Literature and Literary Criticism

Plato-Nietzsche: Philosophy the Other Way

Author: 

Dixsaut, Monique

Credentials: 

Professor Emerita at the University of Paris I. Translator: Kenneth Quandt, Ph.D. in Classics, University of California, Berkeley

The "PHILOSOPHY THE OTHER WAY" uncovers in the works of Plato and Nietzsche not some royal road to truth but rather the intensity of their love and commitment to the life of thought, whatever it discovers and wherever it might lead. Plato explored this in his ubiquitous absence from the adventures of thought depicted in his Dialogues. Nietzsche followed suit with his unrelenting presence as the grim and forceful conscience behind all the masks through which he spoke in his chaotic oeuvre.

Market: 
Philosophy, Classics, Plato, Nietzsche, Practical Philosophy, World Literature, German Literature, Idealism, Education
Release Date: 
October 15, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530483
Price: 
$89.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
316
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Publisher: 

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Seeking the Beautiful: A Study in Literary Aesthetics

Author: 

Risden, Edward

Credentials: 

Professor of English, St. Norbert College, Author of Shakespeare's Dramatic Maxims: A Politics of Rhetoric and Irony

Seeking the Beautiful: A Study in Literary Aesthetics comprises essays both theoretical and applied, with a focus on English medieval and Renaissance texts. While the term aesthetics may imply simply sensory perception or expression, this volume considers what makes literary texts beautiful. While of course any such study must involve subjective judgment, one can still describe subjective experience and share it with others with the goal of expanding others’ and one’s own potential for enjoying works of literary art.

Market: 
Western Literature, Aesthetics, Critical Theory, Literary Theory, Intertextuality, Myth, Fantasy, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, Shakespeare, Spenser, Worth, Marlowe, Milton, Chaucer, Post-Modern Studies, Epics, Romance Studies, Identity Studies, Subjectivity, Subject
Release Date: 
October 15, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530452
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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The Politics of Identity in Cuban-American Literature: An Interdisciplinary Study

Author: 

Barry, Muffett, PhD

Credentials: 

University of the West Indies

Through the prism of literary analysis and cultural studies, The Politics of Identity in Cuban-American Literature is an original examination of the Cuban-American community’s diasporic and identitive genealogy from the perspective of their Cuban and American nationalisms.

Market: 
Cultural Studies, World Literature, American Studies, Latin American Studies, Cuban Studies, Transnational Studies, Literary Theory, Identity Studies, Cuban Identity, Immigration, Cold War Studies, Fidel Castro
Release Date: 
August 15, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530407
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
309
Illustrations: 
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Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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On the Authorship Controversy: Evidence That Christopher Marlowe Wrote the Poems and Plays of William Shakespeare

Author: 

Ayres, Robert U.

Credentials: 

Professor Emeritus, INSEAD

On the Authorship Controversy is about how a historical deception has survived as a tradition for nearly 400 years, despite numerous challenges. I am referring to the “tradition” that the works attributed to William Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon were actually written by him, despite no evidence of schooling or access to libraries, lack of recognition by other playwrights when he died, and much more.

Market: 
European Studies, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Shakespeare Studies, English Literature, English History, World History, Probability Studies, Elizabethan England, Tudor England, Conspiracies. Pseudonyms, Authorship Controversies, Literary Studies, Literary Theory
Release Date: 
August 15, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530353
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
134
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Women and Religion in the Modern Drawing Room - Plays of T.S. Eliot

Author: 

Grant, John Angell

Credentials: 

Playwright, MLA Stanford 2013 /Theatre Seminar Stanford University

With an introduction by William M. Chace, D/English, Stanford University
President of Emory University(1994 – 2003) and Wesleyan University (1988 – 1994). Author of The Political Identities of Ezra Pound and T.S.Eliot.

Description:

Market: 
Eliot Studies, Womens Studies, Religion in modern theatre, 20th c British and American theatre, Classical Greek theatre and its influences, feminism, Poetry and the stage, the English theatrical tradition and women, Drama in London 1939 -1960
Release Date: 
December 15, 2016
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1680530-19-3
Price: 
$64.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
124
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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The Aesthetic and Moral Art of Wole Soyinka

Author: 

Ogunyemi, Yemi D. (Yemi D. Price)

Credentials: 

Author of Studying Creative Writing in Nigeria and The Birth of a Child in a Fishing Boat

The Aesthetic and Moral Art of Wole Soyinka, a scholarly monograph, is a compendium of the Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka’s creative works. Book One shows the dramatic, intellectual, fundamental, aesthetic and moral art. Book Two dwells upon literature, value, art, morality, aesthetics and other human interests. Book Three speaks to the mythology, history, and culture of the Yoruba people.

Market: 
African Studies, African Literature, Post-Colonial Theory, Post-Colonial Literature, Africana, Critical Theory, Literary Theory, Intertextuality, Aesthetics, Wole Soyinka, Post-Modern Studies, Moralists, Art, Yoruba Studies, Mythology
Release Date: 
July 15, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530346
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
277
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Translating Poetry Into Poetry: Recreating the Unity of Content and Form

Author: 

Ali, Abdul Sahib Mehdi, Ph.D.

Credentials: 

Professor of Linguistics and Translation in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Sharjah

Author of Encyclopedia of Translation Terminology (2007), A Dictionary of Translation and Interpreting (2002), and A Linguistic Study of the Development of Scientific Vocabulary in Standard Arabic (London: KPI 1987)

Market: 
Literature, Poetry, Translation, Translation Studies, Language, Language Studies
Release Date: 
June 15, 2017
ISBN: 
978-1680530339 Hardcover
Price: 
$89.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
277
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Chivalric Tradition in 21st Century Fantasy Literature: Lacanian and Saidian Other

Author: 

Simpson, Tuğçe Çankaya

Credentials: 

Ph.D., Middle East Technical University

Modern fantasy is the generic revival of the chivalric romance. The quest motif, adventures to other worlds, imaginary characters, exotic settings, battles between light and darkness, circular plot patterns, and anachronism all highlight a substantial common point between these genres.

Market: 
Western Literature, Critical Theory, Literary Theory, Intertextuality, Edward Said, Jacques Lacan, Psychoanalysis, Myth, Fantasy, Medieval Studies, Post-Modern Studies, Epics, Romance Studies, Identity Studies, Subjectivity, Subject, Post-Colonial Theory, Sir Percival of Galles, Guy of Warwick, David Eddings
Release Date: 
June 15, 2017
ISBN: 
978-1680530322 Hardcover
Price: 
$79,95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
208
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Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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New Perspectives on Sir Richard Burton: Orientalism, The Cannibal Club and Victorian Ideas of Sex, Race and Gender, 2nd Edition

Author: 

Wallen, John

Credentials: 

Ph.D, Royal Holloway; Assistant Professor D/English, University of Sharjah, UAE

New Perspectives on Sir Richard Burton by Dr. John Wallen provides exactly that: a fresh perspective from which to view one of the leading explorers and writers of the Victorian age. Burton has frequently been vilified by postcolonial writers as somehow an archetypal representative of the colonial mentality that reached out to grab an often unknown world with its all-encompassing "imperial eyes". On the other hand, hardly any figure of the period has proved so enduringly popular with average readers and enthusiasts of the Victorian age. In this scholarly book, Dr.

Market: 
Victorian studies, English Intellectual History 19th c, The Literature of Race and Gender in Victorian England, Historical Anthropology 19c,Political and Social Elites and Empire, Roots of European Racism, Sir Richard Burton, Algernon Swinburne, Lord Houghton, James Hunt, Racial and Cultural Superiority as a pseudo-scientific “fact”, Sex and pornography in mid and late Victorian England, Feminism, Post Colonial literary theory
Release Date: 
April 15, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1-680530-27-8
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
205
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

Academica Press
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(978) 829-2577

Everything is a Translation: Literary Translation as a Metadiscipline and as a Practice

Author: 

Martin, Kelly

Book CoverThe topic of this keenly researched research monograph is the allusive and interdisciplinary nature of literary translation. Dr.Martin's work concentrates on the fields of rhetoric and new media studies. That is, these fields are sites that help develop the theories and methodology presented, but are also sites that benefit from the study of literary translation.

Release Date: 
March 15th, 2017
ISBN: 
978-1680530216
Price: 
$79.95
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036

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