Tag: Literature

Free Download The Unconscious in Literature: The Oedipus Complex, the Death Drive, and the Unsymbolic Void
by Yasunori Sugimura
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032857013 | 167 Pages | True PDF | 7.26 MB

Free Download Pandemics and Literature: Regional and Global Perspectives
by Kamlesh Mohan, Saurav Kumar Rai
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032892498 | 242 Pages | True PDF | 14.3 MB

Free Download Poetics of the Pillory: English Literature and Seditious Libel, 1660-1820 (Clarendon Lectures in English) by Thomas Keymer
English | December 24, 2019 | ISBN: 0198744498 | 342 pages | PDF | 3.89 Mb
On the lapse of the Licensing Act in 1695, Thomas Macaulay wrote in his History of England, ‘English literature was emancipated, and emancipated for ever, from the control of the government’. It’s certainly true that the system of prior restraint enshrined in this Restoration measure was now at an end, at least for print. Yet the same cannot be said of government control, which came to operate instead by means of post-publication retribution, not pre-publication licensing, notably for the common-law offence of seditious libel. For many of the authors affected, from Defoe to Cobbett, this new regime was a greater constraint on expression than the old, not least for its alarming unpredictability, and for the spectacular punishment-the pillory-that was sometimes entailed. Yet we may also see the constraint as an energizing force. Throughout the eighteenth century and into the Romantic period, writers developed and refined ingenious techniques for communicating dissident or otherwise contentious meanings while rendering the meanings deniable.

Free Download Literature, the Gothic and the Reconstruction of History: The Past as Nightmare
by Daniel Renshaw and Neil Cocks
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032736461 | 239 Pages | True PDF | 20 MB

Free Download Dr. James Reichert, "Literature for the Masses: Japanese Period Fiction, 1913-1941"
English | ISBN: 082489801X | 2025 | 354 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Literature for the Masses is the first English-language book on popular stories known in Japan alternatively as period fiction or mass literature. It highlights the important cultural and ideological work performed by this ubiquitous, yet overlooked, literary form. Focused on the years 1913 to 1941, which coincide exactly with the rise of industrial capitalism and mass culture in Japan, the book challenges the conventional wisdom that period-themed entertainment was an anachronistic holdover from the past. Through a close analysis of well-known examples of the genre, such as Nakazato Kaizan’s The Great Buddha Pass (1913-1921), Yoshikawa Eiji’s Miyamoto Musashi (1935-1939), and Mikami Otokichi’s The Transformation of Yukinojō (1934-1935), Reichert shows how these materials were thoroughly integrated into both the modern media ecosystem and the creative sphere of the written arts.

Free Download Natasha Heller, "Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan "
English | ISBN: 0824897641 | 2025 | 258 pages | PDF | 4 MB
In Literature for Little Bodhisattvas, Natasha Heller makes two key interventions: first, she argues that picturebooks are a new genre of Buddhist writing, and second, she calls attention to an emergent family Buddhism in Taiwan that fashions children as religious subjects through shared attention with adult readers.

Free Download Karen Coats, Deborah Stevenson, Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, "A Companion to Children’s Literature"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1119038227 | PDF | pages: 484 | 19.9 mb
A COMPANION TO CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

Free Download History and Hope in American Literature: Models of Critical Patriotism by Benjamin Railton
English | November 10, 2016 | ISBN: 1442276363 | True EPUB/PDF | 174 pages | 1.5/2.5 MB
Throughout history, creative writers have often tackled topical subjects as a means to engage and influence public discourse. American authors-those born in the States and those who became naturalized citizens-have consistently found ways to be critical of the more painful pieces of the country’s past yet have done so with the patriotic purpose of strengthening the nation’s community and future.

Free Download Fictionality and Literature: Core Concepts Revisited (Theory and Interpretation of Narrative) edited by Lasse R. Gammelgaard, Stefan Iversen, Louise Brix Jacobsen, James Phelan, Richard Walsh, Henrik Zetterberg-Nielsen, Simona Zetterberg-Nielsen
English | December 15, 2022 | ISBN: 0814215017 | True EPUB/PDF | 326 pages | 3.7/2.8 MB
Taking its cues from Richard Walsh’s influential 2007 book, The Rhetoric of Fictionality, Fictionality and Literature sets out to examine the implications of a rhetorical understanding of fictionality. A rhetorical approach understands fictionality and nonfictionality not as binary opposites but as different means to the same end: influencing an audience’s understanding of the world. Arguing that fiction is not just a feature of particular works, such as novels, but an adaptable instrument used to achieve an author’s specific rhetorical goals, the contributors theorize how to reconceive of core literary features and influences such as author, narrator, Description, character, consciousness, metaphor, metafiction/metalepsis, intertextuality, paratext, ethics, and social justice.

Free Download Peter Boxall, "The Possibility of Literature: The Novel and the Politics of Form"
English | ISBN: 1009314297 | 2024 | 408 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The Possibility of Literature is an essential collection from one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in contemporary literary studies. Bringing together key compositions from the last twenty-five years, as well as several new pieces, the book demonstrates the changing fate of literary thinking over the first decades of the twenty-first century. Peter Boxall traces here the profound shifts in the global conditions that make literature possible as these have occurred in the historical passage from 9/11 to Covid 19. Exploring questions such as ‘The Idea of Beauty’, the nature of ‘Mere Being’, or the possibilities of Rereading, the author anatomises the myriad forces that shape the literary imagination. At the same time, he gives vivid critical expression to the imaginative possibilities of literature itself – those unique forms of communal life that literature makes possible in a dramatically changing world, and that lead us towards a new shared future.