Literary Criticism

This dramatic poem in two parts is Goethe's greatest work. The poem is based on the legend of a man who sells his soul to the devil and deals with the man's sense of alienation and his need to come to terms with the world as it is. more...

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A Room of One´s Own is a curious essay. Presented originally as two speeches to the Arts Society at Newham in 1928, the work is remarkable for its distinctive tone, for Woolf´s witty and deceptively casual style, and for her decision to largely eschew abstract arguments in favor of narrative, anecdote and the guidance of a strong, abiding first person narrator. She also, refreshingly, avoids doctrine and bombast, instead infusing her arguments with subtlety, curiosity and open-minded speculation. more...

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Ordinarily a moralist writer, in this novel Fielding creates a comedy of romance, by superimposing the positive act of the imagination on the raw material of the real world. It is ultimately both instructive and entertaining. Here Fielding parodies his own previous novels in this story of a young man resisting the many attempts to seduce him. more...

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These two plays take place in the South and borrow heavily from Williams's life - they are marked by a struggle, often between family members or loved ones. His plays are literary and commercial successes. more...

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This concise volume collects the core writings that have made Ralph Waldo Emerson into a key source of insight for spiritual seekers of every faithawith an introduction by the bestselling philosopher Jacob Needleman. Here is the essential collection of Emersonas spiritual thought for those readers who understand the transformative quality of ideas. It is concise and suited to years of rereading and contemplation, offering the essays that trace the arc of the inner message brought by Americaas "aYankee Mystic."a "The Spiritual Emerson" features many of Emersonas landmark works. Yet also included are overlooked classics, such as the essays aFatea and aSuccess, a which served as major sources of inspiration to some of the leading American metaphysical thinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The introduction by religious scholar and philosopher Jacob Needleman framesahistorically and philosophicallyathe development of Emersonas thought and explores why it has such a powerful hold on us today. more...

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