Tag: Literary

Free Download K. Sara Myers, "Ancient Roman Literary Gardens: Gender, Genre, and Geopoetics"
English | ISBN: 0197773206 | 2024 | 312 pages | PDF | 144 MB
Gardens are not central in Latin literature, but usually somewhere off to the side, as was often the real garden. They appear, however, in some form in nearly all literary genres of Latin literature-history, satire, epigrams, epics, letters, lyric poetry, elegies, and novels-and often edge their way into larger socio-economic and political discussions about Roman identity, gender, wealth, and land use. Through an analysis of ancient garden studies and close readings of major Latin texts from the first centuries BCE and CE, K. Sara Myers examines the function and representation of garden descriptions in the work of a broad range of Roman authors, such as Cicero, Catullus, Vergil, Varro, Horace, Ovid, Petronius, Columella, Statius, and Pliny the Elder and Younger.

Free Download Michael Ryan, "A Complete Guide to Literary Analysis and Theory"
English | ISBN: 1032305002 | 2022 | 294 pages | PDF | 114 MB
A Complete Guide to Literary Analysis and Theory offers an accessible introduction to all the current approaches to literary analysis. Ranging from stylistics and historicism to post-humanism and new materialism, it also includes chapters on media studies and screen studies.

Free Download The Letters of Paul in their Roman Literary Context: Reassessing Apostolic Authorship
by Nina E. Livesey
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009487051 | 345 Pages | PDF | 3.13 MB

Free Download Ratul Nandi, "Animal Poetics and Literary Thinking "
English | ASIN : B0DJ4KRHBB | 2024 | pages | PDF | 1500 KB
Animal Poetics and Literary Thinking explores and reorients our approach to animal thinking through the intersection between literary fiction, continental philosophy, and theory. This book situates animals and animality as neither a corporeal entity nor a conceptual essence, but as a scintillating "impossibility" that concurrently encourages and overturns our grasping impulse to know animals from their perspectives. This framework corresponds with the milieu of literature as poesis, which is uniquely connected to a refusal to know. By exploring the writings of J.M. Coetzee, Franz Kafka, Mary Shelley, and Kazuo Ishiguro, this volume encounters a template of animal thinking that seeks to uncover the singularity of animals through a sustained exploration of what remains radically unknowable about animality, the vestiges of which have their presence in the world of literary fiction.

Free Download Yolanda Rodríguez Pérez, "Literary Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia in Britain and the Low Countries (1550-1850) "
English | ISBN: 9462989370 | 2020 | 348 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Spain has been a fruitful locus for the European imagination for centuries, and it has been most often perceived in black-and-white oppositions – either as a tyrannical and fanatical force in the early modern period or as an imaginary geography of a ‘Romantic’ Spain in later centuries. However, the image of Spain, its culture and its inhabitants did not evolve inexorably from negative to positive. From the early modern period onwards, it responded to an ambiguous matrix of conflicting Hispanophobic and Hispanophilic representations. Just as in the nineteenth century latent negative stereotypes continued to resurface, even in the Romantic heyday, in the early modern period appreciation for Spain was equally undeniable. When Spain was a political and military superpower, it also enjoyed cultural hegemony with a literary Golden Age producing internationally hailed masterpieces.

Free Download Essays on Machiavelli’s Conventional Piety, Literary Inspirations, and Pre-Christian Preoccupation
by Maximilian Burkard
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1527570339 | 201 Pages | PDF | 9 MB

Free Download Gaston Franssen, "Idolizing Authorship: Literary Celebrity and the Construction of Identity, 1800 to the Present"
English | ISBN: 9089649638 | 2017 | 282 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Though these days, our celebrity culture tends to revolve around movie stars and pop musicians, there have been plenty of celebrity authors over the years and around the world. This volume brings together a number of contributors to look at how and why certain writers have attained celebrity throughout history. How were their images as celebrities constructed by themselves and in complicity with their fans? And how did that process and its effects differ from country to country and era to era?

Free Download Noah Heringman, "Romantic Science: The Literary Forms of Natural History"
English | 2003 | pages: 296 | ISBN: 079145701X | PDF | 0,8 mb
Although "romantic science" may sound like a paradox, much of the romance surrounding modern science-the mad scientist, the intuitive genius, the utopian transformation of nature-originated in the Romantic period. Romantic Science traces the literary and cultural politics surrounding the formation of the modern scientific disciplines emerging from eighteenth-century natural history. Revealing how scientific concerns were literary concerns in the Romantic period, the contributors uncover the vital role that new discoveries in earth, plant, and animal sciences played in the period’s literary culture. As Thomas Pennant put it in 1772, "Natural History is, at present, the favourite science over all Europe, and the progress which has been made in it will distinguish and characterise the eighteenth century in the annals of literature." As they examine the social and literary ramifications of a particular branch or object of natural history, the contributors to this volume historicize our present intellectual landscape by reimagining and redrawing the disciplinary boundaries between literature and science.

Free Download Narratives of Loss and Longing: Literary Developments in Postcolonial South Asia
by Nukhbah Taj Langah and Roshni Sengupta
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1138369306 | 285 Pages | True PDF | 15.8 MB

Free Download Gary Day, "Literary Criticism: A New History"
English | 2008 | pages: 353 | ISBN: 0748615636, 0748641424 | PDF | 1,5 mb
A THE Book of the WeekHow many people know that Aristotle thought the best tragedies were those which ended happily? Or that the first mention of the motor car in literature may have been in 1791 in Boswell’s Life of Johnson? Or that it was not unknown in the nineteenth century for book reviews to be 30,000 words long!These are just a few of the fascinating facts to be found in this absorbing history of literary criticism. From the Ancient Greek period to the present day you learn about critics’ lives, the times in which they lived and how the same problems of interpretation and valuation persist through the ages. In this lively and engaging book, Gary Day questions whether the ‘theory wars’ of recent years have lost sight of literature itself, and makes surprising connections between criticism and a range of subjects, including the rise of money.General readers will appreciate this informative, intriguing and often provocative account of the history of literary criticism; students will value the clear way in which it puts criticism into context; and academics will enjoy getting to grips with this challenge to the prevailing view about the nature of current theory. Key Features:*The author is a well-known writer and critic, and has been a regular contributor to the Times Higher*Integrates a wide range of writers, critics and texts into a continuous history*Passionately defends the idea of the ‘literary’