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This collection of essays offers evolutionary psychological analysis of selected works from the American literary tradition. Application of evolutionary theory to writing by Ben Franklin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Edith Wharton, F. Scot Fitzgerald, Zora Neal Hurston, and others creates an interdisciplinary framework for examining key textual features: plot, theme, tone, setting, symbol, characterization, point of view; and at the same time provides an accessible introduction to Darwinian literary critical methodology. Pertinent scientific research, together with essential terms and concepts, is explained in context. Connections are made throughout to existing commentary on the targeted texts, illustrating how Darwinian scrutiny can enrich, extend, or reconfigure understandings derived from other critical approaches.

American literature --- Evolution (Biology) in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Darwin, Charles, --- Influence. --- Darwin, Charles, Robert --- Literature --- Classic Literature --- Evolution --- American Literature --- Essays --- Evolutionary Theory --- Literary Tradition --- Darwinian literary critical methodology --- Henry David Thoreau

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The California Lectura Dantis is the long-awaited companion to the three-volume verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum of Dante's Divine Comedy. Mandelbaum's translation, with facing original text and with illustrations by Barry Moser, has been praised by Robert Fagles as "exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths," and by the late James Merrill as "lucid and strong . . . with rich orchestration . . . overall sweep and felicity . . . and countless free, brilliant, utterly Dantesque strokes." Charles Simic called the work "a miracle. A lesson in the art of translation and a model (an encyclopedia) for poets. The full range and richness of American English is displayed as perhaps never before. "This collection of commentaries on the first part of the Comedy consists of commissioned essays, one for each canto, by a distinguished group of international scholar-critics. Readers of Dante will find this Inferno volume an enlightening and indispensable guide, the kind of lucid commentary that is truly adapted to the general reader as well as the student and scholar.

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General. --- Dante Alighieri, --- Authors, Italian --- academic. --- cantos. --- circles of hell. --- classic literature. --- cultural context. --- divine comedy. --- essay collection. --- famous author. --- famous plays. --- famous story. --- famous theatre. --- heaven and hell. --- inferno. --- limbo. --- literary analysis. --- literary criticism. --- poetics. --- poetry. --- poets. --- religion. --- scholarly. --- seven deadly sins. --- sinner. --- sins. --- social commentary. --- translation. --- underworld. --- verse.

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"This is a translation of the epic Greek poem by Homer."--Provided by publisher.

E-books --- Epic poetry, Greek --- Epic poetry, Greek. --- POETRY --- Ancient, Classical & Medieval. --- Odysseus, --- Odaiséas, --- Odisej, --- Odiseja, --- Odisėjas, --- Odisejs, --- Odiseo, --- Odiseu, --- Odissea, --- Odisseas, --- Odisseu, --- Odisseus, --- Odissey, --- Odusseus, --- Odüsszeusz, --- Odyseusz, --- Odyssevs, --- Odyseus, --- Odysews, --- Ódysseifur, --- Oliseus, --- Olisseus, --- Oylixeus, --- Olytteus, --- Ulises, --- Ulisse, --- Ulissi, --- Ulixes, --- Ulysse, --- Ulysses, --- Utuze, --- Οδυσσέας, --- Ὀδυσσεύς, --- Ὀλισεύς, --- Ὀλισσεύς, --- Ὀλυττεύς, --- Οὐλιξεύς, --- אודיסאוס, --- オデュッセウス, --- 奥德修斯, --- 오디세우스, --- أوديسيوس, --- Адысей, --- Одисеј, --- Одисей, --- Одіссей, --- Одиссей, --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical --- action. --- adventure. --- amazons. --- ancient greece. --- ancient world. --- antiquity. --- battles. --- betrayal. --- classic literature explained. --- classic literature. --- classic story. --- cyclops. --- explained. --- explorer. --- greek poetry. --- guided reading. --- homer. --- maps. --- mythology. --- notes. --- odysseus. --- oral tradition. --- reading guide. --- reading questions. --- sirens. --- study guide. --- survival. --- temptation. --- translation. --- trojan war. --- vengeance.

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Originally published in 1966 and now recognized as a classic, Norman O. Brown's meditation on the condition of humanity and its long fall from the grace of a natural, instinctual innocence is available once more for a new generation of readers. Love's Body is a continuation of the explorations begun in Brown's famous Life Against Death. Rounding out the trilogy is Brown's brilliant Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis.

Psychoanalysis and religion. --- Civilization --- Psychoanalysis and culture. --- Religion and psychoanalysis --- Religion --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Culture --- World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997 --- Culture and psychoanalysis --- Psychological aspects. --- 1960s. --- academic. --- book series. --- boundary. --- classic literature. --- contemporary classics. --- contemporary literature. --- fire. --- food. --- fraction. --- freedom. --- fulfillment. --- head. --- human condition. --- humanity. --- innocence. --- judgement. --- liberty. --- natural world. --- nature. --- person. --- philosopher. --- philosophy. --- representative. --- resurrection. --- scholarly. --- trilogy. --- trinity. --- unity.

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o Includes the authoritative texts for eleven pieces written between 1868 and 1902o Publishes, for the first time, the complete text of "Villagers of 1840-3," Mark Twain's astounding feat of memoryo Features a biographical directory and notes that reflect extensive new research on Mark Twain's early life in MissouriThroughout his career, Mark Twain frequently turned for inspiration to memories of his youth in the Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Missouri. What has come to be known as the Matter of Hannibal inspired two of his most famous books, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and provided the basis for the eleven pieces reprinted here. Most of these selections (eight of them fiction and three of them autobiographical) were never completed, and all were left unpublished. Written between 1868 and 1902, they include a diverse assortment of adventures, satires, and reminiscences in which the characters of his own childhood and of his best-loved fiction, particularly Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, come alive again. The autobiographical recollections culminate in an astounding feat of memory titled "Villagers of 1840-3" in which the author, writing for himself alone at the age of sixty-one, recalls with humor and pathos the characters of some one hundred and fifty people from his childhood. Accompanied by notes that reflect extensive new research on Mark Twain's early life in Missouri, the selections in this volume offer a revealing view of Mark Twain's varied and repeated attempts to give literary expression to the Matter of Hannibal.

Indians of North America --- Humorous stories, American. --- Finn, Huckleberry --- Sawyer, Tom --- 19th century authors. --- 19th century literature. --- american authors. --- american humorists. --- american lit. --- american literature criticism. --- american literature. --- american writers. --- bildungsroman. --- classic lit. --- classic literature. --- famous authors. --- famous books. --- father of american literature. --- growing up. --- high school english class. --- huckleberry finn. --- literary criticism and theory. --- literary criticism. --- literary movements and periods. --- mark twain biography. --- mark twain life. --- samuel langhorne clemens. --- short stories. --- Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character) --- Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character)