Author: Columbia University. Graduate FacultiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Masters' Essays and Doctoral Dissertations
Author: Columbia University. Graduate FacultiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Sensitive Plant
Author: Percy Bysshe ShelleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
A Dish of Orts
Author: George MacDonaldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Imagination
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
A Defence of Poetry
Author: Percy Bysshe ShelleyPublisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Author: Percy Bysshe ShelleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations
Author: Isaac AsimovPublisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9781555841119
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Gathers quotations about agriculture, anthropology, astronomy, the atom, energy, engineering, genetics, medicine, physics, science and society, and research
Reading Fiction in Antebellum America
Author: James L. MachorPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801899338
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
James L. Machor offers a sweeping exploration of how American fiction was received in both public and private spheres in the United States before the Civil War. Machor takes four antebellum authors—Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Catharine Sedgwick, and Caroline Chesebro'—and analyzes how their works were published, received, and interpreted. Drawing on discussions found in book reviews and in private letters and diaries, Machor examines how middle-class readers of the time engaged with contemporary fiction and how fiction reading evolved as an interpretative practice in nineteenth-century America. Through careful analysis, Machor illuminates how the reading practices of nineteenth-century Americans shaped not only the experiences of these writers at the time but also the way the writers were received in the twentieth century. What Machor reveals is that these authors were received in ways strikingly different from how they are currently read, thereby shedding significant light on their present status in the literary canon in comparison to their critical and popular positions in their own time. Machor deftly combines response and reception criticism and theory with work in the history of reading to engage with groundbreaking scholarship in historical hermeneutics. In so doing, Machor takes us ever closer to understanding the particular and varying reading strategies of historical audiences and how they impacted authors’ conceptions of their own readership.
The Visionary Company
Author: Harold BloomPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
A study of English romantic poetry from 1780 to 1830.
The Tipping Point
Author: Malcolm GladwellPublisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0759574731
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
From the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia: discover Malcolm Gladwell's breakthrough debut and explore the science behind viral trends in business, marketing, and human behavior. The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas. “A wonderful page-turner about a fascinating idea that should affect the way every thinking person looks at the world.” —Michael Lewis
The Unfamiliar Shelley
Author: Timothy WebbPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754663904
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
An outstanding group of international Shelley scholars takes full advantage of new editions and the evidence of notebooks, paying particular attention to texts that have been neglected or underestimated. Revaluations of the verse letter, plays, satire, pamphlets, prose essays, political verse, romance, prefaces, translations, art representations, fragments and early writings show how Victorian taste and culture harmed Shelley's reputation. The collection is sure to inspire future reappraisals of Shelley's work.