Literature and Literary Criticism

The Age of Disinformation: A Contempt For Truth

Author: 

Porter, Burton, Ph.D., University of Oxford, Professor of Philosophy, Western New England University

Credentials: 

Author of "Finding Your Own Philosophy of Life", "The Janus Face of Ideas: Which Way Should We Look?", and "Forbidden Knowledge: Things We Should Not Know"

We live in a time when disinformation is rampant across all media outlets, especially the new format of social media. This cynicism pervades advertising and marketing, government and politics, medicine and public health, as well as print, television, and radio journalism. Deliberate lies and expedient distortions, ad hominem attacks, and smearing implications prevail alongside honest news and accurate information.

Market: 
Philosophy, Media, Ethics, Humanities, Truth, Law, Knowledge, Ideology, Epistemology, Disinformation
Release Date: 
September 15, 2020
ISBN: 
9781680539585: Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
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6x9
Pages: 
242
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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The Mirror and the Reflections: Interpreting the World Literatures through Literary Theories

Author: 

Laxmiprasad, P. V., Ph.D., (Editor); Department of English, Satavahana University (India)

This critical volume of essays explores how texts and literary theories interrelate and interconnect different principles of critical evaluation. Reading for pleasure is different from reading for aesthetic sensibility. To read literature is to seek experience but interpreting the text is to add perspective. A skilled reader will apply multiple lenses to the same text to explore how different texts and theories interact with each other. The Mirror and the Reflections collects various approaches to literary theory from a postcolonial perspective.

Market: 
Literature, Literary Theory, Postcolonial Literature, Indian Literature, South African Literature, Orientalism, Racism, Ableism, Feminism, Edward Said, Nadine Gordimer, Frantz Fanon, Athol Fugard, Tahmima Anan, Manjula Padmanabhan, Nalim Tameela, K. R. Meera, P. Raja
Release Date: 
September 1, 2020
ISBN: 
9781680530995: Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
260
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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The Don Carlos Enigma: Variations of Historical Fictions

Author: 

Necula, Maria-Cristina, Ph.D., City University of New York Graduate Center

Book CoverThe death of Spain’s Don Carlos, Prince of Asturias, on July 24, 1568, remains an enigma. Several accounts insinuated that the Spanish Crown Prince was murdered while incarcerated by order of his father, King Philip II. The mystery of Don Carlos’s death, supported by ambassadorial accounts that implied foul play, became a fertile subject for defamation campaigns against Philip, fostering an extraordinary fluidity between history and fiction.

Market: 
Literature, Art, Fine Arts, Music, Drama, Political Science, Europe, Sixteenth Century, History, Spain, Habsburg Monarchy, Friedrich Schiller, Giuseppe Verdi, Phillip II of Spain, Don Carlos
Release Date: 
July 1, 2020
ISBN: 
978-1680539523 Hardcover
Price: 
$99.95
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6x9
Pages: 
160
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Yes
Publisher: 

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Tradition and Emancipation in Horace and Alexander Pope

Author: 

Ohsumi, Megumi, Assistant Professor, Center for International Affairs, Osaka University

In Tradition and Emancipation, Japanese scholar Megumi Ohsumi explores the mimetic encounters of classical material across Alexander Pope’s poetry. Focusing particularly on Pope’s Horatian Imitations, Ohsumi attempts to identify the extent to which mimesis plays a role in Pope’s oeuvre. Horace has remained one of the central Roman figures in classical tradition, and Renaissance humanism propelled Western European writers to explore his life and career and weave them into their own creative accounts.

Market: 
English Literature, Comparative Literature, Eighteenth Century Studies, Poetry, Early Modern Europe, Ancient History, Roman History, Roman Empire, Georgian England, Satire, Elegy, Epic, Deconstruction, Historicism, Horace, Alexander Pope, Ethics
Release Date: 
March 15, 2020
ISBN: 
978-1680532302 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
280
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Football as Literature: A Semiotic Reading

Author: 

Hanson, Utibe: University of Ibadan (Nigeria)

Football as Literature adopts semiotics as a framework to compare football (soccer) to literature. The football field is akin to the plot or stage in narrative or dramatic modes, respectively, and the players are viewed as characters whose metamorphoses, in the text of football, are occasioned from the label of their positions to the completeness of the plot by the kinetic power of the ball. In employing this commentary, a standard football match is seen as a representation of the active text. Particularly, without commentary football unfolds as an unspoken semiotic narrative.

Market: 
Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Semiotics, Football, Sports, Literature, Symbolism
Release Date: 
June 1, 2020
ISBN: 
978-1680531039 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
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6x9
Pages: 
160
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Shakespeare’s Identities: Psychological, Mythic, and Existentialist Perspectives

Author: 

Driscoll, James P., Ph.D.

Credentials: 

Author of Shakespeare and Jung – The God in Time

No dramatist has treated identity in as many ways and in such depth as William Shakespeare. In Shakespeare’s Identities, James P. Driscoll shows how the Bard used history, comedy, tragedy, and romance to develop comprehensive treatments of personal identity.

Market: 
English Literature, World Literature, Literary Criticism, Drama, Identity Studies, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychiatry, Shakespeare, Carl Jung, Psychology, Civilization Studies, Myth, Character Analysis, Existentialism
Release Date: 
December 20, 2019
ISBN: 
978-1680532104 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
248
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Death in Herman Melville’s Fiction: Melville’s “Memento Mori”

Author: 

Thompson, Corey Evan; University of Windsor

Credentials: 

Author of Alcohol in the Writings of Herman Melville: “The Ever-Devilish God of Grog”

Literary critics have aptly noted that death is arguably the most frequent topic, theme, or occurrence in all of American literature. Naturally, the works of such authors as Charles Brockden Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Kate Chopin, Shirley Jackson, and Stephen King, among countless others, go to great lengths to support this observation; however, the renowned nineteenth-century American literary giant Herman Melville, most famous as the author of Moby Dick, has been frequently overlooked.

Market: 
American Studies, Literature, American Literature, Death, Death in Literature, Melville
Release Date: 
April 15, 2020
ISBN: 
978-1680531954 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
160
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Making Sense of Metaphors and Other Tropes

Author: 

Reid, David; Lecturer (ret.), Department of English Studies, University of Stirling

Credentials: 

Author of "Ambiguities: Conflict and Union of Opposites in Robert Graves, Laura Riding, William Empson, and Yvor Winters" (2012) and, with Susan Reid, "Men as Island: Robinsonnades from Sophocles to Margaret Atwood" (2015)

In Making Sense of Metaphors and Other Tropes, veteran literary scholar David Reid examines figures of speech, arguing that figures of speech in prose and poetry, literature and talk, make sense as turns of rhetoric by means of their energeia (vividness, radiance, éclat). Reid analyzes figures from Homer to literary giants of the twentieth century, mostly drawn from poetry, but also from prose and colloquial turns of phrase. Making Sense of Metaphors will delight all those who enjoy literature and good talk, and make them think about what so takes their fancy.

Market: 
Literature, Linguistics, Literary Criticism, Critical Theory, Poetry, English Literature, Metaphors, Metonomy, Energeia, Literary Agency, Coleridge, Jakobson, Homer, Twentieth Century Literature, Transference
Release Date: 
December 15, 2019
ISBN: 
978-1680532166 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
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Pages: 
149
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Ibsen's Foreign Contagion: Henrik Ibsen, Arthur Wing Pinero and Modernism on the London Stage,1880 -1900

Author: 

Matos, T.Carlo

Credentials: 

PhD, UMass Amherst

Foreword by Professor Joseph Donohue

“..Matos's important book provides a well-researched, well-written, and fascinating discussion of the notion of contagion from Ibsen and into Pinero and Jones.” Professor Gregory Tague, St Francis College, editor of Origins of English Literary Modernism,1870-1914

Market: 
Origins of Dramatic Modernism, English Theatre 1880-1914,Ibsen,Pinero, Henry Arthur Jones, Shaw, Wilde, Theatre History, Drama 19th century
Release Date: 
December 15, 2011
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-32-5
Price: 
$82.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
232
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Ecosophical Vision and Self-Realization in Margaret Atwood’s Prose

Author: 

D'Cunha, Sr. Candy, Associate Professor of English, Andhra Loyola Institute of Engineering and Technology (India)

Credentials: 

Author of Keys of Life; Editor of English Language and Literature in the Era of Globalization

Margaret Atwood is arguably the most renowned and internationally acclaimed Canadian writer, poet, novelist, short story writer, literary critic, and environmental activist. In this incisive interpretation of Atwood’s prose, Candy D’Cunha argues that the novelist’s ecosophical vision provides valuable lessons that could help in creating a greater and more responsible awareness in the modern psyche about the environment.

Market: 
Literature, American Literature, Canadian Literature, World Literature, Intercultural Studies, Transnational American Studies, Ecology, Conservation, Environmental Studies, Developing World, India, Ecofeminism, Literature and Nature, Naturalism
Release Date: 
September 1, 2019
ISBN: 
978-1680531824 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
194
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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