a...

In a bustling classroom, I stood before a group of eager students, ready to impart a lesson that would shape their perspectives on resilience and optimism. Today's topic was the intriguing Stockdale Paradox-a concept that defied conventional thinking and...

Postcolonial feminist reading of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso SeaAuthor: Vidhya H. R.Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Jul 26, 2015Number of Pages: 70 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1515213692ISBN-13:...

En el Quijote, Miguel de Cervantes introdujo ideas sobre una extensa variedad de temas. Dentro de de este libro uno encontrar? citas quijotescas que est?n catalogados por temas y enmarcadas por una reflexi?n moderna. El lector podr? acceder directamente...

Sri Aurobindo worked upon Savitri again and again until the kind of yogic-poetic-literary perfection he wanted was achieved, that it could become a Word of Truth and Beauty and Joy in the expression of the Spirit. We have an early letter of his to this...

Un fulano que se cansa de lo cotidiano, se embarca en un viaje en busca de poes?a. Cada poema es una etapa del viaje y cada sensaci?n es palpada en cada palabraAuthor: Jean R. Machuca a.Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication...

This book contains a critique of the poet in terms of Ideology, Activism, Arts, Performers; 12 poems in translation, a 1977 Speech, Biography, Chronology, and References. Since Saeed was arrested in his wedding, Lorca's play The Blood Wedding is alluded...