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"Writers use their imaginations to create vivid works that stand the test of time. Women in Literature introduces readers to some of the most influential authors, including J.K. Rowling, Maya Angelou, and Kate DiCamillo. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject."--Amazon.com.
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"It is in and through Symbols that man, consciously or unconsciously, lives, works, and has his being: those ages, moreover, are accounted the noblest which can the best recognise symbolical worth, and prize it highest."
Carlyle
Without symbolism there can be no literature; indeed, not even language. What are words themselves but symbols, almost as arbitrary as the letters which compose them, mere sounds of the voice to which we have agreed...
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In The Victorian Age in Literature, published in 1913, Chesterton leaps into a concise overview of the outstanding writers of this era-discussing such poets as Robert Browning, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Matthew Arnold as well as the great novelists Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Charles Reade. He writes with his own unmistakable brand of witty bravado, meditating on how George...
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Great modern American supernaturalist brilliantly surveys history of genre to 1930s, summarizing, evaluating scores of books, including works by Poe, Bierce, M.R. James, "Monk" Lewis, many others. Praised by critics as diverse as Edmund Wilson and Vincent Starrett. New introduction by E. F. Bleiler.
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Women have made a difference in every field imaginable, and they continue to do so today. Women's Lives in History introduces readers to dozens of these remarkable people. Women in Literature features groundbreaking figures in literary fiction, genre fiction, science fiction, nonfiction and memoir, feminist writing, poetry, and young adult literature. Compelling text and vivid photographs bring these women to life. Features include essential facts,...
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From the earliest vampire legends to the current popularity of "Twilight" and other dramas, vampires have been popular in literature for centuries. This volume tracks the evolution of those early vampire myths and discusses how vampires manage to remain fresh in a modern world and popular literature. Thrilling photographs, illustrations, and a timeline support the main narrative.
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This 1891 volume of essays, in the words of its editor, Fred Scott, "is just the work to go into the hands of those that hope and despair of the teacher of rhetoric-the callow young man with a sneaking ambition for literature..." Lewes examines how such elements as vision, sincerity, beauty, and style determine literary success or failure.
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Literary dreamers, wanderers, bohemians, rebels, and romantics are the subject of this 1906 critical study. Some of their journeys took a physical direction, some an intellectual, and some, both. Studies of those who embody Rickett's definition of "vagabond" include William Hazlitt, Thomas De Quincy, George Borrow, Henry David Thoreau, Robert Louis Stevenson, Richard Jeffries, and Walt Whitman.
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Witty and illuminating, this survey of lawyers in literature offers insight into the features of the profession that have been absorbed into general thought. The author examines lawyers and the law as they are featured in works by Dickens, Balzac, and Scott, among others.
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First published in 1902, "Hieroglyphics: A Note upon Ecstasy in Literature" is an analysis of the nature of literature by Welsh author Arthur Machan. Within it, Machan concludes that to be 'true' literature, the work must contain or convey a sense of 'ecstasy'. This fascinating volume will appeal to both writers and readers with an interest in Machan's seminal work, and it would make for a worthy addition to collections of allied literature. Arthur...
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This 1919 work was praised by Freud himself. Applying psychoanalytic theories to his literary studies, the author considers eroticism, the Oedipus complex, genius, projection, neuroses, villains, cynicism, sublimation, and more before moving on to discuss the lives and works of Homer, Keats, Shelley, Poe, and Nietzsche, among others.
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This 1918 critical history identifies writers whose works capture the spirit of a pioneer nation, and explores how they define the new state. Perry's subjects include Walt Whitman, James Fennimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, and Henry James.
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In any time or place literature is often influenced by concepts such as politics, society, philosophy, and in the true Puritan and Anglican fashion, spirituality and the Bible. It is this influence which Edward Dowden has cleverly critiqued.
In his foreword, he writes, "Literature, however, and especially what is most valuable in the seventeenth-century cannot be studied without reference to the history of religion." Which is why, although the seventeenth-century...
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The complete acceptance speech of Louise Glück, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Nobel Prize committee selected poet and author Louise Glück "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal." Here is the full text of her Nobel Lecture given on December 7, 2020.
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Maurice Natanson was Professor of Philosophy at Yale University until his retirement in 1995. He is the author of Anonymity: A Study in the Philosophy of Alfred Schutz. His book Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infinite Tasks won the National Book Award in 1974. The Erotic Bird, his final book, was completed just before his death in 1996.
How does literature illuminate the way we live? Maurice Natanson, a prominent champion of phenomenology, draws...
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From the Jazz Age through the McCarthy era, Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) stood at the center of the American cultural scene. In his own youth a crucial champion of the young Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wilson went on to write three classics of literary and intellectual history (Axel's Castle, To the Finland Station, and Patriotic Gore), searching reportage, and criticism that has outlasted many of its subjects. Wilson documented his unruly...
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