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Wheel of fire: essays in interpretation of Shakespeare's sombre tragedies G. Wilson Knight · 1930 · ★ 3.0 · 343p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Shares: Tragedies, Tragedy, Literary Criticism, Drama

Heracles Euripides · 1876 · ★ 3.9 · 429p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Heracles Euripides - Euripides' Heracles is an extraordinary play, innovative in its treatment of the myth, bold in its dramatic structure, and filled with effective human pathos. The play tells a tale of horror: Heracles, the greatest hero of the Greeks, is maddened by the gods to murder his wife and children. But this suffering and divine malevolence are leavened by the friendship between… Shares: Tragedies, Tragedy, Drama

Euripides Erich Segal · 1968 · ★ 3.8 · 177p · ≈ 5h · Moderate TABLE OF CONTENTS: Euripides’ theater of ideas / William arrowsmith -- Euripides and the gods / G. M. A. Grube -- The virtues of Admetus / Anne Pippin Burnett -- On Euripides’ Medea / Eilhard Schlesinger -- The Hippolytus of Euripides / Bernard M. W. Knox -- Watching the Trojan women / Eric A. Havelock -- Why the Trojan women? / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Orestes / Christian Wolff -- Tragedy and… Shares: Tragedy, Histoire et critique, History and criticism

The tragedies of Sophocles Sophocles · 1729 · 376p · ≈ 12h · Demanding Preface signed: Theodore Alois Buckley. Shares: Tragedy, Drama

Sophokles Sophocles · 1851 · 479p · ≈ 15h · Challenging This comprehensive eBook presents significant works of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone• Oedipus King of Thebes• The Seven Plays in English Verse• Antigone• Aias• King Oedipus• Electra• The Trachinian Maidens• Philoctetes• Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles,… Shares: Tragedy, Drama

The plays of Euripides Euripides · 1602 · 64p · ≈ 2h · Demanding Euripides’ classic play, based on the myth of Jason and Medea, about a barbarian woman who retaliates against the husband who leaves her—here in the 1912 translation by Gilbert Murray into English rhyming verse. With explanatory notes. Shares: Tragedy, History and criticism, Drama

Works of Patrick Branwell Brontë Victor A. Neufeldt · 2015 · 464p · ≈ 15h · Moderate This volume, first published in 1999, contains all of Patrick Branwell Brontë’s known writings, excluding his letters, from 1837 to 1848. This title primarily covers and depicts the end of the Angrian conflict, Branwell’s abandonment of the Angrian saga, and his attempts to establish himself as a published poet and a man of letters. All of the texts in this edition are based on Neufeldt’s own… Shares: Histoire et critique, Literary Criticism, History and criticism

Routledge Revivals A. J. Arberry · 2016 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate First published in 1953, this translation of part of the Arabian Nights by A. J. Arberry offers four famous stories in modern idiom: Aladdin, Judar, Aboukir and Abousir, and the Amorous Goldsmith. The introduction provides a brief analysis of earlier translations of the tales and explains their value as indicators of the society in which they were written.This work will be of interest to those… Shares: Literary Criticism, History and criticism

Cha guan She Lao · 1980 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares: Literary Criticism, Drama

Titus Andronicus William Shakespeare · 1893 · 119p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Dismemberment, rape, cannibalism and murder make 'Titus Andronicus' Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedy. The boundless grief and savage justice of Titus explores the expression of tragic passion, the Senecan tradition, Roman history and government, the body and structures of interpretation. Shares: Tragedies, Drama

Language of Natural Description in Eighteenth-Century Poetry John Arthos · 1949 · 476p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Originally published in 1949, this title was written in order to help establish a better understanding of the ‘stock diction’ of eighteenth-century English poetry, and, in particular, of the diction commonly used in the description of nature. The language characteristic of so much of the poetry of this period had been severely criticized for a long time. But in the twenty or thirty years prior to… Shares: Histoire et critique, Literary Criticism, History and criticism

Poetics of Arabic Autobiography Ariel M. Sheetrit · 2020 · 198p · ≈ 6h · Moderate This book examines the poetics of autobiographical masterpieces written in Arabic by Leila Abouzeid, Hanan al-Shaykh, Samuel Shimon, Abd al-Rahman Munif, Salim Barakat, Mohamed Choukri and Hanna Abu Hanna. These literary works articulate the life story of each author in ways that undermine the expectation that the "self"—the "auto" of autobiography—would be the dominant narrative focus. Although… Shares: Histoire et critique, Literary Criticism, History and criticism

Modern Retellings of Chivalric Texts Gloria Allaire · 2018 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Published in 1999, the ten essays in this collection identify and examine reworkings of identifiable source texts from the medieval or Renaissance periods. The reasons for the modern adaptations depend variously on an individual author’s personal perspectives, the worldview of his or her society, and the individual’s place in it. The various chapters therefore address issues such as why a… Shares: Histoire et critique, History and criticism

Werke Friedrich Nietzsche · 1896 · ★ 5.0 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Challenging 10 Werke von Friedrich Nietzsche Deutscher Philosoph und klassischer Philologe (1844-1900) Dieser Band enthält eine Sammlung von 10 Werken von Friedrich Nietzsche. Ein dynamisches Inhaltsverzeichnis ermöglicht den direkten Zugriff auf die verschiedenen Abschnitte. Inhaltsverzeichnis: Also sprach Zarathustra - Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen Die Geburt der Tragödie - Versuch einer… Shares: Tragedy, Literary Criticism, History and criticism

Timon of Athens William Shakespeare · 1734 · ★ 3.5 · 101p · ≈ 3h · Demanding This book demonstrates events in the life of Timon, a man known for his great and universal generosity, who spends his fortune and then is spurned when he requires help. Shares: Tragedies, Literary Criticism, Drama

Utopian fantasy Richard Gerber · 1955 · 174p · ≈ 5h · Moderate This book, originally published in 1955 and reissued in 1973, is a study of the flourishing of an ancient literary form which had only recently been recognized and systematically studied as a proper genre – utopian fiction. Beginning with the imaginary journeys of writers like H. G. Wells at the end of the nineteenth century, Professor Gerber traces the evolving themes and forms of the genre… Shares: Histoire et critique, Literary Criticism, History and criticism

Pastoral Terry Gifford · 1999 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Terry Gifford clarifies the different uses of pastoral, and traces the history of the genre from its classical origins in the poetic dialogues of supposed shepherds, to Elizabethan dramas such as The Winters Tale, through the pastoral poetry of Pope, Wordsworth and Clare, to the more recent rural novels and contemporary American nature writing. Beginning with constructions of Arcadia, the book… Shares: Histoire et critique, Literary Criticism, History and criticism

Stemming the torrent Gesa Stedman · 2002 · 286p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "In this new study, Gesa Stedman mines the vein of emotion in Victorian writing to unearth new insights into the ways literature responded to the dramatic social and political changes then taking place." "Through an examination of the history of key Victorian emotion words, the major topics that dominate the discourses on emotions in this era, and the central fictional and non-fictional 'paradigm… Shares: Histoire et critique, Literary Criticism, History and criticism

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