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  • An Analysis of T.S. Eliot's The Sacred Wood

    Essays on Poetry and Criticism

    by Rachel Teubner ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    The essay for which The Sacred Wood is primarily remembered is one of the most famous pieces of criticism in English: “Tradition and the Individual Talent” helped to re-orientate arguments about the study of literature and its production by redefining the nature of tradition and the artist's relation to it.At a time when the word “traditional” had become a way of damning with faint praise by ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • Dante and the Practice of Humility

    A Theological Commentary on the Divine Comedy

    by Rachel K. Teubner ...
    In this book, Rachel Teubner offers an exploration of humility in Dante's Divine Comedy, arguing that the poem is an ascetical exercise concerned with training its author gradually in the practice of humility, rather than being a reflection of authorial hubris. A contribution to recent scholarship that considers the poem to be a work of self-examination, her volume investigates its scriptural, ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

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    The Macat Analysis of T.S. Eliot's The Sacred Wood

    Essays on Poetry and Criticism

    by Rachel Teubner ...
    Narrated by John Chancer ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 43 min

    In this 1920 collection of early critical essays, Eliot proposes rules for how a poet should relate to a poem and to the poetic tradition. Arguing against the Romantic tradition of self-expression, Eliot proposes instead that poetry should express universal values and emotions. His twin concepts of “impersonality” and “tradition” have had a lasting impact, and together with the works that Eliot ... Read more

    $11.18 USD

  • An Analysis of William Wordsworth's Preface to The Lyrical Ballads

    by Alex Latter, Rachel Teubner ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Central to the creative process of the Romantic poets that followed him, Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads has been both a gift and a thorn in the side of critics for over a century. Readers find themselves drawn back to the essay repeatedly as they seek to untangle the ideas and contradictions within it. The Preface is a statement of Wordsworth’s poetic vision and offers an explanation ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

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  • The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

    Edited by Margreta De Grazia, Stanley Wells ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Written by a team of leading international scholars, this Companion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works through discussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies. Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to recent scholarship and criticism for readers keen to expand their knowledge and appreciation of Shakespeare. The book contains stimulating chapters on ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare Beyond Doubt

    Evidence, Argument, Controversy

    Edited by Paul Edmondson, Stanley Wells ...
    Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? The authorship question has been much treated in works of fiction, film and television, provoking interest all over the world. Sceptics have proposed many candidates as the author of Shakespeare's works, including Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe and Edward De Vere, the seventeenth Earl of Oxford. But why and how did the authorship question arise and what does ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Romanticism

    by Aidan Day ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Romanticism was a revolutionary intellectual and artistic movement which generated some of the most popular and influential texts in British and American literary history. This clear and engaging guide introduces the history, major writers and critical issues of this crucial era. This fully updated second edition includes:Discussion of a broad range of writers including William Blake, Mary ... Read more

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  • Power of Reading

    From Socrates to Twitter

    by Professor Frank Furedi ...
    Here is a natural companion to Christopher Booker's bestselling The Seven Basic Plots (Continuum) and John Gross's seminal study The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters (Weidenfeld and Nicolson).The most eminent cultural and social historian Frank Furedi presents an eclectic and entirely original history of reading. The very act of reading and the choice of reading material endow individuals with ... Read more

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  • Authoring the Self

    Self-Representation, Authorship, and the Print Market in British Poetry from Pope through Wordsworth

    by Scott Hess ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Drawing upon historicist and cultural studies approaches to literature, this book argues that the Romantic construction of the self emerged out of the growth of commercial print culture and the expansion and fragmentation of the reading public beginning in eighteenth-century Britain.Arguing for continuity between eighteenth-century literature and the rise of Romanticism, this groundbreaking book ... Read more

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  • Old Books and New Histories

    An Orientation to Studies in Book and Print Culture

    by Leslie Howsam ...
    Studies in the culture and history of the book are a burgeoning academic specialty. Intriguing, rigorous, and vital, they are nevertheless rooted within three major academic disciplines - history, literary studies, and bibliography - that focus respectively upon the book as a cultural transaction, a literary text, and a material artefact. Old Books and New Histories serves as a guide to this rich ... Read more

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  • Hamlet: A Critical Reader

    Edited by Ann Thompson, Professor Neil Taylor ...
    Series series Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
    Hamlet remains the most-studied of all Shakespeare's great tragedies. This collection of newly-commissioned essays gives readers an overview of past critical views of the play as well as new writing about the play from today's leading scholars. The range of perspectives offered makes the book an invaluable companion to anyone studying the play at an advanced level. The final chapter on learning ... Read more

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