Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Subjects & Themes - Politics

It has long been recognised that there is an apparently paradoxical relationship between the revolutionary poetic style developed by Yeats, Eliot and Pound in the period during and after the First World War, and the reactionary politics with which they were associated in the 1920s and 1930s.

Concentrating on their writings in the period up to the 1930s, this study, first published in 1982, helps to resolve the paradox and also provides a much needed reappraisal of the factors influencing their poetic and political development. The work of these poets has usually been seen as...

Utopias fail. Utopias of one do not. They are perfect worlds. Yet their success comes at a cost. They are radically singular--and thus exclusive and inimitable.

Utopias of One is a major new account of utopian writing. Joshua Kotin examines how eight writers--Henry David Thoreau, W. E. B. Du Bois, Osip and Nadezhda Mandel'shtam, Anna Akhmatova, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, and J. H. Prynne--construct utopias of one within and against modernity's two large-scale attempts to harmonize individual and collective interests: liberalism and communism. The book begins in the United...

The Influence of Man is a succinct analysis on the influence mankind has had on the world and how paradigm shifts -- in individual thought and national priority -- are essential to sustain a positive influence.

Written as a subjective non-fiction, The Influence of Man explores a perceptive approach to how people view themselves and their position in a greater global society. This book ranges from chapter topics in global and national statistics of concern, thought provoking parables designed to challenge the way readers see and act within the world, examinations of divisive and...

The Influence of Man is a succinct analysis on the influence mankind has had on the world and how paradigm shifts -- in individual thought and national priority -- are essential to sustain a positive influence.

Written as a subjective non-fiction, The Influence of Man explores a perceptive approach to how people view themselves and their position in a greater global society. This book ranges from chapter topics in global and national statistics of concern, thought provoking parables designed to challenge the way readers see and act within the world, examinations of divisive and...

Texas is known as a stronghold of conservative politics and values—in many cases ultraconservative—but those beliefs are taken to task in E.R. Bills’ new book, Texas Dissident: Dispatches from a Diminished State, 2006-2016.

A growing number of Texans are tired of Lone Star Conservatives, sick of being embarrassed by their political representatives and horrified by the devolution of the state conversation in terms of race, sex, sexual orientation, immigration, religious freedom, environmental responsibility, etc. From 2006-2016, Texas...

Does the American government promise something for nothing knowing the average citizen does not fully comprehend the implications?

Are you unhappy with the political and corporate leadership of this country?

Do you feel you’re unable to change the situation or at least protect yourself?

Recognizing the problem is half the battle, and author Gerald Fickenscher identifies the problem as the government, not the people or the economy. Beware of Demagogues provides [an] insight into the venues by which American demagogues manipulate the public, such as public education,...