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The Sacred Wood is a collection of 20 essays by T. S. Eliot, first published in 1920. Topics include Eliot's opinions of many literary works and authors, including Shakespeare's play Hamlet, and the poets Dante and Blake.[1] One of his most important prose works, "Tradition and the Individual Talent" which was originally published in two parts in The Egoist, is a part of the The Sacred Wood collection. Contents. The perfect critic -- Imperfect critics: Swinburne as critic. A romantic aristocrat [George Wyndham] The local flavour. A note on the American critic. The French intelligence -- Tradition and the individual talent -- The possibility of a poetic drama -- Euripides and professor Murray -- "Rhetoric" and poetic drama -- Notes on the blank verse of Christopher Marlowe -- Hamlet and his problems -- Ben Jonson -- Philip Massinger -- Swinburne as poet -- Blake -- Dante

Marilyn French examines how Shakespeare’s plays shift from valuing masculine traits like bravery to appreciating feminine qualities such as compassion and intuition, offering a feminist lens on gender, love, and power in Western drama.

Neurotic Styles examines four major neuroses—obsessive‑compulsive, paranoid, hysterical, and impulsive—detailing their thinking, feeling, and behavioral patterns while exploring origins, drives, and defense mechanisms.

From the Back Cover: One of the most significant works of literary criticism of this century, Erich Auerbach's MIMESIS undertakes a new and profound approach to major moments in Western literature. More than a work of literary criticism, this study is filled with insights into the Western imagination and Western culture itself, in its repeated attempts to master and control reality and experience. Auerbach's studies range from the beginnings of Western literary consciousness to the present. The significant moments of art and awareness he studies are in themselves keys to the meaning of Homer, Petronius, Gregory of Tours, The song of Roland, Chretien de Troyes, Dante, Boccaccio, Rabelais, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Cevantes, Moliere, Racine, the Abbe Prevost, Schiller, Stendhal, Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Zola, Virginia Woolf, and others. Comprehensive as his survey is in scope, the studies themselves are closely focused, penetrating, and minute, and serve to show how the strategies of language and rhetoric are the ultimate ways in which the various images are distinguishable from each other in their grasp and representation of reality. The major revolutios in the sense and portrayal of reality are seen to reverberate deeply with significances relevant to transformations in our culture.

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O autor esclarece psicologicamente o conceito da angústia, utilizando-se da figura de Adão, 'o homem', refletindo sobre a dialética da responsabilidade. Este é um grande ensaio de Psicologia; não é livro de Ética nem de Dogmática, por mais que utilize a palavra pecado para a busca da autonomia humana, eventualmente transgressora. O resultado é uma obra prima, que discute com a tradição cristã e com o necessitarismo dos sistemas idealistas.

Jonathan Culler’s concise biography of Roland Barthes explores the influential theorist’s contributions to French Structuralism and his impact on literature, culture, and language studies.

Bloom leads readers through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years.