Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Arabian Nights of 1934A genre-bending novel of 1001 nights of no-holds-barred, pre-code American movies distilled into a single fevered dreamworld. Arabian Nights of 1934 is a journey through the fevered dreamworld embodied in American movies of the early 1930s: an era that closed abruptly with the enforcement...
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Ursula Le Guin's EarthseaA book on the experience of reading Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea novels. What makes readers fall in love? You might want to start your answer by explaining Ursula Le Guin. She owned John Plotz at age eight, on the overlit and understaffed second floor...
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Coral Lives: Literature, Labor, and the Making of AmericaA literary and cultural history of coral--as an essential element of the marine ecosystem, a personal ornament, a global commodity, and a powerful political metaphor Today, coral and the human-caused threats to coral reef ecosystems symbolize our ongoing planetary crisis. In the nineteenth century,...
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Handwriting in Early America: A Media HistoryAs digital communication has become dominant, commentators have declared that handwriting is a thing of the past, a relic of an earlier age. This volume of original essays makes it clear that anxiety around handwriting has existed for centuries and explores writing practices from...
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Chaucer's Translation of Boethius's the Consolation of Philosophy: A Modern English RenderingThis edition offers you the first Modern English version of Chaucer's only previously untranslated major work, Boece. Boece is Chaucer's Middle English translation of the 6th-century CE philosopher Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy. For over a thousand years, The Consolation underpinned Christian understanding of...
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Winters in the World: A Journey Through the Anglo-Saxon YearInterweaving literature, history, and religion, an exquisite meditation on the turning of the seasons in medieval England--now in paperback. Winters in the World is a beautifully observed journey through the cycle of the year in Anglo-Saxon England, exploring the festivals, customs, and traditions linked...
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Law and Mimesis in Boccaccio's Decameron: Realism on TrialIn Boccaccio's time, the Italian city-state began to take on a much more proactive role in prosecuting crime - one which superseded a largely communitarian, private approach. The emergence of the state-sponsored inquisitorial trial indeed haunts the legal proceedings staged in the Decameron. How,...
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The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian CultureRussia's size, the diversity of its peoples and its unique geographical position straddling East and West have created a culture that is both inward and outward looking. Its history reflects the tension between very different approaches to what culture can and should be, and...
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Why Surrealism MattersAn elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why it continues to resonate Why does Surrealism continue to fascinate us a century after André Breton's Manifesto of Surrealism? How do we encounter Surrealism today? Mark Polizzotti vibrantly reframes the Surrealist...
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The Wine of AstonishmentBolo is a champion stickfighter, tall, good-looking, the bravest of all the young men in Bonasse. When, time and time again, he sees his people humiliated by change and American troops, his instincts as a leader come to the fore. The stand he makes,...
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The Comics Journal #303The Comics Journal, which is renowned for its in-depth interviews, comics criticism, and thought-provoking editorials, features Gary Groth in frank and often hilarious discussion with the satirist and children's book author Tomi Ungerer. Ungerer talks about the entire trajectory of his life and career:...
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Cartas a un joven poetaEn "Cartas a un joven poeta", Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)escribe con la lucidez de un filosofo, la sensibilidad de un amante a la escritura -y en particular la poes a-, pero especialmente, con el sentimiento cr tico y objetivo sobre la vida en general....
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Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-WestThe Whitbread Prize-winning biography of Vita Sackville-West. Vita Sackville-West was a vital, gifted and complex woman. A dedicated writer, she made her mark as poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, journalist and broadcaster. She was also one of the most influential English gardeners of the...
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Shakespeare and Beckett'The danger is in the neatness of identifications', Samuel Beckett famously stated, and, at first glance, no two authors could be further distant from one another than William Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett. This book addresses the vast intertextual network between the works of both...
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Courtly Love Revisited in the Age of FeminismCourtly love and feminism are strange bedfellows, the one a controversial literary concept, and the other a continuing crusade. Both can be taken seriously or ridiculed. In this incisive book, Antonia Southern tries to do both with both. Courtly Love focuses a feminist lens...
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Bouboulina and the Greek Revolution: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Heroine of 1821Using a variety of methodologies from multi-disciplinary backgrounds, this volume is the first to present an in-depth analysis of the life and times of Laskarina Bouboulina, the legendary heroine of the Greek Revolution and one of the most important figures in modern Greek history,...
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A Secret Legacy of Elves and Faeries: The Otherworld Initiation of Robert KirkAuthentic Elven-Faerie Magick At Your Fingertips!An official companion volume to the original "Elvenomicon" or "Elven-Faerie Grimoire" containing additional high-value esoteric lore drawn from the research of Joshua Free based on the notebooks of Rev. Robert Kirk.Open the door to the ancient elven tradition and...
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Studies in Classic American LiteratureFirst published in 1923, this anthology provides a cross-section of Lawrence's writing on American literature. It includes landmark essays on Benjamin Franklin, Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville and Walt Whitman. The volume offers the final 1923 version of the text...
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Cousin HenryCousin Henry, first published in 1879, is perhaps the most unusual and intriguing of Trollope's shorter novels. Trollope's masterly handling of the novel's unlikely hero, a tiresome and timid coward, is notable for its insight and compassion. About the Series: For over 100 years...
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Selected PoemsPoet, short story writer, critic and novelist, Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) has been called the most metaphysical, the most learned, and the most modern of poets. With writing that reflects an intense interest in psychological, philosophical, and scientific issues, Aiken remains a unique influence upon...
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